Any tips? For example my holy paladin in cataclysm just holy shocks and word of glory and is never out of mana.
This priest I am spamming heals to keep people alive and then going oom.
If you’re having to spam heal people in battlegrounds, either your gear is pretty bad or the people you’re healing are wearing bad gear.
That’s the unfortunate thing about BGs sometimes. You’ll get players queuing up with full low item level PvE gear, with practically no versatility, let alone the correct PvP talents. That’s the nature of an MMO though.
If you’re not max level (level 70), I wouldn’t worry about low level BGs for anything other than getting a few levels in when you’re feeling it. The scaling in low level BGs is outrageously bad.
if you are holy, you simply have almost no manna clawback. Shadow fiend can be kited and CC’d and or it drops target and stands around if the target dies. Not like it gives crap for manna back anyway. Symbol of hope is near useless with only 5% manna back. And that’s it. that’s all you got my friend. We had rupture for years but these wack a doodle devs decided to strip it from holy and make it disc only so now we can’t even claw manna back from power word shield. We are sadly dead in the water.
Disc is slightly better but still can’t compete with the likes of Monk’s manna tea for example.
Would help if you posted on the character you’re having issues with so we could see your stats/gear/build. Only map I ever run out of mana on is Temple, or sometimes a lengthy Market fight on DWG. Outside of that I’ll go grab a leaf on maps that have them here or there but it’s usually well into the BG before I need to.
I have the same problem on my Hpriest
Holy priest is 100% manna starved at all times since they remove rupture from the game and gave disc a very watered down version of it. Holy got absolutely nothing to compensate for it. shadow fiend is all you have. the base line one. Not the upgraded one that disc gets. Holy continues to fall further and further behind in output during battle grounds and it isn’t because the kit is bad or needs reworked. It is death by manna starvation.
My suggestion? If you can’t get out of combat to drink water, just run face first into an enemy unholy DK and let them put you out of your misery, respawn and prepare for your manna bar to be empty again in short order.
One of many reason why my prefer style of PvP is Battlegrounds.
The leaf hut in Warsong Gulch back in classic when Priests had the worst mana management out of any class (Just stack spirit bro) was a lifesaver and kept things moving and enjoyable.
I would hate to being unable to have proper mana management in todays modern wow. Sounds terrible lol.
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Your mana regen is cut by a lot in BGs and Arenas so you’re going to oom no matter what. You just have to dump your mana bar and find a spot to drink.