The Terraria weapon that utterly destroys bosses…

[@sockrteez]

I love how op homing weapons are against the Cultist lol

[@cookiecutter8304]

to be fair post plantera/golem power spike is so high cultist doesnt stand a chance against most weapons

[@dtaine1663]

true

[@foresty2245]

He tried to troll us by teleporting onto us but he didn't see the 23948492928430 bats chasing him

[@dj_the_warior4387]

Funny thing is, Cultist has damage resuction against homing stuff like chlorophit's bullets, which is funny.

[@Bestname-i1q]

Can you make a video about book of skulls? It is pretty good after its 1.4 buff but nobody talks about it because it used to be bad.

[@dert3rmin4tor23]

unpopular opinion but i think the time between pillar and plantera should be longer. With at least 1 or 2 more bosses before or after golem.

[@justafurrywithinternet317]

Yeah, I don't think that's an unpopular opinion. The post-plantera stage goes by very quickly, and grinding isn't as rewarding as pre-hm or early to mid hm.

[@texasred8424]

i think something that would help that immensely is making empress of light a required boss. like maybe the cultists only spawn after defeating her.

[@blackdominican3173]

@@texasred8424 You can kill eol even with pre golem gear so they should buff hear greatly if that is the case then add new weapons and since her and fishron have the same tier of loot the duke should also be buffed or have inferior loot than her

[@nightskyflyer2638]

i thenk there should be more bosses *REQUIRED* for progression

[@sandstone_joe5118]

Amen

[@ivanespinosa246]

In my opinion the best pre-moon lord weapon is the bat scepter. Let me explain, the moon lord takes an eternity to arrive (1 minute I guess) And if in you take down the pillar that is in the left, press quick buff and start throwing bats into the air, that are slighly slower than you, you will be able to stack 1 minute of 2000 dps Before the battle even starts. That means 2000*60= 120 000 of damage (enough to take the eyes in mastermode)

[@nilzerYT]

sockrteez, you make the best weapon reviews. don’t stop doing what you do!

[@NuggetOG]

One of the reasons that so many post plantera and post golem weapons do not get used is because of how easy it is to beat Golem and Cultist. I think that Plantera is harder than both of them(with the same gear), which means that you have 0 reason to explore all of the content since event weapons just overpower every other weapon you can get. I think a simple fix would be to first, buff them both to make them actually hard(no, not just damage buffs, but AI that makes me actually think) and make EoL mandatory, while also making it more obvious on how to get the fight the boss(or make the bugs MUCH more common, I dont have to wait all night just to get 2 :/ Even truffle worms I can get in a minute at most). This makes it so people actually try to get the best weapons on tier, instead of using their post mechs, or sometimes even pre mech stuff to kill Both Golem and Lunatic cultist.

[@killer8200]

Bat-staff ang ectoplasm armor we’ll be deadly combo

[@f-17why2savage4]

The Lord is waiting for you 😄.

[@NotEter4]

Hey

[@ReplayKevin]

I recently did a first mage only run and absolutely lost my mind and soul until i got my hands on the bat scepter. It even made the pillars, especially the nebula pillar, relatively easy. Its a pity that it doesnt work underwater though

[@crispyfries0]

Wish if i got it on my last mage only playthrough

[@SexySkeletons69]

Does this imply that mage only is hard? I found it perfectly doable.

[@trananbinhjerry6438]

You know clorophyl and Spectre armor are op right? They shread everything

[@JohnSmith-ik8nt]

Its not that good

[@ReplayKevin]

@@SexySkeletons69 well good for you

[@purplehaze2358]

This man really tried to farm a pumpkin moon with nothing but a lava pit, the golden shower, a dream, and morally grey intentions.

[@xellpur]

?

[@Naokarma]

and succeeded

[@3twibles4sweetrevenge]

😂

[@darkmatter9643]

Quick fix to the plantera to moonlord problem: make empress a required boss to progress and maybe add another boss around that stage which is also not optional (optional)

[@sockrteez]

Amazing idea, I would like that!

[@Boundforever]

But empress of light is one of the most difficult vanilla fights which most casual players dont want to fight

[@jonlhetmarcalas197]

@@Boundforever i think its kinda good because the some of the boss' drops are so good. Especially the kaleidoscope or whatever its name is. Point being that, the bosss drops powerful overshadowed weapons

[@Jaydog8536]

Waffletime would hate that so much.

