Morning Star



The Morning Star is a Hardmode, post-Plantera Whip dropped by Blue, Rusty, and Hell Armored Bones in the Hardmode Dungeon with a chance.

Like other whips, it causes minions to focus on the last-struck enemy, increasing their damage and critical hit chance against it. It also gives off blue particles when swung, which generate very faint light.

Tips

 * The Morning Star can be farmed right after Plantera is defeated, making it an early upgrade to pre-Plantera whips.
 * Even though it has a slow swing speed, the Morning Star makes up for this with its very high base damage.
 * Switching between the Morning Star and a Durendal or Dark Harvest to activate their buff can improve the Morning Star's low swing speed, as well as stacking the special tag effects on a single target.

Trivia

 * The whip's name and look may be a reference to the Morning Star whip from the series.
 * That whip is itself inspired by an actual medieval weapon, the . This weapon does not resemble a whip. Instead, it is a club-like weapon consisting of a ball attached to a shaft and adorned with a varying number of spikes. However, the Morning Star from Castlevania (and, by extension, Terraria,) is technically a type of, even though Terraria does not consider it a flail ingame.
 * The interior of the whip seems to be made of enchanted cobalt, similar to other weapons in the Dungeon (like the Muramasa and Blue Moon). This is visible when it is extended, and also in the cross-shaped particles it leaves, identical to those made by Muramasa.

History
Morning Star 晨星