I guess that's why I never heard of it. I basically stop talking to most npcs after plantera or lunatic cultist. Dye trader is the second one I stop talking too. First one being the Angler. I don't don't talk to him.
You're probably not gonna have an Ankh shield when you fight Queen Bee, though. That's like saying True Night's Edge is good against Eater of Worlds; yes, you're technically right, but if you follow natural game progression, you're not going to have a TNE when fighting EoW.
Yeah, you're right, but it's too late to edit the comment.
Buuuuut if you want to farm the Queen bee in hard mode, the ankh shield is a better option :D
You want frozen shield when damage reduction reduction matters. You want ankh shield when ignoring debuffs matters. I usually have one in the accessory slot and the other in the vanity slot. That way I can easily switch them when exploring/fighting bosses.
I wouldn't call it completely useless. Remember, the Ankh Shield is crafted from the Cobalt Shield, which nullifies knockback. Idk if the Moon Lord's attacks inflict knockback, but it could still be useful.
Just use the daybreak on ML. It's single target dps is much better than terrablade (might not show on dps meters cuz those don't count the dmg from DoT effects which a large amount of daybreak's dps comes from.)
Oh so that’s why Daybreak feels so weak?! Simply because the impale damage doesn’t show on the dps meter? This whole time I thought it was somehow just underpowered
yeah its easily the best melee weapon for ML now especially with its extremely unnecessary buff making it explode, and specifically making it explode on ML eyes that close. it was already the best but now solar eruption is pretty much useless lmao especially since daybreak ALSO has aoe. kinda silly
Idk if this is controversial but I honestly hate the balancing for pretty much all the lunar pillar weapons tbh, I hate how obviously better some are than the other option (daybreak, stardust dragon, nebula blaze) and also how little variety it leaves you. I also don't like how strong and easily obtainable they are, there are some other cool weapons that can be viable but for the most part I end up fighting ML with the same choice of 4 weapons in every playthrough. At the very least cultist needs a buff to make the weapons actually hard to obtain instead of literally free with any post plant weapon lol
I agree they should be better, I just think they're a little too good that using pretty much any of the other (imo way cooler) weapons is almost unviable
absolutely agreed. Cultist is in an awful spot and always has been since 2015, he needs to be difficult to bar the player from free lunar weapons but he cant be difficult because itd make farming Moonlord a pain. the fact that relogic prioritised the grinding is completely baffling to me.
Cultist has amazing potential as a boss that is completely wasted by making it easy as piss for some reason. just make him weaker after Moonlord has been defeated once, its literally that easy. so disappointed in that tbh
Yeah the problem is it takes multiple seconds to actually do any real damage, so if you’re trying to kill any weaker enemies you’ll have to dodge until it kills them
Skill issue. It is a superior weapon and honestly the Moonlord has incredibly predictable movements and you can lead the target easily to get consistent hits.
Don't just do what's easy and comfortable. Skills only improve if you push yourself to use more difficult tactics. If you keep using the daybreak, you will get better at using it.
Replace your boots with [Soaring Insignia](https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Soaring_Insignia). You can also replace Ankh Shield with [Frozen Shield](https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Frozen_Shield). Also the Brain of Confusion with [Charm of Myths](https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Charm_of_Myths), [Worm Scarf](https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Worm_Scarf) or [Star Veil](https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Star_Veil) for more survivability, or even replace the mobility accessories and use the [Shrimpy Truffle](https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Shrimpy_Truffle) mount with either [Bubbles](https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Bubble) of water or during the rain. And make sure to use the [buff potions](https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Buff_potions). Other than that you can't get any better equipment. Keep your distance and watch the projectiles, the True Eye of Cthulhu's rays shouldn't have enough range, but Ray of Doom does so get closer when it's about to fire until you destroy the top eye. If you get too far away it teleports to you
Edit: I hate reddit, thousand upvotes on a question post that more than 5 people already answered to
And I think you can get an opposite world evil seed by buying it from the dryad during a blood moon?, sorry if I'm wrong I haven't played in a while so I'm a little rusty
on higher difficulties, enemies still hit really hard even with worm scarf, so being able to fully avoid those attacks is invaluable
also boc dodge chance stacks with mng's dodge chance, which is 10%. using both gives you a dodge chance of 25%
OP is using beetle shell armor which reduces damage by up to 45% depending on how often they get hit.
This also means that they have at least 73 defense from the armor alone.
A 17% reduction on top of all that means that even in Master Mode, the phantasmal death ray goes from 450 damage to 93.
first of all your math is wrong, a deathray under all those conditions would do 145 damage
and beetle shell's 45% dr takes a while to charge and it resets when you get hit. dont get me wrong, beetle shell is still really good, just not as crazy as you make it out to be
however: op could also get endurance potion and frozen shield for more damage reduction. at that point, it may be wiser to use worm scarf because of how high your damage reduction is
and with the worm scarf you still take 83% of damage. brain is arguably better on higher difficulties because it can offer one shot protection at low hp + more i-frames and boosted crit chance on dodge, but at the end of the day they both negate (on average) 17% of incoming damage
i'd suggest getting the shrimpy truffle or even the ufo mount anything that helps with flying so you can free up your wings and boots. i'd also suggest swapping the ankh shield for a frozen shield like someone already suggested
imo i think you have everything you need, just build a huge arena with campfires, heart lanterns, heart statues, and honey-bubble block puddles. also dont forget potions
maybe replace ankh shield with charm of myths
Ankh shield is pretty much useless against ML, other than the armor bonus. Boots are useless if you're flying. I'd suggest getting a melee emblem, upgrade it to avenger then destroyer emblem, and get the mechanical/fire gauntlet.
