Night's Ray

Night's Ray

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Statistics

Type	Weapon – Crafting material
Damage	17 Magic
Knockback	3.25 (Weak)
Mana cost	10
Critical chance	4%
Use time	20 Average
Velocity	606 effective
Tooltip	Fires a ray of pure, concentrated darkness When hitting enemies, they are hit by several new beams from their sides
Rarity
Sell	2  40
Research	1 required

Sounds

Use

The Night's Ray is a craftable Pre-Hardmode wand. It creates a purple particle beam which creates 4 homing, non-piercing beams upon hitting an enemy. Hitting more than one enemy will not create more beams.

Its best modifier is Mythical.

Crafting

Recipe

Crafting Station
Demon Altar or Crimson Altar
Ingredient(s)		Amount
	Vilethorn	1
or
	Crimson Rod
	Magic Missile	1
	Wand of Sparking	1
	Amber Staff	1
	Purified Gel	10
Result
	Night's Ray	1

Used in

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Terra Ray	Night's Ray Valkyrie Ray Living Shard (12)	Mythril Anvil or Orichalcum Anvil

total: 1 row(s)

Notes

• The accuracy of the homing beams and the infinite piercing means it can easily damage all of The Hungries during the Wall of Flesh fight.
• It can be considered one of the strongest Pre-Hardmode magic weapons due to its high DPS.

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.

• 2.0.3.005:
  • Nerfed damage from 24 to 17.
  • Now has an alternate recipe using Crimson Rod instead of Vilethorn.

• 2.0.3.003: Resprited.

• 2.0.2.001: No longer uses 15 Rotten Matter in its recipe.

• 1.5.1.001:
  • Moved Vilethorn and Magic Missile to the top of the recipe in order.
  • Fixed it targeting enemies from far away.

• 1.4.4.004: Resprited.

• 1.4.3.002: Fixed dust visuals on rays.

• 1.4.2.108: Fixed its held position.

• 1.4.2.105: Nerfed damage from 35 to 24.

• 1.4.2.102: Added a tooltip.

• 1.4.1.003: Now uses the rarity instead of .

• 1.4.1.001: Buffed damage from 30 to 35.

• 1.3.3.001: Buffed damage from 28 to 30.

• 1.3.2.001: Resprited.

• 1.2.2.005: Resprited.

• 1.2.1.002: Nerfed damage from 32 to 28.

• 1.2.0.001: Buffed damage from 21 to 32, and use time from 25 to 20.

• 1.1.7.901:
  • Dust is now larger, but less frequent.
  • Split rays are now wider.
  • Removed tooltip "Fires a beam of dark energy that can split into additional beams. Enemies must be near for the beam to split".

• 1.1.7.855: Now uses 10 Purified Gel in its recipe.

• 1.1.7.851: Can no longer be crafted with Blood Samples instead of True Shadow Scales.

• 1.1.7.55: Nerfed damage from 26 to 21.

• 1.1.7:
  • Nerfed damage from 30 to 26.
  • Split beams now deal 60% main beam damage instead of 40%.
  • Split beams now last 0.5 seconds instead of 1.67, and secondary split beams now last 0.5 seconds instead of 0.17.

• 1.1.5.093: Resprited.

• 1.1.5.08: Lowered the amount of dust created.

• 1.1.4.474: Introduced.