Weapons & Equip Equilibrium, The Terra Blade's True Form

[Starblast16]

I think that now that there are weapons stronger than the Terra Blade, it's about time for it to get an upgrade. My idea is sort of like the tired idea of the True Terra Blade, but better. It'll work as a good alternative to the Meowmere which is, in all honesty, pretty silly of a weapon. Behold its true form, Equilibrium! Thanks @DJEN for coming up with that great name!

Here's it's stats and abilities. It's still a raw concept. @DJEN did a great job on this info!

Sword Sprite:
Thanks @DarkAwesome for the awesome sprite. He told me he used the sprite for the Terra Blade as a base for it and turned it into this awesome thing!

Equilibrium
Melee weapon
150(Blade), 150(225)(Beam) Melee damage
Knockback: 6(Strong)(0)
Critical chance: 4%(20%)
Use time: 27(Average){9(Very fast)}
Autoswing
Tooltip:
The true unification of light and night.
Strike your foes with the blade to gain power!
Crafted with: Terra Blade, Sword of The Stars
Results in 1 Equilibrium

Mechanics:
The tooltip says it all, but the details are lacking.
While the blade itself isn't damaging enemies, it's a lackluster weapon. It uses the non-bracketed stats, and all knows what that means. Even though its beam leaves a damaging trail, it does not pierce, but slows down and deal rapidly decreasing damage to an enemy.

When the blade itself deals the damage, things change. First of all, its use time constantly decreases, resulting in a use time of 9 after 30 strikes. The upgrades will be shown in the form of a buff, which is blandly named "Ascension."

It is a "leveled" buff, similar to the nebula boosters, which ends in a buff named "Vertex" after level 9. However, the firing rate of the beam decreases, ending in 0 at the 15 hit mark in level 5. The "Ascension" buff lasts for 15 seconds after you retreat from the enemy, and its level decreases constantly.

As the sword approaches its peak, both the player and the sword begin to glow. At the sword's peak, the player becomes a radient figure, and the sword takes on a Arkhalis-like form of slashing animation.

The "Vertex" buff changes into "Vertex Release" after you retreat from the enemy. Lasting for 10 seconds, this buff not only maintains the sword's effect, but also makes it fire "wave-like" projectiles that are as wide as the sword's animation, deal 225 damage, and pierce infinitely.

Now for the Sword of The Stars.
-Raw-
Sword of The Stars
150 Melee damage
Knockback: 5(Average)
Critical chance: 4%
Use time: 19(Very fast)
Autoswing
Tooltip:
A sword of celestial night
Crafted with: Corona Renders, Cyclone Cleaver, Veil Cutter, Invader Blade, Phantasmal Edge
Results in 1 Sword of The Stars

Old Sprites:

Spoiler

 

[Cryx]

Yes, I agree with you The Terra Blade needs a good upgrade (In one of my threads, I thought that the Terra Blade should recover).

However, this should've gone under further explanation.
What's its base damage?
Does It autoswing?
Any projectiles?

Other than that, interesting idea.

 

[Kardfogu]

It already has an upgrade. Just sayin' as people repeatedly said it already. Like in your previous thread?
Meowmere is a direct upgrade.
Multiple true terra blade threads from the same person at the same time, I think it's kind of an overkill.
It deals more damage, it is faster, it shoots piercing projectiles and the best part is...
...it's not a sword shooting swords, it's a sword shooting cats which is infinite times better. What else do you want?

 

[Starblast16]

Yes, I agree with you The Terra Blade needs a good upgrade (In one of my threads, I thought that the Terra Blade should recover).

However, this should've gone under further explanation.
What's its base damage?
Does It autoswing?
Any projectiles?

Other than that, interesting idea.

For one, the thread is still a WIP and I hope to get input from other people to help develop the idea but I can answer two of your questions. Yes, it autoswings, and yes it shoots sword beams like the Terra Blade.

It already has an upgrade. Just sayin' as people repeatedly said it already. Like in your previous thread?
Meowmere is a direct upgrade.
Multiple true terra blade threads from the same person at the same time, I think it's kind of an overkill.
It deals more damage, it is faster, it shoots piercing projectiles and the best part is...
...it's not a sword shooting swords, it's a sword shooting cats which is infinite times better. What else do you want?

Dude, I'm doing this because I'm one of those people who aren't a fan of the Meowmere and this is the new thread I made for the True Terra Blade since I can't change the Title of the old thread, just disregard the other one, ok?

 

[Kardfogu]

For one, the thread is still a WIP and I hope to get input from other people to help develop the idea but I can answer two of your questions. Yes, it autoswings, and yes it shoots sword beams like the Terra Blade.


Dude, I'm doing this because I'm one of those people who aren't a fan of the Meowmere and this is the new thread I made for the True Terra Blade since I can't change the Title of the old thread, just disregard the other one, ok?

Anyways, you should be glad that you guys have the Meowmere, we got a dolphin for a gun and a firework for a rocket launcher. After all, a cat for a sword is actually cool.
Not to mention you already have more weapons than us, if you don't like Meowmere, you still have Star Wrath...

