Aorta

Aorta

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	29 Melee
Knockback	4.25 (Average)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	22 Average
Reach (tiles)	20
Attack duration	24 seconds
Velocity	16 effective
Tooltip	Fires homing blood when enemies are near A very agile yoyo
Rarity
Sell	80
Research	1 required

Projectile created

Aorta

Sounds

Use

Dropped by
Entity	Quantity	Rate
The Perforators	1	25% / 33.33%

The Aorta is a craftable Pre-Hardmode yoyo that is also dropped from The Perforators. When held out it fires a homing blood clot towards nearby enemies that deals 25% of the weapon's base damage.

Its best modifier is Godly. It cannot get modifiers that affect size.

Crafting

Recipe

Crafting Station
Demon Altar or Crimson Altar
Ingredient(s)		Amount
	Crimtane Bar	3
	Blood Sample	9
	Vertebra	3
Result
	Aorta	1

Notes

• Much like the Air Spinner, this yoyo is especially nimble and can move very quickly while in use.
• This weapon does not have a Corruption variant.

Trivia

• It shares its name with the aorta, which is the largest artery in the body.

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.

• 2.0.2.001: Moved Crimtane Bar to the top of the recipe.

• 1.5.0.003: Buffed damage from 23 to 29.

• 1.5.0.001:
  • Nerfed damage from 25 to 23.
  • Yoyo projectile now grants enemies 20 local immunity frames instead of using standard immunity frames.

• 1.4.5.004:
  • Buffed range from 13.75 tiles to 16.25.
  • Now additionally fires a blood projectile while the Yoyo is held out that deals 25% base damage.

• 1.4.3.001:
  • Nerfed range from 14 tiles to 13.75.
  • The yoyo no longer retracts after 7 hits.

• 1.3.3.001: Resprited it and yoyo projectile.

• 1.3.1.001: Now caps melee speed at 125% when held.

• 1.1.7.56: Resprited.

• 1.1.6:
  • Now has a tooltip explaining its function.
  • Fixed it not dealing melee damage.

• 1.1.5.095: Resprited.

• 1.1.5: Introduced.