Starlight

  

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Starlight

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	80 (Melee)
Knockback	4 (Weak)
Critical chance	14%
Use time	18 (Very fast)
Velocity	15
Rarity	08*
Sell	5 GC
Research	1 required

Projectile created

• Starlight
  

Sounds

Use

• Internal Item ID: 4923 (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
• Internal Projectile ID: 927

 Obtained from

 Classic

 Expert

 Master

Entity	Qty.	Rate
Empress of Light(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) Empress of Light(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)	1	25%
Treasure Bag(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) (Empress of Light)Treasure Bag (Empress of Light)(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)	1	25%

The Starlight being used to attack Target Dummies.

The Starlight is a Hardmode, post-Plantera melee weapon that has a 1/4 (25%) chance of being dropped by the Empress of Light. When used, it rapidly fires short-range light beams that pierce infinitely. It also has a base 14% critical strike chance as opposed to the usual 4%.

Its best modifier is Legendary.

Notes

• The Starlight has a maximum range of 13.75 tiles.^[1]
  • Size modifiers and Titan Glove (or its upgrades) will affect its maximum range. For example, if the player has Titan Glove equipped, Starlight with Massive modifier will have a maximum range of 17.85 tiles.
• The Starlight grants 4 global invincibility frames on hit^[2], meaning that it can hit targets 15 times per second.
• The beams are not able to deal damage to enemies through blocks unless the enemy itself is able to pass through blocks.
• The Starlight's attack speed is not affected by melee speed bonuses, despite being able to receive modifiers that give them.

Tips

• The Starlight's high attack speed and pierce make it effective for killing groups of enemies, especially in events.
• The Starlight's high damage at a short range makes it powerful against large, slow-moving enemies and bosses like Plantera, Golem, and Ogres.
• With the Legendary modifier, it is able to reach 1,380 single-target DPS with no additional equipment.
• The Starlight is roughly as powerful as the Solar Eruption within its effective range. While the Starlight's range is much shorter, it is generally much more consistent.

Trivia

• Although the Starlight visually resembles a sword and has a similar attack motion to shortswords, the sword itself does not actually deal damage. For this reason, it is instead classified as a projectile-only melee weapon.
• As the weapons that the Empress of Light drops are based on her attacks, the Starlight seems to be based on her Sun Dance.
• The beams created by the Starlight use the same sprite as those created by the Rainbow Crystal Staff.
• The weapon itself resembles a rapier, a thin sword used for thrusting that was popular in Western Europe.
• Like the Last Prism, the Starlight has secret color themes for developers and beta testers. This is triggered by using a specific set of character names:

List of names

Name	Color(s)
Acamaeda	Green Yellow Red
Alchemystics	Red Pink Purple
Antithesis	Light Blue Black
Aurora3500	Purple Blue Green
Bame	Purple Yellow
Cenx	Pink Green
Criddle	Yellow Orange
Crowno	Purple
Darthkitten	Red White
darthmorf	Dark Red Black
Discipile	Yellow Orange
Doylee	Red Pink Blue
Ghostar	White Blue Black
Grox The Great	Light Blue Green
Jaxrud	Green Yellow
Jenosis	Yellow Red Pink
Kazzymodus	Green Black
Khaios	Dark Green Black
Lazure	Red Pink Blue
Leinfors	Purple
Loki	Red Black
ManaUser	Blue Green
Mid	White Red Black
Nike Leon	Orange Red
Nimbus	White
ppowersteef	Yellow Red
RBrandon	Dark Orange
Redigit	Blue
Serenity	Pink White
Sigma	Yellow Red
teiull	Red Pink Blue
Unit One	Blue Yellow
Vulpes Inculta	Purple
Waze3174	Red Yellow Green
Xman101	Orange Black
Yoraiz0r	Pink
Zoomo	Purple

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.4.4: Range now increases with Titan Glove and prefix size modifiers.

• Desktop 1.4.1:
  • Damage increased from 70 to 80.
  • Critical strike chance increased from 4% to 14%.

• Desktop 1.4.0.1: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.4.0.5.4.1: Introduced.

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.4.0.5.5: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.4.0.5.0: Introduced.

References