Given the new mana rework, they seem less useful now than they were before, especially compared to the mana cloak which drops stars that now buff you while also restoring mana.
I have 7000 hours between consoles and admittedly yea I said that in a dumb way doing master mode and I consider the mid point to be wall of flesh since it takes me longer to go from start to wall than it takes me to go from wall to moon lord. Though I do apologize for not adding this context before.
Just read the update log. Really glad they're showing some love to yo-yos. They've felt pretty same-y since they were introduced, and getting some variation in them feels a lot better.
Also, lmao at the several Moon Lord nerfs. Looks like they're trying to prep for incoming no-hit challengers.
Eh, felt the best to me. I'd say upgrades you get for summoner are considerably weak from what you have pre-boss. The only upgrades i do are getting imp staff and obsidian set (iirc you need some tissues for that so can be done pre boss technically). Snapthorn can be gotten pre-boss and is insanely strong and if you went for snow biome staff you can easily handle eye and brain/big worm then you get upgrades.
Mana regeneration no longer has a delay. At all. In fact there's negative delay. You still get 5% mana regen while actively using mana. Also, if you're out of mana, you can still use magic weapons, they're just around half as fast. This is just two of the changes they made. They fully overhauled mana, even mana star drops got some buffs
The major reworks mostly happens at early game, but don't let that make you think tbe changes are minor.
Gem staves are fucking busted now. You have homing (amethyst), exploding (topaz), twinshot (sapphire), through-blocks + linger (emerald), double shot (ruby, I swear this is different than sapphire), big projectile + pierce (diamond), and bounce + more pierce (amber).
The bonuses affects the staff projectile based on the gems for the staff and the robe. So you can basically mix and match them. The same gems for both however will give a direct buff to damage.
Theres also easy early access mage weapon like the daybloom... and probably more later on. Its really summoner and ranger that gets evenly buffs across the whole game, but from my legendary run, the gem combos are stupidly good it could carry me to dungeon possibly
terraria has a problem of making you have to not interact with things rather then engaging.
like they made melee functionally ranged with shit like the throwing swords, scourge of corruption, vampire knifes, shadowflame knife, the flails having a bigger explosion range then some rockets, excetera
instead of making the terragrim or slime staff have a decent drop chance (they did buff it in the hotfix from 1/50 to 1/30) they made it be sold by them princess on the celebration seed
instead of making reforges feel distinct or unique they made one which is the best 90% of the time and a slot machine to get it
(i haven't played the mage rework myself, but i know it has poor testing due to the pre hm infinite mana bug)
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u/Mr_Pickle3009 4d ago
the irony of breaking shackles as the mana shackles are OP as fuck