Actually valid list. Playing different melee subclasses was so much fun for me too. Mage and summoner are both fun, but nowhere near melee. Ranger is just meh.
I recently started a summoner play through and the new whips make it a great class, hard to progress at the start but after brain of cythulu it’s great, reforged all my stuff to warding it armored (defense reforged are insanely op early game even in masters) now I’m a walking tank with a melee whip and 4 demons flying over my head shooting fire balls
Melee and summoner are my top two. Summoner when im playing modern terraria and then melee when im playing an old version. When i play melee its just swords, i tried out yoyos and flails and spears but none of them were nearly as fun (you actually have to aim and think) And then as summoner you just have a bunch of dudes protecting you while you fish or build or mine or whatever. And whips are basically just a melee weapon with summon damage so hell yeah. Mage and ranger are both in the same boat as yoyos, id rather just hold the attack button and destroy everything than have to actually think lmao. I love being mostly braindead while i play, its what makes terraria so enjoyable for me.
I mean rangers have bows rapid-fire guns shotguns rocket launchers and interesting and different ammo and arrow types. If you want variety it is but yeah we mostly play with rapid-fire chlorophyte bullets so I guess u have a point
Melee: BY FAR the strongest class in the game. It's a super fun and unique class until the mech bosses. After the mech bosses, it basically becomes a stronger version of the mage
Ranged: The easiest class to play in the entire game. The weapons are really similar to each other, you have really good range since the very start of the game. You also have decent defence. The ranged is pretty good at almost everything, especially at crowd control
Mage: In my opinion the weakest class in the game. The more you progress into the game, the weaker you become compared to other classes. The lack of defense and single target DPS makes it pretty weak compared to the other classes.
Summoner: The most skilled class in the game. It's the best class for exploring, building and doing any activity that is not fighting a boss, since the pets can kill everything for you. But against bosses, you have to stay really close to them to deal damage, and against some bosses like the Twins, the Empress and Duke, that can be pretty difficult since you have the defense of a puppy. Also, it's by far the worst class pre-evil bosses, since you have to use the fucking Flinx coat and the Vampire Frog staff (If you are lucky enough to get a blood moon, otherwise you gotta use the Flinx staff 😭🙏)
Overall, my favourite class is the Summoner, but I really enjoy every class in the game (Except for the mage)
Summoner is the best. Sure, it's boring to run around and let the minions do their job, but the true strength of summoner lies in the summon tag damage of whips, which become exponentially stronger with whip stacking. Summoner has the lowest defence out of all classes, but if you take the risk and get up close and personal, use whips stacking to get multiple summon tags on a boss, you would see the health bar get absolutely melted away. High risk, high reward type shit. Summoner will always be my favourite because of the in-depth strategies with different whip synergies with different minions, and the blood-pumping close range combat, which is funnily more "melee" than the melee class. Also, not having to deal with stray mobs while building is always a great bonus
Mage of course. Melee gameplay be like crafting meta projectile based sword and hold lmb to win. You have like 999 armor, accessories to increase your armor even more and NO penalty of using weapons as much time as you want. Basic spam. Typically melee weapon have close range projectile and the flying away one, so you are in safe on any distance and knockback only secures this. Mage more balanced and thus interested to play, it forces to think in some situations, forces to move to pick some mana stars dropped by enemies or stop using weapon to refresh mana points. And the weapons itself have different attack pattern, mana consuming, attack speed and you sometimes cannot use one weapon in the mid air but it is a good to use underground because of walls and projectiles bouncing. Melee class is pretty easy to play, but no fun when you done it few times. You are invulnerable.
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Actually valid list. Playing different melee subclasses was so much fun for me too. Mage and summoner are both fun, but nowhere near melee. Ranger is just meh.
mixed classes with mains?
I recently started a summoner play through and the new whips make it a great class, hard to progress at the start but after brain of cythulu it’s great, reforged all my stuff to warding it armored (defense reforged are insanely op early game even in masters) now I’m a walking tank with a melee whip and 4 demons flying over my head shooting fire balls
the livestream class
Except for true melee and yoyos, melee class is just a mage without mana cost.
We all knew it was gonna be Melee.
Melee and summoner are my top two.
Summoner when im playing modern terraria and then melee when im playing an old version.
