Echo Staff (Polarities Mod)

Echo Staff

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	0 (Magic)
Knockback	0 (No knockback)
Mana	50
Critical chance	4%
Use time	60 (Snail)
Tooltip	Hitting an enemy grants a temporary 50% boost to critical strike chance against that enemy
Inflicts Debuff	Pinpointed
Debuff duration	5 seconds
Debuff tooltip	You have been detected, giving enemies a chance to critically hit you
Rarity	02*
Sell	20
Research	1 required

Creates Projectile

• Echolocation
  

 Obtained from

Entity	Quantity	Rate
Gigabat	1	25%

The Echo Staff is a Pre-Hardmode magic weapon that is dropped by the Gigabat. It fires an echo projectile that deals no damage, but inflicts a special debuff that causes any damage afflicted enemies take to have a 50% increased critical strike chance. This is very powerful for the entire game, especially in combination with low-power, fast-firing weapons like the Minishark, and can even allow summon weapons to crit. However, the weapon has a one-second use time and the debuff lasts for five seconds, so it is best used with minions and sentries or long-lasting projectiles like those of the Desolate Winds.

The weapon cannot receive modifiers because of the zero damage value it has.

Trivia

• The Echo Staff is one of several weapons in the Polarities Mod that has a zero damage value, which is hidden from the item's hover text.
  • The other zero damage weapons are: Discorb

Gallery

The Echo Staff's casting animation. Note how the Copper Shortsword used to attack the Target Dummy afterwards deals five critical hits out of ten strikes.