Alpha Virus
| 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 |  Plague100% chance |
| Debuff duration | 2 seconds (Plague Cell) 3 seconds (Alpha Seeker) |
| Debuff tooltip | Rotting from the inside |
| Rarity |  |
| Sell | 24  |
| Research | 1 required |
Virus Aura
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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
- 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.
