Fanning the Flames/Just Reward issue

[Sehenry03]

Ok so I was in the orchard and doing rat/wagon runs. I noticed when I cast firewall I saw my sp's skyrocket. I have a base of 2450 and I hit 5-6k spell points at times with firewall killing rats nonstop. Now that is awesome. The problem is...it isnt helping my spell points??? If I start casting my firewall lets say I have 2300 sp's...now the rats start dying and my sp's shoot up to 5000 and during this time I am nuking with fireball and firewall and anything else and rats are dying and my spell points are still going up. Then when the temporary spell points go away I am down to 1500 spell points. Now even if these spell points are temporary shouldnt the spells I cast come from the temp sp's? Because I know they arent and I know my spell points end up MUCH lower then they should. is this just me or am I missing something with these skills?

I figure that is my base was 2300 after I cast a firewall and the rats were dying at a rapid pace and my spell point count was shooting above 5k I should be able to cast non stop off the temp sp's and when the rats are all dead and the temp points are gone I should be back at 2300 base spell points I had after I cast my initial firewall. Where am I going wrong with my thoughts?

[thesnoman]

Ok so I was in the orchard and doing rat/wagon runs. I noticed when I cast firewall I saw my sp's skyrocket. I have a base of 2450 and I hit 5-6k spell points at times with firewall killing rats nonstop. Now that is awesome. The problem is...it isnt helping my spell points??? If I start casting my firewall lets say I have 2300 sp's...now the rats start dying and my sp's shoot up to 5000 and during this time I am nuking with fireball and firewall and anything else and rats are dying and my spell points are still going up. Then when the temporary spell points go away I am down to 1500 spell points. Now even if these spell points are temporary shouldnt the spells I cast come from the temp sp's? Because I know they arent and I know my spell points end up MUCH lower then they should. is this just me or am I missing something with these skills?

I figure that is my base was 2300 after I cast a firewall and the rats were dying at a rapid pace and my spell point count was shooting above 5k I should be able to cast non stop off the temp sp's and when the rats are all dead and the temp points are gone I should be back at 2300 base spell points I had after I cast my initial firewall. Where am I going wrong with my thoughts?

Yes - it's a weird issue - I noticed that you really have to pay attention to the SP in parenthesis - anything cast that costs more SP than the SP in parenthesis will first drain the parenthetical SP and then remove them from your base mana pool (even though it shows you have thousands more than this)

hopefully this makes sense.