Ghastly Glaive

Spectral spear thrusts and airborne phantom summons

Dropped by the Ogre during Tier 2 of the Old One's Army invasion after defeating at least one mechanical boss. The weapon functions as an extended polearm dealing 45 base melee damage with 7 knockback at Average use speed. Whenever the spear tip makes contact with an enemy, it conjures flying phantom weapons that dart out and homing-strike neighboring targets, inflicting secondary damage against surrounding threats.

Crowd control polearms and etherian invasion combat

The automatic phantom missiles compensate for the spear's narrow thrust trajectory, granting it crowd-clearing capability during invasion defense lanes and Blood Moon events. It outperforms earlier polearms such as the Cobalt Naginata and competes directly with Gungnir and the Mushroom Spear. Because spears cannot receive prefix bonuses to weapon size or attack speed, the best modifier available is Godly or Demonic to maximize damage output and critical strike rate.

Trivia

• The summoned ghostly weapons track nearby targets automatically and can fly through solid barriers to strike enemies.
• Phantom projectiles deal base damage equal to the initial spear strike, doubling impact efficiency against compact clusters.