Is this the most overrated weapon in Terraria?

[Music] certain terraria weapons have become well known in the community having unusual or overpowered attributes today we're going to be looking at a weapon that's had a history of being recognized one of the most powerful in the game despite receiving a bombardment of nafts in its lifespan of course i'm talking about the vampire knives the vampire knives are a pre-plantera miller weapon exclusive to the crimson biome their claim to fame comes from the fact they are one of two weapons in the game to give true lifesteal this led to some pretty busted set up throughout its time which could pretty much make the user invincible in some scenarios before we delve further into this though let's see how you obtain them as mentioned the vampire knives are a crimson exclusive weapon however they're not particularly straightforward to obtain requiring a crimson key to open the crimson chest in the dungeon this has a chance of dropping from almost every enemy in the game providing that your character stood in a crimson iron although this sounds easy you have to remember that cripplingly low drop rate of one in 2500 so farming for it manually like this can be extremely time consuming unless you're me who somehow had it drop in 20 minutes hmm on average this usually takes much longer so if you're struggling you can easily shorten the grind with a decent mob farm one way of doing this is by building a bunch of rows of crimstone in your farm for the crimson enemies to spawn on however i would actually not recommend this method as the hardwood crimson hermes can actually be very difficult to handle in this quantity luckily there is a way around this as the game only checks to see what buying the character is stood in rather than the enemy you can simply make a crimson buyer by placing enough blocks but build the platforms out of non-crimson tiles this will spawn a bunch of weaker cavern enemies but still give them a chance to drop the key oh and if you want to see a full tutorial on how i built this farm check out my banner farm video in very little time thanks to the spawn rate of this farm i had a crimson key drop from a cavern enemy this is a fantastic whim to farm any key in the game actually as you can just simply swap out the tiles for any biome you need anyway that's enough about biomes it's time we delved into the critically acclaimed vampire knives for starters these things deal a pretty average dps for post plantera which is a result of its crippling base damage nerf it received way back in a 1.2 patch its multi-target damage isn't particularly anything to shout about either however it's still far from terrible the true nature of this weapon's functionality can't really be determined in dummy dps tests so let's see how it does against some real enemies against a large group of mummies it does alright but of course the main thing we should be looking at here is the lifesteal despite the other massive hit this took in a nerf keeping it at two hertz per second i'd say it's still stealing a respectable amount of health back against the hallowed mimic and actually say it shows off more of its strengths suggesting that it excels in single target combat the life steal felt much stronger due to the increased damage i was dealing to the mimic and i actually managed to kill it pretty quickly because of this success i wanted to see how it would do against a single target boss like the good old duke keeping in mind that some people may look at fighting duke at this stage of the game the vampire knights really shined brightly here they were easy to aim due to the high projectile speed yield a ton of damage assuming all the knives hit and the life steal was better than ever after a pretty easy fight duke was down this made me realize just whereabouts as a vampire knight stood today as a weapon for one or two postpone terror bosses i'd personally not use these on regular enemies or events as the damage just isn't that great on crowds there are plenty more other options out there at this stage of the game for that job now if we're talking about the pre-nerf armpi knives of the olden days i'd 100 say they're worth it as the uncapped life steal was just insane plus the damage was considerably higher but i'd say now in terraria 1.4 they're um a little overrated as their previous repetition hasn't seemed to have rubbed off but its performance definitely has what do you think do the vampire knives still deserve their praise or have they lost their touch thanks for watching for more terraria content like this drop a like and subscribe and i'll see you in the next one [Music]

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Id: mlrHkyoc6CI

Length: 4min 14sec (254 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 29 2022