Whats the best Armor, Weapons and Gear?

[Exstrum]

i am just wondering whats the best so i can achieve it, and make it my goal on Terarria.

[Ash]

Depends what build you're going for. If you want to be a melee machine that dishes out damage like no tomorrow, Solar Armour is defintely best so you have the best protection and basically all the end game melee weapons. As for acceosries, depends how you want to go. Do you want to be tanky? Equip things to increase your defence. Do you want to obliterate everything you can see? Equip things to increase damage.

For Mages it's Nebula Armour, Stardust is for Summoners and I would consider Vortex the best for ranged, but that's debatable.

[Exstrum]

I want Tanky armor with good invetory gear and weapons

[Mavok]

The Stardust armor is the best it is like 74 ish defense, The stardust weapons/tools are the pickaxe, hamaxe, the stardust dragon <----(Summon Thing) and meowmere. The Stardust stuff is for if you want to be the necromancer/summoner so you should get the summoning accesories. The second best is the solar gear (I think) Btw you get the stardust stuff from killing the three tower things which are the final bosses.

[Ash]

Solar Armour, acceossries to increase defence and all the end game melee weapons. Solar gives a shield.

[Mavok]

Sorry if im wrong tho

[Mavok]

Yeah solar is better srry

[Baron von Dapper]

Originally posted by IAmCursed:

Yeah solar is better srry

That is debatable, many people have differant playstyles, vortex is personally my favorite.

[Baron von Dapper]

Wait a minute now. You have 80 hours of playtime i got my complete collection of armour at 700ish.
Are you one of those weaklings that relies on op friends?

[Ninjathis]

There are 4 'best armors' in the game currently, depending on what class you like the most.
For taking and dealing damage, Solar Armor is the best.
For hiding in the shadows, sniping enemies dealing massive amounts of damage, Vortex is king.
For your ultimate wizardry needs, Nebula is the Ultimate, providing buffs for you and allies.
For commanding an army, Stardust is godly.

For weapons, it once again, depends on what class you pick.
Melee: Terrarian, Star's Wrath, Solar Eruption.
Ranged: Sniper Rifle, S.D.M.G., Phantasm.
Magic: Last Prism, Nebula Blaze(?), and the other Nebula one.
Summoner: Stardust Cell, Stardust Dragon.

In the matter of gear, not much to be said. Lunar Hook is pretty awesome, as is the UFO or Fishron Mount. Cell Phone is pretty good. Money Trough is basically a second inventory, so you could technically switch classes pretty easily. Same for Safe, for a 3rd.

Accessories vary GREATLY between classes, but for a general rule, if it's harder to make or get, it's normally better.
Fire Guantlet is good for melee, Sniper Scope for ranged, Celestial Emblem for magic, and the Necromantic Scroll for summoners.

Other awesome accessories no matter what class you pick are the Celestial Shell, Solar/Vortex Wings(I prefer Vortex, for horizontal speed.), and maybe even an Ankh Shield, if you're that kind of person.

[Tempo]

I too would recommend a solar loadout, and for all practical puropses, this is what I most commonly use. This is my personal prefrence.

Armor:
Solar Flare Helmet
Solar Flare Breastplate
Solar Flare Leggings

Accessories:
Warding Worm Scarf OR Wings
Warding Celestial Shell
Warding Flesh Knuckles
Warding Ankh Shield
Warding Paladin's Shield
Warding Frozen Turtle Shell for Expert Mode

Mounts:
DCU
Cosmic Car Key

Weapons:
Legendary Star Wrath(Primary)
Legendary Fetid Baghnakhs(Optional)
Godly Vampire Knives(Health Source)
Godly Solar Eruption (Wallbang)

Mind you this is tank-centered, you will be able to take massive amounts of damage, easily. Seeing as how you will have 131-135 defense, plus the damage reduction.

P.S.
Potions:
Rage Potion(Damage)
Lifeforce Potion(More Health)
Inferno Potion(Force-Field)
Ironskin Potion(Defense)

-Best Of Luck

[Ninjathis]

Duck, I have a question about your loadout.

How in the world did you manage to get a prefix on your armor?

[Tempo]

I traded someone who hacked it in. Its pretty cool, though you could try it, at your own risk. For scale, I paid 20 Platinum for it.

[DoctorHeavy]

Originally posted by Lets Get Straight To The Nudes:

Solar Armour, acceossries to increase defence and all the end game melee weapons. Solar gives a shield.

Not sure is Solar. Remember that it depends on what are you looking for. I prefer Stardust, I love summonning. Sitting and not doing anything while your Rainbow Crystal and 11 Pieces dragon does everything is awesome.

[Tempo]

Very True, Though I personally run both portal, frost hydra, and crystal. Though I'm curious, as far as quantitative minions go, what do you prefer? (Cell, Sphere, Ufo)

[0xrooksby]

Note that Solar Armour's Shield set bonus isn't permanent, it's a 3-layer 30% damage reduction that reduces by 10% on each successive hit on you. So you probably won't feel the first two or three hits but a ton of defense doesn't mean you shouldn't make an effort to dodge whatever's coming at you.