Confidence (using bushido mastery) and mana use query

[Garm The Green]

Hi all.

As ever, thanks in advance.

Prior to masteries, if a Samurai cast confidence and took damage during the initial 4 second (?) regen phase; the regen would be broken.
I've been using the bushido mastery to mitigate some of the "interruption" to regen.

However I've noticed during spawns (with no casters to mana drain/vamp) that each time I'm "hit" during the initial phase (and regen continues as per mastery) my mana drops.
That is, instead of the regen stopping, it continues but with an associated mana cost - It can be quite significant.

I've since tested this in a sheep pen - equip the "wrong" weapon type, cast confidence and watch chunks of mana disappear.
It's really quite annoying as the second part of evasion where as successful parry can return a small amount of HP + Stamina is really handy; but i find my mana being significantly drained by the "initial" aspect.


I've searched for info on this and/or patch notes but can't find anything about it.
> Has anyone else using Bushido mastery noticed this?
> Is this an intended feature, or a bug - as it doesn't seem to be documented anywhere....but this is UO after all....!

Thanks,
Garm.

 

[ayanatsume]

Me is using lvl3 bushido mastery as well

for what I understand must have 120 bushido real skill to have - info as follow pic




also if you would like to keep your mana up for special moves -

1, 300 combat skills that decrease by 10 mana
2, 45 lmc +
3, reforged 100% mana leech weapon

 

[Garm The Green]

Thankyou for your response.
To clarify, I have 120 real skill, lvl 3 mastery, max LMC and sufficient leech etc etc; this is not a problem.

The issue is that each time "anticipate hit" procs, it uses additional mana for each "tick".

Is that a bug as it is not documented anywhere?