Lunar Portal Staff

  

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Lunar Portal Staff

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	100 (Summon)
Knockback	7.5 (Very strong)
Mana	10
Use time	30 (Average)
Velocity	14
Tooltip	Summons a sentry Summons a lunar portal to shoot lasers at your enemies
Rarity	10*
Sell	10 GC
Research	1 required

Projectiles created

• Lunar Portal
  
• Lunar Portal Laser
  

Sounds

Use

• Internal Item ID: 3569 (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
• Internal Projectile ID: 641, 642

 Obtained from

 Classic

 Expert

 Master

Entity	Qty.	Rate
Moon Lord(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) Moon Lord(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)	1	22.2%
Treasure Bag(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) (Moon Lord)Treasure Bag (Moon Lord)(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)	1	22.2%

The Lunar Portal attacking Mimics and Target Dummies.

The Lunar Portal Staff is a Hardmode, post-Moon Lord sentry summon weapon. It can summon the Lunar Portal sentry, which lasts for 10 minutes, remains stationary, and does not count against the player's minion capacity. When summoned, the Lunar Portal continuously fires beams that sweep across enemies within its 60-tile range, piercing through an unlimited number of enemies but unable to pass through tiles. The Lunar Portal Staff has a 2/9 (22.22%) chance of being dropped from the Moon Lord.

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 Lunar Portal Staff has over a Ruthless one is knockback.

Notes

• The Lunar Portal cannot target or attack enemies through blocks.
• The portal gives off light and has no restrictions on where it can be placed, allowing the player to find caves easily.
• By default, only one sentry can be placed at a time, and attempting to place another will remove the previous sentry unless the player is wearing an accessory or a piece of armor that increases sentry capacity.

Tips

• The portal fires a beam that will sweep across enemies in a wide arc, so it should be positioned in a way that allows it to sweep the beam across a large section of the ground. This facilitates hitting large numbers of enemies, inflicting high DPS to enemies and bosses made up of segments like The Destroyer. Generally, this means making sure to place it fairly high over head, although of course it varies based on terrain.

Trivia

• The portal is very similar in appearance to the projectiles launched by the Nebula Arcanum and the swirling portals that form around the Vortex Pillar. The laser being fired is similar to the Phantasmal Deathray fired from the Moon Lord and its True Eyes of Cthulhu.
• The Lunar Portal Staff is internally called MoonlordTurretStaff.
• It appears in the video game Dungeon Defenders 2 as a weapon.

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.4.4:
  • Damage increased from 50 to 100.
  • Cooldown between beams reduced from 90 to 30.
  • It now can fire two lasers instead of one.
  • Lasers swing faster and cover a wider arc.

• Desktop 1.3.4: Now considered a sentry minion.

• 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.