What should the or form of magic energy be?

I personally hate mana and mana potions lol. Vote away.

That typo really bothers me, should be Rune's or "an" equivalent item.

 

I like the whole idea of mana so thats my choice.

 

To each is there own =)

 

Runes? Are you kidding me? Are we playing Runescape or are we trying to create a game better? Mana is so much better than Runes. Not only do you not have to spend money on buying Runes but with mana, it eventually comes back over time in every MMO. If you are just to lazy to just simply but mana potions to replenish your mana points then you shouldn't be playing any MMO's besides Runescape. With mana you can also shoot more than Runes plus I personally think it would be cheaper if it was put in the game. Plus, if there was a mage class why would the mage need runes in order to cast a spell he was born to do?

 

Maybe we could incorporate medieval alchemy into this game, sorta like Fullmetal Alchemist

 

First off, RuneScape is a VERY succesful JAVA based game, Second, I believe rune's, or as I said, an equivalent item, ex An item that is stackable and allows you to cast magic, Is WAY better than mana, allows you to do MORE spells MORE often. Also, who is to say there are going to be clases? Who is to say you can not switch between a class at ANY time you want? You are talking as if you already know exactly how the game is going to be. Simple fact, you don't, and Sythe is open to many ideas, and just because you prefer mana, doesnt mean you can put down my idea of runes, so honestly, go f*** yourself.

 

simple mana owns runes every game i have every played req mana not runes

 

Exactly, do we want this game to be like "every" other game?
Mana give you a good 2-4 cast of a powerful spell before your sipping potions, I believe it really underpowers magic. Granited, your amount of mana increases, so does the amount spells need, in the case of runes(Probably not call them rune's or make them smiliar looking in any way to runes), there stackable, cheap, and you can have as many as you want.

 

Yeah, you say runes are stackable and cheap, and mana lets you cat only 2-4 powerful spells "You are talking as if you already know exactly how the game is going to be."

 

I am replying to diety, in almost all other games that use mana as the form of magic energy, you get about 2-4 cast of a Good Spell, that is how it is, and in RuneScape, runes are cheap and stackable.

I never said it would be like that in this game, I was replying to him, because he was talking about all other games. Thanks for the post though?

 

Mana points is far more practical against Runes. Mana points can regenerate on the Damage you deal and it will regenerate as you walk, more slowly though.

Thats my opinion..

 

Everyone is intitled to there own opinion. =)

If mana is chosen as popular vote, I hope that you atleast get 10-20 cast of a good spell before you have to sip a potion.

 

Different forms of spells should also take some of your HP as a cost. IE some powerful dark magicks will hit the opponent hard but recoil back to you. .

 

"in almost all other games that use mana as the form of magic energy, you get about 2-4 cast of a Good Spell,"

"Exactly, do we want this game to be like "every" other game?"

 

No, but I was just simply replying to the scenario he was implying.

 

But seriously, maybe there could be a combination of both were you could have an option oh using mana or runes like something in the options bar "use mana or runes".

 

The only "bad" things I can see that might happen with mana, is how you don't have enough to cast an adequite amount of spells to do some damage before your sipping up potions. Perhaps when in combat your mana restores exceptionaly fast.

 

that is true but using a object to cast magic will limit mages on how rich they are like rs which no one wants

 

True, but as long as there cheap it shouldn't be to bad, but perhaps mana would be the way to go, as long as spells dont use to much, and you gain it back in a decent amount of time.

 

mana should restore faster in your in a town so but any kind of magic items will cost a lot since magic is a highly offensive style of combat but lacks defense