Hot Topic Which Mechanical Boss is the Hardest?

[Darkstar01]

You can literally just stand there and trade blows with the Destroyer and win the DPS race. The Stormbow with Holy Arrows trivializes it to an almost insulting degree.
Prime is a little tanky, but not too bad with appropriate gear.
The Twins are really aggressive, so they're especially a threat on expert, but once Spazmatism is dead, Retinazer is a joke. In its second phase, it can't even hit me half the time when I'm standing still!

 

[Dragrath]

You can literally just stand there and trade blows with the Destroyer and win the DPS race. The Stormbow with Holy Arrows trivializes it to an almost insulting degree.
Prime is a little tanky, but not too bad with appropriate gear.
The Twins are really aggressive, so they're especially a threat on expert, but once Spazmatism is dead, Retinazer is a joke. In its second phase, it can't even hit me half the time when I'm standing still!

Yeah the destroyer is crippled by being a worm enemy thus anything that pierces will wreck it And I know what you mean about Retinazer it has the accuracy of the chain gun seemingly It is basically a really big gastropod...

 

[DancenOrigins]

I had to use a modified version of the WoF bridge I made still had to fight them more than twice to beat them

 

[CraftedMS]

For me, it has to be the twins.
Stage 1 for both Retinazer and Spazmatism was simple enough.
Stage 2 Retinazer is okay, just gotta dodge those lasers, but stage 2 Spazmatism can leave you as a pile of ashes in 5 seconds with that devastating fire attack.
After I found out that when Spazmatism starts shooting fire his movement speed slows down a bit so that you could run away without getting caught in the flames, the twins became as simple as the other 2 mechanical bosses. I still consider the twins to be the hardest of the bunch just because of Spazmatism though.

 

[Gotcha!]

If you know some easy ways to defeat them then they're all pretty easy. I'm playing through expert mode at the moment and didn't even need to try hard to kill all three of them.

Now Plantera is another matter entirely. After two of my own deaths I defeated her twice now, but unfortunately both times involved me using my underground railroad to get the heck away from Plantera Phase 2 while unloading in her general direction. /coward

 

[AngeryChickenLord]

tbh , expert mode destroyer's head is mid-game phantasmal deathray

 

[Scarecrow]

so after fighting all the mechanical bosses again, the way I see it is that the destroyer is the hardest. (ironically in my mind I thought he would be the easiest)

And by the way they designed the boss drops, I can sorta see that maybe the developers agree.

think of it this way. the twins and skeletron prime are most vulnerable to high dps rapid fire weapons. There are many viable options before even fighting a mechanical boss, But probably the best one you can have to fight them with reasonably is the mega shark. which you need to kill the destroyer to get. The mega shark outright trivializes skeletron prime and the twins in my opinion. it takes them out in a matter of like 2-3 minutes.

meanwhile skeletron prime give you the flame thrower, and the twins gives you the magical harp as good weapons to use against the destroyer. However, Because of the Destroyer's staggering 80000 HP, these weapons don't exactly nuke it. I'd say the best possible weapon you can have for fighting the destroyer at that point is an adamantite/titanium/hallowed repeater and Jester's arrows.

This however is only in theory. because repeaters are very precise weapons with a specific arch, limited range (with jesters arrows), and ammo. you need to be standing basically in one spot to use it to its fullest potential, which is honestly probably harder than using a magic harp or flame thrower which get the job done slower but more smoothly. They also provide good coverage of the probe enemies which spawn from the boss when you attack it. the adamantite repeater does not. (though you can simply switch to a different weapon, it can be tough to do so in the heat of the moment.)

on another note. if you got a crimson world, you get the golden shower and dart pistol. golden shower absolutely wrecks the destroyer and the dart pistol + ichor darts wrecks every other boss aside from the moon lord. so if you get both of those. congrats you've basically beaten the game. though I feel like the equipment progression is a little ed up in the sense that some crimson gear is overpowered. A filthy casual like me can survive through half of hardmode with crimson armor. (So I really don't count crimson worlds to be the true progression, as I find the balance of some of its gear questionable)

Either way, between the destroyer's debuff immunity, immense damage compared to the other 2 bosses, frequent long laser attacls, and probes, I think the destroyer requires a lot more focus, effort, and resources to fight than the other 2 bosses.