When i play melee its just swords, i tried out yoyos and flails and spears but none of them were nearly as fun (you actually have to aim and think)
And then as summoner you just have a bunch of dudes protecting you while you fish or build or mine or whatever. And whips are basically just a melee weapon with summon damage so hell yeah.
Mage and ranger are both in the same boat as yoyos, id rather just hold the attack button and destroy everything than have to actually think lmao.
I love being mostly braindead while i play, its what makes terraria so enjoyable for me.
"Melee is the class where you fight at range via summoning magic projectiles"
Melee+summoner
I mean rangers have bows rapid-fire guns shotguns rocket launchers and interesting and different ammo and arrow types. If you want variety it is but yeah we mostly play with rapid-fire chlorophyte bullets so I guess u have a point
I usually main ranger but i never realized people didnt like it until now. I guess i just kinda stuck with it after really not liking melee in 1.2
Melee: BY FAR the strongest class in the game. It's a super fun and unique class until the mech bosses. After the mech bosses, it basically becomes a stronger version of the mage
Ranged: The easiest class to play in the entire game. The weapons are really similar to each other, you have really good range since the very start of the game. You also have decent defence. The ranged is pretty good at almost everything, especially at crowd control
Mage: In my opinion the weakest class in the game. The more you progress into the game, the weaker you become compared to other classes. The lack of defense and single target DPS makes it pretty weak compared to the other classes.
Summoner: The most skilled class in the game. It's the best class for exploring, building and doing any activity that is not fighting a boss, since the pets can kill everything for you. But against bosses, you have to stay really close to them to deal damage, and against some bosses like the Twins, the Empress and Duke, that can be pretty difficult since you have the defense of a puppy. Also, it's by far the worst class pre-evil bosses, since you have to use the fucking Flinx coat and the Vampire Frog staff (If you are lucky enough to get a blood moon, otherwise you gotta use the Flinx staff 😭🙏)
Overall, my favourite class is the Summoner, but I really enjoy every class in the game (Except for the mage)
Melee is overrated.
I HATE mage. It takes an eternity to craft weapons especially in hard mode for what 20 extra damage?
I say mix and match. Why stick with melee when you could add mage and range for distance dammage and summoner to deal with minions?
Summoner is the best. Sure, it's boring to run around and let the minions do their job, but the true strength of summoner lies in the summon tag damage of whips, which become exponentially stronger with whip stacking. Summoner has the lowest defence out of all classes, but if you take the risk and get up close and personal, use whips stacking to get multiple summon tags on a boss, you would see the health bar get absolutely melted away. High risk, high reward type shit. Summoner will always be my favourite because of the in-depth strategies with different whip synergies with different minions, and the blood-pumping close range combat, which is funnily more "melee" than the melee class. Also, not having to deal with stray mobs while building is always a great bonus
Ranged class is the most fun for me
I love summoner and i think its the most fun of the 4 but the start its diabolical
I don't trust melee mains.
"#1, melee" also known as the only class that has an actual endgame weapon
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Mage of course. Melee gameplay be like crafting meta projectile based sword and hold lmb to win. You have like 999 armor, accessories to increase your armor even more and NO penalty of using weapons as much time as you want. Basic spam. Typically melee weapon have close range projectile and the flying away one, so you are in safe on any distance and knockback only secures this.
Mage more balanced and thus interested to play, it forces to think in some situations, forces to move to pick some mana stars dropped by enemies or stop using weapon to refresh mana points. And the weapons itself have different attack pattern, mana consuming, attack speed and you sometimes cannot use one weapon in the mid air but it is a good to use underground because of walls and projectiles bouncing. Melee class is pretty easy to play, but no fun when you done it few times. You are invulnerable.
melee has: spear, maces, swords, yoyos
ranger has: bows, guns
mages has: staffs, tomes
summoner has: summoning staffs, whips and turrets
Summoner is very fun to me because I really like having little critters zooming across the screen to attack enemies
Mage was the most fun class to play for me
I always underestimated yoyos in terraria until I fight moon lord and empress of light, god how those things does gods work
Id choose choose summoner cuz yknow you get a stand(jojo refenrence lmao) and slav-i mean "friends"
You can have mods for the classes to add more variety
broooo why does everyone hate on summoner😭 im 75 angler quests away from getting all achievements and i have used summoner class for 90+% of them
I have a pure summoner build and its so bad
I do not agree with any of your ratings exact Ranger