Evildans Beginners Guide to Hard Mode/ Wanting to get ahead in the Game

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7. Another tip is if your a archer dont pick up a pike and start slashing or commando and use a xbow again most players dont like this and it wont make you have a good reputation (ie martin).

There is a very good reason for this as well. Archer characters aren't built to slash, nor are commandoes built to shoot xbows, bows, or throwing weapons (or at least for the xbow, even if the difference isn't that big, you will get far more out of your character by doing that that character has been built to do).

It's not such a big deal in normal mode, because one or two commandoes in the team can pretty much guarantee the rest of the team seeing pikemen. But ever since hardmode has been pumped up to eleven recently, the team needs to be operating at its peak efficiency if its to have any chance of seeing the later waves at all.

Also, lets not forget to mention that its possible to slash through friends in a shield wall with the overhead attack. Fewer and fewer people seem to be aware of this.