What is the worst boss in your opinion?

[wMODDED_MOONLORD🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑]

all prehardmode bosses except WoF or deerclops
I think that compared to the later bosses they could get some ai improvement
golem needs some respect but I just can't say he's good
his ai is pretty bland and can get some improvement
either he does to much damage or to little.
lunatic cultist is kind of lame but I think not
he is pretty creative and cool in my opinion

 

[Timey-Whimy]

was going to vote cultist, but he is a cool, yet easy boss that summons the pillars, that's pretty neat

I'm going to say golem just because he doesn't actually force the players to get good equipment from the frost or pumpkin moon, or any other boss, he's just an easy hurdle that you leap over before the lunar events

speaking of lunar events i have only been able to beat the Moonlord so far by cheesing, to hard

 

[Kitknight]

I always forget this thread was initially meant for design.
Design wise I'd prolly say Eater of Worlds, but like I said before I think, Skeletron Prime is the worst in game.

 

[Dark Lord Fladnag]

This was hard because I really like every boss in this game. I don’t hate the early bosses for being simple because I think they should be simple, and even though Golem is easy, his design is pretty cool in my opinion. Overall I think my least favorite design is Skeletron Prime just because he’s the least interesting of the mechs in my opinion.

 

[trashcanned1 🌳🌳🌳]

I think both QS and Destroyer. QS is just bullet spam and hope you can survive long enough to get a heal off, and Destroyer is also bullet spam, but tankier.

 

[SanterTheFanter]

tbh the cultist sucks for the amount of loot you get

 

[TechionPrime41 🌳]

tbh the cultist sucks for the amount of loot you get

Pretty sure he doesn't even have a treasure bag, so.....

 

[Orchamut]

Empress of Light I just personally dislike (I have never fought her during a regular playthrough and don't really plan to) but Deerclops I feel like is simply bad overall.
Nobody likes its drops, nobody can agree on when to fight it, and not only can it spawn naturally but it doesn't despawn outside of combat which just doesn't work well in Terraria.
I don't like the fight either; all of its attacks besides the shadow hands are very easy and repetitive if you know what to do, and the 'no ranged combat' thing feels like an annoying requirement that was shoehorned in (I get that the boss would be extremely easy without it, but I feel like encouraging close combat could've been done better than just 'it's invincible if you walk away from it.')

 

[Dark Lord Fladnag]

Pretty sure he doesn't even have a treasure bag, so.....

I kinda feel like the pillars are the reward.
(If you can consider them that. But since pillar gear is busted I can sympathize with the cultist a bit.)

 

[Orchamut]

baby phantasm dragon is the reward its my little squishy

 

[SanterTheFanter]

I kinda feel like the pillars are the reward.
(If you can consider them that. But since pillar gear is busted I can sympathize with the cultist a bit.)

Yeah but he is way to hard for that part of the game. I died to him in my last playthough more times than the moonlord

 

[TechionPrime41 🌳]

baby phantasm dragon

This?

Actually, it is kinda cute now that I think about it.

 

[wMODDED_MOONLORD🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑]

This was hard because I really like every boss in this game. I don’t hate the early bosses for being simple because I think they should be simple, and even though Golem is easy, his design is pretty cool in my opinion. Overall I think my least favorite design is Skeletron Prime just because he’s the least interesting of the mechs in my opinion.

i don't hate the early bosses but I think they could be more indepth

 

[Your Host.]

Nobody likes its drops

I actually really like Lucy, Houndius Shootius, and the Bone Helm.

Yeah I don't care about the rest but hey I think I'm someone who likes some of its drops!

