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RustyX

Questions about Flamelash spell. Does it exist? Is it just ridiculously rare?

I'm playing a caster, and have every other spell besides Flamelash. I've played through multiple worlds, cleaned out the Shadow chests of at least 2 small worlds, 1 medium, and 1 large. I've gotten every other possible item from Shadow chests at least 3 times, most 4+.

So, does the Flamelash spell actually spawn in Shadow Chests? Is it just super rare? Is it actually any good anyway?

Posted Sep 13, 2011, 4:30 PM UTC

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Alistracious•

Wait, these are rare?

Christ, I've been selling all my spares to the NPCs!

TIL I have wasted 8 or 9 super rare spells -_-

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finalremix•

Do you own enough for one-per-character of yours? Then, NPC sell or trade to players with the rest. You're fine.

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Alistracious•

I mean I've found many of these and already sold them all.

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finalremix•

Well played! They're not wasted.

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Skwalin•

This is sorta a cheat, but I kept generating worlds, digging down to hell, looting, delete the world, retry.

It took my 7 f-ing worlds to finally have one spawn in a chest in hell.

So yea, they are rare.

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thesmallone29•

Luck of the draw, honestly. They are possible to get, I have one. Cant remember if i got it in a Shadow chest though.

*and to address the rest of your questions, It seems to be rare. It's a decent weapon. You control the ball of fire. It will hit one enemy, dissipate after 1 minute or if you hit a solid object. Can't tell you exact specs on mana usage, but i remember burning through my mana pretty quickly, and in that respect, I didn't use it all to often, even when emphasizing my magic abilities.

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RustyXOP•

Thanks. I'll keep trying for it, but from what you've said, it probably won't be something I use often. I mainly use Water Bolt and Flower of Fire now, and even they can be a big mana drain, with full Jungle gear.

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[deleted]•

do you also have a nature's gift and band of starpower? they're quite helpful to a caster build (also, I quite enjoy the demon scythe as my primary weapon)
I also remember seeing on the wiki that there's a bug that can cause worlds to spawn without a flamelash.

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RustyXOP•

I have the Nature's Gift but not the Band of Starpower. I do like the Nature's gift, but to be honest, I'm so addicted to having all my movement accessories equipped at all times that I only find I have one slot to spare.

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MaunaLoona•

Flamelash has a 25% chance to spawn on a Large World.

Someone generated multiple worlds and did an analysis on the data.

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derek614•

It's ridiculously rare, to be honest. I just created a ton of small worlds, dug to hell, and opened all the chests until I found one. It took me exactly 28 (yes, twenty-eight) small worlds to find Flamelash. I did small worlds because you can get to hell faster, by the way.

Or you can make it easier and download a map viewer. Then you can create a world, open the viewer and use it to check all the chests, and discard the world and start again if there are no Flamelashes.

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Birofunky•

i got mine back when they dropped off bone serpents. i have yet to see one in any chests i have looted.

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GmF7•

Same here, I was EXTREMLY lucky. I killed one ond got the Sunfury, which I then used on 2 more and got 2 Flamlashes. My Grinding Paid off, and me and my friend were very happy to have a Flamelash

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spoons2020•

keep trying. they are out there.

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nastynate600•

If you want to get one without going through a few more worlds check out terraria trading you can trad there with someone for one of the many other things you've found

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siff•

I also have yet to see a Flamelash. I'm spawning new large worlds and farming flame imps in my old 1.0.5 "home" world to no avail.
But what is really bothering me, is that I don't even believe that Dr. Bones exists anymore. I've seen The Groom hundreds of times, but no Dr. Bones. Was he removed in 1.0.5 or something?

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geedmat•

I can confirm that he exists. I killed Dr. Bones during a blood moon and then I saw him about an hour later in the jungle. It's a shame I can't just wear stacks of hats.

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Tarun80•

You know know when stacks of hats will appear in the game.

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siff•

Ugh. If you could wear stacks of hats, I'd be wearing 250 top hats and still wishing for an archaeologist's hat...

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RustyXOP•

I actually just saw Dr Bones for the first time last night. Got the Archaeologist Hat. Had only ever seen The Groom before last night.

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Fennels•

I still got 13 Flamelashes from my Sunfury farming days. Sounds like it's time to sell them. :)

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