@ewg5511 that changed in 1.4.4, vanilla sentries now have a “grace period” where they won’t shoot after being summoned. Thankfully this doesn’t apply to a lot of calamity sentries though
@@ChiefLogan_ probably my least favorite change, think it was part of the auto fire stuff too Hope and pray they can change it back I do Though that also applies to the caustic croaker staff, basically a magic weapon that does summon damage and you place it like a senty
thats howi used most of mine, many sentrys shoot as soon as they are placed, so you can recast and mvoe them aroudn constantly as you please for better dps butheariugn they changed it that is a big oof
Wait yoooooooooooo you actually did it!!! I’m stuck on exo mechs still on my sentry only run, this is incredibly impressive. I loved seeing what you and I did similarly and differently in this playthrough!
My commentary: I was always inspired by MrJFLs original sentry only run, so when they added a pumpkin themed sentry I had to try myself. I’ve only beaten calamity solo once and skipped some optional bosses so I was going in without much experience. I considered going death mode but I just settled for revengence. In prehardmode I went for a fully defensive build and didn’t really care for increased summoner damage from obsidian armor. Survivalbilitu was more important for me. I actually completely forgot about the Queen Spider Staff in hardmode and I killed destroyer with the Rusty Beacon Prototype. The lighting rod staff is actually able to do passive damage to neutral enemies! I don’t know when I figured that out but it’s super useful. DoG gave me a lot of trouble but after I fought it countless times I was finally able to do it. I was surprised the vortex sentry was able to do so much dps to it when you resummon it right onto DoG. I screamed when I won. I’ve never fought the old Duke before this playthrough, it was a very difficult fight for me but I actually became very consistent with it! Thank goodness because it would NOT give me the drop I made a machine for yharon that spawned mobs so the Cadaverous Carrion would always spawn damage cuz I couldn’t hit him. And that leads to today. It’s been almost a month since I started my playthrough, and with school, finals, and other responsibilities my run tapered off. I couldn’t kill exo yet, the furthest I got was past phase 2. I actually saw your comment on the no hit exomechs video, and was very excited! I couldn’t wait to see how you went about it! This was a great video and it never ceases to amaze me how you don’t have thousands of subs.
Thanks for watching it! Always interesting to see how different people tackle the same challenge. Taking down the destroyer with the rusty beacon is insane, I’m surprised it does enough damage to finish in one night! I think that’s the major theme of the sentry subclass though, weapons you think would be weak and outclassed end up doing better than some options you obtained later, just like you said with lunar portal vs DoG. I wish you the best of luck with the rest of your playthrough, I was so close to giving up against the exo mechs and if I didn’t find KRR’s video then I probably would have. Stick with it and keep trying, you’ll be glad you did!
@@ChiefLogan_ Thank you! I’ve have new found inspiration to complete it now seeing how satisfying your kill of the exos looked! Also many of the nighttime bosses just enrage in day time now, so the fight isn’t lost. I wasn’t using any mods other than calamity so I believe it’s part of it, useful information for future challenges!
People really do be underestimating the power of defensive equipments/everything in calamity. Even though the bosses hit like a truck going from getting 2 hit to 3 hit is a really big boost too lol.
I don’t think I’d have been able to do the run without them, while higher damage is nice it’s just not always viable for certain subclasses to go without defense boosts. The beauty of calamity is that there’s so many different defensive options that you can use one without others and still get a significant boost. Sometimes in vanilla it feels like you need to spec entirely into defense or entirely into damage
I love the fact that they implemented defense/DR damage and presumably buffed tank stats in order to make tanking viable but not facetanking. Tank builds my beloved
tbh Houndius Shootius isnt that good imo, and that's with the support of actual summons (I'm a summon main) if it had like, Piercing or something, or did some kind of small AOE _then_ I think it'd be quite good. But it's just like, a worse version of the Flame Sentry you get from the Tavernkeep. And if you can get that, you might as well just get the Ballista staff
despite *technically* being the same tier, clam soup is FAR more manageable than the mechs. They seem more like a superboss to me, while calamitas is just the final boss. INSANE beating her first try though! :)
Exo mechs are easier for me just bc how easy it is to save adrenaline running in a straight path when the 3 are together making one of the exo mechs to be completely destroyed
Idk, on my master death run the actual dodging patterns of exos were much easier and simpler than calamitas's. As long as you track ares's weapons, the other 2 are no big issue. Not to mention just how much more damage scal actually does..
tbh I could not agree less with a statement, Calamitas is one of the most annoying bosses for me due to forced segments of downtime, I much prefer action during a boss, nad being forced to stop and wait for the fight to continue is genuinely frustrating, the exo mechs are nowhere near as difficult for me and generally are much much easier due to being about to at least fight them without being interrupted
You know, from the view of someone who took 120+tries for d.o.g. with optimised setups, you doing it with the lunar portal looks like an absolute miracle... anyways, quite impressive stuff, especially the exo mechs.
"I'm not entirely sure who's in charge of balancing the hive pod, but I'd like to thank them for doing such a bad job." Wow, you're telling me that Calamity can't properly balance its content if the fate of the world depended on it? Shocker.
