Aestheticus

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Aestheticus

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	8 Classless
Knockback	3 (Very Weak)
Critical chance	0%
Use time	25 Slow
Velocity	10 effective
Tooltip	Fires crystals that explode and slow enemies down This weapon scales with all your damage stats at once
Inflicts Debuff	Vaporfied 100% chance
Debuff duration	2 seconds (Contact, Main Crystal) 1 second (Split Crystal)
Debuff tooltip	Vape
Rarity
Sell	80
Research	1 required

Projectile created

Aestheticus Crystal

Sounds

Use

Crystal Split

Explosion

Aestheticus being used on a Target Dummy and a Super Dummy. Notice how the 4 crystals temporarily deal no damage before homing in, and crystals being able to home onto the same target.

The Aestheticus is a craftable Pre-Hardmode classless weapon. When used, it swings in a similar manner to broadswords. It fires a homing crystal that splits into 4 more homing crystals which explode on collision. Both the main and split crystals inflict the Vaporfied debuff, which makes the hit target lose 6 health per second and reduces their movement speed by 10%. The weapon and its projectiles scale with the current damage stats from all classes.

The Aestheticus cannot be reforged, and therefore cannot have modifiers.

Crafting

Recipe

Crafting Station
Iron Anvil or Lead Anvil
Ingredient(s)		Amount
	Aerialite Bar	5
	Sea Prism	10
	Fallen Star	5
Result
	Aestheticus	1

Notes

• If the debuff is inflicted onto a player, they instead lose 4 health per second and their natural life regen is disabled.
• This weapon does not have any critical strike chance and cannot gain any from accessories, modifiers, buffs and armor bonuses.
• The damage multiplication is equal to all-class damage bonuses added by the average of damage boosts from each of the 5 individual classes (Melee, Ranged, Mage, Summoner, Rogue).
  • e.g. If the player has +10% melee damage, +30% ranged damage, +5% rogue damage, and +15% all-class damage, the Aestheticus will deal 24% more damage.

Tips

• This weapon does a large amount of damage to segmented enemies due to the fact that all of the segments can have the effect at the same time.

Trivia

• This weapon is themed around Vaporwave imagery, including pastel blues and pinks and a pattern reminiscent of the classic Windows logo. The name of Vaporfied debuff makes reference to this.
  • The name of the weapon is a reference to the common usage of the term "ＡＥＳＴＨＥＴＩＣ" when referring to vaporwave imagery.
  • It is also based off an enemy named 'Aestheticus' from the game 'Cat-Girl Without Salad: Amuse-Bouche'.
• Players that are nearby a target inflicted by the Vaporfied debuff will flash a variety of colors.

History

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These history sections are still a work-in-progress, and may not yet contain changes relevant to the current version of the Calamity Mod.

• 2.0.3.005: Added new visuals effects for Vaporfied.

• 2.0.2.001: No longer uses 10 Meteorite Bars, 10 Hellstone Bars, 20 Glass, or 15 Gel in its recipe.

• 1.5.1.001:
  • Nerfed Vaporfied slowness factor from 0.9x to 0.95x.
  • Now uses 10 Sea Prisms in its recipe.

• 1.5.0.001: Vaporfied now grants a 30 second global cooldown on bosses before they can be slowed again.

• 1.4.4.002: Now swings like a broadsword instead of being held like a wand.

• 1.4.3.001:
  • Now uses the rarity instead of .
  • Resprited Vaporfied.
  • Projectile now functions in PvP.

• 1.4.2.109: Introduced.