How do you count the effect of reducing the amount of tiles needed in terms of % of mana reduction?

[ThreeZX]

Sorry for the post title.

I’m just having trouble computing the effects of mana when referred to a percentage drop.

For example, Gadeirus is Slow mana, and normally takes 12 tiles to charge his special. He needs a lv17 4* mana troop (which is an 11% mana reduction) to shave off one tile, changing the number of required tiles to 11. If we look at his talent grid, taking him to 70+20 he will get another 4% mana generation bonus. So am I correct in thinking that this will do nothing in terms of the minimum matched number of tiles to gain his special?

Does maxing his talent grid allow me to do anything other than use a lower levelled mana troop on him?

[zephyr1]

@ThreeZX I think this is what you’re after, or at least this thread is discussing the same thing:

@flyingsolow

Thought I’d do the math and try to summarize the effects of combining troops and class bonuses. The brief summary is as someone said earlier, if you have maxed mana troops class bonuses generally don’t make a difference. However, class bonuses do lower the troop level required to hit certain tile # thresholds. Example being a Ranger/Rogue like Athena/Domitia with average mana speed. Instead of requiring level 23 mana troops to require 9 tiles to charge, they only require their class level 8 mana bonus plus level 17 mana troops.

So much of this is situational, but if you get a class bonus it could definitely lower the troop level you need to drop the number of tiles needed to charge a special.

The dumb part is most of the mana bonuses don’t come until level 19/20. So maybe in a year this will become useful?

(@Kerridoc @Rook @Coppersky Possible Merge of Topic)

[Rook]

Duplicate thread. Please continue the discussion on the link provided above.