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Summoner is my favorite class but you couldn't pay me a million to do this challenge, you are THE beast.

28:11 Papa waffle is so proud rn

30:58 "Morning Wood is preety hard, its always preety hard"

19:20 I take offense to the spider staff slander! They're actually really good, IF you bother to put down walls for them. Most people never bother with walls in their arenas, which leaves the spiders slowly flying after things and not really doing damage, which makes them look worse than they really are. Gotta have the walls for them to run on to see their full potential.

Someone needs to do Summoner only, no summons. Only whips, mounts, and sentry’s.

Thankfully Summoner is getting a whole lot more love in the upcoming 1.4.5 update. The new Mushroom Boi minion and Barnacle sentry from the Dead Cells crossover, the new whips including the Stardust, Corrupt, Crimson, Meteorite, and Duke Fishron whips, and summoner Chlorophyte helmet are all going to be so good.

Seeing that black recluses one-tap on Legendary was probably the nastiest surprise I've ever gotten trying to farm spider armor in this game.

I legit popped off when he said "OSOGOF tunnel"

Summoner is by far the most fun class but Re-logic never gave it the love it deserved. I remeber when they updated the game and made it an actually playable class (summoning was always a viable class but the amount of summon weapons was VERY limited, and you needed to use magic weapons since whips weren’t a thing yet) I was so happy. With that being said, I still feel like Terraria is a pretty hard on the summoner class but it’s much more balanced now!

I quit this challenge personally after losing to the destroyer so many times. Kudos for actually doing it!

NOWAY THIS WAS LITERALLY JUST IN TIME WHEN MY FOOD WAS FINISHED

Some summoner/pre-hardmode boss tips for people who might want to try this: Projectile damage doesn't increase in ftw, only contact damage. Choosing to reforge all your accesories to warding makes this entire challenge significantly more doable. Never use more than 2-3 of each pre-hm minion, due to how their i-frames work, you won't gain any dps in a lot of occasions. This doesn't apply to hornets as their projectiles are non piercing. It's still always better to minion mix in pre-hardmode. The sharpening station is very useful, you can just hold out a melee weapon (like a pickaxe) and the minions will still get the armor penetration, this is especially broken with flinxs/vampire frogs. Whips do not count as melee weapons. I take advantage of this when I'm low on health and have to stop whipping. (On some bosses with a lot of enemies on the screen like the wall it's actually better to not whip at all and let the minions do the damage, this also allows you to focus more on surviving. This is invalidated by hardmode whips as they deal a lot of damage compared to just 12 armor penetration.) A long platform is enough for slime/eye, fight brain on the surface and make a very long platform that extends to the entire crimson for first phase, this makes it almost impossible to get hit by anything unless you look away or something. For second phase you just need a solid block platform (which is still considered crimson) above you for when it switches the gravity and hook up to your main platform every time it moves. The slime mount makes queen bee almost free. Make your arena so every jump with the mount lands you perfectly on another platform and do this for 3-4 rows. Jump only when she dashes and drop when you're at the top. You can dodge stingers enough to not die by just moving left/right without stopping. Imps are good in this fight as she moves very quick. Skeletron isn't really special. If you're struggling to survive, just don't whip at all and hold out a melee weapon for the whole night. You have enough damage. You may need to do a lot of micro movement for the second phase, the shield of cthulhu is absolutely not recommended. The wall, use 3 frogs, 1 flinx and 2-3 imps. Make the minions focus on the top eye, this allows the frogs to constantly jump on both the eye and the mouth and deal crazy damage. Frogs have pretty good range so you don't even need the wall on the screen. As expected, don't whip at all and hold your pickaxe. Whipping would be both dangerous and make your minions focus on something else, which greatly reduces your dps. You only need to whip when the wall starts getting really fast, frogs or flinxs won't be able to catch up here, so it's better to summon hornets and imps for the last tug.