Why are there more terraria yt hidden gems than there are on earth, amazing editing and really high quality, what more do I have to say? Keep up the good work
Draedon had to watch as you progressively figured better tech to deal with the exo mechs, exploiting the limitations of the exo mechs, getting better each try. Much like he said "To experiment is to fail. To fail is to learn. To learn is to advance." This fight is canon as far as Im concerned
I've never played Terraria, I just like watching long videos of nerds talking about things I don't know, and I enjoyed this very much! One thing that surprised me though, is HOW MUCH Dungeon Defenders stuff is in Terraria!!!! I'm a HUGE DD fan, one of my favoritest games ever it's such a classic. I had heard that DD2 had a crossover, but I didn't know that Terraria did THIS MUCH for it!!!! I am STOKED. This being a Tower Defense challenge anyway, and that being what the Tavernkeep is made for apparently, awwww it's so awesome I am happy that this exists
Great job on beating calamity with arguably the hardest official sub-class listed on the wiki, it's very impressive to see it done in the modern time, since JLF's run is now pretty outdated, so it was intresting to see how someone would go about the run, though i do have my own thoughts on the run, and some optimizations that could be done, like for the Mechs you can get the Deep Diver accessory to get an early HM ram dash, to go through the prime melee arms or destroyer without taking damage. Or just gouing for Cryogen 1st, then fishing for crates to get an adamatite pickaxe, to mine the Cryonic ore to make the Ornate Shield. there are also a lot of other things that could be done, like progression skips to get some gear earlier and skipping harder bosses for the moment to get better gear for them, but i don't mean progressin skips as in the kind where you kill DoG before Old Duke, i mean skips like killing Ravager or Aureus pre-mechs to get good Sentries earlier, as in killing them with the Queen Spider Staff as they are both vare land based bosses especially Aureus, so it shouldn't be too bad to do, and after you get 1 mech dead it would be even faster to go for 1 of there 2 bosses and kill them for there loot, just to make the other mechs and rest of HM a cake walk. then we come to the Post-polterghast stage, where going for Blood Flare armor for more survivability would make it easier to out last OD, and going for DoG you should almost always have fleash totem on to not get 1 shot by the head, as the Flesh Totem halves contact damage every 20 seconds, this would also be pretty useful on Yharon, if you don't have the dash timeing fully memorized. Other differances include the fact that any of the Wing Boots Combinations are just not worth using ever, ther significantly worse Wings then other options and you just don't walk on the ground enough to justify the need for boots, pretty much after Mechs and Fairy Boots none of the boots help a run as much as a good Survivability accessory would, since you will be flying for most bosses and the ones you don't fly on ,you can bunny hop to keep up momentum with just Wings. and especially Seraph Tracers are the worst, as they used to be better then Drew's wings for everything outside of No-hits, for the better i-frames they gave, but now that that's not a thing anymore, there just flat out bad. this also means you only ever need to kill Providance once in Hell for the Shield, since the Elysian wings while the best pre-DoG, aren't that much better then Terragon Wings, and since you should upgrade to Silva Wings right after DoG the extra kill and hallowed arena prep are just a waste of time over all. the other changes to the run i can think of are more so out of preferance like accessory choice outside of the few key ones and what to use when and when, but other then that, there isn't that much else to say about this run form me.
Totally agree on wing-boots thing. Providence wings + lightning boots carried me through Old Duke and turned his fight into a cakewalk, while before it hardly seemed possible. Also i swapped all Absorber-like accessories for flat damage boosts, 'cause Absorber-likes have a lot of completely useless bonuses like boosts while standing still, mining speed or healing for 5 hp on receiving a 200+ hp hit.
I remember giving up on a sentry only chalenge, but my only encouragement to that decision was that I had made myself Crazy Dave! who else is a better character for such a class?
So glad I found your channel!! I love these videos so much and your narration. Very nice, light editing and a chill personality. True diamond in the rough right here!
the thing i love most about this video is the emphasis on importance of self boost ( with music ), i genuinely love watching these sorts of vids and then go back to play the game while experiencing certain soundtracks at my own will; whether it be from music boxes or play them on youtube
Let it be known, I was a big fan of your work before... Bit these edits are an amazing jump in quality! Can't wait for you to get the attention you rightfully deserve, because 9K subs is nowhere NEAR enough!👌
When it comes to the ending, technically EVERY boss can be beat with anything if you're good enough, it's just a matter of getting good enough at it, lol.
