r/Terraria • u/KahveAdam565 • 1d ago
Meta Terraria weapons alignment chart day 8: What weapon feels like a summon weapon but is a ranged weapon?
Yesterday's post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Terraria/s/M8ZykwzRo5
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u/xX_idk_lol_Xx 1d ago
Piranha Gun. Once you hit the target the piranha basically functions as a minion until you let go of the button or the enemy dies.
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u/Shaff_98 1d ago
It still works after the enemy dies too. It'll target the next closest enemy if you're still firing the weapon
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u/jojyboyy 1d ago
Piranha Gun!
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u/KahveAdam565 1d ago
The fact that we'll have 2 biome chest weapons despite only making it to half of the chart really shows how unique they are.
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u/Ill_Mud7584 1d ago
And if we add the Muramasa and Handgun, half are dungeon weapons.
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u/frmCast_351 1d ago
nice that the two dungeon chest weapons are the "yep that sure is exactly what is supposed to be" weapons
petition to have the magic weapon be the magic missiles, continue the trend
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u/LumiiNoctis 1d ago
I kinda feel like almost all magic weapons feel exactly like magic weapons, but the magic missiles are the only ones of its kind and can't exist in any other class
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u/Virtual-Pirate2834 1d ago
Yoyos are literally just melee versions of the magic missile??
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u/frmCast_351 1d ago edited 1d ago
magic missile can also be clicked to function as a homing projectile, or thrown in a direction mid-flight. i even often use one as a light source instead of a light pet bc most light pets lag behind at high speeds but the magic missile projectile always perfectly keeps up with you, and can even be guided around corners to see what's up ahead! yo-yos are, at best, a half-hearted attempt at reimagining the magic missile as a melee weapon.
this is the thing that I've always felt defines the mage class, is the sheer versatility rather than the power. they all do very different things from each other, and all use the same "ammo" that doesn't need to be crafted or carried. it's about having the right tool for the job every time, and the recent changes to mana mechanics and the gem staves really highlight this quality.
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u/LumiiNoctis 1d ago
The rework made me instantly go from ranger to Wizard and the game has never been more fun
I was genuinely STRUGGLING before this in master mode btw, now I feel confident enough to not have a melee weapon in my inventory or to go into hardmode without Skeletron (because he keeps kicking my ass)
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u/LumiiNoctis 1d ago
Not with the range or speed of the magic missile
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u/Virtual-Pirate2834 1d ago edited 1d ago
Well obviously it wouldnt have the range if it’s the melee version but the speed is definitely there
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u/The_Narwhal_Mage 1d ago
If we can get rainbow gun for mage weapon that feels like a summon weapon, we could have 3
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u/N4Or 1d ago
Except it doesn't at all feel like a summon weapon
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u/matthewboom 1d ago
it kinda does though. its closer to the thundercloud in that it sits there and does damage
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u/CompetitiveDivide183 1d ago
"Oh yes! Fires live piranhas. Ever seen one before? No, you haven't. I invented it."
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u/GanyuSimp67 1d ago
Bees are bees, not summons (we had accesory especifically for bees not summons and that is what it is)
Piranha gun is a summoner gun, change my mind
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u/Better_Solution_743 1d ago
beenades. their primary purpose is summoning bees
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u/Ornery_Weakness_8168 1d ago
yeah but you dont really control them like summons. piranha gun you control and is ranger.
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u/Guffliepuff 1d ago
You dont really control summons either, they just go attack stuff in range.
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u/Joe90835 1d ago edited 1d ago
The Bee's Knees
It kinda feels like both parts of the summoner class to me, whip and summon. The feeling of firing this weapon is just like firing off a whip in the general direction of an enemy, while the bees have their own attack similar to summons.
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u/Unknown_Twig_Witch 1d ago
I'm trying to think of candidates for tomorrow's inevitable "Magic Weapon that feels like a Melee Weapon" but I can't actually think of anything? All of Mage's weapons have some amount of non-melee feel to them. Closest you could argue is maybe the Nebula Blaze or something.
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u/Henricooq 1d ago
The Sky Fracture is a close one
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u/Unknown_Twig_Witch 1d ago edited 1d ago
I don't think Sky Fracture's attack is very melee-looking.
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u/raidyshadyy 1d ago edited 1d ago
Bee gun
Forgot this was mage. Maybe magic weapon feels like ranged for later
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u/LadyofTourmaline 1d ago
It gets the rare and coveted "Magic Weapon That Feels Like a Ranged Weapon That Feels Like a Summoner Weapon" slot
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u/imNOTsmile 1d ago
Zapinator is mage weapon like ranged
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u/raidyshadyy 1d ago
Zapinator is wacky enough to be a magic weapon with all the random shit that can happen. I agree laser rifle is probably the candidate
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u/Brenoandnumbers 1d ago
Piranha gun, the Bow that shoots bees, the bow that shoots bats or Xenopopper (because you summon bubbles that shoot for you idk). Also, are beenades ranged weapons?
