Morning Star



The Morning Star is a late-Hardmode, post-Plantera Whip dropped by Blue, Rusty, and Hell Armored Bones in the Hardmode Dungeon with a chance.

Like other whips, it causes minions to focus on the last-struck enemy and increases their damage against the target.

Tips

 * Due to the Kaleidoscope's high base damage, range, tag damage, and extra summon tag critical strike chance, the Morning Star is the second most powerful whip in the game, despite its 15 extra damage.
 * The Morning Star can be farmed right after Plantera is defeated. It provides a substantial boost to DPS over pre-Plantera whips.

Trivia

 * The whip’s name and look may be a reference to the Morning Star whip from the series.
 * That whip is itself inspired by an actual medieval weapon, the . This weapon does not resemble a whip. Instead, it is a club-like weapon consisting of a ball attached to a shaft and adorned with a varying number of spikes.
 * The Morning Star is the only whip with a use time of 45, all other whips have a use time of 30.
 * Despite being the slowest whip, its range still is slightly inferior to faster whips such as the Durendal.
 * The Morning Star has the highest knockback of all whips.