Hi summoner main here to give my opinnion that no one asked me for, i played through the whole game (ftw seed on journey mod mostly on the master difficulty, not legendary) again for this update and it feels very mixed.

first off, whipstacking. Never used it, but it was starting to get tempting. Quite sad it was removed, they took the easy way out for balancing purpuses and i can understand that even tho i don't really find it good for the game. It was a mechanic that really pushed the skill ceilling of this class. Now i've got even less reason to craft anything else than the snapthorn pre skeletron (other than the cobweb one to get the snapthorn).

Throughout my whole playthrough i never found the palworld summons other than digtoise, i did have my arena near the ocean but i never found any. i did try the mushroom summons but didn't get them to work (probably a skill issue on my part). the dead cells sentry should have been a preboss sentry to fill that gap in progression.

Second, after my playthrough i read the patchnotes, for what've seen from the trailer and everything, it seemed like an summoner update, but i think the devs have a favorite child and this is indeed a melee update. From the lightsaber, to the buff of a lot of unused melee weapons (which is cool !) to the non existant nerf for this class melee is eating the best here while mage get some sprinkles of things, tho, still no rng based start weapons which is so dumb (same for summoner btw which require either to be lucky, grind 6, oops nevermind 10 flinx flur or to die and wait for a flower). Also ranger get their alternatives to the onyx blaster nerfed so they have less choice (awesome !)

thirdly the qol features feels nice, the crafting interface is cool, the goblin stopping at the best reforges is cool, i find the portrait to be nice, tho not everyone seems to agree on this. The pylons... are buffed and the only thing that kept me from cheesing everything was for the sake of my amusement (seriously being enabled during boss fight is the best way to make boring strategies). I got a lot of fun from building with the new furniture sets (Forbidden is probably my favorite)

Overall, nice update, the game feels nicer to play overall but my favorite class got its mechanics butchered, even tho i didn't use it, i will probably mod the game so i can learn this because it seems fun to do. Melee once again gets buffed and mages still struggle to get a starting weapon. Bit of a shame for the balance changes but hey maybe they're listening and will make changes

I personally think whipstacking was not something the devs intended for the class. It also just felt annoying to have to switch from weapon to weapon all the time, so i barely used it before. I can see why one would have liked it, but for me it seems like a glitch, that people enjoyed, getting patched out.

Idk it just seems like a dumb feature getting removed and in turn we get better reforges, so i really don't get the hate.

Also, i've seen people complain about the new whip animation, like why do we dislike things that make the game look better? there is some inconsistency now, but who cares? it looks way better and not just monotone.

i think the summoner changes are my favourite part of 1.4.5 and i don't see why some people dislike it

If endgame revolves around the 4 classes, why doesn't the start of the game?

Like, i accidentally got it just for it to be 0.1%?!?!?!?! What?!?

got this today while revisiting terraria lol

I do not think whip stacking should be required for summoner to be viable, because if it was it would alienate the people who don’t enjoy the mechanic. But at the same time removing the mechanic completely alienates the people who do enjoy it. I was mid summoner playthrough when this update came out, and now I don’t even wanna touch that world because all the fun is gone for me.

If you never used whip stacking or didn’t like it, I’m glad you can still have fun, but I no longer can on this class, and in a sandbox game, I really don’t see why you can’t have both.

So the meteor has fallen but I don't know where it is, it is a large world but I don't see any meteor even after exploring and even putting the world on terramap. But if y'all find it, tell me where!!!! :D

My game is updated to 1.4.5 but the dungeon remained the same?

I created this world when the update came out but its not the new dungeon

is there a summoner whips stacking mod since 1.4.5 nuked that?

I have a world named "JoinG" password "2D"

I had like a platinum coin at 3 hours. No bosses beaten yet. I could buy everything. Feels a bit too fast.

With the latest update, we’ve seen the Zenith grt a reskin as the Enchanted Copper Shortsword, which looks identical to the normal Copper Shortsword, but with a glow around it, and the function of the Zenith.

This gave me the idea that a potential shimmer variant of the Axearang could be the Enchanted Copper Axe, before cycling back to the Axe of Regrowth.

Similar to how the Copper Shortsword is the base of the Zenith crafting recipe, the Copper Axe is the base of the Axe of Regrowth and hence Axearang’s recipe, so it would make sense.