I did it on Getfixedboi and mechdusa was INSANITY IN ITS PUREST FORM It took me so many attempts, and now I speak on behalf of everybody- WE want you to beat Zenith seed using only summon gear, join the club of like 3 people who are insane enough to do it

33:44 this was patched out recently and you can only do it now post golem fight

"Bruh, my line broke on a Hellstone crate!! *Screeech*" I felt that in my soul

In my head during the first Plantera fight was literally “wow he really should’ve made an OSOGOF Tunnel, rookie mistake” and then 20 seconds later…

I kind of want to see a Summoner run where you can only have one of each summon on the field. So if you had four summon slots, you couldn't just summon four imps, but you could summon an imp, a vampire frog, a flinx, and Abigail. It would be a great way to showcase some of the weirder, less used summons. Plus the screen would be complete chaos, which is always fun

I wish I thought of that dart trap strat during my GFB summoner playthrough. Would've saved me a looot of trouble.

I can’t believe so many people think summoner is actually the weakest class in the game. The dmg potential is just insane, summons are a big QoL feature while you are just doing smth in the world and play style is actually interesting. From my personal experience it’s the strongest class in pre boss, pre wall, early hardmode, post plantera stages of the game (aka like 60-70% of the game, lmao) Super convenient gameplay, a ton of dmg and very rewarding risk/reward gameplay, where you can actually try getting closer to the boss, stack multiple whips and this risk will actually result in insane dmg boost. This class is my best choice.

CJ: "summoner is easily the best class in terraria" also CJ: *immediately slanders his first summon weapon* lol

Now I know that you meant by you'd show of summoner's might in the next playthrough. Nice work on showing off just how great summoner can be bro!

Props for using the betsy's wings. I mentioned that in a previous video I think. Hover is super good. I wish more wings had them. I tend to use the starboard with hover even all the way through Calamitas in Calamity.

I played calamity's malice mode on master difficulty and using summoner only. it was my second experience using calamity mod. It was hellish and gruesome. I had QoL mods like free potions and boss summons to save time and instant platforms for fast arenas and it still took me over 200 hours. I would like to suggest another calamity video, this time infernum summoner only. I've yet to play infernum after it fully came out and I don't have the time to play such a time consuming run these days. Love the content!

I hope you canr reach 100k subs soon! You deserve it with all the work and pain you put into these videos for us

video came out ready for my stimming time ‼️

I think the only actual problems with summoner is its slow start and its middling option variety - and even then, the latter is just shorthand for saying it's designed around quality over quantity.

I've got to shower off the gamer gunk before watching this, I am so sorry

Definitely. I've seen a person do it live on Twitch, in HC as well. Small Terraria Streamer. Took him many, many, MANY attempts, I've been watching his streams for like two months but he finally did it. Oh, he also went for daytime empress kill after Fishron before even attempting to beat the game (which is where the most runs died) which he could've done multiple times over. But he eventually did it: summoner only, hardcore, legendary difficulty, with daylight empress killed just for style points. Respect. I don't remember his name though, but it was a captivating to watch. Edit: On second thought it might've been master mode, but it's still extremely impressive all things considered. I'd much rather do your challenge than his!

omg thank you for this video im currently doing this challenge this has helped alot

Great video! Ur one of my fav terraria youtubers! Keep up the videos!

0:02 This is BLASPHEMY!!!! BLASPHEMY I TELL YOU!!!!!

I have only watched the intro so far and I highly appreciate the love for us summoners

Just another CJ bangin classic

ok now do it mediumcore

Hello CJ! Good job doing this, I couldn’t do summoner if you held me at gunpoint the whole way. This is a real request this time, try Magic guns only on Calamity. It is a little hard, but really fun. At least think about it. Thanks, hope you reach 100K

Pro tip for the legendary golem fight. You can set your home right outside the golem room or use a rod of discord to get out. Ideally you want a large arena in the jungle outside of the boss room. you can also use illuminant coating on background walls to turn it into a shadow box fight. This is the strategy I used and posted to the discord for fighting golem on Legendary Get Fixed Boi.

