Limit Break Turns HOLY WAND Into A Machine Gun As ONLY Weapon in Vampire Survivors 

My exact thought, maybe bouncing substitutes piercing for that weapon, so the piercing stat is replaced by the static bounces stat and cannot be upgraded

Same thought here. The game is not giving it because it would do nothing on a weapon that bounces off enemies.

The projectiles seems to pierce infinite after the bounce while leaving the screen. Maybe the dev was aware of it and removed the powerup after acquiring the Arcana. Edit: I got piercing before the Arcana

That's what I was thinking. They don't really make sense together.

Idk but isn't it that for example 3 pierce just becomes 3 bounces with waltz of pearls?

Hold one: What? Since when do they have duration? Holy_Missile e.g. has no duration attribute, but when this topic came up once with Hellfire (though to be fair, a long time ago), I tested it by walking at -1 HP with it for I think 17 minutes and it never despawned. The reason this was done on Hellfire is because it does have the duration attribute but at 100, which I assume means 0.1 seconds (Santa Water e.g. has 2000 and a 500 duration increase per lvl up increases it by 0.5 seconds). Are you sure these can disappear? Or are you talking about a time length that is incredibely long, like 30+ minutes?

@@DexTag I must be misremembering then, I thought there was something in the base classes or their functions which implemented a timeout. They _do_ initialise with 1s base duration but I can't see any actual timeout in the current code. What does work on all weapons is the "cooldown affected by duration" flag used to distinguish King Bible and Unholy Vespers, but the weapons which intend to use it will have a properly defined duration anyway.

Oh yeah I think bounce might not let piercing appear in upgrades.

Huh Mad Groove :o? Do you mean Wicked Season :D? I could definitely see this working out really well with it, so I will think about it!

@Dex you're right I do mean wicked season! I got my arcana mixed up im still new to the game!

@Dex I played a game yesterday with the cats that lagged my game so bad that I waited almost an hour for 15 minutes to pass just to see the final results

Ja, es ist traurig wie schlecht die Waffe noch immer ist, und eher wegen solchen Problemen. Der Grund warum ich es "gut" nannte ist, da Holy Wand in der Vergangenheit IMMER oben links angegriffen hat, wenn ein Gegner auf deiner Hitbox war. Ist er unten rechts? Greift oben links an und wird ihn niemals treffen. Das scheint besser zu sein, aber die Waffe hat noch immer mega Probleme

Yes, the bounces are VERY good. It only seems like it falls off at mid-game because the projectile speed goes up so high that the bounces chain extremely quickly. If you pay close attention, you can see a single projectile wipes nearly entire groups of enemies at once.

Probably related to the bouncing arcana as some people are saying. I got the arcana AFTER pierce

i think it also gives your magic bolts knockback

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