Dragon Slayer's Staff

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Dragon Slayer's Staff

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	26 Magic
Knockback	4 (Weak)
Elemental Bonus
Mana cost	15
Critical chance	4%
Use time	26 Average
Tooltip	Casts a molten dragon skull to spews out flames at cursor point Hold down left click long enough to change the flames into a heat ray at double the mana cost
Inflicts Debuff	On Fire! 100% chance
Debuff duration	3.33 seconds (Flames)
Debuff tooltip	Slowly losing life
Inflicts Debuff	Hellfire 33.33% chance
Debuff duration	1 second (Heat Ray)
Debuff tooltip	Slowly losing life
Rarity
Sell	3  50
Research	1 required

Projectiles created

Dragon skull

Heat Ray

The Dragon Slayer's Staff in use.

The Dragon Slayer's Staff is a craftable pre-Hardmode wand. Holding the attack button summons a stationary Dragon Skull that spews out a stream of Flames in the direction of the cursor, inflicting the On Fire! debuff. After 3 seconds of continuous use, the weapon will consume twice the amount of mana and the stream of flames will be replaced with a Heat Ray that has a slower turn speed but has longer range and can inflict the Hellfire debuff. After 6.33 seconds of continuous use, the Dragon Skull will automatically disappear.

As with all Dragon-Lead weapons, the Dragon Slayer's Staff has a guaranteed chance to inflict the Dragonblaze debuff when a full set of Dragon-Lead armor is equipped.

Its best modifier is Mythical.

Crafting

Recipe

Crafting Station
Iron Anvil or Lead Anvil
Ingredient(s)		Amount
	Dragon-Lead Alloy	10
	Bone	5
Result
	Dragon Slayer's Staff	1

Notes

• Both the stream of flames and Heat Ray deal 4x damage to Dragon-like Type enemies.

See also

• Iron Realm Staff, its Good Route counterpart.

History

• 0.8.0.4070: Now deals Arcane damage.
• 0.8.0.4041: Resprited. Previous sprite was:
• 0.8.0.4038:
  • Now deals 4x damage to Dragon-like Type enemies.
  • Fixed not being affected by Dragon-Lead armor's set bonus.
• 0.8:
  • Resprited. Previous sprite was:
  • Renamed from "Dragon Slayer's Greatstaff" to "Dragon Slayer's Staff"
  • Reworked:
    • No longer fires a molten blast that bounces off tiles.
    • Now channels a stationary dragon skull that breathes flames at the cursor. Holding the attack button for longer will replace the flames wtih a heat ray.
    • Nerfed damage from 40 to 26, knockback from 7 to 4, and mana cost from 12 to 15. Buffed use time from 32 to 26.
  • Removed the tooltip line "'It's dangerous to play with fire...'"
  • Changed rarity from to .
  • Increased sell price from 1  60 to 3  50 .
  • Changed recipe from 8 Dragon-Lead Alloys and 2 Hellstone Bars to 10 Dragon-Lead Alloys and 5 Bones.
  • Now crafted at an Iron/Lead Anvil instead of a Hellforge.
• 0.7: Introduced.