Good evening everybody! This is Aifos coming to you alive from... Er, Terraria. Hm.. Well, that's a rather boring intro, isn't it? Anyhow, the other day I was looking for something a little mindless to do, so I booted up Terraria, and hopped on with my maxed out dude with his little drill pod, and went and started mining away the Corruption for funsies. Somehow I managed to still miss 7% Corruption, and gave up, but after doing so I kinda felt like playing Terraria again. If you know anything about me, you could probably guess that when I play Terraria I play as a mage. I always play as a mage in everything! However, I don't really care to play the [i]same[/i] Terraria again, and so if I do decide to replay it again, I think this time I'd rather try a new class! Now, I could go ranged, and that would be all fine and dandy; the ranged weapons always looked neat, but I was actually thinking of going melee! [spoiler]As a small side note, it's such a shame summoner never got fully fleshed out. It's come a long way from when it was first introduced, but imo it still doesn't feel like a class on the same level as the other three. Though, who knows, I could be wrong. Maybe one day I'll have to give that a go, too.[/spoiler] As I thought about going melee, though, a thought crossed my mind; is going [i]pure[/i] melee even viable? In the late game, most "melee" weapons shoot out projectiles anyway, bit I was curious: is it even viable to go pure melee in the early game? "Pure" meaning only using melee weapons--no ranged, magic, or summon weapons at all. For regular enemies, this seems easy enough, but Terraria's bosses don't ever particularly feel like they're made with melee combat in mind. So, I know there are a few Terraria fans around here, have any of you played a pure melee build? Is it actually viable early game, or would it just be kind of obnoxious? [b][i]Tl;dr? Here's my point![/b][/i] Is going pure melee viable in early-game Terraria? That's no ranged, magic, or summon weapons at all? How do you do it, exactly, as bosses all feel very ranged-oriented. I'm thinking of trying it, but only have experience with going mage, so tips/tricks, good weapons, and all that good stuff is appreciated. But that's all for now folks! Jambuhbye!