Banshee Hook

Banshee Hook

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	250 Melee
Knockback	8.5 (Very Strong)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	21 Average
Velocity	42
Tooltip	Swings a banshee hook that fires blades and explodes on hit
Rarity
Sell	35
Research	1 required

Projectiles created

Banshee Hook

Banshee Scythe

Sounds

Use

Dropped by
Entity	Quantity	Rate
Polterghast	1	25%
Treasure Bag (Polterghast)	1	33.33%

Attacking with the Banshee Hook

The Banshee Hook is a post-Moon Lord spear that is dropped by Polterghast. It is swung in front of the player at an odd angle, similarly to the Ghastly Glaive, and releases a line of five projectiles at once. Hitting an enemy directly with the weapon causes a ghostly explosion, dealing rapid damage. Its projectiles go through blocks, ignore immunity frames, pierce infinitely, and will slow to a stop some distance away if uninterrupted.

Its best modifier is Godly. It cannot get modifiers that affect size. Ruthless might be preferred if the player already has 100% critical strike chance.

Notes

• Despite having "hook" in its name, it is not a grappling hook.

Tips

• Melee speed boosts decrease the amount of projectiles this weapon fires in one burst, making armor and accessories with melee speed bonuses less viable with this weapon.

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:
  • Increased sell price from 26 to 35 .
  • Resprited scythes. Previous sprite was

• 2.0.3.007: Fixed it lingering for extra animation cycles when switching to another spear while in use.

• 2.0.3.001: Buffed damage from 238 to 250.

• 1.5.0.001:
  • Buffed damage from 155 to 238.
  • Scythe projectiles no longer deal 175% base damage and instead pierce infinitely, linger for 50 frames instead of 100, and grant enemies 10 ID-static immunity frames instead of 3 local immunity frames.

• 1.4.2.107:
  • Now has glowmasks.
  • Resprited. Previous sprite was

• 1.4.2.105: Tooltip now says that it explodes on hit instead of on contact.

• 1.4.2.102: Tooltip now mentions that it fires blades.

• 1.4.2.001: Explosions now deal 25% base damage instead of 100%.

• 1.4.1.001: Buffed damage from 130 to 155.

• 1.3.4.101: Explosions now deal melee damage.

• 1.2.4.204: Blade projectiles now deal 175% base damage.

• 1.2.1.004: Buffed damage from 105 to 130.

• 1.2.1.001: Nerfed damage from 210 to 105.

• 1.2.0.001: Introduced.