Stygian Shield

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Stygian Shield

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	250 Melee
Knockback	6 (Average)
Defense	16 (When held)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	40 Extremely Slow
Velocity	10
Tooltip	Hold Left Click to charge an omni-directional dash which slams through enemies Right Click to throw a buckler which bounces towards a nearby foe upon collision Grants knockback immunity and 16 defense while held However, dashes are disabled until you stop holding this weapon for 1.5 seconds
Rarity
Sell	12
Research	1 required

Projectiles created

Shield of Chaos

Stygian Shield

Sounds

Bull Rush

Throw

Shield Hit

The Stygian Shield's right-click throw and two left-click dashes.

The Stygian Shield is a craftable Hardmode melee weapon. While the item is held, the user gains 16 defense and immunity to knockback, at the cost of being unable to perform dashes. They are able to regain the ability to dash after holding another item for at least 1.5 seconds.

Holding left-click for at least 0.25 seconds charges up a dash which is aimed towards the cursor, indicated by a white arrow. Releasing gives its user immunity frames and initiates the dash which lasts for 0.35 seconds, damaging any enemies upon contact. Holding for longer linearly increases the damage, distance, and immunity frames given from dashing up to a maximum of 400% damage, 50 tiles, and 21 immunity frames when holding for one second.

Pressing right-click throws the shield which returns to its user after 0.5 seconds. Upon contact with a tile or an enemy, it is able to bounce towards another enemy within a 40-tile radius. The thrown shield is able to infinitely pierce as it returns. Each enemy hit with the shield while it is returning, as well as hits from the dash reduce the damage of subsequent hits by 40%. Only one shield can be thrown at a time.

Its best modifier is Godly. It cannot get modifiers that affect size.

Crafting

Recipe

Crafting Station
Mythril Anvil or Orichalcum Anvil
Ingredient(s)		Amount
	Ornate Shield	1
	Scoria Bar	6
	Hellstone Bar	6
	Living Shard	6
Result
	Stygian Shield	1

Notes

• If the destination of the dash is outside the map, the dash will be cancelled upon releasing and the arrow turns red as indication.

Trivia

• This weapon is a direct reference to the Shield of Chaos from the game Hades.

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:
  • Buffed damage from 200 to 250, but decreased maximum dash damage from 600% base damage to 400%.
  • Now grants 16 defense while held instead of 12, and gives up to 9 more immunity frames from its dash.
  • Dashes are now disabled for 1.5 seconds after not being held instead of 2.

• 2.0.3.001: Introduced.