Increased max mana vs reduced mana cost

I'm not sure increased max mana as a skill node is worth taking, don't even recall any builds that would go for them.

I suggest removing all skill nodes with increased max mana and replace them with reduced mana cost. Both of those passives do pretty much same thing, only one of them is more valuable and could have builds done around it.

Now if it would happen, there should be a cap to how much you can reduce the cost of skills or make it none linear value.

Maximum mana also means higher mana regeneration per second. So personally I would stick with the different nodes.

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mirelitbab wrote:

Maximum mana also means higher mana regeneration per second. So personally I would stick with the different nodes.

Only if a spell costs less by same percentage your max mana is increased, end result will still be the same. or even better, as flask are now more powerful.

Spell costs go really insane late game with support gems, so you drain ALL your mana in few casts, there is no way mana regen can keep up with that, unless you went all in with mana regen and max mana.

I went all-in with max mana and mana regen because I exclusively use Elemental Hit with a bunch of support gems as my primary attack. I did have to supplement it with a Clarity aura though. Seems to work fine so far. I only really run out of mana if I'm wailing on a named mob with lots of health, and then I just need to retreat for a few seconds to get it all back.

I think the main advantage to max mana vs reduced cost is that reduced cost doesn't apply to skills which reserve mana. So in that case having more mana is more advantageous.

It's a choice/decision to take. If you want your flask/mana gain on kill to be more effective, take reduced cost. If you want your mana leach, or mana regen, or more reserve space, pick maximum mana.

If you can afford it, try to balance both, since stacking one is not as effective as both.

I think it's quite balanced atm, might need more reduced nodes to be available elsewhere and bump some +max % node near the witch up. (a 4% right next to a 8% doesn't seem fair to keep investing))