Breath of Hades

The is an Epic Melee Weapon found in the game.
== Usage ==
Fires a small purple crescent projectile. A health point will be consumed if the player has more than 1 HP, and a big red crescent projectile will be fired instead. Both projectiles penetrate through all objects, despawn after several seconds and can destroy enemies' projectiles. The melee swing doesn't inflict any damage.
* The health reduction ignores any damage modifier or immunity, but still counts as taking damage, such that it will prevent the user from earning the positive condition from beating the boss in secret biomes.
* If under the condition "Regenerate HP when it's below 50%," using this weapon will interrupt health regeneration for 5 seconds.
If the weapon is used by non-player entities (such as Taoist's Passive Buff, followers or Doppelgängers), it can only fire purple projectiles since it doesn't deduct their health.
== Tips ==
=== Strategies ===
 has very great potential with its and its ability to destroy projectiles at a long distance. Its high damage allows easy clearing of minor enemies and even bosses, therefore making it a suitable choice in crowd control. 's effectiveness, however, are heavily reduced if there is not enough health for the weapon to consume.
It is not advised to use this weapon without characters specializing in healing or high armor due to its consumption in valuable health points.
== Notable Buff Effects ==
: - This Buff affects this weapon as intended.
== Recommendations ==
=== Buffs ===
* - Increases health cap to make up for the cost of this weapon.
* - Provide additional healing.
* - Each HP-consuming attack will be guaranteed to crit, increasing overall DPS.
* - Reduces potential hazards from health penalty.
* - Killing enemies will create whirlwinds, which help in dealing damage and clearing bullets around the player.
=== Conditions ===
* - Increases health efficiency.
* - Provides healing that allows this weapon to operate effectively.
== Forging Materials ==
Version 	2.9.0 	3.2.0 	3.2.2
Organic Matter	16 	14 	16
Fragment 	2 Obsidian	2 Obsidian	1 Obsidian
Gems 	0 	500 	150
== Trivia ==
* This weapon was added in Update 2.9.0.
** By that time, there was a glitch that it could never fire projectiles to the left.
*** It was patched in Update 2.9.5. However, from Update 3.0.0 to Update 3.0.1, this glitch returned again, though only at 1 health.
* This is the first weapon that consumes the player's health instead of energy.
** This is also the first Orange/Epic melee weapon able to be forged.
* The weapon's association with death and ability to launch a penetrating ranged attack closely resembles that of the Death Sickle in Terraria.
* In an earlier version, using this weapon would also interrupt armor regeneration.
* The projectiles can't be caught by the hurricanes of Monolithic Range Ruins, unlike most ranged attacks from both weapons and skills.
== Gallery ==
SK Breath of Hades
File:Breath of Hades moment.gif|Werewolf dealing ~200 damage in seconds to Floating Laser UFO by abusing the ranged attack's hitbox.
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Category:Weapons
Category:Orange Rarity Weapons
Category:Melee Weapons