[@darkmatter9643]

@@Boundforever I’m a casual player who doesn’t play terraria much, empress of light isn’t that hard, at worst it will take like 20 attempts, and will also ease the players into the moonlord damage and speed instead of dropping them off a cliff, eol has a lot of choreography and that makes it one of the best bosses in the game, it would be a shame if most players never fought it, and no I’m not talking about the daytime version

[@resultado9643]

the many problems terraria is that the cool weapons is post plantera where it will be overshadowed by much more better weapons you can get at that point, i genuinely wish some of the post plantera weapons are pre mech and post mechs weapons (mage has the best weapon availability and variety, Melee has a slightly better weapon availability but less variety than Ranger and summoner has the worst weapon availability and variety.)

[@sockrteez]

Ikr, in a way, weapon variety got destroyed after 1.3 due to late game op weapons

[@potato1341]

agreed my dude. The game ramps up DRASTICALLY post plantera and golem. Frost moon, pumpkin moon, martians, enhanced dungeon, enhanced old one's army, empress of light, boss drops themselves and then the pillars loot. I really wish they more evenly distributed some of the stuff around hardmode or added one or two bosses after Plantera/golem to flesh out the amount of content in a similar power area.

[@namesurname371]

In my opinion it is worth making Old One's Army post-planter or even post-mechanical, because the stage at which the best pre-moonlord weapon remains only Cultist-Lunatic, which at least with a wooden bow is not difficult to beat, this weapons becomes useless, especially beat Betsy without getting the right amount of medals before that is not so easy.

[@nocturn333]

I never liked how haphazardly Moonlord was added into the progression chain. Redigit did this thing in 1.2 where they kept adding content post Plantera/Golem. Stuff like the dungeon chests, and the moons. Even Fishron was post Plantera in terms of difficulty. Even if they were optional, there was an implied progression path. Then 1.3 kind of just tacked on pillars/Moonlord after Golem without considering the previous meta. My biggest complaint with 1.4 is that it never addressed how top heavy gear have become post Plantera.

[@Haephasto]

Pumkpin moon can be summoned pre-Plantera now, though.

[@xenoticsam3299]

at this point, every weapon that sock reviewed would always now be in our inventory when playing

[@yight901]

scokreteez, the rainbow rod carried me from my first mech boss, the twins, to literal golem, then fishron. Please make a video on the broken rod lol

[@yight901]

wait nvm you already made one

[@DigDig_1999]

I never liked that all post plantera items are replaced after the pillars. But the bat septer is insane, it used to have far more bars spawn too, used to be best in slot in 1.2

[@danktank4208]

This weapon got nerfed in 1.4 and is still a ass kicker

[@redundantopinion705]

You should make a video on " the boss that breaks terraria progression" or something and give your recommendation/advice on how to beat Duke fishron with the 4 main classes.

[@LlamasOldAcc]

The first thing that I thought when I heard the dungeon music was spooky scary skeleton

[@KlockoArt]

I just recently finished a mage build playthrough, and legitimately used this for the first time in probably years at this point. Used it mainly against duke fishron and jeeze it was absolutely insane. One of the easiest "at level" kills of duke I ever had. Though I do agree with the notion that it can get out paced rather quickly, because while it can be super useful against duke and probably EoL as well, both the razorblade typhoon and nightglow out perform it in basically all scenarios.

[@rubendzw7495]

I love this series, would you consider doing something similar for calamity. thx

[@mosmassamsom7837]

That would actually be pretty nice! And maybe we'll get to see some new favourites!

[@purplehaze2358]

-Says the bat scepter counters the lunatic cultist's illusion attack -Shows footage of him hitting the wrong cultist and summoning the dragon Something doesn't seem right here.

[@chanceplace6057]

IMO pillar weapons should of been made post moonlord, requiring luminite (and upscaled as such) making you think about what to use against moonlord, instead of picking which out of the two options presented for your class. The sheer variety of weapons post plantera would then actually matter instead of picking your weapon to just replace immediately anyway, especially with cultists being easy enough to beat without even upgrading your weopon at all

[@shpaghettishpaghetti6219]

Your videos make me want to do a magic playthrough pretty fuckin' badly.

