AA Channelling focus from guide

[Deq]

Hi, just reading the guide on AA on this forum.

It mentions Channelling focus, but I can't find that, does it not exist any more? Channelling through thumps quite appeals.

I'm 62 with 105AA at the moment grinding AA in the hole. I was going to stop at 61, but there were AA and spells at 62 that I liked. I've not noticed it slowing the AA down particularly.

Persistant casting 1
Mnemonic retention 1
Spell casting mastery 3
Spell casting subtlety 1
Spell casting fury 3
Fury of magic 1
Suspended minion 1
Servant of Ro 1
Pet discipline 1
Mend companion 1
Frenzied burnout 1
Quick summoning 3
Quickened suspend minion 1
Run speed 5

I think that's it. I'm sort of working towards a solid Solo mage first as that's where most of my play time is, followed by raid utility and then group utility I guess. I think the AA guide here is a bit out of date, I've not gone for things like Mental clarity as it's sort of redundant these days. You can never have enough FT, but I already have more FT on my items than my old main a few years ago.

[Voragath]

No more channeling. There is an aa that is called "persistent casting" that gives you a chance to finish a spell when stunned. Channeling was removed from the game a couple of years ago because it was horribly broken and, iirc, the aa's were refunded.

[Voragath]

I think that's it. I'm sort of working towards a solid Solo mage first as that's where most of my play time is, followed by raid utility and then group utility I guess. I think the AA guide here is a bit out of date, I've not gone for things like Mental clarity as it's sort of redundant these days. You can never have enough FT, but I already have more FT on my items than my old main a few years ago.

When you hit 70, the mana regen cap will be removed and you can have more than 65 regen from gear and innate (spells don't count towards this cap) combined. I guess, then, you could say the new cap is 130, 65 from gear and 65 from innate. This also fixed the overcap regen with heroic intelligence, which I doubt you'll see at your level. Just something to keep in mind when you hit level 70.

[Eanelder]

When you hit 70, the mana regen cap will be removed and you can have more than 65 regen from gear and innate (spells don't count towards this cap) combined. I guess, then, you could say the new cap is 130, 65 from gear and 65 from innate.

What's this?

I thought you needed the aa's to extend the mana regen cap which will allow you to reach 65 mana regen. Even your sig says you only have 54 mana regen.

[Eanelder]

Just looked it up.

The default cap is 15 mana.

There is then 25 Expansive Mind AA's, each raising the mana regen cap from gear 1 point per rank.

There is then 23 Mental Clarity AA's each raising the natural mana regen cap 1 point per rank

So 15 default cap + 25 Expansive Mind + 23 Mental Clarity = 63 mana regen.

Magelo says the highest mana regen is 65, so im missing 2 points somewhere. Am I wrong?

[Merlaina]

Just as a guess (this is total speculation) mana might naturally regen at a rate of 2 per tick so long as you're not hungry/thristy. But as I said, total guess.

[Redius]

I'm pretty sure that the hungry/thirsty spam used to mean that, but no longer has any impact on regen.

[nako]

My magelo says 64, not sure how it goes over 63. Maybe magelo still assumes a 1 point innate FT, or maybe it's from heroic int - does magelo even caculate that?. We don't get that hybrid AA either, mind and body rejuvination (5aa for 1regen & 1FT in class).

As for the channelling, yeah it was completely broken and didnt do anything iirc. I haven't noticed persistant casting doing anything either, but I haven't really payed much attention to it (if something is beating the crap out of me I generally have better things to do than watch for channeling messages). Maybe someone has parsed it?

[Edit:] I'm pretty sure innate FT has gone up a bit, it was 1FT standing for years, and I think with TSS we got 1 additional FT at 73 and 75 or something (along with the additional buff slots). It may have gone up since then also, but I could be completely mistaken.

-nako/saryrn

[Voragath]

The cap is just that, the cap. Does not mean we can actually reach that cap at this very moment. It may be possible.

The old problem:

Ghost-of-Maddoc EQ Asst. Lead Designer
The formula for returns in code is 1 + ( skill / 15 ), which would result in 29 regen generated by meditate at level 80.

The cap increase to the meditate skill is pretty substantial and has substantial returns for those who aren't bumping into the regen cap -- There's no specific cap for the amount of mana regen that the meditate skill itself can return aside from the overall cap on all things mana-regen (65).

Now:
You can get to 65 natural regen and you can get to 65 worn. Before it was 65 total so 40 worn and 30 aa'd would result in 65 FT and not 70. Now, you will regen at 70.

I'm not on my mage atm to see the meditate skill cap and the aa's for regen but I'm sure you can do the math from here. Also, don't forget, this fix was supposed to correct the problem with HInt helping us go over the cap as HInt is supposed to provide mana regen that is over the cap. AFAIK, the formula for HInt's overcap regen is unknown.

EDIT: BTW, magelo is dead wrong on FT. I made that sig before I realized it and am just too lazy to change it. I have tested my combat regen and it's more than that and I'm sure anyone else who tests their's will discover the same. Last I checked, I think it was about 120. But I can't remember if that was with or without our canni and stuff. I'll have to check it again sometime.

[nako]

Yes, unbuffed and fully geared, I regen 70 mana standing. Assuming 23 from Mental Clarity, 40 from worn, and at least 1 innate (probably more like 4-5 innate) leaves a couple unaccounted for. I have 116 heroic int, but don't have the bank room to strip naked (sorry all you hot ladies that like men pretending to be ugly ladies, call me when they introduce the new TS banker).

So we already have an innate cap of 23 (from MC) + whatever innate amount we have (5ish), it begs the question of why cap it again at 65. Likewise for a worn cap of 65, if we're already limited by AA's to 40 + heroic int formula, who's going to have 2000 heroic int and break the secondary cap of 65? If the meditate skill (450/15 = 30) is part of either of those caps then they're already in need of an adjustment, or will be very soon.

The 'second' cap is completely transparent to the end user, not sure why they wouldn't just cap it at 999 and be done with it, unless there's something I missing. Or remove it altogether, but that would probably break EQ. It's also completely possible that there's some forgotten Rambo dev sitting in the basement, that hasn't recieved a paycheck in years, keeping THE VISION alive.

-nako/saryrn