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[SirAaronIII]

Yeah, it's pretty sweet. On a semi-related note to anyone who has it, how's the Cursed Flame spell?

[Duke 2.0]

It hits pretty hard, but the way it bounces and it's cost for damage to similar spells on its level is a bit of a problem. The only real advantage over other spells you could get is the green flame debuff, but it doesn't really help too much on hardmode enemies. Besides worms, which won't ever bother you with this thing.

I might prefer Demon Scythe for the multihit potential.

[Urist Imiknorris]

I sorta like it for dealing with things that I don't have direct line of sight on (such as skeleton archers on the other side of a wall).

[forsaken1111]

Grinding for Light souls easily took 25-30 hours.

WHAT?!

Just drop ~100 units of meteor in an underground hallow area while holding a water candle and/or drinking battle potions and kill the meteor heads. An hour netted me 103 light souls. Same works for night souls, though the EoW is easier I suppose.

[JoshuaFH]

I'm not sure if I should stick to my Addy headgear for being further magic specced, or if I should switch to the high defense addy helmet to compensate for defense.

[Gunner-Chan]

Defense is useless in hardmode. Bonuses > defense, but raise it as much as you can anyway for when you slip up and actually get hit.

[Orangebottle]

I just had two voodoo demons show up. I don't even have molten armor yet, just Necro.
Good thing neither of them fell into the lava. :X

[Seriyu]

Note: Defense is worthless unless you roll up all of your accessories and get them a warding prefix.

Then you might get somewhere with it, but the days of taking one damage from enemies are over once you hit hard mode.

[Orangebottle]

Make that three. And that doll nearly hit the lava. I almost fell out of my chair.

[Frumple]

Defense is useless in hardmode. Bonuses > defense, but raise it as much as you can anyway for when you slip up and actually get hit.

Hahaha, total and absolute lie*. Even full (melee) adamantine + full-up warding accessories makes you nearly as tough as full molten does pre-wall. I haven't nabbed up the hallow set, yet, but that'd make it even better worse. Even limited dodging with minor potion use makes you basically unstoppable

For better raw numbers, melee hallow + 5 warding accs gives you 70 defense, which knocks 35 damage off of everything that attacks you. A ironskin potion knocks another 4 off, for 39. That just shy of halves the damage getting smacked in the face by a wyvern's head does, and reduces the damage from standing on the non-head parts right down to one. Clinger ranged damage? To one. Melee, halved. Laser snail lasers? To one. Corruptors? Damage ~halved. Unicorns, same. Chaos elemental! One damage! Destroyer! Everything but the head! Damage reduced to one! The head cut to less than half! *maddened, borderline invincible, cackling*

Don't want ironskin? Add four to some of those numbers. Still in melee addy? Add two. Anyway, you get the idea. Full defense spec is still pretty frakking incredible. You lose out on some damage (Fairly notable amount vs. a full damage spec, honestly), but... it's viable. To say the least.

*Well, okay, not a lie, but definitely not giving defense its fair shake. Let's run some numbers, shall we!? AHAHAHAHAHAHA

[eerr]

Note: Defense is worthless unless you roll up all of your accessories and get them a warding prefix.

Then you might get somewhere with it, but the days of taking one damage from enemies are over once you hit hard mode.

Specced warding, only stuff in the corruption, skeletron prime, and spazmatism can kill me.

...

And giant bats.

I dive lava pools just to check if anything is at the bottom.

[Darkmere]

Dodging an attack = 0 damage. Every time. Defense only helps if you're careless or something spawns right under you in the hellevator. That's what potions are for.

[Frumple]

And giant bats.

Fun fact: Giant bats hit harder than anything the destroyer can do to you Also anything skeletron prime can do to you during the night. Only 5 points less than the twins second-form melee damage!

[Seriyu]

Yeah, giant bats are ridiculous and kill me more then anything else. Kind've like when cave bats were originally introduced!

[Urist Imiknorris]

For better raw numbers, melee hallow + 5 warding accs gives you 70 defense, which knocks 35 damage off of everything that attacks you. A ironskin potion knocks another 4 off, for 39.

It actually knocks off five. The tooltip is lying and ironskin potions add ten to defense.