So the granite biome right now is practically useless. The only thing it has are pretty blocks, chests and heart containers. I feel like it could use some unique items like the marble biome does, with the medusa and hoplitle both dropping unique items.
I think it's time we give the granite elemental and granite golem unique drops. For the golem i propose we have it drop an item or accessory that when held or activated via keybind, boosts your damage reduction by a ton, but also making your damage and movement speed drop to almost zero. This could become very useful in boss battles if you need to heal for example, the damage reduction then helps in making sure you can't cheese the boss using the item. To not make it too overpowered it could have a time limit, say 15 sec, and then a cooldown of like 30 sec.
The granite elemental could drop a barrier accessory that when equipped, makes you take 50% less damage for three hits, with a cooldown of 60 sec.
These drops could make the granite biome worth staying in after your first visit as you generally never tend to return to a granite biome unless you need the blocks. The granite biome could also get a hardmode enemy like the medusa with it's own unique loot pool. I suggest adding an enemy called "Perseus" as Perseus was the one who slayed Medusa in greek mythology. You could make it drop a sword which normally doesn't inflict a lot of damage but when you inflict a critical hit with it, it deals a lot more damage than normal. This would be a unique weapon as i dont think there exists any weapons that deals extra critical hit damage.
I think these changes could make the granite biome more useful and more exciting to come across. Of course, nothing I suggest here has to get added but I hope that the granite biome will get changed in the next update!
I think it's time we give the granite elemental and granite golem unique drops. For the golem i propose we have it drop an item or accessory that when held or activated via keybind, boosts your damage reduction by a ton, but also making your damage and movement speed drop to almost zero. This could become very useful in boss battles if you need to heal for example, the damage reduction then helps in making sure you can't cheese the boss using the item. To not make it too overpowered it could have a time limit, say 15 sec, and then a cooldown of like 30 sec.
The granite elemental could drop a barrier accessory that when equipped, makes you take 50% less damage for three hits, with a cooldown of 60 sec.
These drops could make the granite biome worth staying in after your first visit as you generally never tend to return to a granite biome unless you need the blocks. The granite biome could also get a hardmode enemy like the medusa with it's own unique loot pool. I suggest adding an enemy called "Perseus" as Perseus was the one who slayed Medusa in greek mythology. You could make it drop a sword which normally doesn't inflict a lot of damage but when you inflict a critical hit with it, it deals a lot more damage than normal. This would be a unique weapon as i dont think there exists any weapons that deals extra critical hit damage.
I think these changes could make the granite biome more useful and more exciting to come across. Of course, nothing I suggest here has to get added but I hope that the granite biome will get changed in the next update!
