Virulence

Virulence

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Statistics

Type	Weapon – Crafting material
Damage	100 Melee
Knockback	5.5 (Average)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	14 Fast
Velocity	36 effective
Tooltip	Fires a plague cloud
Inflicts Debuff	Plague 100% chance
Debuff duration	5 seconds (Contact) 2 seconds (Cloud)
Debuff tooltip	Rotting from the inside
Rarity
Sell	12
Research	1 required

Projectile created

Virulent Wave

Sounds

Use

Dropped by
Entity	Quantity	Rate
The Plaguebringer Goliath	1	25% / 33.33%

The Virulence is a Hardmode broadsword that autoswings and is dropped by The Plaguebringer Goliath. Upon swinging the sword, a large green cloud is fired in the direction of the player's mouse that deals 85% of the weapon's damage, pierces indefinitely, goes through tiles, and inflicts the Plague debuff on enemy hits.

Its best modifier is Legendary.

Crafting

Used in

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Plague Keeper	Virulence Bee Keeper Luminite Bar (5)	Ancient Manipulator

total: 1 row(s)

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.

• 2.0.2.001: Decreased sell price from 16 to 12 .

• 1.4.4.004: Nerfed projectile damage from 100% base damage to 85%.

• 1.4.3.001:
  • Added sprite to Plague Wave.
  • Swing now functions in PvP.

• 1.4.2.105: Resprited.

• 1.4.2.102: Added a tooltip.

• 1.4.1.003: Resprited.

• 1.4.0.001: Projectile now lasts 1 second instead of 0.5.

• 1.3.1.001: Buffed damage from 83 to 96.

• 1.1.7.851: Dust projectiles now set NPC immunity frames to 5.

• 1.1.7.61: Buffed damage from 79 to 83.

• 1.1.7: Resprited.

• 1.1.6.13: Now has use turn.

• 1.1.6:
  • Renamed from "Virulent Katana" to "Virulence".
  • Resprited.

• 1.1.4.45: Projectiles now last 3x longer.

• 1.1.4.44: Introduced.