Ideally, he’d get a ranged attack like mana s***h, but the mana cost in weapons was much more expensive than a spirit-bonded skill. [Mana s***h] cost 100 mana for a self-cast, but when embedded in a weapon, the cost ballooned to three or four times that. That was if he could even find a Tier 5 or 6 blacksmith who could imbue such a complicated skill into a weapon.
Rechargeable mana stones only went up to 200 mana in the standard mana stone size. It was the reason the rift mana stones got more valuable as the mana increased; they never increased in size.
The manmade versions were hard-capped by current technology. It was impossible to squeeze that much energy into a small space and not create a bomb. The rifts did it, but no one had replicated the feat.
So, Matt couldn’t just use a Tier
