Ancient Shadow armor

Ancient Shadow armor is an armor set that reproduces the pre-1.0.3 Shadow armor design, and is otherwise identical in all ways to the current Shadow armor set. Each piece is interchangeable with the equivalent Shadow armor piece, while still granting the same set bonus.

Each piece has a 1/525 (~0.19%) chance of being dropped by an Eater of Souls.

Tips

 * If you have a decent amount of gear with a new player, you can farm Eater of Souls and skip to Shadow armor very early on.
 * Farming for Ancient Shadow armor is much slower in a Hardmode world because the spawn rate of Eaters of Souls is much lower.
 * As of 1.4.0.1, the Ancient Shadow Armor is the strongest a player can get before fighting the Eater of Worlds, as the next armor in order of progression, Molten armor, requires a Nightmare Pickaxe to mine the materials used to craft it (Hellstone), which can only be obtained with Shadow Scale, a drop from said boss.
 * As of 1.4.0.1, the Corrupt Statue allows this armor to be obtained even in Crimson worlds.

History
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