yooo wtf is this, you have some serious dedication to do this, and I'm just in the beginning of calamity standard expert because of my damaged left hand, this made me realise how painful calamity will be late game and even worse if i do revengence or death later on..... jesus but holy gg
just found you for the first time, under rated ass youtuber, you arent annoying, you make cool length content, you TEACH about the game. 10/10 channel would watch again
Ayeee congrats on the challenge , I was doing something similar myself after I saw your vanilla run though it got held up at moon lord and I ended up forgetting about it. Also I actually used the caustic croaker staff in order to beat slime god , unsure if it was changed since but it was insanely good for me then with a mix of ballista and the frogs
one thing i've found that helps with OOA is building a platform 10 blocks above the ground and then stacking Lightning Auras on top of each other, effectively doubling the damage they can do in an area. all you have to do is place one on the ground first and then on the platform above and they will overlap the circles, it works wonders. even more so if you use Hoiks to stop all grounded enemies from getting anywhere but some would argue that that is just trivializing the entire event. also that was an absolutely beautiful Yharon fight holy hell
44:18 this is why i don't like anything past moonlord in calamity, it turns terraria into a bullethell with bs coming from all directions with invincible phases
Did you know that most piercing weapons do vastly reduced damage against multi-segment bosses? That's to prevent cheese and absolutely annihilating those bosses shortly after they spawn. A lot of the non-piercing sentries would propably have done a much better job against DOG
Regarding the OoA Explosive Trap staff, it can be extremely good with a little arena prep IMO as you can use timed actuated blocks to drop the mines in one spot on top of the portal, a few of them can instantly kill most of the enemies as they emerge, flying or otherwise. (This same trick also is very good for the Lightning Aura staff IMO.) It'd be cool if higher tiers of it maybe had an alternate placement mode to make the mines magnetic or something though. Great video!
almost an hour only to get the deerclops sentry and putting on F tier, amazing
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My fav sentries are pseudo-sentries like Clinger Staff and Nimbus Rod. Clinger Staff can single-handedly take half of OOA by killing everything that comes out of one portal, while you only need to deal with the other.
I hope to do a pseudo-summoner run at some point using weapons like this and the piranha gun. Things that feel like summon weapons but arent
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@@ChiefLogan_ So many "melee" weapons are actually guns that people needed to come up with "true melee" as a thing. Terraria weapon categorization is weird.
The worst is probably one of yharon's drops, the burning sky, it is classified as a melee weapon despite having no melee capability AT ALL, projectiles don't even spawn near you (granted, this is more a magic weapon than a gun, but still)
What I find interesting about how Old Duke is designed is that, the fight itself is better left for after you beat DoG, but its loot is far inferior to the loot you get _from_ DoG.
Yeah I think he would fit better as the post-ML version of Duke. Able to be fought at any time but pretty difficult to beat early, with loot that makes other bosses much easier if you defeat it early. Would probably be best if his weapon drops had a similar DPS to DoG's weapons
smaller youtuber but amazing content creation. you are really a step ahead of a lot of terraria youtubers. just inspired my next play through of calamity 👍🏻
Good, you did it correctly this time (except for the lunatic cultist. KRR did without cheating, but whatever). It makes the video much more interesting
Bro fr ended the video killing Deerclops using weapons from literal gods and calling his weapon garbage just to disrespect him lmao😂 Edit: I like how you make this video and the amount of determination to take down the Exo Mechs😊
My favorite summon weapon is the Abyss bomb-summoning one, I beat Empress of Light with it and nothing else. It’s cool seeing you do this too but the entire game. I couldn’t possible do anything close to that Go you :D
@@ChiefLogan_ It's a whole new game at this point. Many many fun additions to make the subclass feel like it actually exists. I will always miss perdition being a broken mess of a sentry on launch but that's just a good memory now. But it does seem like the strat to rush OOA, then go on a Pre-HM boss rush has not changed at all.
@MrJFL unless vanilla nerf the first tier of OOA, I don’t see that ever changing. Going from one sentry slots to three is such a huge power boost that even without the four new weapons, it’d still be the meta
@MrJFL I think if I ever do a thorium run then OOA may be less of an overall power boost as there’s other items and armors that boost sentries. From what I can see it might be the mod that expands on sentries most. I’m excited to hear what you think of it once you’ve completed watching it! As I said above your run was a huge inspiration for both this video and the vanilla one
I did this run a month or so ago and it was really fun. I managed to get dreadmine staff before astrum aureus and found it was very affective against the boss. Hive pod OP.
Me struggling on my spell tomes only run right now, which is so much easier I assume, never did sentry only You over here just deciding to do sentries only Great video!
@@ChiefLogan_ The brain of Cthulhu was what it was when it went to 8 brains but if you just kill it after the perferators it's a lot easier to do. Just killed Skeletron and it was super easy, didn't build an arena. Last time I did this run, from my memories the slime gods were kind of painful
@@ChiefLogan_ nvm, just killed slime god easily. Yeah seyli is probably right about it not getting hard until post moonlord. If you want a harder experience you'd probably have to do death mode or infernum. From the research I did and gameplay so far, spell tome progression is also paced pretty well
Just a heads up you will not enjoy DoG. Been doing one myself for fun lately and that was one fight that took annoyingly long. But TBF I'm not optimizing arenas 24/7. Also just some advice: Abaddon line, Brimflame Armor, Prismatic Armor, and Blazing core are your friends. New parry mechanic is fun as hell and makes CV and Polterghast look like a fire sale on The Giant. Absolutely free.
@@ChiefLogan_ well yes, but considering you do not use other weapons (whips/classless), that drawback isnt really relevant. I have used the weapon in a regular playthrough and it deals quite a bit of dps considering its post eye. I can definitely say it's not f tier at the very least.