 

[IThinkQueenSlimeIsBad]

Queen Slime because A. The bouncy projectiles are pain and so are the minions and B. Her design is not very interesting being basically just pink King Slime

 

[Dapling]

For me there’s really only 5 candidates: Deerclops, Queen Slime, Destroyer, Plantera, and Moon Lord.
All of these bosses have absolutely catastrophic design issues with insane polarization (insanely stupid and undodgeable attack patterns if fought blind, but the boss is completely and utterly invalidated by an extremely easy thing to pull off to the point where it’s not even a cheese method anymore.)
Deerclops has the shadow hands, which are terrible design wise, but the fight has no counter to Warmth Potion and its insane 30% DR against it specifically.
Queen Slime has an insane amount of projectiles which the player isn’t reasonably expected to dodge, but the fight has no counter to kiting.
Destroyer has an insane amount of projectiles from random locations at random intervals with random trajectories, but the fight is shredded instantly by almost every piercing weapon available at the tier.
Plantera’s first phase has homing seeds which basically make it impossible to lead her through the jungle while running away like the fight was intended to be fought, except she’s invalidated by flying in a tiny circle. Plantera’s second phase has the exact opposite problem where it’s basically impossible and/or insanely difficult to avoid unless you either make a simple looping hallway with teleporters or glide down your hellevator, both of which are fairly simple to make and one of which the player likely has on hand. Despite all this I think plantera is probably the best of the 5 I listed here. She’s not a particularly bad experience in practice like the others are, imo.
And then we have moon lord.
I don’t even know where to begin with moon lord.
There’s so many design disasters in that fight. I think it might be my vote for the worst actually.

 

[Meowlegend]

I don’t even know where to begin with moon lord.
There’s so many design disasters in that fight. I think it might be my vote for the worst actually.

For anyone who wants to know why, Dapling has a post where he explains all the problems; check This post in the thread "is Moon Lord a terrible boss in your opinion?" to read it.

 

[Mecha_]

For anyone who wants to know why, Dapling has a post where he explains all the problems; check This post in the thread "is Moon Lord a terrible boss in your opinion?" to read it.

Your link is broken.
Try this.

 

[Rezerkity]

If I took the approach of rating an enemy based on visual creativity, unique mechanics, how fun they are to fight, and then if their drops are worth it...

I think the worst boss would vary a lot. There's bosses for each category, which are amazing in others. Duke Fishron for example is the perfect boss, it's full of unique mechanics and has some of the best loot in the game for when you can fight it, and it's your choice on when to fight it. It has music, great drops, a unique visual, unique mechanics, a great Expert mode change, and generally is the perfect boss.

However, what's the opposite of this? Which boss doesn't have a theme, special visual, unique mechanics, or worthwhile drops that you should chase after?
King Slime. Boring to fight, Expert doesn't change much, loot kinda sucks but Ninja Armour is servicable, no special music, no unique mechanic beyond teleporting to you after a while. And, yes, it is the 'first' boss, but the Dryad doesn't even move in if you defeat it, that's how much of a 'boss' he is. It's also worse because the average new character isn't going to spend their gold and rubies on summons for King Slime when they could fight Eye of Cthulhu or something more rewarding. Slime Rain and random spawns are too unreliable. Slimy Saddle exists too, but I've personally never found it too useful, though that's just subjective.

So overall, King Slime is probably the worst boss, because he's just really boring, not worth fighting, etc. I imagine he'll get his own theme in the next update, and Ninja Armour isn't all bad, Slime Mount is useable, plus his Master Mode pet is cool and can be combined with the Queen Slime one later on. But he really does suck.

If we're talking 'worst boss' just as in we hate fighting it, the worst boss is Deerclops purely because of its Expert mode mechanic interfering with the rest of the entire design of the boss. It's supposed to be kited in a specific way as a homage to the game it came from, Don't Starve, where you fight it in a similar way.
But instead we have random Shadow Hands that can spawn directly on top of the player, forcing them to take damage, get knocked back, and stuck being stunlocked and slowed and possibly frozen. The boss is literally perfect outside of this mechanic.

 

[IThinkQueenSlimeIsBad]

Queen Slime because A. The bouncy projectiles are pain and so are the minions and B. Her design is not very interesting being basically just pink King Slime

No wait nvm the design is actually quite cool; it's just the battle that is pure suffering