2. Mana shield gets nerfed pretty bad, and using HP is more useful when you have 200+ defense while mana shield ignores your defensive stats.
It's about god damn time that skill was nerfed! Sheesh. >.> Though I'm 90% sure everyone's still going to just use this and spam MP pots without even knowing this.
It's now useful for players just starting out and more useful for mages that are well...still working on getting deeper into magic before hybridizing with something else, instead of everyone that isn't a mage that has a decent mana pool, which isn't bad but it's just so broken for everyone but a mage that has a few hundred extra MP 100s.