Crowbar

The Crowbar is a item in Risk of Rain that allows the player to deal more damage to healthy enemies.

Effective Health formula
Players may consider this item as a direct reduction on enemies health diminishing it to 93.4%

To calculate the effective health of an enemy for every other crowbar after the first use the following formula: 100 - { [ 0.50 + ( 0.30 x n°crowbars_after_the_first ) ] x [ 20 / ( 1 + 0.5 + ( 0.30 x n°crowbars_after_the_first ) ] }

In case the player isn't using an ability that deals heavy amounts of damage, the Crowbar will have less and less impact on the damage output.

Character Synergies

 * The Sniper makes excellent use of the Crowbar, as it pairs well with to deal severe damage to newly spawned monsters and bosses.


 * The Bandit can also make good use of the Crowbar with, dealing heavy damage to targets.


 * The Commando's ability, can be overpowered when he makes use of the Item Synergies of Crowbar.

Item Synergies
The Crowbar item works wonders to almost all items that proc on-hit, since the damage calculated by the Crowbar is the base calculation of other items.

Here is a list of items that are amplified by Crowbar:
 * Brilliant Behemoth
 * Rusty Knife
 * AtG Missile Mk. 1
 * Fire Shield
 * Mortar Tube
 * Lens-Maker's Glasses
 * Sticky Bomb

And there could be more that hasn't been verified yet.

Here is a list of items that needs verification that could be amplified by Crowbar:
 * Golden Gun

Trivia
The Crowbar item is a reference to the Half Life series created by Valve, in which the main character "Gordon Freeman" uses a Crowbar very similar to the one in Risk of Rain as his melee weapon. The text "Until the 3rd version arrives" is a dig at the long production time of the half life series and Valve's seeming dislike of the number 3, going as far as making Half Life 1, 2 and Half Life 2 episodes 1 and 2. Because of this, Half Life 3 has become a well known point of humor on the internet joking about how it will never come out.

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Монтировка Crowbar