The Ballista

The Ballista

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Statistics

Type	Weapon – Crafting material
Damage	99 Ranged
Knockback	8 (Very Strong)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	22 Fast
Velocity	20
Tooltip	Converts wooden arrows into greatarrows that crush enemy armor and break into shards on death
Inflicts Debuff	Armor Crunch 100% chance
Debuff duration	3 seconds (Arrow) 1 second (Fossil shard)
Debuff tooltip	Your armor is shredded
Elements:
Rarity
Sell	16

Projectiles created

Ballista Great Arrow

Fossil Shard

The Ballista is a craftable Hardmode bow that auto-fires. It converts Wooden Arrows into special arrows that can pierce one enemy and shatter into fossil shards upon hitting a second, as well as upon hitting solid blocks. Fossil shards deal 20% of the weapon's base damage. All projectiles will inflict the Armor Crunch debuff.

Its best modifier is Unreal.

Crafting

Recipe

Crafting Station
Mythril Anvil or Orichalcum Anvil
Ingredient(s)		Amount
	Marrow	1
	Forbidden Fragment	1
	Ectoplasm	10
Result
	The Ballista	1

Used in

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Heavenly Gale	Alluvion Astreal Defeat Rose Bow Galeforce Planetary Annihilation The Ballista Exoplasm (20) Miracle Matter	Draedon's Forge

total: 1 row(s)

Notes

• The Magic Quiver increases the damage of the arrows shot by The Ballista, but doesn't increase the speed.
• The Ballista nets massive damage output against large ground-based enemies such as Astrum Aureus when fired at from above, due to both the arrows and the shrapnel all hitting the target.