NOOBS - STOP buying plate visor

I'd say, it's map-dependent. On Cata, it's pretty much useless. On Leviathan, it's great.

I'm talking they are buying visor and scalemail as first items and not even using a favor item. All of them seem to get visor and mail then wonder why they die.

teach us then, in the game.....

also, use voice teamspeak..

Read the tips for noobs it's a pretty good summary. Plus look in strategy forums for ideas on your favorite demigod. There's even a thread someone's posted listing good items and useless items. Unfortunately the developers never rid the useless items, but then on some maps some useless items become useful... and Aura items/skills/favor would be even more useful in 4v4 and 5v5 games but alas, the game never got the momentum to fund the little people working 18 hours a day to make an awesome game into a perfect game.

But unless you're in a real high mana map like in1 mentioned, your demigod's mana regen is quite low. So to  have a +35% regen is garbage useless. Take a look at sedna for example: at a mana regen of 3 per second at the start (unless you got a mana regen favor item) You're talking an extra 1 mana per second. That's shit. Useless. What are you gonna do with that extra 1 mana per second.  Have you got 5 minutes to stand around waiting for enough mana for that extra heal while unclean beast is eating your face off? No, you'll be dead. If the item was +200% regen I'd consider buying it MAYBE.

Even torchbearer with the highest regen stat for mana (depending on mode - fire/ice) it's about 4. So still the buff is 1 per second. Bah a waste of time. Scaled helm is cheaper and gives you +5 and a bigger mana pool. And no, it's still not worth stacking visor on top of other mana regen items. You're wasting a slot where a buff to armour, health, speed, or damage could go.

Stupid helmet.

The only place Plate Visor is any good is on Leviathan because of the +15 mana flag, and even then, it takes about 4 minutes before you regenerate the mana pool that Scaled Helm gives you in the 1st place.

eg: If you are Rook on Leviathan, here is your total regen at level 1.

Scaled Helm Regen:  +22.2 mana / second
Plate Visor Regen:     +24.5 mana / Second

So you get an extra +2.3 mana regen on plate visor, but you are down the 525 mana scaled helm provides.

It takes 228 seconds before you regenerate that mana pool short coming after you use a skill and get ahead.

228 seconds LESS any time your mana pool is full and you're not actually having any regen.