Meowmere and Star Wrath are both cool.
Terra Blade on the other hand is just a straightforward beamsword, it's quite boring to be honest.

 

[DJEN]

Oh my, my first text battle. Wish me cheap luck.

 

[Starblast16]

Anyways, you should be glad that you guys have the Meowmere, we got a dolphin for a gun and a firework for a rocket launcher. After all, a cat for a sword is actually cool.
Not to mention you already have more weapons than us, if you don't like Meowmere, you still have Star Wrath...

Meowmere and Star Wrath are both cool.
Terra Blade on the other hand is just a straightforward beamsword, it's quite boring to be honest.

Dude get over it, you mentioned this on the old thread. Some of us prefer a classic like this. For God's sake you should have guessed I'm a Zelda fan by my profile pic!
And good luck DJEN. Hopefully you can talk some sense into him.

 

[DJEN]

Also, try to make the recipe less grindy. It hurts my mind seeing its current state.

 

[Kardfogu]

I didn't come for a battle.
Terra Blade is over, get over with it and be happy you got cool weapons that the rangers don't.
Geez, some people can't be satisfied with the best...

This is like the 1000000000th True Terra thread, none of them had sense, what's different now?

 

[Cryx]

Guys please stop arguing.

 

[DJEN]

I didn't come for a battle.
Terra Blade is over, get over with it and be happy you got cool weapons that the rangers don't.
Geez, some people can't be satisfied with the best...

This is like the 1000000000th True Terra thread, none of them had sense, what's different now?

You know, the 1.3 update was a letdown for everybody. So stop. I'll think of some gimmicks to differentiate it from Meowmere.

 

[Kardfogu]

You know, the 1.3 update was a letdown for everybody. So stop. I'll think of some gimmicks to differentiate it from Meowmere.

Letdown? Not exactly.
Okay, I played ranged for most of my time since 1.0.6.1, but I never had so much fun playing melee before.
Not to mention Last Prism, that thing makes every mage happy.
Summoners got some more equality with their own endgame weapon and armor, they are happy, not completely, but they are much more happier than before.
As of now I think 1.3 was pretty much the best thing happening to everyone except rangers.
Well, I could say 1.3 forced out of my preferred playstyle, but I have the same fun with everything else now, so even I can't complain about the "whole" patch.

Only some ranged players - who don't like other classes - and some rare Terra Blade users are unhappy at the moment, so I wouldn't call it a letdown.

Not to mention I'd like to warn you of something.
Terra Blade has nothing to do with Zelda in particular, the Master Sword is blue just sayin'. Terra Blade is THE blade from every japanese RPG game, not a particular one, but all of them, the same cliché magic sword people always saw in the hands of the protagonist.
This means, that the true essence of Terra Blade is being as complicated as a wooden wedge.

I believe if you think of some gimmicks for the Terra Blade, that wouldn't be the Terra Blade. Terra Blade's charm was its primitivity, you always saw a blade like that in the hands of a mentally handicapped warrior in countless games, TV shows and movies. It's a common cliché. The only reason why people ever liked the Terra Blade is that it's completely unoriginal and generic, something people are used to, if you give it some interesting mechanic, the same people won't like it at all.

So if you really want to stay with this idea, don't change it's mechanics, keep it as primitive as a beamsword can be, because people won't accept an interesting weapon to be the successor of the Terra Blade.

 

[DJEN]

Well, how can you be so sure about that?

 

[Kardfogu]

Well, how can you be sure about that?

My best friend has a city-guard fetish. Everything in a uniform, wearing the most primitve shortsword possible to find is cool in his eyes. From him I know the exact mental structure of those simple people who loved the Terra Blade since it's release.
Ohhh, believe me, you don't want to hear him talking about swords.
Not swords like a Katana, but plain simple european swords.

That's a longer story ya know. Terra Blade, when it was released, had the highest base damage for any weapon, but it was too slow, it's beam had a long cooldown and all the other lategame weapons had a unique mechanic that made them deal superior damage.

Terra Blade went through multiple buffs to reach it's powerful state.
In 1.2.3 it's projectile cooldown was reduced heavily so that it can shoot more often.
In 1.2.4 it gained autoswing.

Despite how bad Terra Blade was at first, simple people loved it, I don't want to offend anyone with the word simple btw. They wanted a sword and they wanted a large damage number printed on it, they didn't care about how weak it is.
Satisfaction came in the form of simple looks, large damage number.
The same people who wants to see it again are mostly of them, the people who never cared about the projectile cooldown and such in the first place.

Those people don't really like the Meowmere and in general anything with a unique gameplay mechanic. Many of them accept it - well, using the Meowmere is still quite staightforward and it's a sword -, but most of them don't seem to particularly like it. What they like is a straightforward sword without overcomplicated stuff. Also, for looks, they prefer to have a sword and that's all.

