When i was thinking about lightning themed weapons i got an idea on how to improve the Nimbus Rod. It's useful and one of my favorite weapons, but it could be better. And i love weird, interesting, non typical crafting recipes.
So, imagine this. You have to use an empty bottle and 5 souls of light to create an enchanted bottle. And you'd craft it at the magic orb purchased from the Wizard. Then you must wait for a lightning storm to happen. When It does simply go outside and let the lightning hit you while you have the enchanted bottle in your inventory. That way you get Lightning In A Bottle.
You use that and a Nimbus Rod to craft Thunder Rod (it can be called something else, this is just from the top of my head). This new weapon is a little wider so It covers more ground, not only does it still release rain that damages just like the Nimbus Rod, but it also shoots out damaging lightning strikes. I can't decide between if we should be able to summon 2 of them just like Nimbus or maybe upgrade to 3. It might be too strong. Also i can't remember the exact damage Nimbus does, but this would do 30 more than whatever Nimbus does.
And if Relogic ever decides to expand the sky biome and floating islands which It should in my opinion, it would be a great opportunity to add new sky themed enemies and some new hypothetical lightning/thunder themed weapons including this Thunder Rod.
IF ANYONE FROM RELOGIC IS READING THIS BY ANY CHANCE: Please feel free to take this idea, I'd be more than happy to give it to you. Please just take it, i wanna see this.
What do you guys think?
by Rinma96
2 Comments
I think it’s pretty good as is. It’s not supposed to be a game breaking weapon completely on its own, just a nice help with anything you’re doing. Stacking it with the clinger staff is already super strong for pre-mech, let alone with summons, sentries, and eventually the rainbow gun and magnet sphere. That 1 side is not an issue anymore unless they run out or a boss comes in. The only way I’d say that’d work would be if you basically remove the rain part and can only summon one. Just a large dark cloud that either makes a long going lightning strike at a semi-slow but consistent rate, or quick single piercing strikes that happen a bit faster, but isn’t guaranteed to strike perfectly because of its size and 3 blocks of striking space. But it also has a bit of splash damage, so it’s pretty easy to hit enemies with something, even if not as much.
I definitely agree we need more ways to use thunder/lightning as weaponry. It’s my favourite element, but the only weapons I can even think of that are themed around it are the thunder zapper (lol) and the magnet sphere. Neither of which really feel like you’re harnessing lightning.