Just How Strong is an ENDGAME Guide NPC? A Terraria Experiment

hello friend as you know NPC since Herrera can fight for you but they're usually not that great at it in fact they are pretty horrible in general but with some exceptions of course however did you know that NPCs gain defense and attack damage when you defeat bosses for example beating the Eye of Cthulhu in your world boosts their defense by 3 and gives them 10 more attack power beating Plantera gives them 15 percent more attack power and 8 defense so they can't be quite a bit beefier as the game progresses not only that Terraria 1.4 also added brand new items that can permanently buff your NPCs for example the advanced combat techniques volume 1 is fished up during blood moons and gives a whopping permanent 20 attack boost to NPCs along with 6 defense the latest 1.4.4 update added even more above items such as the advanced combat techniques Volume 2 which pretty much just does the same thing volume 2 is obtained by throwing a spell tome into the Shimmer so it's pretty much just free as well with all these Buffs I'm here to answer the age-old question how strong is the guide being the very first NPC we meet is he a complete loser well probably or is he strong enough to solo the moon Lord let's experiment and find out the very first test will be the guide at the beginning of the game versus classic Mode King Slime I'm using King Slime as the test subject because he doesn't despawn I'm not that confident that Cole here can do it anyway so I'm also not using expert mode because expert slimes get buffed at different phases of the game and this includes the one spawned by King Slime so to ensure consistency normal mode it is editing Zuzu will put the total stat bonuses on screen so you know what's going on I've also helpfully built this Arena where the boss and the guy can fight to the death you do your best call you've got all these viewers betting their money on not you so prove them wrong beginning with zero bonuses and zero boost to Stats goal guide kill em oh no no no that's not what I want okay maybe I should have thought this through a little more there this is foolproof summon the Challenger summoned the Beast now fight to the death [Music] [Music] foreign oh my what a cheeky Fallen star we have there [Music] foreign stopping the timer but not like it matters he managed to score a lucky Fallen star over there which pretty much did half of the king slime's health well even with that he took more than 20 minutes to kill him so if we extrapolate I'd say it would take him over 40 minutes to kill King's slime with zero bonuses in fact he almost died a couple of times so maybe he wouldn't even have done it so let's move on there's no way I'm going to repeat this for every single boss defeated so let's just go with every single pre-hard mode boss and let's see how that goes [Music] okay so that makes the guy 40 stronger with an extra 12 defense so let's see how long the guy takes now foreign [Music] foreign [Music] so that was a total of 33 minutes 46 seconds or so so it's clear right now that at this point in the game the kite is pretty bad taking more than 30 minutes to kill a pile of gel is just horrible it's no wonder he couldn't save his brother next up let's have a look at what happens in hard mode the moment you enter hard mode NPCs receive a 40 damage buff and 12 extra defense they also change weapons to a hard mode version for our beloved guide though he changes from a wooden bow to a wooden bow how anticlimactic well at least he starts to use flaming arrows Let The Duel begin also if you're wondering where the arena went it's cause I forgot to take a reading right after hard mode so here's a different world I'm sure this does skew the results a little but whatever I'm no scientist thank you [Music] oh my what a huge difference he started doing damage more in the 30s range compared to the measly 2 damage at the start of the game so that's a significant Improvement in timing so let's move on to the next test for this one I imagine someone who is pretty much well into hard mode so I'll be tackling the hard mode bosses until golden so let's go [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] that gave him an additional 90 boost to his attack power and 40 more defense he should be pretty strong by now the problem now is getting the guy to respawn it's a Pity that we needed to burn him alive to progress the world you know having built nothing on this wall I guess I'll just take the Lazy Man's approach and use Sky Island and we have the merchant who has spawned in hello have you seen the guide he disappeared mysteriously after taking a warm bath what you haven't seen him here take a warm bath maybe you'll find him okay so we got another Merchant that's unfortunate well goodbye the defense Buffs are really working against me huh okay your third Merchant I'm starting to think that the merchant has a priority to spawn so that's pretty annoying okay here's a second Sky Island come on Mr guy the nice home for you ugh you I guess NPCs do have spawn priorities this experiment isn't completely meaningless then how disappointing though the lazy men's approach just doesn't work hopefully this is enough huzzah welcome back dear Challenger Mr Trent let the games begin [Music] okay that's a pretty significant Improvement once again he's doing high 30s now and he barely takes any damage that took him 4 minutes and 16 seconds give or take a couple of seconds because I wasn't paying attention good on you Trent you're getting decently strong let's head on to the final frontier with all bosses defeated and I've realized that you don't need to kill the pillars or the moon lot for this because they don't give any stat boosts the Empress of light will give us a boost here hello boys I'm back yes worship me more as a thanks for your kind devotion I shall bring you a swift death okay bye my my my looks like we have an Invader in our Colosseum you like warm baths okay wow the defense boost is really working against me now begin the final trial an end game guide NPC against King Slime okay I don't like this for some reason he's over on that side I think that's too much of an anomaly so let me just restart the experiment go get over there you idiot hurry it up let the games begin for real this time [Music] wonderful that's just shy of four minutes so there we go an end game guide can Speed Run King Slime in 4 minutes with the total of wait just kidding I forgot about the two buffing tomes Advanced combat techniques volume 1 and 2 which provide 20 boost to attack power each so this is the final test a fully buffed guide against King Slime [Music] there you have it everyone about 3 minutes and 45 seconds for a maxed out guide to solo King's line having done these experiments I can safely conclude once and for all my hypothesis therefore the guide he sucks he's pretty bad at the start of the game and he's just a little less bad at the end overall he sucks he's still pretty bad if you enjoyed the video make sure to 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Channel: Zuzucorn

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Id: wErKUfQg49c

Length: 12min 49sec (769 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 27 2023