>Physical skills cost MP

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>magical skill runs off your physical attack stat

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>Casting spells and physical skills cost HP
this is how men play

>>389521534
>Physical skills cost hp
>Magical skills cost mp
>If you run out of either you die

>>389521534
He's crying :(

>>389521743
What are some games that do this besides SMT?

>casting magic missiles cost arrows

>>389521913
Path of Exile

>>389521913
FE Gaiden does it for spells, FFTA2 as well via Blood Price

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>>389521913
Path of Exile

>>389522075
>>389522035
Interesting. I don't play PoE, but what does this synergize with? Can you play a life-steal oriented mage?

>tanking is better than dodging

>>389522210
absolutely, there's several items allowing this, mana reservation also drastically modifies the way you spend resources to cast or attack
shit's complicated tho, this is the kind of game you have to squish the potential of game mechanics

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>>389522075
>>389522035
>take chaos inoculation and this skill
>can't use any ability ever

>>389522470
I think you can't take both for a while now.

>>389522232

So close

>>389522210
Maybe someone here will correct me, but I believe life-steal is only applied to "attack skills" and not "spells"
However, there are many different ways you can go about managing your mana usage. You can even use energy shield (think Halo) which would normally protect your life value, as the source of your mana.
There are also a lot of ways to mitigate the amount spent with passive skills and support gems, which link directly to active skills and act as a modifier for the linked active skills.

>>389522210
You can steal life, there are more skills that regenerate life percentage-wise and more skills to reserve less mana/life for auras. Also casting from your lifepoints means you don't have to manage your MP so you can ditch increasing your INT.