Crystal Storm
Statistics
Type | |
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Damage | 32 (Magic) |
Knockback | 5 (Average) |
Mana | 5 |
Critical chance | 4% |
Use time | 7 (Insanely fast) |
Velocity | 16 |
Tooltip | Summons rapid fire crystal shards |
Rarity | |
Sell | 4 |
Research | 1 required |
Projectile created
- Crystal Storm
Sounds
Use | |
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- Internal Item ID: 518
- Internal Projectile ID: 94
The Crystal Storm is a Hardmode magic weapon that quickly fires a slightly spread flood of tiny, bouncing crystals, at a rate equal to the Megashark. The crystals are not affected by gravity, and last about three seconds each, losing velocity until gradually dissipating in midair. Their speed or fade at impact does not affect their damage output. The crystals also provide a small amount of purple light.
The Crystal Storm is the Hallowed counterpart to the Corruption's Cursed Flames, or the Crimson's Golden Shower.
On the Windows Phone version and Nintendo version, the Crystal Storm may be obtained prior to Hardmode as a rare drop from Arch Demons (0.2% or 1/500 chance).
Its best modifier is Mythical.
Crafting
Recipe
Result | Ingredients | Crafting station |
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Crystal Storm | Bookcase | |
Crystal Storm |
Notes
- Liquids will slow Crystal Storm projectiles, even after they exit the liquid body.
- Its projectiles do not pierce multiple targets, though its dense fire rate may cause the illusion that they are.
Tips
- Although its projectiles do not deal much damage individually, they overwhelm enemies with their quantity, and have enough knockback to keep crowds at bay.
- The Crystal Storm may be preferable to the Magical Harp when piercing and repeat hits are not needed.
- While being useful early Hardmode, it is generally ineffective against any Hardmode bosses.
Trivia
- Unlike most ricocheting projectiles, these crystals make no sound when bouncing off objects.
- Since version 1.2.3, Crystal Storm cannot have any modifier that modifies its mana cost by 10% or less, such as Celestial, Manic and Mythical. A Crystal Storm that obtained such a modifier prior to 1.2.3 will have a new random modifier chosen again automatically after the upgrade to 1.2.3, as that patch brought a reduction in mana cost that renders those modifiers incompatible.
As of version 1.4.0.1, Crystal Storm can have the Celestial, Manic and Mythical modifiers, as its mana cost has been raised to 5 again.
History
- Desktop 1.4.0.1:
- Damage increased from 25 to 32.
- Mana cost increased from 4 to 5.
- Desktop 1.3.1: Sprite updated.
- Desktop 1.3.0.1: Now requires only 20 Crystal Shards to craft instead of 30.
- Desktop 1.2.3:
- Mana use decreased from 5 to 4.
- Damage decreased from 26 to 25.
- Desktop 1.1: Introduced.
- Console 1.0.933.1: Made changes from Console 1.0.750.0. ()
- Console 1.0.750.0: Now requires only 20 Crystal Shards to craft instead of 30. ()
- Console 1.06:
- Mana use decreased from 5 to 4.
- Damage decreased from 26 to 25.
- Console-Release: Introduced.
- Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.
- Mobile-Release: Introduced.
- 3DS-Release: Introduced.