Christmas vs. Spooky Hook

[Celator]

The title should be pretty self-explanatory: which do you prefer? If you use another kind of hook, you can say that, too, Christmas and Spooky are just the most top-tier ones at the moment.

Me, I prefer Spooky. The Christmas Hook is just a bit too gaudy for my tastes, although I use it on my mage character who's already designed to be fabulous.

[Chubblezap]

I always go for utility, so I go with the Christmas Hook because it doubles as a light source.

[Mister Staby]

Spooky, easier to use in pvp since of dark textures.

[Bacon]

i prefer the spooky one, too

[Simeon]

Spook because it looks so much cooler, is almost invisible in the dark, and can go with any vanity set in the game while Christmas hook can only go really with elf outfit.

[Jeffy Ducky]

I haven't done much research so I may be completely wrong, but I use the Ivy Whip for it's multiple hooks.
EDIT: After looking it up, the Christmas hook is 100% better for singleplayer than anything else. Excuse my earlier ignorance.

[Celator]

Originally posted by Jeff The Duck:

I haven't done much research so I may be completely wrong, but I use the Ivy Whip for it's multiple hooks.
EDIT: After looking it up, the Christmas hook is 100% better for singleplayer than anything else. Excuse my earlier ignorance.

Yeah, Ivy Whip was more or less the best (Dual Hook may have been a contender, but w/e) until 1.2.1, when the Spooky Hook outclassed every other hook without question. The Christmas Hook is basically a reskin of the Spooky Hook with the added benefit of giving off a little light. The two of them are pretty much the best hooks out there.

The Bat Hook is basically the only hook that isn't made completely obsolete (as far as I know, anyway) by Spooky and Christmas, since although it only has one line it reels in much faster than every other hook, which can be useful in some combat situations.

I kind of wish there were an option to equip vanity hooks, since there are a lot of lower-level hooks that look awesome but aren't very good. Web Slinger, for instance.

[VagueCryptid]

I LOVE the idea of a vanity grappling hook, although I'm not sure how it would work... I would guess it's just like accesories, you just put your hook into a slot and a vanity one to the side.

[Celator]

Originally posted by ninjathis:

I LOVE the idea of a vanity grappling hook, although I'm not sure how it would work... I would guess it's just like accesories, you just put your hook into a slot and a vanity one to the side.

Yeah, I would guess they would just make an extra slot for it somewhere down by your armor/accessories slots. Functionally, your grappling hook would work like whatever's in your "real" hook slot, but it would be re-skinned with the sprite of the vanity hook.

[VagueCryptid]

It would be neat, but it would mean having to do the whole grappling hook thing over, right? You would need to make the different hooks longer/shorter for vanity, not to mention light up or be able to use several at once. Web slinger vanity on a Christmas hook would be weird...

[Drag]

I'd love to have a hook equipment slot. Make life a little easier. And definitely the vanity hook slot, too. Though strangely enough I like the look of the christmas hook for whatever reason...

[Celator]

Originally posted by ninjathis:

It would be neat, but it would mean having to do the whole grappling hook thing over, right? You would need to make the different hooks longer/shorter for vanity, not to mention light up or be able to use several at once. Web slinger vanity on a Christmas hook would be weird...

The hooks already just use a series of separate sprites that they repeat as they extend, kind of like worm enemies do. Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to have varying lengths at all without stretching.

Stuff like the Christmas Hook's glowing would probably just be filed under vanity effects and covered up by other vanity, like the armor sets that glow such as Hallowed armor.

[VagueCryptid]

I hope this is something they add in 1.3, it would be really cool :)

[deltaTom]

Originally posted by The Hamburger of Ages:

I always go for utility, so I go with the Christmas Hook because it doubles as a light source.

Your completely right regardless if something looks cool utility is much more important so without argument christmass hook is the best.

[Mister Staby]

Originally posted by Tombomcbombo:

Originally posted by The Hamburger of Ages:

I always go for utility, so I go with the Christmas Hook because it doubles as a light source.

Your completely right regardless if something looks cool utility is much more important so without argument christmass hook is the best.

Well sorry, I guess you rarely play MP, since spooky hook comes in handy so well, and the chrismas hook give a very little light, which is useless if you have the fire skull or what ever that is

[Celator]

Originally posted by Tombomcbombo:

Originally posted by The Hamburger of Ages:

I always go for utility, so I go with the Christmas Hook because it doubles as a light source.

Your completely right regardless if something looks cool utility is much more important so without argument christmass hook is the best.

Well, by the time you get the Christmas Hook, you should already have plenty of other and better lighting sources, so no, not really. The Wisp in a Bottle in particular drowns out the Christmas Hook's light almost completely, so if you have a Wisp then it hardly even matters.