I have been trying to make a good planner for upheaval with the node that gives you +16 mana cost (Excavating Blow), and it has not really been feeling well. There is just not a single option to reduce the mana cost (including the -mana cost nodes in the Upheaval tree, since it is ONLY! -6 Mana cost). I would love to see different crafting options to be able to reduce the cost of the skill, since the mana cost just makes it irrelevant because it just does not work, unless you stack something like mana regen on your gear, which does not feel that good.
You can use feet of the mountain to further reduce mana cost. I’m not sure that the +16 mana cost is worth what you get out of it. I’m hoping for buffs to upheaval in the coming patch notes.
Foot of the Mountain would be an option as well as investing into mana regeneration. Mana reg really is a stat that people glance over on. It is very powerful even though 1 or 2 more mana/sec doesn’t sound like much its very noticeable especially because during echoes you never have 100% uptime on attacking and spending mana and during that time mana is regenerated.
i know that you could use the boots, but you really dont want to stay still while playing upheaval, you just Fury Leap from pack to pack and thats it, you dont stand still. This is also the reason why i want to go for that node, to get the one that gives you 5 lines and stack some area of effect. Could even go for the Fury Leap pulls in enemies. I am trying this right now. I would want to even go for more lines… but its even more mana cost
Even when standing still for casting your first skill you instantly get the -2 already and in most cases mana usually is a problem on bosses where you stand still for a few mroe seconds when you have windows of oppurtunity.
I really don’t know the details of your build, but a lot of my builds worked very well with foot of the mountain until I could invest into other mana sustains with good exalted gear.
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Shaman has Elemental Shrines, +1% mana regen per ATN. 20+ mana/sec.
As Beastmaster, you’re pretty much f**cked 
Best way I see it is to play it as Generator + Spender combo. Swipe or Gathering Storm can generate mana on hit. Swipe has Physical shred and some other nice bonuses which go well with Upheaval.