Tombstone

The Tombstone is a special heavy melee weapon which can doom nearby enemies.

Details

• Special Effects:
  • Killing an enemy, or hitting a boss, with the third attack in the combo dooms nearby enemies.
    • • This can occur up to 3 times, but each time the doom damage is reduced.
    • This also causes a tombstone to be placed on the ground, but the placed tombstone has no function.
    • This also dooms the boss itself.
• Breach Bonus: 2 / 2 / 2
  • Base Breach Damage: 210 / 240 / 900
  • Base Breach DPS: 750
• Combo Duration: 1.8 seconds
  • First Hit: 0.5 (0.4 + 0.1 + 0)
  • Second Hit: 0.55 (0.45 + 0.1 + 0)
  • Third Hit: 0.75 (0.6 + 0.15 + 0)
• Tags: HeavyWeapon, NoCritical
• Legendary Version:
  • Forced Affix: Cascading Tomb
    • "Enemies killed by doom propagate the effect around them."

Synergies

• The Magnetic Grenade can be used to bring enemies closer together, maximizing the value provided by each triggering of the doom effect.
• Since the tombstones created by the doom effect are projectiles, they are affected by mutations Point Blank and Networking.
• If there are no enemies near the player after an enemy has been killed by the third attack, the mutation Tranquility will take effect and buff the resulting tombstones.

Notes

• Currently, the tombstones that are placed on the ground when killing an enemy using the third hit or with the doom effect do nothing.
• Similarly to the Alchemic Carbine, the Tombstone cycles between several visually different attack animations that feature various different kinds of tombstones. This difference is cosmetic.
• The doom effect is affected by the affixes applied to the tombstone the player is carrying.
• The third hit of the combo bypasses shields, much like whip-type weapons.
• The tombstones produced by the third hit of this weapon's combo are considered ranged attacks and are therefore affected by ranged mutations such as Point Blank.
• The Tombstones created by the Doom effect target enemies that are in hiding, such as Scorpions, revealing their location to the player, but not damaging or making them emerge.

Trivia

• Tombstone is featured in the update banner for v2.3, aka the Whack-a-Mole Update.
• At one point in the alpha build of v2.3, placed tombstones were originally intended to apply the doom effect when destroyed instead of on the weapon's third attack in a combo.

History

2.3: Introduced. 2.4: Buffed the damage drastically, fixed slow motion and added a weapon tag. Base DPS increased from 180 to 250. First attack charge duration decreased from 0.47 seconds to 0.4. First attack lock duration decreased from 0.2 seconds to 0.1. Second attack charge duration decreased from 0.5 seconds to 0.45. Second attack lock duration decreased from 0.15 seconds to 0.1. Third attack charge duration decreased from 0.75 seconds to 0.6. Base breach DPS increased from 432 to 750. Breach bonus changed from 3 / 2 / 1 to 2 / 2 / 2. Base doom effect damage increased from 80 to 150. Doom effect now stuns enemies it hits. Slow motion from Tombstone reduced. Slow motion from Tombstone is now correctly disabled by the relation option. Added tag NoCritical. Critical damage affixes are no longer obtainable. 3.0: Added the Legendary Affix "Cascading Tomb".

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