Just because I hate mana tea in its current PTR version doesn’t mean I think SotC or current mana tea is good. (specifically, SotC is under tuned even for Ancient Concordance cleave let alone someone not running FL, and current mana tea is super clunky)
I use lifecycles because it’s objectively way better for M+ And not even hard to math out that if you cast every EvM/Vivify in an ABAB pattern that you get consistently much more mana reduction than SotC and Mana Tea combined.
I’m actually really sad to see lifecycles gutted it’s making me consider rerolling.
It’s just solely that the PTR version of mana tea should really just be passive mana regen on use to be comparable to the tier set and rashoks and really as a bonus it should have a choice for the effect instead of a 50% mana cost reduction to have a healing amp and damage amp option.
You guys are avoiding my proposal for mana tea for some reason but it’s objectively better than what is on PTR