Illustrious Knives

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Illustrious Knives

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	400 Melee
Knockback	3 (Very Weak)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	11 Very Fast
Velocity	9
Tooltip	Throws a flurry of homing knives that can heal the user
Inflicts Debuff	Holy Flames 100% chance
Debuff duration	10 seconds
Debuff tooltip	Dissolving from holy light
Rarity
Sell	40

Projectile created

Illustrious Knife

The Illustrious Knives are a craftable post-Moon Lord developer weapon. When used, the weapon launches a spread of 4-8 slow moving green knives, similar to the Vampire Knives. The knives are destroyed upon contact with tiles, but will rapidly accelerate and home in on nearby enemies. All knives will inflict Holy Flames upon striking an enemy.

When a knife hits an enemy, the player is healed by 1.5% of the damage dealt. This lifesteal is far stronger than either the Vampire or Empyrean Knives.

Its best modifier is Godly. It cannot get modifiers that affect size.

Crafting

Recipe

Crafting Station
Draedon's Forge
Ingredient(s)		Amount
	Shadowspec Bar	5
	Core of Calamity	3
	Empyrean Knives	1
Result
	Illustrious Knives	1

Notes

• The Illustrious Knives have a slightly higher chance than Vampire Knives or Empyrean Knives to throw out greater amounts of knives per usage. While they all throw a minimum of 4 knives, the predecessors have 4 independent chances of 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, and 1/16 to increase the number of knives by 1, placing their average number of knives per throw at 4.94. The Illustrious Knives' 4 independent chances are 1/2, 1/4, 1/6, and 1/8, meaning its average number of knives is 5.04.

Trivia

• This weapon actually has a unique rarity, but is referred to here as Hot Pink for consistency between weapons.
  • This unique rarity alternates between mint green (#9AFF97 ●) and mauve (#E497FF ●) colors.