I love the thought of the Zenith being a culmination of the game's journey, but- and I'm sure that this has been said tons of times before- I would love to see something similar for the other major styles of play. The specific one I have thoughts about is the summoner class. I'm happy to see from the upcoming content that many new whips are planned to be added in 1.4.5, but I also think it would be fun if we could have combined weapons for whips. Something similar to the Night's Edge, Terra Blade, and Zenith.
I don't have specific mechanic ideas, as I feel that would be best left up to experts for balance and such, but I think something akin to a Cat o' Nine Tails could provide inspiration for a combined whip (I thought of "Cat o' Many Tails" as a potential name considering alluding to specifically nine whips could be problematic.) This would lend itself to a similar visual to the zenith, with multiple component whips swinging throughout its animation. The Zenith is an incredibly powerful endgame weapon, and though things like combining the various tag effects into one weapon could make a rather busted whip, I'm not sure it feels entirely out of place by comparison to the Zenith's wildly high speed and dps.
Another general whip thought I had was something I'm calling the "Mobius Whip". Inspired by the Mobius Strip, (a mathematical object consisting of a single continuous surface created by connecting two edges of a flat strip with a half twist), this could be a whip that strikes out in front and behind you, providing a visual similar to the twisted wheel-like structure of the Mobius Strip itself, or more simply like an infinity sign. The back swings could be a standard attack animation, or an extra effect triggered on a hit from the main attack animation, like the yoyo glove. To avoid minion targeting issues, the backwards swings could be incapable of focusing minion targets, just providing extra crowd control damage and tag bonuses. My thought was that it could potentially drop during the Martian Madness event, as a reference to the Mobius Strip's presence in Scientific and Mathematic fields.
(p.s. I know this isn't really the focus of the post, but I would love to see more love for sentries throughout the game's progression. Currently the only non-Old One's Army sentry in pre-hardmode is the houndius shootius, then post-hardmode we only have one to start, one post plantera, and two more all the way post moonlord. I don't say this to complain, mostly just to say that it feels like a bit of an open space in summoner gameplay that could be a lot of fun to explore if it were more supported.)
I don't have specific mechanic ideas, as I feel that would be best left up to experts for balance and such, but I think something akin to a Cat o' Nine Tails could provide inspiration for a combined whip (I thought of "Cat o' Many Tails" as a potential name considering alluding to specifically nine whips could be problematic.) This would lend itself to a similar visual to the zenith, with multiple component whips swinging throughout its animation. The Zenith is an incredibly powerful endgame weapon, and though things like combining the various tag effects into one weapon could make a rather busted whip, I'm not sure it feels entirely out of place by comparison to the Zenith's wildly high speed and dps.
Another general whip thought I had was something I'm calling the "Mobius Whip". Inspired by the Mobius Strip, (a mathematical object consisting of a single continuous surface created by connecting two edges of a flat strip with a half twist), this could be a whip that strikes out in front and behind you, providing a visual similar to the twisted wheel-like structure of the Mobius Strip itself, or more simply like an infinity sign. The back swings could be a standard attack animation, or an extra effect triggered on a hit from the main attack animation, like the yoyo glove. To avoid minion targeting issues, the backwards swings could be incapable of focusing minion targets, just providing extra crowd control damage and tag bonuses. My thought was that it could potentially drop during the Martian Madness event, as a reference to the Mobius Strip's presence in Scientific and Mathematic fields.
(p.s. I know this isn't really the focus of the post, but I would love to see more love for sentries throughout the game's progression. Currently the only non-Old One's Army sentry in pre-hardmode is the houndius shootius, then post-hardmode we only have one to start, one post plantera, and two more all the way post moonlord. I don't say this to complain, mostly just to say that it feels like a bit of an open space in summoner gameplay that could be a lot of fun to explore if it were more supported.)
