
You'll need to wait a while before you can properly choose your class: it's unlikely you'll get class-specific armour until you've taken out the first few bosses. Summoner is the closest you'll get to a mixed class, and it's handy for farming specific ores. That said, you'll need a backup weapon if enemies get dangerously close. Summoners call on spiders, imps, and dragons to do their fighting for them. If you prefer to delegate tasks rather than do the dirty work yourself, this is the class for you.

While mages can unleash high damage, their relative lack of armour means you needplenty of healing potions in your inventory. Later on you'll wield massive beams of light, meteor showers, and a rainbow gun. This includes ray guns, short range spikes, and controllable fireballs-and that's just the early game. Terraria mage builds offer some frankly obnoxious spells. That might sound cool, but you'll need to grind to keep on time of crafting your special ammo stocks. What's more, you have special weapons that turn your arrows into bees, or fire piranhas. Ranged characters use a combination of bows and guns to deal huge damage quickly. Melee armour boasts the highest defensive values in the game, so this is a great class for beginners. While some of the weapons this class uses are designed for close-quarters combat, we also get boomerangs, and projectile-firing swords. In most cases, melee characters are close-range fighters who hit things, but that's not always the case in Terraria. There's is a fifth class-one that uses throwing weapons-it gets outclassed so quickly you're better off sticking to one of the others. While it's possible to mix and match these classes, it's rarely wise to. Rather than being based on stats or anything that a traditional RPG would use, your class is defined by your equipment. If you're in that camp, or you're just looking for a refresher, below is our breakdown, along with the equipment you should be keeping an eye out for. In fact, it's hardly mentioned at all, its existence may even be news to you. Among the game's many systems, there are few as poorly explained as the Terraria classes system.

Welcome to our guide to the best Terraria builds.
