Better and cooler weapons early on?

[QQ]

Personally i think early/mid game weapons should be more fun and visually better. The magic weapons should be mid game or sooner and not end tier weapons for current last boss. They should be made after the 2nd boss and each boss killed gives you a more even better magic versions or the 1st boss can drop a lighting staff or the stuff to make one and the magic crafter can be made early on but each boss with its materials makes the upgrade mod.

The 2H sword should be a early game weapon type.... Even the crossbow and maybe the Trader can sell one that is viable till mistlands till you can make the mistlands one.

The EpicLoot mod makes me like the game which is a fun mod and gives weapons more excitement to loot and use but you should not need to install a mod for a game to be more fun but thats just me....


Also, this is a suggestion, not a demand so replies can hate the suggestion all you like as this is a suggestion for the devs, not gamers.

[jonnin]

remember ... the mountains and plains, when you have 5 or more unique stylized weapons (fist weapon, porcupine, frostner, bow, etc) IS the midgame. We have 2 more biomes (north & fire) at least.

Ive been playing a new character with access to the magic staves to test this same idea.
So far:
1 blue shroom and frost stick is OP for meadows and about right for non-boss in black forest. The deer boss lasted about 5 bursts of 5 shots. If you eat a bigger eitr food, the freeze staff becmes a LOT more dangerous, but 5 shots on a shroom is pretty tame.
the skeleton pet and ward are OP for BF and probably much of the swamp. It absorbs a LOT of damage and if you freeze-spam the enemy, they are so slow your pet just slaps them silly.
Maybe do a full write up of it soon, but I agree there could be a full from-boss-1 onward magic playthrough that would be fun (without having to cheat in the food and weapons and repair stations).

[QQ]

The mountains weapons prob the only descent weapons in terms of looks and not just being simple weapons but that doesnt need to be the first time you get such weapons (besides the antler hammer) and the lack of weapons is the issue but it is a alpha after all as this is a suggestion for other updates so maybe the gear pool will get larger and more fun early game all the way to end game and not just a few new weapons in later biomes. The 2h sword was a big goof which should of been a weapon type and not a single weapon which is now my fave melee weapon and its a shame you get it so late in the game. The staffs seem basic and would fit well for mid game tier weapons with maybe with some balancing here and there but i feel when you get them so late, they should be more visually impressive than it is now. Terraria nailed it, more games should follow with fun weapon mechanics as that is a big factor in making a game fun.