Vampire Frog Staff

   

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Vampire Frog Staff

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	11 (Summon)
Knockback	5 (Average)
Mana	10
Use time	36 (Very slow)
Velocity	10
Tooltip	Summons a vampire frog to fight for you
Rarity	03*
Sell	1
Research	1 required

Grants Buff

Buff	Vampire Frog
Buff tooltip	The vampire frog will fight for you

Projectile created

• Vampire Frog
  

Sounds

Use

• Internal Item ID: 4273
• Internal Buff ID: 214
• Internal Projectile ID: 758

 Obtained from

 Classic

 Expert

 Master

Entity	Qty.	Rate
Wandering Eye Fish Wandering Eye Fish	1	12.5%
Zombie Merman Zombie Merman	1	12.5%

The Vampire Frog Staff in action.

The Vampire Frog Staff is a pre-Hardmode summon weapon. It spawns a Vampire Frog minion that follows the player and attacks enemies using its tongue. Like other minions, the summoned Vampire Frog is invincible and follows the player for an unlimited amount of time, unless the player dies, summons a replacement minion, cancels the buff, or leaves the world. It has a 12.5*1/8 (12.5%) chance to be dropped by a Zombie Merman or Wandering Eye Fish, both of which will spawn while fishing during a Blood Moon.

The best modifier is Mythical but Godly, Demonic, Ruthless, Furious, and Masterful all raise its base damage by the same amount due to rounding.

Tips

• This minion can be obtained earlier than the Hornet Staff and is fairly useful for close-range defense and clearing out enemies in open areas. However, Vampire Frogs are prone to getting stuck behind blocks. For more agile minions that can target airborne targets, the player can use the Flinx Staff.
• It can do relatively high damage at this point of the game, especially when paired with the Shark Tooth Necklace.
• Because the frog deals damage on contact rather than with a bespoke attack pattern, the vampire frog is one of the few minions that can be tested on Target Dummies without an enemy onscreen.

History

 PC version

• Desktop 1.4.1.2: Damage reverted from 13 to 11.

• Desktop 1.4.1:
  • Damage increased from 11 to 13.
  • Enemies can now be damaged by their entire body, not just the tongue, when they are attacking.
  • Now use independent immunity timers.
  • Drop chance increased from 1/24 to 1/8.

• Desktop 1.4.0.1: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.4.0.5.4.1: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.4.0.5.0: Introduced.