Stardust Dragon Staff

The Stardust Dragon Staff is a Hardmode summon weapon that summons a Stardust Dragon that attacks enemies. The Stardust Dragon is in constant flight and flies through blocks, attacking enemies by flying through them continuously. It leaves a trail of sparkles that provide periodic bursts of light as it moves.

The Stardust Dragon Staff is unique in that if summoned more than once, multiple Dragons do not spawn &mdash; instead, the first spawned Dragon becomes longer by one segment for each additional summoning, broadening its area of attack and increasing its damage output.

Its best Modifier is Ruthless. The Mythical modifier provides the widest array of stats bonuses, but these primarily affect the initial summon rather than the resulting minion. Additionally, Minions cannot deal critical hits. The only significant advantage a Mythical Stardust Dragon Staff has over a Ruthless one is knockback.



Tips

 * The Stardust Dragon Staff is extremely useful for farming, as high-level summons of it are capable of killing even the toughest non-boss monsters.
 * Due to the way The Destroyer works, the Dragon can sometimes attack every part of it at once and kill the boss almost instantly, surpassing even 30,000 damage points per second. This even works on Expert Mode.
 * With proper minion damage bonuses the Stardust Dragon can easily take out all bosses including the Moon Lord.
 * The Dragon will inadvertently kill critters if it flies over them. Since it stays near you it can easily destroy insects revealed from grass, etc.  If you are farming critters or bait you may want to dispel it.
 * On a similar vein to the above, the Dragon will do damage to cultists at the Dungeon's entrance, although it will not specifically target them. This can lead to accidentally aggro-ing them or, in some cases, cause the Lunatic Cultist to be summoned, usually undesirably.
 * The Stardust Dragon will often wander off and since it is only one minion as a whole, it can leave you defenceless if playing summoner when fighting hordes of enemies, consider using the Stardust cell staff instead.
 * The Stardust Dragon is considered better than the Stardust Cell most of the time, because it can cause massive damage to multiple enemies. A weapon that applies Ichor being used against said enemies could increase the damage even further.

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