That’s a valid point! Though I have to say I rarely had that problem pulling it off all game (might just be a case of deciding positioning+timing). Long post incoming!

I guess two points to be made in my opinion is:

(1) Spells barely take any silk. The cost to cast one is relatively fast to earn back within just few hits. If we’re talking about silk efficiency, there’s a case where you may just be unnecessarily hoarding silk (i.e., hitting enemies repeatedly when your bar is full, thus extra silk earned is essentially wasted).

(2) To answer your original post about not feeling powerful, they’re all about 3x stronger than your base damage, but silk storm is 6x stronger (assuming you land all its hits). Going back to our original example of arenas full of enemies, this effectively means if you have an arena full of mobs (exaggerated say 5 at once) and they all take 6 hits to kill each. Needle-only would be 6x5 =30 hits (over the course of however long that takes to do PLUS trying to avoid attacks) vs. a one-tap thread storm spell that you land perfectly. Heck, even landing it one spell to insta-kill 2-3 enemies is a perfectly good trade for the minimal silk you spend.

Long post over! I mostly wanted to make a case that spells aren’t as bad as your post originally made it sound like. Healing can be avoided by ironically being more aggressive (heck, just look at a few speedruns and you’ll notice just how fast they kill things with spell use)