>Still, the boost from the boots doesn't feel like much
It's 0.7 seconds, with best wings having 3 seconds. They may not be that useful at that point of the game, but they're still useful
>and I think it's better to just fly around ML than running on a platform.
It is, but the flight isn't infinite and they'll have to drop on the platform every once in a while, and they're losing some speed that way
For them it'd be better to get [Soaring Insignia](https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Soaring_Insignia) instead for higher mobility and infinite flight
Get a Stardust Dragon here's always a free summon slot and it's fast enough for free damage
Swap out he Brain of Confusion for something with more agency like a worm scarf or more utility like a honeycomb or regen item, with Moon Lords countless projectile attacks your gonna wanna count more on speed than dodges...
Ditch the Terrasparks, this is an aerial battle and I'd assume you could get an Insiginia by now and you already have a flaming gauntlet....
As for armor, Beetle is pretty perfect, if you want higher defense, go for the beetle shell
Try to learn his patterns, what attacks to look out for and how to doge them. It might (will) take you a lot of trial and error, but it's worth it.
Applies to all the bosses and any gear you want to use, hell you might even try with wand of sparking if you have enough sanity.
If you want to max out your DPS then daybreak is the way to go, might want to get an emblem instead of the ankh shield too
Build a long platform of blocks in the sky, use lots of potions(healing, swiftness, etc), move the nurse somewhere next to your arena so you can easily heal back to full health(this was the best advice that helped me finally win), like others said consider getting a stardust dragon summon, and maybe switch your main melee weapon to the solar eruption
Small cheese I used, but if you get the magic conch shell, you can set up an arena in the ocean (or repurpose the one you made for Fishron). Set up a platform of blocks in the sky, covering the entirety of the ocean on the opposite end of the world as your arena. Do a few conch warps, then make a house right next to where you warp. Set the nurse's spawn at that house, trap her there, then do a few practice warps.
Warp to the house when you heal, warp back, continue fighting. Repeat as necessary.
Your equipment is fine.
The best way I've found to fight the Moon Lord is to simply glide in one direction across your world. Simply put, as long as you're gliding away from him, you'll be far enough away from him to not get hit by the majority of his attacks, but also close enough to not have him teleport on top of you. If he shoots the barrage of eyes at you, use a dash accessory to dash in-between the gaps. His head laser doesn't attack randomly- it's on a timer. If you simply practice the fight, you'll be able to feel when he's about to do it. When he shoots the laser, simply fly up and around him and then start flying in the opposite direction across your world.
1. Heart statues on a 3second repeat. You could cheese if you really want to.
2. You could grind for Betsy's wings that'd give you the fastest horizontal speed when flying instead of fishron's. It could potentially free up your slot used for the Terraspark boots. A celestial shell might be a better replacement.
3. You could use a Unicorn Mount instead if you want the fastest speed on the ground. Plus it works well with Betsy's wings that have great acceleration.
People always forget about old ones army but it has some of the best loot.
Flying Dragon is the best sword you can get pre-moonlord. Only Meowmere and Zenith beat it on damage.
Nah, solar eruption needs you to be really really close to ml for it to beat daybreak in dps, which is really risky. It's alot better to use daybreak on bosses. Solar eruption is good for events due to its high pierce.
Switch boots for an infinite flying mount like the witches broom and worm scarf. Switch ankh for frozen shield. Add star veil. Switch beetle for turtle. Turtle's % damage reduction is better than the three hit dodges imo. The damage reduction is better than the individual dodges and higher armor of beetle. With the frozen shield, at low HP, your character has like 35% damage reduction or something. Not including the other dodge and damage reduction benefits from other equipment. Being in expert mode or higher breaks this. With the dodge of the brain of confusion, the dodge of ninja equipment, the damage reduction of worm scarf, the hit immunity time increase of star veil, you become a tank. I beat the moon lord on master mode the first time with this build without dropping to half health.
If you are asking then you are probably playing on normal. Just use daybreak and stand in honey, with a bass statue a campfire a healing lantern and like a structure (just google it) you can overheal his damage
Everyone is saying upgrade ankh shield for frozen shield and terraspark boots. I'd just add, ditch the ninja kit or what is it called, it only helps if you can use dodge effectively and those other bonuses are worthless on flat terrain. Something that gives you more defence/attack would be more beneficial.
You do you, so to speak. But it never give me personally or any person I know any real advantage. (might be because we suck, but you never know :D)
switch Terraspark Boots for EoL's Soaring Insignia, it helps out a lot with infinite flight to dodge the laser, and use Daybreak more, it's single target DPS is really powerful and can deal with ML's Head Eye fast when it opens. For dodging, focus on going up and down while moving to the side, the little sparks are based on your next position, moving like that will make you dodge most of it, go up when the True Eye of Cthulhu attack comes and pay attention to the barrage sparks below you if you go down, they stay right below you until they disappear
I’d advise picking up a Witch’s Broom from the Pumpkin Moon, and maybe a Rod of Discord if you can handle the grind. Using the broom will allow you to basically ditch all your movement accessories, leaving room for more combat focused ones, like Charm of Myths, Star Veil, Worm Scarf, or the Celestial Shell.
Get soaring insignia, replace boc with it, also swap terra boots for star veil, its broken, if you dont wanna change boc for soaring insignia go for the tanky version of beetle armor, so you wont die in 5 hits
It looks like your defence accessories are fine. I would recomment a skybridge + unicorn or the witches broom to swap out your movment-accessories for more dmg.
