not suck so horribly for the cost?

-S

Getting mana back fast is supposed to be hard unless your class is built to do it. I'm really reluctant to make gold even better at surmounting every problem.

It's already a huge drawback for ragers and outlanders that they can't gold their problems away - and remember, I play mages and forties plenty, so I'm talking about my own characters, too - and making it even easier for the rest to heal up, both hp and mana, and return to the fight isn't a good idea.

Why is mana so hard, and the rest not? Now, I do like to be able to cut out pointless mv waiting, and ungodly long plague times when you get those biting mobs and all, but....why is it that for only god-classes (and a few exceptions) have easy healing, but to get a town healer to help you is ridiculously cheap and easy in a lot of situations. Seems one of the worst things about shamans is that if you sit at (or can get to) a town healer quick, you can just pay them to remove all the badness.

I'd be all for a vote to weaken town healers. Go self-sufficiency! (Now watch I actually have to start finding and carrying cure preps :()

You can do much more with mana than hp, healing wise.

Also, an abs'd mage (or prep-protected priest) can not heal hp that cheaply at a healer. So the mana conversion rate is actually pretty favourable.