Solar Eruption

The Solar Eruption is a Hardmode auto-swing melee weapon that fires a long spear-like projection from the player's position that quickly retracts. This weapon can travel through blocks. The tip follows a narrow arc in the general direction of the cursor before retracting. It inflicts the Daybroken debuff that deals damage in ticks of 25. You can craft this item after defeating the Solar Pillar and obtaining 18 solar fragments.



Tips

 * The Solar Eruption is great for large groups of enemies such as Events, as it pierces through and deals damage to all of them. Furthermore, the Solar Eruption can pass through walls. However, it can be poor for single targets, especially at long range. The Daybreak is much better for lone targets due to its accuracy and stackable debuff.
 * This weapon is very effective against The Destroyer, since it deals damage to multiple segments at once. When combined with melee-boosting Armor and Accessories, it can defeat the boss in under a minute, allowing easy farming.
 * The Solar Eruption can reach a dps as high as 2500 without any modifiers.
 * The Solar Eruption is exceptionally useful for fighting the Moon Lord, as he is unable to hit you through walls with most of his attacks. This means you can stay behind cover and use the Solar Eruption through walls to damage him, while he has a hard time hitting you.
 * The lighting effect of the Solar Eruption can be used to illuminate dark areas and find ores hidden in the dark (although by the time the player has obtained it, ores may be of little use).
 * Due to the long reach and small sweep of the Solar Eruption, it can be used to cut down plants and Mushrooms with ease.
 * The Solar Eruption can be a viable replacement for the Death Sickle.
 * The Solar Eruption is a very useful tool for finding items in dark areas, due to it being able to quickly illuminate areas though blocks.

Trivia

 * The debuff tooltip misspells "Incinerated" as "Incenerated".
 * A "solar eruption" is another name for a Solar flare.
 * The Solar Eruption was likely inspired by Solar prominences, where large, twisting, looping, and arcing plasma emissions are ejected from the surface of the Sun into space.
 * The Solar Eruption could be considered a indirect upgrade of the Sunfury because of their similar themes and them both being flails.

History
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