Weapons & Equip Double Edge: A weapon that hurts..you?

[TheGuideIsEvil]

The Double Edge is a Pre-Hardmode weapon that can be crafted with two Iron/Lead Broadswords and 3 Iron/Lead Bars. It is a sword that appears to have two edges.

The Double Edge deals 8 more damage than either weapon, with about 20-21 damage. It is also larger and hits with more knockback. However, it uniquely has an effect where it hurts you to use, dealing a few points of damage when you swing every once in a while. It sometimes causes you to bleed as well for a couple of seconds.

Tooltip: You know the idiom.

 

[9Craft 🌳]

I immediately thought of the Boston Basher in TF2. if you miss an enemy you hurt yourself, resulting in bleeding.

 

[Cave Cultist]

would result in some interesting strategies

 

[Big Sammich]

Remove the bleeding effect and you've got an interesting weapon.

 

[Maddie.]

Remove the bleeding effect and you've got an interesting weapon.

Are you suggesting that the terrarian can only make blunt weapons


For the suggestion, I don't really see the point of this, because you wouldn't really need to damage yourself at the point of when you can get it. Maybe if you needed the panic necklace effect? Even then it would be a niche use.

 

[TheGuideIsEvil]

Are you suggesting that the terrarian can only make blunt weapons


For the suggestion, I don't really see the point of this, because you wouldn't really need to damage yourself at the point of when you can get it. Maybe if you needed the panic necklace effect? Even then it would be a niche use.

Appreciate the criticism. I guess the use of damaging yourself could do some kind of unholy damage? Like if it offered more chance of criticals when you did hurt yourself, so the DPS is vastly improved for a Pre Hardmode weapon. The Double Edge could see some use in early Hardmode, due to how cheap it is.

And yeah, it can help with stuff like the Star Veil.

 

[Ghost_Leviathan6]

Are you suggesting that the terrarian can only make blunt weapons


For the suggestion, I don't really see the point of this, because you wouldn't really need to damage yourself at the point of when you can get it. Maybe if you needed the panic necklace effect? Even then it would be a niche use.

even if it's niche it'd be really fun combining it with 'something on damage' accessories like the panic necklace as you say. It'd make for some interesting strategies.
And hey, the lances are a niche use but they're still in the game and people have plenty of fun with them lol.

I love this idea actually, it'd go really great with the panic necklace or honey comb or something. And who doesn't love a bit more spice early game.

Admittedly this idea feels more suitable for a mod, but still a really fun little idea for a melee subclass or something

 

[Stellar Mastodon 267]

On principle, any weapon that is a th rest to the wielder is a bad weapon, *Screaming explosive weapons in the background* so I don’t really think this is a good idea unless it is much more powerful. Like, higher DPS than the Adamantite/Titanium sword powerful.

 

[Big Sammich]

Actually, having thought about it a bit more, this might be a little unbalanced. Having a way to instantly cause low self-damage seems incredibly strong when paired with Cross Necklace/Star Veil. This would be an extremely potent tool for enabling i-frame strategies, especially for Summoners, who will have a greatly reduced opportunity cost when using this compared to other classes.