Terraria 1.3.0.7: Expert Moon Lord kill (Ranger)

The Moon Lord is the final boss of the game, and his drops are the most powerful weapons available. Plantera is still harder, tho.

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BATTLE EXPLANATION
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THE BATTLEGROUND:

- The entire sky and space will be your battleground. Polish your UFO and get ready to fly everywhere like crazy. Be careful, don't crash into a floating island.
- Feel free to place Campfires and Heart Lanterns across the sky, but chances are you'll fly away from them during the heat of the battle.

GENERAL STRATEGY:
- Moon Lord has several attacks, and all of them pack a punch. The Phantasmal ray is the worst of them all. Avoid it like the plague.
- In his first phase, you have to attack his eyes while they're open. These eyes have three attack patterns.
- One of the attacks is a small spread of fast proyectiles. Moving up and down with the UFO will make them miss.
- Another of the patterns is a volley of smaller, homing eyes. This eyes are nimble and can swarm you easily. If you come close to them, fly perpendicular to their trajectory so they can't turn around.
- The third attack is the Phantasmal Eyes. Each eye will leave a trail of 4 or 5 of these, and they'll throw themselves at you after lingering for a moment. Try to fit between the gaps or fly above/below them.
- The homing and phantasmal eyes have trouble targeting players above them. Keep this in mind if you're in a pinch, but don't stay near the upper limit of the map because that will affect your mobility.
- The forehead eye opens only to shoot the Phantasmal Ray, a giant rotating laser beam that wipes the screen towards you. Avoid touching this at all costs, because it'll nuke your health. Be always aware of the forehead, and when you see the eye open, stay near one of its sides and fly around Moon Lord's head when the laser starts moving.
- The mouth tentacle inflicts the Moon Bite debuff, wich nulls life stealing items. Don't bother with Vampire Knives or the Spectre Armor with hood.
- After an eye's health is depleted, it'll come out of its cavity. It uses roughly the same attacks, but also gains its own Phantasmal Ray, albeit it's less powerful and has less range than the forehead one.
- Due to this, the best course of action is to leave the three eyes with low HP and then destroy them all at once
- When all three eyes are out, the Core will open. It doesn't attack, and the eyes continue with the same patterns as before. Destroying the Core will kill Moon Lord.
- It's near impossible to track the three eyes at the same time, so instead fly away from the boss to outrun their projectiles.

EQUIPMENT AND SPECIFIC STRATEGY:
- As a Ranger, your objetive is to end the battle as soon as you can, so the Moon Lord doesn't have a chance to kill you.
- The Worm Scarf directly takes away 17% of the incoming damage. This is too good to let it pass.
- The Paladin's Shield main function is to provide knockback immunity. If you don't have it, any other anti-knockback item can replace it. The reason you don't want to get knockbacked is because that resets your speed, and can leave you vulnerable.
- The remaining accessories must provide damage and/or critical strike chance. The Celestial Stone and Shell also provide armor and life regeneration.
- Reforge everything to menacing to maximize your DPS.
- Moon Lord is immune to ichor, so don't bring Ichor ammunition.
- The Vortex Beater can handle this boss alone. Load it with Chlorophyte Bullets so you can focus on dodging.
- If you can aim, the Phantasm is a solid choice too. It's specially good against the Core.
- The Snowman Cannon is viable too, and it isn't as noisy as the Vortex Beater. You'll need to dodge a lot more to compensate the lesser DPS.
- Buff potions are extremely important. Remember to rebuff yourself if the battle goes on for too long.

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CUSTOM MUSIC
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Rain:
Don't Starve - Spring Cleaning

Moon Lord:
Ikaruga - Stage Boss #1 Butsutekkai

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OTHER LINKS
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Watch the old video here:
You can find the challenges playlist here:

[TheAwsomeManny]

After waiting 5 hours for moon lord to spawn

[bennettperry]

I got Unreal on my Vortex Beater second reforge, so I have a feeling that I'll be able to take this guy down.

[Tckster]

My dad said he went to the store to buy milk it's been 7 years trying to find the perfect milk whats tanking so long

[Ubeer]

I cant even kill this boss on normal. Im using the ufo but i cant avoid his stupid beam. i dont think i wanna kill all the pillars again so i guess i just skip this boss. You made it look so eazy thou. Great play :D

[RobyxzD]

What kind of arrows should I use? Are holy ones good too?

[medagross]

So, I take it that the Shroomite stealth has no practical uses at all against bosses? :(

[SethIsTheBethst]

dude why the hell do you have so many weapons you only need like 3 of them

[freerunner]

Can anyone name all of his buffs please

[jasonc]

Care to explain how you took 0 damage here? 2:15