How to (somewhat easily) demolish Daytime Empress of Light in Terraria 

If you wish to do this post-Plantera, switch out Celestial Shell and use Raven, Deadly Sphere, or Desert Tiger/Firecracker. All are much slower than Xeno but will get the job done

When Xeno Staff's AI got fixed in 1.4.4 it had to get an attack speed nerf before release because it became overpowered. Then it had to get another attack speed nerf in the hotfixes because it was overperforming regardless. And even today it does THIS in well under 40 seconds. For those curious, with 4 whips and Betsy's Wrath, it can speedkill Daytime EoL in around 22-23 seconds.

Pro tip: save up on some Bloody Tears and farm Lacewings on Blood Moon with Water candles. It bumps their spawnrate up about tenfold.

Here before Shyguymask

What it comes down to above all else is knowing how her movement patterns work. You have room for choice in what setup you use against her, but what rings true for each and every one of them is that if you want to use it to its maximum efficiency then you need to learn her attacks. It’s not terribly hard, but it’s the most important thing to do.

This accessory loadout is slightly better for damage: (in order of most to least important) Papyrus scarab Necromantic scroll Celestial shell Pygmy necklace Summoner emblem Hercules beetle Avenger emblem

I couldn't last 30 seconds with Empress

Tip: If you're struggling with the broom not being agile enough you can use the Shrimpy Truffle while it's raining for extra speed and agility.

As someone who fought the Empress of Light and got mad, I can confirm that this will help massively

This is fantastic! I never bother doing daytime EoL, but I tried this and it worked wornders. Took a few attempts to get used to the patterns, but overall it's great. Love how straightforward and east to follow this is (and all of your videos are). Thanks

note for people: if you find yourself getting clipped by the sun dance in phase 1 a lot, you don't HAVE to get in for the DPS, as phase 1 is a lot more forgiving than phase 2. make sure you stay close to her during the lances though, if you don't, she will definitely have enough health to do another sun dance after prismatic bolts, which will probably get you.

I love that terraprisma texture you have on, thanks for including it in the description!

This is great considering chatgpt's guide consists of: Deal 100% of the damage to the Empress of Light in the day You must kill the Empress of Light before night starts The Terraprisma will drop from the Empress of Light if killed in the day

This is one of the most simply explained, easy to follow guides of this fight, that doesn't involve mine carts that i've ever seen. Nice job TS👍

THANK you for this video man... SUPER helpful. I've been trying this Daytime fight for the past 5 days with NO luck. That NO HIT rule is a tough one. Almost gave up on it today and just about started the cultists, decided to try ONE more time (after legit 30-40 fights) and HOLY shit I actually pulled it off. Used a combo of an asphalt runway, and the broom. Anyways man, much appreciated for the upload. Keep up the great work

I finally managed to beat daytime EoL using ur guide so tysm 🙏 you made it rly easy to understand her attack patterns and how to avoid each attack

Thanks for this tutorial!! i was having sooo much trouble with the atack where she sends out a ton of swords and apparently i was doing it very wrongly! Thanks for this tutorial it really helped me in my first classical summoner playthrough. I am a fairly new player and i am enjoying my summoner journey, thanks for everything!

Whenever I do daytime EoL, I actually use the cute fishron. The thing is that you don't have to wait for rain, since you can just damage tourself to about 10-20% of your health(depending on difficulty) and have the speed boost and not worry about having no health, since you're dead in one shot anyway.

probably one of the most helpful and straight to the point guides i've watched. i beat her moments after studying this video, ty

Currently doing a summoner weapons only play-through and i’ve only made it to EoW. THIS, will be very helpful.

Great video as always but 0:46 Hercules beetle is a better avenger emblem for summoners The main strategy is to take her down as fast as possible soo even 3%+ dmg is meaningful

Shrimpy Truffle is better than Witch 's broom in the rain (you can also stay below 50% hp to activate this buff as health doesn't matter for this fight)

Great video man! Gives me the confidence to take on daytime empress for the first time.

Huge thanks for the awesome video that helped me tremendously in managing that fight post-Golem in my first full playthrough of the game. Playing as summoner I wanted to get that Terraprisma before taking on the Moon Lord, as I generally don't like getting the best weapon for my class only AFTER I complete the game... Note for Classic mode players: no access to the Witch's Broom means I needed different mobility means without losing too much on damage. So I used the UFO mount (obtained while farming for Xeno staff). It's too slow as is for this fight, or at least for my F-tier skills, so I improved its acceleration a bit by wearing my Terraspark boots (any other +movement speed gear would have worked as I only used them for the movement speed). The rest of the accessories was Necromantic Scroll, Papyrus Scarab, Celestial Shell, and Pygmy Necklace, all Menacing, like in the video. You lose a bit of damage having to wear a movement speed accessory, but since it's Classic, that loss is compensated by the lower HP pool of the boss. I killed that EoL in roughly the same amount of time, and I barely used the Sun Dance moment to land some heavy whip hits. Still took me about 50 attempts because I suck, but made the win even more satisfying! Thanks again for the guidance!

