Shadowflame Knife

     

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Shadowflame Knife

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	38 (Melee)
Knockback	5.75 (Average)
Critical chance	7%
Use time	11 (Very fast)
Velocity	13
Tooltip	Inflicts Shadowflame on hit
Rarity	5
Sell	2
Research	1 required

Inflicts Debuff

Debuff	Shadowflame
Debuff tooltip	Losing life

Projectile created

• Shadowflame Knife
  

Sounds

Use

• Internal Item ID: 3054
• Internal Buff ID: 153
• Internal Projectile ID: 497

The Shadowflame Knife is a Hardmode melee weapon that auto-fires small flaming knife projectiles that consume no mana or ammunition. The projectiles ricochet twice off of enemies only (not blocks), dissipating upon their third impact. They also inflict the Shadowflame debuff, which deals an additional 15 damage per second for up to 3 seconds. It has a 16.7% / 33.3% (1/6 / 1/3) chance to drop from a Goblin Summoner during a Hardmode Goblin Invasion.

Its best modifier is Godly or Demonic. Both modifiers increase the average damage output by the same amount.

Shadowflame Knife in action. (Note: The projectiles ricochet, they do not have homing properties)

Tips

• The effects of the Shadowflame debuff will stack with those of On Fire!, Cursed Inferno, and Frostburn. Using the Flying Knife with a Magma Stone or better, Frost armor, and a Flask of Cursed Flames, facilitates inflicting all of those at once.
• As with all melee projectiles, the fly distance increases with faster attack-speed.
• It is an effective weapon to use against The Destroyer due to its ricochet property hitting multiple parts.
• The knife travels approximately 28 blocks before dropping.

History

 PC version

• Desktop 1.3.0.1: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.0.933.1: Introduced. ()

• Console 1.0.750.0: Introduced. ()