A New use for Lapis lazuli for Magic users.

[kitsuneblood]

If your a caster and you use a spell that depletes your mana in a pvp fight your pretty much screwed, especially against fights that are with Rangers since rangers don't have any limit to how many arrows they can shoot.

Lapis Lazuli could have a new use, for any class that uses mana. It could be edible or usable to give you mana back depending on what class you are, and spells you have.

A lot of spells from what I notice take away a lot of mana since when you level your mana doesn't increase, and waiting for your mana to replenish can screw you over when your in a pvp fight against someone that doesn't have that drawbacks like mana users have so having something handy that could give you mana would be helpful.

Also something else that could be useful would be imbuing lapis lazuli on a Caster weapon like where it could increase spell damaged for a certain period of time, which would be useful.

The only item that's out there which can give you mana is cookies which can only be made from cocoa beans which can only be found in dungeons, making it a hard to obtain which is unfair since you can just harvest anything like a wheat and make it into bread and get heath back, in a matter of seconds.

Since Lapis Lazuli is a semi-rare ore to obtain but common enough it would be a good choice to give Mana also it doesn't have many uses to start with.

Lapis lazuli could give mana users a fair advantage and also make Lapis lazuli have a better purpose.

*Vote yes If you agree or Vote no If you disagree and your not sure vote not sure.

*Any feed back is welcome.

 

[KrunknMunky]

this sounds like a really good idea! while i may hate casters, it sounds like a good idea in general, i think this should be applicable for all classes! perhaps casters could combine lapis and 2 sticks to make a staff, which would give something like a 20% mana boost if you cast while it is in your hand? idk if thats possible, just throwing ideas out there!

@Kainzo you should check this out!

 

[richfish57]

It's a great idea. I would consider replacing the item requirement for replenish to change from a cookie to this. only drawbacks are:
CDs might need a bit of a juggle for some skills to prevent spam. Though if used with replenish and it has a CD and these are used for that, a good use.
If they are just a "usable" item like food, qutie abusable. To my knowledge no food stacks so that's a max of 35 healing items and a weapon. This would allow you to carry 2240 mana restoring items xD So it would need some form of limit on it.

 

[Razael6]

Um if you didnt know caster and healer spec's can eat cookies to get 20% mana back, and some spec's have a skill called "regenerate" which only takes 5 mana or 1 not sure and gives you 100% mana

 

[Dazureus]

I'm of the opinion that most conventional food items should recover some mana, particularly soup and cake. And cookies ought to heal mana for everybody. They're rare enough, why then are they only useful when used by the few who get the ability?

As far as lapis, I could very much see that working. Don't know how much it should recover, but it would make blue things impressive again. "I have a floor made of lapis blocks, I can afford to do that."

 

[kitsuneblood]

Um if you didnt know caster and healer spec's can eat cookies to get 20% mana back, and some spec's have a skill called "regenerate" which only takes 5 mana or 1 not sure and gives you 100% mana

Cookies are pretty rare, and not all specs have regenerate.

 

[Razael6]

Well some people have like stacks of cookies stocked from when you got cookies for voting instead of 5c

 

[kitsuneblood]

Well some people have like stacks of cookies stocked from when you got cookies for voting instead of 5c

Then, let people who can't get cookies have a chance of getting something that can give you mana, and that could be found more commonly then a dungeon which might have Cocoa beans.

 

[Diffuse]

Cookies are definitely not that hard to obtain. It takes something like 1 diamond and 2 water buckets (also some dirt and sand) to make like 4 cocoa beans each of which creates 8 cookies. I'm fairly sure that this hasn't changed since I made my cookies. I do agree however that lapis should get something to be useful for other than decoration. Compared to the other rare griefable blocks it really isn't worth taking. : /

 

[kriskills]

Several mana users already have enough mana. Wizards dont need an infinite supply because they already have regenerate which gives them 200 mana pretty much. And most of us that dont use mana much, have to wait until the mana users run out in order to strike.

Wizards - root, bolt, fireball, run away. Warrior runs after them. Wizard blinks far away, roots, fireballs, etc. Then uses regenerate to get more. Rinse and repeat. But once the run out of that, they are vulnerable. If they had pretty much infinite, then us melee classes would be severely disadvantaged.

CD's would have to be raised like hell to even it out, and then there would be an outrage from mana users that they cant use their skills much.

I do think lapiz needs a new use though

 

[wolfgang784]

I didn't read much more than the title, but it would be a good idea. Just need to come up with proper balancing. Cookies are rare with no ways to obtain them.

Maybe 20% like cookies but this:

Must stand still, NO moving at all or it will break

Takes 10 seconds to replenish the mana, and it won't do little bits. 10 seconds for all or nothing.

Does 20% as well like cookies, but they are the instant alternative.

Cool down of.....30 seconds maybe? Don't want people recovering entire mana pools mid fight unless they pay the big bucks (cookies)

What do ya guys think of those conditions for it? Too lazy to read the posts/OP right now, just decided to post my opinion on the topic quick.

 

[kitsuneblood]

I didn't read much more than the title, but it would be a good idea. Just need to come up with proper balancing. Cookies are rare with no ways to obtain them.

Maybe 20% like cookies but this:

Must stand still, NO moving at all or it will break

Takes 10 seconds to replenish the mana, and it won't do little bits. 10 seconds for all or nothing.

Does 20% as well like cookies, but they are the instant alternative.

Cool down of.....30 seconds maybe? Don't want people recovering entire mana pools mid fight unless they pay the big bucks (cookies)

What do ya guys think of those conditions for it? Too lazy to read the posts/OP right now, just decided to post my opinion on the topic quick.

Hmm... Since Lapis has a 4-8 chance of Drop I think 5 mana replenish would seem reasonable.

With a CD of course.