If you dont have infinite flight and need to fight in an arena with platforms, my biggest tip would be to make a large hole down the center. Getting stuck on platforms is a big issue in this fight and being able to fall without interuption is extremely helpful.

this is the first video of yours I have seen and it earned you a subscriber

Thank you very much I defeated Empress of Light for the first time with the movement strat you gave, I was able to make it with the UFO mount.

I was coincidentally thinking of fighting Daytime Empress last night, so this’ll be really helpful for when I do

I never considered using the witches brown mount. I just used the soaring insignia with fishron wings and then used damage accessories for the rest of the slots (master mode). I highly recommend the RoD for the fight (even if it is hard to get), since you can use it with less caution now that health doesn't matter all that much in the fight.

Dude, that’s the most calm maneuvering I’ve ever seen. Nice

Man I love you. Couldn't believe it worked for me, never imagined I could kill it in daytime. It took me two days to get it, mostly trying at night, but once I decided to just go for it during the day and in the third try I got it died but killed it.

Nice tips, I'll try as soon as I get back playing with my summoner

fought EoL for the first time using this guide and it took me less than 15 tries without even having her whip this is the best guide ive ever seen!

I followed your guide to a tee and I finally... FINALLY was able to beat her!!! Thank you for my first Terraprisma ;p

YOU ARE A GOD 1 video short and functional i see. Thanks man works well here. 3 try. (because i suck), i will follow you now. *Brazilian follower acquired*

For Ranged users, if you're going for this Post-Golem, use Betsy's Wings and Aerial Bane. Betsy's Wings allows you to hover like the Moon Lord "wings" and are fast enough to evade most of her attacks, if you killed her at night already, using the Eventide and combine Betsy's Wings with the Soaring Insignia the fight becomes even faster.

This video got me the prisma, thanks man

Great vid! One tip for anyone else doing this, if you're willing to fight Duke Fishron first, you can use the cute fishron mount instead of the broom. Then just pre-damage yourself before the fight (since it one-shots anyway) to get the speed and power buffs from the mount. Makes the battle that much easier

Cool guide! works well

Kind of late here but what I found worked really well is using shrimpy truffle and razerblade typhoon, the real trick however is that if its not raining you can use the rod of discord to keep your health under half, which keeps the speed and damage boost, along with the rod being great for dodging. With this I beat her prep golem pretty easily, although it does take a couple minutes

You violated the lacewing with da whip fr💀🔥💀

Stardust Dragon: Didn't have to cut me off😢

If you are planning to fight eol before golem or martians, i recommend using the bladestaff. The wip tag damage and flask of ichor/golden shower really make up for its low damage. It can also keep up with the empress, something most pre golem minions cant do.

I'm not a summoner yet I can say that no matter the class you play giving at least one minion is a huge help. Something small like mining the arena underground is 10 times easier when you have something keeping enemies at bay.

Thank you I had little to no hope of ever beating her as I think of myself as a bad terraria player. But this strategy, even without buffs killed the empress. You have my thanks

extremely helpful👍 thx. just finished it today. Around 40 seconds, the Sun Dance with all the projectile will be really hard to dodge, died there more than 10 times. I used the Morning Star at first, it won't be able to finish under 35 seconds, it has to be Kaleidoscope .

I can't thank you enough for this guide

I'm glad this is a pseudo-cheese strat, it's not cheese due to using all normal items and no bugs... but still kills it so damn fast that if *feels* like cheese, like bleu cheese...

For pre golem you should use the desert tiger staff as your summon

Bro you are incredible, after watching your video I tried to fight against the empress of light and I managed it the first time, I never managed that, I never had the prism earth, I thank you from the bottom of my heart, thank you

thank you so much for this video! my suffering has finally come to an end

This video is absolute gold!

I just defeated Daytime EOL and oh god this guide helped MASSIVELY, it makes it so easy (also it was my first time fighting it)

Thank you so much man

This was super useful, managed to take her down on my second attempt using spooky armour.

Good video, very helpful 1000/10

Thank you for this guide! I managed to do this after only 12 tries, (even with C- skills)

Ngl, the Broom is kind of nice. You can fit through any space your Terrarian would fit anyways and the movement is enough to beat any boss in vanilla Terraria.

I freaking did it with max damage melee build using the modified legendary zenith, failed a few times because I kept ramming in front of her. I guess its 25s-ish because I was focused on dodging couldn't tell Anyways this vid help me a lot about the concept of dodging and its fkn attack patterns. Thank You Dude 🔥

Bro thank you I didn't use everything you suggested and still demolished her thanks for the guide🙏🙏

this is why i love this boss, its literally js following a pattern and holding left click

This guide helped me alot I was having skill issue But after like 8 deaths I did it, I didn't even notice bc I was so focused on dodging

thank you so much 🙏

Got it in about 20-25 attempts with this build, the prismatic bolt into sun dance combo when EoL is at around 15k health left is what got me the most but got lucky with dodging it on the winning attempt. I’ve never really play summoner (usually play mage or ranger) but using it for this fight was fun, might have to try a full summoner run at some point.

