Life Drain and Vampire Knives are very powerful, so I think if we're putting lifesteal onto more crimson weapons, @Maaaaaaango is right. Also, "unique DoT effects". DoT isn't very unique, it is something that is seen in lots of places throughout the game.
I think that makes sense and doesn't make crimson too overpowered in prehardmode.
Not myself, although someone else did ask if they could use some of these ideas in their own mod, so we’ll see what happens.
Fair point, but still, they both use similarly-sized projectiles and have relatively similar DPS. If the projectiles did something like inflict a debuff, it would be pretty distinct compared to all the other weapons of its tier.
Maybe Influx Waver just needs a differently shaped projectile. Flying Dragon is contemporary with both swords and I never felt it was especially boring despite its similar functionality to the Terra Blade.
Well, it is pretty different. The Flying Dragon's projectiles go through blocks and disappear after flying a certain distance, and the Influx Waver and Terra Blade do neither.
Honestly I think that the Blowgun is fine, since there are only 4 dart weapons in the entire game. That said, you could do something similar to what you did with Tsunami, such as a purely visual change to darts fired out of it.
Fun fact, Starlight’s beams of light aren’t a projectile, they’re part of the weapon sprite. You’ll see this if you line up a large enemy where both the end of the blade and the beams of light hit: they only take damage once.
I actually did do the same thing to Rotted Fork as the other crimson weapons (and Ball o’ Hurt), it’s in the multiclass section on the post. I like the blood projectile though, I’ll add something like that in, although it would make more sense for a blood drop to fall to gravity a bit.
Maybe it should just give you a regular double-tap-a-direction dash that goes left and right instead, just for consistency’s sake. Regular old Swordfish could have something similar too.
Speaking of the Rotted Fork, why doesn't the Corruption have a spear? The Crimson has an equivalent to the Ball o' Hurt, so why not?
I debated giving something to Hardmode ores, but the issue is that they are literally 18 different weapons and I would have to give them similar and thematically fitting but distinct attacks that also follow a general progression in power *and* don’t do something that other weapons don’t already do. I just settled with changing Hallowed and letting the ore weapons be ore weapons, tbh. I like the idea of Cobalt giving more mobility though.
No idea, tbh. Maybe the Dark Lance would make more sense as a demonite + shadow scales craft, help lighten up the loot pool of the hell chests, give it a relevant role, and make it more consistent between world evils though.
It's just Big Crimson trying to keep us Corruption folks down, man!
I actually think that the Crimson is better and already more enticing than the Corruption.
I’ll add many of them eventually. I’ve been editing this thread in batches, adding big groups of stuff at once.
