Talk:Solar Eruption/@comment-31764741-20170504201609/@comment-26440657-20171124084703

Both of you need to see deeper. A lot of people think The Last Prism is the perfect weapon, it isn't. It does have very high raw power paired with it's continuous fire but it's very slow to aim and can only hit enemies lined in a row which makes it only good for slow moving bosses or events which enemies are lined up in a row, like The Old One's Army event.

The biggest disadvantage of the Last Prism is that it uses up so much mana, you can only fire it for a few seconds before you run out... Which leads to another problem, a lot of people use the Mana Flower to make it continuously fire but that defeats the reason why the Last Prism is popular. Mana Flowers reduce magic damage up to 50% when you have over 10 seconds remaining debuff duration and since the Last Prism will use up all your mana in only about 6 seconds you can expect that you will always have 50% - 40% reduced magic damage from using a mana potion every 6 seconds. With that being the case, the S.D.M.G. would do more damage, not even taking bullet damage into account and the much higher critical strike chance that the S.D.M.G. has. I am mostly a mage but I rarely use the Last Prism. I'd rather use the S.D.M.G. or stick with the Razorblade Typhoon if I need something fast.

Even as a mage, I use the Solar Eruption a lot mainly because it fires through blocks, any build can benefit from the Solar Eruption because of that ability, especially when you are farming monsters inside traps. I always carry a weapon that can fire through blocks, it's sad that there are so few weapons with this ability.