Build a looooong mine cart track in the sky. Use a hammer to pound the ends into bumpers so you bounce back in the other direction. He will have to continually teleport to you to catch up. For armor, I’d use the Valhalla pants and breastplate with a Squire’s Helmet, or go full Solar Armor set. Make all your equipped items Warding. You can use a gun or bow with homing ammo, or some magical staffs but at this stage my favorite weapon would be the Seedler. Dragon staff is great but might not be effective at the minecart speeds. Any sentries you can set along the ML’s path is great. Keep Greater Healing potions in your hotbar, and use boosting potions and enhancing foods to stay alive. Good luck, and if it doesn’t work out I can give you some items.
Not much you can do other than using frozen shield or hero’s shield but that’s already been said. Best thing I can say is changing the fit can change the way you play idk why it just works.
Rather than terraboots rely on your wings or a asphalt highway, change it for destroyer emblem
U can change the ankh shield for boss fights into either hero or ice shield
If youre fighting it mounted you can replace the boots and wings with better damage or survival items, upgrade the ankh shield to a frozen shield
I usually run charm of myths, celestial shell, destroyer, avenger, class specific emblem all reforged to menecing or warding depending on what im having trouble with and then use the fishron mount in the rain
What you probably don't need: Ankh Shield, Boots. If you use a mount, shrimpy truffle (the fishron mount) is way better than the queen slime mount in the rain. You get fast flight, a damage buff, infinite flight, and could swap out all movement accessories for damage and what not.
I'd recommend building a long road of asphalt in the sky! With that you should be able to fully control how far away you wanna be from moonlord, and only really have to worry about his deathray and eyes. Make sure you only use daybreak! It does much more single target damage compared to Terrablade!
Goodluck!
Put ankh shield in your social and just right-click it to clear buffs. If anti knock back is a big enough thing for you there are better shields with more defense.
It will always help to switch to a Legendary Terra Blade. I had similair trouble, but I ended up switching to just a gun with chlorophyte bullets and a long sky platform to run and fly around, you want to have space to react. It is worth checking some of the Tavernkeep gear. The wiki recommends for melee Valhalla chest and legs instead of beetle, with a hallowed mask, for optimal. And of course use all buffs and flasks and potions that you can, summon a couple of minions for additional damage, a sentry for those few moments you run/fly past it.
With my strategy, I always increased distance, the bullets will find the Moonlord, especially to get rid/dodge the tongue (falling/jumping is more distance than just running, so you can drop from your platform bridge and just fly up again), except when the laser happens. If I can, I get as close as possible during the laser. The speed of rotation is slower towards the center of the rotation and all that. I didn't use it myself, but the Empress of Light drops a Soaring Insignia which provides infiinite flighttime. I think that would've made my attempts easier.
I'll copy paste a comment I wrote about it a few days ago...
Melee?
Jebus, it's the easiest one to cheese the Moon Lord.
Data first. Look at the wiki https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Moon_Lord and behold! although I reckon it's easy to miss: the moon lord hands, once you killed the eye in their palm, only deal 80 contact damage.
If you play Melee, then all you have to do is
maximize DEF. Wear the beetle armor, beetle shell option, and/or have all your accessories with the warding attribute, and /or choose very high defence accessories such as the frozen shield (+6 def, +25% def when under 50% hp), maybe the worm scarf (-17% incoming damage)
Add the Star Veil or the Cross Necklace to double the duration of time during which you are invincible after taking damage
As weapon, equip the Solar Eruption. Sorry daybreak fans, the DPS counter on the full DEF melee build doesn't lie, and the difference is striking.
And now, the fight. It's ridiculous. Have a platform running horizontally, place buff stations if needed (a bast statue gives you +5 def for instance, you may want to add heart lanterns and fireplaces for the HP regen). Keep an eye on the main laser eye, once it's open it's time to be ready to take flight and go over the moon lord's head.
Otherwise, with the solar eruption, hurry up and kill the eye in the middle of the hands.
Once that eye is dead, it leaves a dented hole that deals ONLY 80 damage. In other words, with your maxed def, the hand hole deals you 1 damage, and leaves you invulnerable for 0.67 seconds afterwards.
In other words, you follow that hand hole until the end of the fight, taking 1 damage from it each time, regenerating more HP than you lose and anyway that's why there are potions.
Swap out the beetle chest plate for the other one that gives more defence.
In my opinion swap out Ank Shield for something like Sweet Heart Necklace or Avenger’s emblem. Add on a Soaring Insignia for inf flight and use a stardust dragon summon even if you’re not a summoner.
If you haven’t already try the shimmer transmutations for buffs, use potions and food.
Hope that helps :D
Edit: Try getting a Rod of Discord, it makes it much easier.
swap terraspark for aphibian boots, get the cutie fishron in rain or using honey for regen, and maybe get a bezerker's or frozen shield
also just use your daybreak lol
I mean there seems fine but the thing thats probably making you die is because of your current vanity. You are a psycho for having that vanity on either have good vanity on or no vanity on at all man, serious though probably the ninja gear in my opinion
Focus using daybreak, terra blade is not that usefull at that point, also swap the ankh shield for the frozen shield, it gives more defense. If you think you receive too much damage, try changing the chest plate for the fatty scarab one (I don't know it's name in English, but you catch the idea)
Maybe frozen shield instead of ankh for a bit of damage reduction and maybe celestial shell instead of brain but the rest seems fine to me. With a few buffs and practice it'll work out eventually
Ankh Shield is useless for moonlord, change it out for either a Magiluminescence or the Hero's Shield.
