Give Lunar Spine A Major Id

The point of the item Lunar Spine is basically to force the player to get up close with mobs and and rely on the item's ridiculous amount of mana steal, combined with it's super slow attack speed. Essentially you have to activate the mana steal, and then spam as many spells as you can before your mana drops back to 0.

The problem is, if you spam multiple meteors too quickly, all the meteors will cancel each other out and only 1 meteor will fall, which is a good way to balance Mage in general, but with Lunar Spine, where you're supposed to spam spells, it just makes things a lot more tedious.


My suggestion is that Lunar Spine should get a major ID that either 1: makes the meteor fall faster (like Pure's major id). Or 2: makes multiple meteors no longer cancel each other.

This would even make sense with the lore, since Pure was supposedly carved out of a white meteor that fell into the center of Detlas, and Lunar Spine is a 'Cosmic stone' that flew out of the nether gate, and had it's "Purity defiled", so it would make sense for Lunar Spine to be a sort of dark version of Pure.

 

this isnt the lore actually im pretty sure. Im 90% sure its carved from the meteor near the olux swamp or between CotL and cinfras. but yeah i like the idea of a major ID on lunar spine. Could also be something to do with insanity because all of half moon island is insane as well.

 

item lore is inaccurate but otherwise good idea

 

I just checked, it just says the meteor fell in Gavel, so yes you're right, but my point still stands.

 

Ignore item lore.
Especially when this is a weird one.

Also unpure does not mean dark (just saying)

 

item lore isn't the reason I made the suggestion, it's just a neat thing I realized when I read the item lore for lunar spine and I thought I might add it here.

What do you mean by "this is a weird one"?

 

The "expelled from the Nether Gate" part sound strange to me. How did it got out of the portal? What is mean by "its purity defiled"? Etc.

 

+Lunar Insanity: You have permanent nausea as you hold this weapon. If you hold it long enough, you become a Gert.

It may not be useful but at least it's accurate

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I'm guessing it's meant to say that it was buried near the Nether Portal, and dug up by the miners

 

The wording doesn't really imply that, but it would make at least some sense

 

I don't think the 2nd one would be too useful as iicr you can cast an Ice Snake between a meteor. For the first one an entropy like major id would probably be a bit overpowered since spine has pretty nice damage and you have a 20 mana pool before you run out so you can spam like crazy, and would be even more insane with time rift (Lunar Spine has like 15k meteors not mentioning super slow for curse abusing). Lunar Spine with curse has around 20.5k meteors, if you could cast around 2 meteors a second, you would get like 41k spell dps, and you're casting it more then 50% of the time because of natural mana regen.

I do know spine with entropy and sorcery would be literal insanity though as it would get insanely high damage, probably higher then Peaceful Rest.

 

I guess Entropy would be a bit OP, but why wouldn't the 2nd option be useful?

 

Lunacy - Meteors no longer cancel each other, however burning ground is removed

 

If we were to add a major ID of that nature, the rest of the item's power would need to be nerfed in some way. It's not going to happen.

 

Lunar-meteors will become a new spell called "EXPLOSIONNNNNNNN" that instant explode (it drain all mana and instant do 1000% damage)

 

Sel just simply make lunar a mythic Ez Ez B)

 

But it's already is one

 

In that case, what if the Major ID was more cosmetic? Like changing the Meteor particles to resemble a pure quartz comet crashing into the earth, and blinding enemies initially hit (Burning Ground would not inflict blindness)!
If this ID idea is too OP, instead of rebalancing Lunar Spine's stats, this feature could come at the cost of slower Meteors (Which would be fitting with the wand's slow attack speed).

 

Lunar Spine Shouldn't get entropy, due to the fact it would completely ruin existance of pure. Pure is mostly only good due to entropy tripling dps. If given to lunar spine it would be to similar to pure. Mana gimick or not it would mess with prices alot. The interlapping meteors sound great but like kit said a little too broken, if that could happen I offer a weak version of it

Lunar insanity: multiple meteors no longer cancel each other out, however there is no burning ground, additionally meteor base damage becomes 250%.