Palladium Halberd

Palladium Halberd
Type	Spear
Damage	36
Tooltip	"Stab with LMB, Slash with RMB."
Knockback	5.3
Crit Chance	4%
Use Time	33
Rarity	4
Sell price	4 Silver
Crafting Recipe
Crafting Recipe	12 Palladium bars 6 Wood

The Palladium Halberd is probably the first thing you aim for once you hit hardmode as you'll find your previous weapons very quickly become useless but as soon as you get something like this you can survive with no problem.