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Crowd control+Massive damage+Mana Usuage= Balanced, yet good!

Mana usage doesn't exactly make it balanced as even mana sickness does not deliver enough damage penalties for Last Prism to be even remotely on par with every other weapon in the game.
On a side note +1 for master sparking all problems in life.

Actually, people usually struggle to maintain the beam for more than 5-6 seconds. Also, 25% damage reduction is actually a lot to high-damage weapons.

It's an endgame weapon, though. Asking it to be balanced is like asking a politician to be honest - you should know better.

I can't help but keep quoting the infamous line from the bhagavad gita, "I am become death, destroyer of worlds.", followed by maniacal laughter.

Eh, it's endgame anyways. At that point, the monsters in your world should already suck nuts.

You see 25% less of 10000 dps does not quite bring it on par with the 3000 dps melee weapons.

I felt compelled to shout "Sailor Planet Attack" the first few times I used it.

7,500 damage. 75 out of 100 damage can still mean quite a difference in some cases.

But not when the damage potential is much above double compared to other weapons. Honestly, the only counter-argument that I personally deem worthy mentioning is the fact mana potions can get really expensive with how fast prism eats them.

"Do you know how long it took me to kill the Moon Lord? FIVE. SECONDS! It could have been four, but no, Mana sickness is horrible!"

The 25% damage reduction from mana sickness hurts a little bit, but in most cases, I barely notice it, lol. I mean, dropping from close to 20k DPS down to 15k-ish doesn't actually change much in the grand scheme of things when you're still melting everything at the speed of light. XDD

In any case, I get that it's /supposed/ to be a bit OP. I mean, the point of end-game gear is basically to make you feel like a god, and 1.3's end-game stuff does an excellent job of that. XD