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Canni -- it gets better, right?

My shaman is up around lvl 27 and I've lessened my meleeing for root/rot tactics (which is so easy it feels like cheating). However I've been less than impressed with Canni v1.0. For approximately 5% of my hitpoints, I get back 1% mana. Given that most of my spells take a couple percent off my mana at least, we're talking perhaps 15-25% of my hitpoints for one extra casting. Not exactly a winner.

I already considered that twinking has some effect here in that my mana pool is larger and what's 1% now may well have been 7% back in the day. But my gear is pretty balanced stuff so my hp pool has increased in reasonable approximation with my mana pool. So the ratio should be roughly the same.

I'm guessing later versions will show better returns? Or is that just the way it is? I'm not expecting 1:1 of course but the current output makes me hesitant to even waste a gem slot on it. Maybe mudflation and OOC regen has rendered it partially obsolete.

I use it on a mount, so you're getting med time + canni, but it still bites. And definitely not worth casting when out of combat regen is going.

Yther Ore.

Jophiel, get in there and tank em at 27. Lets keep them offensive and defensive skilled capped. Be sure to get the stun shammy only spear from kaesora a little later. Go get em!

I dont canni a lot on jonwinnie but it is worth it at higher levels, especially with regen and sitting on a mount. I would even use it towards the end of combat when I am wielding the soulstripper and looking for it to proc.
When I was 27 I was still root rotting and melee and of course using my clicky snare.

Shammy epic 2.0 clicky (500 hp heal/1k crit heal over time) is roughly on the same timer as the canni AA. No help at lower lvls but thaught I would throw that in.

Having a mount really helps to speed up recovery time. Not only do you get the full effect of meditation but having to stand up to cast canni yields less mana than just sitting there on the ground with the new system of mana regen.

My Shammy is almost 66, and I have yet to see the point of using Canni (at Canni IV right now).

I mostly just hang out in the guild lobby like an abandoned dog, waiting for you to come back.

Sometimes I hear a sound and my ears perks and I scramble up from the floor all excited. Then it's just Chlorr.

I can use it then sit again between ticks on mana regen so basically getting the benefit of both, but I'm lazy so I usually don't bother. ON the other hand, there have been more than a few times when I've run out of mana during a fight and desparately needed mana for one more spell cast. Canni came in handy those times.