Plague Tainted SMG

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Plague Tainted SMG

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	76 Ranged
Knockback	2 (Very Weak)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	12 Fast
Velocity	12
Tooltip	Shoots plague bullets that spawn drones on critical hits Bullets deal more damage and knockback the closer the enemy is Drones have a much higher crit chance upon hitting a plagued enemy Press Right Click to fire a drone swarm
Inflicts Debuff	Plague 100% chance
Debuff duration	1.25 seconds (Plague-Tainted Bullet)
Debuff tooltip	Rotting from the inside
Rarity
Sell	12
Research	1 required

Projectiles created

Plague-Tainted Bullet

Plague-Tainted Drone

Sounds

Regular Shot

Drone Shot

The Plague Tainted SMG is a craftable Hardmode gun. When used with its primary fire (left-click), it converts all bullets fired into bullets that inflict the Plague debuff for 1.25 seconds and deal 50% more damage and knockback when the target is within 50 tiles range of the user. Critical hits from plague bullets will summon a homing drone from the player which explodes upon collision with an enemy or surface and has a 75% chance to critically strike if the Plague debuff is applied to the target. Using its secondary fire (right-click), it fires a spread of six drones outwards from the gun.

Its best modifier is Unreal.

Crafting

Recipe

Crafting Station
Mythril Anvil or Orichalcum Anvil
Ingredient(s)		Amount
	Black Hawk Remote	1
	Uzi	1
	Helstorm	1
	Infected Armor Plating	5
Result
	Plague Tainted SMG	1

Notes

• If the player has Alchemical Flask or Daawnlight Spirit Origin equipped, the 75% chance to critically strike when drones hit an enemy inflicted with Plague is disabled.
• The Empress of Light takes only 80% damage from the Plague Tainted SMG's drones.

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: Fixed its tooltip still saying that drones are guaranteed to critically strike enemies inflicted with Plague.

• 2.0.3.006:
  • Bullets now inflict Plague for 1.25 seconds instead of 1.
  • Drones now have a 75% chance to critically strike an enemy inflicted with Plague instead of being guaranteed.

• 2.0.3.005:
  • Nerfed damage from 85 to 76, and use time from 10 to 12.
  • Decreased bullet's maximum damage multiplier based on distance from 1.5x to 1.4x, and they now inflict Plague for 1 second instead of 2.
  • Drone explosions now deal 40% base damage.
  • Drone's ability to always critically strike an enemy inflicted with Plague is now disabled if the player has Alchemical Flask or Daawnlight Spirit Origin equipped.

• 2.0.3.002: Fixed bullets not scaling in damage as the target is closer in range, and instead always dealing 150% damage as long as the target is in the minimal range.

• 2.0.3.001: Introduced.