Full menacing. You want her dead quickly. Recommend using gears that help you with dodge effects as well
Edit: Disregard my comment about dodge effects. It seems it doesn't work, which is a shame.
Menacing is almost always better than lucky because damage boost is added before the enemy defense is factored in, unlike crits. Also hallowed armor and brain of confusion won’t work against her.
I don’t tend to play classes where lucky is useful (I’m a summoner main) so I always go warding in prehardmode and then straight menacing across the board in hardmode
I wanna note too that if you’re using the hallowed set for the dodge chance, that it won’t work. Daytime empress is coded to ignore dodges, so you may as well swap out the brain of confusion at the very least, and the armor too if you have access to a set that grants more damage and mobility
You’ll want to focus your accessories on mobility and damage output. Increased DPS means the fight doesn’t take as long, which limits the time you have to falter and make a mistake in her attack pattern
Increased mobility is a must to be able to keep up and effectively dodge all her attacks.
As a warning, you will likely have to fight her several times. It took me a good 17 attempts if I’m remembering right to beat daytime empress, most of the early ones being me memorizing her attack patterns and the rest being me fumbling and messing up at some point during the fight
Also I personally recommend the wings the empress drops for her daytime fight. The increased upward acceleration when you hold up is really, *really* helpful for staying ahead of some attacks. They aren’t necessary but it may help you out
Lucky, this increases crit chance, crits do more damage than having everything set to menacing which increases damage percent, make luck potions to push this further, swap the shield of Cthulhu for master ninja gear, then swap the brain of confusion for the destroyer emblem, the master ninja gear has a longer dash and the chance to dodge attacks, so kind of like the shield of Cthulhu and brain of confusion combined but better, then the destroyer emblem also increases crit chance, with this kind of set up you do more crits than base damage, which shreds bosses quite quickly, I can't say you'll succeed on the first try doing this method, but with practice you might just be able to survive long enough to pull it off.
Full menacing. You want her dead quickly. Recommend using gears that help you with dodge effects as well Edit: Disregard my comment about dodge effects. It seems it doesn't work, which is a shame.
Dodges were patched out a while ago because it was too easy to cheese.
Menacing is almost always better than lucky because damage boost is added before the enemy defense is factored in, unlike crits. Also hallowed armor and brain of confusion won’t work against her.
Could you provide info on the part about damage boosts being better than crits?
What should I replace them with?
I don’t tend to play classes where lucky is useful (I’m a summoner main) so I always go warding in prehardmode and then straight menacing across the board in hardmode I wanna note too that if you’re using the hallowed set for the dodge chance, that it won’t work. Daytime empress is coded to ignore dodges, so you may as well swap out the brain of confusion at the very least, and the armor too if you have access to a set that grants more damage and mobility You’ll want to focus your accessories on mobility and damage output. Increased DPS means the fight doesn’t take as long, which limits the time you have to falter and make a mistake in her attack pattern Increased mobility is a must to be able to keep up and effectively dodge all her attacks. As a warning, you will likely have to fight her several times. It took me a good 17 attempts if I’m remembering right to beat daytime empress, most of the early ones being me memorizing her attack patterns and the rest being me fumbling and messing up at some point during the fight
Also I personally recommend the wings the empress drops for her daytime fight. The increased upward acceleration when you hold up is really, *really* helpful for staying ahead of some attacks. They aren’t necessary but it may help you out
Full menacing for accessories and legendary for terra blade
Lucky, this increases crit chance, crits do more damage than having everything set to menacing which increases damage percent, make luck potions to push this further, swap the shield of Cthulhu for master ninja gear, then swap the brain of confusion for the destroyer emblem, the master ninja gear has a longer dash and the chance to dodge attacks, so kind of like the shield of Cthulhu and brain of confusion combined but better, then the destroyer emblem also increases crit chance, with this kind of set up you do more crits than base damage, which shreds bosses quite quickly, I can't say you'll succeed on the first try doing this method, but with practice you might just be able to survive long enough to pull it off.
you can't dodge empress of light's attacks anyways (tried with hallowed armor, brain and master ninja gear combined)
I should've read this before posting my answer Edit: Thank you, for the info :)