i never played pve more than 5h but the mana nerf kinda made sense i believe even for pve i used it to kill wild gigas when it first came out even a tamed giga cant kill a wild giga
so isnt that kinda op ? i remember doing bosses with the mana solo and alpha too used it to farm meat hide polymer etc.. fast way to get around , raid , grief killing bosses taming bosses etc,, so it kinda made other dinos useless tbh right now i have a mana line on pvp hatches at 600 damge 13k hp 2070 stamina
after leveling up it gets up to 50-60k hp it was for rushing bases , 14k stamina for scouting around 1900 weight for transport
or 6000 stam 1000dmg and a 190+ saddle for fighting
so it is still pretty much op
oh plus i never use any underwater dino now cause the mana is the best tame to go underwater eles arent a problem anymore squids cant grab you
it is faster than any dino while swiming it could regenerate oxygen if spammed space could regain stam underwater also could fight sea dinos