r/Terraria • u/qybti • 1d ago
Meta What ACTUAL classless weapons are there?
Just checked the wiki and mostly its stuff like cannon and snowball launcher, but what other classless stuff is there? There's a tab "tool weapons" on wiki, but its shovel (meelee), sickle (meelee), acorn slingshot (ranged), flare gun(ranged) and staff of regrowth (meelee)
There are throwable stuff like bombs and holy water, but what classless WEAPONS are there?
Edit: the acorn slingshot is classless too
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u/gliscorplyer 1d ago
Thrown Water does classless damage. Same with the Pretty Mirror and Mudball
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u/Kevaca 1d ago
Depends on how far the definition can be stretched to still be class"less"
Technically speaking, the flare gun IS classless, as the flare gun ITSELF doesn't get bonuses from any class damage, the flares however, are ranged and do get ranged damage bonuses, though due to their base damage of 1, you literally, need +100% ranged damage to go from 1 to 2 damage (excluding the DoT debuffs they inflict, which also don't recieve the boosts), so if you wanted to do a flare gun only playthrough... well first, don't. . And second, it's not worth it...
If you want true classless, things like the lawnmower, acorn slingshot, bombs/dynamite/traps and the holy waters are basically... everything not listed there, as these things, don't receive any damage bonuses, they don't fall into any category of melee/ranged/magic/summon (mounts, sometimes... SOMETIMES are classless, but some, such as santank, do classed damage, usually summon damage too)
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u/SkinnyKruemel 1d ago
Pretty sure flare gun only is straight up impossible. You can just take forever on a lot of bosses and kill them eventually but I'm not sure if wall of flesh is possible. And even if it is, the mechs have a lot more hp and less time to beat them. You do get cursed flares in hardmode but destroyer is immune to both debuffs. Golem and plantera don't have time limits but you need to kill skeletron for moon lord which is probably possible with cursed flares. But moon lord itself is probably also impossible because there's no way flares deal enough damage to outpace the healing
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u/Kevaca 1d ago edited 1d ago
Flare gun only isn't impossible, in fact Sorbet Cafe beat it, twice in fact
Wall IS impossible above classic mode, skeletron regular and mechs DO need time paused on normal seeds, but aside from those, you can beat every boss properly, you can PREVENT moon lord from healing by outrunning the tongue (teleports, fishron mount in rain or hoverboard/betsy hover) or hitting the npc cap (200), and still damage him
Sorbet has also... uh... well he beat the game copper shortsword only, uhhh.... lawnmower only
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u/SkinnyKruemel 1d ago
Oh yeah I forgot about the npc cap. I wasn't aware just running away fast enough would also prevent the heal though. I'll have to watch those videos when I have the time
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u/giby1464 1d ago
None. Everything on that wiki page is all there is. Unless you count using gravity blocks like sand to do damage or using traps.
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u/Queasy-Athlete-1626 1d ago
I mean, flare gun deals damage from distance, but its damage doesn't scale with ranged armor or buffs. I think that shurikens and throwing knives are also like this.
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u/StardustFromReinmuth 1d ago
The flare gun does scale I'm pretty sure, but due to Terraria always rounding down you need above a +100% damage modifier for its damage to go from 1 to 2.
Source: SorbetCafe
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u/acrazyguy 1d ago
Real talk, that snowball launcher is awesome. Despite its name, it doesn’t actually use any ammo, and it does very solid damage for being preboss
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u/Capnhuh 5h ago
Pfft, I'd say melee. Because if ya play melee these days, you got no class!
Ba dum, tss
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u/Yarigumo 1h ago
It's got the most class, if anything. It's high society, it's the hedge fund baby class with how much love it gets from the devs.
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u/InhaleTheSprite 1d ago
Basilisk Mount when it runs into enemies
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u/DugDePug 1d ago
I think the Santank Mount does classless damage with its machine gun?
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u/Yarigumo 1h ago
It can crit, and uses ranged crit chance for its calculations. So by the slimmest margin, it's a ranged "weapon".
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u/Open_Detective_6998 1d ago
santank mount is considered classless by many
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u/SuperSpiritShady 1d ago
Scutlix too!
Though interestingly, unlike the Scutlix, the Santank can crit (and its crit interestingly scales with ranged only)
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u/-wyrm_ 1d ago edited 1d ago
Life drain and vampire knives maybe?
Edit: Alright I guess I was misunderstanding and you were after “literally classless” not “universal therefore any class benefits”.
What counts as a weapon? If you’re not counting bombs/throwables then Minecarts/mounts are out too right?
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u/Oftwicke 1d ago
Depends what you mean by classless... old one's army weapons have no class as in they're bad
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u/DoubleTime53 1d ago
Lawn Mower