Viper Sting
8% of base mana 5 - 35 yd range
Instant cast 15 sec cooldown
Requires Ranged Weapon
Stings the target, draining 4% mana over 8 sec (up to a maximum of 8% of the caster's maximum mana), and energizing the Hunter equal to 300% of the amount drained. Only one Sting per Hunter can be active on any one target.
I'm a little confused with this, since running into mana problems in MM and such I've been trying to use Viper Sting when I can to get some mana back along with AotV. But this doesn't seem to work against bosses the way it's told in the description.
I found this comment on wowhead,
DrPancake wrote:
on a raid boss, A Single Viper Sting now regenerates 24% of your Mana over 8 seconds.
Although the Mana Destruction effect is basically useless now. 4% over 8 seconds means it would take 200 seconds(3min 20sec) to burn what a Priest could do in 10 seconds.
Although the Mana Destruction effect is basically useless now. 4% over 8 seconds means it would take 200 seconds(3min 20sec) to burn what a Priest could do in 10 seconds.
which kind of makes sense on what I'm experiencing but is there anywhere officially that tells you this? The fight in particular that I'm talking about is Faction Champions, they have more than enough mana that even draining 4% and giving me 300% would give me way behind what I need, but obviously that doesn't happen.
So is there something I'm simply missing somewhere?