Rocket boots vs cloud bottle

[Kepler_22]

The cloud in a bottle is good for instant mobility in a pinch, and seems to be better at dodging large attacks,

The rocket boots are useful for gaining extra height in a jump, however if you can't instantly notice something is heading your way you will get hit by it (i.e skeletron's skulls)

On the other hand,

The cloud in a bottle fuses with the balloon, which by itself isnt extremely useful so you won't be using it. However when fused the mobility gained is incredible for dodging even big things like queen bee charges.

However,
the rocket boots can fuse with the hermes boots, which you will be or are using. this is far better in terms of saving accessory slots since it more-so *adds on* to the hermes boots.


Both crafting trees are not very good. The terrasparks allow for lava immunity and fast running speed but usually if you have a fast wing or hoverboard or mount you can just ignore the boots. Even for lava clearing you just throw bombs and flush the lava out to somewhere else.

The horseshoe balloon is outshadowed by wings in most respects. Wings may not have "Millisecond" jump gains but by that point you will be spending more time in the air dodging things then on the ground dodging things,

And the bundle of balloons can't even be crafted in most worlds since it requires 2 quite rare things: A pyramid with a Sandstorm bottle, and 3 floating islands all containing balloons.






Although personally, there is one accessory that combines both traits, high running speed and instant jump height:

The amphibian boots destroy the entire debate since you get all the benefits of the spectre boots (fast speed and allowing more slots to be used) with the instant jump of the cloud in a bottle, or in this case the frog leg.

It may require a bit of fishing but that isn't insanely difficult. You can get a rod for practically free after you beat the Eye or even earlier if you use some iron/lead, and at least one wooden chest has a can of worms, and you can always find more in background objects.

[Auric Carnage]

If your intent is to inform, go update the wiki; Better yet, not.

Fledgling wings, spectre boots, almost any hook.

Hook let's you quickly move all by itself when you need to dodge.

Fledgling wings prevent fall damage and provide a modest jump boost.

Spectre boots give you flight and acceleration.

Bonus: It's more aesthetically pleasing too.

[Polaris]

You can fish in sky lakes for red balloons :)


By yeah, my world had a sandstorm in a bottle, and I was able to make a bundle of balloons, and terraspatk boots, I prefer the Terra spark boots personally, I also found a set of fledgling wings, and it makes the flight much better (back to using two accessory slots, but it feels good to use). I aslk have amphibion boots, but for general exploring or caving, the terrasparks ability to walk on and resist lava are just too useful to give up :D (iny opinion) but to each their own :)

[Auric Carnage]

Originally posted by Polaris:

You can fish in sky lakes for red balloons :)


By yeah, my world had a sandstorm in a bottle, and I was able to make a bundle of balloons, and terraspatk boots, I prefer the Terra spark boots personally, I also found a set of fledgling wings, and it makes the flight much better (back to using two accessory slots, but it feels good to use). I aslk have amphibion boots, but for general exploring or caving, the terrasparks ability to walk on and resist lava are just too useful to give up :D (iny opinion) but to each their own :)

I indicated spectre boots because they're the earliest combo one can gain in pre-hardmode. In hardmode, the world opens up tremendously; It's possible to obtain the terraspark boots in pre-hardmode but it takes a while to do so over gaining the spectre boots, wings and hook.

I try to grab the terraspark boots and cellphone before hardmode because they'd become a pain to get farm in early hardmode unless you hop worlds... which... I guess is an option. People that want to get to hardmode as quickly as possible and fight bosses may favor utility and speed over completion though.

[Kepler_22]

Originally posted by Auric Carnage:

If your intent is to inform, go update the wiki; Better yet, not.

Fledgling wings, spectre boots, almost any hook.

Hook let's you quickly move all by itself when you need to dodge.

Fledgling wings prevent fall damage and provide a modest jump boost.

Spectre boots give you flight and acceleration.

Bonus: It's more aesthetically pleasing too.

Spectre boots is outclassed by Amphibian boots since the instant jump allows for a much wider window of opportunity to dodge attacks. Even if it doesn't open up for terrasparks anyways, terrasparks become outclassed by other accessories as soon as wings with a moderate speed boost come up.

Hook is indeed useful but not the topic of discussion. Since hook doesn't take up an accessory slot and rather has its own slot you only really need to know which hooks are overall better and which gimmicky hooks you like.

Fledgling wings complement both kinds of boots and replace the cloud since by that time you have the amphibian boots. or the spectres.

Of course, this is an objective based discussion, and we can't say that something is prettier then the other because it is down to opinion. All of this is down to opinion and personal prefrence.

Example: I really like the anti gravity hook since you can dodge fishron charges but some people really do not like it and that is fine.

[Kepler_22]

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