I mean, call me lazy for this, but I don't want to spend hours building an arena to block the Moonlord's attacks, farming ingredients for potions, fishing for the well-fed buff, and grinding the lunar event for hours on end just to fight the boss a few times. I just want to be able to fight the boss and learn how his AI works, learn how to dodge the attacks. I can understand gathering ingredients for potions giving players a bit of an edge, but it seems an awful lot like everyone is building arenas to completely avoid the bosses attacks, which I feel completely removes the point of the boss.
PUMPKIN PIE!! I don't remember the trigger-flag but eventually the Dryad starts selling pumpkin seeds, make yourself a few rows of pumpkin farm and you'll easily be cooking stacks of 30 pies... ONE PIE = 45 minutes of Well Fed. Fishing for Well fed = doing it wrong at this point in the game!
Also come on dude... everybody makes this argument about being a sandbox, you should be allowed to exploit everything, blah blah... becuase you want to you sit on a spike, but you don't want to do EVERYTHING ELSE about a sandbox, such as gathering what you need, or setting up farms at your base or learning how to make Sonar Potion to easily get the correct fish? Believe me it doesn't take "HOURS" to do what you listed!
A 3 tier platform arena, a STRIP OF DIRT, a sky bridge... 10 - 20 minutes. After you set up a pie farm, 1 minute to cook pumpkin pie. Fishing 5 - 30 minutes depending on how many buffs you want. 10-20 minutes extra if you want to find yourself an alchemy table in the dungeon to SAVE FISH AND PLANTS (and fragments when you make SUPER HP POTIONS! This works).
But, with building an arena, come different concerns. No arena is perfect, because when you manage to find a way to block one of the Moon Lord's attacks, like the eye laser, you get a different problem, which would be how do you manage to get enough damage in on that eye so that the damage actually makes a dent? There's many problems with arenas, which can hinder the player more than help, sometimes.
You have time before and after the laser fires to hit the head eye freely. But for extra damage, you can craft a Solar Eruption or find yourself a Yo Yo, so the laser can't hit you but you can hit the eye while you'r ehiding. I think the best Yo Yo before Moon Lord is "Eye of Cthullu" that drops from Mothron during a Solar Eclipse. This is also easy to get. Raid the temple and kill the Golem a few times, you get materials to craft an item that will SUMMON a Solar Eclipse!
To make sure i don't accidently bump into the dirt, I make it pretty small and put it right up against a section of platform so I already have an idea in my head of where the "floor" is while I'm flying around frantically.
If you're that good m8's, why don't you film destroying Cthulhu brother WITHOUT ANY POTIONS,HEART STATUES AND NURSE??? I would really enjoy it.
I don't understand the point of this ,as an argument against people saying the boss is fine. That is a challenge, but you obviously should be using potions and heart-statues if you f ound some on a boss that is difficult for you.
Have in game ranged armor along with a unreal Vortex Beater and ten stacks of chloro bullets. I make about every potion that my world allows for and had a campfire, ammo box, and heart lamp nearby. Its still impossible. I can't get the ufo cause that event is so rare that I only seen it once on two of my characters each
I'll also mention having a Sunflower, Sunflower provides a move speed buff, that also counts towards flying speed just like Swiftness Potion. I have not tried it yet but perhaps setting up some teleporters at each end of your arena with pressure plates, will help with evasion too?
There is a video of someone doing it with 100 HP and no armour, and taking no damage.
If you know what you're doing, Moon Lord is just a regular boss.
Link it please!!
Why the huge ridiculous "GAH, THEY'RE CHEESING HIM!!!!" bent anyways?
It is a single player game.....about doing whatever you can.... to do what you want to do.... we got terrain, we got traps, we got statues, we got everything.
Oh, but wait, don't you DARE try to use this, this, and this to defeat one of the bosses. How. Dare. You.
We're gonna make him so that he overrides 80% of what you can DO in Terraria and have done for many other bosses.
I can't help but to think that is ridiculously silly.
Especially for a primarily SINGLE-PLAYER game where 99% of the game's content is balanced around Single-Player. This ain't no MMORPG or anything, so why all the ridiculous meticulous "game balance"? Give us a sandbox and then go "but you can't do this, this or that..." .... okaay.
I said this earlier, but come on, really? Exploiting invulnerable frames is NOT what a Sandbox is about!
It is a single player game b ut the developers regardless hold the right to what their content is like. And you should see that the developers have largely been very open with the engineers and designers of the community who have put a lot of EFFORT (keyword) into creating elaborate arenas, farms and death-traps. Most of the people using these cheese strategies did not "sandbox" it up themselves, they went online and found other people's discovery.
If.... IF.... you are ridiculously good at dodging his deathray laser with the slow-turning mount (wings work better for dodging the laser). I can dodge it... about half of the time. On Expert... one of those and you're dead.
Dirt Line! Blocks block the laser
I believe most people think he's too hard on Expert mode exclusively- which is understandable- as he is quite a lot more difficult in that mode- but it's still totally doable without a nurse or some other blasphemous cheesing method. It's not easy- but it's not supposed to be. Do note that it is in fact- called Expert mode.
I do think that Mage classes should have something to balance the fight a bit for them- it's quite a bit harder for mages to win against him then it is for Melee and Ranged builds.
I thought Expert mode was meant for MP in the first place?
and finally, if you're struggling, mage armor isn't the answer, not enough defense