Vega europe is fine, just get it again. It's a very common bh rubber, many players love it. It's a good rubber to work on your technique.
If you want to try something else for similar skilllevel:
Rakza 7 soft
Aurus soft
Fastarc c1
Rozena
It's not huge difference speed wise. Weight could be lower for carbon blades. Feeling is not as good/pronounced.
Unless you can really utilize it or your unhappy with your current blade, it's not worth to change.
Can anybody tell me about the durability of the telson 100? It's been out a while and I wonder how it fares.
Also can someone tell me how similar it would be to goldarc 8 or Matra pro? Throw and speed? I'm thinking of getting some for my forehand
Well its harder, so topend speed is higher theoretical. I never played with the soft one, so can't really tell you about differences. The medium felt quite soft
That's the wrong one look for uranus pro, it's a short pip.
https://a.aliexpress.com/_EQapLpj
Is has a really soft and fast sponge, it's very similar to Spinlord Waran but a little more durable.
802-40 is more versatile because it's grippy, 802 is better hitting trough spin. Both are a little slow. Of the chinese short pips I liked the sword long can blue sponge and yinhe uranus pro better. They are faster with a more modern sponge.
Factive is much softer and not tacky.
Is plays livelier and is bouncy. Loki rxton 3 and 5 are tacky chinese style rubbers.
If you want something similar to Factive but from AliExpress you could try Palio AK47 or Yinhe Moon (normal not blue or speed).
If you want a thicker handle,buy similar...
It's a fine beginner setup.
It's gonna be very similar. I guess it's a little more linear than the powerwood.
Here's a very comprehensive review:
https://ttgearlab.com/2017/02/11/review-tibhar-e-lebesson/
This site is great in general if you want to learn more about characteristics of blades...
If you want to stay with butterfly:
Rozena or Glayzier would be the next step
Otherwise:
Nittaku factive
Xiom Vega intro
Stiga mantra control
Andro GTT
A bit faster than those:
Rakza 7
The victas swat is easier to play if you are a beginner, due to softer top plys.
Though I still think the blades I mentioned earlier are top tier for beginner offensive players with high ease-of-play/control to speed ratio.
Friendship 802-40 mystery
Friendship 802 mystery
Sword long can blue sponge
Yinhe Uranus pro
The Friendship ones play better boosted, the other too are more modern with soft boosted sponges, they are faster and spinnier for short pips
If your low level it's just not worth it to buy a blade with composite fibers. There are plenty very good high quality all wood blades, that will work much better until you are at a high level. And they are much cheaper.
No it's fine, you're not married to your rubbers for long anyway. Twice a year at least you gonna need new rubbers, still time to go thicker. It's just I think if you want to play offensive tt better get used to thick rubbers. It's gonna be a fine setup.
In general any 5ply allwood is a solid choice. To me the dyna hard would be to expensive for what it is.l, but I haven't played it. I'd opt for something cheaper.
Butterfly Korbel
Tibhar stratus powerwood
Donic Persson Powerplay
These differ in handle size the most, so if you can try them...
I'd start with Big Dipper 38 or 39. It's easy to play, has a save high arc. Also h8-80 might be a good starter for chinese rubbers on fh, both rubbers don't need booster.
For close to the table blocking you want hard outer plys. Koto or harder. Many ox players in my area swear on balsa cores.
Donic Cayman
Spinlord carbon strike
Victas balsa 3.5/4.5
These are common here in Germany with pimple blockers