Guide:Lunar Events strategies

Lunar Events starts immediately after beating Lunatic Cultist. Four Celestial Pillars will spawn on map each with different theme and enemies. Before trying to beat this event make sure you are ready, because you can't cancel it unless you destroy every pillar.

(First Pillar)Stardust Pillar
First thing to do is checking where and what pillars spawned on map, as the first pillar to beat should be the Vortex Pillar or the Stardust Pillar (if you wish to just sit and watch then the best choice will be the stardust pillar as it will give you Stardust Fragments needed for Stardust Dragon Staff.

If you chose Stardust Pillar then you can beat it by 2 ways:


 * First: stay close to the ground as it will prevent from spawning too many Star Cells and Flow Invaders and shoot everything from there, but be careful about Milkyway Weavers as they will always spawn and deal heavy damage even in not-Expert Mode world.


 * Second: Take any ranged meele/magic weapon and fly over Stardust Pillar shooting Star Cells and Flow Invaders (if you have hard times dodging Flow Invaders projectiles then it's the best to equip Vampire Knives as Star Cells will create giant groups that you can easly use to heal yourself)

Vortex Pillar
If It's your first pillar then you will need Cosmic Car Key or Shrimpy Truffle to avoid Alien Queen projectiles as they cause debuff that makes you able to only move at right or left and getting it in wrong time can cause quick death. If it's your second pillar and first was Stardust Pillar then you can bring your Stardust Dragon Staff before crafted in Ancient Manipulator any quick pickaxe and some blocks. Go into space over pillar and jump, when you are there quickly dig down small hole and close it or if you found small cave arround then you can go there. Summon your dragon and wait some time while he is killing and latter destroying pillar. (Any armor like Tiki Armor or Spooky Armor will help giving your dragon more dmg clearing enemies faster)

Nebula Pillar
It's one of the hardest pillars. Wherever if you stay on the ground or in sky many projectiles and Brain Sucklers will want you to die. Nebula Floaters will make sure to keep you away from creating safe small house and grinding kills with dragons as it's projectiles can go through blocks and it will many times teleport to you damaging with it's body. Recommended are Vampire Knives or if you are mage you can use Spectre Armor and just fly arround pillar dodging Nebula Floaters and Brain Sucklers shooting them and healing yourself. To this pillar you should have your own Phantasm that will kill armies in seconds even without armor for ranged style dealing 4-5k DPS with good aim. Having still your dragon will also help as it will chase Nebula Floaters even after teleport damaging or taking down half of them making your battle easier.

(Last Pillar)Solar Pillar
This is very dangerous pillar as it have Crawltipedes with huge amount of hp and damage that is able to kill you in 2-3 hits depending if it's expert or normal world. It will only target players in air so you should avoid staying there. To beat this pillar use same strategy like with Vortex Pillar, jump from space on it (it gives high chance of being killed by Crawltipedes but only if you are in air so avoid it's head and use the best healing potions, once you are on the ground it will stop chasing you). Quickly dig small hole as fire balls from pillar will damage you and all enemies will attack. Block entrance, have your dragon summoned and wait, when pillar is no longer protected you can wait for dragon destroying it or finish it with quick Phantasm attack.

Gearing up
Armor


 * Spooky Armor for summoning users.
 * Shroomite Armor if you will use ranged weapons.
 * Spectre Armor if you will use magic weapons.
 * Beetle Armor with Beetle Scale mail and use vampire knives to heal up for melee users.

Weapons


 * Vampire Knives, even without meele bonuses from armor and accessories it will let you stay much longer in battle without dying although moon lord is immune.
 * Stardust Dragon Staff, this minion quickly takes down every pillar making it even 5 minutes run to Moon Lord if you give him enough power.
 * Phantasm, as it will deal huge amount of damage to pillars once they are defenseless and also it may be your choice of weapon to deal with Moon Lord.
 * Any homing magic weapon that will give you healing from your Spectre Armor.

Accessories


 * Every that will give you more minion capacity and damage like Papyrus Scarab, Necromantic Scroll or Pygmy Necklace.
 * Celestial Shell while beating pillars at night, werewolf form will reduce damage taken and give you 10% more damage to your Stardust Dragon.
 * Every potion like Lifeforce Potion or Ironskin Potion will let you stay in battle longer.

Tips

 * If you feel you will not handle any longer you can everytime escape for healing and go back to pillar, damage and killed enemies will be not canceled.