The Dichotomy of the Shroomite Helmet

The Dichotomy of the Shroomite Helmet

There are two things you need to know about the shite helmet one good and one bad and how they interact with each other first the good bit unlike most stat Buffs and armor or accessories shite headpieces bonuses are multiplicative not additive meaning they’re a lot more potent but what does

That mean let’s say you have a range damage boost of plus 70% and you’re about to equip an accessory that boosts range damage by 15% say the ranger envelope when you equip the accessory your range damage boost goes from plus 7 % to plus 85% an increase of plus 15% pretty

Standard this is an additive boost which is what most boosts in Terraria are additive boosts work relative to the base damage not the post boost final damage so the difference between having equipped and not is less than 15% in this case it would be a roughly 8.8% difference between having the emblem

Equipped and not meanwhile multiplicative Buffs are just the opposite multiplicative bonuses apply relative to the final damage not the base this makes them much more potent and their potency relatively increases as your final damage gets increased by other additive boosts with an additive plus 70% damage a 15% multiplicative boost would be equivalent

To an additive boost of plus 25.5% and at 100% damage is equivalent to plus 30% being multiplicative this means the shite head Pie’s boosts are much more powerful than the 15% boost implies relative to the other boosts in the game meaning that you really really want to use them however this is

Countered by the second bit you may know that ammunition has a range damage stat just like weapons most boosts in the game apply to both the weapon and its ammunition creating a single uniform boost across both however the shite headpieces being specialized only apply to the weapon not the

Ammunition this means that relative to other boosts the trite headpieces are a bit less effective as the boosts apply to less damage and as the ammunition becomes relatively stronger compared to the weapon the shite headpieces Buffs become relatively weaker as they apply to less of the total damage we can draw

The conclusion then that is possible that our ammunition is so relatively powerful that the loss from the shit’s boost only applying to the weapon outweighs the gain for the multiplicative bonus even at high additive damage levels the prime example of this is the shite helmet plus a launcher like the Snowman Cannon an

Unreal snowman Cannon has a base damage of 77 and many n ones have a b base damage of 75 as you can tell here the ammunition makes up almost half of your base damage and remember that half is entirely unaffected by the shite helmet’s boost the math works out that

At a typical crit chance and enemy defense you need north of 200% additive damage in order to make the shat helmet better than the Adamantite mask which is the next best helmet yeah that’s an unrealistic amount at standard additive damage amount the other mask will Edge

Out the shite mask by about four or so% that’s pretty significant most launchers like a snowman Cannon electrosphere launcher Jackal Lantern launcher or rocket launcher suffer from this issue they have nearly one to one weapon to ammo damage ratios in this case it is better to use the Adamantite mask versus a

Shite helmet if you don’t want to get Adamantite hell using a h helmet would still be better it’s one less shite PC of The Craft so just do it no one uses a stealth anyway as for the shite headgear and shite mask it’s more of a next bag

Bows and guns have a much better weapon to ammo damage ratio than launchers typically are around 3:1 to 6:1 instead of 1:1 you will still need some DPS for the shite to be better typically around 40% for guns and 60% for bows but in these cases the shite headpieces will be

Very very slightly better so in conclusion you can say three things one if you’re using launchers don’t use a shite helmet it’s generally going to be much better and cheaper to use the Adamantite mask or Hollow helmet save yourself some working resources the only time you should be making a shite helmet

Is if you plan to M the Stinger or nail gun two the multiplicative bonus of the shite set isn’t what it seems when looking at it on paper it seems almost uniquely broken but this ammo trade-off almost cancels it out in a way it’s a lot weaker than you think it also

Doesn’t help that the shite helmet has 5% less crit chance in its animatic counterpart as well since crit chance works like a multiplicative damage buff this is pretty significant and last ly three even when using the mask with bullets and headgear with arrows the benefits of using shite are marginal

Especially with non-dps builds note that the CC perc and defense values I’ve used throughout this video are already rather generous to D sh my headpieces if you weren’t buff with high Cc or using iore the adant type mask would be even more effective even when using bullets or

Arrows it still might be better to not use shite the on paper damage loss is minimal and this opens the possibility of using multi multiple weapons and mixing armor while increasing flexibility at low damage levels or with tank builds whether you want to use the adaman type mask over the shite head

Gear or mask is your choice but if there’s anything we can agree on it’s that a shite helmet is almost always a bad choice and that is the case against the trite helmet hello if you enjoyed this video consider subscribing as it helps support the channel thank you to bacon fry for

Helping me process the math of this video your help was much appreciated either the way though thank you for watching in and good day and goodbye see you next Week

The Dichotomy of the Shroomite Helmet
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:07 The first bit: multiplicativity
1:32 The second bit: weapons-only boosts
2:08 Can the second bit make the Shroomite Helmet worse?
2:21 An example of the Helmet being bad: rockets
3:27 How about the Headgear and Mask?
3:49 Conclusions and stuff
5:18 Outro

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The Dichotomy of the Shroomite Helmet