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Crystal Storm

Light red · Magic weapons

Crystal StormLight red · Magic weapons
Magic weaponsLight redCraftable

Crystal Storm

Summons rapid fire crystal shards

Damage (magic)35
Damage (magic)35
SpeedInsanely fast
KnockbackAverage
Mana cost5
RarityLight red
Max stack9,999
Sell pricegold4
Research (Journey)1 needed

How to craft it

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how it behaves

It throws a wide, fast stream of shards that slow down as they travel and wink out shortly after. They bounce off everything and never pierce, so each shard is one hit and then it is loose in the room hunting for something else. Per shard damage is tiny, which is the design: you are filling a space rather than aiming at a point.

where it works

Enclosed spaces, and only enclosed spaces. In a corridor or a walled arena every miss comes back and keeps working, and your real damage is far above what the same weapon does firing into open sky. At long range the shards have already slowed to a crawl by the time they arrive, so a distant single target is the worst case for it.

what to pair with it

The fire rate is the strength, so anything flat per hit is worth more here than a percentage. Softening a target with Ichor first and then holding the button converts a lot of small hits into a real number. It is the Hallow entry in a set of three tomes that also covers the Corruption and the Crimson, and it is the one built on volume instead of a debuff of its own.