replaced the cookie cutter with the Armor Bane again. armor pen is better than life regen. you can only hit the bosses so much to actually heal yourself. went on a long trek to the tundra to find Cryonic ore to craft the Daedalus armor. and again, Calamity fucks an overly good set by adding unnecesary effects. the sentry summon above my head i can get it, but gravity reversal is something i dont need in a set. i only use that to pinpoint floating islands. so im using the Forbidden headgear as replacement while doing other stuff.
well it was that set or Feral Fur from Thorium, and for that one i would have to farm werewolves/wolves and worgs which means waiting for nights with blood moons or full moons and yeah, no. besides, the armor gives a bonus that needs you to use melee.
the most ironic thing is that i saw a moth once, didnt kill it because i had to get going. should have killed when i had the opportunity. fuck.
anyways. some farming in the sky during a rainstorm finally got results. 2 cloud elementals, one dropped the sword and the other dropped the summoning accesory. i also completed 2 more contracts because i got lucky and got a brown recluse and wyvern spawns. so now i have to finish a pirate invasion for the next one.
also have to remember to farm Cryogen again for the Frozen Stone or whatever is called. since its another part of the Heart of The Elements.
and well, no mechanical boss spawn as of yet. the Twins are too hard with forbidden armor, mostly because of that invulnerability bullshit so you cant kill just one then follow with the other. Skeletron Prime is too heavy yet for some reason (i blame calamity).
hopefully the Daedalus armor will be what i need. im also equipping The Ring again just in case for the flat damage increases and other bonuses (and because the Obsidian Shield is useless for this kind of stuff).
EDIT:
farmed Cryogen until it dropped the Frozen Core. an enemy during the blizzard dropped the Ice Fairy Staff. these fairies seem to behave better than the butterflies so they may serve as a proper replacement. kinda act like the hornets from the hornet staff. they fly offscreen and shoot stuff but they have much better speed than the beholders.
i also discovered that i can still get up to 6 minions without using the full armor set. i mean, using 2 pieces of Daedalus with the Forbidden Headgear as extra defense and damage. i dont know if this would give me an edge during boss fights but anyways.
after that i summoned the pirates. and boy was it a carnage. i didnt die. but the Ice Fairies wrecked the whole fleet only waning a bit when the Flying Dutchman finally came. got a lot of drops from the event. 1 cursed medallion which is used for the 3rd artifact tier of the Death Wind. a yoyo called "Pirate's Booty" (and of course, its a hardmode yoyo with the midas effect it seems). a gun called "Captain's Regards" which is like a pirate version of the Vortex Beater (shoots bullets and cannonballs at the same time) and also got the Handcannon which as its name implies, shoots ammo similar to cannon balls, its quite fast and has a lot of damage for the stage its dropped i think (94-95 base ranged damage, no modifiers).
there were also 2 Pirate Loot Crates but i dont want to open them, gonna keep them in the furniture chest.
im gonna check what the pirate has to sell and go prepare more potions. gonna check if tese new equipments finally work against the Twins.
EDIT:
aaaaand nope, my guns do shit against these guys. i dont know what to use anymore. kited them throught space but even then Spazmatism finished me quickly, its so annoying. gonna have to test other weapons but i've already ran out of souls of light.