My honest thoughts on 1.4.5 as a hardcore veteran

Hey guys, know the title comes off as a little pretentious but I don’t mean it that way. Everybody plays the game their own way I just enjoy it best in hardcore and wanted to give my perspective. Overall incredible update and my favorite parts are the QOL changes for sure, crafting from chest has already saved me literal hours since the update, as well as staff of regrowth replanting has removed so much unnecessary inventory management. I also appreciate that many of the “exploits” were fixed like infinite gems, but also the buggy statue thing was nerfed which tbh I was shocked the devs even knew about it since it’s so niche. Anyways, my one complaint through my hardcore playthrough is I still continue to fall back to melee, maybe it’s a skill issue but I’m a summoner guy and love the updates, but in hardcore nights edge blows literally everything out of the water while you also have a huge defensive bonus prehard mode. New whips and everything are cool but just not very effective unless I’m missing something. Would just love if there was some alternative hardcore strategy that seemed as remotely viable as molten armor knights edge. Find myself using molten armor even with other classes just for its defense. Oh also, roller blades are insanely overpowered lmao.