Mana regen is one of the most important assets to have in Alter Aeon, for any class combination. Alter Aeon is a multi-classed mud, and even thieves and warriors can improve their skillset using spells. The goal of this article is to help you create the best mana regen set for your character.

Many players, even veterans of Alter Aeon, may not be maximizing their equipment sets for the highest amount of mana regen. Contrary to popular belief, simply stocking up on mana regen gear doesn't always lead to best result. Neither does always sleeping in full cast level. There are several tricks to realizing your optimum regen potential.

The first trick to obtaining the highest possible mana regen is find out how much cast level is required. This is important because mana regen is greatly affected by the difference between your highest casting level (either mage or cleric class) and your highest fighter level (either thief or warrior class).

The easiest way to determine this is to use items that have only cast level on them, with no other stats that affect mana regen. (Adept insignias are perfect for this.) After changing your equipment, go to sleep, and use the 'show regen' command to find out when your optimum cast level has been reached. Once you hit your maximum casting level, additional increases in cast level will have no effect on your regen. Note that sometimes there may be a gap of several cast level before reaching the next level, so it's a good idea to start by wearing maximum cast level and working your way down.

Once you know your optimum cast level, it's simply a matter of wearing the 'best' cast level eq. This would be any cast level with intelligence, wisdom, or mana regen on it. Some players rank int and wis higher than regen; this will be dependent on your character stats and other equipment.

After wearing the correct amount of cast level eq and maxing your intelligence and wisdom, it's simply a matter of filling in the empty slots. Mana regen items are an obvious choice for this, as they directly add to your final regen. But an often overlooked technique is to find ways to adjust the age of your character.

The best age for mana regen is around 150-200 years old. Many characters aren't at this age, especially new players and up and coming warriors. For these characters, simply wearing age eq to make you older may be very beneficial in terms of mana regen, and may even exceed the value of mana regen equipment.

One downside is that as your character gets older, you will lose some hp regen. Generally the mana regen gained more than makes up for this, especially if you have some form of healing yourself.

Following this guide should help you get near your optimium regen to start with, and should be better than any pure mana regen or pure cast level set. Naturally, not every player has +3 or better regen eq for every slot, so some tweaks will be probably needed to get to that 'sweet spot' in your regen set. Good luck!