MP Recovery

[AKFrost]

MP Recovery depends on several things.

Your job
Your build,
Your ability to notice and click things. (This is relevant because certain combos require you to cast skills back to back. If you can't pull it off, it's not as good).

We have 11 standing MP regens in this game.

Instant Recovery:
Thief Close Combat: Control Breathing + Rhythm of Life
Musician Musical Magic: Transfusion Tune
Dancer Fan Dance: Phantom Fang Fandango
Merchant Trade Secrets: MP Medicine Boost
Item: MP medicines

Regeneration (All self buffs except for Mating Dance, none of them stack with each other):
Shaman Nature Magic: Spring Cleaning
Wizard Spellcasting: Cataclysmic Converter
Doctor Medical Treatment: Inner Magic
Dancer Different Dances: Mating Dance
Item: MP Soups
Pet: Lily Loving Voice

How AGI factors:
Cooldown at 103 agi is reduced by about 30%. This means at 103 agi, all instant recovery spells will be 43% more efficient (1/.7).
Recovery, on the other hand, may or may not be influenced by agi. SC, CC and Mating Dance are affected by AGI because their durations are shorter than their cooldowns. Inner Magic is not because its duration will always be longer than CD.

How WIS factors:
Only Mating Dance cares about wis, because it is a multiplier of your native standing MP regen, which depends on wis.

Also, note there are job proficiencies. a 10% proficiency penalty means the skill will cool 10% slower, cost 10% more HP and MP to activate, and last 10% shorter. Player and Skill Level also matters, but we'll get into that later.

So, while Inner Magic Level 1 costs 70 MP, has a cooldown of 60 Secs, and lasts 360 Seconds on a doctor, it will have a 10% penalty on Shaman, meaning on a shaman (assuming you're level 33+, which is the level needed to get Inner Magic level 1) It will cost 77 MP (70 + 10%), cool in 66 seconds (60 + 10%) and last 324 seconds (360 - 10%).

Another thing to keep in mind is if the skill you sub is gotten at a higher level than your current job's level, there are also penalties (only applicable to self buffs that have duration).

You will not be able to cast a self-buff gained at 11+ levels higher than the level of your current job. At 10 levels below (i.e. you're level 23, while IM is gained at level 33), it will have a 50% penalty. so your inner magic (assuming no job penalty) will last 180 seconds (360 - 50%). If you're on a job with 10% penalty (i.e. Shaman), it will reduce 10% further from the 180 seconds. giving you 162 Seconds ((360 - 50%) - 10%). Every subsequent level will be 5% less penalty, until you're at the level the spell is gained, which there will be none.

For those who's not good at math, I'll spell it out for you.

-10	-9	-8	-7	-6	-5	-4	-3	-2	-1	0
50%	55%	60%	65%	70%	75%	80%	85%	90%	95%	100%

Note level penalties and job penalties apply for all self-buffs (not targeted buffs like prolong life), not just MP regen. Neither Proficiency nor level penalty will affect the numbers regenerated (i.e. SC level 1 will be 2 more MP per tick regardless), but the amount recovered will be lowered by level penalty.

With that in mind, I'll provide the stats on each skill.

Thief Skills

Control Breathing
Recovers MP

Prerequisite	Points Required	Weapon Needed	Target
None	2	None	Self

Spell Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Level Required	12	16	20	24	28	32	36	40	44	48	52	56	60	64
Cooldown	40	54	77	106	140	185	235	304	380	470	600	600	600	600
MP Recovery	8	16	31	53	84	130	188	274	380	517	705	825	957	1092

Rhythm of Life
Recovers MP

Prerequisite	Points Required	Weapon Needed	Target
Control Breathing Lv. 5	2	None	Self

Spell Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Level Required	28	32	36	40	44	48	52	56	60	64
Cooldown	120	130	140	150	160	170	180	190	200	210
HP Recovery	300	350	420	520	660	850	1100	1420	1820	2310
MP Recovery	38	48	60	74	90	110	145	172	204	239

Shaman Skills

Spring Cleaning
Increase MPR

Prerequisite	Points Required	Weapon Needed	Target	Cooldown	Duration
None	2	None	Self	240	180

Spell Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
Level Required	14	18	22	26	30	34	38	42	46	50	54	58	62
MPR Boost	2	3	4	5	6	7	9	11	13	16	19	22	25

Wizard Skills

Cataclysmic Converter
Sacrifices HP. Recovers MP and Increases MPR.

