Flamethrower



The Flamethrower is a Hardmode Ranged weapon that uses Gel for ammunition. The Flamethrower's projectiles pierce through multiple enemies and inflict the On Fire! debuff.

For a standard Flamethrower, every click of the attack button consumes one Gel, and generates five "lines" of fire in quick succession, that can be spread over an area by moving the mouse while firing. With some Modifiers that increase firing speed (eg. Unreal and Rapid), each attack consumes two gel and fires six lines.

Tips

 * Because this weapon uses plenty of Gel, one could make a gel farm using Slime Statues to easily farm Gel for ammunition.
 * Flamethrowers are exceptional for boss fights, especially against The Destroyer, because the Flamethrower can hit multiple segments at once.
 * The flamethrower has an extremely long reach, making it very useful in PvP.
 * Although five to six shots can be fired per press, firing six shots at the same enemies are likely to only cause three hits on each enemy, which should be kept in mind so as not to waste gel.
 * A flamethrower with the 'slow' modifier may actually be better, as it does not consume as much gel but has around the same DPS.
 * With that in mind, Powerful may be its best prefix
 * Another easy way to gather lots of gel is to slay the King Slime, since it drops a lot of gel and can be easily killed by hardmode weapons.
 * Gastropods may be another idea as they drop from up to 8 gel especcially the spectral gastropod in the console and mobile. You can hunt those in the hallow at night.

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