Should I buy the Lava Katana or just wait till the rare prismatic shard to drop and get myself the galaxy sword.

[Misterwheatley #Maintaintf2]

Trying to conquer skull caverns ableit very slowly. Mostly those dragon things and mummies are what are hindering me. My current arsenal is the obsidian edge and the space boots.

[Vroomi]

Get the Lava Katana and then the Galaxy Sword.

[Useless Noodle]

without the Katana you wont be able to go far, since it's only 20 damage fewer than the Galaxy, but has +3 defense, +25 crit, +3 weight (knockback).

[timewar]

Buy it, otherwise you could be waiting years for the prismatic.

[McGoodGreen]

I loved the Lava Katana. Though I got my shard soon after, it was still well worth the money, and comes in handy when I am having a lazy / careless day and just wanna let things hit me without worry.

[YetiChow]

Originally posted by Thanatos:

Quick way to get prismatic shard....

Save money.
Wait for store in Oasis to carry the omni geode.
Buy crapton of them.
Wait for lucky day.
Visit blacksmith
Win.


In total, it took me about thirteen days (in game of course) to get the shard. It ate up about 45000 gold (although I didn't open up all the geodes yet).

The Luck stat has nothing to do with geode drops. There's actually an in-depth anaylisis of the drop patterns given by geodes; search up "geode MOMO pattern" for the thread. The short version is this: geode drops are determined based upon your character and the contents of previous geodes, there's a semi-predictable pattern of mineral, ore, mineral, ore, etc. (hence MOMO) and it carries between geode types.

So, simply spamming omni geodes on a lucky day is actually one of the least efficient options. It's cheaper to buy bombs and collect a lot of geodes on lucky days, and then buy as many omni geodes again from the shop. If you're looking for the Prismatic Shard, open a few low-level geodes to determine the pattern, and then open an Omni Geode on every mineral stage. That maximises your chances of finding prismatic shards, and uses the cheaper geodes for the unwanted ore stages (you could use omnis if you wanted the chance for Irridium ore, but that's a very expensive way to get it when you can just use bombs and stairs in the skull caves).