Honestly, I only decided to add the tier list element while I was editing the video. I didn’t want to have comments telling me I missed the deerclops one so jumped back into the world to add that bit at the end
I just was scrolling on TH-cam and found this video and I was like there’s no way he could do it..right? But slowly with determination and pushing through he did it! Chief Logan is a VERY UNDERRATED TH-camR and very good. now do it in infernum mode🗣️
Exo mechs are the biggest barrier preventing me going back to Calamity - I despise that boss with every fiber of my being Boss quality has fallen off drastically in the last 2 or so years With that being said, this is an amazing video :)
Yeah they’re one of my least favourite too, feels much more chaotic than any other boss and while there’s *technically* a pattern to it all, it’s in no way apparent without being told/shown it
@@ChiefLogan_ 100% Would be a lot better if the separate mechs used fixed combination attacks that involved aspects of all currently active mechs :/ Unfortunately we just get semi-structured mech mayhem
This was a load of fun to watch, and probably a pain to get through. But with the sentries as magic weapon idea; I feel the Ballistae with their ability to fire upon summoning, maybe should've been highe in the B tier if not low to mid A tier.
Unfortunately that’s not the case any more after 1.4.4 - all vanilla sentries now have a couple seconds of cool down after they’re placed before they can shoot
Having done this a while back (before exo mechs were out) I watched the whole thing wondering when the resummoning sentries shoe was gonna drop, esp after WOF XD (ballista resummon is, or at least used to be, one of the highest damage strats for summoner wof fight, even in calamity). Glad it got you through the exo mechs, that boss can be a tough fight at the best of times!
The issue with resummoning ballistas now is that most vanilla sentries have a cool-down after being placed before they can fire. That kinda got me used to not spam placing them even though calamity sentries don’t have the same restriction
"Sentrys is a magic weapon" is actually the best line i have ever heard
Isn't that's how they used in vanilla tho?
I thought spaming ballistas/hydras so they instantly shoot was common knowledge.
@@ewg5511 sentries are so bad that i have never used them
@ewg5511 that changed in 1.4.4, vanilla sentries now have a “grace period” where they won’t shoot after being summoned. Thankfully this doesn’t apply to a lot of calamity sentries though
@@ChiefLogan_ probably my least favorite change, think it was part of the auto fire stuff too
Hope and pray they can change it back I do
Though that also applies to the caustic croaker staff, basically a magic weapon that does summon damage and you place it like a senty
thats howi used most of mine, many sentrys shoot as soon as they are placed, so you can recast and mvoe them aroudn constantly as you please for better dps
butheariugn they changed it that is a big oof
Wait yoooooooooooo you actually did it!!! I’m stuck on exo mechs still on my sentry only run, this is incredibly impressive. I loved seeing what you and I did similarly and differently in this playthrough!
My commentary:
I was always inspired by MrJFLs original sentry only run, so when they added a pumpkin themed sentry I had to try myself. I’ve only beaten calamity solo once and skipped some optional bosses so I was going in without much experience. I considered going death mode but I just settled for revengence.
In prehardmode I went for a fully defensive build and didn’t really care for increased summoner damage from obsidian armor. Survivalbilitu was more important for me.
I actually completely forgot about the Queen Spider Staff in hardmode and I killed destroyer with the Rusty Beacon Prototype.
The lighting rod staff is actually able to do passive damage to neutral enemies! I don’t know when I figured that out but it’s super useful.
DoG gave me a lot of trouble but after I fought it countless times I was finally able to do it. I was surprised the vortex sentry was able to do so much dps to it when you resummon it right onto DoG.
I screamed when I won.
I’ve never fought the old Duke before this playthrough, it was a very difficult fight for me but I actually became very consistent with it! Thank goodness because it would NOT give me the drop
I made a machine for yharon that spawned mobs so the Cadaverous Carrion would always spawn damage cuz I couldn’t hit him.
And that leads to today. It’s been almost a month since I started my playthrough, and with school, finals, and other responsibilities my run tapered off. I couldn’t kill exo yet, the furthest I got was past phase 2. I actually saw your comment on the no hit exomechs video, and was very excited! I couldn’t wait to see how you went about it! This was a great video and it never ceases to amaze me how you don’t have thousands of subs.
Thanks for watching it! Always interesting to see how different people tackle the same challenge. Taking down the destroyer with the rusty beacon is insane, I’m surprised it does enough damage to finish in one night!
I think that’s the major theme of the sentry subclass though, weapons you think would be weak and outclassed end up doing better than some options you obtained later, just like you said with lunar portal vs DoG.
I wish you the best of luck with the rest of your playthrough, I was so close to giving up against the exo mechs and if I didn’t find KRR’s video then I probably would have. Stick with it and keep trying, you’ll be glad you did!
@@ChiefLogan_ Thank you! I’ve have new found inspiration to complete it now seeing how satisfying your kill of the exos looked! Also many of the nighttime bosses just enrage in day time now, so the fight isn’t lost. I wasn’t using any mods other than calamity so I believe it’s part of it, useful information for future challenges!
@mujack3272 that’s good to know, I’ll probably still try to defeat them before day but I guess some challenges might need that extra time
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People really do be underestimating the power of defensive equipments/everything in calamity. Even though the bosses hit like a truck going from getting 2 hit to 3 hit is a really big boost too lol.
