How to (somewhat easily) demolish Daytime Empress of Light in Terraria

A quick way to beat Terraria's Daytime Empress of Light, as summoner, explained
Just covering one loadout, should be a common pure summoner application.

(as of upload, not yet announced)

#terraria

Music:
Terraria - Empress of Light
Vanilla Calamity Mod Music - "Moonlit Haven" - Theme of the Town Night by Heart Plus Up!

Credits:
terraprisma tutorial (16s) by Shyguymask+

Mods, Shaders, Pack:
DragonLens (Cheat Mod) -
Stanberry Font (Pack) -
Stormdark UI (Pack) -

Unused in tMod 1.4.4, but in other videos:
Lights And Shadow (Mod) -

A quick way to beat Terraria's Daytime Empress of Light, as summoner, explained

[Terraw]

If you wish to do this post-Plantera, switch out Celestial Shell and use Raven, Deadly Sphere, or Desert Tiger/Firecracker. All are much slower than Xeno but will get the job done

[Shyguymask]

When Xeno Staff's AI got fixed in 1.4.4 it had to get an attack speed nerf before release because it became overpowered. Then it had to get another attack speed nerf in the hotfixes because it was overperforming regardless. And even today it does THIS in well under 40 seconds. For those curious, with 4 whips and Betsy's Wrath, it can speedkill Daytime EoL in around 22-23 seconds.

[Kickiusz]

Pro tip: save up on some Bloody Tears and farm Lacewings on Blood Moon with Water candles. It bumps their spawnrate up about tenfold.

[sarvukruv]

What it comes down to above all else is knowing how her movement patterns work. You have room for choice in what setup you use against her, but what rings true for each and every one of them is that if you want to use it to its maximum efficiency then you need to learn her attacks. It’s not terribly hard, but it’s the most important thing to do.

[Lego_Yoda]

Tip: If you're struggling with the broom not being agile enough you can use the Shrimpy Truffle while it's raining for extra speed and agility.

[siralbatoris]

This is fantastic! I never bother doing daytime EoL, but I tried this and it worked wornders. Took a few attempts to get used to the patterns, but overall it's great. Love how straightforward and east to follow this is (and all of your videos are). Thanks

[damnthisisabadname]

This accessory loadout is slightly better for damage: (in order of most to least important)

Papyrus scarab
Necromantic scroll
Celestial shell
Pygmy necklace
Summoner emblem
Hercules beetle
Avenger emblem

[AlienAubrey]

I love that terraprisma texture you have on, thanks for including it in the description!

[ChefForte]

This is one of the most simply explained, easy to follow guides of this fight, that doesn't involve mine carts that i've ever seen. Nice job TS👍

[dyingplay]

THANK you for this video man... SUPER helpful. I've been trying this Daytime fight for the past 5 days with NO luck. That NO HIT rule is a tough one. Almost gave up on it today and just about started the cultists, decided to try ONE more time (after legit 30-40 fights) and HOLY shit I actually pulled it off. Used a combo of an asphalt runway, and the broom. Anyways man, much appreciated for the upload. Keep up the great work

[davidbrown]

As someone who fought the Empress of Light and got mad, I can confirm that this will help massively

[thewhitejawa]

note for people: if you find yourself getting clipped by the sun dance in phase 1 a lot, you don't HAVE to get in for the DPS, as phase 1 is a lot more forgiving than phase 2.

make sure you stay close to her during the lances though, if you don't, she will definitely have enough health to do another sun dance after prismatic bolts, which will probably get you.

[gw_andist]

I finally managed to beat daytime EoL using ur guide so tysm 🙏 you made it rly easy to understand her attack patterns and how to avoid each attack

[aprettydumbperson]

I couldn't last 30 seconds with Empress

[GrasshoppersandCricketts]

probably one of the most helpful and straight to the point guides i've watched. i beat her moments after studying this video, ty

[buffon]

Thanks for this tutorial!! i was having sooo much trouble with the atack where she sends out a ton of swords and apparently i was doing it very wrongly! Thanks for this tutorial it really helped me in my first classical summoner playthrough. I am a fairly new player and i am enjoying my summoner journey, thanks for everything!

[A-aron]

Great video man! Gives me the confidence to take on daytime empress for the first time.

[frostburn]

This is great considering chatgpt's guide consists of:
Deal 100% of the damage to the Empress of Light in the day
You must kill the Empress of Light before night starts
The Terraprisma will drop from the Empress of Light if killed in the day

[ccknballtrture]

Currently doing a summoner weapons only play-through and i’ve only made it to EoW. THIS, will be very helpful.

[Dremmster]

Huge thanks for the awesome video that helped me tremendously in managing that fight post-Golem in my first full playthrough of the game. Playing as summoner I wanted to get that Terraprisma before taking on the Moon Lord, as I generally don't like getting the best weapon for my class only AFTER I complete the game...
Note for Classic mode players: no access to the Witch's Broom means I needed different mobility means without losing too much on damage. So I used the UFO mount (obtained while farming for Xeno staff). It's too slow as is for this fight, or at least for my F-tier skills, so I improved its acceleration a bit by wearing my Terraspark boots (any other +movement speed gear would have worked as I only used them for the movement speed). The rest of the accessories was Necromantic Scroll, Papyrus Scarab, Celestial Shell, and Pygmy Necklace, all Menacing, like in the video. You lose a bit of damage having to wear a movement speed accessory, but since it's Classic, that loss is compensated by the lower HP pool of the boss. I killed that EoL in roughly the same amount of time, and I barely used the Sun Dance moment to land some heavy whip hits. Still took me about 50 attempts because I suck, but made the win even more satisfying!
Thanks again for the guidance!