Opal Striker

Opal Striker

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Statistics

Type	Weapon – Crafting material
Damage	37 Ranged
Knockback	4 (Weak)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	17 Average
Velocity	12
Tooltip	Fires a chargeable heated energy bolt that pierces Fully charged shots deal extra damage and move faster
Inflicts Debuff	On Fire! 100% chance
Debuff duration	5 seconds (Charged Plasma Bolt) 1 second (Heated Bolt)
Debuff tooltip	Slowly losing life
Rarity
Sell	40
Research	1 required

Projectiles created

Heated Bolt

Charged Plasma Bolt

Sounds

Charge

Normal Shot

Charged Shot

The Opal Striker is a craftable Pre-Hardmode ranged weapon that does not consume ammo. While holding, the player channels a glowing orange orb at the tip of the gun which reaches its maximum power after 1.47 seconds. Releasing while fully charged discharges a charged bolt which deals 430% damage and 300% knockback, as well as piercing twice. Releasing while not fully charged fires a normal heated bolt which only pierces once. The bolts inflict the On Fire! debuff.

Its best modifier is Unreal.

Crafting

Recipe

Crafting Station
Iron Anvil or Lead Anvil
Ingredient(s)		Amount
	Marble Block	25
	Meteorite Bar	10
	Diamond	3
	Amber	3
Result
	Opal Striker	1

Used in

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Arc Nova Diffuser	Opal Striker Magna Cannon Life Alloy (3) Martian Conduit Plating (15)	Mythril Anvil or Orichalcum Anvil

total: 1 row(s)

Notes

• Charged bolts deal 20% less damage for each enemy hit.

Trivia

• The Opal Striker was implemented based on a community suggestion made by Gouvod on the mod's Terraria Forums post.
• This weapon's functionality is a reference to the Plasma Beam found in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.
  • The sound effects of the weapon are identical to those of the Plasma Beam

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.

• 2.0.3.007:
  • Nerfed charged blast damage from 600% base damage to 430%.
  • Now uses spark particles, and improved its dust visuals.
  • Resprited.
  • Fixed charged shot's damage falloff applying to the initial hit.
  • Fixed several bugs with its holdout.

• 2.0.3.005:
  • Reworked:
    • Buffed damage from 9 to 37, knockback from 0 to 4, and shot speed from 6 to 12, but nerfed use time from 5 to 17.
    • No longer fires bursts of rapid fire opal strikes, and no longer consumes any ammo.
    • Now fires a fast opal bolt which pierces once and inflicts On Fire! for 1 second.
    • Holding left click will charge up the weapon for up to 1.3 seconds. When fully charged, the opal bolt travels even faster, pierces twice, deals 600% base damage but loses 20% damage on each hit, and inflicts On Fire! for 5 seconds.
  • Now uses 25 Marble Blocks, 10 Meteorite Bars, and 3 Amber in its recipe instead of 20 Marble Blocks and 5 Amber.

• 2.0.2.001: No longer uses Flintlock Pistol in its recipe.

• 2.0.1.002:
  • Moved Flintlock Pistol to the top of the recipe.
  • Now correctly mentions its ammo consumption chance.

• 1.5.0.001:
  • Decreased the volume of its sound effect.
  • Resprited it and its projectile.

• 1.4.5.003: Resprited.

• 1.4.2.103: Projectiles now have afterimages.

• 1.4.1.003: Now uses the rarity instead of .

• 1.4.0.001: Can no longer knock back enemies.

• 1.3.4.001: Resprited.

• 1.2.0.001: Nerfed damage from 10 to 9.

• 1.1.5.0931: Resprited.

• 1.1.5.093: Introduced.