Board Thread:Guides/@comment-25352567-20150426200123

So Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you what I feel to be the most op class atm.

Your Character:

You will want to create an antman and make him a merchant when available.

Status and Class points:

For the status points, there are 2 ways you can do it (depending on what sort of damage you want to be doing (ranged or melee)).

1: Split your points into Vitality and Strength equally.

2: Split your points into Vitality and Dexterity equally.

Bare in mind, both are equally good until very very late game where I would say ranged is just slightly better. (Remember, you can always swap out your status points with a "The Almighty Stick".

For the class skills, you want to max Discount, Overcharge, All my Loots, Coin Speciality, Toss Coin

Place the rest of the points in the Merchant's Eye skill

How to play it:

Due to the large amount of money that you are able to accumulate as the merchant, you will be able to easily refine your weapons at the blacksmith, this will give you a ridiculous amount of damage, attack speed/shoot speed and mine speed [on tools].

You probably will not need a sword pre-hardmode either because you will be doing so much damage with a pickaxe due to the refinements.

The reason for taking antman:

You will be able to mine RIDICULOUSLY FAST so why not mine faster with the 3x3 mining? (Plus the entire take no fall damage thing is really nice to have early on).

Things to be careful of:

When you are refining your weapons, make sure they don't get too fast otherwise you will find yourself having to waste a ton of money selling then re-buying your weapon so that it has 0 refinements on it again. The reason for this is because if you get too much attack speed, there will be very little animation on hold-click swords (and it will only do damage where there is an animation) and with guns, having too fast a shoot speed will mean for no bullets actually being shot.

Be careful when building with a very refinined hammer with smart-cursor on as a very large amount of wall will be gone :P (especially an iron/lead hammer (these 2 are the fastest when fully refined (this is because you are able to put more refines on a low tier item than a top tier item))). (Same for very refines pickaxes).

Other things you may want to know:

You can refine accessories and armour so make use of that. (Accessories will give bonus speed %).

I have managed to make the MVR42 (a better Uzi) shoot about 100 bullets in about 4 seconds (if you don't know how fast this is, take the chaingun for instance and double, it's speed while it having a 100% accuracy rate) and the PXL300 (another sniper rifle) shoot about 10 bullets in about 2 seconds so be very aware that your ammo will disappear very VERY VERY fast!

So this is my guide on how to make a very very op merchant. Enjoy :)

By the way. In this photo, you may notice that I have a lot more status points. I am in free mode (which is a lot harder due to the mobs scaling to your level constantly). Goes to show how powerful this class is. 