Borealis Bomber

Borealis Bomber

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	35 Summon
Knockback	5 (Average)
Mana cost	10
Use time	19 Average
Velocity	10
Tooltip	Summons aureus bombers to chase down your enemies Aureus bombers explode violently on enemy impact Does not consume minion slots
Inflicts Debuff	Astral Infection 100% chance
Debuff duration	2 seconds (Impact and Explosion)
Debuff tooltip	Your flesh is melting off
Rarity
Sell	9  60
Research	1 required

Projectile created

Aureus Bomber

Sounds

Use

Explosion

Dropped by
Entity	Quantity	Rate
Astrum Aureus	1	25% / 33.33%

The Borealis Bomber is a Hardmode summon weapon that is dropped by Astrum Aureus. It summons a floating Aureus Bomber that does not take up minion slots and follows the player. It attacks by charging at enemies and then exploding upon impact, inflicting the Astral Infection debuff. If an Aureus Bomber explodes, the minion will despawn.

Its best modifier is Mythical, due to its unique nature of not requiring minion slots to be used and being able to be summoned in large numbers with a low enough use time, resulting in high damage output.

Notes

• Due to these properties, this weapon is essentially a magic weapon for the Summoner class. It avoids the damage penalty for Minions while also scaling with Summoner equipment, giving a decent amount of damage in comparison with other classless weapons available.
• The Bombers can be summoned with no empty minion slots and without de-summoning pre-existing summons.
• The Bombers follow any enemy on a line roughly 43 blocks width, though they will not pursue enemies behind walls.
• The Bombers explode after about ten seconds if they do not explode before.

Tips

• As summon weapons are not affected by the Mana Sickness debuff caused by drinking mana potions, this weapon can be used in conjunction with the Mana Flower with no negative effect.

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:
  • Now has auto use.
  • Decreased sell price from 12 to 9  60 .

• 1.5.0.001:
  • Decreased mana cost from 15 to 10.
  • Now has a use time of 19 instead of 20.

• 1.4.3.002:
  • Increased drop rate from 20% / 25% to 25% / 33.33% .
  • Resprited Aureus Bombers.

• 1.4.3.001: Introduced.