Heat Ray



The Heat Ray is a Hardmode, post-Golem magic weapon that has a 12.5% (1 in 8) chance to be dropped by Golem. It auto-fires beams which provide significant illumination and instantaneously strike their targets.

Its beams do not pierce enemies.

Tips

 * The instantaneous speed and perfect accuracy of the Heat Ray's beam makes it particularly effective for dealing with fast, distant, or flying enemies.
 * The Heat Ray excels at outputting high damage to single targets, and, despite its lack of homing abilities, is a great weapon for dynamic and fast-moving bosses such as the Empress of Light.
 * While its quick fire rate also makes it a viable weapon for crowd control, the Staff of Earth (another Golem drop) is better suited for such a purpose.

Trivia

 * This weapon and its tooltip are references to H.G Wells' The War of the Worlds, in which Martians fire Heat-Rays, and exultantly cry "Aloo!" or "Oolaa" in the later stage adaptions while waging war in their giant death machines (The tooltip may be an allusion to one line in particular from the musical stage adaptation; wherein the track Thunderchild contains the lyric "Flashing heat rays pierced the deck").
 * Even when the player is out of mana, the tanks on the back of the Heat Ray appear to still be full of liquid.
 * This weapon is one of the few "laser weapons" that actually fires a laser. The ray travels in a straight line, hits instantaneously and a laser of its power would be very hot.

History
Rayon thermique 고열 광선