I don’t think I’d have been able to do the run without them, while higher damage is nice it’s just not always viable for certain subclasses to go without defense boosts. The beauty of calamity is that there’s so many different defensive options that you can use one without others and still get a significant boost. Sometimes in vanilla it feels like you need to spec entirely into defense or entirely into damage
Bosses have so much mobility and what not it's always better to have mobility and def you rarely get a chance to hit a boss with your maximum output
Defense boosts and Warding is peak, all my homies hate Menacing
I love the fact that they implemented defense/DR damage and presumably buffed tank stats in order to make tanking viable but not facetanking. Tank builds my beloved
Deerclops such a forgettable boss that Logan didn't even try to get Houndius Shootius 😓
Deerclops once again proven to be absolute failure of a boss
@@exploertm8738 But his music is gas
tbh Houndius Shootius isnt that good imo, and that's with the support of actual summons (I'm a summon main)
if it had like, Piercing or something, or did some kind of small AOE _then_ I think it'd be quite good. But it's just like, a worse version of the Flame Sentry you get from the Tavernkeep. And if you can get that, you might as well just get the Ballista staff
despite *technically* being the same tier, clam soup is FAR more manageable than the mechs. They seem more like a superboss to me, while calamitas is just the final boss.
INSANE beating her first try though! :)
I completely agree, SCal feels much easier than the Exo Mechs and I can’t understand why they’re considered on the same tier
Exo mechs are easier for me just bc how easy it is to save adrenaline running in a straight path when the 3 are together making one of the exo mechs to be completely destroyed
Idk, on my master death run the actual dodging patterns of exos were much easier and simpler than calamitas's. As long as you track ares's weapons, the other 2 are no big issue. Not to mention just how much more damage scal actually does..
@@ChiefLogan_exomechs is easier if you have good mobility, SCal doesn’t benefit from it nearly as much
tbh I could not agree less with a statement, Calamitas is one of the most annoying bosses for me due to forced segments of downtime, I much prefer action during a boss, nad being forced to stop and wait for the fight to continue is genuinely frustrating, the exo mechs are nowhere near as difficult for me and generally are much much easier due to being about to at least fight them without being interrupted
that shrek x old ones army edit was so well done. great video man keep it up
You know, from the view of someone who took 120+tries for d.o.g. with optimised setups, you doing it with the lunar portal looks like an absolute miracle... anyways, quite impressive stuff, especially the exo mechs.
Thank you! DoG is a boss I struggle with at the best of times, so it’s no surprise he held me up in this run
@@ChiefLogan_The fact it only took you 64 attempts with early post moon lord weapons is absolutely insane, props for that you madlad
@@ChiefLogan_ I’ve been attempting infernum dog with my brother, it took us about 70+ attempts to kill him 😭
Nah it a dog how yall losing
It a joke ik what it means
9:25 i did old one's army so many times and never thought about placing ballistas above to deal with wyverns more effectively. You genius
"I'm not entirely sure who's in charge of balancing the hive pod, but I'd like to thank them for doing such a bad job."
Wow, you're telling me that Calamity can't properly balance its content if the fate of the world depended on it? Shocker.
"perfectly balanced" -getgoodwo
Your editing, dedication, and humor are worth a lot. I hope you get big on TH-cam.
Thank you so much!
Why are there more terraria yt hidden gems than there are on earth, amazing editing and really high quality, what more do I have to say? Keep up the good work
Draedon had to watch as you progressively figured better tech to deal with the exo mechs, exploiting the limitations of the exo mechs, getting better each try. Much like he said "To experiment is to fail. To fail is to learn. To learn is to advance."
This fight is canon as far as Im concerned
Fun fact: you need to dodge the projectiles
Wait, what??
As calamity said itself: "If you keep having trouble staying alive, that's a skill issue."
I've never played Terraria, I just like watching long videos of nerds talking about things I don't know, and I enjoyed this very much! One thing that surprised me though, is HOW MUCH Dungeon Defenders stuff is in Terraria!!!! I'm a HUGE DD fan, one of my favoritest games ever it's such a classic. I had heard that DD2 had a crossover, but I didn't know that Terraria did THIS MUCH for it!!!! I am STOKED. This being a Tower Defense challenge anyway, and that being what the Tavernkeep is made for apparently, awwww it's so awesome I am happy that this exists
Welcome to the list of terraria youtubers with top tier editing videos that are too underrated.
You keep going my man, you're doing good.
Thank you! That means a lot to me :)
Great job on beating calamity with arguably the hardest official sub-class listed on the wiki, it's very impressive to see it done in the modern time, since JLF's run is now pretty outdated, so it was intresting to see how someone would go about the run, though i do have my own thoughts on the run, and some optimizations that could be done, like for the Mechs you can get the Deep Diver accessory to get an early HM ram dash, to go through the prime melee arms or destroyer without taking damage. Or just gouing for Cryogen 1st, then fishing for crates to get an adamatite pickaxe, to mine the Cryonic ore to make the Ornate Shield.
there are also a lot of other things that could be done, like progression skips to get some gear earlier and skipping harder bosses for the moment to get better gear for them, but i don't mean progressin skips as in the kind where you kill DoG before Old Duke, i mean skips like killing Ravager or Aureus pre-mechs to get good Sentries earlier, as in killing them with the Queen Spider Staff as they are both vare land based bosses especially Aureus, so it shouldn't be too bad to do, and after you get 1 mech dead it would be even faster to go for 1 of there 2 bosses and kill them for there loot, just to make the other mechs and rest of HM a cake walk.
then we come to the Post-polterghast stage, where going for Blood Flare armor for more survivability would make it easier to out last OD, and going for DoG you should almost always have fleash totem on to not get 1 shot by the head, as the Flesh Totem halves contact damage every 20 seconds, this would also be pretty useful on Yharon, if you don't have the dash timeing fully memorized.
