Seen some ask 1mil for it, but never sells. What all can you do with it still besides buffing people in pok. It wont work in any actually useful zones.
Well, imagine you are an out of mana wizard/druid. Use secondary bind where you are fighting, port to an old world zone, fill your mana and recall back. 2 minutes instead of 30 to med up.
Also works for clerics with a faithstone, although its not ideal, because you have to bind at the fight spot, faithstone home, then port back.
Lets see, with Clairvoyance, SA and Maelin's methodical mind, sitting, with FT 20 and the 3 from AAs, i regen 92 mana per tick, with no bard in group.
That's 920 mana per minute. With a 13778 raid buffed mana pool, that is 15 minutes to med to full mana.
Now, that is assuming raid mana buffs. In an exp group, there is a decent chance that I will not have SA, and I will be using KEI or potions. That reduces mana regen sitting or horsed to 78. That raises regen to full time to Almost 18 minutes. Make it an indoor zone, where i might be using yaulp instead of horse, and you end up over 20 minutes.
Perhaps 30 minutes was an exaggeration, but then it is less of one than saying "a couple" minutes to med up from OOM.
With the new "med up in 3 minutes" commming out, this thing will become useless, correct? Lose aggro, wait 30 seconds, med up to full in 3 minutes. Who needs a manastone or a manarobe?
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This is true, to some degree, against group flagged mobs. However, when fighting raid mobs, the timer before you reach OOC status is 5 minuts, not 30 seconds. This still means that the appropriate classes with secondary recall can get some fast mana using the mana stone/robe.
Also, don't forget, if you're on a mount, you can chain click this, while staying in OOC mode, and convert the fast regenning HP into extra mana making the med up time less than 3 minutes, if in a zone where it works. Which means it'll be real useful for twinks, less so for mains.