Weapons & Equip Late hardmode dart weapon

[noobsqoou⛏️]

I think it’s a bit of a shame that the progression of dart-based weaponry ends at the Dart Rifle/Pistol just as the variety of darts expands from just Poison to Cursed, Ichor, and Crystal darts. I know it’s pretty late in 1.4.5’s development now, but I think it would be cool if Plantera or Golem dropped something new.

Heck, if the Stynger was simply transformed into dart weapon, that would be cool. It would allow skipping the sprite stage entirely.

 

[AmberTheSeal]

Here's some ideas:

Gatling Dart Gun (Post-SkelePrime, shoots real fast)
Stungun (Post-Mechs, dropped by a new Solar Eclipse enemy, shoots darts that don't knockback but stun enemies in their placefor a split second.)
Lihzahrd Blowgun (Drop from Lihzahrds, potentially a new variant that uses those)
Laser Dart Gun (Drop from the Martian Madness enemies)
Neo Betsy (Crafted from Vortex fragments. If Stardust is getting a new weapon, then I guess the other pillars could too.)

 

[Ferrin🌳]

i must say adding another weapon for alredy packed late hardmode seems like a bad idea, but changing Stynger which is kinda terrible weapon in itself seem like a great solution, it should be buffed also, that would kinda fill dart progression a bit making only dart weapons runs a bit more reasonable

 

[Impostor]

Sounds great to me. A late pre-HM one from Shadow Chests could also work

 

[Salty_]

I feel like dart weapons are supposed to develop into a utility weapon. Since they fire darts instead of bullets or arrows, you can use them to apply ichor or cursed inferno on enemies without needing to use that bullet/arrow type.

Like, you can run chlorophyte bullets and ichor darts together to get both effects.

 

[Big Sammich]

They might need to add new types of darts to allow the DPS to remain consistent with late Hardmode, but sure.