Elk
Terrarian
Ive recently seen a couple guides relating to mage styled gameplay and most people say that one of the accessories you should use is the mana flower which just doesnt make sense to me
I know that I did use the mana flower when I came back to Terraria in 1.1 to do a mage playthrough because it just seemed insanely useful to have more or less infinite mana as long as I would remember to keep some potions in my inventory (but at that time I was like 11 and not the smartest)
When 1.2 came out I did a mage/ranger hybrid playthrough and I realized that I could just use a hotkey to use mana potions if I even needed them, but due to the magic/celestial cuffs I almost never even needed to use a mana potion.
I just find the mana flower a massive waste of a accessory slot, because in my opinion the 8% less mana cost isnt very noticeable or useful and you can just easily hotkey mana potions for convenient use. I use Q for my mana potion hotkey so during a battle I can simply move one of my fingers to the hotkey instead of going all the way across my keyboard. Although mana potions aren't even that great as the 25% less damage is pretty big, so you shouldn't even be relying on them that much. You can easily have the cuffs to get mana back in a reliable way as most people tend to get hit fairly often.
It's really not that hard to notice that you're mana has been depleted or that you character has stopped shooting magic even though you're still clicking and the simple press of a key (or a vastly superior accessory) is a far better solution than giving up a whole accessory slot in my opinion.
I could understand if you rushed the jungle straight away and got a mana flower really early on, you may as well have it equipped if you have an empty accessory slot, but plenty of people seem to think its something that remains useful throughout the whole game when in reality I find it just a useless waste of an accessory slot, only really 'convenient' to those too lazy to press a key a couple times in a battle
I know that I did use the mana flower when I came back to Terraria in 1.1 to do a mage playthrough because it just seemed insanely useful to have more or less infinite mana as long as I would remember to keep some potions in my inventory (but at that time I was like 11 and not the smartest)
When 1.2 came out I did a mage/ranger hybrid playthrough and I realized that I could just use a hotkey to use mana potions if I even needed them, but due to the magic/celestial cuffs I almost never even needed to use a mana potion.
I just find the mana flower a massive waste of a accessory slot, because in my opinion the 8% less mana cost isnt very noticeable or useful and you can just easily hotkey mana potions for convenient use. I use Q for my mana potion hotkey so during a battle I can simply move one of my fingers to the hotkey instead of going all the way across my keyboard. Although mana potions aren't even that great as the 25% less damage is pretty big, so you shouldn't even be relying on them that much. You can easily have the cuffs to get mana back in a reliable way as most people tend to get hit fairly often.
It's really not that hard to notice that you're mana has been depleted or that you character has stopped shooting magic even though you're still clicking and the simple press of a key (or a vastly superior accessory) is a far better solution than giving up a whole accessory slot in my opinion.
I could understand if you rushed the jungle straight away and got a mana flower really early on, you may as well have it equipped if you have an empty accessory slot, but plenty of people seem to think its something that remains useful throughout the whole game when in reality I find it just a useless waste of an accessory slot, only really 'convenient' to those too lazy to press a key a couple times in a battle