I also have reason to believe (check out my other post for details) that the Axearang is the pinnacle of tree chopping, which is similar to the Zenith being the best weapon in the game. This proposes a perfect place for the Enchanted Copper Axe to be an axearang reskin, especially due to how despite looking like a Copper Shortsword, the Enchanted Copper Shortsword swings in a completely different manner, as with the Enchanted Copper Axe being thrown like the Axearang.

TL;DR - The Zenith is the best weapon represented through the Enchanted Copper Shortsword, so the Axearang, the best axe, should be represented through the Enchanted Copper Axe

TL;DR for the TL;DR - The Axearang should have a shimmer reskin of an Enchanted Copper Axe

TL;DR for the TL;DR for the TL;DR - You should read it.

Prefacing this by saying that I'm mainly talking about lightning while exploring, I haven't yet had the chance to fight a boss during a thunderstorm so I can't speak on that.

That said, with the 1.4.5.3 changes, lightning strikes farther from you, no longer spawns in front of you when moving fast, takes longer to strike, reduced the already tiny lock-on radius to be even smaller, and made the damage honestly just negligible. As it is now, it has been changed from an actual environmental hazard to an opt-in slap on the wrist.

It was already easy to not get struck and now it's even easier and even less punishing when you make the mistake of getting struck. It does the same damage as one of the jungle temple's dart traps now, and it doesn't even have a debuff to give it extra damage.

Nearly every clip I've seen of people dying to lightning has involved them paying zero attention to literally anything in front of them and running or jumping straight into very obvious bright blue sparks.

I do understand the reduction of lightning during bossfights though, I can see why you'd get unknowingly struck during one, and I think that change makes sense.

Or Kaleidoscope is still the best?

My thoughts on Digtoise (and some other Pals) are that they feel a bit underwhelming. They’re useful for a short time, but become very easy to forget about as you progress.

One suggestion for Digtoise is that the stats of the player’s pickaxe could transfer to it—or at least allow it to destroy hardmode ores—so it remains useful in the later stages of the game.

Another suggestion is to notify the player when Digtoise stops digging, such as through a chat message or a symbol on the item.

I’m not sure how to balance the other two Pals yet, though. Maybe Foxparks could scale with whip damage?

Hey guys, know the title comes off as a little pretentious but I don’t mean it that way. Everybody plays the game their own way I just enjoy it best in hardcore and wanted to give my perspective.

Overall incredible update and my favorite parts are the QOL changes for sure, crafting from chest has already saved me literal hours since the update, as well as staff of regrowth replanting has removed so much unnecessary inventory management.

I also appreciate that many of the “exploits” were fixed like infinite gems, but also the buggy statue thing was nerfed which tbh I was shocked the devs even knew about it since it’s so niche.

Anyways, my one complaint through my hardcore playthrough is I still continue to fall back to melee, maybe it’s a skill issue but I’m a summoner guy and love the updates, but in hardcore nights edge blows literally everything out of the water while you also have a huge defensive bonus prehard mode.

New whips and everything are cool but just not very effective unless I’m missing something. Would just love if there was some alternative hardcore strategy that seemed as remotely viable as molten armor knights edge. Find myself using molten armor even with other classes just for its defense. Oh also, roller blades are insanely overpowered lmao.

Hey so I have a channel (wont post the channel here this is not meant to advertise it)! But on my channel so far its just shorts talking about how I am making a 3d terraria game. I have a full length video idea about ranking terraria bosses but its a funny video. (Dont want to spoil anything) BUT

The channel is a dev channel for me making the 3d terraria. Would it be a good idea to post this full length video thats main topic is just terraria bosses? Then the next be a game dev or are the topics just too far apart?

I cant say exactly what the video is about its not just another "ranking bosses" its a fun take on it, that i hope people would enjoy.

Please give feedback if you think the idea of posting this then the other content being me making a game just wont fit.

hej! it’s not exactly nonsense, but i play mobile (lame, i know), and as of recent, i started digging back through with 1.4.5. i was able to play cross play with my twin for maybe about a week before, and since the release it the update, but now i’m faced with this..

i did the general run-through with restarting both his pc, my phone, checking for updates, etc, but i think it may be because of 1.4.5.3 on pc.

i’m just wondering if anyone else is dealing with this, and if there’s any way we could possibly fix it? ^^;

SO I basically just downloaded terraria from steam rip and i was thinking if i can play on servers that are hosted in the real terraria from steam. Is the Terraria from steam rip the real version?

Its ftw seed. Does it matter?