How is lunar spine meant to be used?

Lunar spine is a wand that seems to have 172 mana steal. How is mana sustain important with this, you can just click for 5 seconds then your mana is back to full. Isn’t this a little op? Or am I missing something?

 

it also has crazy negative mana regen so you can't hold it for more than a few seconds or your mana will evaporate

 

gimmick weapon, iirc it's apparently an extreme version of heavy spell, yknow, all or nothing

 

https://forums.wynncraft.com/threads/2-0-arcanist-with-lunar-spine.302665/
https://forums.wynncraft.com/threads/a-complete-guide-to-lunar-spine-gaming.278667/
https://forums.wynncraft.com/threads/beginner-lunar-spine-builds.286498/
https://forums.wynncraft.com/threads/questions-regarding-lunar-spine.286190/
https://forums.wynncraft.com/threads/an-alternative-approach-to-lunar-spine.277776/

 

It’s just melee for a ton of mana from mana steal but mana regen drains all the mana after a few seconds so u gotta spam as much as u can in that amount of time

 

It's.. way worse than you think, with 2.0 update.
Mana is decreasing insanely fast, and mana steal doesn't even reach max mana on hit. With these reasons, right after mana steal, you can only cast 1~2 spells.

I tried to find the way to make Lunar Spine usable ingame, trying various things like Time Rift, Pandemonium, Timelock, Spell cost focus, Manastorm Arcanist, Light Bender, etc.
None of them worked well, maybe at least Light Bender is fine, but still it's worse than using Light Bender with other builds, so no point on using Lunar Spine in this way.

Lunar Spine is too scuffed with 2.0 update, and it needs serious buff.

Blasphemy if you use this as secondary weapon

 

Yeah lunar sorta got shafted with the release of 2.0, but playing and winning fights with it is a testament to skill hence why I main it

Also to use it you outta play really passive imo, so heavy spell does well with it

As long as you play passive, you have “infinite” mana