Terraria 1.4.4 changes EVERYTHING for Melee!

with the release of Terraria 1.4.4 Everything Has Changed For melee now I'm sure most of you have seen the true Excalibur and the weapons released in the spoilers but there's much more that has changed with this class now as I'm sure most of you know the swords especially in priyard mode were fairly underwhelming they'd all function more or less the same you just have that big swing and you deal some damage and knock back and there's not a whole lot extra going on but as of the labor of love update these weapons get a lot more to them for instance the lights Bane now is this really cool slash attack so in addition to the normal melee hits you can use this to keep your enemies back and and deal more damage and it's really really cool the blood butcher has also received some pretty cool changes so now when you hit an enemy it applies this bleed effects now this is a damage over time effect that will actually stack so the more times you hit the enemy the more damage is damage over time effect will do and ultimately it will cap out at 20 damage over time which is pretty significant um especially when you compare the this time which damage it was doing before probably about 60 DPS when you have this extra 20 damage linked in there that's pretty huge so big buff for this weapon but we're really just scratching the surface with these weapons so one of my favorites here is the blade of grass which now is this really really cool projectile that will spin around it shoots a little like Leaf of some sort projectile and it'll spin around your character in The whichever direction you're swinging and uh yeah deal some extra bonus damage really really cool and as you can see there's also a debuff being applied here uh this is just poison it's a lot better because poison as a whole has been buffed as of 1.4.4 you're going to be doing a lot of extra damage from this effect and of course the mirror Maza also receives a new effect when you hit an enemy blue slashes will appear to cut the Target now as you've probably guessed the base damage on these weapons have been toned down just a bit to account for these extra effects so I'm going to be doing some side by side DPS tests from both 1.4.3 and 1.4.4 later on the video to see what all has been buffed and maybe what's been actually nerfed as a result of these changes now the volcano might be my favorite change from all of these it's super super fun to use no they did not add a new weapon this is just a new name for the fiery greatsword and uh it is pretty crazy as you can see when you hit an enemy there's a little explosion that happens deals a bunch of knockback a bunch of extra damage and it's just super satisfying to use uh I'll probably actually end up getting this thing if I ever do like a proper melee playthrough I I definitely will give this a go because it's just so so fun to use all right so let's get to the harder mode side of things and this is where things get pretty exciting so I'm sure you've all seen the true Excalibur change um but the normal Excalibur here of course has also changed and uh yeah I mean crowd control just the name of the game here it's uh significantly better covers way more space you can deal with enemies way easier uh so that is a big change there and then of course the true Excalibur I mean yeah same idea just a little stronger and very very fun to use now this new version of the true Knight's Edge trades a little bit of range and damage for way way better crowd control capabilities again swinging around your character nothing's really getting to you nothing will hit you and these projectiles will uh yeah they're just very good at keeping things off of you so super fun to use here again and of course we have the Terra Blade which is I mean this one it just they all look so cool they look so awesome it's it's insane um now in terms of damage I believe this is actually a little lower than what the Terra Blade would be in uh 1.4.3 and and before that but again we'll be doing some tests later on to double check and confirm that but it seems to be doing a little bit less damage um but it's again the crowd control here is just insane and finally we have the Horseman's blade which seems to be about the same besides just that new cool melee effect now I might have missed a weapon let me know if I did and let me know what you guys think about the uh cool new changes to these swords now to save us some time I won't be going over everything but in general most of these changes have increased the damage output of these weapons now there are a few exceptions and I'll get to those in a moment now two of the biggest Buffs in my opinion were the volcano because you get that massive explosion and just way more DPS from this versus the fiery great sword of course back in the old update and the mirror Maza isn't like crazy now uh by comparison it does 150 damage instead of 100 against Skeletron so big increase there and Excalibur also sees like an extra 100 DPS through this this update now the rest see a slight increases especially with the debuffs and everything they definitely help out but they're nothing like insane they're not gonna just break the game or anything unfortunately we do see some weapons that actually get a Nerf to damage now those are mainly the true weapons they'll get a slight Nerf to damage except for Terra Blade which kind of takes a big hit but in exchange they get huge crowd control capabilities it's almost unfair to test these weapons against a single Target because they are now they're meant to keep enemies away and keep things off of you and they do such a great job of that and they still deal quite a bit of damage so while yes the damage that you're seeing there is a little lower you'll be able to deal with enemies so so much easier and because the projectiles are way wider you'll probably be hitting things a little more often now while not every sword got a cool new effect like this there's a very big change that has happened to the melee class and that is that all Broad Sword class melee weapons now use local immunity frames on hit sometimes in the older updates when you would swing your sword at a point blank range sometimes the projectiles they just kind of get eaten up and they wouldn't actually hit you might be familiar with this idea when using summons in addition to whatever else you're using some attacks just won't go through well now uh with this new update that's not really a problem anymore additionally pretty much across the board just loads of melee weapons have seen Buffs to damage melee speed and knockback but it's not just the swords a few Spears have also been updated you'll see the rotted Fork now as this little little effect to it kind of similar to starlight's aesthetic and of course dark lands which you'll know if you saw the spoilers now it deals Shadow flame debuff so that's pretty neat uh I've been buffed sort of not really it just kind of the cool effects which is cool it seems to add a little bit of extra range as well um but beyond that it uh it's still pretty bad lails have also been buffed so knockback has been increased a little bit uh which is always handy and the spinning flails now actually get four times rather than three so you get a little bit of extra damage uh from those there so huge changes to the melee class and I'm at this point pretty interested in maybe giving it a dedicated let's play so if you guys would like to see a Let's Play Return to the channel uh maybe we can do a melee thing and kind of focus on all the new changes all the new swords and really get a feel for them in practice maybe we'll we'll go on Master mode and maybe play on a certain seed or something to spice things up but we'll see let me know comments if you would like to see that but that's all I have for you guys today thank you for watching subscribe if you enjoyed and I'll see you guys next time peace

Channel: Gungnir

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Length: 7min 20sec (440 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 29 2022