Elemental Shiv

Elemental Shiv

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Statistics

Type	Weapon – Crafting material
Damage	138 Melee
Knockback	8.5 (Very Strong)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	13 Fast
Velocity	4.8 effective
Tooltip	Shoots a rainbow shiv that spawns additional shivs on hit
Inflicts Debuff	Elemental Mix 100% chance
Debuff duration	1 second (Shortsword) 0.5 seconds (Projectiles)
Debuff tooltip	A beautiful elemental symphony is flaying you alive
Rarity
Sell	24
Research	1 required

Projectile created

Elemental Shiv Blade

Sounds

Use

The Elemental Shiv is a craftable post-Moon Lord shortsword that autoswings. It fires a homing projectile that can pass through blocks but cannot pierce enemies. Once these projectiles impact an enemy, three magical shivs are summoned off-screen to the left and right-side of the player, flying towards the hit enemy. As with the initial projectile, the summoned shivs will pierce blocks and home in on enemies. The initial projectile will fire horizontally to the right or left, until enemies are nearby, which will cause the shots to curve into the enemy. All projectiles inflict the Elemental Mix debuff.

Its best modifier is Legendary.

Crafting

Recipe

Crafting Station
Ancient Manipulator
Ingredient(s)		Amount
	Starlight	1
	Luminite Bar	5
	Life Alloy	5
	Galactica Singularity	5
Result
	Elemental Shiv	1

Used in

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Cosmic Shiv	Elemental Shiv Cosmilite Bar (8)	Cosmic Anvil

total: 1 row(s)

Trivia

• In previous versions of the mod, this weapon was a direct upgrade to the now-removed Terra Shiv.

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:
  • Nerfed damage from 190 to 138.
  • Projectiles now home towards the closest enemy instead of the earliest enemy in the NPC array.
  • Increased sell price from 22 to 24 .

• 2.0.3.007:
  • The shortsword now grants -1 local immunity frames instead of 8.
  • Now inflicts Elemental Mix for 1 seconds from the shortsword, and 0.5 seconds from projectiles.

• 2.0.3.005:
  • The shortsword now grants 8 local immunity frames.
  • Fixed it not being able to receive size modifiers.

• 2.0.3.003:
  • Nerfed use time from 10 to 13.
  • Main projectile now spawns 3 extra projectiles on hit instead of 4. However, extra projectiles now home in on enemies.
  • Main projectile now pierces once, granting -1 local immunity frames.

• 2.0.2.001:
  • No longer inflicts any debuffs.
  • Moved Galactica Singularity below Life Alloy in its recipe.

• 2.0.1.003: No longer falsely counts as true melee.

• 2.0.1.001:
  • Buffed damage from 168 to 190 but reduced beam projectile's effective velocity from 14 to 4.8, and decreased the time the main projectile exists for by 50% and the secondary projectiles by 85%.
  • Now only receives 33% of melee swing speed bonuses.
  • Can now be used in any direction.
  • Removed the "Don't underestimate the …" flavor text.
  • Drastically decreased the amount of dust it creates.

• 2.0.0.001: Now uses Starlight in its recipe instead of Terra Shiv.

• 1.5.1.001:
  • Projectiles now inflict Brimstone Flames, Frostburn, and Holy Flames for 1.5 seconds instead of 2.
  • No longer inflicts Plague.

• 1.5.0.001:
  • Buffed damage from 160 to 168.
  • No longer inflicts Glacial State and now inflicts Frostburn for 2 seconds.

• 1.4.5.001:
  • Nerfed damage from 180 to 160. Projectiles now travel from both sides of the screen instead of just the left side.
  • Fixed its secondary projectiles targeting the upper left corner of enemies rather than the center.

• 1.4.3.001: Swing now functions in PvP.

• 1.4.2.107: Projectiles are now briefly invisible upon spawning.

• 1.4.2.105: Buffed damage from 150 to 180.

• 1.4.2.103:
  • Buffed damage from 140 to 150.
  • Beams now have afterimages.

• 1.4.2.102:
  • Decreased Brimstone Flames, Glacial State, Holy Flames, and Plague durations from 8.33 seconds to 2.
  • Changed its tooltip.

• 1.3.3.001:
  • Buffed damage from 135 to 140.
  • Resprited beams. Previous sprite was

• 1.3.0.001: Resprited. Previous sprite was

• 1.2.4.204: Nerfed damage from 150 to 135.

• 1.2.1.005: Nerfed damage from 160 to 150.

• 1.2.1.001: Nerfed damage from 215 to 160.

• 1.1.7.901: Homing ball projectiles now last 2 seconds instead of 2.67.

• 1.1.7.701:
  • Now uses the rarity instead of .
  • Resprited. Previous sprite was

• 1.1.7.5:
  • Now uses 5 Luminite Bars in its recipe instead of 8.
  • Now requires an Ancient Manipulator to craft instead of a Hardmode Anvil.

• 1.1.7: Now produces less dust.

• 1.1.6.15: Resprited it and its beams. Previous sprites were

• 1.1.5.095: Introduced.