Astral Blade

Astral Blade

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	142 True melee
Knockback	6 (Average)
Critical chance	29%
Use time	8 Very Fast
Tooltip	Deals more damage the more life an enemy has left
Inflicts Debuff	Astral Infection 100% chance
Debuff duration	5 seconds
Debuff tooltip	Your flesh is melting off
Rarity
Sell	16
Research	1 required

Sounds

Use

Explosion

The Astral Blade is a craftable Hardmode broadsword that autoswings. It has the unique ability of increasing its damage, knockback, and critical strike chance by 125% when hitting an enemy that is above 50% of its maximum health. Hitting enemies above 50% health will also cause a visual petal-shaped explosion.

Its best modifier is Legendary.

Crafting

Recipe

Crafting Station
Ancient Manipulator
Ingredient(s)		Amount
	Astral Bar	8
Result
	Astral Blade	1

Notes

• This weapon only benefits from 25% of melee swing speed bonuses.

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.

• 2.0.4.001:
  • Buffed damage from 85 to 142, and knockback from 4 to 6. Now uses true melee damage instead of melee damage.
  • Decreased maximum damage, critical strike chance, and knockback multiplier based on target health from 2x to 1.25x.
  • No longer has a 150% size modifier.

• 2.0.3.001: Fixed a crash caused by hitting an enemy with more health than its max health.

• 2.0.1.002: Decreased sell price from 19 to 16 .

• 2.0.0.001: Nerfed use time from 9 to 12, but removed its melee swing speed nerf.

• 1.5.1.001: Now inflicts Astral Infection for 5 seconds instead of 2.

• 1.5.0.001: Nerfed damage from 110 to 85.

• 1.4.5.006: Buffed damage from 95 to 110.

• 1.4.5.005: Now has a 150% size modifier.

• 1.4.5.001:
  • Nerfed damage from 135 to 95, and it now only gains 25% of melee swing speed boosts.
  • Now has a new mechanic that increases damage the more health the enemy has left.

• 1.4.3.001: Swing now functions in PvP.

• 1.4.2.104: Now inflicts Astral Infection.

• 1.4.2.102:
  • Buffed damage from 90 to 135.
  • Now uses the rarity instead of .
  • Increased sell price from 12 to 19 .
  • Now requires an Ancient Manipulator to craft instead of a Hardmode Anvil.

• 1.4.0.001: Resprited. Previous sprite was

• 1.3.4.101: Resprited. Previous sprite was

• 1.2.2.001: Buffed damage from 82 to 90, but nerfed use time from 6 to 9.

• 1.2.0.001: Nerfed damage from 94 to 83.

• 1.1.7.901: Introduced.