Damage-type playstyles
The guide groups weapons into four damage categories with distinct traits, while stating that Terraria has no formal classes and permits off-class equipment.
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Terraria
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weaponStarfury
This pre-Hardmode broadsword summons a damaging star from the sky as its described special effect.
Understand this choiceweaponBlade of Grass
This pre-Hardmode broadsword has a listed 25% chance to inflict the Poisoned debuff on a hit.
Understand this choiceweaponIce Blade
This pre-Hardmode broadsword emits light and shoots an icy bolt, adding a projectile effect to its listed melee weapon function.
Understand this choiceweaponBee Keeper
Bee Keeper summons bee projectiles and has a listed 90% chance to inflict Confused, combining projectile and debuff effects.
Understand this choiceweaponIce Boomerang
This pre-Hardmode boomerang emits light and has a 50% chance to inflict Frostburn, as recorded in the weapon list.
Understand this choiceweaponTrident
The Trident provides unrestricted underwater movement while held, in addition to being listed as a melee spear.
Understand this choiceweaponDark Lance
This pre-Hardmode spear emits light and inflicts Shadowflame, pairing a lighting effect with a named debuff.
Understand this choiceweaponVampire Knives
Vampire Knives fire projectiles that heal the player upon hitting a target, providing a described hit-triggered healing effect.
Understand this choiceBee armor
Bee armor increases summon damage and minion capacity, with a further summon damage increase provided by its full-set bonus.
Understand this choiceObsidian armor
Obsidian armor increases summon damage and minion capacity, while its full set also increases whip range and speed.
Understand this choicearmorJungle armor
Jungle armor supports magic use with damage, critical chance, maximum mana, and a full-set reduction in mana cost.
Understand this choicearmorMeteor armor
Meteor armor boosts magic damage and makes four named weapons cost zero mana with its full-set bonus.
Understand this choiceAccessory slots and combinations
Accessories generally need functional slots to grant effects, cannot be duplicated in equipped slots, and can be combined at the Tinkerer's Workshop.
Understand this choiceAccessory modifiers
Equipped accessories can receive beneficial stat modifiers, including defense, mana capacity, damage, critical chance, movement speed, or melee speed.
Understand this choiceWeapon modifiers
Weapon modifiers alter eligible weapon statistics; which modifiers apply depends on damage type and the statistics that weapon has.
Understand this choiceReferences & guide scope
A source-bounded reference to selected Terraria weapons, armor, accessories, and modifiers. It records effects and restrictions stated in the retrieved passages. Comparative strength, optimal builds, complete coverage, and current patch status are not verified.
- The class setups page identifies itself as under revision; its recommendations are included only as source statements, not verified rankings.
- The cited wiki passages mainly cover Desktop, Console, and Mobile versions; some entries explicitly distinguish Old-gen console and 3DS.
- The retrieved accessories passage contains hidden tables, so accessory-specific effects not visible in its text are omitted.
- Comparative performance, optimal builds, patch status, and complete game-wide equipment coverage are not established by these passages.
Explanations prepared with GPT-6 Luna and checked against the linked references. These are source-reviewed guides. They do not establish independently tested optimal builds or exact upgrade budgets. How coverage works.