Barnacle

Barnacle
Internal name	CeilTurret
Type	Deployable
Scaling
Combo rate	One hit every 0.38 seconds (Attached) One hit every 0.57 seconds (Floating)
Recharge	10 seconds
Base trap health	20
Base price	1500
Damage
Base DPS	80 (160) (Attached) 53 (106) (Floating)
Base hit	30.4 (60.8)
Blueprint
Location	Drops from Thornies
Drop chance	1.7%
Unlock cost	40

Barnacle is a deployable skill which summons a ceiling turret to shoot at enemies while the player is nearby. Inflicts critical hits on poisoned enemies.

Details

• Special Effects:
  • Deploys a turret where the projectile gets close to a ceiling, platform or high wall. It has a height limit and anywhere over that, the Barnacle will instead suspend itself with purple balloons.
    • Turret deals damage once every 0.38 seconds with a base DPS of 80.
      • The turret deals critical damage to enemies that are poisoned.
    • The turret can be destroyed, but enemies cannot target the turret.
      • If the turret does not attach to a wall, it explodes after 9 seconds.
    • Only one turret per Barnacle skill can be active at a time - attempting to deploy another turret will destroy the first one.
    • Turret stops operation if the player moves too far away and resumes operation once the player comes back within range.
• Tags: Ranged, HasBullets, Deployable, NeedPower, UnlockInPublicEvent
• Legendary Version:
  • Forced Affix: Poison Bullet
    • "Shots explode into a toxic cloud."

Synergies

• Items that poison enemies ( Alchemic Carbine, Snake Fangs, Blowgun, Corrosive Cloud, Catalyst) can satisfy Barnacle's critical condition.

Trivia

• The name and design of Barnacle are directly taken from an enemy in the Half-Life series of video games, although they are ultimately different. Barnacles in Half-Life have long tongues that they use to snatch smaller entities before munching them with their jaws while the DC Barnacle is green (instead of crimson), has a single eye, and launches ranged attacks with solid projectiles. The sprite still shows its red tongue, however.

History

0.1: Introduced. 0.8: Can now float with a balloon if no attach point is found. 1.9: Rally effect has been removed. No longer activates cooldown reduction mutations. 2.4: Base DPS increased from 52 to 80. 2.9: Inflicts critical hits on poisoned enemies. 3.0: Added the Legendary Affix "Poison Bullet".

Skills

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