Possibly the strangest weapon in all of Terraria...

lately we've looked at our fair share of strange Terraria weapons including some that I comically bad like the Golems Fist and some that are potentially boss breaking like the Nimbus Rod today is no different with us finally looking at an extremely unique and I think utterly trash St weapon that I reckon hardly anyone uses of course I'm talking about the one and only proximity mind launcher aside from its lame title on the surface this sounds just like another launcher to add to the already underwhelming pool but somehow this managed to take the subclass an inch Fair into the disappointing depths of relevancy but you know who am I to say maybe it'll surprise me today and completely change my mind before we jump into it though just want to drop a quick reminder that there is only a few days left of one of the biggest sell ever at the Terraria shop with amazing merch like this going for up to 40% off which by using Code soccer checkout can also stack with an additional 15% off so go grab yourself an awesome deal before it's too late right without out way let's see how you get this thing before anything else you going want to make sure ponter has been defeated on your weld before you obtain this thing which of course first requires you to venture into your jungle and find a planta bulb once you've done that as per make yourself a nice big old arena and when you're ready crack open that bulb and begin the fight now assuming you are playing ranged for this playthrough something as simple as the uzio mega Shack will do the trick being able to take her down in a jiffy and with that the proc m launcher is now fully available not from her treasure bag though but in fact from the cyborg MPC which assuming you have a vacant room should move in ASAP with the launcher costing 35 gold from his base stock and while you're there don't forget to purchase a bunch of rockets despite converting them into mines once fired this is its primary ammunition right let's see just what it can do as mentioned despite the fact the proximity mine launcher has mine in the title it takes the exact same ammunition as the regular rocket launcher including everything from cluster Rockets mini nukes and even liquid Rockets with this in mind however I'm going to be sticking with the regular rocket BS for now which do be warned can deal Splash damage to the player now DPS wise direct hits with this thing are underwhelming to say the least of explosive Alternatives like the Jackal Lantern launcher and nail gun absolutely demolishing it in single Target DPS however what makes the Mind launcher so unique is this isn't the optimal way to use it you see when a mine is fired on a solid tile it won't explode on contact but sit there similar to the landmine consumable now if an enemy organically walks into this stationary mine it will deal a whopping three times the damage which can kind of be seen here against myself thanks to the mines exploding automatically after some time with this in mind though if you were to upgrade the Rockets to say mini n 2s even without the stationary damage bonus that did find its multi-target DPS to finally surpass The Jackal Lantern launcher and almost matched the nail gun so I mean the question now is just how much further can we push this thing against the real thing and you know after seeing the previous results I was actually quite excited for this but I don't know man the practicalness of placing down Minds preemptively before a fight and having a neat line of mimic walk into it just wasn't cutting it for me and even though the damage is insane I could have very easily taken out the normal way with another launcher and this now moves you on to the floors of more mobile enemies you see these bi mimics just quite simply Flew Over the dam things requiring me to purposely Glide the mimics into the minds which although did Kill once again could have been dealt with quicker using regular weapons it's a weird one and so moving on to something which I'm fairly certain won't help the reputation of this weapon we have bosses very quickly it was evident that this was not the weapon for this job when my efforts of lacing the arena in Minds before the fight becoming completely pointless when Golem's hit box is higher than them and as seen from the DPS test earlier using it as a regular rocket type weapon just doesn't deal enough so I very quickly moved onto my jaal Lantern launcher to get the job done so with this in mind I don't even know why I bothered trying it against cultist as expected it just wasn't designed for such fight so I think it's only fair that now move on to swing a little more in its comfort zone against events and invasions and you know against the very early waves of the frost Moon it definitely helped me out with the minion wiping at any low HP gring them is that walking my way and to be honest even again some of the earen mini bosses like the other screams and was able to take them down hilariously quickly due to that three times damage multiplier but even with this very quickly you'll be overwhelmed by the demands of the event forcing you to switch to something else and yes while you could definitely use it as a secondary support weapon it's just not something I could personally quickly switch to switch back and forget about as the rate at which it deploys the mines is just way too slow making you vulnerable for this time so I mean if only there was an event in Terraria that gave you this time to set up before a wave oh oh wait a minute the Old One's Army exists genuinely this might be the only win-win scenario for this weapon essentially making it function like another explosive trap that doesn't cost Essence to place down what you need to do is in that 15 or so seconds you get between waves place down as many Minds as possible in the middle of your platform and with another strong primary weapon during the wave you'll absolutely toast through the tier three Old One's Army no problem even managing to decimate the mini bosses with only a few mines on each side and before I knew it I was on the Betsy fight which I was weirdly able to deal a ton of early damage to due to her flying through all my mind interesting so what have we learned about this thing today well if you want to add an extra Old One's Army trap for essentially no cost there is no reason not to get this thing but and a big but I truly think that this might be one of the most useless weapons for regular play even against the moon invasions it just doesn't Place enough of their minds down quick enough and I mean against bosses unless you do some strategic placing it's out the question this has been criz and I'll see you in the next one

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Length: 6min 2sec (362 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 29 2023