Best Whips in Terraria (2023)

My Favorite Items Listed:

Terraria (Wiki): Dark Harvest

Pro and Cons:

Strengths

• Buff increases attack speed by 35%/3s.
• Provides light in dark/night areas.
• Great with rapidly-attacking minions than slower minions.

Weaknesses

• Very weak knockback.
• 10% less damage with each succeeding strike if it hits many targets in one attack.

Facts:

General Type: Summon Weapon

Damage value: 100 Health Points

Rarity: Yellow

Knockback: 3

Sell-Value: 10 Gold Coins

Buy-Value: Not sold

Use Time: 27

Required Research: 1

Velocity: 12

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Terraria (Wiki): Durendal

Pro and Cons:

Strengths

• Buff increases attack speed by 25%/3s.
• Provides light in dark/night areas.
• Second-highest amount of summon tag damage

Weaknesses

• Very weak knockback.
• 20% less damage with each succeeding strike if it hits many targets in one attack.

Facts:

General Type: Summon Weapon

Damage value: 55 Health Points

Rarity: Pink

Knockback: 2

Sell-Value: 4 Gold Coins & 60 Silver Coins

Buy-Value: Not sold

Use Time: 28

Required Research: 1

Velocity: 12

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Terraria (Wiki): Firecracker

Pro and Cons:

Strengths

• Viable even after defeating the Moon Lord.
• Unique summon tag effects.
• Good for exploring caves and finding ores.
• Great against slow-hitting minions with high base damage output.

Weaknesses

• Very weak knockback.
• Inflicted debuff is outperformed by other whip’s debuffs.
• 33% damage reduction penalty against multiple enemies.

Facts:

General Type: Summon Weapon

Damage value: 37 Health Points

Rarity: Light Red

Knockback: 2

Sell-Value: 3 Gold Coins

Buy-Value: Not sold

Use Time: 30

Required Research: 1

Velocity: 8

Special Properties:

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Terraria (Wiki): Kaleidoscope

Pro and Cons:

Strengths

• Strongest whip in all modes.
• Best for finding caves and ores.
• High summon tag damage.
• Decent extra critical hit chance.
• Great for waves of enemies.

Weaknesses

• Obtaining can get tricky.
• Weak knockback.
• 10% damage reduction penalty against multiple enemies.

Facts:

General Type: Summon Weapon

Damage value: 180 Health Points

Rarity: Yellow

Knockback: 4

Sell-Value: 5 Gold Coins

Buy-Value: Not sold

Use Time: 30

Required Research: 1

Velocity: 12

Special Properties:

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Terraria (Wiki): Leather Whip

Pro and Cons:

Strengths

• One of the two accessible whips early-game.
• Decent against small groups of enemies.

Weaknesses

• Weakest damage output versus other whips.
• 50% damage reduction penalty against multiple enemies.
• Extremely weak knockback.
• Terrible against large waves of enemies.

Facts:

General Type: Summon Weapon

Damage value: 14 Health Points

Rarity: Blue

Knockback: 1

Sell-Value: 2 Gold Coins

Buy-Value: 10 Gold Coins

Use Time: 30

Required Research: 1

Velocity: 8

Special Properties:

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Terraria (Wiki): Morning Star

Pro and Cons:

Strengths

• Exceptionally strong knockback.
• Offers the lowest damage reduction penalty among other whips.
• Offers the highest critical strike chance among other whips.

Weaknesses

• Slow attack speed.
• 5% damage reduction penalty against multiple enemies.

Facts:

General Type: Summon Weapon

Damage value: 165 Health Points

Rarity: Yellow

Knockback: 11

Sell-Value: 6 Gold Coins

Buy-Value: Not sold

Use Time: 35

Required Research: 1

Velocity: 8

Special Properties:

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Terraria (Wiki): Snapthorn

Pro and Cons:

Strengths

• Easy to obtain.
• Better damage versus early-game melee weapons.
• Granted buff improves attack speed.
• Inflicted debuff deals bonus damage.

Weaknesses

• Extremely weak knockback.
• Short range.
• 40% damage reduction penalty against multiple enemies.
• Better whips exist for waves of enemies.

Facts:

General Type: Summon Weapon

Damage value: 18 Health Points

Rarity: Orange

Knockback: 1.5

Sell-Value: 1 Gold Coin

Buy-Value: Not sold

Use Time: 30

Required Research: 1

Velocity: 8

Special Properties:

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Terraria (Wiki): Spinal Tap

Pro and Cons:

Strengths

• Strongest Pre-Hardmode whip.
• Easy to obtain.
• Great against waves of enemies.

Weaknesses

• Very weak knockback.
• 10% damage reduction penalty against multiple enemies.

Facts:

General Type: Summon Weapon

Damage value: 27 Health Points

Rarity: Green

Knockback: 2

Sell-Value: 1 Gold Coin & 50 Silver Coins

Buy-Value: Not sold

Use Time: 30

Required Research: 1

Velocity: 10

Special Properties:

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Terraria (Wiki): Cool Whip

Pro and Cons:

Strengths

• Inflicted debuff offers tremendous damage and crowd control.
• Cool Flake projectile has armor-penetrating capabilities.
• Decent for finding caves and ores.

Weaknesses

• Tricky to obtain.
• Extremely weak knockback.
• 30% damage reduction penalty against multiple enemies.

Facts:

General Type: Summon Weapon

Damage value: 45 Health Points

Rarity: Light Red

Knockback: 1.5

Sell-Value: 4 Gold Coins

Buy-Value: Not sold

Use Time: 30

Required Research: 1

Velocity: 8

Special Properties:

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Detailed Post — Terraria (Wiki): Cool Whip

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