[@SpiderJAAM]

What's also dope about the Bat Scepter is how LOW mana it consumes, 6 mana and that's without accessories or reforges that can decrease mana consumption.

[@thatonegaminglatias4345]

That's as much as a Tungsten Staff!

[@jonathantoreno5181]

Just use stellar tune it homes and deals more dmg than the bat scepter

[@Ethan-ck6iz]

I used to love this weapon back when I played mobile terraria. But then they added the frost moon, i got the razorpine which dealt much more DPS

[@SirGamalot]

Bold of you to assume I can beat Plantera

[@pyxelgamer]

True, this weapon is underrated. But that's for a reason. Cultist takes reduced damage from it, and Golem is so easy that you don't need to do the Pumpkin Moon before it. Plus pre-Golem PMoon is hard. You could also use it for Duke (but there are better choices), and Empress (but duke gear is better).

[@Rik0-Ch4n]

Im here late cuz i was outside waiting for my phone

[@lovecraftianwalrus4490]

What are your thoughts on the starfury? I think it might be a bit overrated. EDIT: I retract my statement. This weapon made master mode wall of flesh a joke. I was wrong, the starfury is amazing.

[@dtaine1663]

but how it carries melee against the WoF

[@lovecraftianwalrus4490]

@@dtaine1663 I wouldn’t say carries. Unless you’re in classic mode the fight is still incredibly difficult with just the starfury. The enchanted sword or the cascade can do a far better job.

[@lukaschen3009]

Absolutely not overrated, a pre boss weapon that is the most useful melee weapon against WoF, it doesn’t get any better than that

[@HuneeBruh]

I don’t understand how it could be good against the WOF, and the fact that so many people say that makes me think they just heard a KZbinr say it and just repeat it

[@lukaschen3009]

@@lovecraftianwalrus4490 Have you used cascade against WoF? Yo-yo is one of the most difficult subclasses solely because how bad cascade is against the wall. When you use starfury on wof you’re supposed to aim for itself so that stars can hit an eye and the mouth, enchanted sword ain’t got this piercing ability

[@LlamasOldAcc]

1

[@icyroles]

It's actually one of my favourite weapons, and my favourite event

[@yoursusbrandon9040]

I was trying to get my hands on a horsmans blade as the final ingredient to my awaited zenith, when this dropped and I immediately threw it out because it looked bad. I beat moonlord and used the meowmere to kill the pumpkings so I thought the bat scepter would be useless. Although it's not insane for the moonlord, it would've been a really fun weapon to at least try and use for low level enemy's and bosses like EoC, King slime, and queen bee.

[@tenmonster1846]

What did you have equiped to make the bat scepter shoot so many bats?

[@udufbxsixn]

i want to know too!

[@linkhyrule4065]

Bro love your videos bc i learn something new and keep up the good work.

[@yubtubthumper7982]

beating the mourning wood with the golden shower, thats a bit sus socktrees

[@noahpalumbo9024]

did he purposefully kill a mourning wood with a golden shower

[@ManfiCat]

I remember when you had 2.5K subs. You have come so far!

[@Floppy_Trusty]

The bat septer really reminds me of the clash royale night witch lol

[@mrshepp5867]

What accessoires do you recommend for the bat cepter

[@sockrteez]

All of the emblems, high magic damage is key

[@user-zc2ks7pd3d]

The real question is what weapon can't defeat cultist

[@ionking]

damn when did u get 40k, last time i looked you had 13k

[@yusufamin7629]

this weapon is actually much stronger than it appears as spectre armor can help you gain an absolute MASSIVE amount of health OR damage using the set bonus

[@thegodlycat]

the editing is very good and smooth

[@ScrewedByRNG]

How do you change the attack speed? Like how you did at the end?

[@nilsman4994]

Im asking the same question

[@anderxjw]

Me too

[@hulias3107]

2:50 The Calamity mod has The swarmer, an upgrade to the bee and wasp gun that can be obtained right after defeating the Vortex pillar.

[@Atomic_Pinneaple]

Racism pov

[@SirHamletTheThird]

Do a video on the Desert Tiger Staff.

