a lot of people seem to not realise that just because you're a summoner you can still use swords/bows/guns/magic (unless you specifically choose to do a challenge playthrough, but then that's the point of challenges: to provide different, and often harder gameplay with the existing system. you don't have to do a challenge, and if you do, you don't want it too easy).
Excluding magic, which got made 100x easier (and possibly weaker) with early magic, robes, already both armours, and serioulsy it should take at least 5 or 10 fallen stars to make a mana crystal, they are too easy now, though i have noticed stars seem to be rarer now)</rant>, all the class armour requires a boss kill -summoner has the bee, worm or brain for warriours (and the picks unlock molten), skeletron for rangers, and throwing weapons, despite generally being limited to early gameplay (though i would LOVE some special, unique hardmode throwing weapons (chlorophyte knives, shuriken, adamantite/titanium, and the shadowflame/flying knives should definitely be throwing) only get armour after killing the king slime for ninja or beating the worm/brain to mine fossils (can gold mine them tho? hmm...)