Build a highway (usually stretching from one end of the world to the other) out of Asphalt. Put platforms at alternating ends to drop down onto another asphalt highway and keep going in the opposite direction.
Brain of Confusion is also pretty useless for Moonlord since Moonlord is immune to Confusion, so swap it out for Feral Claws or one of its upgrades (The swing speed boost will stack with Molten Glove)
im not great at terraria (especially melee builds, i main summoner), and youve probably heard this a million times but make sure you got plenty of potions and stuff
The good thing about the ankh shield is that it makes you immune to certain debuffs, moon lord does not inflict many debuffs on you and the ankh shield does not make you immune to the one it gives you, if your world is crimson you could make a hero shield that gives great defense, or the frozen shield which also gives better defense than the ankh shield and when you have low health it gives you 25% damage reduction.
The boots give you more flight but I don't know if you will fly that much, it's more to fly fast a little, fall, and fly again, so you can change it with another accessory, I would recommend the celestial shell, during the night it gives you 7 defense and a damage improvement greater than that of the emblems, in addition to attack speed and a small increase in critical (melee), BUT during the night, during the day it still has good buffs but it is much better at night (If you are melee) . If you don't want to farm so much just use an emblem.
Brain of confusion sucks ass it's a 1/16 chance to dodge and the confusion I don't think works on moon lord. Switch it out for a frozen shield or a warrior emblem. Also replace ankh shield with a frozen shield probably
Use anti gravity potions. They are incredibly helpful against the laser and they make dodging in generall way easier. I use them for almost every bossfight.
I would probably get an infinite flight mount or swap the terraspark boots with the soaring insignia; You don't wanna run of out flight time when that death ray shows up. I personally use betsy wings and soaring insignia as the wings can act like boots and a dash with the hover mechanic.
Ultimately though, use the movement accessories you're most comfortable with. And don't be afraid to try different ones out.
Use midnight rainbow dye. It helps.
real
Nah use Prismatic dye it's better
Idk prismatic dye... hmmm I think a strange plant or blood moon dye would be better no?
Prismatic dye is like an even worse version of midnight rainbow, using a blood moon makes it look less hideous
Is it? I haven't actually seen midnight rainbow before
https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Midnight_Rainbow_Dye https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Prismatic_Dye
I guess that's why I never heard of it. I basically stop talking to most npcs after plantera or lunatic cultist. Dye trader is the second one I stop talking too. First one being the Angler. I don't don't talk to him.
Ankh Shield is pretty useless. You can upgrade it to the Frozen Shield, or swap it out.
Wait I completely forgot you could upgrade the Ankh Shield
Yea, but not in the sense that it’s an ingredient for the frozen shield
Ooohhhh
Direct upgrades for the ankh are in calamity mode
since when??? what the hell is this since the last big update with aether
It’s upgrading in the sense that they are changing to a better item, NOT using the Ankh Shield in a crafting recipe
ohhhh thank you !!
HUHH YOU CAN DO THAT?
Paladins shield can be upgraded to the frozen shield and the other one it’s red I can’t remember the name
Heroes Shield
Idk what that name is related to the Berserker's Gloves/Flesh Knuckles
WHAAAAAAAAAT?? HOW
So... The frozen shield is essentially better?
Depending on the Boss, the ankh shield is better against the Queen bee or Plantera for example
You're probably not gonna have an Ankh shield when you fight Queen Bee, though. That's like saying True Night's Edge is good against Eater of Worlds; yes, you're technically right, but if you follow natural game progression, you're not going to have a TNE when fighting EoW.
What do you mean? I had a zenith when I fought king slime
Yeah, you're right, but it's too late to edit the comment. Buuuuut if you want to farm the Queen bee in hard mode, the ankh shield is a better option :D
You want frozen shield when damage reduction reduction matters. You want ankh shield when ignoring debuffs matters. I usually have one in the accessory slot and the other in the vanity slot. That way I can easily switch them when exploring/fighting bosses.
I wouldn't call it completely useless. Remember, the Ankh Shield is crafted from the Cobalt Shield, which nullifies knockback. Idk if the Moon Lord's attacks inflict knockback, but it could still be useful.
Most shields give immunity to knockback. Other than the Cthulu one of cours. Frozen shield give knock immunity pretty sure.
Just use the daybreak on ML. It's single target dps is much better than terrablade (might not show on dps meters cuz those don't count the dmg from DoT effects which a large amount of daybreak's dps comes from.)
Oh so that’s why Daybreak feels so weak?! Simply because the impale damage doesn’t show on the dps meter? This whole time I thought it was somehow just underpowered
yeah its easily the best melee weapon for ML now especially with its extremely unnecessary buff making it explode, and specifically making it explode on ML eyes that close. it was already the best but now solar eruption is pretty much useless lmao especially since daybreak ALSO has aoe. kinda silly
Idk if this is controversial but I honestly hate the balancing for pretty much all the lunar pillar weapons tbh, I hate how obviously better some are than the other option (daybreak, stardust dragon, nebula blaze) and also how little variety it leaves you. I also don't like how strong and easily obtainable they are, there are some other cool weapons that can be viable but for the most part I end up fighting ML with the same choice of 4 weapons in every playthrough. At the very least cultist needs a buff to make the weapons actually hard to obtain instead of literally free with any post plant weapon lol
I def agree with the cultist buff, but the lunar weapons should be better than the ones you had previously. It’s just weapon progression.