[@frostbitedragon9]

How i beat moonlord in my first world

[@Bubster-te2mz]

Tbh I think we need a mandatory boss between Golem and the Lunatic Cultist bc late hardmode goes really fast compared to the rest of the game, and weapons like this are good example of that

[@Emporio_of_Light]

we never hear enough of this weapon tbh

[@ombscr3700]

Hey Sockrteez! You should really try out the Charged Blaster Cannon. It’s a Martian Madness event drop that’s super broken!

[@xX__ErectDiddyP445__Xx]

ok

[@dtaine1663]

everyones gangsta till four thousand bats catch up to daytime EoL and one shot them

[@Flugeo]

Yeah it’s real shame we don’t have more bosses between plantera and golem. Golem is such a joke, I’d gladly have him replaced with someone much more complex

[@Oween2473]

Literally found out about this weapon yesterday when i accidentally obtained it and I found it to be amazing. Great video!

[@anonymousbuffalo2921]

Can I ask why ur on the fishron mount 24/7 😅

[@sockrteez]

Because I love it :)

[@sunderka3504]

Man you are soo underrated!!!

[@woodman4898]

What in gods name are you doing/using to get *that* many projectiles out at the end of the video? That looks absolutely stupid fun.

[@sockrteez]

Hero’s mod lol

[@woodman4898]

@@sockrteez Cheers mate! Got the mod now, just gotta dig through and figure out how to use it!

[@Zigzorark]

Me: I am The Batman! Golem: YOOO WTF!!!

[@ashtinpace4213]

Talk about summons.

[@mrseaweed88]

I've used this weapon for ages and thank you for showing how op it is

[@Check_Vibe0]

Once I got it It stomps EoL, Golem, Cultist and Moonlord Basically all the bosses in the end game It was a must get for me in my first real mage play through and it’ll become a must get for more to follow

[@GIRGHGH]

I take every stage of the game super easy, I usually don't even bother fighting the lunar "event" most of the time and just work on stuff around the world after Golem or the Empress. I've never been very good at fighting the moon lord, I think I've only defeated it maybe twice in my over 2000 hours of playtime, and one of those times was in multiplayer where it's easier. To be fair I only usually play on Expert Mode, but still.

[@aderneaker7374]

Bat scepter really helped me Kill Betsy on Expert before taking on the pillars. It’s probably the most powerful boss killing weapon until it gets replaced by the Nebula Blaze.

[@oferloaf4695]

Right when I wake up you upload!

[@StormerSage]

Hmm, was this changed? I think I remember when pumpkin moon first came out, this functioned similarly to the aqua scepter, firing a bat looking beam in a straight line.

[@smokinggnu6584]

Huh. For some reason i remember the bat scepter as being a summoner item that was inferior to the Xeno Staff, which i had already gotten by the point i was doing my first pumpkin moon, and thought was entirely inferior. Brain fart, and will definitly look at getting it when i go for the Lunatic Cultist in my current run (Drunkworld mastermode)

[@Copur_]

bat scepter is a staple in mage progression in hardmode i usually go from sky fracture -> bat scepter -> typhoon i couldn't live without it

[@MetroAndroid]

It's kind of crazy that I purchased Terraria in 2012, have 250 hours in it, and have never beaten Plantera.

[@mathislalonde353]

I was searching a weapons for fishron, well I think I found one lmao ! Thanks !

[@udufbxsixn]

i think, fishron pre mech should be standard-move at least at expert dif. after that, endgame gear is already yours (wings and thypoon or flairon)

[@warlockjuju4029]

This weapon is the most criminally under talked about weapon in the game. I wonder why but anyways it is amazing dps combined with homing makes it a pick up every time I play mage

[@KingMetalMario]

I've played mage so many times and I never used the bat scepter because I thought it was weak ;-;

[@mysticflame5693]

Before 1.3 Bat sceptre was one of my most used armours with spectre hooded armour. It was practically infinite hp.

[@poormans2522]

Sock can you talk about the paladin’s hammer? It’s my favorite weapon!

