Opening Pandora's Box again .... Manaburn?

[OneEyedJack]

<p>As a wiz looking for the biggest bombs and hardest hits ... (lvl 42+)...</p><p>I am looking at getting as much INT as I can on my gear, aa'ing all the INT I can with the addition of Manaburn.  I know that I won't be able to take a punch without goin' squishy.</p><p>I have been told that this plan is foolish because Manaburn is a waste of time.</p><p>Well?  Is it?</p><p>Most of the 'nuts and bolts' info I can find on Manaburn here in the forums is 2 years old, so I thought I would ask again.</p>

[Jayingsoo]

<span style="color: #0099ff;">I think manaburn has become more novelty than priority.  You can do far more damage with other spells in about 10 seconds rather than 6, and still have 90% of your mana left.  I love manaburn because it's just fun to use in dungeons.  It's an excellent way to burn a mob down for fun.  Say you go through Solusek's Eye at your level, and a ^^^ mob is almost at half health.  Just hit manaburn and while your group gets it down to 40-50%, boom you've destroyed it <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  It's fun and cool to look at, but it's usefulness is... at least for me, not very good.when it first came out.. it was amazing, tho.  7 second cast time, 5 damage per 1 mana spent and it drained everything.  not just 50%.  but now.. it's just novelty to me <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></span>

[Yourgoddess]

Manaburn used to be a good spell until Soe nerfed it in eq1 the spell could crit and take a mob that has 100% hp to dead now its just a stupid spell considering spells like hard touch do about what it does and cost no mana. Ragers get a skill like it as well attest in eq1 that does about the same dmg and yet again no mana cost.The only way this spell would be good as it is now if it did not drain your mana

[Yourgoddess]

The reason for Soe making the spell useless is because a group of wizards could all group and go manaburn a dragon at a time and normally kill it 6x manaburns with 3crits out of the 6 would be really great instead of soe nerfing it a little and still makeing it a usefull spell it was totally boomed down and now not worth using At lest this is the only reason i think they nerfed it.

[Jrral]

Well, against solo mobs it's useful. But on my 62 wizard, what I find is that in a group mobs fall into two categories:<ol><li>Ones that die so fast that by the time I get manaburn off the mob's almost dead anyway.</li><li>Ones with so many hit points that manaburn can't hit them for more than 10-15% of their health.</li></ol>Both cases I'm better off going with other spells. I end up doing as much if not more damage to the mob without going completely out-of-power.

[ailees]

You will find some other posts were it is explained that Manaburn is a very good spell, IF, and only IF :<ul><li>1/ you are often raiding ROK T4 (or let's say if you have that level)</li><li>2/ you have high mana regen with you, to be full mana very fast. </li></ul>