/vr/ - Retro Games

This pic is ridiculous and not practical (5500 is a shit-ton of mana, although there are a number of perks that can reduce this cost substantially). Also, if we're getting into potentially exploitative strategies area, the perks that will get you cheap item creation are useful for mana generation. You can create items and destroy them for more than they cost to create (this doesn't give "infinite mana" as it takes time to cast the spell, but it does yield a much higher mana income than just not doing anything)

In any case, this is a sword that grants permanent haste, magic immunity, and ignores defense (using the illusion/phantasm rules, there different ways to ignore defense) while giving a +3 bonus to hit (which is a really big deal). So long as you have the artifact spell, mana to spend and time to cast it, you can just create it and give it to one of your heroes.