Aestheticus

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Aestheticus

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	8
Knockback	3 (Very Weak)
Critical chance	0%
Use time	24 Fast
Velocity	5
Tooltip	Fires crystals that explode and slow enemies down This weapon scales with all your damage stats at once
Inflicts Debuff	Vaporfied 100% chance
Debuff duration	5 seconds (main) 2 seconds (split) 3 seconds (melee)
Debuff tooltip	Vape
Rarity
Sell	80

Projectile created

Vaporified Crystal

Aestheticus being used on a Target Dummy and a Super Dummy. Notice how the 4 crystals temporarily deal no damage before homing in, and crystals being able to home onto the same target.

The Aestheticus is a Pre-Hardmode classless weapon which automatically swings and deal damage in a similar manner to broadswords while firing homing crystals that get their damage multiplied by damage bonuses from all classes. When the crystal hits an enemy or after a few seconds, it splits into 4 crystals that damage and home into enemies after a short time, exploding on successful enemy hits. Both crystals inflict the Vaporfied debuff which deals 15 damage per second and reduces enemy movement speed by 10%.

The Aestheticus cannot be reforged, and therefore cannot have modifiers.

Crafting

Recipe

Crafting Station
Iron Anvil or Lead Anvil
Ingredient(s)		Amount
	Hellstone Bar	10
	Meteorite Bar	10
	Aerialite Bar	5
	Glass	20
	Gel	15
	Fallen Star	5
Result
	Aestheticus	1

Notes

• If the debuff is inflicted onto a player, they instead lose 4 health per second and their natural life regen is disabled.
• This weapon does not have any critical strike chance and cannot gain any from Accessories, Modifiers, Buffs and Armor bonuses.

Tips

• This weapon does a large amount of damage to segmented enemies due to the fact that all of the segments can have the effect at the same time.

Trivia

• This weapon is themed around vaporwave imagery, including pastel blues and pinks and a pattern reminiscent of the classic Windows logo. The name of Vaporfied debuff makes reference to this.
  • The name of the weapon is a reference to the common usage of the term "ＡＥＳＴＨＥＴＩＣ" when referring to vaporwave imagery.
  • It is also based off an enemy named 'Aestheticus' from the game 'Cat-Girl Without Salad: Amuse-Bouche'.
• Players that are nearby a target inflicted by the Vaporfied debuff will flash a variety of colors.