Spectre hood: 40% decreased magic damage... WTF!

[stale_gecko]

Is this a typo to 40% increased magic damage or is it really 40% decreased magic damage...?

[Talon]

Dude... with that heal on hit on ALL magic items it increasing your magic damage would actually be OP.

Also if you want more damage then craft the Specter Mask as it does just that.

BTW if you want an idea of pre-nerf Specter Armor then think this. You could literally stand inside Plantera and pretty much every boss in the Pumpkin Moon and not drop even slightly below 90% of your health.

[stale_gecko]

Originally posted by EH Shadow_Mantis:

Dude... with that heal on hit on ALL magic items it increasing your magic damage would actually be OP.

Also if you want more damage then craft the Specter Mask as it does just that.

Then whats the deal with this item, is it meant to challenge players or is it a joke item?

[Talon]

Originally posted by Mattchu:

Originally posted by EH Shadow_Mantis:

Dude... with that heal on hit on ALL magic items it increasing your magic damage would actually be OP.

Also if you want more damage then craft the Specter Mask as it does just that.

Then whats the deal with this item, is it meant to challenge players or is it a joke item?

It's there as a result of a lot of nerfs to heal on hit items. Specter Armor could literally keep you and your friends from dieing to any boss in the game if you have the right damage increasing buffs.

What am I kidding? I more than cleared the Pumpkin Moon despite all those nerfs.

Meanwhile the Vampire Knives are pretty much useless. Well... actually... that is a bit extreme as it is good healing if you are good at dodging roughly 80% of attacks sent at you.

[stale_gecko]

Originally posted by EH Shadow_Mantis:

Originally posted by Mattchu:

Then whats the deal with this item, is it meant to challenge players or is it a joke item?

It's there as a result of a lot of nerfs to heal on hit items. Specter Armor could literally keep you and your friends from dieing to any boss in the game if you have the right damage increasing buffs.

Meanwhile the Vampire Knives are pretty much useless.

So there are no pros at all from this item? (besides the 6 defense and set bonus)

[Talon]

Originally posted by Mattchu:

Originally posted by EH Shadow_Mantis:

It's there as a result of a lot of nerfs to heal on hit items. Specter Armor could literally keep you and your friends from dieing to any boss in the game if you have the right damage increasing buffs.

Meanwhile the Vampire Knives are pretty much useless.

So there are no pros at all from this item? (besides the 6 defense and set bonus)

Heal on hit is still pretty damn good. Meaning... if you have the right damage increasing buffs and a great ablity to dodge. You can kill any boss without much trouble.

By right I mean: Wrath, Well Fed, Magic Power, Endurance, Lifeforce, and Iron Skin Potions.
Combine those potion effects with Manacing on accessories that massively benefit Mage type characters and you have quite a potent combination that will get you past Wave 15 of the Pumpkin and Frost Moons.

[Hotch]

Its really simple. You get a mana flower, and about 500 Super mana potions and prob some celestial cuffs with like Anhk Shield, Frostspark boots and fishron wings for example. You fly around and just switch from weapon to weapon accordingly. I use golden shower first to lower enemy armor and then usually spam razorblade typhoon.
Have your magic weapons, (RazorPine, Razorblade Typhoon, :optional: golden shower for armor reduction) You either heal (better in groups) on you do more dmg, less people/solo.

[Hotch]

Oh and spec them, for the most part, to mythical, crystal ball increases dmg, well fed buff, magic power potions too and probably some wrath potions for more dmg.

[I am alive!!]

It used to be impossible to die pre-nerf
It's better off this way

[Boiledteabag]

Originally posted by Mattchu:

Originally posted by EH Shadow_Mantis:

Dude... with that heal on hit on ALL magic items it increasing your magic damage would actually be OP.

Also if you want more damage then craft the Specter Mask as it does just that.

Then whats the deal with this item, is it meant to challenge players or is it a joke item?

Its a SUPPORT armour so it makes no sense for it to be a damage boosting healing armour.
Just like the turtle and beetle armour have lots more defence but attract enemies to you but unlike the magic support counterpart they actually boost mellee a bit.

And it makes those items sets perfect to run the paladin sheild since that 25% damage you take per player will be heavily reduced.

[NigHtEagLe]

yea its kinda bad now, i understand for late game with all the buffs and max enhanced accessories but to get there we need something to sustain ourself, especially if you play only sp. I used to only use spectre armory and crystal storm(loving it) but its kinda junk now. also, if you use all those buffs, with godly gears, you pretty much set unless you wanna change build.

[ShinkuTear]

Originally posted by YordlePhobia:

Its a SUPPORT armour so it makes no sense for it to be a damage boosting healing armour.
Just like the turtle and beetle armour have lots more defence but attract enemies to you but unlike the magic support counterpart they actually boost mellee a bit.

And it makes those items sets perfect to run the paladin sheild since that 25% damage you take per player will be heavily reduced.

This.

Turtle or Beetle set with Paladin Shield, Frozen Turtle Shell, and 3 more accessories all set to Warding turns you into the Tank of the party.

Spectre set with Hood turns you into the Healer of the party, and goes well with the above Tank.

Shroomite set turns you into the Nuker of the party, and you are less likely to be targeted, meaning it is mostly the Turtle/Beetle user who gets hurt(they have Paladin Shield just in case someone else gets hit), allowing the Spectre Hood healing to mostly go to the Turtle/Beetle user, who needs it most.

[Corporal_Cake]

Mana's pretty weak, if you want to do damage solo then go ranger with a stynger or megashark

[Talon]

Originally posted by DemoPan(mvm worker, hire me):

For those who used vampire knifes/spectre hood pre-nerf

R.I.P days of standing still while killing all the bosses

And hello actually putting effort into killing your bosses and clearing your events. ^_^

[Tealtyr]

Originally posted by Corporal_Cake:

Mana's pretty weak, if you want to do damage solo then go ranger with a stynger or megashark

Mages have by far the best dps in the game, even when encounting the rare circumstances that you do run out of mana, (Cuffs, magnet, etc.) they remain the prime dealers of ridiclious damage.
This isn't counting the coin gun, that little overpowered thing.

[Shamanalah]

People call mage weak because they mostly solo stuff. Yeah solo mage became underpowered to both ranger and fighter.

But after doing a pumpkin moon with 2 of my friends, all each class. Mage are THE BEST support class. Grab a paladin shield, let your fighter get beetle armor (to get aggro) and see bosses get destroy. It takes litterally 5 seconds for anything to die if you all focus it. We started the punkin halfway into the night (lazy and lost focus for couple minutes) and still got to last wave pretty easily.

Bare in mind we are decked out, only I am left behind with no money to forge good items. But have all of the good weapons. I only use Flairon & Vamp Knives though