Crystal Bow

"A Very delicate but powerful bow. Crafted with hardened nether crystals"'

The Crystal Bow is a unique bow in New Existance

Characteristics
This Bow is the only unique weapon that has an increased firerate, firing almost 2 and a half times as fast as a normal bow/flare gun. this allows you to get the maximum damage a projectile weapon can have faster and earlier than with other weapons like it.

This Weapon technically possesses the highest dps in the game (assuming you're hitting a target with no projectile resistance) as you would be able to outdamage the Alien Blaster thanks to it not having any reload time or gun jamming. it also benefits from negative projectile resistance, which is rather common, allowing the weapon to surpass its highest 41 damage and reach into numbers like 50 or even 70+ damage, shredding through an enemy's hp.

This last part however is also a downside, as some enemies do have low or medium projectile resistance such as haunters, which render this weapon practically useless.

An often overlooked downside is this weapon has no infinity effect and thus will burn through an entire stack of flares rather quickly

Another benefit is its incredibly long duration, allowing it to be used constantly through a run, unlike other extreme high dps weapons like Darter

Overall. This Weapon is recommended for single high health enemies and bosses as these usually have none or negative resistance to projectiles. Not so much for spamming towards normal enemies

A note: This Weapon will always outdamage the Legia Bow, due to its higher firespeed and damage variation, making it a direct upgrade to it and rendering the legia bow useless once this weapon is acquired, that being said, the Legia bow is much much easier to get your hands on. So its handy to get that one first and then this bow later on during a run.

This Weapon cannot be repaired at the Obsidian Factory.

Location
This Weapon can be found inside a chest in an altar, being defended by two high ranking cultists before reaching Argus's Chambers inside The Temple