Vampire Knives?

[Log]

im confused. Everybody loves vampire knives. Why?

I tried using it and it was awful. It does little damage, and the lifesteal everyone loves is terrible. it only heals 1 hp per hit, and you have to be super accurate with them because they have short range. also, it seems like when using it in close combat, i lose more hp than i gain hp from it.

am i not understanding something? somebody clear this up for me. is it really a good weapon???

[﴾Λ͟rtificial﴿]

Life steal is the only reason they are great. Sure its not what they used to be, But they can still regen your entire health bar.

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[King Narwhal]

In Normal mode, the regen effect is a lot stronger, and the enemies are easier, making it a suitable weapon. In Expert, they barely heal at all and have terrible damage, making them suck.

Long story short: Great in Normal, terrible in Expert.

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except in the solar illar with the centipede things

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solar pillar oops

[﴾Λ͟rtificial﴿]

Originally posted by Captain Narwhal:

In Normal mode, the regen effect is a lot stronger, and the enemies are easier, making it a suitable weapon. In Expert, they barely heal at all and have terrible damage, making them suck.

Long story short: Great in Normal, terrible in Expert.

Lesser the damage, better the healing. Thats why it's important to try and get them with a broken reforge. Saying this becouse they are NOT a suitable weapon for any league.

[Tymon]

I personally find they're just fine in both expert and normal. Even if the healing is 'small' the fact still is, it's the ONLY way to heal outside of heart drops or potions while actually IN combat unless you have the spectre set, but for every other scenario... So if your potions are on cooldown and RNGesus hates you and no hearts are dropping it can easily mean the difference between life and death.

[Log]

Originally posted by DA_SMALL_KITTEH:

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little kids... ugh. I should have an age limit for this nyan cat fanboy

[Log]

Originally posted by Tymon:

I personally find they're just fine in both expert and normal. Even if the healing is 'small' the fact still is, it's the ONLY way to heal outside of heart drops or potions while actually IN combat unless you have the spectre set, but for every other scenario... So if your potions are on cooldown and RNGesus hates you and no hearts are dropping it can easily mean the difference between life and death.

life drain.

oh wait, that sucks too

[Ruinae Retroque Rursus]

Originally posted by xXCrypticNightXx:

Lesser the damage, better the healing. Thats why it's important to try and get them with a broken reforge. Saying this becouse they are NOT a suitable weapon for any league.

What? IIRC the healing is either constant and happens every time you hit or it goes up as damage goes up. :S

Vamp Knives are great for just screwing around. However, they lack the precision to take down bosses (as the Cultist and DF have too small hitboxes to be useful & DF flies too fast), they lack the DPS to do events such as the Pumpkin Moon / Frost Moon...

... but where they're good at is in non-timed events when you don't want to die (though usually higher-damage weapons will finish the event quicker, meaning you have less time in which you can die) - Pirates, though post-Plantera pirates aren't a problem.

They also lack the DPS for the Celestial Pillars....

[Edward Von Worms]

Originally posted by Captain Narwhal:

In Normal mode, the regen effect is a lot stronger, and the enemies are easier, making it a suitable weapon. In Expert, they barely heal at all and have terrible damage, making them suck.

Long story short: Great in Normal, terrible in Expert.

this guy