Ancient Flame

Ancient FlameHardmode exclusive

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	52 (Magic)
Knockback	3 (Very Weak)
Mana	25
Critical chance	10%
Use time	24 (Fast)
Velocity	2.5
Tooltip	Fires multiple beams of volatile heat
Inflicts Debuff	On Fire!
Debuff duration	3 seconds
Debuff tooltip	Slowly losing life
Rarity
Sell	160000*16
Research	1 required

Dropped by
Entity	Quantity	Rate
Lunatic Cultist	1	33.3%
Treasure Bag(Lunatic Cultist)	1	66.7%

Ancient Flame casting animation.

The Ancient Flame is a Hardmode magic weapon that is dropped by the Lunatic Cultist. It fires a volley of fiery projectiles which each create miniature fiery explosions after a randomized short delay or on contact with any tiles or enemies, damaging enemies and inflicting the On Fire! debuff.

Its best modifier is Mythical.

History

• 1.6.2.0: Nerfed damage from 58 to 52, use time from 18 to 24 and mana cost from 15 to 25.
• 1.6.1.4:
  • Nerfed velocity from 15 to 2.5.
  • Sprite updated.
• 1.3.1.4: Critical strike chance increased from 4% to 10% and use speed decreased from 20 to 18.
• 1.3.0.0: Introduced.