Necro armor
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Necro armor

Entities dropping
Ancient Necro Helmet




Entity | Qty. | Rate |
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Necro armor is a pre-Hardmode, post-Skeletron ranged armor set consisting of the Necro Helmet, Necro Breastplate, and Necro Greaves. Crafting a full set requires a total of 135 Cobwebs and 150 Bones.
The Ancient Necro Helmet is a rare drop from Angry Bones and Dark Casters in the Dungeon, with a 1/450 (0.22%) chance of dropping. On the (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions), it is functionally identical to the Necro Helmet and the two helmets are interchangeable.
The full set grants the following effects while equipped:
- +(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) 19 / (Old-gen console and 3DS versions) 16 defense
- +(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) 10% critical strike chance / (Old-gen console and 3DS versions) 20% chance to not consume ammo
- +(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) 15% / (Old-gen console and 3DS versions) 14% ranged damage
- The player leaves an afterimage while moving. The player's hit sound will be set to that of a Skeleton's .
Set
Ancient Necro Helmet

Crafting
Recipes
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Notes
- In a drunk world(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions), this armor set is obtainable before defeating Skeletron, as Dungeon enemies can spawn prior to defeating the boss.
- The Ancient Necro Helmet has the same sprite as the Necro Helmet had before 1.0.3, thus the phrase Ancient in it.
- On the
Old-gen console version and Nintendo
version, the Ancient Necro Helmet grants 1% less bonus damage than the Necro Helmet.
Tips
- (Old-gen console and 3DS versions) The set bonus stacks with other ammo conservation bonuses. When used with the Megashark, it produces a 60% chance to not consume ammo. Furthermore, using the Ammo Box from the Traveling Merchant will result in a 68% chance not to consume ammo. If an Ammo Reservation Potion is then used, the player's chance not to consume ammo amounts to 74.4%, meaning only approximately every fourth shot consumes a bullet.
- Given both Cobwebs and Bones in surplus, making Necro Helmets is the most profitable way of monetizing either of them.
Trivia
- The term necro comes from the Ancient Greek word νεκρός (nekrós, "dead").
- It is the only armor set in the game of a
rarity.
History
- Desktop 1.4.4: Necro Helmet and Ancient Necro Helmet are now used to craft each other via shimmer.
- Desktop 1.4.1:
- Decreased the set bonus ranged critical chance from 15% to 10%.
- Increasing defense of each piece by 1 (3 total), including Ancient Necro Helmet.
- Desktop 1.4.0.1: Set bonus changed from 20% chance not to consume ammo to 15% increased ranged critical strike chance.
- Desktop 1.3.2: Necro Greaves inventory sprite updated.
- Desktop 1.3.0.1: Ancient Necro Helmet ranged damage bonus increased from 4% to 5%.
- Desktop 1.2.3: Necro Armor reports the right ranged boost on its tooltip.
- Desktop 1.2: Ancient Necro Helmet introduced.
- Desktop 1.1:
- Amount of bones needed for crafting increased from 90 (25/35/30) to 150 (40/60/50).
- Graphics variant for female characters added.
- Desktop 1.0.6: Necro armor stats altered:
- Added ranged damage increase and new set bonus.
- Removed set bonus of 30% increased movement speed.
- Defense of all pieces reduced by 1.
- Desktop 1.0.3: Sprites updated.
- Desktop-Release: Introduced.
- Console 1.02: Ancient Necro Helmet introduced.
- Console-Release: Introduced.
- Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.
- Mobile 1.2.6508: Ancient Necro Helmet introduced.
- Mobile-Release: Introduced.
- 3DS-Release: Introduced.