Arcanum or Blaze?

[Silvador]

Just started my first Lunar Event and have some Nebular Fragments, but only enough for one or the other (for now). Looking for some opinions about which to make, Nebular Arcanum or Nebular Blaze.

[Blargo]

I prefer Blaze.

[goldenleaf6]

Are you fighting moonlord? Arcanum is slower, but they're easier to use against moonlord (because he's huge) and events for crowd control. Blaze is good for a smaller boss, like golem or duke.

[Ashex]

Blaze. Definitely blaze.

[tara]

Originally posted by goldenleaf6:

Are you fighting moonlord? Arcanum is slower, but they're easier to use against moonlord (because he's huge) and events for crowd control. Blaze is good for a smaller boss, like golem or duke.

^^This
Although I PERSONALLY prefer the Nebula Blaze for even large bossfights.

[Silvador]

Well, I'm going to be fighting Moon Lord at some point.

Presently I've been using Rainbow Gun, Magnet Sphere, Spirit Lamp and Specter Staff, as the situation calls for them. But this whole Lunar Event thing is completely new to me, so I was hoping to make a more educated decision on which Nebular magic weapon to make before making one and finding it to be not a good choice going ahead.

[Hollowarc]

it really depends on how good your mana regen is. if its really high then you can just spam nebulas with the arcanum if not then id go with the blaze. you still need a decent mana regen for both.

[Silvador]

I have 300 mana, with the Celestial Cuffs and three star statues spitting out mana stars, and a couple of Star in a Bottles. Mana regen isn't a -huge- issue for me.

[﴾Λ͟rtificial﴿]

Why not both?

[Silvador]

Originally posted by xXCrypticNightXx:

Why not both?

Because I don't presently have enough for both? The Cultist Boss and the enemies spawned by the towers are brutal enough as it is, and I'm going to need to go through them at least once more in order to get enough fragments to make my next set of armor, which I need to kill the Moon Lord for, possibly twice. I'd prefer not to have to grind through the meyhem of those towers and the Cultist more than I need to.

I was hoping that one of these two weapons would help alleviate some of that... carnage, at least a little bit.

[FilthyRatGoblin]

If you want the nebula armor you will have to kill more than two unless luck is REALLY favoring you. Never seen it happen in 2. 3, possible, 4 likely with everything else.

[Silvador]

oh, yay....


Either way, I'd prefer to try and save my fragments for armor before using it all on weapons and items. I was considering making -one- of the two weapons in the hopes that it would be of use to making getting the rest ofwhat I need a little easier. But I don't know anything (outside of what's on the wiki) about how each of the two perform. Thus why I had hoped to garner a little insight from people who already have experience with using them.

[FilthyRatGoblin]

In that case I prefer the nebula blaze. The Arcanum reks fishron and some other bosses if you kite right but that's kinda difficult to do with moon lord.

[Star★Dive]

Nature's gift + mana potion = mana flower

Mana Flower = Turns Mana pots (buyable via wizard and merchant, craftable via mushroom biome) into equiv of ammo (gun dealer).

Mana problem solved.. Cuffs = Unnecessary

Greater Mana potions = 5 silver per pop
1 single "Yellow Marigold" or Blueberry Bush (very common flowers) = 20-30 gold per pop ..

Also see "Discount Card"..

[FilthyRatGoblin]

Originally posted by Dorian:

Nature's gift + mana potion = mana flower

Mana Flower = Turns Mana pots (buyable via wizard and merchant, craftable via mushroom biome) into equiv of ammo (gun dealer).

Mana problem solved.. Cuffs = Unnecessary

Yeah... No. J is defalt keybinding for quick mana pot. Anyway mana regen pots are waaay better because they don't cost your entire savings and don't smash dps(unless certain unique weapons). I play mage as my main on expert and never once used mana flower. It's not that hard to make a mana regen pot, hang star bottles, and/or hit J every so often.

[Star★Dive]

Originally posted by Axeboss23:

Yeah... No. J is defalt keybinding for quick mana pot. Anyway mana regen pots are waaay better because they don't cost your entire savings and don't smash dps(unless certain unique weapons). I play mage as my main on expert and never once used mana flower. It's not that hard to make a mana regen pot, hang star bottles, and/or hit J every so often.

Having to track down sand, dayblooms, and nightglows have always been a pain for me. By the time you get a blaze or arcanum, the damage mitigation is almost minute compared to the rate of fire provided by SOME magic items (shadowbeam staff, razor pine, last prism). But that's just MY opinion.. I've never had problems raising money for greater pots via the wizard, especially on expert.. But hey, to each their own.