Staff of Relic Flames

* Similarly to Groundwater, players can fire way faster than the default fire rate by spamming the attack button

### Projectile Color

Yellow (Spark)
Red (Flame)
Green (Gas)

## Materials Required For Forging

### Parts

 1
 1
 1

### Gems

 1
 50

The **Staff of Relic Flames** is an Uncommon Misc Weapon found in the game.

## Usage

### Overall

* When the attack button is pressed without releasing, the weapon has a somewhat slow fire rate. However, the player can quickly tap the attack button to fire up to approximately 20 attacks per second.

* Whenever the weapon's attacks come into contact with a green poison pool, they despawn and are replaced with a fire pool while causing an explosion. If it hits an enemy affected by Poison, it will cause an explosion and remove the Poison effect.

* This weapon has two modes that can be cycled through using the Switch Button . Firing increases player speed slightly.

* Aside from the explosions, all of the weapon's attacks can deal double damage on critical hits, despite them being considered elemental damage.

### First mode

* Fires three spark projectiles randomly dispersed at a 100° angle with a max range of 6 tiles. Each spark does 1 fire damage.

### Second mode

* Passively drains 3 energy every second.

* Passively emits gas which deal 1 poison damage to enemies, and cease generating when fired in this state or when switched back.

* Firing produces three faster flame-like projectiles with infinite range and the same spread, but does not consume energy. If any of these projectiles bump into the lighter gas, it may produce an explosion that does 8 damage with a chance to inflict Burn.

* With no energy, the weapon switches to the first mode's attack pattern. Every 1.25 seconds, it causes an explosion centered on the player, dealing 16 damage to enemies only and has 50% chance to Stun the player for 0.65 seconds.

### Follower Interaction

* If used by the Headgear Hero follower, upon entering the room he will say some special quotes and cause a large explosion. This explosion will deplete the follower's HP and deal 100 damage (150 with Pet Buff) to nearby enemies. Other followers will use this weapon normally.

## Tips

### Strategies

The first mode is not very effective, but it can be enough in early levels to deal chip damage.

When using the second mode, it is recommended to let gas clouds leak for a little while and move around the room, then start firing. This increases the chance of landing explosive hits on enemies and increase its crowd-control capabilities.

As per its crowd-control capabilities and its potential high rate of fire, it is overall quite an effective weapon.

### Recommended Buffs

* - Increases Burn damage from explosions.
* - Decreases projectile spread.
* - Increases the number of fired projectiles by 2.

### Recommended Attachments

* Poison Stone - Allows both sparks and flame bullets to have a chance to summon a poison pool, which will be ignited and explode, effectively increasing the weapon's crowd-control capabilities.
* Lightning Stone - Increases crowd-control capabilities by allowing them to occasionally electrify enemies.

## Forging Materials

 Ironstone
 Organic Matter
 Parts
 Timber
 Gems

## Trivia

* This weapon was added in Update 5.1.0.
* The ignition effect of this weapon is currently inconsistent and may not properly trigger explosions on all poison pools.
* Despite the name "staff", this weapon, being a Lighter, is not categorized as such and does not receive benefits accordingly.
* This weapon can ignite the poison pool of Bazinga, such that it loses poison pool for the current floor. Ignition can still happen if the player gets off the mount.
* Staff of Relic Flames' second mode is the only weapon in the game that consumes energy on a set interval, independent of player attacks.
* The behavior of the weapon used by Headgear Hero is a reference of the "chew the lighter" meme.