Mana reservation explained?

Can someone explain to me mana reserves? I have an aura that puts a mana reserve on my mana pool. I have no idea what the point of that is.

It reduces your maximum available mana while the aura is up. It's sort of like an upkeep. It means you can't have too many auras on at once, mostly.

Every aura reserves part of your mana pool (percentage or fixed amount) as a cost. You get something for something. Otherwise you would get powerful buff for free (as mana regenerates). I have clarity aura that reserves 160 mana. It regenerates 8 mana per second but the disadvantage is I have less available mana. It's called balance.

Greg

Ah ok. Thanks for the fast reply.

In my opinion, some of these auras should instead constantly drain mana when the aura is up, or a chance to pick. I feel this is sort of better for the auras that deal additional elemental damage.

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rezzybaws wrote:

In my opinion, some of these auras should instead constantly drain mana when the aura is up, or a chance to pick. I feel this is sort of better for the auras that deal additional elemental damage.

That would drain your mana even while you are idle so wouldn't be a good idea.

You should wait until you play before you decide on changes needed.

does blood magic stack with auras? like when you have blood magic you use health; so if you have an aura does it just hold mana that i will never use?

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rezzybaws wrote:

In my opinion, some of these auras should instead constantly drain mana when the aura is up, or a chance to pick. I feel this is sort of better for the auras that deal additional elemental damage.

Doesn't fit in with the way flasks work,you would get left not being able to cast.Besides who wants to be forced to constantly click on mana flasks,the mana reservation idea was to avoid that kind of thing.

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bstone1414 wrote:

does blood magic stack with auras? like when you have blood magic you use health; so if you have an aura does it just hold mana that i will never use?

Pretty sure it reserves HP instead.

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bstone1414 wrote:

does blood magic stack with auras? like when you have blood magic you use health; so if you have an aura does it just hold mana that i will never use?

With blood magic you have 0 mana, thus it will reserve from your only resource: health.