I have a somewhat difficult time buffing before a spar and I'm wondering if anyone can chime in with his/her strategy. To be specific, I run into mana issues even in shining+ rooms. Often times, out of guilt for making my sparring partner wait on me, I'll throw up only those spells I deem most important and make do with about 50% mana.

I do use GoM and typically prep spells at min and harness 10 at a time. Relevant magic ranks are:

Holy Magic: 387 77%
Harness Ability: 402 25%
Power Perceive: 371 23%
Arcana: 225 94%

You recall the spells you have learned from your training.

In the chapter entitled "Inspiration," you have notes on the Courage, Righteous Wrath [rw], Divine Guidance [dig], Trothfang's Rally [tr], Sentinel's Resolve [sr], Banner of Truce [bot], Anti Stun [as], Heroic Strength [hes], Soldier's Prayer [sp], Marshal Order [mo], and Rutilor's Edge [rue] spells.

In the chapter entitled "Justice," you have notes on the Halt, Stun Foe [sf], Shatter, Divine Armor [da], Bond Weapon [bw], Holy Warrior [how], Tipping the Scales [tip], Clarity, and Smite Horde [smh] spells.

In the chapter entitled "Sacrifice," you have notes on the Alamhif's Gift [ag] and Crusader's Challenge [crc] spells.

In the chapter entitled "Analogous Patterns," you have notes on the Energy Bolt [bolt], Ease Burden [ease], Strange Arrow [stra], and Manifest Force [maf] spells.

Mana return rate is exponential the more full the pool is. Closest to 100% (or over) is the highest refil rate, while closest to 0% is the lowest.

So ideally you want to either harness small chunks of mana to reach your goal, or use MD in a similar mana so that your mana pool refills to 100% between harness/charge.

But if time is your concern, that's potentially very time intensive as well.

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As far as I know, there is no 'fast' way to fully buff. The fastest way would be to do it the quickest you can while keeping a large mana surplus, since that determines mana refil rates, which ultimately gate your buff times.

You should probably be taking, what, 5 minutes to buff? It shouldn't be a week long process.

If it's simply too intensive, too long, etc, you will probably just have to accept running with fewer buffs. Determine (or ask someone who knows paladin spells) which are flat required, and cast 2-5 in fairly fast manner, then go to the the beatings.

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>Determine (or ask someone who knows paladin spells) which are flat required, and cast 2-5 in fairly fast manner, then go to the the beatings.

That's what I was trying to do but probably phrased the question poorly. It's about 10 paladin buff spells, give or take a spell or two, to be at tip top (presumably what one's opponent is also at) on a tertiary harness pool, which is rather small. Then there's also MAF. Didn't count RUE and BW because they don't require much mana or effort. It frequently takes me longer than 5 minutes but I probably am doing something wrong. I can certainly omit spells but I'm not sure which unless it's obvious (e.g. no SP v. barbarian).

I've played a few different MU guilds and have to say I do miss those larger harness pools.


>The answer to all your mana woes is only weeks away. In 3.0 buffs will be more like 40 minutes to an hour, versus 10 to 20 minute.

That's one of the things I'm very excited about. That will be huge.

>I have a somewhat difficult time buffing before a spar and I'm wondering if anyone can chime in with his/her strategy. To be specific, I run into mana issues even in shining+ rooms. Often times, out of guilt for making my sparring partner wait on me, I'll throw up only those spells I deem most important and make do with about 50% mana.

more an extreme measure - if coin isn't an issue you could buy a gath mysandsa

http://elanthipedia.org/w/index.php/Gath_mysanda