Other differances include the fact that any of the Wing Boots Combinations are just not worth using ever, ther significantly worse Wings then other options and you just don't walk on the ground enough to justify the need for boots, pretty much after Mechs and Fairy Boots none of the boots help a run as much as a good Survivability accessory would, since you will be flying for most bosses and the ones you don't fly on ,you can bunny hop to keep up momentum with just Wings. and especially Seraph Tracers are the worst, as they used to be better then Drew's wings for everything outside of No-hits, for the better i-frames they gave, but now that that's not a thing anymore, there just flat out bad.
this also means you only ever need to kill Providance once in Hell for the Shield, since the Elysian wings while the best pre-DoG, aren't that much better then Terragon Wings, and since you should upgrade to Silva Wings right after DoG the extra kill and hallowed arena prep are just a waste of time over all.
the other changes to the run i can think of are more so out of preferance like accessory choice outside of the few key ones and what to use when and when, but other then that, there isn't that much else to say about this run form me.
Totally agree on wing-boots thing. Providence wings + lightning boots carried me through Old Duke and turned his fight into a cakewalk, while before it hardly seemed possible.
Also i swapped all Absorber-like accessories for flat damage boosts, 'cause Absorber-likes have a lot of completely useless bonuses like boosts while standing still, mining speed or healing for 5 hp on receiving a 200+ hp hit.
I remember giving up on a sentry only chalenge, but my only encouragement to that decision was that I had made myself Crazy Dave! who else is a better character for such a class?
So glad I found your channel!! I love these videos so much and your narration. Very nice, light editing and a chill personality. True diamond in the rough right here!
the thing i love most about this video is the emphasis on importance of self boost ( with music ), i genuinely love watching these sorts of vids and then go back to play the game while experiencing certain soundtracks at my own will; whether it be from music boxes or play them on youtube
33:46 I feel this entire part so much, I suck without music so the moment I have good music to back up my gameplay I too cook, and so did you
I love your content! It was so fun to watch, hope you'll be making more challenges! And please take care of yourself especially your mentality.
Thank you so much! I’m at a better place mentally when it comes to TH-cam than I have been for a long time, looking forward to the next few videos!
Ngl this video was really well put together and I appreciated it through and through, nice work man you’re up one sub 🙏🙏
The cinematics between chapters are just chefs kiss.
Great pacing, great narration, great editing - you've got yourself a new subscriber
Thank you very much!
jumping on a pyukumuku to fall faster was not one of the things i expected LMAO nice run
W vid man! I actually couldn't believe this video was an hour long. It definitely didn't feel that way. Amazing editing
Let it be known, I was a big fan of your work before...
Bit these edits are an amazing jump in quality! Can't wait for you to get the attention you rightfully deserve, because 9K subs is nowhere NEAR enough!👌
Thank you so much Alex!
When it comes to the ending, technically EVERY boss can be beat with anything if you're good enough, it's just a matter of getting good enough at it, lol.
yooo wtf is this, you have some serious dedication to do this, and I'm just in the beginning of calamity standard expert because of my damaged left hand, this made me realise how painful calamity will be late game and even worse if i do revengence or death later on.....
jesus but holy gg
Watching you slowly get better at your shield bashes was so satisfying.
Love the edits you do . great humor as well with selected clips
just found you for the first time, under rated ass youtuber, you arent annoying, you make cool length content, you TEACH about the game. 10/10 channel would watch again
Love the editing especially when a new chapter comes. Definetely gonna watch you more.
Summoner is my favorite class, so this challenge sounds really fun!!! Also Rusty Beacon is OP fr
Man, hearing the Cryogen theme during your video (the very best OST of the entire mod in my opinion) made me want to play Calamity again. Good stuff.
Ayeee congrats on the challenge , I was doing something similar myself after I saw your vanilla run though it got held up at moon lord and I ended up forgetting about it.
Also I actually used the caustic croaker staff in order to beat slime god , unsure if it was changed since but it was insanely good for me then with a mix of ballista and the frogs
I’ve always got respect for calamity challenge runs since the mod contains so much content. Great video.
What I learned from this, is everything is possible through enough dying and defence. Especially defence. Defence over damage almost always.
man the disrespect on the deerclops at the end. not even giving it a mention or just a slightly bigger segment
Voice so smooth I fell asleep, video so good I woke back up and watched it again so I could actually watch the content
Damn the quality of your videos just keeps getting better! Fantastic video on a very fun challenge
that end bit was great, well done on the run
Thank you!
