Grand Guardian

Grand Guardian

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Statistics

Type	Weapon – Crafting material
Damage	150 True melee
Knockback	8.5 (Very Strong)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	22 Average
Velocity	12
Tooltip	Lowers enemy defense by 1 with every strike If enemy defense is 0 or below your attacks will heal you Striking enemies causes a large explosion Striking enemies that are under half life will cause them to release rainbow bolts Enemies spawn healing orbs on death
Rarity
Sell	20
Research	1 required

Sounds

Use

Rainbow Bolt

Rainbow Bolt Impact

The Grand Guardian is a craftable Hardmode broadsword that is the direct upgrade to the Majestic Guard. When striking enemies, it lowers their defense by 1 on each strike, and if it hits an enemy with 0 defense or below, it heals the player for 6 health. Striking enemies causes large explosions that deal 50% of the weapon's damage and function similarly to the explosions created by the Inferno Fork and its upgrades. Hitting enemies that are under half health will release rainbow bolts. Enemies killed by the sword will spawn healing orbs on death that home on the player after a short delay and heal them for 8 health.

Its best modifier is Legendary.

Crafting

Recipe

Crafting Station
Ancient Manipulator
Ingredient(s)		Amount
	Majestic Guard	1
	Burnt Sienna	1
	Nebula Fragment	6
Result
	Grand Guardian	1

Used in

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Earth	Grand Guardian Galactus Blade Shadowspec Bar (5)	Draedon's Forge

total: 1 row(s)

Notes

• The defense reduction applied by the weapon can stack as long as the enemy's defense is over 0 or they have not changed their base defense values (e.g. When a boss changes phases).
• Astrum Deus takes only 50% damage from the Grand Guardian's explosions and rainbow bolts.

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.

• 2.0.4.001:
  • Lifesteal now bypasses lifesteal immunity, but obeys the lifesteal cooldown.
  • Rainbow bolts now home back in on the player after a short delay, and heal for 6 health instead of 4.
  • Explosions no longer lose 10% damage per hit.
  • Now has a glowmask while being used.
  • Rainbow bolts now home towards the closest enemy instead of the earliest enemy in the NPC array.
  • Fixed on-hit projectile damage not scaling with melee damage.

• 2.0.2.001: Now uses Burnt Sienna and 6 Nebula Fragments in its recipe instead of 10 Life Alloys and 10 Solar Fragments.

• 2.0.1.001: Healing orbs can now pass through tiles.

• 1.5.0.001:
  • Now grants enemies 10 ID-static immunity frames instead of local immunity frames.
  • Rainbow bolts now spawn from enemies instead of the player.
  • Rainbow bolts now deal 50% less damage if they critically hit.
  • Now uses 10 Solar Fragments in its recipe instead of 3 Galactica Singularities.

• 1.4.5.006: Explosion damage now decreases by 10% each hit instead of 20%.

• 1.4.5.004: Explosion damage now decreases by 20% on each subsequent hit.

• 1.4.3.002: Fixed rainbow bolts not properly scaling with the player's damage.

• 1.4.3.001:
  • Fixed explosion and bolt not benefitting from increased all-class damage.
  • Swing now functions in PvP.

• 1.4.2.105: Fixed a bug with projectile spawning causing issues in multiplayer.

• 1.4.2.102: Nerfed damage from 160 to 150.

• 1.4.2.001:
  • Nerfed damage from 200 to 160.
  • Decreased heal amount from 6 to 4.
  • Can no longer heal off of enemies with the canGhostHeal tag set to false.
  • Decreased defense reduction on enemies from 30 to 15.
  • Explosions no longer have knockback.

• 1.4.1.001:
  • Halved healing effectiveness.
  • Can no longer heal off of The Devourer of Gods' phase 2 body segments.
  • Can now heal off of The Devourer of Thots.

• 1.4.0.001: Explosions now deal 50% base damage instead of 33%.

• 1.3.4.103: Resprited.

• 1.2.2.007: Reduced dust on hit.

• 1.2.1.005: On-hit effects no longer trigger when hitting The Devourer of Gods' body segments or The Devourer of Thots' body segments.

• 1.2.1.001:
  • Nerfed damage from 275 to 200.
  • Resprited.

• 1.2.0.004: Nerfed damage from 300 to 275, and explosions now deal 33% base damage instead of 50%.

• 1.2.0.001: Resprited.

• 1.1.7.901: On-hit effects no longer activate on Target Dummies.

• 1.1.7.863: Explosions and bolts now deal 50% base damage instead of 75%.

• 1.1.7.855: Explosions now hit every 5 frames.

• 1.1.7.851: Resprited.

• 1.1.7.704:
  • Nerfed damage from 320 to 300.
  • Explosions and bolts now deal 75% base damage.
  • Bolts now last 2.5 seconds instead of 5.

• 1.1.7.55: Nerfed damage from 360 to 320.

• 1.1.7.5: Now requires an Ancient Manipulator to craft instead of a Hardmode Anvil.

• 1.1.7: Introduced.