Terraria's 1.4.5 update, the Bigger and Boulder update, is now live. Although 1.4 was meant to literally be the Journey's End of Terraria, Re-Logic continues to pump out meaningful updates with hundreds of new items, mobs, and big quality-of-life features. However, there has been one unexpected victim of the update: Summoner builds.
Summoner builds use whips to apply tags to enemies. Before 1.4.5, these whips would stack their tags on top of each other, which means you use a technique called 'whipstacking' to apply multiple tags to the same enemy, causing exponential damage buffs. This was a clearly unintended function, and it has now been removed from the game.
Reception to the change has been mixed. Personally, I never used whipstacking as I found it to be quite cumbersome, but I can see why people are frustrated that a mechanic they've come to know as a key part of the game (for many years at this point) has been unceremoniously removed.
The team is "working hard on mitigations and solutions to fix the problem."
Others are glad that the mechanic has been removed, mostly because it was tedious to pull off and often felt like you weren't...