 

[Sciger]

For me, The Destroyer but only the first time. They're all fairly easy with good strategies but just getting started with defeating them can be a bit painful. Since they buffed The Destroyer, it went from the one I went to first to the one I tended to go to 2nd or last, depending on if I wanted to do Skeletron Prime first or not. |D

The Twins, however? Easily my favorite fight, I just take it into the skies with some wings and a ranged weap (i.e. phoenix blaster; rip my fingers), works very well to stay out of range of Spazmatism. :3

 

[punchmypotatoes]

I would have said that Skeletron Prime was the hardest but that was before the dark times happened. (Flashbacks of the Destroyer getting buffed and people screaming) *Shudders* Dark times.....

(The Destroyer is the most difficult for me in case you haven't gotten that already)

 

[Ezel]

All of them are easy when you are well prepared, but for the hardest I'd pick The Twins. There are two of them and every has their special attack. Retinazer can spam lasers very quickly (which don't deal huge damage, but are pretty accurate) and Spazmatism's flamethrower attack in the second phase can easily kill any player. They can be a problem for less experienced people.

I don't find Skeletron Prime too difficult, because you just have to focus on the head, not on more targets.

 

[Mr_Jun220504]

As a melee user, I say probably the Twins.
They just. Won't. Stop. Moving.

Some melee weapons have beams and it's easy to kill the twins

 

[Mr_Jun220504]

I think the destroyer was very hard second time

 

[EPICFACE07]

It would depend for me because hardest boss due to the amount of damage they do would be the twins however the destroyer takes a lot more time to destroy so if you have high dps weapons then time isn't really an issue but as the twins can still kill you before you can kill them, so I would lean on the twins being the hardest

 

[Eldrithia]

The Twins, although I will give it to Skeletron Prime, and Destroyer they can be hard in their own ways. Mainly the ludicrous amount of damage Destroyer can deal if you mess up, but he's not so bad after the first time.

 

[CounterSniped]

The Twins were definitely the hardest...at least in the 1.1 days...

 

[Storm Dragonica]

Well, in my opinion, the Destroyer is the easiest. You just need to get a wing and Titanium gear and you're set.

*le activate all probes while my imp incinerates them*

It's the tankiest, but the damage it dealt isn't that great, also, rather easy to dodge. Beat it without any arena.

I cannot determine which is harder, skeleton prime or the Twins. I'd say Skeleton Prime, I wasted more time on it. Plus you are pressured by the threat of dawn.

For the Twins, you must destroy Spazmatism first then deal with Retinazer's laser hell (use the natural terrain to your advantage e u e), alsk beat it without arena.

For Skeleton Prime, the stupid limbs block the head, plus, those laser and vice are annoying, with the fact it doubles it's attack and damage when it's head spins is so annoying.

So, in my opinion. Skeleton Prime > The Twins > The Destroyer

 

[repeater13]

1. Skeletron Prime. I can't beat this boss even with titanium armor. His lasers and saws will kill me in seconds and he takes a long time to kill with the setup that I generally use.

2. The Twins. I can beat this boss with my Megashark, but it takes a long time to kill both eyes, especially Retinazer. It took me around 10 - 20 minutes to beat this boss and it's speed doesn't help either, enough said.

3. The Destroyer. Regardless of the boss having the highest health out of all three mechanical bosses, I found this boss pretty easy with a proper arena and a few certain weapons. It's structure of it being a long worm like entity helps with killing it for me.

 

[foussi]

Hmm i have only fought the destroyer, welp he was really easy to defeat.
Once you have a piercing weapon he is technically doomed.

 

[Dragonsnatcher6]

As a summoner, prime was the hardest even though it was the last one i fought. Destroyer is a pushover with good setup.

 

[WingedOracle]

Skeletron Prime. Even though I defeated him first on my melee character, he is still a pain. It's easier for me to get the Twins down to lower health, and to kill the Destroyer, despite the probes being a problem.