Talk:The Infestation/@comment-25543325-20150802202559/@comment-5138281-20150803114500

An infection can sometimes spread via contact, what if there were weapons that did a chain-damage/basically arc-lightning style attack, or more damage with more enemies in the AoE, and possibly a weapon that inflicts a debuff causing enemies to do less damage and/or move slower.

There also needs to be a weapon for the Infection Biome Chest in the dungeon. The Crimson and Corruption chests contain a melee item, so it'd only make sense to do so with the Infection Chest also. It probably wouldn't be a good idea to use a splitting weapon for this since the Scourge of Corruptors is basically that. This could possibly be where the Arc-Lightning-style weapon is, but either way there also needs to be:

Special biome material, eg: Crimson's ichor and Corruption's cursed flames. The infestation staff doesn't really specify what the projectiles are, but I'd imagine them similar to the Scourge of Corruptor's projectile, or Poison Staff's. You can't really have a parasite be a material (or can you?).

And speaking of biome-specific materials, there has to be a spell book weapon crafted from the material that drops from whatever enemy/enemies in the Infestation. This would cause the chosen debuff related to the specific material on enemies when used, like how the other spell books function.