I am fortunate enough to have a seemingly endless supply of mana on hand, however I know that for people who have recently turned 80 or are less lucky with gear than I am, mana can be an issue.  Here are some tips for keeping your mana bar healthy:

Spirit. I can’t stress it enough  If you have mana issues make sure you are gemming and enchanting for spirit and trying to choose spirit heavy gear.  It doesn’t matter how much spell power you have if you don’t have any mana to cast spells! Focus on Spirit rather than MP5 when you have the option.  Also, I’m sure it should go without saying, but make sure you have Living Spirit and Intensity.

Food and Flasks.  Obviously if you are raiding you are using buff food and flasks.  Don’t be a cheepie, instead of just eating the fish feast pickup some cuttlesteak.  Consider using a Mojo flask instead of a spell power flask… or better (but potentially spendy) use a elixir of spirit along with spellpower elixir.

Innervate Early.  If your guild lets you use your own innervate, do it early.  As soon as you’re down enough mana to not waste any of it.  The CD is only three minutes so in most boss fights you can use it at least a couple times.

Group Composition.  If you’re raiding, try to get into the resto shaman’s group if you have one.  Leach a little mana tide love!!  Make sure your raid has replenishment!  Also, if you for some reason don’t have a priest, make sure you bring your sprit scrolls!

Go Retro.  You might laugh, but I still carry a stack of Dark Runes with me.  I’m serious.  The last time I actually used them was when General Vezax hard mode was… you know… hard.  It’s not much mana but hey, everything counts in a pinch!

On a separate note, I have a new poll up!

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