[Loki]

I don't like the mana system poison system and the making scrolls and regs do the same thing, it really seems like it defeats the purpose of craft skills mana potions and some scrolls.

There is still a lot of use for those crafts. All other UO system do not even have mana potions and nobody says Alch is useless. I think this is pretty faulty logic. Also mana potions are still required to optimise your spell casting. Furthermore, Sphere 51a is again the only system where scrolls cast the spell faster or with less mana and again in other system nobody says scribe is pointless - scribe is used to cast 8th circle without fails (as it is here, among other reasons) and also there are still a wealth of scrolls that are useful (EV, FS, GH, MR, Curse, Bless, MA, Tele, Wall, Dispel/field, Para, Summon Daemon etc.). I'm afraid I just do not agree with your assessment here.

Besides the mana system is more based on luck rather than accuracy really who ever uses mana first for offensiveness is in favor of the duel right from the beginning because the regen is so fast that he will begin to regen already while the other is still healing. Not to mention the person on the offense will then start hitting and that's just a whole different story.

It's about pacing yourself, there is no random (luck) element whatsoever. Aggressive play is favoured as is continued use of good spell selection through the fight not just with the final dump. I hope to see more diversity in spell use and builds and potion drinking, I see all of these as good things. Yet again, Sphere is the only system that relies solely on mana potions and that was because it was broken and it was a temporary solution to the problem. Now, I am not saying we veer away from Sphere, the regen here is relatively slow and mana potions still exist, but mana regen is a proven system that works well for all other forms of UO and for the most part appeared to be working well in the testing as well.

I also don't see why you NEED to have FS and other spells armor based it's not like it makes it more "skillful" all it does is favor rich people in PvP. Skill should be your knowledge about the PvP and your patience with it, I find it's becoming to inconsistant here lately..

The need is to prevent PvP being nothing more than naked wars. Since it is too late for us to implement the (frankly excellent) AoS resists system this is the best alternative. I am in total agreement with you about not favouring rich people, as I have iterated to ElvenBane above.