Diseased Pike

Diseased Pike

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	65 True melee
Knockback	8.5 (Very Strong)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	20 Average
Velocity	10
Tooltip	Fires plague seekers on hit
Inflicts Debuff	Plague 100% chance
Debuff duration	5 seconds (Spear) 3 seconds (Seeker)
Debuff tooltip	Rotting from the inside
Rarity
Sell	12
Research	1 required

Projectile created

Diseased Pike

Sounds

Use

Dropped by
Entity	Quantity	Rate
The Plaguebringer Goliath	1	25%
Treasure Bag (The Plaguebringer Goliath)	1	33.33%

The Diseased Pike is a Hardmode spear that is dropped by The Plaguebringer Goliath. Hitting enemies with the spear fires plague seekers that home in on enemies and deal additional damage. The plague seekers deal 75% of the weapon's damage. The spear and plague seekers inflict the Plague debuff.

Its best modifier is Godly. It cannot get modifiers that affect size.

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:
  • Plague seekers now home towards the closest enemy instead of the earliest enemy in the NPC array.
  • Fixed it having strange visual offsets when thrusted.

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

• 2.0.2.002: Spear now grants 8 local immunity frames instead of 7 global immunity frames.

• 2.0.2.001: Decreased sell price from 16 to 12 .

• 1.5.1.001: Spear now inflicts Plague for 5 seconds instead of 6.

• 1.5.0.001: Nerfed damage from 75 to 65, decreased plague seeker projectile velocity from 150% to 50%.

• 1.4.4.004: Nerfed projectile damage from 100% base damage to 75%.

• 1.4.4.002: Now benefits from true melee bonuses.

• 1.4.2.105:
  • Buffed shot speed from 9 to 10.
  • Tooltip now mentions that its effect occurs on hits in general instead of just enemy hits.
  • Resprited. Previous sprite was

• 1.4.2.102: Decreased Plague duration from plague seekers from 5 seconds to 3.

• 1.4.1.003: Resprited. Previous sprite was

• 1.4.1.001: Plague Seekers now last 3 seconds instead of 2.5.

• 1.1.7.949: Plague Seekers now last 2.5 seconds instead of 10, create less dust, inflict Plague for 5 seconds instead of 10, and are faster.

• 1.1.7.901: On hit effects no longer activate on Target Dummies.

• 1.1.7.863: Now has auto use.

• 1.1.7.851:
  • Now sets NPC immunity frames to 6.
  • Fixed it being able to be used while the spear was still out.

• 1.1.7.701: Plague Seekers now produce less dust.

• 1.1.7.56:
  • Increased spear length.
  • Buffed shot speed from 5 to 9.

• 1.1.7.51: Nerfed damage from 93 to 75, and use time from 17 to 19.

• 1.1.7: Introduced.