I have played the game for about 1300 hours and only recently got the feeling that I learned how to cook it, my small wishes after updating to 1.2:
- Add a small chance of monsters dropping mana essences, which will give either an absolute value of mana or a temporary increase in mana regeneration (similar to the essence that restores stamina)
- Add mana regeneration from eating food on the ground
- Add regeneration/one-time increase in mana to some skills, such as pneumatic explosion, power-up word, etc.