How do I make beam/laser???
Optical lens.
Incidentally, I'm finding myself saddened that laser wand depreciates
badly at the doctorate level. While it does insta-hit, the fact that it lacks a damage bonus really hurts it when most of the enemies have >500 hp. It feels like you really need a couple of damage boosters (I'm not sure if you
can safely replace homing+dig. I guess I should try it...) to keep the wand relevant as a damage source. Alchemist stone + illusion dust or seashell's been my way to go, so far. Kinda' thinking about stacking one DoT on the wand and the other on the spell... conceptually, that'd be the highest raw damage combo you could get, I think, with the enchant boost kicking 'em up.
There's also a notable amount of weirdness with beam+diamond (piercing -- the beam stops damaging after the first critter hit), which is a shame. That plus homing and dig would theoretically nail, like, all the things.
You want light show, though, go beam/butterfly/illusion dust (and probably dig). It's kinda' hilarious. Basically hits the entire screen if you've got A/B ranked materials, though it does piss all damage. Swap the beam for mermaid shell for some legit danmaku action, though do make sure to disable the chaos butterfly visual effect (just above the wands, if you missed it) before firing away. This is especially true for the beam.
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Currently hitting a bit of a brick wall with doctorate level castle and master level desert. The latter's mostly 'cause of the sandstorm (which'll be pretty trivial to robe-around, honestly, I just haven't gotten around to it), but doctorate castle is kinda' miserable. Freaking books, bombs everywhere, 700 hp ghosts that move faster... s'pretty awful.
E: Actually, if you want to see something both
very interesting and
incredibly random... go homing/butterfly/dig/diamond. You'll occasionally get to see a wand shot do >1k damage
2-500 damage hits aren't exactly rare in the castle... a more open level would be pretty devastating.
E2: Utterly freaking annihilates some of the sandworm forms, actually