I beat this fight yesterday with a pretty similar loadout, i just had soaring insignia instead of berserkers glove and betsy's wings instead of pigmy necklace The damage is a bit lower but the horizontal speed from betsy's wings makes it so much easier to dodge everything

i would love if more of the bosses in terraria were a bit closer to the song and dance of eol and duke fishron, they're so fun to play! like imagine skeletron or queen bee having cool attack patterns (without turning into touhou ofc)

Just tried this a few minutes ago, took me a bit but I finally got terraprisma, I’ve been trying to kill her in general for a few weeks now so I’m glad I can now fight moonlord and not die instantly like I did 3 times😂😂 thank you for this tutorial

My favorite loadout is razorblade typhoon and spectre gear. Sure it’s annoying to have to grind the mage gear, but it’s worth it. Razorblade means you don’t have to aim, while spectre stacks on some crazy damage. It’s worked pretty well even in 1.4.4

i have never played as a summoner in a playthrough but i always go for the terraprisma for the extreme reliability against common enemies while building/excavating, and this applies to most minions, not just the terraprisma.

Worked for me, i was playing in master mode post-Golem, it took me 76 tries until the Kaleidoscope had dropped at night (9 wins), but on daytime i won with only 4 tries. It might have taken a while to get good on the fight, but after that it was easy, the moveset is still the same anyway, so it's just pure skill, thanks for the video

I do the same thing with melee, Zenith & runaway while swinging in her general direction. Takes a bit longer but it’s how I turn my screen into a bunch of swords flying everywhere

Ayy, someone else singing the Witch's Broom's praises! I've pretty much stopped using mobility accessories after getting that thing.

Gotta remember when in a server with a bunch of friends, thought of getting the terraprisma all because of the memes, yeah empress had 2 million hp and 90%of the server couldnt keep alive for like 3 secs, so..

Hey, just a little tip, in place of the Xeno staff you can very easily use Deadly Spheres, while normally pretty stupid, in a large open area such as daytime empress fight they have a really easy time tracking her and will even follow her offscreen for quite a distance giving a really good dps if you want to run for any reason, also personally I think they’re much better than Xeno or Raven staff in general, they help me beat her quite easily especially with Fishron mount

Xeno Staff and whip stacking made Daytime EoL a joke. I remember shuddering at the thought of the inevitable, which is fighting her in my Master mode summoner run before Lunatic Cultist until I realized how much damage I was dealing when I first fought her.

1:40 I’m dead sure they died bang after that cut 😂

got this on my 5th try using this on my second playthrough ever brilliant

Bro popped light res💀

I probably will try summoner after my melee run 1.4 makes it look fun

In my first Master mode run I decided I'm gonna do daytime Empress because that won't go badly at all... I beat her second try and I had only beat nighttime Empress twice prior to that. I have yet to beat a second daytime Empress.

Would this be any different in Calamity, since daytime EoL has that reactive DR thing that changes the fight a bit? (of course it also adds Terraprisma to the standard loot but killing her in daytime is guaranteed to give it)

holy frick this was so much better than the way I did it. Does this work on master mode ftw seed?

I recommend Spooky Armor because it gives you a lot more damage, making it so you kill her faster + Fitecracker + Tiger combo is the nbest option for the pre golem

Bro, I'm Brazilian and with your help I managed to defeat her, thank you very much.

I was so focused on the projectiles that i didn't realized your empress of light looks entirely different.

Thanks for the guide but i wanna how u make your character's hand glow, is it a vanity accessory?

Doing a summoner playthrough, this will help latwr

summoner became my go to pre hard mode after playing it only once even if im planning for another class in the long run i always start with summoner

What are those buffs ?? Can you tell me what potions you used and you also got one extra minion were is that from? Is it something that has the same effect as the bewitching table?

I like, never comment on RU-vid videos. But my god, thank you so much. This deserves way more likes, and helped me get the terraprisma.

Thanks so much bro, now i can kill she during the day, but i have a question, what staff is better, the xeno or dragon staff?

Desert Tiger also can kill EoL really fast when paired with the firecracker remember. That combo is cracked

Best guide ever.

I know it results in a dps loss, but I always use the soaring insignia with a pair of wings with the hover feature, as I feel that I tend to be more mobile with this setup. I use a slime mount to quickly fall and change direction if I get to close or need to dodge an unexpected attack.

The funny thing is, you killed the empress right before what I consider to be the hardest to dodge attack pattern that she has. I'd be really interested to see if you could make a guide that kept empress alive for 10 more seconds in her second phase.

For Melee I recommend the North Pole or Scourge of Corrupter it worked for me on master 👍

so you say to drop the berserker's glove in expert mode, I really don't like losing the auto swing on the whips. would using a mechanical glove/fire gauntlet instead of the plain avernger emblem work the same?

If you play on PC, you can make whipstacking _way_ easier by rebinding first 3 slots in your quickbar to mouse buttons. Then just hold down the left mouse button and additionally right or middle for a short while at a time. The way the game handles quickbar slots switching will do the rest for you.

By the way, the Deadly Sphere Staff dropped from Deadly Spheres in the solar eclipse post plantera can also work if you *really* want to get the terraprisma pre-golem.

He has spoken 🙏