Small mage mana gem exploit

[Blueice22]

Found a small exploit on my mage tonight. If you summon a mana gem and then use the glyph Mana Gem (When you summon your mana gem it has 10 charges on it instead of 3) on your mage and summon a Brilliant Mana Gem you will have both.

It's not a huge exploit but only costs a couple silver and saves some time and gives you 13 uses of mana gem before you have to summon another.

[empty_skillz]

dont you loose a glyph slot then?

[Apennatie]

Useful for arcane mages, but because the gems are two different items It's working as intented.

[Soliinari]

I really don't know any fight that you will be able to use all 10 brilliant mana gems. Even the longest boss fight available at the moment, Garrosh, an arcane mage would use a max of 5 mana gems. If you're not conjuring mana gems after every fight as an arcane mage, you're doing it wrong anyway. So although you do get 13 mana gems, it doesn't really add anything to the gameplay of mages.

[Effinawesome]

I really don't know any fight that you will be able to use all 10 brilliant mana gems. Even the longest boss fight available at the moment, Garrosh, an arcane mage would use a max of 5 mana gems. If you're not conjuring mana gems after every fight as an arcane mage, you're doing it wrong anyway. So although you do get 13 mana gems, it doesn't really add anything to the gameplay of mages.

My mage is frost and I got perma banned so I can't check this... Do the mana gems have a CD? If so, do the two different types of mana gems share a CD? If they don't put each other on CD then I guess you have that going for you if you do this.

[Apennatie]

My mage is frost and I got perma banned so I can't check this... Do the mana gems have a CD? If so, do the two different types of mana gems share a CD? If they don't put each other on CD then I guess you have that going for you if you do this.

Nope, same cd. It's working as intented. It's a different item on the same cooldown. In addition, You can't use the mana gem with 10 charges when you don't have the glyph.

[advanta]

I really don't know any fight that you will be able to use all 10 brilliant mana gems. Even the longest boss fight available at the moment, Garrosh, an arcane mage would use a max of 5 mana gems. If you're not conjuring mana gems after every fight as an arcane mage, you're doing it wrong anyway. So although you do get 13 mana gems, it doesn't really add anything to the gameplay of mages.

Agree about pve.

However, I think this trick is actually very useful for undergeared mages in pvp. Running around spamming spellsteal makes you much more useful to your team than trying to do dps. Since the mana requirement on spellsteal was raised you get constantly out of mana-this trick allows you to get round it.

Even though I've got top-end pvp gear I may end up using this trick in wsg and twin peaks to take down multiple healers protecting the flag carrier.

[Kaizuken]

My mage is frost and I got perma banned so I can't check this... Do the mana gems have a CD? If so, do the two different types of mana gems share a CD? If they don't put each other on CD then I guess you have that going for you if you do this.

Why you're perma banned ?

[QuitYourJibbaJabba]

Why you're perma banned ?

Gonna take a wild stab at PQR being the answer to that question I got 72h suspension hehe

Not tested for ages but it only works if you have the glyph, Ie. make the 3 charges one then glyph and make the 10 charges one (leaving the glyph there), if you remove it you then can't use the 10 charges one IIRC (unless it has bugged, in which case that would be handy, mostly because I keep forgetting to make them).

[Blueice22]

Unfortunately you have to have the glyph in order to use it

[marscgm]

You need the glyph in order to use the glyphed mana gem.