So things will be getting bad right about now. Armour: Bee Armour (crafted with Bee Wax). Weapons: Imp Staff (crafted with Hellstone Bars). Accessories: Celestial Cuffs (crafted by following this guide) Armour: Meteor Armour (crafted with Meteorite Bars). Weapons: Space Gun (crafted with Meteorite Bars). Armour: Necro Armour (crafted with Bone and Cobweb). Weapons: Minishark with Meteor Shot (purchase the gun from the Arms Dealer and craft the ammo from Meteorite Bars and Musket Balls), Molten Fury (crafted with Hellstone Bars). Accessories: Feral Claw (Jungle chests) for all, String (crafted with Cobweb) and Counterweight (bought from Travelling Merchant or Skeleton Merchant) for yoyos. Armour: Molten Armour (crafted using Hellstone Bars). Weapons: Cascade (dropped by enemies in The Underworld after beating Skeletron), Starfury (found on floating islands). A fair warning for budding summoners, it's a tough pick at this point. This is the kind of gear you want when you're preparing to take down the Wall of Flesh, and some of it will see you through the early stages of Hard Mode too. Class-specific armour should be cropping up for you to unlock, and weapons will be buffed when you find them.
Hell is approaching fast, so now you can start thinking about your desired class. Try to farming Queen Bee for some of the best possible gear at this early stage: she drops some of the best weapons pre-Hard Mode. You should get some good drops from any of the bosses you fight up to the Wall of Flesh. Both actions will make you more powerful, and mana is essential to Mages and Summoners. It's also worth grabbing any stars that fall to increase your mana and hunting down life crystals to boost your maximum health. Your best bet is to create some gold or platinum weapons and armour and stick to that until you've defeated the first major targets.Ī good way to get a good weapon early is to dig underground and raid chests you come across just use whatever feels good or drops with decent stats. You'll need to wait a while before you can properly choose your class: it's unlikely you'll get class-specific armour until you've taken out the first few bosses. Summoner is the closest you'll get to a mixed class, and it's handy for farming specific ores.
That said, you'll need a backup weapon if enemies get dangerously close. Summoners call on spiders, imps, and dragons to do their fighting for them. If you prefer to delegate tasks rather than do the dirty work yourself, this is the class for you. While mages can unleash high damage, their relative lack of armour means you needplenty of healing potions in your inventory. Later on you'll wield massive beams of light, meteor showers, and a rainbow gun. This includes ray guns, short range spikes, and controllable fireballs-and that's just the early game. Terraria mage builds offer some frankly obnoxious spells. That might sound cool, but you'll need to grind to keep on time of crafting your special ammo stocks. What's more, you have special weapons that turn your arrows into bees, or fire piranhas. Ranged characters use a combination of bows and guns to deal huge damage quickly. Melee armour boasts the highest defensive values in the game, so this is a great class for beginners. While some of the weapons this class uses are designed for close-quarters combat, we also get boomerangs, and projectile-firing swords.
In most cases, melee characters are close-range fighters who hit things, but that's not always the case in Terraria. There's is a fifth class-one that uses throwing weapons-it gets outclassed so quickly you're better off sticking to one of the others. While it's possible to mix and match these classes, it's rarely wise to. Rather than being based on stats or anything that a traditional RPG would use, your class is defined by your equipment. If you're in that camp, or you're just looking for a refresher, below is our breakdown, along with the equipment you should be keeping an eye out for. In fact, it's hardly mentioned at all, its existence may even be news to you. Among the game's many systems, there are few as poorly explained as the Terraria classes system. Welcome to our guide to the best Terraria builds.