How do you get best melee damage output

[Thebirdofhermes]

any sugestions/builds

[Batabii • Suikoden I&II HD]

For starters, Ruthless Terra Blade, Warrior Emblem, Chlorophyte Armor (with Mask), perhaps a Destroyer Emblem, Avenger Emblem, and Fire Gauntlet, if they stack, all forged to Menacing

[Joshua Kurayami]

Best damage output.. Best armour would be turtle armour (maybe, could be something else), then accessories follows in destroyer emblem, avenger emblem, warrior emblem, Sun or moon stone (depends the day) and fire gauntlet. all on menacing prefix.

[Joshua Kurayami]

Originally posted by Batabii - Y get:

For starters, Ruthless Terra Blade, Warrior Emblem, Chlorophyte Armor (with Mask), perhaps a Destroyer Emblem, Avenger Emblem, and Fire Gauntlet, if they stack, all forged to Menacing

Best prefix for melee weapons would be legendary..

[Batabii • Suikoden I&II HD]

Originally posted by Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Joshua Kurayami:

Best damage output.. Best armour would be turtle armour,

He said melee damage. Turtle set only gives you +14% melee damage and +15% crit. Chlorophte gives +16% melee damage and +6% melee crit, in ADDITION to the mail/greaves giving 5% damage and 15% crit to all around.

Originally posted by Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Joshua Kurayami:

Originally posted by Batabii - Y get:

For starters, Ruthless Terra Blade, Warrior Emblem, Chlorophyte Armor (with Mask), perhaps a Destroyer Emblem, Avenger Emblem, and Fire Gauntlet, if they stack, all forged to Menacing

Best prefix for melee weapons would be legendary..

Legendary is 15% damage. Ruthless is 18%.

[Joshua Kurayami]

Originally posted by Batabii - Y get:

Originally posted by Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Joshua Kurayami:

Best damage output.. Best armour would be turtle armour,

He said melee damage. Turtle set only gives you +14% melee damage and +15% crit. Chlorophte gives +16% melee damage and +6% melee crit, in ADDITION to the mail/greaves giving 5% damage and 15% crit to all around.

Ah.. well i'm not much of a melee user so i just guessed the armour, since there's only one set which is like hallowed and 3 class-specific sets.

[Cyborgt]

Originally posted by Batabii - Y get:

Originally posted by Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Joshua Kurayami:

Best damage output.. Best armour would be turtle armour,

He said melee damage. Turtle set only gives you +14% melee damage and +15% crit. Chlorophte gives +16% melee damage and +6% melee crit, in ADDITION to the mail/greaves giving 5% damage and 15% crit to all around.

Originally posted by Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Joshua Kurayami:

Best prefix for melee weapons would be legendary..

Legendary is 15% damage. Ruthless is 18%.

This is true, but he asked for the best melee damage output rather than specifically the best melee damage per swing so legendary would actually be better if dps was his meaning.

[Gl1tchMaster]

Originally posted by Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Joshua Kurayami:

Best damage output.. Best armour would be turtle armour (maybe, could be something else), then accessories follows in destroyer emblem, avenger emblem, warrior emblem, Sun or moon stone (depends the day) and fire gauntlet. all on menacing prefix.

Turtle armor grants the best defense, the chlorophyte armor set(with the melee helm) actually has more damage boosts.

[Batabii • Suikoden I&II HD]

Originally posted by Fireb4llz:

Turtle armor grants the best defense, the chlorophyte armor set(with the melee helm) actually has more damage boosts.

yes I already said that...

Originally posted by Batabii - Y get:

Turtle set only gives you +14% melee damage and +15% crit. Chlorophte gives +16% melee damage and +6% melee crit, in ADDITION to the mail/greaves giving 5% damage and 15% crit to all around.

Originally posted by Cyborgt:

Originally posted by Batabii - Y get:

He said melee damage. Turtle set only gives you +14% melee damage and +15% crit. Chlorophte gives +16% melee damage and +6% melee crit, in ADDITION to the mail/greaves giving 5% damage and 15% crit to all around.


Legendary is 15% damage. Ruthless is 18%.

This is true, but he asked for the best melee damage output rather than specifically the best melee damage per swing so legendary would actually be better if dps was his meaning.

I don't know if you can really quantify luck, per se. I mean in terms of critical chance...

[Batabii • Suikoden I&II HD]

Originally posted by Batabii - Y get:

perhaps a Destroyer Emblem, Avenger Emblem, and Fire Gauntlet, if they stack,

holy crap:

Originally posted by Terraria Wiki:

Note that the Destroyer Emblem, Avenger Emblem, and Warrior/Ranger/Sorcerer Emblem all can be equipped simultaneously for a stacking damage bonus.

[Cyborgt]

Originally posted by Batabii - Y get:

Originally posted by Cyborgt:

This is true, but he asked for the best melee damage output rather than specifically the best melee damage per swing so legendary would actually be better if dps was his meaning.

I don't know if you can really quantify luck, per se. I mean in terms of critical chance...

Perhaps not, but you CAN quantify speed and I rather doubt 3% dmg provides more damage output potential than 12% speed. The +crit/size/knockback that it has as well can just be seen as a bonus on top.

[Meetrock]

I've got a legendary Terra blade with tiki armour and it does 98 damage I think!

[Emmote]

Technically Turtle could win out over Chlorophyte for damage output. Even though it gives you less, it does give 100% thorns, which could off-set the difference, by quite a large margin on bosses and hard hitting mobs especially.

But yeah, you want these 3 accessories for definite.
Warrior Emblem, Avenger Emblem and Destroyer Emblem.

And then for the 4th slot, switch between Mechanical Glove and Fire Gauntlet depending on whether the mob is fire immune or not.

For the 5th slot switch between Sun Stone and Moon Stone depending on the time of day.

All in all, that's 15+12+10+(9 or 10)+10. That's 57% or 56%+FireDebuff. If all menacing, add another 20%.
Not to mention the crit chance you gain from that.

With that setup (Mechanical Glove) and Turtle Armor my Legendary Terra Blade's stated damage is 177. With Chlorophyte it goes to 183.

So whether Turtle or Chlorophyte is better is down to the thorns of turtle beating chlorophyte's leaf crystal? And whether the 9 extra defense of turtle is better?

[Joshua Kurayami]

Originally posted by Rocky:

I've got a legendary Terra blade with tiki armour and it does 98 damage I think!

Tiki armour doesn't buff anything except minions. Only the legendary prefix gives the extra damage..

[Cyborgt]

Originally posted by Emmote:

With that setup (Mechanical Glove) and Turtle Armor my Legendary Terra Blade's stated damage is 177. With Chlorophyte it goes to 183.
So I'm pretty certain that Turtle ends up being better because the thorns can more than make the difference in that damage.

It won't be able to make up the difference if you're not getting hit...

[Emmote]

Originally posted by Cyborgt:

It won't be able to make up the difference if you're not getting hit...

Sure, but you're melee, you'll get hit quite a lot. But looking at the numbers, I think Chlorophyte's leaf crystal will win out because you can use it, and the Terra Blade, to become ranged, basically.

If that's the case, then you don't want Legendary Terra Blade because if you swing max speed, the projectile will only go off once out of 2 or 3 swings, which is wasteful. You'd want the Ruthless prefix as Batabii said.

No chance I'm reforging my Terra Blade to get the numbers for that. It'd probably go up to about 188 or something.

But if you're gonna go playing the Terra Blade as ranged, you may as well go ranged and get yourself the sniper rifle. It'll give you much bigger numbers.