In Terraria, reforging is a powerful tool provided by the Goblin Tinkerer NPC that allows you to enhance your weapons, tools, and accessories by adding new modifiers. Choosing the best reforges can significantly impact your effectiveness in combat, exploration, and building. Here’s a guide to the best reforges for different types of items in Terraria:

Weapons

• Melee Weapons
  • Best Modifier: Legendary for most melee weapons. It provides bonuses to damage, critical strike chance, speed, and knockback.
  • Godly: If the weapon cannot obtain Legendary (like those without knockback), Godly is the best alternative as it does not boost knockback but improves damage, critical strike chance, and speed.
• Ranged Weapons
  • Best Modifier: Unreal for ranged weapons like bows, guns, and launchers. It increases damage, speed, critical strike chance, knockback, and velocity.
  • Deadly: A cheaper alternative that boosts damage and speed.
• Magic Weapons
  • Best Modifier: Mythical is ideal for most magic weapons as it enhances damage, critical strike chance, speed (reduction in mana cost), and knockback.
  • Masterful: Good for reducing mana cost significantly without the other benefits if on a budget.
• Summon Weapons
  • Best Modifier: Ruthless. While Mythical does provide a broader range of boosts, Ruthless offers the highest damage increase, which is generally more beneficial for summoners as other stats like mana cost reduction are less crucial.
  • Deadly: Improves projectile speed and damage.

Tools

• Pickaxes, Axes, and Hammers
  • Best Modifier: Light for faster use speed, which is crucial for mining and chopping efficiency.
  • Legendary or Godly: These can also be desirable if you use these tools as weapons.

Accessories

• The best modifiers for accessories depend largely on your focus (combat, defense, or utility):
  • Menacing: Provides a +4% damage boost, excellent for all combat-focused builds.
  • Warding: Offers +4 defense, suitable for survivability, especially in Hardmode and Master Mode.
  • Lucky: Increases critical strike chance by 4%, pivotal for critical hit builds.
  • Quick: Raises movement speed, useful for dodging attacks and exploring.

How to Reforge

• Visit the Goblin Tinkerer and open the reforging interface by right-clicking him. Place the item you wish to reforge in the reforge slot, and it will display the cost. Reforging can become expensive, so ensure you have plenty of coins. High-end items, especially weapons, can cost several platinum coins to reforge.

Tips for Effective Reforging

• Save Up Coins: Reforging can drain your resources quickly, especially if you’re hunting for the best modifiers. Ensure you’re well-funded by selling valuable items, defeating bosses, and farming events.
• Plan Your Builds: Know the synergies between your class build and the modifiers that benefit it the most. For example, if you’re playing a summoner, focus on modifiers that increase summon damage.
• Be Patient: Getting the perfect reforge can take many attempts. If you’re low on money, consider reforging only when you have a significant surplus of coins.

By carefully selecting and applying reforges, you can maximize your character’s capabilities, making them much more effective in whatever challenges Terraria throws your way.