Reflections From The Pond

Sometimes when I ran instances with my resto shaman Larue a kind druid would tell me to yell if I wanted an Innervate.

I routinely replied that I have little use for Innervate since I don’t stack Spirit and told them to save it for themselves.

I had not given this much further thought because I hardly ever run out of mana, and then someone did Innervate me without asking on a long fight where there were no Replenishment available. To my surprise, my mana bar started filling up rather quickly and I decided to actually look into it a little more.

Larue has a measly 145 Spirit at lvl 80, all of it base Spirit, not a single point from items, which gives me a mana regeneration of 123 mp5 while not casting. In combat the mana regeneration from Spirit drops to zero since I have no talents available to keep it running. (For comparison my holy priest Jools has 483 Spirit at lvl 71, and a Spirit based mana regeneration of 495 mp5 while not casting.)

So, even if I did get a 400% increase to my mp5 from the Innervate buff it would still be zero, right?

Yes it would, but the Innervate buff doesn’t end there, does it. It also says on the tooltip that during the 20 seconds the buff lasts you will have full mana regeneration, ie your mana regeneration while not casting!

And full mana regeneration for me means (unbuffed)

-214 mana per 5 seconds while in combat (none of it Spirit based)

-337 mana per 5 seconds while not casting (123 from Spirit and thus 214 from items)

Should I get a 400% increase to my Spirit based mana regeneration it would mean 496 mp5 from Spirit! Add that to the 214 mp5 from items and we are looking at a whopping 710 mp5 for 20 seconds!

710 mp5!! And with my usual buffs on it would be even more!

I know its not much compared to what a holy priest or resto druid would get (Jools, for example, would get almost 2000 mp5 even at lvl 71), but it is still a lot when your blue bar is running dry.

Never again will I decline a kind offer of an Innervate when needed! So, to answer my initial question, No, Innervate is not wasted on shamans!

*Disclaimer:  And of course I will not ask for an Innervate when there are others present who would benefit much more from it!

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