Items The Stormscepter - New magic weapon

ClaireValle

Steampunker
This is just a magic weapon idea that came to me.

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THE STORMSCEPTER
  • Tornado Scepter
  • Wind Wand (heh)
  • Wind Awakener
This is just another weapon to spice up the game, which means it's easily skippable and is just there to provide more options to the player

While I was checking the wiki to see some magic weapons, I realized that none of them fires in a cone and I thought "Why?". Most mages in various games have an Area of Effect attack that fires in a cone-like shape, it seemed weird that terraria didn't have this.

So here I am with this new weapon I invented to fix this!

The weapon draws inspiration from the Aqua Scepter, both the pre-1.2 Aqua Scepter and the one we have today.

Attack

This magical scepter fires a tornado 15 blocks from the scepter to the end and is 14 blocks high at the end. It deals continuos damage to enemies and has a very little chance of confusing them (Imagine being inside a tornado, you would get out confused, wouldn't you?). It's attack is comparable to pre-1.2 Aqua Scepter, as it's not affected by gravity, can be shot in any direction and shoots in "sprays". Its attack doesn't go through walls, but only the part that crashes with the wall dissapears, the rest of the attack still has its normal range. It is also a dangerous weapon to use. It fires from the scepter meaning that there's a little blind spot between its end and the player. Enemies can also evade this by not being inside the cone, but you can easily turn the attack to kill them.

I made this to represent how it would shoot and also because I was bored at 2:00 am.

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Stats

Damage - 25 Magic
Mana - 10
Knockback - 7
Use Time - 15
Critical Chance - 4%
Velocity - 10
"Fires a tornado in front of you"

Crafting

Just like the meteor staff, it would be craftable.

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20 Gold/Platinum bars
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20 Cloud Blocks
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5 Rain Cloud Blocks
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15 Souls of Flight
At
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Mythril/Orichalcum Anvil
Makes
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1 Stormscepter

Tell me what you think of this idea! I made it because I think craftable weapons are scarce in hardmode. The Meteor Staff is one of the best initial hardmode weapons. It can take down bosses and it's easy to obtain as it's craftable.​
 
With a bit of buffing, this could be really good as a Soul of Fright item, which desperately needs more uses.
Just replace the gold bars in the recipe with Souls of Fright!
 
Good idea. I really like the sprite.
I also made this to improve my spriting skills, glad you liked it!
With a bit of buffing, this could be really good as a Soul of Fright item, which desperately needs more uses.
Just replace the gold bars in the recipe with Souls of Fright!
Yeah I realized I should buff it. I was trying to go for golden shower-like stats but then I realized that golden shower does more damage because of ichor.
 
It should not drain mana too fast, which is indead the reason why the meteor staff is kind off anoying vs bosses (it takes about 20 mana per shot), but it is a very, very good idea!
 
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