Yes, it is hard, but it's my favorite class by far, glad you made it to the end

I actually remember doing this challenge for my first FTW playthrough, it was pretty fun. Summoner still wasn't really good but the enemies being "easier" to stunlock/keep away did help mentally (although ranger and mage can just kill them without any issue and melee can tank more hits but fuck summoner right)

Take a shot every time bro says "funnel"? I'm sold

I would like to see something like this but without whips because I remember 1.3 summoner playthroughs where people just had to run around and scream.

You used to be able to spam cast some sentries like the Ballista staff for fast massive piercing damage since it would fire instantly when summoned (plus mana potions don't nerf your summon damage). It used to be my go to before they removed the instant fire and added whips.

I used to be Melee at some time in legendary mode, but it turns out, I just got bored with it and switched to summoner, and that's where my summoner playthrough begins, I'm now fighting Moon Lord with the Terraprisma in my hands, I'll never forget the days that I literally spent on in that world if I defeated Moon Lord

I’ve always wanted a video on a hardcore or legendary summoner build, thank you man 😭🙏

Summoner is one of if not the highest damaging class that's why it's a glass Canon

Pirate staff is a top 5 weapon in taking out golem and its pre mech also remember to use ale/sake for speedy whips in daytime eol

Summoner is the most powerful class in Terraria, and my favourite

Congrats on completing this INSANE challenge man! You deserve a 100k sub from (and you got my sub for this as well :D) NOW DO IT IN HARDCORE MODE.

I remember doing this same challenge, but I made it so that I started in hardmode 😬 I killed some bosses but then the evil spread into my home and I gave up. Maybe that'd be a good next challenge.

Funny enough, I was doing a FTW summoner playthrough with my friend on ps4, safe to say that we didn’t get past Plantera bc of how bad controllers are on terraria. Kudos to you though, you’re the goat!

I did this on the zenith seed about a month ago and it wasnt that bad. Summoner is not nearly as weak as people think it is.

I love your content so much more than other Terraria youtubers because you actually build houses for your challenges instead of just using instahouses. Great video!

6:48 warding is better than menacing even late game because of gow much survivability it gives late game. KZfaqr sorbecaffe has a great video detailing this Edit:spelling Edit 2: usually better but weather it's funner or not is all up to you.

The Calamity soundtrack at the background 🫡🫡

question: would it help if you summon different minions that apply different debuffs (fire, venom etc) or would that not really help much in legendary mode due to the amount of health mobs and bosses have?

That was impressive! Learned a lot :)

great music choice

summoner, for me is favourite because it has minions and whips with tag damage. i was confued when you said that summoner is the best because now everybody likes meele.

And here I thought playing normally on expert was already hard enough 😭 Great video, very entertaining and cool showcase of summoner skills!

Tip: you can fight skeletron prime at the ocean with a water walking potion or terraspark boots without the need of making an arena.

Legendary mode is really fun to watch. I hope this becomes a trend

“So i kill a bunch more Morning Woods” lol

OSOGOF tunnel mentioned!

I’m really surprised I haven’t seen a comment bashing the Old Ones Army event, I love that event and Tower Defense in general so I don’t understand its hate.

If you zoom in the transparent map, you can get it 1 to 1 with the actual game, so it's basically just night vision. Did you know there are hotkeys for zooming it in and changing it's transparency?

His live reaction had me dying

30:06 I couldn't agree more! Those pincushion-looking freaks are almost as tanky as freaking Deerclops, if not more (they have 3k less HP but 34 defense instead of 10), their stupid projectile rain has basically Mourning Wood's Greek Fire level of range and its damage scales abnormally high in Expert/Master mode, reaching _phase 3 Duke Fishron level of damage in the latter_ ; and if that wasn't enough, there's no reason to use the Nailgun once you get the Stynger, so their literal only drop has like no longevity. I hate those pieces of garbage almost as much as Waffle hates Skeletron Prime.

