Khaelis
Plantera
Flask of Fire and Flask of Vemon are pretty useful if you're not using a Fire Gauntlet in your loadout.
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Flask of Fire and Flask of Vemon are pretty useful if you're not using a Fire Gauntlet in your loadout.
Silverlancer
Golem
Flask of Venom is sooooooo good, unless of course the enemy is immune to it which happens to be quite often...
Samrux
Santa Claus
The additional DPS is so negligible it's not even funny anymore.
Khaelis
Plantera
Additional damage is additional damage.
But lategame, you lose more DPS by switching away from your main weapon to the Bladetongue, using the Bladetongue, and switching back.
Samrux
Santa Claus
It's not even a joke anymore. It's so negligible it's sad.
Khaelis
Plantera
You made a big mistake: you assumed I was talking about late game.
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Ichor debuff can be argued as being additional damage as well. It must also be sad.
The rest of this thread has been talking about lategame, so I replied under the assumption you also were.
SolaR
Golem
At endgame, even in Expert, the Solar Flare armor alone gives you enough defense. Besides, your main defense should be dodging.
El Capitan
Terrarian
Solar armor makes me sad. You lose defense each time you dash. I have gone into the habit of replacing the helmet with a chlorophyte mask for the slight attack bonus.
SolaR
Golem
But you don't have to dash.
Xylia
Terrarian
@Alaron : Beetle Shell might be better offensively, but one can't dismiss the HUGE Defensive gaps for the small offensive gap.
Solar Flare Armor is kinda like the combination of Beetle Shell and Beetle Scale Mail into one package, making it good at both defense AND offense. Using the Beetle Shell will give you more Defense overall, but yet will gimp you in damage output. Using Beetle Scale Mail will give you slightly better offense, but gimp you in Defense.
Using the SFA, however, you end up with a pretty well-rounded suit of armor that's good in both.
On to Accessories...
First off, if you're fighting anything in the air that's actually dangerous (Moon Lord, Pillars, etc), you probably want the Cosmic Car Key so you can get rid of your wings as your wings don't give you much of anything except for a bit faster ascent rate. Unequipping your wings allows you to equip something else far more effective. Here are my usual accessories:
1). Ankh Shield. It just gives too much Defense to not use it.
2). Celestial Shell. It gives huge bonuses, especially at night.
3). Destroyer's Emblem. 'nough said. I don't really recommend Fire Gauntlets, because you're losing out on a bit of damage for a weak fire proc.
4). Master Ninja Gear. The amount of times you poof and evade blows is just ridiculous with this. I've dodged deathrays with this thing, it is just crazy good. It might not increase DPS whatsoever, but the amount of survivability it gives you is plain ridiculous.
5). Charm of Myths. I like my 45s potion cooldown.
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5). Cross Necklace. Coupled with the MNG, you've got ridiculous survivability.
If you don't want more defense, you could maybe swap one of those for a Fire Gauntlet, maybe. As for using a Worm Scarf.... 17% reduced damage is not all that great in Normal Mode whatsoever because even against deathrays that's only 20-some damage. I'd rather have a chance to dodge the entire attack outright or lengthen my invincibility window, or shave 15s off my potion cooldown instead.
Solar Flare Armor is kinda like the combination of Beetle Shell and Beetle Scale Mail into one package, making it good at both defense AND offense. Using the Beetle Shell will give you more Defense overall, but yet will gimp you in damage output. Using Beetle Scale Mail will give you slightly better offense, but gimp you in Defense.
Using the SFA, however, you end up with a pretty well-rounded suit of armor that's good in both.
On to Accessories...
First off, if you're fighting anything in the air that's actually dangerous (Moon Lord, Pillars, etc), you probably want the Cosmic Car Key so you can get rid of your wings as your wings don't give you much of anything except for a bit faster ascent rate. Unequipping your wings allows you to equip something else far more effective. Here are my usual accessories:
1). Ankh Shield. It just gives too much Defense to not use it.
2). Celestial Shell. It gives huge bonuses, especially at night.
3). Destroyer's Emblem. 'nough said. I don't really recommend Fire Gauntlets, because you're losing out on a bit of damage for a weak fire proc.
4). Master Ninja Gear. The amount of times you poof and evade blows is just ridiculous with this. I've dodged deathrays with this thing, it is just crazy good. It might not increase DPS whatsoever, but the amount of survivability it gives you is plain ridiculous.
5). Charm of Myths. I like my 45s potion cooldown.
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5). Cross Necklace. Coupled with the MNG, you've got ridiculous survivability.
If you don't want more defense, you could maybe swap one of those for a Fire Gauntlet, maybe. As for using a Worm Scarf.... 17% reduced damage is not all that great in Normal Mode whatsoever because even against deathrays that's only 20-some damage. I'd rather have a chance to dodge the entire attack outright or lengthen my invincibility window, or shave 15s off my potion cooldown instead.
I never claimed that Solar Flare Armor was not more well-rounded. The Beetle Scale Mail also is noticeably better at max Beetle Might, not slightly better (I assume max Beetle Might because if you can't get it then both armors are overkill anyway). You get +22% more damage and +27% more melee speed, although you have 9% less critical chance.
Both are viable, but as I mentioned before, I'm a DPS kind of guy. I never had any problems on the Defense end, no do I find the Solar Flare Armor's set bonus useful (the dash is actually really annoying to me), so I choose Beetle Scale Mail over Solar Flare.
So you know, the overall healing from Celestial Stone is actually superior to that from Charm of Myths, assuming potions are being used as frequently as possible (and no healing is wasted).
Xylia
Terrarian
@Alaron :
That's why I use BOTH a Celestial SHELL (Why use the Stone when the Shell exists and is better?) and a Charm of Myths.
You get the +2 HP Regen from the Shell and the 0.5 + -15s cooldown altogether (+3 HP Regen total while at night). But I only do this if I can unequip my wings (boss fights in the air with the Cosmic Car Key).
That's why I use BOTH a Celestial SHELL (Why use the Stone when the Shell exists and is better?) and a Charm of Myths.
You get the +2 HP Regen from the Shell and the 0.5 + -15s cooldown altogether (+3 HP Regen total while at night). But I only do this if I can unequip my wings (boss fights in the air with the Cosmic Car Key).
Because you don't like the Werewolf and Merfolk transformations overriding your vanity.
Or, just use the Celestial Shell and the Celestial Stone, because they stack.
Xylia
Terrarian
Because you don't like the Werewolf and Merfolk transformations overriding your vanity.
Or, just use the Celestial Shell and the Celestial Stone, because they stack.
The stacking thing, I just read that on wiki... IMO, stuff should not stack with components to make stuff.
IE, Charm of Myths should not stack with a Band of Regeneration, Celestial Shell should not stack with Celestial Stone, etc. That just starts getting overpowered lol.
Fatx_
Eye of Cthulhu
Nice loadout!
Xylia
Terrarian
Might be frustrating, but yet sometimes the ridiculous stacking gets plainly too overpowered. I mean, they nerf things like standing on spikes but yet you can have a Celestial Stone + Celestial Shell + Avenger's Emblem + Melee Emblem all active at the same time and that's somehow not overpowered, lol....