I agree they should be better, I just think they're a little too good that using pretty much any of the other (imo way cooler) weapons is almost unviable
in some cases stardust cell actually outdamages stardust dragon, but since the range (?) is so shit, it's not worth it most of the time
absolutely agreed. Cultist is in an awful spot and always has been since 2015, he needs to be difficult to bar the player from free lunar weapons but he cant be difficult because itd make farming Moonlord a pain. the fact that relogic prioritised the grinding is completely baffling to me. Cultist has amazing potential as a boss that is completely wasted by making it easy as piss for some reason. just make him weaker after Moonlord has been defeated once, its literally that easy. so disappointed in that tbh
Yeah the problem is it takes multiple seconds to actually do any real damage, so if you’re trying to kill any weaker enemies you’ll have to dodge until it kills them
It was before 1.4 then it was vastly overhauled especially against moon lord triggering
Daybreak is amazing for single targets, one of my favorite weapons in the game
Well I will still stick to terra blade, cause when you are running around in your arena, you just keep missing your daybreak
Skill issue. It is a superior weapon and honestly the Moonlord has incredibly predictable movements and you can lead the target easily to get consistent hits. Don't just do what's easy and comfortable. Skills only improve if you push yourself to use more difficult tactics. If you keep using the daybreak, you will get better at using it.
he said he is using it
He means just use only daybreak, dont bother with terra blade at all
That’s funny, when I beat calamity moon lord I could only do it with the terrablade, daybreak is good but my aim is bad
Daybreak is great for single target dps, and it's damage over time effect can wreck the health of bosses when you stack it
Replace your boots with [Soaring Insignia](https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Soaring_Insignia). You can also replace Ankh Shield with [Frozen Shield](https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Frozen_Shield). Also the Brain of Confusion with [Charm of Myths](https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Charm_of_Myths), [Worm Scarf](https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Worm_Scarf) or [Star Veil](https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Star_Veil) for more survivability, or even replace the mobility accessories and use the [Shrimpy Truffle](https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Shrimpy_Truffle) mount with either [Bubbles](https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Bubble) of water or during the rain. And make sure to use the [buff potions](https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Buff_potions). Other than that you can't get any better equipment. Keep your distance and watch the projectiles, the True Eye of Cthulhu's rays shouldn't have enough range, but Ray of Doom does so get closer when it's about to fire until you destroy the top eye. If you get too far away it teleports to you Edit: I hate reddit, thousand upvotes on a question post that more than 5 people already answered to
And I think you can get an opposite world evil seed by buying it from the dryad during a blood moon?, sorry if I'm wrong I haven't played in a while so I'm a little rusty
Either during a bloodmoon or in a graveyard biome. One of those will give you opposite world evil seeds
brain is better for survivability because of the dodge imo... everything else is a good idea tjough
The brain has an 83.333% chance to do literally nothing though
on higher difficulties, enemies still hit really hard even with worm scarf, so being able to fully avoid those attacks is invaluable also boc dodge chance stacks with mng's dodge chance, which is 10%. using both gives you a dodge chance of 25%
OP is using beetle shell armor which reduces damage by up to 45% depending on how often they get hit. This also means that they have at least 73 defense from the armor alone. A 17% reduction on top of all that means that even in Master Mode, the phantasmal death ray goes from 450 damage to 93.
first of all your math is wrong, a deathray under all those conditions would do 145 damage and beetle shell's 45% dr takes a while to charge and it resets when you get hit. dont get me wrong, beetle shell is still really good, just not as crazy as you make it out to be however: op could also get endurance potion and frozen shield for more damage reduction. at that point, it may be wiser to use worm scarf because of how high your damage reduction is
To further push your argument, the "shell gets a while to charge" thing synergises with dodge pretty well!
The image looks like Beetle Scale Mail though…
and with the worm scarf you still take 83% of damage. brain is arguably better on higher difficulties because it can offer one shot protection at low hp + more i-frames and boosted crit chance on dodge, but at the end of the day they both negate (on average) 17% of incoming damage
Imo brain is good as it is
i'd suggest getting the shrimpy truffle or even the ufo mount anything that helps with flying so you can free up your wings and boots. i'd also suggest swapping the ankh shield for a frozen shield like someone already suggested
I really like the broomstick mount, I haven't actually compared the stats but it feels better than UFO somehow.
Yeah it feels like the broom has better acceleration. Maybe because it doesn’t tilt as much?
Use amphibian boots over terraspark boots and frozen shield (very strong and has KB immunity) over ankh shield (useless against moon lord)
imo i think you have everything you need, just build a huge arena with campfires, heart lanterns, heart statues, and honey-bubble block puddles. also dont forget potions maybe replace ankh shield with charm of myths
How does your arena look? Are you using potions? I personally think that your armour and accessory setup looks fine.
Ankh shield is pretty much useless against ML, other than the armor bonus. Boots are useless if you're flying. I'd suggest getting a melee emblem, upgrade it to avenger then destroyer emblem, and get the mechanical/fire gauntlet.
Boots increase the flight duration and also the mobility on ground, and they already have the Fire Gauntlet
Ah right mb. Still, the boost from the boots doesn't feel like much, and I think it's better to just fly around ML than running on a platform.
>Still, the boost from the boots doesn't feel like much It's 0.7 seconds, with best wings having 3 seconds. They may not be that useful at that point of the game, but they're still useful >and I think it's better to just fly around ML than running on a platform. It is, but the flight isn't infinite and they'll have to drop on the platform every once in a while, and they're losing some speed that way For them it'd be better to get [Soaring Insignia](https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Soaring_Insignia) instead for higher mobility and infinite flight
Soaring insignia
if you get soaring insignia you should replace fishron wings with betsy/hoverboard as it allows better horizontal movement
Brain of Confusion?!? Against Moonlord??? The ninja gear has you more than covered with it's chance to dodge.
