High Kaliber

High Kaliber
Statistics
Type:	Semiautomatic
Quality:
Magazine Size:	66 (11 shots)
Max Ammo:	666 (111 shots)
Reload Time:	1.0s
DPS:	33.0 (no souls collected) 210.0 (souls collected on bosses) (souls collected non-boss)
Damage:	15
Fire Rate:	0.40
Shot Speed:	22
Range:	25
Force:	13
Spread:	8
Class:	PISTOL
Sell Creep Price:	41
Introduced in:
Ammonomicon Entry
Soul Reaver
Can sever enemies' souls. This pocked and swollen gun splits and rends the spirit from the body.

High Kaliber is a gun that was added in the A Farewell to Arms update.

The gun fires a shot, which upon hitting an enemy, marks the enemy and causes the enemy's soul to leave its body. The soul will despawn after a short amount of time, if it hits a wall, or if a blank is used. If the player comes into contact with this soul, the enemy takes massive damage. Soul collection kills non-boss enemies instantly, and deals 55 damage to bosses. Additionally, all other marked enemies in the room take 5 damage.

The gun takes 6 ammo per shot, effectively having an ammo capacity of 111.

Notes

• Kailber k'pow uboom k'bhang - If the player also has Holey Grail, Cursed Bullets, or Yellow Chamber, the split soul initially moves towards the player instead of away.
• If the player has Scattershot or Helix Bullets, each bullet that hits will spawn a soul, and the damage dealt by collecting souls is not decreased.
• Helix Bullets causes souls to quickly travel towards the player and stop right in front of them, making them easy to collect.
• Remote Bullets causes souls to move towards the crosshair.
• Fat Bullets increase the size of the souls, allowing the player to collect them more easily.
• Souls cannot be picked up during the player's invincibility frames after being hit.
• Damage dealt by the souls bypasses the boss DPS cap.
• Stealing a boss's soul can damage bosses while in normally undamageable states, such as when Blobulord is split into smaller Blobulon-looking bullets.
• This gun is especially useful in co-op play, as souls can be collected by a partner or even the partner's ghost.
• When fighting the Ammoconda, souls only appear when you hit the head of the snake.

Trivia

• You can kill the Gunreaper by shooting once and taking his soul. You cannot, though, kill the Lord of the Jammed with it, as the bullets just phase through it.
• The synergy Kailber k'pow uboom k'bhang is most likely a reference to the term "ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" of the H.P Lovecraft story "Call of Cthulhu".
• This gun is most likely a dual reference to both Soulcalibur, a fighting game series featuring a demonic blade that turns its host into a nightmarish abomination similar to what the Entry physically describes the gun as, and Soul Reaver, a spinoff game from the Legacy of Kain series starring an undead vampire that consumes the souls of his slain foes.
• The damage done by stepping on enemies souls is known internally as 'Soul Burn'.
• The maximum ammo of the High Kaliber is a reference to the biblical Number of the beast (666).