Dryad's Blessing

  

Desktop/Console/Mobile-Only Content: This information applies only to the Desktop, Console, and Mobile versions of Terraria.

Dryad's Blessing
Statistics
Type	Buff
Cause	Dryad (players and NPCs only)
Effects	+8 defense to players +6 / +10 / +14 defense to NPCs Thorns effect Increased health regeneration
Duration	While inside Dryad's Ward
Tooltip	The power of nature protects you
Internal IDs
Buff ID	165
Internal name	DryadsWard

Dryad's Bane
Statistics
Type	Debuff
Cause	Dryad (enemies only)
Effects	-4 up to -18 health per second No health regeneration
Duration	While inside Dryad's Ward
Tooltip	The power of nature compells you
Internal IDs
Buff ID	186
Internal name	DryadsWardDebuff

The Dryad casting Dryad's Ward.

A larger view of Dryad's Ward.

Dryad's Blessing and Dryad's Bane are the buff and debuff inflicted by the Dryad NPC's Dryad Ward. Rather than directly attacking nearby enemies, the Dryad casts the Dryad's Ward while enemies are nearby, which summons two circles of leaves, with the outer circle indicating the range of the attack. When in the range of the Dryad's Ward, all players and NPCs gain the Dryad's Blessing buff, while all enemies with a clear line of sight to Dryad are inflicted with the Dryad's Bane debuff.

Counting from when the circles of leaves are summoned, within the first 1.67 seconds, the radius of the Dryad's Ward is 18.75 tiles (300 pixels). The radius then generally increases to 37.5 tiles (600 pixels) over the course of 3.33 seconds, and remains unchanged for another 3.33 seconds, after which the radius generally increases to 75 tiles (1200 pixels) over the course of 1.17 seconds, then the Dryad's Ward dissipates. 0.5 seconds after the circles of leaves are summoned, the buff and debuff are continuously inflicted on entities within the radius of the circle of leaves.

The Dryad's Blessing provides the following effects:

• +8 defense to players and +6 / +10 / +14 defense to NPCs.
• 50% thorns effect to players (50% damage reflected onto attacker) and 33.33% thorns effect to NPCs.
  • Player's thorns effect is stackable with the Thorns Potion, resulting 150% damage reflected, and is overridden by the Turtle armor's set bonus.
• +3 health per second health regeneration to players and +3.33 health per second to town NPCs.
• Visual effect: Green sparkle trail from feet while moving

The Dryad's Bane debuff deals 4 damage per second to enemies. This debuff deals additional damage based on players' progression through the current world. Additionally, the total progression boost is multiplied by a game mode-specific multiplier. See NPC stat boosts for the specific details of these boosts. For example, if the current progression boost is +40% total and the world is in Expert Mode, the Dryad's Bane damage is actually raised by (1.4 × 1.5) = 2.1 = +110%. The final damage rate is rounded down, so e.g. 4 damage per second × 2.1 = 8.4, rounded down to 8.

• With no bosses defeated, the total damage rate is 4 / 6 / 7 DPS.
• With all bosses defeated, the total damage rate is 10 / 16 / 18 DPS.

Notes

• The Dryad's Blessing's thorns effect stacks with the Cactus armor's set bonus.
• The reflected damage is capped at 1000.

Trivia

• The tooltip of Dryad's Bane is based on the phrase, "The power of Christ compels you!" from the classic film The Exorcist.

Immune NPCs

Enemies immune to Dryad's Bane

• Bubble Shield(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
• Clumsy Balloon Slime(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
• Dungeon Guardian
• Dungeon Spirit
• Dutchman Cannon(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
• Flying Dutchman(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
• Lunatic Cultist(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
• Martian Saucer(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
• Martian Saucer Cannon(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
• Martian Saucer Turret(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
• Mysterious Portal(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
• Mysterious Tablet(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
• Nebula Pillar(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
• Phantasm Dragon(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
• Pirate's Curse(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
• Poltergeist
• Probe
• Reaper
• Solar Pillar(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
• Stardust Pillar(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
• The Destroyer
• Vortex Pillar(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
• Wraith

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.4.1: The thorns effect from the Dryad's Blessing buff increased from 20% of the damage taken to 50%.

• Desktop 1.3.0.1: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.0.933.1: Introduced. ()

• Console 1.0.750.0: Introduced. ()

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.3.0.7: Introduced.