Guide:Lunar Events strategies

The Lunar Events start immediately after beating the Lunatic Cultist boss. Four Celestial Pillars will spawn on the map, each corresponding to one of the four classes-- Melee, Ranged, Magic, and Summoner. Before trying to beat this event, make sure you are completely prepared, as the event cannot be canceled without entering combat.

Before You Begin
The first thing you should do after defeating the Lunar Cultist is open your Map and note the locations of each Pillar. If you need a safe haven, return to spawn, as no pillars will exist at the center of the world (needs confirmation).

Gear
Armor: These armor sets are considered to be the best choices for post-Golem players.
 * Spooky Armor or Tiki Armor for summoners. Spooky Armor is the offensive choice, but Tiki Armor sacrifices some DPS for significantly higher defense.
 * Shroomite Armor for rangers, as its bonuses allow a player's DPS to reach very high levels.
 * Spectre Armor for magic users. The Spectre Hood is recommended to help mages survive the Lunar Events.
 * Beetle Armor for melee fighters, as the two chestpieces allow a player to pursue an offensive or defensive playstyle.

Suggested Weapons:


 * The Vampire Knives will allow players to regain health if they need to.
 * A homing magic weapon paired with the Spectre Hood allows mages to heal quickly while dealing precise damage.
 * 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. (obtainable after defeating the Stardust Pillar)
 * 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. (obtainable after defeating the Vortex Pillar)

Suggested 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.
 * Any potions like the Lifeforce Potion or Ironskin Potion will increase your survivability.

Tips

 * If you need to escape the fight, use a Magic Mirror-type item and heal at the Nurse. Unless you log out, no progress will be lost.

The Battle
The following sections are not written in any particular order. It is recommended to begin by fighting the pillar that is themed after your current class. This will allow you to craft weapons that fit your class.

Stardust Pillar:
The Stardust Pillar is the Summoner-themed pillar. It applies a royal blue shader to the screen.


 * 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.