652Graystripe
Plantera
A handy guide to understand what situations a given weapon is good in. Post-Plantera only. For some reason there's no Inferno Fork.
oh, and the venom staff and unholy trident
TL;DR: A small chart of weapon rankings (relative to their placement in the game progression).
S Rank, weapons that are good in almost all situations and can serve you well. Definitely get them.
Small crowd is 3 dummies, large crowd is 15. Measurements were taken with no prefixes, no armor and no damage-boosting accessories. Final count was the number shown on the screen when I ran out of mana.
Thanks to our lord @kciwdahC for the table!
| Heat Ray | Wasp Gun | Spectre Staff | Rainbow Gun | Leaf Blower | Staff of Earth | Shadowbeam Staff Single target | 256 DPS | 114 DPS | 184 DPS | 276 DPS | 432 DPS | 100 DPS | 239 DPS
Small crowd | 682 DPS | 387 DPS | N/A | 863 DPS | N/A | 578 DPS | 391 DPS
Large crowd | 3294 DPS | 1323 DPS (12/15 dummies) | N/A | 2915 DPS | N/A | 977 DPS (6/15 dummies) | 918 DPs
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| Razorpine | Bat Scepter | Unholy Trident | Blizzard Staff | Bubble Gun | Venom Staff | Razorblade Typhoon Single target | 1012 DPS | 455 DPS | 236 DPS | 440 DPS | 1275 DPS | 132 DPS | 199 DPS
Small crowd | 1154 DPS | N/A | 577 | 1270 DPS | N/A | 484 DPS | 610 DPS
Large crowd | N/A | N/A | N/A | 1541 DPS | N/A | 1734 DPS | 2891 DPs
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| Toxic Flask | Charged Blaster Cannon | Laser Machinegun | Nebula Arcanum | Nebula Blaze | Lunar Flare | Last Prism Single target | 331 DPS | 956 DPS | 1033 DPS | 1042 DPS | 763 DPS | 1879 DPS | 1405 DPS
Small crowd | 759 DPS | 1903 DPS | N/A | 2017 DPS | N/A | 5807 DPS | 2631 DPS
Large crowd | 1056 DPS | 14459 DPS | N/A | 2360 DPS | N/A | 9661 DPS | 15887 DPs
Essentially, what this means:
oh, and the venom staff and unholy trident
TL;DR: A small chart of weapon rankings (relative to their placement in the game progression).
S Rank, weapons that are good in almost all situations and can serve you well. Definitely get them.
- Venom Staff
- Blizzard Staff
- Toxic Flask
- Nebula Arcanum
- Lunar Flare
- Razorpine
- Toxic Flask
- Inferno Fork
- Razorblade Typhoon
- Laser Machinegun
- Last Prism
- Heat Ray
- Rainbow Gun
- Staff of Earth
- Bubble Gun
- Nebula Blaze
- Charged Blaster Cannon
- Wasp Gun
- Bat Sceptre
- Spectre Staff
- Leaf Blower
- Shadowbeam Staff
- Unholy Trident
Small crowd is 3 dummies, large crowd is 15. Measurements were taken with no prefixes, no armor and no damage-boosting accessories. Final count was the number shown on the screen when I ran out of mana.
Thanks to our lord @kciwdahC for the table!
| Heat Ray | Wasp Gun | Spectre Staff | Rainbow Gun | Leaf Blower | Staff of Earth | Shadowbeam Staff Single target | 256 DPS | 114 DPS | 184 DPS | 276 DPS | 432 DPS | 100 DPS | 239 DPS
Small crowd | 682 DPS | 387 DPS | N/A | 863 DPS | N/A | 578 DPS | 391 DPS
Large crowd | 3294 DPS | 1323 DPS (12/15 dummies) | N/A | 2915 DPS | N/A | 977 DPS (6/15 dummies) | 918 DPs
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| Razorpine | Bat Scepter | Unholy Trident | Blizzard Staff | Bubble Gun | Venom Staff | Razorblade Typhoon Single target | 1012 DPS | 455 DPS | 236 DPS | 440 DPS | 1275 DPS | 132 DPS | 199 DPS
Small crowd | 1154 DPS | N/A | 577 | 1270 DPS | N/A | 484 DPS | 610 DPS
Large crowd | N/A | N/A | N/A | 1541 DPS | N/A | 1734 DPS | 2891 DPs
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| Toxic Flask | Charged Blaster Cannon | Laser Machinegun | Nebula Arcanum | Nebula Blaze | Lunar Flare | Last Prism Single target | 331 DPS | 956 DPS | 1033 DPS | 1042 DPS | 763 DPS | 1879 DPS | 1405 DPS
Small crowd | 759 DPS | 1903 DPS | N/A | 2017 DPS | N/A | 5807 DPS | 2631 DPS
Large crowd | 1056 DPS | 14459 DPS | N/A | 2360 DPS | N/A | 9661 DPS | 15887 DPs
Essentially, what this means:
- The Lunar Flare, Last Prism, Bubble Gun, Laser Machinegun and Razorpine (in that order) are the best for single targets. They all top 1000 DPS.
- For small, tightly-spaced crowds, the Lunar Flare, Last Prism, Nebula Arcanum, Charged Blaster Cannon, Blizzard Staff and Razorpine all top 1000.
- For more spaced-out crowds, still small, the Last Prism, Nebula Arcanum and Charged Blaster Cannon should do well.
- In the largest groups of enemies, the Last Prism and Charged Blaster Cannon reign supreme, while the Lunar Flare, Nebula Arcanum, Razorblade Typhoon, Rainbow Gun and Heat Ray all perform fairly well.
- The Wasp Gun. Its sheer stunlock and homing capabilities outweigh its low DPS.
- The Bat Sceptre falls in here too, ever since its nerf.
- The Spectre Staff seems to have no redeeming value other than a burst damage advantage and its slight homing capabilities. Read: it's awful.
- The Leaf Blower has a poor DPS count in any case, unfortunately. I can't see its redeeming value.
- The Staff of Earth's claim to fame is knockback, not damage.
- The Shadowbeam Staff relies on arenas to perform as well as its counterparts - even then, the whole "reduced damage on piercing" seals its fate, as after 5-10 enemies it's dealing one damage per hit.
- Why would you use the Unholy Trident. It's so bad.
- The Nebula Blaze has better homing capabilities and speed than its brother, but is only better against single targets.
- Everything else - Heat Ray, Venom Staff, Bubble Gun, etc. - all have some clear redeeming value.
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