Hammers

## Description

Hammers are melee weapons with the ability "blast wave", this means that once the hammer hits something it will release a powerful shock-wave capable of harming nearby enemies. If the hammer misses, the target will take 1/3 of the damage, units hit by the shock wave will also receive around 1/3 of the hammer's damage.

There are currently 3 types of hammer: Hammers, Energy hammers and Impulse hammers.

## Battle hammers

The most common type of hammer, has several variants each with it's own effects and attributes, their base critical damage is 135%.

### Quality variations (Hammer)

 * Regular
 * Rusted

## Energy hammers

Energy hammers are rarer type of Hammer that releases a powerful electric strike alongside the blast wave, the electric strike allows the user to damage enemies up to 3 tiles away. Units hit by the electric strike will receive 30-70% of the Energy hammer's damage.

Energy hammers require a small amount energy to work and once the minimal energy treshold is reached the Energy hammer will no longer consume energy but won't deal additional damage to the selected target and the radius of the electric strike will decrease to the usual 2 cells. (The third cell will still be affected, but only by the damage of the shock wave).

Their base critical damage is 135%.

### Variants (Energy hammers)

* Electric strike
* Deals electric damage
* +5% Critical damage
 Energy hammer
* Electric strike
* Deals electric damage
 Plasma caustic hammer
* Electric strike
* Deals electric damage
* Deals caustic damage
* Spills acid
* 1 Energy crystal

## Impulse hammers

Impulse hammers are a type of craftable energy hammers that have the ability "Impulse strike" this allows the Impulse hammers to release a powerful energy impulse that deals increased damage to the target while also pushing away any nearby units. Although the impulse strike usually deals less damage than an energy strike, impulse strikes are better at crowd control.

Their base critical damage is 135%.

* Impulse strike
* 35 Electric elements
* 2 Impulse modules
* Electric element 9-18

Impulse hammers consume energy in order to release an energy impulse.

## Notes

* By killing enemies with hammers you can get the in-game achievement "Thor".
* All hammers will receive a 10% damage bonus when the Juggernaut armor is equipped.
* The area damage makes the hammers good weapons against clusters of weak enemies standing next to each other.
* When approaching the minimum energy threshold, energy hammers can occasionally use an attack that does not consume energy.
* The Juggernaut armor consumes 20-70% less energy when using energy hammers, and also increases their damage by 10%.
* The Energy hammer is the most expensive weapon that can be purchased from the Shelter (120 gold)
* Impulse hammers are the only craftable weapons that can be obtained without crafting.

## Version history

* 0.95.2.3 - The cost of crafting the Devourment impulse hammer has been slightly reduced (40 Electric element >> 35 Electric element)
* 0.95.2.0 - The cost of crafting the Thor hammer has been increased (55 >> 60 simple components and 20 >> 25 plasma elemtn)
* 0.95.1.(?) - Necro blink hammer has been added to the game.
* 0.95.1.9 - Devourment impulse hammer has been added to the game.
* 0.95.1.6 - Fire-arc and cursed arc hammers have been added to the game.
* 0.95.1.2 - Arc hammer added to the game.
* 0.95.0.6 - The Blink hammer and Ashen impulse hammer have been added to the game.
* 0.95.0.1 - Impulse Chaos Hammer has been added to the game.
* 0.94.9.9 - Impulse hammers have been added to the game.
* 0.94.9.58 - Plasma caustic hammer was added to the game.
* 0.94.9.81 - The Inferno Hammer and the Necro hammer have been added to the game.
* 0.94.9.72 - Devourment Hammer has been added to the game.
* 0.94.9.66 - Energy hammers now use a certain amount of energy instead of a percentage.
* 0.94.9.6 - Fire and cursed hammers have been added to the game.
* 0.94.9.55 - Midas' Hammer has been added to the game.
* 0.94.9.42 - Caustic hammer was added to the game.
* 0.94.9.1 - Hammers and Blood hammers have been added to the game. Increased the damage of energy hammers.
* 0.94.8.0 - Energy Hammer added to the game.