Golden Rake (User:MeurdMeister/Bee Swarm Simulator Mod)

Golden Rake

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	68 (Hive)
Knockback	3.5 (Weak)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	16 (Very fast)
Velocity	64
Tooltip	Fires three homing beams that ignore terrain Every 5th shot will instead throw out the rake
Rarity	07*
Buy / Sell	4,500,000 / 1920

Creates Projectile

• Bling Beam
  

Creates Projectile

• Thrown Golden Rake
  

The Golden Rake is a Hardmode Collector that can be purchased from Top Bear. It has a base pollen collection of 250.

On every other swing, it summons 3 Bling Beam projectiles that ignore terrain and home in to the nearest enemy. On every 5th shot, the rake itself is instead thrown out, dealing increased damage and collecting more pollen.

Its best modifier is Connoisseur's.

Notes

• No Bling Beams are summoned when a Thrown Golden Rake is sent out.
• The shot counter for firing a Thrown Golden Rake resets after 5 seconds of not using the collector.
• The Thrown Golden Rake will slow down and go backwards towards where it was thrown from, dealing further increased damage and collecting even more pollen. Additionally, it doesn't have a limit to how many enemies it can hit. Because of this, the Golden Rake is very useful for crowd control, especially for ground targets.
• The Golden Rake has the potential for very high pollen collection due to the Thrown Golden Rake's properties:
  • It has an actual base pollen collection of 1000 without taking Thrown Golden Rakes into consideration.
  • If the Thrown Golden Rake hits a single target twice (once on the way out, once on the way back), it would have a base pollen value of 937.5 on its own. With 5 targets, it would be 3187.5.

The Golden Rake being used on Target Dummies.

History

• 1.0:
  • Now sold by Top Bear instead of the Merchant
  • Changed value from 80 to 4,500,000
  • Increased base damage from 57 to 68
  • Decreased base use time from 22 (Fast) to 16 (Very fast)
  • Removed Golden Rake Cooldown
  • Reworked to fire Thrown Golden Rakes every 5th shot rather than on secondary fire
  • Bling Beams will now despawn if too far from the player that shot them. This is to help prevent problems such as randomly summoning Queen Bee.
• 0.5.1:
  • Improved visual effects
  • Increased the internal hit cooldown for the Thrown Golden Rake from 5 to 10 frames
  • Improved the shoot pattern for Bling Beams to be more consistent
  • The Golden Rake Cooldown no longer counts as an Ability cooldown
• 0.5: Introduced