Caustic Staff

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Caustic Staff

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	15 Summon
Knockback	2 (Very Weak)
Mana cost	10
Use time	25 Slow
Tooltip	Summons a mini dragon to fight for you The dragon inflicts several debilitating debuffs The debuffs are only applied if you are holding a summon weapon or tool
Grants Buff	Caustic Dragon
Buff tooltip	A mini jungle dragon is following you
Rarity
Sell	2  40
Research	1 required

Projectile created

Caustic Thorn

Sounds

Use

Summons Minion
Caustic Dragon

Not to be confused with Caustic Croaker Staff, a Pre-Hardmode sentry-summoning weapon.

The Caustic Staff is a craftable Hardmode summon weapon. When used, it summons a black Caustic Dragon minion that flies behind the player and attacks nearby enemies by firing gravity-affected thorns that pass through tiles and pierce twice. While the player is holding a summon weapon or tool, the thorns will cycle through and inflict one of the following debuffs in this repeating order:

• Marked for Death for 1-3 seconds.
• Ichor for 1-3 seconds.
• Acid Venom for 1-3 seconds.
• Cursed Inferno for 1-3 seconds.
• Hellfire for 1-3 seconds.

Its best modifier is Ruthless. The Mythical modifier provides the widest array of stat bonuses, but these primarily affect the initial summon rather than the resulting minion. Additionally, minions cannot deal critical hits. The only lasting advantage a Mythical Caustic Staff has over a Ruthless one is knockback.

Crafting

Recipe

Crafting Station
Demon Altar or Crimson Altar
Ingredient(s)		Amount
	Any Evil Flask	5
	Deathweed	2
	Soul of Night	10
	Any Evil Bar	10
Result
	Caustic Staff	1

Notes

• The debuffs inflicted from the thorns must time out and cannot be refreshed before the next debuff can be applied.

Tips

• It is recommended to summon only one dragon as the attack rate of the dragon is fast enough to reapply the debuff alone.

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 inflicts Hellfire instead of On Fire!.

• 1.5.1.001: Now uses the rarity instead of .

• 1.4.5.002:
  • Reworked, now inflicts debuffs on a randomized timer between 1 and 3 seconds.
    • Now only inflicts one debuff at a time, and cycles through its list of debuffs.
    • Debuffs are now only applied if the player is holding a Summon weapon or Tool.
    • Debuffs must time out and cannot be refreshed before the next debuff can be applied.
  • Fixed an exploit that allowed it to fire projectiles regardless of the player's available minion slots.

• 1.4.5.001: Introduced.