Crystal Crab's Katana

The is a Legendary Melee Weapon found in the game.
It is the motif weapon of Giant Crystal Crab.
==Usage==
Performs a swinging attack. Critical hits spawn crystal spikes around the enemy which propagate outwards, dealing 6 contact damage and blocking enemy movement. Multiple critical hits can stack. Spikes despawn after a second.
The secondary attack is not affected by challenge conditions.
==Tips==
===Strategies===
It is a mostly powerful melee weapon, not only for its reach and lack of energy cost but also for its secondary effect doing significant damage to hordes or bosses. Even one critical hit can decimate the former while denting the latter.
Bear in mind, however, that unlike Meat and Shield, it does not offer perfect defense. Try to stay far away from enemies so the blade's wide swing can catch the projectiles easily.
Being a strict melee, the player is also required to get dangerously close for it to be effective, so they must keep an eye on the enemies that are about to attack, as well as the hazards that can be triggered in the swing.
===Notable Buff Effects===
* - Slightly increases the melee range.
* - Allows the melee attack to return enemy projectiles.
*The Buffs do not affect this weapon.
===Recommended Conditions===
* - Allows this weapon to spawn twice the normal amount of spikes, which greatly increases the DPS as the damage of spikes isn't affected by this condition. Also gives better defense.
* - Although the crit damage penalty is relevant, the bonus of spawning a lot more spikes than usual should compensate.
==Forging Materials==
Version 	1.8.2 	1.9.0 	3.2.0 	3.2.2
Ironstone	21 	18 	16 	16
Timber 	7 	6 	6 	6
Fragment 	4 Blue	4 Blue	4 Blue	3 Blue
Gems 	0 	0 	600 	200
==Trivia==
*This weapon was added in Update 1.4.1 along with Giant Crystal Crab.
*Unlike how the works against the Crab's spikes, they don't increase the weapon's secondary damage, nor does the increase the amounts of spikes spawned. This implies that it's programmed to be a non-weapon effect.
**Similarly, only affects the damage of the swing attack.
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ru:Катана кристаллического краба
zh-tw:晶蟹太刀
Category:Weapons
Category:Boss Weapons
Category:Red Rarity Weapons
Category:Melee Weapons