Shield of the Creator  

 

They changed Flowing Thought to Mana Regeneration some time ago....it is the same effect.

Looks like a bigass booger

Yes, you overvalue FT by a lot, go for items with good stats and FT is a bonus on those items, but it by itself is crap. And clearing for tunare sux goat balls, but besides that they RvR on both the mobs is great, neither of them is that hard. And if you 'need' 70+ for tunare or 50+ for creator nowadays then chances are your not gonna kill them, because your a zerg guild laff. Creator is a mega wuss, he is a super long THO fight, except that XTC rampages instead of flurries ;p

fixed in current patch

Couldn't be that those races were created first because humans were created third from last, followed by barbarians, and lastly erudites (though erudites were not "created" by a god but evolved from a branch of the human race when they fled Qeynos, but thats another story). Highly unlikely that it has anything to do with something in common as, though erudites and humans (and barbarians but that isnt important here) are very similar, erudites having evlolved from humans, but high elves and gnomes have little in common with one another or humans and erudites. High elves, humans, and gnomes were all created by diffrent gods (high elves by tunare, humans by erollisi mar, and gnomes by brell serilis) and the only thing that they have in common is the fact that they are/can be good, though even this isnt air tight, as humans, erudites, and gnomes all practice necromancy; the former two also delving into the realm of the shadownight, the most evil of all classes; while high elves shun such practices. In attitude, the four are also very dissimilar, erudites share the snobbyness of high elves but that is about where the similaritys end.

This said, I see no link between the four anywhere in the lore of norrath, excepting the fact that these are the four, of the more arcane-inclined races, that are generally considered good or neutral, while dark elves and iksar are about as rotten as they get (my primary is a de sk and my secondary is a iksar necro...).

All this set aside, it could also likely be that verant randomly picked 4 races and said, we are going to bestow upon these races the most magnificant shield ever seen (assuming they could use such big words) and there we have it :/

I'd much rather have FT IV than 15 int in a held slot. So you have less mana, but what you have fills up much faster. stack this with C2 and if you are lucky, one of the FT I earrings, or other FT items, and you got mana to spare. My understanding of the FT line of items is this, if you have 2 items with FT I, you only get FT I one time. However, if you have an FT I and an FT IV item, you get both. Plus it stacks with the clarity line of buffs, as well as the bard mana songs. And +30 to 2 resists, sweet.

Besides, by the time you can get this, you'll probably be lvl 55 or higher, and have 200+ int, which means that each additional int is only 6 mana at lvl 60.