Rainbow Crystal Staff



The Rainbow Crystal Staff is a Hardmode, post-Moon Lord minion-summoning weapon. It summons a sentry-style minion (similar to the Frost Hydra) that lasts two minutes, remains stationary, and does not count against the player's minion capacity. The Rainbow Crystal Staff has a 1/9 chance (11.11%) to be dropped by the Moon Lord.

The Rainbow Crystal Staff summons a temporary crystal that deals high damage to enemies within its 60-tile range. Unlike other sentry summons, the crystal floats in midair at the cursor position when summoned, rather than falling to the ground. Attacks are animated as a spread of colored light beams targeting the closest enemy. The beams themselves do not do damage; damage is dealt only by delayed explosions at the end of the beams.

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 noticeable advantage a Mythical Rainbow Crystal Staff has over a Ruthless one is knockback.

Tips

 * Its high damage and wide coverage is offset by the delayed explosions. Fast mobs will easily evade the damage. Limiting mob movement is recommended to bring out the weapon's true potential.
 * It is also recommended to use this weapon in situations in which mobs will clump together (i.e. the Lunar Event) as its multiple beams will target the whole group and deal massive damage.
 * The Stardust Guardian proves very useful in keeping enemies in a single spot so they are hit by the delayed explosions, as it both attempts to aggro the enemies onto itself, and pulls them towards it with each attack.
 * The Queen spider staff, Lunar portal staff, Rainbow crystal staff and Frost hydra staff can all be used at the same time.
 * This weapon has massive range, being able to shot mobs from off-screen. It only does so when there are no hostile mobs closer to it.

Trivia

 * The quote in its tooltip, "The colors, Duke, the colors!", is a reference to a Popsicle commercial.

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