Is it worth evolving the Song of Mana?

[Moister Oyster]

I ask because of the passive item that is needed to do so. I have the Skull O'Maniac, but 50% added curse in the end seems like a lot.

[Noelle]

You don't have to level Skull O'Maniac all the way to evolve Song of Mana. However, the weapon's upsides include slow on hit, which may help to counteract the added enemy speed from the Curse.

The choice is yours, and yours alone. Do you banish Skull after picking it up to take only 10% Curse, or do you go all the way?

[Halfshell]

The evolution also gets like double base AoE, can end up being screenwide with limit break. I'd say worth.

[Moister Oyster]

Yeah, I did just find out about banish after posting this. Just need to collect 1 more item to be able to do that, but I may check it out.

[Cahos Rahne Veloza]

Just get Skull o'maniac then banish it as soon as it pops up again as a level up option.

[Kotli]

Sure Skull O'maniac makes things a bit harder via adding curse but I personally find that it's cancelled out by the increased mob spawn and XP rate (even without limit break).

[Matthew]

I don't think it is generally worth upgrading. Skills in this game can be roughly categorized into 2 groups. Either skills which help early on, or skills which aren't great early but carry later on.

Song of mana is in the first group. It does what it needs to do and there isn't much need to evolve it. After 10 minute mark it will do almost no damage either way, because the second category skills will begin to carry.

[Cahos Rahne Veloza]

If ypu're playing in Gallo's Tower then evolving Song of Mana into Manajja is kind of a downgrade because SoM literally covers the whole length of the corridor, with Area up and Area up Limit Breaks it can even cover the whole width of the tower too.