This weapon in Terraria is incredibly fun to use…

Some terraria weapons focus on functionality more than any other aspect although this can make for quite the sword weapon on paper nothing pleases me more than choosing a more quirky visually appealing and most importantly fun to use option today we’re gonna be looking at a weapon that takes all three

Of these boxes yet somehow manages to actually be quite useful in certain scenarios i’m talking about the rainbow rod the rainbow rod is a hard mode magic weapon that launches a controllable projectile similar to the magic missile it was introduced way back in terraria 1.1 which was the last time i actually

Used this thing all i remember was having quite a weird sprite and not being particularly powerful fortunately the weapon received quite the rework in 1.4 with a fancy new appearance and functionality before we look at the improved features though let’s see how you obtain it the rainbow rod can be

Crafted in early hardwood at a mithral or oracle commandville its recipe includes a range of hallowed related ingredients starting with 10 crystal shards which can be harvested from the underground hallowed for me these were literally everywhere but in a new world it might take you a bit longer to find

Next up we have 10 pixie dust which drops from pixar’s in the surface hallowed while you’re there you’ll also need two unicorn horns which will take a little longer to find you to their rarity just head around your hallowed and some will eventually show up next up

We need some plain old souls of light for this i’d recommend setting up a farm in your underground hallowed i mean you don’t need to but you’ll need these souls for a ton of other crafting recipes in the future so you might as well get it set up now in a setup like

This didn’t take me long at all to get the souls i need last but not least we need souls of sight this is the only ingredient that pushes it over the pre-mech progression the twins can be quite a challenging fight so i’d recommend using a weapon like the sky

Fracture to keep your distance from the deadly attacks now that we’ve got all the ingredients we need we can craft the rainbow rod and anvil and put it up to the test but before we look any further i’m delighted to announce the sponsor of today’s episode apex gaming pcs the

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Rainbow rods performance shall we as mentioned the rod fire is a fast-moving projectile which can be controlled with the cursor if you continuously fire and release your attack button the missile will continue firing in the trajectory from your player what makes this great is its ability to pierce three enemies

Or hit one consecutively three times in a row it’s your choice whether you deal the bulk of damage to one target or less to three pretty cool functionality in practice the rainbow rod absolutely consumes this group of mummies i’d happily say this is one of the best

Crowd control weapons at this point in the game due to how much stuff it can hit at once the rod also performs brilliantly against enemies with higher max hps these mimics go down very quickly as the projectiles hum an almost chain between enemies dealing damage to multiple with each attack this homing

Ability can make it fantastic against bosses too and probably one of the most easy to use weapons in the game against the destroyer i could simply get up to a higher platform and spam the vote in the general direction of the destroyer while its dps isn’t anything insane it’s

Accessibility makes up for this i can pretty much tear my brain off during this fight even against the more complex boss like skeleton prime the only real input i needed was movement and attacking as long as i aimed in the general direction of the boss the projectiles were sure to hit it multiple

Times dealing damage to each of the prime segments this boss just seemed so vulnerable to this weapon if you’re struggling on killing prime i’d highly recommend using the rainbow rod so i guess it’s a question of is it worth it this really depends on what kind of

Terraria player you are i’d say that if you’re experienced and got your hands on something like the spirit flame nice and early you should stick with that as i’ll carry you to plantera however if you’re looking for something that may defeat bosses a bit slower it removes a lot of

Risk this is the weapon for you not to mention how damn awesome it looks what do you think have you used the rainbow rod let me know down below thanks for watching for more terraria content like this drop a like and subscribe and i’ll see you in the next one