As we are talking about a Terra Blade, I believe your target audience are those people who just want to swing a plain beamsword and liked the Terra Blade even before it's buffs.

 

[DJEN]

My best friend has a city-guard fetish. Everything in a uniform, wearing the most primitve shortsword possible to find is cool in his eyes. From him I know the exact mental structure of those simple people who loved the Terra Blade since it's release.
Ohhh, believe me, you don't want to hear him talking about swords.
Not swords like a Katana, but plain simple european swords.

That's a longer story ya know. Terra Blade, when it was released, had the highest base damage for any weapon, but it was too slow, it's beam had a long cooldown and all the other lategame weapons had a unique mechanic that made them deal superior damage.

Terra Blade went through multiple buffs to reach it's powerful state.
In 1.2.3 it's projectile cooldown was reduced heavily so that it can shoot more often.
In 1.2.4 it gained autoswing.

Despite how bad Terra Blade was at first, simple people loved it, I don't want to offend anyone with the word simple btw. They wanted a sword and they wanted a large damage number printed on it, they didn't care about how weak it is.
Satisfaction came in the form of simple looks, large damage number.
The same people who wants to see it again are mostly of them, the people who never cared about the projectile cooldown and such in the first place.

Those people don't really like the Meowmere and in general anything with a unique gameplay mechanic. Many of them accept it - well, using the Meowmere is still quite staightforward and it's a sword -, but most of them don't seem to particularly like it. What they like is a straightforward sword without overcomplicated stuff. Also, for looks, they prefer to have a sword and that's all.

As we are talking about a Terra Blade, I believe your target audience are those people who just want to swing a plain beamsword and liked the Terra Blade even before it's buffs.

I see how it is.
Oh, well. I'll add some gimmicks anyway.

 

[Kardfogu]

Well, it might make others hate it a little bit less, but let me warn you again.
There is a reason all previous True Terra Blade threads died out: everyone else hates Terre Blade for a reason.

As much as you might like it, others won't. As I said previously, Terra Blade is THE sword in the hands of the mentally handicapped protagonist warrior from fantasy stories. Some people liked the protagonist the most, they pretty much want to have the cliché beam sword in their own hands to feel like a protagonist.
Others got bored of the warrior always being the protagonist and the Terra Blade is the icon of the cliché warrior they hate so much.
Including me for example.

I'll be honest, I never liked fairy tales when the knight killed the dragon and rescued the princess. I was always secretly hoping that the dragon flies up - as it is pretty much logical against someone using a sword - to engulf the knight in his flaming breath, burning him alive.
Then of course the dragon could continue whatever dragonly thing it was doing to the princess previously. =^-^=

Well, I can't give you exact ideas how to make it appeal to everyone.
Relogic tried to do that. Meowmere is the result of that, it's a unique blade that doesn't belong to the cliché knight, so it's not the icon we hate so much, while it is a sword with the highest damage in the game to serve sword-enthusiasts as well.

 

[Starblast16]

Well I hope to turn Equilibrium into a sword that is way more awesome than the Terra Blade with some help.

Edit: I came up with an idea for Equilibrium. What do you guys think about it having the ability to stun creatures from the Hallow, Corruption, and Crimson on occasion?

 

[DJEN]

-Very raw concept-
Equilibrium
Melee weapon
155(Blade), 225(1200)(Beam) Melee damage
Knockback: 6(Strong)(0)
Critical chance: 4%(20%)
Use time: 27(Average){9(Very fast)}
Tooltip:
The true unification of light and night.
Strike your foes with the blade to gain power!
Crafted with: Terra Blade, Sword of The Stars
Results in 1 Equilibrium

Raw concept. Really bad, kinda cliche. I'll deal with the Sword of The Stars later.

Well I hope to turn Equilibrium into a sword that is way more awesome than the Terra Blade with some help.

Edit: I came up with an idea for Equilibrium. What do you guys think about it having the ability to stun creatures from the Hallow, Corruption, and Crimson on occasion?

Try extending that to all creatures, and give an effect that affects bosses as well.

 

[Starblast16]

-Very raw concept-
Equilibrium
Melee weapon
155(Blade), 225(1200)(Beam) Melee damage
Knockback: 6(Strong)(0)
Critical chance: 4%(20%)
Use time: 27(Average){9(Very fast)}
Tooltip:
The true unification of light and night.
Strike your foes with the blade to gain power!
Crafted with: Terra Blade, Sword of The Stars
Results in 1 Equilibrium

Raw concept. Really bad, kinda cliche. I'll deal with the Sword of The Stars later.


Try extending that to all creatures, and give an effect that affects bosses as well.

It's a good start, and yeah that stun effect on all creatures will work and it has a lower chance of working on bosses, but of course some are immune like the Moon Lord and WoF. I'll use those stats once you fix it up.

 

[layman9]

Enough of these Terrablade upgrade threads! We have Meowmere and Star Wrath, which DESERVE their spot at top tier for how interesting and op they are. We don't need more bland beam shooting things.