Deadly Sphere Staff



The Deadly Sphere Staff is an aerial melee Hardmode, post-Plantera summoning weapon that summons a Deadly Sphere minion. Like other minions, the summoned Deadly Sphere is invincible and follows the player for an unlimited amount of time, unless the player dies, summons a replacement minion, or cancels the buff. It attacks by charging at enemies to inflict contact damage. It cannot move through blocks. The Deadly Sphere Staff has a 2.5% / (1/40 / ) chance to drop from Deadly Spheres during a Solar Eclipse.

Trivia

 * The Deadly Sphere has several visual forms. It periodically rotates between after having attacked three times. This has no functional effect.
 * The staff may appear or be reforged with the Deadly modifier, resulting in the name "Deadly Deadly Sphere Staff". A similar trick can be done with the Lucky Horseshoe and the Arcane Flower.
 * Like the enemy that drops it, this item is a reference to the 1979 American science fantasy horror film Phantasm.
 * One of the designs for the Deadly Sphere resembles a, a fictional starfighter in the American epic space-opera media franchise '. However, it is actually a visual reference to a variant of the sphere seen in the 1988 American science fantasy action-horror film ', the sequel to Phantasm.

History
Sceptre de Sphère mortelle