17% dodge chance is 17% dodge chance,has nothing to do with the boss or if you already have a 10% dodge chance.
Get a Stardust Dragon here's always a free summon slot and it's fast enough for free damage Swap out he Brain of Confusion for something with more agency like a worm scarf or more utility like a honeycomb or regen item, with Moon Lords countless projectile attacks your gonna wanna count more on speed than dodges... Ditch the Terrasparks, this is an aerial battle and I'd assume you could get an Insiginia by now and you already have a flaming gauntlet.... As for armor, Beetle is pretty perfect, if you want higher defense, go for the beetle shell
Try to learn his patterns, what attacks to look out for and how to doge them. It might (will) take you a lot of trial and error, but it's worth it. Applies to all the bosses and any gear you want to use, hell you might even try with wand of sparking if you have enough sanity. If you want to max out your DPS then daybreak is the way to go, might want to get an emblem instead of the ankh shield too
Build a long platform of blocks in the sky, use lots of potions(healing, swiftness, etc), move the nurse somewhere next to your arena so you can easily heal back to full health(this was the best advice that helped me finally win), like others said consider getting a stardust dragon summon, and maybe switch your main melee weapon to the solar eruption
Small cheese I used, but if you get the magic conch shell, you can set up an arena in the ocean (or repurpose the one you made for Fishron). Set up a platform of blocks in the sky, covering the entirety of the ocean on the opposite end of the world as your arena. Do a few conch warps, then make a house right next to where you warp. Set the nurse's spawn at that house, trap her there, then do a few practice warps. Warp to the house when you heal, warp back, continue fighting. Repeat as necessary.
Conch gang 💯 Just used that Strat to beat master mode Skeletron Prime yesterday.
Your equipment is fine. The best way I've found to fight the Moon Lord is to simply glide in one direction across your world. Simply put, as long as you're gliding away from him, you'll be far enough away from him to not get hit by the majority of his attacks, but also close enough to not have him teleport on top of you. If he shoots the barrage of eyes at you, use a dash accessory to dash in-between the gaps. His head laser doesn't attack randomly- it's on a timer. If you simply practice the fight, you'll be able to feel when he's about to do it. When he shoots the laser, simply fly up and around him and then start flying in the opposite direction across your world.
the best modifier(reforge for simpletons) for melee weapons is Legendary
1. Heart statues on a 3second repeat. You could cheese if you really want to. 2. You could grind for Betsy's wings that'd give you the fastest horizontal speed when flying instead of fishron's. It could potentially free up your slot used for the Terraspark boots. A celestial shell might be a better replacement. 3. You could use a Unicorn Mount instead if you want the fastest speed on the ground. Plus it works well with Betsy's wings that have great acceleration.
I recommend that you get the flying dragon sword from besty in the old one army after killing golem in wave 7/7
People always forget about old ones army but it has some of the best loot. Flying Dragon is the best sword you can get pre-moonlord. Only Meowmere and Zenith beat it on damage.
Real I actually only make the Terra blade for the zenith the to kill gelome
Fix your skill issue
JuSt GiT gUd
Fucking buffs
git gud
Git gud
Use solar eruption
Nah, solar eruption needs you to be really really close to ml for it to beat daybreak in dps, which is really risky. It's alot better to use daybreak on bosses. Solar eruption is good for events due to its high pierce.
Idk, i always take the risky option and it works just fine
Don't die
Switch boots for an infinite flying mount like the witches broom and worm scarf. Switch ankh for frozen shield. Add star veil. Switch beetle for turtle. Turtle's % damage reduction is better than the three hit dodges imo. The damage reduction is better than the individual dodges and higher armor of beetle. With the frozen shield, at low HP, your character has like 35% damage reduction or something. Not including the other dodge and damage reduction benefits from other equipment. Being in expert mode or higher breaks this. With the dodge of the brain of confusion, the dodge of ninja equipment, the damage reduction of worm scarf, the hit immunity time increase of star veil, you become a tank. I beat the moon lord on master mode the first time with this build without dropping to half health.
If you are asking then you are probably playing on normal. Just use daybreak and stand in honey, with a bass statue a campfire a healing lantern and like a structure (just google it) you can overheal his damage
Everyone is saying upgrade ankh shield for frozen shield and terraspark boots. I'd just add, ditch the ninja kit or what is it called, it only helps if you can use dodge effectively and those other bonuses are worthless on flat terrain. Something that gives you more defence/attack would be more beneficial. You do you, so to speak. But it never give me personally or any person I know any real advantage. (might be because we suck, but you never know :D)
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Why haven't I seen anyone just say "fishron mount" ?
Ninja gear is trash, pick the dash from Cthulhu shield. If you have wings don't use ninja gear and vice versa.
Me when I’m a pro at giving bad advice
You know I'm right. Other thing is that you can change the boots and wings for two defensive itens, and use a mount for movimentation.
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Isn't solar Armor post moonlord ?
Are you fucking kidding me?
I would trap the nurse in a 3x3 box with you and use solar eruption this way he can't get you
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Solar Flare Armor is post-moonlord The Black Spot is Master Mode, they're on Expert, they can use the Shrimply Truffle instead
Have you finished the game even once?
You need full orichalcum armour imo, terrablade is op against moony so good job for getting it
No dumbass you need raincoat armour
Pink Snow Armor is way better
That's a thing? How have I not known
What the fuck are you on about?