[@LiteVersionofThug]

Razorpine! It's crowd control, damage against bosses and PVP are great must try 😘👌

[@popocaca2174]

The Swarmer(calamity): i am stronger, i'm smarter, i'm better. I am BETTER!

[@witchBoi_Connor]

I don't think I've ever used this mage weapon, and that's a shame cuz it's exactly the kind of mage weapon I like.

[@4l64n14n]

Make a video on the dart rifle with ichor darts, it shreds twins, prime, and queen slime, oh, and ichor darts are so damn cheap as well, 1 ichor for 100 by hand, easily obtainable, yet its better than stormbow and other biome mimic weapons, it even beats queen slime loot.

[@udufbxsixn]

Its a bit sad but as soon as your able to grind the pumpkmoon without cheesing, you dont need any cepter anymore... This lets so many nice item go down untouched.

[@watelwat1212]

I’m not going to lie it’s a decent magic weapon that is pretty decent but to obtain it is a joke, at this point in the game you probably have your hands on some pretty decent weapons already and the bat sceptor is not going to feel like it’s doing much better. I see a lot of people saying how good it is for cultist but come on cultist is more of a meme as a boss then golem any weapon at this point is more than enough to kill it. As I said before though obtaining is just stupid, to have to kill plantera then get the pumpkin moon and hope that rng drops it before 50 pumpkin kings mow you down is pointless for a weapon of this standard. Personally it would be more easier to fight empress of light or duke fishron after the mech bosses and get your hands on the razor blade tycoon or the magic weapons that empress of light drops which I forgot the name of but all of which home and deal a lot more damage then the bat sceptor and the bosses even drop very powerful accessories that can make the rest of the game a breeze if you have the skill to fight these bosses early but if you don’t still going after them at the same point in time the bat sceptor becomes available is a more worthwhile option that will pay off a lot more

[@Neopolitan_Illusion]

this is my weapon choice against moonlord on my crappy phone, nebula blaze lags the game too much to my disadvantage but this doesn't

[@chriskie101]

the item i want is something like rainbow rod but stronger and goes through walls, isn't that something mage would love to have, i mean i don't like last prism that much, and i would really enjoy a rainbow rod upgrade since its a weapon you can gain early hardmode a better version of it won't be bad

[@nacl4988]

I would say Razorpine is just about as good. it doesnt have any homing, But its just got hella power

[@AidanGTV]

me : but the weapon does around 30 damage sockrteez : nah it does 200 now

[@hasindu5190]

Move the pillar weapons to after killing moon lord so these weapons have a use

[@jetman_86]

The razor pine is another really good magic weapon that’s obtained then also

[@bobthedeadguy7400]

Pumpkin grenade lawnchair is pretty good for the ammunition price

[@minecraftainpjs585]

Hallowed discs next pls! They are really good for pirates and hard mode goblins!

[@rextemplario1370]

In my calamity playthrough you can get it before plantera and it carried me throughout moonlord easily

[@maxgoose707]

God i remember back in old 1.2 mobile terraria grinding so hard for this thing

[@Sunnysideanyway]

Something I have noticed is that none of the classes have much to express for themselves pre-Plantera.

[@benlittle627]

Tbh I go straight from plantera through golem and cultist without getting new weapons because the pillar weapons are easier to get and stronger

[@NokSom_]

Quick Tip: Thr bats disappear when hit or used in water Edit Bats+Water=Bad

[@englishsquidofficial]

I was just playing summoner today and I got one of these while farming spooky wood

[@Attaboyla01]

If your going for the zenith then your probably going to get this before the horseman’s blade

[@ahmetkaya8379]

Can u make a video bout the the summon weapon that summons red bats(i forgot the name) it can carry u through the whole hardmode

[@Attaboyla01]

A post moon lord of the homing magic weapons would probably shoot mini Phantasm eyes

[@allainch.7251]

They should really either buff a decent amount of the post Plantera stuff, nothing bad with a ton of op stuff rather than a handful of useful ones.

[@funkyneb8422]

I knew it was pretty good, but I guess looking at raw statistics alone isn't good enough, lol.

[@tobyfogg5861]

Ngl i tought wheapons like this would maby work well with summoner if summoner had extra mana too what do y think ya or no

[@redmustard2727]

Please do a video on your event farm, I've been struggling to farm events in my world.