The Roller Skates are kinda broken… | Terraria 1.4.5

Terraria added these for the 1.4.5 update, at the moment of uploading they have yet to receive a major nerf, and I want to propose some way the current state of them can stay in the game without being too OP.
This was uploaded during 1.4.5.5 and started production the day after the update was first released, so some information could be incorrect at time of uploading and especially later on as I hope these do get some for of patch.

Music Used in this video:
-Moonsetter (from Homestuck)
-IQ Ball Theme (from IQ Ball)
-The Dreamyard (from Pokemon Black)
-Hate You (from Homestuck)
-MF DOOM Rapp Snitch Knishes but with the DKC2 Soundfont (by fxsnowy on Bandcamp and YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4raml2oJHzk&list=PL3Mx-yJKUU0uHa2D4XtJSz1Zgr_xNF0Z8&index=9
-9 p.m. (~Rainy Weather~) (from Animal Crossing New Horizon)
-Professor Frankly’s Theme (from Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door)
-Vodka Mutiny (from Homestuck)
-Outro Music (Commisioned) https://youtu.be/VOzDmDRwldE?si=gMJVsYCR0aOjyprz
If you like some of the music you heard in the video, please go check them out. fxsnowy has a Bandcamp you can get their music of and you can find practically all of the Homestuck soundtrack on Bandcamp as well!

31 Comments

  1. I think the skates should have the effects of the boots, so when you first get them, it may move at like 25 or something, and they get better with the other boots, because it's affected by the other buffs, like walking on water and the lava resistance, so why not just make it pretty much dependant on the boots to even things out

  2. i still think they arent broken i think they are a really cool item that allows for new and interesting strategies and usecases for all players and to note with the boots technically the frog boots are better than terraspark so uh yea.

  3. it would be funny if somewhere in the terraspark boots recipe the rollerblades were jammed in there and absorb some of its grounded and aerial acceleration.
    and when wearing boots that were crafted with rollerblades you could toggle on and off the parts of the rollerblades effects up by the hotbar lock and torch god and wire visibility toggles! (or maybe just one big toggle) for the gliding and the minecart tracks stuff.

  4. Melee absurd buff and Mages having the worst support in the update: ahhhh so sweet

    Terrarian having fun with a decent mount and being able to dodge bosses in pre-hardmode: hello, human resources?

  5. Boots shouldn't be buffed and skates shouldn't be nerfed.

    It sucks having to lose an accessory slot and lose interesting builds. You can't balance a game between having boots and not, just like wings and not. That is why mounts exist to fix the issue Wings and boots create especially on bosses designed before their implementation.

    If boots and wings are an mandatory balance everything around them, give us boot and wing slots instead of… well the mess we have now.

  6. For those who didn't reached hardmode with them.

    Wings work with rollers, so you have great mobility AND good flight.

    Your welcome xD

    (No, the rollers will never be beter then the trout, no arguments allowed >:-) )

  7. I actually dislike the roller skates, they were cool at first, but they are way too fast off the line. So If i'm trying to carefully maneuver around a cave or navigate my house, i almost always fly past the NPC or missed the platform I was trying to drop down into. For bosses and overall surface world traveling they're okay, but for actual movement they kind of suck. But that's just my opinion.

  8. Before I started using the roller skates for boss fights I thought "it shouldn't be that good"
    And then I used it all the way to plantera and golem without wings and only a bundle of balloons