Alpha Virus

Alpha Virus

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	248 Rogue
Knockback	1 (Extremely Weak)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	31 Very Slow
Velocity	8 effective
Tooltip	Throws a giant plague cell with a lethal aura that explodes into 6 homing plague seekers Stealth strikes cause the plague cell to move slower, accumulating an aura of swirling plague seekers as it flies
Inflicts Debuff	Plague 100% chance
Debuff duration	2 seconds (Plague Cell) 3 seconds (Alpha Seeker)
Debuff tooltip	Rotting from the inside
Rarity
Sell	24
Research	1 required

Projectiles created

Virus Aura

Seeker

Sounds

Use

Alpha Virus thrown at a group of dummies. Notice how the aura can damage enemies through blocks but not the cell nor the seekers.

The Alpha Virus is a craftable post-Moon Lord rogue weapon that is a direct upgrade to the Epidemic Shredder. When used, it fires a large plague cell that constantly emits a lethal aura, which deals damage to enemies that enter its radius, and this aura hits up to 3 enemies at a time. The cell constantly emits and gains particles as it travels. When the plague cell travels a moderate distance, hits enemies 3 times or collides with a tile, it splits into 6 non-piercing plague seekers that home on nearby enemies. The cell and seekers inflict the Plague debuff.

Performing a stealth strike with the Alpha Virus will cause the next plague cell thrown to move slower, deal 70% damage and spawn 6 plague seekers to accumulate around it as it flies.

Its best modifier is Flawless.

Crafting

Recipe

Crafting Station
Ancient Manipulator
Ingredient(s)		Amount
	Epidemic Shredder	1
	Luminite Bar	5
Result
	Alpha Virus	1

Trivia

• Alphavirus is a genus of viruses.

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.

• 2.0.4.002:
  • Stealth strikes now have a 70% damage modifier.
  • Stealth strike plague seekers can no longer proc projectile effects from rogue accessories.

• 2.0.4.001:
  • Nerfed damage from 333 to 248.
  • Now uses Luminite Bars in its recipe instead of Uelibloom Bars.
  • Now uses the rarity instead of .

• 2.0.2.001: No longer uses 5 Bloodstone Cores in its recipe.

• 1.5.1.001: Fixed a grammatical error in the tooltip.

• 1.5.0.001:
  • Nerfed damage from 400 to 333.
  • Projectile now updates twice as fast and now homes in onto enemies faster.
  • Fixed it having an incorrect sell price.

• 1.4.3.001: Introduced.