Spider Staff

The Spider Staff is a Hardmode Minion summoning weapon that spawns a spider character that follows the player and performs melee attacks on enemies. It has a chance to inflict the Venom Debuff, can climb walls, and jump high. Like other minions, summoned spiders are invincible and follow the player for an unlimited amount of time, unless the player dies, summons a replacement minion, leaves the world, or cancels the buff.

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 staff combined with the Orichalcum Armor set can be a good combination as it summons a flower to deal great damage.

Tips

 * The Spider minion is unique in that its movement is limited to walking, jumping, and climbing background walls, while it has no projectile attacks. It is therefore much more effective in areas with background walls, and is otherwise somewhat limited, especially against flying enemies. It can fly in order to catch up to the player, but not for the purposes of attacking.
 * Having full Spider armor gives an added capacity of 1 more minion if only Spiders minions are in use, Swapping one spider with another minion will not revert the additional Spider until another minion is summoned
 * The Spider minions also latch on to what they're attacking, However this is only really effective against mobs that don't move fast with or without being attacked
 * A must for summoner-style players, who just entered the Hardmode. The Spider cave can be found long before defeating the Wall of Flesh, so you'll just need to visit it once again and kill a bunch of Black Recluses for the fangs. Killing them with pre-Hardmode summoner armor and weapons can take a while, but the effort is worth it.

Trivia

 * Each time the spider is summoned, it has a random one of three possible sprite graphics. They are all functionally identical.
 * This and the Queen Spider Staff are the only items that can inflict the Venom debuff before any mechanical bosses have been defeated.

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