Plasma Beam

Plasma Beam
An instantaneous, dangerous beam of light
Type	Projectile
Mana Drain	60
Cast Delay	+0.10
Damage (Projectile)	20
Lifetime ⓘ	100
Speed	40
Recoil	+20
Additional Information
ID	LASER_EMITTER
Spawning Behaviour
Spawn chance by Tier ⓘ	000 11/42010.24 21/17210.58 31/12910.77 41/28510.35 500 600 700 800 900 1000

Plasma Spells

Plasma Beam Cross

Four deadly plasma beams in a cross-shape. Look out, they can hurt you as well!

Plasma Beam

An instantaneous, dangerous beam of light

Plasma Cutter

A plasma beam specialized in cutting materials!

Plasma Beam Bounce

A projectile launches a plasma beam upon bouncing

Plasma Beam Orbit

Makes four plasma beams rotate around a projectile

Plasma Beam Enhancer

Makes plasma beam spell's beam wider

Plasma Beam Thrower

A projectile fires beams of light in random directions

Spells that emit deadly beams of light.

Plasma Beam is a projectile spell which emits a continuous, highly damaging beam of light from a projectile particle. This beam can burn through most solid matter and powders, evaporate liquids, and rapidly damage anything in its path, including you. The projectile particle remains in the air for a few seconds, firing the beam until it dissipates.

The beam is very similar to the beams fired by the laser traps found in The Vault, the beam you emit with the Personal Plasma Beam perk, and the shorter-ranged beam created by the Paha Silma.

Tips

• Plasma beam can dig through materials up to durability 11.
• Due to the risk of self-damage, it is best to only cast Plasma Beam while standing still or moving away from the direction you aim it in, otherwise you may run headlong into your own beam. Long-Distance Cast can mitigate this danger. Projectile Repulsion Field will also repel the beam's origin point, giving you a bit more space to maneuver.
• Damage from the beam does not trigger Saving Grace, so using the spell should be avoided at low health. This seems to be the same reason for this spell to ignore Sauvojen tuntija's damage protection.
• The beam can evaporate all liquids including magical ones, making it possible to remove otherwise dangerous or bothersome liquids like teleportatium, flummoxium, and especially polymorphine.
• Extremely efficient against Ylialkemisti, since it can only absorb and reflect the beams if its shield touches their point of origin. Staying a short distance away allows you to completely ignore the shield.
• Stacking multiple Plasma Beams together will essentially create a single beam with their combined damage and digging power.
• Critical Hits only apply to the initial projectile and origin of the beam, not its entire length.
• Exercise extreme caution when applying any path-altering modifiers to Plasma Beam - these can both move the emitting particle around and make the beam change direction, which can have truly chaotic results.
• A bug sometimes causes enemies killed with this spell not to count towards progress.
• Chaotic Transmutation disables scripts from spells, making this spell a safe piercing projectile.
• Most enemies killed by this spell itself are instantly vaporized, leaving no trace of a corpse behind. Larger enemies, such as Jättimatos, powderize and turn into soil.

Gallery

Testing Plasma Beam in a Holy Mountain.

See Also

• Plasma Beam Enhancer

History

• Apr 8 2024: Changed the spawn probability on tier 2 from 1 to 0.8.
• Mar 30 2021: Added to the game.