Adjust to preferred mana percentage while resting.

[starsapphire]

We all knows that for Chronomancy talents, we can use Spacetime Tuning to adjust to a preferred Paradox while resting.
However, for archmages, while resting they always let their mana goes full, which is inappropriate while using Disruption Shield. Players will rest for HP restore, wasting mana to get access to Disruption Shield, and then explore.
Is it possible to add a talent to set your preferred mana while resting, in order to skip these boring procedure?

[Radon26]

it could be posible, but its absolutely stupid.
for chronomancers, they can always use their talents regardless of their resource.
their resource is just power VS stability.

for archmages, lack of mana means being completely incapable of doing shit.
distortion shield is the means for archmages to quickly restore their mana, and have some protection while they are harmless.
and if you really want to cast it at any time, the aether avatar allows you to cast the shield at any time.

but thats just my opinion, if you want it, whatever. maybe there is an addon for that already.

[Mex]

Except the reality of how it's used is to simply keep it on all the time.

[Effigy]

I think this would be a good thing, and it's been suggested before. Just add a free talent similar to Spacetime Tuning (but for mana) when you put a point in Disruption Shield, or just in the Spell/Arcane line in general since that's how all the other free talents seem to be granted.

[starsapphire]

distortion shield is the means for archmages to quickly restore their mana, and have some protection while they are harmless.
and if you really want to cast it at any time, the aether avatar allows you to cast the shield at any time.

Disruption Shield can block dozens of damage with Aegis.
What's more, if you really 'cast it at any time', it will immediately crash by the first hit on it and put it on 30 turns cooldown.
I just want to have some sort of "buffer", like 50% of mana to prevent sudden explosion.

[Dracos]

I think this is entirely based on Disruption Shield, which is both potentially the strongest shield in the game and the most complicated. It creates this odd scenario at odds with everywhere else you're using Mana as a resource where you basically want to stick at around 25 percent mana (enough to cast stuff, but also a healthy several hundred to thousand point shield between you and damage).

Really, rather than more special casing, it may really be worth looking at disruption shield and ways it can be less annoying to use.

Such as perhaps: Casting disruption shield drains 50 percent of your current mana, without mattering the amount.

[Mordy]

You cannot even use the shield if you are above 25%.

One could adjust rest to stop regenerating mana above 50% if the shield is currently sustained though.

[twas Brillig]

Really, rather than more special casing, it may really be worth looking at disruption shield and ways it can be less annoying to use..

One could adjust rest to stop regenerating mana above 50% if the shield is currently sustained though.

Combining those: there could be a pop-up when you sustain Disruption Shield, or an extra skill learned alongside Disruption shield and similar skills, that allows you to set a desired mana as with Temporal Tuning.

Alternatively, there could be some interesting interactions for resting to a lower mana. Maybe additional health regeneration? That'd have interesting implication for non-mana-using classes that pick up skills from Escorts...though I guess they wouldn't have passive mana regen, most of the time.