Caustic Edge

Caustic Edge

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Statistics

Type	Weapon – Crafting material
Damage	100 Melee
Knockback	6 (Average)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	27 Slow
Velocity	12
Tooltip	Fires a bouncing caustic beam Inflicts acid venom and slows down on enemy hits
Inflicts Debuff	Acid Venom 100% chance
Debuff duration	3 seconds (True melee hits) 1 second (Caustic Beam)
Debuff tooltip	Losing life
Rarity
Sell	2  40
Research	1 required

Projectile created

Caustic Beam

Sounds

Use

The Caustic Edge is a craftable Hardmode broadsword and the direct upgrade to the Tainted Blade. When swung, it fires a green-purple sword beam that can bounce or pierce twice, but loses 50% velocity on each bounce or enemy hit. The sword beam deals 75% of the weapon's damage. The sword and beams inflict the Acid Venom debuff.

Its best modifier is Legendary.

Crafting

Recipe

Crafting Station
Demon Altar or Crimson Altar
Ingredient(s)		Amount
	Tainted Blade	1
	Any Evil Flask	5
	Flask of Poison	5
	Deathweed	4
Result
	Caustic Edge	1

Used in

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Blighted Cleaver	Caustic Edge Broken Hero Sword Flask of Venom (5) Chlorophyte Bar (15)	Demon Altar or Crimson Altar

total: 1 row(s)

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 knockback from 5.5 to 6, but nerfed shot speed from 16 to 12.
  • True melee hits now inflict Acid Venom for 3 seconds instead of 2.5.
  • Projectiles now deal 75% base damage, inflict Acid Venom for 1 second instead of 1.5, and lose 50% velocity on enemy and tile hits.
  • Improved the dust visuals of its projectiles. Projectiles now oscillate in size as they travel, alternate between green and purple, and have slight transparency.

• 2.0.3.005: No longer inflicts Poisoned.

• 2.0.3.001: Renamed from "True Caustic Edge" to "Caustic Edge".

• 2.0.2.002: Nerfed damage from 120 to 100.

• 2.0.2.001: Nerfed damage from 150 to 120.

• 1.5.1.001:
  • Buffed damage from 100 to 150.
  • No longer inflicts On Fire!.
  • Direct hits now inflict Poisoned for 5 seconds instead of 10, and Venom for 2.5 seconds instead of 5.
  • Projectile now inflicts Poisoned for 3 seconds, and Venom for 2 seconds instead of 1.5.
  • Now uses the rarity instead of .

• 1.5.0.001: Resprited. Previous sprite was

• 1.4.5.007: Fixed the tooltip mentioning its outdated additional damage on bounce function.

• 1.4.5.006: Projectile no longer gains additional damage after bouncing off a block.

• 1.4.4.002:
  • Buffed damage from 42 to 100.
  • Projectile now gains a 25% increase to damage per bounce.
  • Now uses the Any Evil Flask recipe group.

• 1.4.3.001: Swing now functions in PvP.

• 1.4.2.107: Projectiles are now briefly invisible upon spawning.

• 1.4.2.103: Beams now have afterimages.

• 1.4.2.102: Changed its tooltip.

• 1.4.2.101:
  • True melee hits now inflict Poisoned for 10 seconds and now inflict Venom for 5 seconds instead of 3.
  • Resprited. Previous sprite was

• 1.4.1.003: Now uses the rarity instead of .

• 1.3.2.001: Resprited projectile. Previous sprite was

• 1.2.3.001: Lowered the brightness of projectiles.

• 1.2.1.001: Resprited. Previous sprite was

• 1.2.0.001: Nerfed damage from 47 to 42.

• 1.1.7.901: Beam no longer idly produces dust.

• 1.1.6.15:
  • Nerfed damage from 75 to 47, but buffed knockback from 5.25 to 5.75.
  • No longer uses 1 Broken Hero Sword in its recipes.

• 1.1.6.13: Now has use turn.

• 1.1.5.093: Projectiles now use dust ID 74 instead of 44.

• 1.1.5.08: Resprited. Previous sprite was

• 1.1.4.46: Now uses 3 Deathweed, 5 Flasks of Poison, and 5 Flasks of Cursed Flames or Ichor in its recipe instead of 10 Deathweed, 20 Vials of Venom, and 2 Lava Buckets.

• 1.1.4.3: Projectiles now produce light.

• 1.0: Introduced.