Power consumption

[Kulaf]

<div></div><div>Was it just me last night......or did anyone else feel like they were burning power at an accelerated rate after LU#20?  I know the usual response is ...... "every single patch someone complains about this", but this is the first time I have ever truely felt like a change had been made.</div><p>Message Edited by Kulaf on <span class="date_text">02-22-2006</span><span class="time_text">09:11 AM</span></p>

[Sanju]

I noticed it a little bit, too, but I chalked it up to the switch in playstyle (went from raiding nightly, back to xping). So ... I dunno.<div></div>

[Warond]

Not at all with prismatic 2.0, master 1 song, coat of forbiddin lyrcist and efreeti boots.<div></div>

[Sir Blig]

<div></div><p>I have a mis fortune of always making a big leaps about 2 hours before they nerf oops change things, got a host of power producing items and keep the spell up always, I hardly see my power below half now unless I forgot something or I blunder into some mana eating monster that sucks be dry in 2 ticks, or those drawn our raid brawles</p><p>I did notice the other night it was draining rather fast, unpon investigation I noticed i had some-how unequiped my Pris 2.0, poped that back and back to norm,</p><p> </p><p>So could be that my Prism 2.0 was my leap as I only got it in the week before the update.</p><p> </p><p>But thinking a bit more, you may be right because in the weeks before most of the time i was not even using my prism 1.0 so not having my 2.0 should not have made a huge diff but i definetly got the feeling i was going to get mana burns</p>

[pera]

I noticed this last night when we were raiding temple of scale my power seemed to drain much than before.  If anything my stats were a bit higher, only maybe my base power was a little lower, but I wouldnt think it would of made that big of a differance.Oh yeah by the way where is that fix that soe promised was going to be in like two live updates ago where our int power modifires would be doubled to match our agi.  Yeah that never happend.<div></div>

[Kulaf]

<div></div>To those of you also presumably experiencing this......do you also happen to wear a crafted INT ring?  I am beginning to wonder if the buff is doing something funky.  When it procs I notice my power bar goes down.....as it apparently increases my total max power.  I am beginning to think that there is a coding error somewhere when the proc wears off.

[pera]

<div></div><div></div><span><blockquote><hr>Kulaf wrote:To those of you also presumably experiencing this......do you also happen to wear a crafted INT ring?  I am beginning to wonder if the buff is doing something funky.  When it procs I notice my power bar goes down.....as it apparently increases my total max power.  I am beginning to think that there is a coding error somewhere when the proc wears off.<hr></blockquote>Honestly i can say that no i haven't really paid attention to this, but yes i am using a pearl imbued ring.  And i do know it procs like mad some fights, expecialy ae.   I really hope it is not draining my power :-/ like one of our song procs used to do a long time ago before lu13.<i>"</i></span><span><i>as it apparently increases my total max power"</i>The reason you total max power increase is because your getting an int buff of ~12 i believe, this will add to our total power.Actualy now that i'm thinking about this i think you are right. because, unless you are full power, if you add any item that increases your power pool it will only increase the max power, not the your current power, now the problem with this is, maybe, that when the ring proc multiple times in a fight it is actualy removing the old proc and applying a new one.   Well the effect of this is that when you remove something that adds power the amount of power that would of been givien is removed from both the max power pool and the current power pool effectively draining your power even if you are not full power..Since i use both a agi and int right i can really see this draining massive amounts of power everytime they reproc, (agi ~50, int ~40)i know thats not much by its self  but if you are aeing or casting a lot of our ca/spell thats going to add up pretty fast expecialy considering that most of our ca/spell only cost 50-70 power.</span><div></div><p>Message Edited by perano on <span class="date_text">02-27-2006</span><span class="time_text">03:27 PM</span></p><p>Message Edited by perano on <span class="date_text">02-27-2006</span><span class="time_text">03:32 PM</span></p>

[Kulaf]

<div></div>It might just be visual too.  We need to test.

[Sir Blig]

<div>Dont use any crafted rings, dont remember there being any proc's on my rings but will search my gear tonight and see if i have anything that could fit the bill</div>

[vinterskugge]

<div>I couldn't seem to burn mine at all in an average fight unless I bothered with my debuffs.</div>

[Jehannum]

<div></div><p>I'm actually noticing less consumption.  Due to the rate at which we down single-group encounters, it's a waste of time to use anything but the snare, Kian's and occasionally Zander's to help burn 'em down faster.  Certainly except when I'm using Precision I haven't needed to do an awful lot of Demoralizing or Discanting (other than occasional exceptions) so as a result my Dark Fury plus my NB ring plus my GEBs plus my Bria's keep me up above 80% unless I have at least 2 more mobs parked for demolition.  When I had an enchanter in my group, I couldn't get below 93%.</p><p> </p><p>If you notice yourself blowing a lot more power than usual (unless it's the buff procs, which it may well be since I'm wearing NB ring and another I can't remember but which isn't agil or int imbued), I'd have a look at your debuff usage and how long you're letting them sit; they're easily our greatest legitimate power drain.  Also consider that in most ranged fights Pilfer gets used every time it pops; perhaps in group-leveling you're doing more melee (and melee-range CAs) and less Pilfering?</p>

[Sir Blig]

<div></div><div>I use Pilfering every time it comes usable,</div><div> </div><div>not sure what was happening last night but i was burning mana like crazy, will have to monitor my use of the debuff things as from time to time i use them as i have seen how some times they can allow you to burn things down in half the time.</div><div> </div><div>As for the rings i use,</div><div> </div><div>Ring of fate, Fab +5 to all stats i think</div><div>Horn of Saevytr, Fab +10 to all stats</div><div> </div><div> </div>