Heat Ray



The Heat Ray is a Hardmode, post-Golem magic weapon that auto-fires beams which provides significant illumination. The Heat Ray's beam instantaneously strikes it's target with a beam and does damage directly.

The Heat Ray has a 12.5% (1 in 8) chance to be dropped by Golem. This weapon can be considered as a direct upgrade to the Laser Rifle, which itself can be considered to be a direct upgrade to the Space Gun. However, it does not penetrate enemies.

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.

History
Rayon thermique 고열 광선