8:40 that transition killed me 😂
what a video guys, so glad i discover this chanel here. your content is pretty good man ❤
This honestly deserves more views great editing
one thing i've found that helps with OOA is building a platform 10 blocks above the ground and then stacking Lightning Auras on top of each other, effectively doubling the damage they can do in an area. all you have to do is place one on the ground first and then on the platform above and they will overlap the circles, it works wonders.
even more so if you use Hoiks to stop all grounded enemies from getting anywhere but some would argue that that is just trivializing the entire event.
also that was an absolutely beautiful Yharon fight holy hell
44:18 this is why i don't like anything past moonlord in calamity, it turns terraria into a bullethell with bs coming from all directions with invincible phases
What's the song at 11:20, it goes insanely hard
That’s the hive mind theme iirc
Did you know that most piercing weapons do vastly reduced damage against multi-segment bosses? That's to prevent cheese and absolutely annihilating those bosses shortly after they spawn. A lot of the non-piercing sentries would propably have done a much better job against DOG
The editing is on point !
The fact that the calamity mod has an actual subclass for senterys in it is nice for this run.
Does it? I was using vanilla armor and accessories to fight the Exo Mechs because calamity doesn’t add anything that gives sentry slots
@@ChiefLogan_he prob means calamity overhaul mod
8:42 This was a legitimately really impressive edit.
42:59 "Blurp-blurp-blurp-blurp-blurp-blurp-blurp-blurp-bluoorgh" 🙏
Regarding the OoA Explosive Trap staff, it can be extremely good with a little arena prep IMO as you can use timed actuated blocks to drop the mines in one spot on top of the portal, a few of them can instantly kill most of the enemies as they emerge, flying or otherwise. (This same trick also is very good for the Lightning Aura staff IMO.)
It'd be cool if higher tiers of it maybe had an alternate placement mode to make the mines magnetic or something though.
Great video!
almost an hour only to get the deerclops sentry and putting on F tier, amazing
My fav sentries are pseudo-sentries like Clinger Staff and Nimbus Rod. Clinger Staff can single-handedly take half of OOA by killing everything that comes out of one portal, while you only need to deal with the other.
I hope to do a pseudo-summoner run at some point using weapons like this and the piranha gun. Things that feel like summon weapons but arent
@@ChiefLogan_ So many "melee" weapons are actually guns that people needed to come up with "true melee" as a thing. Terraria weapon categorization is weird.
The worst is probably one of yharon's drops, the burning sky, it is classified as a melee weapon despite having no melee capability AT ALL, projectiles don't even spawn near you (granted, this is more a magic weapon than a gun, but still)
playing calamity without music is a torture
What I find interesting about how Old Duke is designed is that, the fight itself is better left for after you beat DoG, but its loot is far inferior to the loot you get _from_ DoG.
Yeah I think he would fit better as the post-ML version of Duke. Able to be fought at any time but pretty difficult to beat early, with loot that makes other bosses much easier if you defeat it early. Would probably be best if his weapon drops had a similar DPS to DoG's weapons
smaller youtuber but amazing content creation. you are really a step ahead of a lot of terraria youtubers. just inspired my next play through of calamity 👍🏻
Couldn't agree more just imagine waffletime,cjdeathbot and this legend doing multiplayer
Ah yes, the Cadaverous Carrion. Also known as the "Screw everything in that general direction" sentry.
Me, sick on a thirsday night deciding to watch this begining to the end just because.
Now do infurnum…. (don’t feel pressure and don’t do it if you feel like it’s too much) (really enjoyed the vid)
I do need to play infernum at some point, but probably not with a restriction as heavy as this
Dude you’re seriously underrated, I’m subscribing immediately!
forgetting to turn revengeance mode on at the start of the playthrough is so relatable
The scene from Harry Potter is the best joke of this video. I smiled. 😁
Good, you did it correctly this time (except for the lunatic cultist. KRR did without cheating, but whatever). It makes the video much more interesting
This sounds like pure pain, torture, and suffering
Bro fr ended the video killing Deerclops using weapons from literal gods and calling his weapon garbage just to disrespect him lmao😂
Edit: I like how you make this video and the amount of determination to take down the Exo Mechs😊
For deerclops placement in progression, his drops overall should be much more usable
The tier list was a nice touch to this video
The chapter 3 clip with the twins as harry potter's eyes was honestly more unsettling than the actual spiders from that scene
My favorite summon weapon is the Abyss bomb-summoning one, I beat Empress of Light with it and nothing else. It’s cool seeing you do this too but the entire game. I couldn’t possible do anything close to that
Go you :D
I wonder if it got nerfed at some point, because in this playthrough it was pretty bad compared to other on-tier options
No I used it in a different way you did
I also just purely liked the idea of it
yooooooooooooooooooo another cool challenge! I believe MrJFL did this a few years back, can't wait to see it done in modern calamity!
His series was a massive inspiration for this playthrough! I wanted to see how different it would be now that calamity has some pre-boss sentries
@@ChiefLogan_ It's a whole new game at this point. Many many fun additions to make the subclass feel like it actually exists. I will always miss perdition being a broken mess of a sentry on launch but that's just a good memory now. But it does seem like the strat to rush OOA, then go on a Pre-HM boss rush has not changed at all.
@MrJFL unless vanilla nerf the first tier of OOA, I don’t see that ever changing. Going from one sentry slots to three is such a huge power boost that even without the four new weapons, it’d still be the meta
@@ChiefLogan_ Oh easily. I wouldn't see it changing either. Just an observation. Haven't seen your whole run yet BTW but I will eventually.