Prerequisite	Points Required	Weapon Needed	Target	Cooldown	Duration
None	2	None	Self	180	120

Spell Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Level Required	24	28	32	36	40	44	48	52	56	60	64
HP Cost	360	450	540	630	810	990	1170	1440	1710	1980	2250
Recovers MP	40	50	60	70	90	110	130	160	190	220	250
MPR Boost	4	5	6	7	9	11	13	16	19	22	25

Doctor Skills

Inner Magic
Regenerates MP

Prerequisite	Points Required	Weapon Needed	Target	Cooldown	Duration
Regeneration Lv. 6	2	None	Self	60	360

Spell Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Level Required	33	37	41	45	49	53	57	61	65
MP Cost	70	90	110	130	160	190	220	250	290
MPR	7	9	11	13	16	19	22	25	29

Musician Skills

Transfusion Tune
MP Recovery

Points Required	Weapon Needed	Target	MP Cost	Cooldown
2	Instrument	Single Team Member	10	75

Spell Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	9
Level Required	29	33	37	41	45	49	53	57	61	65
Mystic Mantra Level Required	5	6	7	8	9	10	0	0	0	0
HP Cost	600	800	1054	1368	1748	2200	2730	3344	4048	4848
MP Recovered	100	125	155	190	230	275	325	380	440	505

Dancer Skills

Phantom Fang Fandango
Deals Damage and leeches MP.

Prerequisite	Points Required	Weapon Needed	Target	Cooldown
Fleecing Fan Lv. 5	2	Fan	Single Enemy	45

Spell Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Level Required	27	31	35	39	43	47	51	55	59	63
MP Cost	12	15	18	22	27	32	38	45	52	60
MP Recovery	39	49	60	72	86	102	121	143	169	199

Mating Dance
Boosts SMPR

Prerequisite	Points Required	Weapon Needed	Target	Cooldown	Duration
Hypnotic Hoedown Lv. 4	2	None	Single Teammate	150	300

Spell Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Level Required	25	29	33	37	41	45	49	53	57	61
MP Cost	60	90	120	150	180	210	240	270	300	330
SMPR Boost	50%	60%	70%	80%	90%	100%	110%	120%	130%	140%
SMPR Boost	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11

Merchant Skills

MP Medicine Boost
Uses an MP Pill to heal the target.

Prerequisite	Points Required	Weapon Needed	Target
None	2	None	Single Team Member, Pet, Summoning Egg

Spell Level	1	2	3	4	5	6
Level Required	15	25	35	45	55	65
MP Cost	6	12	18	24	30	42
Pill Needed	Lesser Parietal Powder	Lesser Temporal Powder	Lesser Occipital Powder	Parietal Powder	Temporal Powder	Occipital Powder
Cooldown	60	55	50	45	40	35
MP Recovery	36	72	108	144	180	252

Others
MP Pills

Cooldown	Duration
120	60

Name	Lesser Parietal Powder	Lesser Temporal Powder	Lesser Occipital Powder	Parietal Powder	Temporal Powder	Occipital Powder
Level Required	10	20	30	40	50	60
MP Recovery	24	48	72	96	120	168

MP Soups

Cooldown	Duration
60	60

Name	Healing Potion	Ginger Tea	Energizing Tea	Char-Grilled Tea	Mint Tea	Rose Tea
Level Required	10	20	30	40	50	60
MP Recovery	2	4	6	8	10	12

Loving Voice
Unknown

Job Proficiencies

Now, to the recommendations part.

First, I don't make concrete recommendations. It detracts from your playing experience and it's not what I'm here for. Also, note in DOMO almost nothing -doesn't- work (just might be a lot slower). If you're just trying to level to cap in one day, you're looking at the wrong game.

Before we go on, know this:

Everything you do has a trade off, called the opportunity cost. As a self-serving individual, you try to maximize the benefits and minimize the costs of all actions. As someone responsible for your own actions, you should decide for yourself which route is best to go. I will say this again, nothing doesn't work in DOMO, just every decision has a cost. Slowness is a cost, hatred towards a job you "have to play" is a cost, dying is a cost, etc. If you're unwilling to take a cost for the benefit, don't do it. Just don't. Every game costs time and possibly money. You owe it to yourself to not make the experience suck.

Now, the most important thing to consider is the type of job you're playing. If you're fighting mostly by beating things to death or having a pet/friend do the damage, it makes little sense to have superior MP regen. Most of the time it'll just go to waste. My pet muse uses maybe 100 MP per minute. It makes little sense for me to need any more than that, because MP not spent is wasted.

So, if your aspd thief has no major MP problems, you don't need to sub inner, etc.

Second is "does your job have MP regen, and if it does, do you need a sub that has a superior one?" Note the cost of subbing MP regen is you lose a sub skill set, the redundancy of skills (if you took the MP regen in that job too), and job penalties. If the cost of subbing that regen is greater than the benefit it gives, it makes little sense to sub it.

i.e. for my shaman, I have SC on it. But since I also need to heal myself as a solo shaman, i can also consider Inner, which is in the same set as First Aid. On the other hand, I can also heal myself with frog's leg soup, and the superiority of inner over SC may not be better than what croakus has to offer for me, and I may choose to stick with SC.

Lastly, do you enjoy leveling the job the regen is on? Skip if you plan on using your main's MP regen. You're playing the game, not training on the game nor getting played by the game. If you think Control Breathing is a good choice as a sub but the even the idea of being called a thief repulses you, don't play thief and don't get CB. Again, nothing in this game doesn't work. You owe it to yourself not to ruin your playing experience by playing a job that rubs you in the wrong way just to speed up leveling your main by a bit. (Don't get me wrong, if you're willing to bear any difficulty just to level to cap in the littlest time possible, go ahead, but know it's not what domo is designed for.)