Guide:Wasteland strategies

*"The failed experiment. Terror of the desert"*

**Wasteland** is a Pre-Hardmode boss.

## Spawn Condition

To spawn Wasteland, you must use a Mutated Scorpion in a Desert.

## The Fight

Wasteland's most common attack is to shoot around 3 poisonous stingers that do around 25 damage later on Wasteland can stand still and shoot a lot of stingers around her which can be very hard to dodge. Wasteland's other common thing she can do is spawn multiple Mutated Scorpions that target the nearest player. After dealing some damage to Wasteland she will often go under the sand for a while and jump up to the player.

## General Strategies

### Terrain preparation

The arena for Wasteland is best with a long platform that is around 200 blocks wide or you can make 4 platform floors that are around 20 blocks above from each other and are 100 blocks wide. Due to the Wasteland's very potent damage by even a simple careless mistake, placing campfires and heart lanterns are reccomended to recover from mistakes with increased life regeneration. If you go out of the desert Wasteland despawns quickly without warning.

#### Full Preparation

Buff and Healing Potions are good with an arena built out of wooden platforms that is around 100-200 blocks wide or alternatively you may make 4 layers of them that are 20 blocks above each other.

#### Partial Preparation

If you aren't up to using time on building an arena then it can be good to find or make a flattish desert and use Slimy Saddle for it.

### Gearing up

#### Armour

Gold armour or Platinum armour are recommended since the armour sets adds high defence and it is good for the projectiles Wasteland shoots if you're not good at dodging.

Jungle armor is another well-rounded armor set for mages.

#### Weapons

**For Melee users:**

* For Melee users, it is highly recommended to use the Gust Strike or the Starfury for high damage at a distance.
* If you want to do quick damage, at reasonable enough distance from the boss, then the Amazon is also a great choice.

**For Ranged users:**

* For Ranged users, it is recommended that the Dragon Shot be used since it changes all arrows to Drakonite Arrows. Alternatively, you can use the Tears of Sorrow that is dropped by the Eye of Cthulhu. The Crystal Cannon, which doesn't have the quickest fire rate and is quite difficult to craft, can still ramp up the damage output immensely.
* If possible and you find the Coilgun be sure to use it as it has a high amount of DPS in Pre-Hardmode.

**For Magic users:**

* For Magic users, the Sanguine or Starbolt can be useful, but require lots of mana to use effectively. Easy to craft alternatives include any of the Gem staves or the Water Bolt if found in blessed world generation.

**For Summoners:**
For summoner, it is useful to craft the Staff of the Sandstorm.

**For Throwing users:**

* Due to Throwing not being a supported class you will have to mostly use vanilla items but there is one thing you can use which is the Drakonite Knife otherwise its recommended to use Javelins or Grenades. The armour for throwing is Fossil armour.

#### Accessories

* For all classes it is good to have the Desert Trailers or higher for great dodging.
* It can be useful to have the Blue Horseshoe Balloon.
* For Magic users, it is good to have an accessory that provides mana such as Band of Starpower.
* As an alternative, if one is using lots of mana potions or prefer a quick battle, the Mana Flower and the Illusive Charm are powerful options for damage.
* For Melee users, it is good to have any type of shield (though the Shield of Cthulhu is best if available) and a Counterweight when primarily using yoyos.
	+ Alternatively, you may use the Feral Claws since they give more melee speed, as well as the Badge of the Desert.
* For Summoners, there is no accessories that would help very much as.
* For Throwing users, it is good to use anything that can help to dodge such as these accessories that are recommended for all classes.

### Potions

* For Buff Potions, Regeneration, Ironskin and Swiftness Potions are useful.
	+ Thorns Potions are also effective.
* For Magic users, Lesser Mana Potions are useful so you can get mana faster.
* For Summoners, use Summoning Potions as they grant increased minion slots.
* For all classes any Healing Potion such as Lesser Healing Potion or Healing Potion are important to defeating Wasteland.