>>49920734
>late game
Tbh at 150k fame doing level 1900 nefias as a juere thief with permadeath, when I think about things that threaten to end my run, at this level, and it's stuff like 9k damage instakill meteors or 5k sound balls. With 2k health and 2k mana, mana body doesn't make a difference. In fact, mana body would make things worse, since fate pops in both cases, but with mana body you're also OOM and can't emeiately start casting spells like teleport and heal: eris to recover.
At a certain point, you're relying more on fate shield, stamina recovery, pheonix deathward, for survivability against the really tough enemies. So in fact, I'm really glad I didn't roll the supposed OP meta