Fix Meling Maelstrom so it's useful again

I was silly and didn't remember to look at buffs/nerfs and just bought it.
I figured they might remove it instantly giving all mana back, but now
it's just like a regular potion (worse imo) that gives a little bit of
damage in an AoE. It's just in a sorry state an should probably AT LEAST
have some instant recovery. 370~ Mana is nothing anyhow.
Last bumped on Jul 7, 2025, 3:55:27 AM
Totally agree that the nerf they did is ridiculous. There's no reason why they couldn't have had it work like any other instant recovery mana pot at the very least, but maybe slightly better to justify it being a unique. They took an interesting unique and made it completely useless (seems to be their track record for item nerfs). Might as well just remove it from the game at this point, who is ever going to use the nerfed version of this thing?

I understand that they were concerned about it being overpowered, but reducing the recovery from 100% to like 20% would have made more sense. Then someone would need to blow through all the charges to fully recover their mana with it. It would still be useful but not as OP as it was. That would have made much more sense.

Or they could have had it reduce in effectiveness if used several times within a few seconds. Like have it scale down from 100% to 50% to 25% to 10% to 5% as people use it in rapid succession to keep it from being a god-mode button. There are several different ways they could have approached this without making the item totally useless as it is now.

Another thing to note is that standard mana flasks have substantially less mana recovery than life flasks do, so us Mind Over Matter users didn't have anything else other than Melting Maelstrom to be a truly viable mana potion for us. Now we have nothing. An instant recovery mana pot that recovers 149 mana is completely useless by comparison.
Last edited by rawdmon#8799 on Jul 7, 2025, 4:37:15 AM

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