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If you're not taking enough damage on trash, pull more trash. Either you'll take enough extra damage to get mana returns from heals, or you'll get more blocks/dodges/parries for BoSanc procs. If you're taking more damage than the healers can stay on top of, someone is undergeared or playing poorly. I don't judge Light for health returns...I judge Light for threat. The minor health boost is just an added bonus.

Reckoning doesn't proc often enough to be a reliable source for extra judgement procs. It's too random...you can't count on it. I'm specced 4/5 Reckoning because I had some points to spare after I took what I felt I absolutely needed. In heroics and raids, the only people who pull mobs off of me are other tanks who taunt and dps who start too early with the AoE.

I'm only in heroics, but I'm running some lower Reg. instances with guildies for fun and some easy rep.

I'm finding the same thing in some instances. So - Take a seat. Just eat a crit or two. Hit X and sit down every once in a while.

Or - Pull more trash.

Edited, Jan 7th 2009 9:43am by Borsuk

I agree with all of the above but also want to add:

If you can't find a way to keep mana regen up on trash after using BoSanc, hitting Diving Plea every cooldown, Arcane Torrent every cooldown (if you're Horde), using pots (duhhhh.. they're there for a reason. Paladins used to be the only tanks that absolutly couldn't afford to use Healing Pots because we had to spam mana pots -- healing pots are garbage anyway, so down mana pots unless you need special effect pots), and sitting down to eat crits....

Then don't worry about it. Stop and drink after every pull. Really. There can't possibly be a problem with threat -- I know I can put enough threat on a pack of trash in the first 8-10 seconds of combat to hold 4-6 things until they die. More if they're undead. The only problem I can see is ending combat without much mana. 5-10 seconds to drink all the time is nothing. You can still clear Heroic UK in less than half an hour. Boo hoo if you can't chain pull through Naxx because you have to stop and drink sometimes. Mana regen is only a real problem when it effects our ability to continue to put out enough threat to hold aggro, and against trash -- the only way that anyone can rival you for threat is if they're putting up HUGE numbers, in which case the mob should be dead and it's a non-issue. Small numbers? Then threat doesn't matter to begin with.