Luminous Drill
Luminous Drill is a projectile type spell that creates a short-lived beam of bright green light. With significant reductions to both cast delay and recharge time this spell lends itself to rapid fire, producing a lightsaber effect that slices through terrain as easily as through your enemies. Unlike the similar Plasma-based spells, 'Lumi' Drill is safe to use by default.
This is one of the best spells for digging available in the game, on a par with Black Hole, but without the gravitational side-effects. It is also a highly effective spell for close range combat, especially against many enemies with shields, which the beam ignores. For engagement at longer range, lifetime increasing modifiers (like Ping-Pong Path) can be used.
There is also a With Timer variant, which has a significantly higher mana cost.
Tips
- This spell ignores projectile shields and is generally very effective against all enemies, including Stevari.
- The timer variant, while mana intensive, can be used to cast other spells through even steel walls.
- Since cast delay modifiers on the triggered spell are ignored, you can make any other spell fire just as fast as the Luminous Drill can.
- Chaining multiple instances of Luminous Drill with Timer can create a long stack of the spell which acts mostly like a single long Drill. This can be very useful for attacking enemies through barriers (such as in the tight quarters of the Hiisi Base).
- By using the Add Mana modifier on a wand with a low cast delay and recharge time, it is possible to create a permanent 'lightsaber' effect which can slice through most terrain with ease. Slight inaccuracy actually makes a wand like this far more efficient at tunneling, so adding a scatter modifier is recommended.
- Although the mana drain stat appears low, the spell has a negative Recharge Time (just like the Chainsaw and Digging Bolt spells) and so can quickly burn through a wand's mana reserves.
- To sustain maximum fire rate (60 shots/s) requires a wand with a mana regen stat higher than 600.
- A single Add Mana can sustain rapid-firing of 3 Drills (or 1 with Timer).
- While speed increasing modifiers don't have any effect (since the projectile is already travelling at the maximum speed it can) range can be improved using Lifetime increasing modifiers.
- The classic combo for this is with the Ping-Pong Path modifier, which also keeps the beam close to you rather than flying off-screen.
- Increase Duration makes Luminous Drill will fire like a Magic Arrow.
- Null Shot will boost range while also removing the beam's ability to damage enemies.
- True Orbit removes the Drill's ability to destroy terrain.
- You can also achieve this effect by using perks that increase lifetime, such as the Boomerang Spells perk, Bouncing Spells perk
- Because Luminous Drill can cut through any solid material, it is a bad choice for mining, as both gold powder and golden nuggets can be destroyed by its beam instantly. Golden nuggets damaged like that can be separated into multiple fragments, only one of which will be possible to pick up.
Trivia
- It is often referred to as "laser sword" or "lightsaber" in the Noita community.
Gallery
History
- Apr 8 2024:
- Added spawn probability of 0.1 for Luminous Drill on tier 10.
- Added spawn probabilities of 0.2 and 0.1 for Luminous Drill with Timer on tiers 6 and 10 respectively.
- Oct 24 2019: Renamed from "Laser Sabre" to "Luminous Drill".
- Oct 23 2019: Added both spells to the game.
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