@MrJFL I think if I ever do a thorium run then OOA may be less of an overall power boost as there’s other items and armors that boost sentries. From what I can see it might be the mod that expands on sentries most. I’m excited to hear what you think of it once you’ve completed watching it! As I said above your run was a huge inspiration for both this video and the vanilla one
Wild how the Moonlord's theme fits so well with the D.O.G. fight
Hey this is a pretty cool video! Must have taken a while but totally worth it
dude did a whole challenge playthrough just to roast a summon item
I did this run a month or so ago and it was really fun. I managed to get dreadmine staff before astrum aureus and found it was very affective against the boss. Hive pod OP.
Me struggling on my spell tomes only run right now, which is so much easier I assume, never did sentry only
You over here just deciding to do sentries only
Great video!
Good luck with it! What part are you struggling with? I’ve considered a spell tomes run before so would be good to know ahead of time
@@ChiefLogan_ i am also doing a spell tome only run, and i am struggling in post-moon lord, but pre-hardmode and hardmode were easy
@@ChiefLogan_ The brain of Cthulhu was what it was when it went to 8 brains but if you just kill it after the perferators it's a lot easier to do. Just killed Skeletron and it was super easy, didn't build an arena. Last time I did this run, from my memories the slime gods were kind of painful
@@ChiefLogan_ nvm, just killed slime god easily. Yeah seyli is probably right about it not getting hard until post moonlord. If you want a harder experience you'd probably have to do death mode or infernum. From the research I did and gameplay so far, spell tome progression is also paced pretty well
Just a heads up you will not enjoy DoG. Been doing one myself for fun lately and that was one fight that took annoyingly long. But TBF I'm not optimizing arenas 24/7. Also just some advice: Abaddon line, Brimflame Armor, Prismatic Armor, and Blazing core are your friends. New parry mechanic is fun as hell and makes CV and Polterghast look like a fire sale on The Giant. Absolutely free.
Very good video. I love these types of challenge runs
Blud really said caustic croaker staff is bad because you need to use it more times than one😭
For a sentry, that’s a pretty massive drawback
@@ChiefLogan_ well yes, but considering you do not use other weapons (whips/classless), that drawback isnt really relevant. I have used the weapon in a regular playthrough and it deals quite a bit of dps considering its post eye. I can definitely say it's not f tier at the very least.
Chapters were an awesome touch bro
"...F Tier."
Why does it suddenly feel like this whole journey was just for that massive middle finger move?
Honestly, I only decided to add the tier list element while I was editing the video. I didn’t want to have comments telling me I missed the deerclops one so jumped back into the world to add that bit at the end
Using a boss playlist actually gives a +50% skill boost, it's pretty much a free buff
you are criminally underrated
slamming my head against my desk at the lack of rod of discord use
I did this on master mode revengence around 7 months ago, I can tell you I cried literal tears of joy when I beat scal.
i like the addition of a tierlist
I just was scrolling on TH-cam and found this video and I was like there’s no way he could do it..right? But slowly with determination and pushing through he did it! Chief Logan is a VERY UNDERRATED TH-camR and very good.
now do it in infernum mode🗣️
Just started the vid, glad you have another banger!
When Guidelight of Oblivion (my beloved) is ranked in C, I cried a bit. I guess it isn't as strong as it used to be!
Exo mechs are the biggest barrier preventing me going back to Calamity - I despise that boss with every fiber of my being
Boss quality has fallen off drastically in the last 2 or so years
With that being said, this is an amazing video :)
Yeah they’re one of my least favourite too, feels much more chaotic than any other boss and while there’s *technically* a pattern to it all, it’s in no way apparent without being told/shown it
@@ChiefLogan_ 100%
Would be a lot better if the separate mechs used fixed combination attacks that involved aspects of all currently active mechs :/
Unfortunately we just get semi-structured mech mayhem
ah yes, old duke, everyone's least favorite boss, being annoying? what a surprise
"diviririr of gods" beautiful
This video is approved by me, this just means I like it and also that you need therapy after this
This was a load of fun to watch, and probably a pain to get through. But with the sentries as magic weapon idea; I feel the Ballistae with their ability to fire upon summoning, maybe should've been highe in the B tier if not low to mid A tier.
Unfortunately that’s not the case any more after 1.4.4 - all vanilla sentries now have a couple seconds of cool down after they’re placed before they can shoot
Having done this a while back (before exo mechs were out) I watched the whole thing wondering when the resummoning sentries shoe was gonna drop, esp after WOF XD (ballista resummon is, or at least used to be, one of the highest damage strats for summoner wof fight, even in calamity). Glad it got you through the exo mechs, that boss can be a tough fight at the best of times!
The issue with resummoning ballistas now is that most vanilla sentries have a cool-down after being placed before they can fire. That kinda got me used to not spam placing them even though calamity sentries don’t have the same restriction
@@ChiefLogan_ Oh fair, forgot they implemented that.
Isn't there a sentry from deerclops?
Oh, oh wait that's hilarious.
great playthrough, now do infernum
R.i.p bros sanity even his therapist doesn't help him
Best ending to a terraria video I’ve ever seen😂😂😂
MR JFL MENTIONED PEAK CONTENT 🗣🗣🗣🗣