So after mentioning this spell a while back, I figured i'd try it out in its present form. I was not impressed what so ever. It used to fill a niche as a quick rebuffing ability since you could store spells at full mana. Now I fail to see any use for it. Its all good that it can be used with non TM offensive spells, but really most of ours are battle spells, which are short prep time, and also require individual harness's to not completely tank your mana pool in 1-2 casts. For example: I cast Rend, usually at around 80-100 mana, an 80 mana cast takes me down to 38% mana from 100% Most other spells besides MB are the same in amount of mana invested into the spell on a regular basis. MB while being a bit less, maybe 60 to 70 per cast still wittles the mana pool down 50+ per cast, and again, MB is also a short RT battle spell. So in conclusion it just seems like the only way you can use these spells is to individually harness which makes the spell moot.

I'd like to hear other people's opinion on the spell. I was hoping there would be some quirk about it that would make it at least somewhat more useful for the slots invested, the shape rt and the general pain in the butt of having to worry about keeping the blade in your hand, but I can't really come up with anything. Also, if anybody could think of any ways it could be made better that might be useful, as I think the spell has a lot of potential it just needs another ingredient to make it worth using. I was thinking something along the lines of reducing the actual mana per prep amount by a certain %. Example would be prepping the spell at 80 mana, the spell would cut the actual amount from your pool to 40.

Only the primary node gives you any functional advantage to casting speed. Shifting nodes gives you almost as much RT as simply prepping a battle spell would give in prep time. To make matters worse it's actual RT so you're locked out of any other actions unlike just straight casting. If node shifting could be reduced to zero RT with a tiered arcana check it would be an improvement.

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>>A preface: Raesh has said that there's quality of life stuff in the works for moonblades in general including empower moonblade, so the function will likely be improving at some point.

Did I? I can think of one awesome upgrade I wrote to them that isn't live (I think) while I started working on an unreleased meta spell but other than that it escapes me.

Of course that would kinda, sorta, help with Empower Moonblade now that I think about it.

-Raesh

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