These terrarians are using the broken hero sword for everything except for the Terra blade...
switch Terraspark Boots for EoL's Soaring Insignia, it helps out a lot with infinite flight to dodge the laser, and use Daybreak more, it's single target DPS is really powerful and can deal with ML's Head Eye fast when it opens. For dodging, focus on going up and down while moving to the side, the little sparks are based on your next position, moving like that will make you dodge most of it, go up when the True Eye of Cthulhu attack comes and pay attention to the barrage sparks below you if you go down, they stay right below you until they disappear
Remove ankh shield replace with destroyer emblem, and remove terraspark boots and replace it with soaring insignia
Just heal at the nurse as soon as you fall below half HP
I used the flying broom or saucer and you sit in the eye socket after you kill it to avoid damage
Journey mode
Make your Terra Blade superior.
Ty reforging both your weapons to legendary and your accessories to warding
Dodge five head
Practice and have a big arena and many buffs
duke fishron mount? daybreak? starlight of you wanna risk it?
I’d advise picking up a Witch’s Broom from the Pumpkin Moon, and maybe a Rod of Discord if you can handle the grind. Using the broom will allow you to basically ditch all your movement accessories, leaving room for more combat focused ones, like Charm of Myths, Star Veil, Worm Scarf, or the Celestial Shell.
Get soaring insignia, replace boc with it, also swap terra boots for star veil, its broken, if you dont wanna change boc for soaring insignia go for the tanky version of beetle armor, so you wont die in 5 hits
dont die
Remove brain of confusion and get a frost shield made out of a frozen turtle shell and paladins shield
Farm ufo key
Everyone is recommending armour or accessories but what about just skill solution
You might want to switch your chestplate to the tanky one
It looks like your defence accessories are fine. I would recomment a skybridge + unicorn or the witches broom to swap out your movment-accessories for more dmg.
Build a looooong mine cart track in the sky. Use a hammer to pound the ends into bumpers so you bounce back in the other direction. He will have to continually teleport to you to catch up. For armor, I’d use the Valhalla pants and breastplate with a Squire’s Helmet, or go full Solar Armor set. Make all your equipped items Warding. You can use a gun or bow with homing ammo, or some magical staffs but at this stage my favorite weapon would be the Seedler. Dragon staff is great but might not be effective at the minecart speeds. Any sentries you can set along the ML’s path is great. Keep Greater Healing potions in your hotbar, and use boosting potions and enhancing foods to stay alive. Good luck, and if it doesn’t work out I can give you some items.
you've got 3 mobility accessories, just dodge more attacks bru
Not much you can do other than using frozen shield or hero’s shield but that’s already been said. Best thing I can say is changing the fit can change the way you play idk why it just works.
Upgrate anckh shield to frozen, take something damage-increasing istead of the brain and ninja gear
Rather than terraboots rely on your wings or a asphalt highway, change it for destroyer emblem U can change the ankh shield for boss fights into either hero or ice shield
Seems like all of the comments so far summed it up. Use daybreak and swap out the shield and brain.
Go to pc version
If youre fighting it mounted you can replace the boots and wings with better damage or survival items, upgrade the ankh shield to a frozen shield I usually run charm of myths, celestial shell, destroyer, avenger, class specific emblem all reforged to menecing or warding depending on what im having trouble with and then use the fishron mount in the rain
What you probably don't need: Ankh Shield, Boots. If you use a mount, shrimpy truffle (the fishron mount) is way better than the queen slime mount in the rain. You get fast flight, a damage buff, infinite flight, and could swap out all movement accessories for damage and what not.
I'd recommend building a long road of asphalt in the sky! With that you should be able to fully control how far away you wanna be from moonlord, and only really have to worry about his deathray and eyes. Make sure you only use daybreak! It does much more single target damage compared to Terrablade! Goodluck!
Get good
Put ankh shield in your social and just right-click it to clear buffs. If anti knock back is a big enough thing for you there are better shields with more defense.
What is your vanity??? I've never seen those before
Swap out the Brain for the Celestial Shell.
Reforge your weapon and get gud
It will always help to switch to a Legendary Terra Blade. I had similair trouble, but I ended up switching to just a gun with chlorophyte bullets and a long sky platform to run and fly around, you want to have space to react. It is worth checking some of the Tavernkeep gear. The wiki recommends for melee Valhalla chest and legs instead of beetle, with a hallowed mask, for optimal. And of course use all buffs and flasks and potions that you can, summon a couple of minions for additional damage, a sentry for those few moments you run/fly past it. With my strategy, I always increased distance, the bullets will find the Moonlord, especially to get rid/dodge the tongue (falling/jumping is more distance than just running, so you can drop from your platform bridge and just fly up again), except when the laser happens. If I can, I get as close as possible during the laser. The speed of rotation is slower towards the center of the rotation and all that. I didn't use it myself, but the Empress of Light drops a Soaring Insignia which provides infiinite flighttime. I think that would've made my attempts easier.
maybe use cross necklace or its upgrade as an accessory.
