Spinal Tap
7 summon tag damage Your summons will focus struck enemies Performs better against multiple targets than most whips 'This goes to eleven'
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Work Benchhow it plays
This is the whip you pick up once Skeletron is down, and it moves summoner damage from single target chip toward something that can hold a line. The penalty for catching extra enemies is light, so a swing through four of them does close to full work on all four, and every one is tagged for your minions to pile onto.
where it shines
- The Hungry hanging off the Wall of Flesh. They bunch up, and one swing tags the bunch.
- Brain of Cthulhu farming. Creepers arrive as a swarm and this clears them faster than anything else available at that point.
- Eater of Worlds, to a lesser degree. The segments line up nicely but the reach runs out before you get full value.
pair it with attack speed
Whips scale hard with swing rate. Feral Claws and the Obsidian set both cut the time between swings, and the more often you swing the more often the tag refreshes on whatever your minions are chewing on.
name
The tooltip nods at the 1984 mock documentary about a fictional band whose amplifier dials went one louder than everyone else's. A spinal tap is also the informal name for a lumbar puncture, which is where the bone needle sprite comes from.