Found this with some digging today. So I was kind of right earlier.
In Mists of Pandaria, your mana regeneration is fixed at 15,000 mana every 5 seconds (30,000 is you stand in your Rune of Power). This is increased by your haste. For example, if you have 10% haste, you regenerate 10% more mana.
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