User blog:Determined123/Mages might find this useful

I have been looking on the Spells page and couldn’t help but notice jungle and ancient cobalt armor do the same thing, there is no need to farm ancient cobalt except for the looks and/or using as actual armor sometime. Also if cobalt was in your world by the time Hardmode has been achieved, don’t bother farming for cobalt gear (just Pickaxe/drill) because the ancient cobalt and jungle has extra 20+ on max mana and 2- for mana usage. The only thing really is you don’t get the extra 2 defense if you had cobalt armor (if it was up to me, I’d stick with ancient cobalt and jungle). Also it is good to know you get slightly better benefits from mage hollow armor (with the trade off of defense) than you would with Spectre full set of Spectre (with mask). Hollow has 40+ more mana, 7- mana usage, 7+ damage and crit hit, but 11- on defense. I still used Spectre for bosses but swapped to hollow for farming.

A cupple more tips.


 * meteor is the strongest pre Hardmode armor In game when it comes with defense and/or the space gun. The jungle and ancient is the best on pre Hardmode


 * nebula has the endgame magic armor


 * having jungle and ancient armor on equip it will still have the same set bonus. (Example: jungle helmet, ancient breastplate, jungle leggings = set bonus 16% less mana usage.)


 * It is good to have some hollow gear for vanity during farming because of stronger attacks and longer casts, Spectre is good for bosses because of the extra 11 defense and the fair magic abilities.


 * If you had a Spectre Hood instead of a mask, swap to mask or hollow gear now.

A little bonus

Melee is also best defense because it is most likely going to tank something because of how close he must get to his opponent, Ranger is less likely because of his increased range, but low attack speed, mage simply is very unlikely because of speedy attacks and range, and summoner of course can stay in a little box (or run) while the pet does all the work.

Also it turns out having one tab on the page your talking about and the other on a post helps a lot