Why not bars for your group members mana?
 

Nuff said

I think that would rock!

I, as a twitcher (necro) would love this. Some groups are hard for the healer to yell that he's LOM until he's actually out... meanwhile, I'm sitting there just guessing if he needs mana or not. I think that's just as important as being able to watch the tanks HP's. I can't even comprehend the amount of times the puller went out for another mob, missing the healers pleads to stop pulling. If the pullers could actually see how much mana the casters have, it would help alot, and would actually save ALOT of unneccesary deaths.

hard coded.. cant be (and most likely wont be) done

no peeking at my mana!! :D

I think it is down to implementation, I suspect the mana of your group members is actually not known by your 'client' computer. Everything you don't absolutely need to know to show the game environm,ent properly from your side, is not sent to you to optimize network traffic..

Hell, even your HP is not sent to you very often the display of your HP gauge is always 'laggy' :/

IMHO, I think it wouldn't be a good idea to have the rest of your group see your mana. All of a sudden things like "You got 20% mana, that's not LoM, I'm gonna pull!" from your tank. Basically, people will start telling you how to play your class. Not that it doesn't happen already, but why invite more?

This has been posted a couple times before, and the majority of casters have stated that they do not want their mana level made public knowledge.

Why not? I dont understand why we need to be so secretive about our mana. IF, as said above, people are afraid their tank will run off and pull when they are @ 20m, then maybe you need to find a tank thats not a moron.

Those do not exist I tell ya! :p j/k

In all seriousness, how would a tank like the status of his Taunt key to be visible to groupmates? I bet they would often "remind" him to use it when it stays not clicked for more than a millisecond. Basically it all comes down to people always having their own idea on how to play YOUR class, especially if they have information like your mana or status of abilities, etc.

Make that mod and you better give all casters the right to say "shut the fck up you don't know what your talking about moron" when people gripe about how much mana a caster has without any penalty. If they could restrict it to mages and necros some how (no way in hell i imagine) i'd be for it though.

While characters have a sense of their own magical energies, there is nothing that allows one character to ascertain the magical energies of anyone else. This would be especially silly for melee class to be able to discern the potential of a caster.

This would be nifty to have but it's impossible to implement using the UI.

Why you ask? Well without going into the nitty gritty of networking, lets just say that when you play your game, information is being sent to your computer constantly, information like a MOB's hit points, your group members hit points, and various other bits and pieces of information that allow you to play your game. One piece of information thats not sent to your computer is other peoples mana information. Until Verants decides to start sending that information out, there's nothing we can do to allow us to see it.

Xecros

Then I guess you should let that tanks hit points go down to 20% and say "Bah! It's just a flesh wound! Walk it off ya big sissy!".