"morning wood is hard" so real dude

i didnt even know summoner is the hardest class to play, i thought it was ranged cuz the weapons kinna look underwhelming. ended up learning that the hard way tho, im stuck at mechanical bosses now and omw to switch to melee lol

Summoner in for the worthy gets an amazing buff on for the worthy in the form of the buffed tims hat.

33:50 you could also farm for discord rod

Ok so u talk about whip stacking and using Abigail's flower in hm and using firecracker against plantera where did u learn this stuff and how can I

Damn he beat me too it Congrats on this challenge 🧡

You can actuate the lizard temple blocks in older versions of Terraria, hence the "2 years ago" on the post you pulled up.

fun fact, the deadly sphere staff which is obtained from the solar eclipse, is an INCREDIBLE summon which is use until i get the stardust dragon

I actually completed this exact same thing couple months back. It took me 500 hours (I’m really bad, and I have no life)

With the golem fight he probably did the most complicated way to make the arena bigger all he needed to do was make a bed outside the arena that leads to a bigger arena and let golem glitch through the wall because he does that and bobs your uncle you can have as big of an arena you want

good video love these types of videos do guns only next

hell yea! also i cant belive you got to 81 k already!!!!

Yay new video

Best terraria youtuber uploads agian!

awesome vid

glad im not the only one who has trouble with mourning wood

We all struggled with the morning wood I know your struggle bro

Funnily enough, my first playthrough of terraria where I committed to summoner from start to finish was also a master mode FtW seed, the only difference was I was doing it in multiplayer with one of my buddies

Song during the moon lord fight?

cj the deathbot pleases us with his brand new video!!

Just saw your bow only blood moon. You're nuts!

The very first time I really actually played Terraria was on Mastermode with Summoner only, and boy let me tell ya, that was a huge mistake I didn't even know I was making. I figured I could focus on learning to dodge while my summons did the damage for me.

Yo CJ amazing video, just wondering why your summons look like a different colour sometimes.

yes bc i did it but il watch the video cuz I'm interested in what other people think about summoner as I find it really fun and just for the info when i play summon i always get up close and personal with the bosses using whips i don't just use summons and run cuz that's not fun.

Fishing line: (Breaks) CJ: Has a seizure

Not the music at the end 😭😭

Alot of my friends can not STAND summoner and it abosulety blows my mind. Summoner is the class for skilled players since it has the highest risk vs reward

I love how OSOGOF tunnels have become a legit term in the community.

massive video, big love from germany

Melee people: nO deFenCE tTOo HARd!!11! I hAT esUMMOer! Summoner players (the homies): Nah, Id win.

Love your vids hope you get 100k subs

Who doesn't love a good OHSOGOF tunnel?

While you were fighting Queen Slime, Plantera, and many other projectile-heavy bosses, I was screaming at you to make a tank build to decrease projectile damage (Legendary mode does not boost enemy projectile damage any higher than Master mode does, so with high Defense you can greatly reduce the damage of projectiles, so you just have to worry about the 5.33x contact damage) Yes, Summoner can have a good, high Defense tank build with Flesh Knuckles stacking (+16 Defense with 2 accessory slots is more than you'd think, and the Melee speed bonus from Berserker's Glove is nice), the Warding modifier (+28 Defense on top of this is huge), along with Ironskin, Burger, and a Bast statue providing another combined +17 Defense. With just that, you have 61 Defense before even taking Armor into account, and with the armor combo suggested by the Wiki (Titanium-Forbidden-Spider for the Pre-mech loadout), that's another 42 Defense, for a grand total of 103 Defense Keep in mind this is just the pre-Mech loadout, with only two accessories dedicated to Defense (Flesh Knuckles and Berserker's Glove). In the Plantera fight, I hear the thorns have base damage 100, so that's already reduced to 1 with the optimized Pre-Mech Summoner Tank build. Edit 1: Elaborated on the viability of Summoner Tank builds Edit 2: Corrected spelling mistakes