Please give the Witch Doctors a Voodoo power source and let Wizards have Mana!

Mana belongs to Wizards, that's just not a convention you mess with.

We still don't feel mana fits the feel of the wizard class, and making the wizard use mana to match some definition a magic wielder from some other game from some other decade would be shoehorning mechanics for the sake of nostalgia.

We're using the instability system for the wizard because it makes sense to the style of the class; thematically as well as mechanically. If mana filled those requirements we'd use it, but it doesn't.

I don't want to sound like we're being dismissive. As everyone should be aware we work iteratively and the main reason why we haven't revealed a lot about instability is that it still hasn't been proven. If it turns out it doesn't work we'll try something else. It may be that mana just works the best and we end up going with that, but right now we're trying something.

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Q u o t e:
wizards use mana... they just do

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Met a lot of wizards then, have you?

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Q u o t e:
since when do wizards a caster/magic user class since the beginning of any and every game that uses them not use some sort of mana/spell point system.. sounds like youre trying to make up your own thing.

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In D&D the magic-user/wizard cast spells through use of reagents, hand gestures, and recitation. No mention of mana, and you could certainly assume that D&D is the basis for much of what the original Diablo was founded on. Like most fantasy RPGs.

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Q u o t e:
wizards use mana... they just do

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Met a lot of wizards then, have you?