Spears make me sad

[n00bdragon]

Today I crafted a stinger spear and fought an orb weaver with it by hucking it into the spidey's face repeatedly. After that one single fight the spear had lost 1/8th of its durability. Oh well, into the trash Javelineer goes.

[Sparrow]

So, you're complaining that you used the one weapon against them, that they have resistances against..?

[Zellnagi]

Early game the axe as well as finding and scanning the rotten larva blade are your best chances to fight spiders, and just work from there, a good help is to use items like the bandage and the healbasa, another suggestion is to use the smoothie station to mix same useful smoothies for effects like.
+max stamina, +max health, +hyperstamina, +damage resist, +attack, +trickle regen(sticky)

If your going to want to fight bugs well you need to know more, if you see a bug use the Peep.R(X button) and check your data menu to see that bugs stats, if you know what works and what does not work the fights end sooner and your gear lasts longer.

A good trick for some battles is to carry some shinobi sneezes to give time to use items or to give a chance to get away, some use it for making time to ready stuns and heavy strikes to weak points.

[Godamnzilla]

Don't worry I feel the same way and I main the Stinger Spear. I understand that you get "better" chunks of damage by throwing spears, but the Stinger and Rusty spears really should be strictly stabbing weapons. By stabbing you get the most benefit out of their passives, more hits equals more procs. For the durability it also might cause more loss when you throw them as I can run around the backyard and kill so many things before even needing to restore it, and that was even before the durability updates.

But the real issue we both faced is the lack of damage the Stinger Spear really does and what types of bugs are weak to stabbing. Out of the tier 2 weapons the Stinger Spear is only better than Mosquito Needle in general, and the barely better than the Black Ant Sword only because of the crit modifier.

16 mobs are weak to stabbing, making it the damage type with the most mobs weak to it. But only 6 out of that 16 are even harder or even mid tier mobs. So even with the most mobs weak to it most are weaker mobs anyways. Also the better ranged options in bows and crossbows are considered stabbing and do by far more damage with the added benefit of actual range and safety.

You can make spears work better now because of the rust one, but before that the pebblet ones were only effective for throwing, and the Stinger Spear takes some commitment and specking to maximize its passive effectively.

[Bory]

I never found it obnoxious, considering how fast you can chuck spears in succession. Just stack them up and wipe out a ladybug before it reaches you.

[Xuhybrid]

Messaggio originale di PocketYoda:

I never understood the whole repairing stuff constantly in gaming.. Do people enjoy that mechanic? Do people not realise real life items last for years even a solid piece of wood..

Making weapons out of insect parts and weeds/grass = Wood and iron durability.

[FoamySlobbers]

My early game is axe, hammer, shovel, & 12-14 spears, and hasn't let me down yet. fighting made easy.

[Zellnagi]

There is always a one off, you can disable durability if its annoying you in custom, look at how long gear in ark and raft lasts, dont get me started on twilight forests glass sword in modded minecraft, breaks in one hit no matter what.

[Malthar]

Messaggio originale di Xuhybrid:

Messaggio originale di PocketYoda:

I never understood the whole repairing stuff constantly in gaming.. Do people enjoy that mechanic? Do people not realise real life items last for years even a solid piece of wood..

Making weapons out of insect parts and weeds/grass = Wood and iron durability.

i mean on that scale, probably

[Cranky Kong]

never used spears, but i do find the durability in this game to be quite weak. that is until i realized that i should upgrade my stuff. upgrades make everything last WAY longer. i can see that being an issue for somebody who just chucks their weapon all the time though. probably just chuck garbage spears, i went for daggers and when the repair material was poison, i just went right back to using pebble dagger since it's just a rock and so pretty much free repair. daggers rely a lot on the bleed perk though so weapon dmg meant less. def upgrade armor though, that crap broke all the time.

[n00bdragon]

Upgrading spears meant for throwing is unbelievably painful because of how often you lose them due to a bad throw or simply because of a glitch that traps them in the world's geometry. Like with arrows, but to a lesser extent, you simply need to plan for some gradual loss.