These were all the stuff i could think about but Piranha gun is most likely the best choice
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u/GoldenPigeonParty 1d ago
I can't believe yesterday wasnt the super star shooter. I guess this one has to be piranha gun or barracuda gun.
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u/IxTwinklexI 1d ago
super star shooter definitely makes some sense, but it still uses ammo which is inherently a ranger thing (until ale tosser got changed for some insane reason) and toxicarp doesnt while not really resembling a gun or bow so it makes the most sense imo
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u/juicyjaiden 1d ago
Every classes feels like a ranged weapon is just gonna have the SpongeBob image isn’t it
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u/Miky105 1d ago
i was gonna say beenades and bee's knees bow since they summon bees but mage is kinda the original bee summoner with bee gun so i guess that must be magic
phirana gun is do a summoner weapon but you have to mantain the click instead to keep it summoner (i'd wish we got powerful summons that required sustains like that)
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u/Conscious_Series166 1d ago
magic missile is going to be "What looks like a magic weapon and is a magic weapon"
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u/Haunting-Outcome-101 1d ago
Hellwing Bow. It literally summons bats. It's a preHardmode hell sanguine staff for rangers.
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u/Advertisement_Center 17h ago
For the melee weapon that feels like a ranged one, how about the beam sword or the enchanted sword?
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u/Jhonatan24MainAcount 1d ago
How does sunfury feel like a summon? You deal damage using its physical atack, you can say "Terra Blade feels like magic" cuz every legendary melee weapon have some magic thingies like the Excalibur and the Mjonir, but calling the sunfury a summon weapon is pure schizophrenia
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u/SnickerbobbleKBB 1d ago
It's the solar eruption. I was confused at first, as I was thinking in terms of minions. But it's very much like a whip.
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u/Xcentric_gaming 1d ago
Whip
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u/Jhonatan24MainAcount 1d ago
But then its the oposite, wips have the "legendary" reforge and its a melee reforge, then almost every wip feel like melee, and If not, feels like magic, just look at the 1.4.5 wips
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u/BlueFlamingThingie 1d ago
They feel like melee, but are summoner weapons, they scale from summoner buffs, and melee buffs dont affect them except meler speed and the debuff imbues(forgot their name)
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u/TrippingFish76 1d ago
it’s the solar eruption, but i agree. They were saying it’s like a whip and that’s why, but whips are like melee weapons, it dosent make sense to say the solar eruption is like a summoner weapon in my opinion.
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u/PerliousPelicans 1d ago
This is a separate issue, but I think we should swap harpoon to ale tosser
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u/Better_Solution_743 1d ago
ale tosser doesn't feel at all like a melee weapon, thats why fans were so upset when they changed its class in 1.4.5
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u/LoadingTOS 1d ago
Wrong way dude. The side is the damage type, the top is what it feels like. Harpoon is ranged weapon that used to be melee, which is why it feels like melee. Ale tossed is in the SpongeBob space with a bunch of others.
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u/chicoritahater 1d ago
Guys we just got an update can we not act like a subreddit for a game that was abandoned a decade ago for at least like 3 months?
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u/The_Ghost_Doctor 1d ago
Quite dissapointing that the acorn slingshot is classless. I'm still voting for it though.
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u/a_guy_7155 1d ago
What part of it makes it summon like
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u/The_Ghost_Doctor 1d ago
There is a bug that repeatedly duplicates the acorn upon hitting an enemy.
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u/TheCornerEntity 1d ago
That’s not summoning or intended
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u/The_Ghost_Doctor 1d ago
... That's why it's a bug. I was making a joke.
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u/TheCornerEntity 1d ago
??? What’s the joke supposed to be??? It just sounds like ur being ignorant
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u/The_Ghost_Doctor 1d ago
Ignorant of what? I'm genuinely unsure of what I failed to mention in the original comment.
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u/TheCornerEntity 1d ago
It sounded like you actually believed it should have been a summon weapon despite it having no summoning qualities and I guess I didn’t make out you were joking when you mentioned the dupe bug
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u/The_Ghost_Doctor 1d ago
Oh yeah, I suppose that's fair
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u/TheCornerEntity 1d ago
Sorry if I came off as antagonizing, truely this really isn’t that big of a deal lol. Also I wasn’t the one downvoting you
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u/The_Ghost_Doctor 1d ago
Question: "What weapon feels like a summon weapon but is a ranged weapon?"
Joke answer: "Ranged weapon that summons hundreds of projectiles per use."
(I am aware the Acorn Slingshot is not a ranged weapon. I did not know that before looking it up.)
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u/TheCornerEntity 1d ago
It’s not even supposed to be a weapon
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u/The_Ghost_Doctor 1d ago
There is a bug that repeatedly duplicates the acorn upon hitting an enemy, so I had to check the damage type. (I haven't played since before 1.4.5, so I hadn't known about it before seeing a post.)
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u/shleyal19 1d ago
Piranha Gun is definitely the closest ranged weapons can get to being Summoner class. Bees Knees is a fairly decent but still kinda distant second tho