Iridescent Excalibur

Iridescent Excalibur

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	3000 Melee
Knockback	8 (Very Strong)
Critical chance	14%
Use time	15 Average
Velocity	64 effective
Tooltip	True melee strikes freeze enemies Fires rainbow beams that change their behavior based on their color Press Right Click for true melee
Inflicts Debuff	Miracle Blight 100% chance
Debuff duration	10 seconds (True melee hits) 5 seconds (Beams)
Debuff tooltip	Exotic resonance shreds your corporeal form
Inflicts Debuff	Glacial State 100% chance
Debuff duration	1 second (True melee hits)
Debuff tooltip	Cannot move
Rarity
Sell	56
Research	1 required

Projectiles created

Iridescent Beam

Iridescent Slash

Sounds

Use

Beam

The Iridescent Excalibur is a craftable post-Moon Lord broadsword that is the final upgrade to the Greatsword of Judgement. When used with its primary fire (Left Click), it swings like a regular broadsword and fires beams in a fixed looping order, each dealing 50% of the weapon's damage. All colors of beams except light blue do not pierce. The beams have different effects based on their color:

• Red beams have no special effects.
• Orange beams curve back to the player.
• Yellow beams split into 3 red beams after travelling a certain distance.
• Lime beams home back in on the player.
• Green beams home in on enemies.
• Turquoise beams speed up over time and can pass through tiles.
• Cyan beams spawn 3 turquoise beams upon contact with a tile or enemy.
• Light blue beams slow down on enemy hits.
• Blue beams bounce infinitely off of tiles and enemies, then dissipate after some time.
• Purple beams speed up and slow down repeatedly, similarly to a Profaned Guardian spear attack.
• Fuchsia beams start slow but speed up over time.
• Hot pink beams spawn fuchsia beams while travelling, then dissipate after some time.

When used with its secondary fire (Right Click), it instead performs a true melee swing that deals double damage and creates three bright slashes around the blade, which each pierce infinitely and heal the player for 1% of the damage dealt.

True melee attacks and all beams inflict the Miracle Blight debuff, while the sword itself inflicts the Glacial State debuff.

Its best modifier is Legendary.

Crafting

Recipe

Crafting Station
Draedon's Forge
Ingredient(s)		Amount
	True Excalibur	1
	Orderbringer	1
	Miracle Matter	3
	Ashes of Annihilation	15
Result
	Iridescent Excalibur	1

Notes

• Despite having a Rainbow rarity, this weapon is not exclusive to Expert Mode or higher.

Trivia

• The Iridescent Excalibur is a reference to the Elemental Excalibur from the Avalon and Exxo Avalon mods for Terraria 1.1.2 and 1.2.4 respectively. The Orderbringer (formerly named Greatsword of Blah), which is a part of the Iridescent Excalibur's recipe, is also a reference to the creator of the Avalon mods, Blahblahbal.
• The internal name of the Iridescent Beam projectile is "Gay Beam". This draws a parallel with the rainbow flag, which represents the LGBTQ community.

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 damage from 2000 to 3000 and shot speed from 6 to 16, but nerfed use time from 14 to 15.
  • Beams now deal 50% base damage, no longer have 3 extra updates, and grant 10 local immunity frames instead of 8. All beams except light blue no longer pierce.
  • Increased green beam's homing speed and distance, and they now home towards the closest enemy instead of the earliest enemy in the NPC array. Increased how fast fuschia beams accelerate.
  • True melee hits now inflict Glacial State for 1 second, but decreased Miracle Blight duration from beams from 10 seconds to 5.
  • Right click now creates 3 slash projectiles around the blade that pierce infinitely and heal for 1% of damage dealt, instead of all true melee hits healing 10-19 health.
  • Now uses 3 Miracle Matter and 15 Ashes of Annihilation in its recipe instead of 5 Ascendant Spirit Essences and 5 Shadowspec Bars. Moved Orderbringer below True Excalibur in its recipe.
  • Now has a glowmask while being used.
  • Added a trail to its beams, and changed the rainbow dust created on swing and from beams.
  • Increased sell price from 40 to 56 .

• 2.0.3.001: Renamed from "Elemental Excalibur" to "Iridescent Excalibur".

• 2.0.2.002: True melee hits now inflict Miracle Blight for 10 seconds instead of Exo Freeze for 1 second, Holy Flames for 4 seconds, Frostburn for 5 seconds, and On Fire! for 6 seconds.

• 2.0.2.001:
  • Beams now inflict Miracle Blight instead of Exo Freeze, Holy Flames, On Fire!, and Frostburn.
  • Now uses 5 Ascendant Spirit Essences in its recipe instead of a Large Diamond, 3 Light Shards, 3 Dark Shards, 10 Living Shards, 10 Galactica Singularities, 20 Souls of Light, and 20 Souls of Night.

• 2.0.1.002: Decreased sell price from 1 to 40 .

• 1.5.1.001:
  • No longer inflicts Brimstone Flames, Plague, Cursed Inferno, or Ichor.
  • Now inflicts Exo Freeze for 1 second instead of 0.5, Frostburn for 5 seconds instead of 4, and On Fire! for 6 seconds instead of 4.
  • Resprited it and beam. Previous sprite was
  • Fixed an oversight where it appeared internally as rarity instead of .

• 1.5.0.001:
  • Nerfed damage from 10,000 to 2000.
  • Now inflicts Exo Freeze for 0.5 seconds instead of 1.
  • No longer inflicts Glacial State.

• 1.4.5.002:
  • Nerfed shot speed from 12 to 6.
  • Fixed a bug with projectiles traveling in an unintended way and moving through targets without attacking.

• 1.4.3.001: Swing now functions in PvP.

• 1.4.2.108: Now uses 10 Shadowspec Bars in its recipe instead of 10 Nightmare Fuel, Endothermic Energy, Calamitous Essences, Darksun Fragments, and Yharon Soul Fragments.

• 1.4.2.107: Projectiles are now briefly invisible upon spawning.

• 1.4.2.106: Introduced.