Trident

The trident is a polearm, being a significant upgrade over the spear.

Strategy

Tridents are a good weapon for the early game. They are reasonably common from dungeon enemies. Of the Fighter and Gladiator starting weapons, tridents are the strongest against single targets, due to their reaching.

In general, Polearms are great if you have some means of creating distance. Characters with fast movement speed, summons, or other allies can benefit the most from Polearms, though tridents aren't a terrible melee weapon on their own.

Unfortunately, tridents are the best one-handed polearm until you have access to a demon trident (or trishula).

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Mundane	File:Trident1.png
Magical	File:Trident2.png
Artifact	File:Trident3.png
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Trident of the Octopus King	File:Trident of the octopus king.png

History

• In 0.12, its accuracy was lowered to +1, and tridents became one-handed.
• Like most polearms, tridents had their base damage lowered by one to compensate for the introduction of reaching on all polearms in 0.10.