Talk:The Twins/@comment-129.93.212.41-20120206174348

There's another strategy that I like to use that isn't listed above. It is somewhat of a combination of a few of the ones mentioned.

ARENA Basically, you want a large room without a ceiling and platforms every 10-20 spaces in the up direction, going all the way across. The platform should be built in the sky, but not high enough to spawn wyverns. This will keep out other monsters for the duration of the battle. Along the floor of the room should be a statue corridor. Fill it with as many heart statues as you can, but other monster spawning statues, such as crab and slime, can be helpful if you don't have enough heart statues. These monsters are weak and will sometimes drop hearts or mana to help replenish your stores.

PREPARATION There isn't any best set of equipment, but you're going to be doing a lot of dodging. Because of this, I'd advise having Wings and the Spectre Boots as two of your items. With these, you can ascend quickly enough to dodge many of the attacks and you won't take any fall damage. This also makes healing easier because you can sprint across the statue corridor with the speed boost from the boots. The third item that would be helpful is a Cobalt or Obsidian Shield. No knockback goes a long way in lining up a ranged attack. If you plan on using any magic at all, you should bring along a Mana Flower to reduce mana usage. The last item is up to you, but I'd recommend one of the Emblems dropped from the Wall of Flesh, Cloud in a Balloon, or Band of Regeneration. You should try to reforge all your items to have defense or speed boosts.

You should bring a lot of potions with you, the best being Restoration Potions and potions to buff you. For buffs, good ones are Archery and Magic Power Potions, to give 20% damage boosts to each, Swiftness and Ironskin Potions, because the speed boost will help you dodge and the defense boost is always a help, and lastly some Thorns Potions. Damage should be avoided, but it can't all be. You might as well return some of it to The Twins. A Gravitation Potion could also be of use, but is effectively replaced by using wings. A Featherfall Potion I would actually not recommend for this boss. Wings or a Lucky Horseshoe will negate fall damage, and a Featherfall Potion would allow the boss to catch up to you while you're falling and possibly deal more damage than you can take.

A Crystal Ball should also be used right before the battle. It increases your maximum mana by 20 and the duration will last for the whole battle.

WEAPONS Melee is not advised, as The Twins move around a lot and use some melee attacks as well, which deal heavy damage. The focus should be archery and magic. For magic weapons, I'd advise a Mythical Crystal Storm, since it deals 33 damage per crystal, the crystals can bounce off the walls of your arena multiple times, and when combined with the Mana Flower it only has a mana cost of 3. The second option would be the Demon Scythe, which could damage the enemy multiple times, but it'll be hard to aim against this boss.

For a bow, an Unreal Adamantite Repeater would be best. Hellfire and Jester's Arrows would deal the most damage, but these are hard to get. Once these are used up, Fire Arrows are decent backup.

Other ranged weapons such as the Star Cannon and Megashark could also come in handy, if you can afford them.

ARMOR Full Adamantite is the best, assuming you don't have Hallowed armor yet. I'd recommend the Helmet for the head slot, because even though it's main purpose is melee, the 22 defense it gives will help you stay alive much longer than the other two. The 18% increased movement speed from the set bonus will also making dodging easier.

THE FIGHT The worst thing you can do is distribute damage, because facing both eyes in the second form is just begging for death. You should target one first and then the other. I'd recommend taking out Spazmatism first, as its second form is the stronger of the two and it moves around a lot more. Retinazer, on the other hand, will move more slowly and stay in one place at times, making it easier to hit. The first part of the battle may very well take over half the night, which is another reason to save Retinazer for last because it'll be a quicker kill. In a fight like this, poisoning and/or burning the enemy could also be helpful, but just be careful to not inflict the same condition on yourself.

I used this strategy to defeat The Twins. It took about 2/3 of the night, but I never dropped below 200 health.