I've officially waved the white flag and need someone with a brain to help me figure this out. First playthrough in years and I was able to mostly cruise through pre-hardmode, but my god, I'm losing my sanity on these bosses
Full frost armor gear set, Daedalus Stormbow with Cursed arrows, big ol arena with multiple layers that go up about 200 blocks. Warding on all accessories except 3, 2 have Menacing and 1 is Quick
I even have 3 pirate summons and 2 queen spider sentries. Fireplaces everywhere, the hp regen lamps, the +5 defense statues in the arena, I mean my hotbar fully buffed has more icons than my phone homepage has, what could I possibly be doing wrong?
I've fought the twins 3 times and gotten them to around 20% hp
The destroyer (I blame the terraria community for suggesting this one first) I've fought nearly 10 times now and the lowest I've gotten it is ~4,500 hp
Am I just bad at the game and need to find a new hobby like knitting? I'm in my 20s this can't possibly be happening. What am I missing ?
by darktimir
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pirate staff is overall pretty terrible so I’d advise replacing it with Sanguine staff (blood moon fishing) and I’d also advise swapping out cursed flame arrows for holy arrows if you’re gonna use stormbow, otherwise shadowflame bow might serve you better
Probably at the point where you need to actually learn the boss mechanics and attack patterns unless you’re over geared. For destroyer take it slower and deal with the drones as they spawn. They spawn whenever you destroy a segment of the destroyer itself and can overwhelm you if you’re targeting the worm exclusively.
Ngl, part of your problem is you’re not really structured class wise. For the record the game however you’d like, there aren’t any rules for it but if you go to the Terria wiki there’s an entire page just dedicated to classes, what armor, accessory’s, buffs, and weapons you should have and be running by that point in the game.
I just beat the Queen Bee. I don’t even know these bosses you are talking about. Though I do have warding on all accessories because the goblin guy just happened to set up shop in the house I built near the hive. I also beat Skeletron but have fought King Slime twice and lost both times. My new favorite weapon is blade of grass.
I was stuck on the mech bosses, took heaps of tries, dropped the game for a few years. came back to it in the last few weeks, learned about life fruit and buffed my health, got full titanium armour, a yoyo bag thing with a yelets, butterfly wings that let me easily evade, and I went from getting totally destroyed by the mech bosses at the start of the fight to getting my first Skeleton prime and twins wins in the same night. I also used the meteor staff to great effect, and both the storm bow and the shadow flame bow, and the megashark. I haven’t been playing a class I just use what I find/can make.
im pretty sure for the destroyer its better to use one of the piercing arrows like unholy, jester, or bone arrows or to use hellfire arrows on it when its all bunched up at the beginning
Fight destroyer first, use a ranger gear set (adamantite or titanium), replace pygmy necklace with ranger emblem, and use piercing arrows (jester or holy) and you should be fine if you’ve gotten it to 4500 hp before.
I would say your problem is the multi-class setup you have going on. This is a fine way to play if you have some experience but I would advise sticking to one major class for your first playthrough, and simply summon some minions alongside your main class.
You should probably focus on just one damage type.
A jack of all trades is a master of none.
If the last two statements are a joke, then this situation probably has an easier solution than it might seem
As far as my first playthrough went and what I’ve seen people say about the destroyer, I feel like it’s the easiest for experienced players but one of the hardest if not the hardest for new players. I actually beat the twins first after having the same problems with destroyer the first times I fought it, you just need a fast enough mount to run from them (I remember using the horse the zoologist sells but there might be better mounts accesible). So yeah, destroyer might be worth waiting until you get some of the drops from one of the other mech bosses. Remember that the destroyers head also does extremely high amounts of damage when compared to the body (but has less defense), and that piercing arrows / weapons are better for hitting multiple segments at the same time, so holy arrows / jester arrows / cursed arrows (preferably holy ones) might be better against it instead of cursed arrows. Also do remember that the little probes it spawns appear right after deleting each segment, so you might want to stop to deal with some of the probes before continuing to do more damage to the body.
As for your ex and the receding hairline I’m afraid my knowledge of Terraria can’t help 🙁
# General Tips
* Use Shield of Cthulhu
* Observe how the bosses attack and predict how they will behave, move accordingly so you don’t get hit. They are all extremely predictable
* Reforge everything to Warding
* Utilize Ironskin, Regeneration and possibly Endurance Potions
* Put the dryad in a graveyard, buy crimson seeds. Put dirt on the ocean beach, then plant seed. Wait, then harvest crimsand. Combine with seed, to get blood water. Splash that water around in the Caverns, then farm Crimson Mimics to get Flesh Knuckles
* Wear Flesh Knuckles, and craft another one with Power Glove to get Berserker’s Glove and wear both.
* Don’t forget ichor/cursed flask
My Gear + Routing Recommendations for Master Mode mechs + Plantera – Excluding Mage as I haven’t played mage in a while. For all these builds just stack Warding with flesh knuckles and use movement accessories. If you don’t get hit a lot, use damage ones instead.
# Destroyer (Kill first only as Melee)
**Melee**
Armor: Adamantite, Titanium, Frost
Weapon: Phase Saber
**Ranger**
Armor: Adamantite, Titanium, Frost, Hallowed
Weapon: Onyx Blaster with High Velocity Bullets
**Summoner**
Armor: Spider, with Hallowed melee helmet if you’re struggling
Weapon: Durendal, Optic staff
Tip: The drones are finite, activated by damaging his segments, and he fires lasers in a big volley. High defense will trivialize drones and lasers especially on Expert, but head will deal massive damage.
# Twins (Kill first as Ranger and Summoner)
**Melee**
Armor: Adamantite, Titanium, Frost, Hallowed
Weapon: Light disc
**Ranger**
Armor: Adamantite, Titanium, Frost
Weapon: Onyx Blaster with Ichor/Cursed bullets
**Summoner**
Armor: Spider
Weapon: Cool whip, Blade staff (You really wanna use Ichor Flask if you can)
Tip: Kill spazmatism first. !use shield of cthulhu!
# Skeletron (I always kill last)
**Melee**
Armor: Adamantite, Titanium, Frost, Hallowed
Weapon: Light Disc
**Ranged**
Armor: Adamantite, Titanium, Frost, Hallowed
Weapon: Onyx Blaster or Megashark with High Velocity bullets
**Summoner**
Armor: Spider, optionally with Hallowed melee headpiece
Weapon: Optic or Blade staff with Durendal
Tip: Just target his head if you can, on Master mode I personally feel that killing his limbs is a fool’s errand
# Plantera
**Melee**
Armor: Chlorophyte or Turtle
Weapon: Excalibur
**Ranged**
Armor: Chlorophyte
Weapon: Megashark with High Velocity bullets or Chlorophyte Shotbow
**Summoner**
Armor: Chlorophyte
Weapon: Durendal with Optic staff
Tip: Blow up a huge arena with dynamite or you will have a Bad Time
Please let me know if you have any further questions or if this write-up is confusing in any way
I would personally replace the frostspark boots with amphibian boots, these help fly faster vertically. For the twins and prime I would recommend the Onyx blaster rather than that bow (the bow has been heavily nerfed and it’s not that good anymore, but the bow it’s still decent for the destroyer). I also want to add that the ankh shield might be a noob trap even if it looks really good, if you want a defensive option Star veil might be a good alternative.
If you got the twins to 20% HP I think you just gotta keep banging on.
It be like that sometimes