Dragon Cleaver

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Dragon Cleaver

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	50 Melee
Knockback	6 (Average)
Elemental Bonus	(Dragon Cleaver)
Critical chance	10%
Use time	40 Very Slow
Velocity	5
Tooltip	Swings can block Fire projectiles Slashing enemies or blocking projectiles charge a Dragon Skull ability Right-clicking once fully charged will launch a Dragon Skull out to bite enemies Deals more damage to dragon-like enemies
Lore	'A cleaver cast in melted dragon bone and metal, said to be used by the ancient warlords of Dragonrest. This weapon is a great catalyst for fire magic, shooting out a wave of burning heat by channelling a swing.'
Inflicts Debuff	Dragonblaze 100% chance
Debuff duration	5 seconds (Dragon Skull)
Debuff tooltip	grrr
Rarity
Sell	1
Research	1 required

Projectile created

Dragon Skull

Sounds

Use

Dragon Skull ability

Hit

The Dragon Cleaver in use.

The Dragon Cleaver is a craftable Pre-Hardmode sword. When used, it performs a wide slash at the cursor that can destroy Fire projectiles and will stop dealing damage after 6 hits. Blocking projectiles or hitting enemies with the Dragon Cleaver will charge a Dragon Skull ability. After gaining 6 charges, pressing ⚷ Open / Activate will launch a Dragon Skull in the direction of the cursor that will bite an enemy, inflicting the Dragonblaze debuff for 5 seconds.

As with all Dragon-Lead weapons, the Dragon Cleaver has a guaranteed chance to inflict the Dragonblaze debuff when a full set of Dragon-Lead armor is equipped. This bonus only applies to the swing, since the Dragon Skull already inflicts it.

Its best modifier is Godly.

Crafting

Recipe

Crafting Station
Iron Anvil or Lead Anvil
Ingredient(s)		Amount
	Dragon-Lead Alloy	10
	Bone	3
Result
	Dragon Cleaver	1

Notes

• The slash and the Dragon Skull deal 4x damage to Dragon-like Type enemies.
• Dragon Cleaver cannot block Fire projectiles that deal more than 100 / 200 / 300 damage, homing projectiles, as well as certain blacklisted projectiles:

Eye Ray Headless Chicken Fire

See also

• Iron Realm Sword, its Good Route counterpart.

History

• 0.8.0.4075: Nerfed the slash's pierce from infinite to 6.
• 0.8.0.4041: Resprited. Previous sprite was:
• 0.8.0.4040:
  • Reworked:
    • Holding the attack button will no longer charge a Heat Wave and enter a fiery flurry.
    • Now performs a simple slash. Blocking Fire projectiles or hitting enemies will charge the Dragon Skull ability. The ability can be actiavted with ⚷ Open / Activate after gaining 6 charges and will fire a Dragon Skull forward.
    • Buffed critical strike chance from 4% to 10%
• 0.8.0.399:
  • Fiery flurry is now faster, more erratic, and visually a bit more interesting.
  • Hitting enemies during the flurry will make the next slash aimed at the cursor and not fire a heat wave.
• 0.8.0.2: Now blocks Fire projectiles that deal less than 50 damage instead of less than 200.
• 0.8:
  • Renamed from "Dragon Slayer's Greatsword" to "Dragon Cleaver"
  • Reworked:
    • No longer inflicts On Fire! with each swing.
    • Now has a custom swing animation. Holding the attack button will charge a Heat Wave and continuing to hold it will enter a fiery flurry.
    • Nerfed damage from 56 to 50, use time from 39 to 40, and bonus damage dealt to Dragon-like Type enemies from 50x to 4x.
  • Removed the tooltip line "'Does actually slay dragons... and wyverns... and pig-fish'"
  • Decreased sell price from 1  60 to 1 .
  • Changed rarity from to .
  • Now requires 3 Bones in its recipe and is now crafted at an Iron/Lead Anvil instead of a Hellforge.
• 0.8.0.3 (1.3): Resprited. Previous sprite was:
• 0.7: Now crafted at a Hellforge instead of an Iron/Lead Anvil.
• 0.4.8.9: Changed use sound.
• 0.4.8.5: Introduced.