Aye, get in there and bash away!
Makes playing your cleric a bit more challenging. as you do still have to watch your MA's health and step back to CH once in a while...
Was in an LDoN adventure the other night. I am a level 61 cleric, we had a 64 beastlord, then rest were 65's Ranger, Warrior, Druid and Shaman..
We slammed through the adventure. MA had over 9k hitpoints.. I would have been a burden on the party just sitting there to med and heal him. I had to cast CH on him about every 4 mobs. Easily could have been FM the whole time. I tried nuking some, but that depleted mana.. So I threw in my hammer pet, hit the mob with Mark of Karn IF the mob had his own damage shield up as Mark of Karn overwrites any mob damage shield HINT HINT, and then yaulped and bashed along with the MA. With a shammy dex buff, and my yaulp V, I had max dex, had my own haste and I do wear a belt I picked up in Sebilis that has haste on it. I was easily proccing at least 8 times per mob with the level 60 summoned hammer and combined with my pet was putting in some decent for a cleric melee damage.
I had fun, the party was never in jeoprody.. if my mana fell below 60 I would sit and med it back up some.. although standing back and nuking for damage could have been possible, it just consumes too much mana...
And as to how much mana you get back? during the course of one fight, I can regen enough mana to cover the CH cast, the pet cast, and the MoK if I cast it...