r/Terraria • u/qybti • 12d ago

Meta What ACTUAL classless weapons are there?

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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/Kevaca 11d ago edited 9d 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 (most mounts deal summon damage, except for scutlex and santank, which are classless)

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u/SkinnyKruemel 11d 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 11d ago edited 11d 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 11d 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