So, why is mana potion sickness still a thing?

[Baragon-Kun]

Seeing that the Zenith more or less does the same or better job as the Last Prism, but does not cost mana at all, and you dont have to sacrifice an accessoire slot for the mana flower for it, i think that mana potion sickness should be removed or at least severly toned down.
I also dont think it would unbalance early game either, as many melee weapons have been pretty heavily buffed in 1.4. The punishment for using magic is already needing to craft/buy potions and using the Mana Flower if you dont want to spam the mana potion hotkey constantly.

Maybe there could even be a very high tier item that gives infinite mana, but maybe decreases magic damage by 20% when worn? Maybe crafted out of a bunch of magic accessoires, like the Zenith is made out of swords?

Watcha thunk?

[Abyssian]

Zenith is the strongest weapon in Terraria, Last prism is level below it.

[Baragon-Kun]

Originally posted by Gylaran:

Zenith is the strongest weapon in Terraria, Last prism is level below it.

I mean, thats kinda the point, the Zenith is already a lot stronger than the Last Prism, without factoring in the inconvinience of the mana sickness. The mana sickness was implemented to prevent magical weapons from being op, but with the implementation of the Zenith, and the melee weapon buffs and general powercreep, i dont think its necessary to nerf magic weapons like this anymore.

[Abyssian]

Originally posted by Life is pain, i hate:

Originally posted by Gylaran:

Zenith is the strongest weapon in Terraria, Last prism is level below it.

I mean, thats kinda the point, the Zenith is already a lot stronger than the Last Prism, without factoring in the inconvinience of the mana sickness. The mana sickness was implemented to prevent magical weapons from being op, but with the implementation of the Zenith, and the melee weapon buffs and general powercreep, i dont think its necessary to nerf magic weapons like this anymore.

You are right. They need to add magic weapon stronger than zenith, for actually use of mage build.