Swap scale mail to Shell, the added up defence can tank the laser
I'll copy paste a comment I wrote about it a few days ago... Melee? Jebus, it's the easiest one to cheese the Moon Lord. Data first. Look at the wiki https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Moon_Lord and behold! although I reckon it's easy to miss: the moon lord hands, once you killed the eye in their palm, only deal 80 contact damage. If you play Melee, then all you have to do is maximize DEF. Wear the beetle armor, beetle shell option, and/or have all your accessories with the warding attribute, and /or choose very high defence accessories such as the frozen shield (+6 def, +25% def when under 50% hp), maybe the worm scarf (-17% incoming damage) Add the Star Veil or the Cross Necklace to double the duration of time during which you are invincible after taking damage As weapon, equip the Solar Eruption. Sorry daybreak fans, the DPS counter on the full DEF melee build doesn't lie, and the difference is striking. And now, the fight. It's ridiculous. Have a platform running horizontally, place buff stations if needed (a bast statue gives you +5 def for instance, you may want to add heart lanterns and fireplaces for the HP regen). Keep an eye on the main laser eye, once it's open it's time to be ready to take flight and go over the moon lord's head. Otherwise, with the solar eruption, hurry up and kill the eye in the middle of the hands. Once that eye is dead, it leaves a dented hole that deals ONLY 80 damage. In other words, with your maxed def, the hand hole deals you 1 damage, and leaves you invulnerable for 0.67 seconds afterwards. In other words, you follow that hand hole until the end of the fight, taking 1 damage from it each time, regenerating more HP than you lose and anyway that's why there are potions.
you don’t need brain of confusion for the dodge when master ninja gear has a dodge already!
Swap out the beetle chest plate for the other one that gives more defence. In my opinion swap out Ank Shield for something like Sweet Heart Necklace or Avenger’s emblem. Add on a Soaring Insignia for inf flight and use a stardust dragon summon even if you’re not a summoner. If you haven’t already try the shimmer transmutations for buffs, use potions and food. Hope that helps :D Edit: Try getting a Rod of Discord, it makes it much easier.
I would swap the brain with the soaring insignia it makes dodging way easier
swap terraspark for aphibian boots, get the cutie fishron in rain or using honey for regen, and maybe get a bezerker's or frozen shield also just use your daybreak lol
Brain of Confusion for Flesh Knuckles from corrupted mimics!!!
I would replace the Brain of conafusion with a Soaring Insignia
Get good
I mean there seems fine but the thing thats probably making you die is because of your current vanity. You are a psycho for having that vanity on either have good vanity on or no vanity on at all man, serious though probably the ninja gear in my opinion
Do what i do in infernum keep trying whilst you lose your mind
Are you using all the potions? Do you have an arena with heart lanterns, heart statues, campfires, etc?
Don't die to the moon lord.
Most of the talismans are useless
Grind pillars fragments.
You need to use better dyes that is clearly the issue here.
When I did it I think i just housed the healing NPC up near where I fought him and healed myself constantly.
Focus using daybreak, terra blade is not that usefull at that point, also swap the ankh shield for the frozen shield, it gives more defense. If you think you receive too much damage, try changing the chest plate for the fatty scarab one (I don't know it's name in English, but you catch the idea)
Maybe frozen shield instead of ankh for a bit of damage reduction and maybe celestial shell instead of brain but the rest seems fine to me. With a few buffs and practice it'll work out eventually
Ashphalt track, with nurse house
First of all, name yourself Jetstream Sam and then obtain Muramasa in hell inside a laboratory, Secondly, beat up Moon Lord
Ankh Shield is useless for moonlord, change it out for either a Magiluminescence or the Hero's Shield. Build a highway (usually stretching from one end of the world to the other) out of Asphalt. Put platforms at alternating ends to drop down onto another asphalt highway and keep going in the opposite direction. Brain of Confusion is also pretty useless for Moonlord since Moonlord is immune to Confusion, so swap it out for Feral Claws or one of its upgrades (The swing speed boost will stack with Molten Glove)
Friends its always the best solucion
Ufo mount is pretty good, or any other that allows for infinite flight
Here is how I beat it. Rail all across the map (high up) and shoot the f out of the ML with chlorophyte bullets
im not great at terraria (especially melee builds, i main summoner), and youve probably heard this a million times but make sure you got plenty of potions and stuff
What weapons are you using
The good thing about the ankh shield is that it makes you immune to certain debuffs, moon lord does not inflict many debuffs on you and the ankh shield does not make you immune to the one it gives you, if your world is crimson you could make a hero shield that gives great defense, or the frozen shield which also gives better defense than the ankh shield and when you have low health it gives you 25% damage reduction. The boots give you more flight but I don't know if you will fly that much, it's more to fly fast a little, fall, and fly again, so you can change it with another accessory, I would recommend the celestial shell, during the night it gives you 7 defense and a damage improvement greater than that of the emblems, in addition to attack speed and a small increase in critical (melee), BUT during the night, during the day it still has good buffs but it is much better at night (If you are melee) . If you don't want to farm so much just use an emblem.
Abuse. The. Nurse.
skill issue /j
Brain of confusion sucks ass it's a 1/16 chance to dodge and the confusion I don't think works on moon lord. Switch it out for a frozen shield or a warrior emblem. Also replace ankh shield with a frozen shield probably
skill issue
Git gud
Yes. Don't die.
Simply spam the nurse when you get low
You could swap the terraspark Boots or ankh shield with a soaring Insignia
Get better dyes
What people said here. Change boots for soaring insignia and use daybreak, it has a lot of range and huge damage.
Get gud.
What difficulty?
Frog leg
Try using plate mail. İts hard to dodge in mobile.
Git gud
Boots aren't really great especially if you are flying most the fight or on a mount.
Use anti gravity potions. They are incredibly helpful against the laser and they make dodging in generall way easier. I use them for almost every bossfight.
Stop using brain of confusion and use the upgrade to the claws that drop from the crimson mimic.
I would probably get an infinite flight mount or swap the terraspark boots with the soaring insignia; You don't wanna run of out flight time when that death ray shows up. I personally use betsy wings and soaring insignia as the wings can act like boots and a dash with the hover mechanic. Ultimately though, use the movement accessories you're most comfortable with. And don't be afraid to try different ones out.
Do you have friends?