Recharge useless?

[Perfektionist]

Hey,

For 100 you can buy the item "Recharge". Recharge fills up 20 (10% each Armor uppgrade) mana in 5 seconds. The problem is: For earlygame they are to expensive. The mana fills up faster than you can use it.
For midgame they are useless because everytank need 30 - 50 mana for each ability. And 30 mana isnt enought (5 armor upps - midgame)
Endgame is the same as midgame.

[RaptorXI]

I prefer the mana/mass converter, too. Except for endgame, it's cheap to affort and when you are just respawned and need to teleport fast to a control point, i use to have one pack in the base for a quick boost.

[Perfektionist]

I prefer the mana/mass converter, too. Except for endgame, it's cheap to affort and when you are just respawned and need to teleport fast to a control point, i use to have one pack in the base for a quick boost.

Cp teleport only cost gold no mana But i know what you mean.

[Perfektionist]

And now?

[Exodus]

Now the next beta is near and I made some changes to Maintenance and Recharge.

Old stats:
Costs: 100g
Heal: 20 mana, plus 10% for each armor upgrade
Charges: 2

New stats:
Costs: 100g
Heal: 15 mana, plus 20% for each armor upgrade
Charges: 3


I believe that this should make Recharge more viable in both early (due to more charges for the same price) and late game (because of more regeneration).

[Perfektionist]

did you lower the use time? I think 5 or 7 seconds waiting for 15+ mana is too long. Maybe the mana fills up in 1 second?