Expert mode... is REALLY hard. The bosses are harder, enemies have twice the health, you get the idea. Why bother with this? The treasure bags from the bosses have awesome items well worth the trouble. Some of them are (the guaranteed ones): Worm scarf (EoW), this reduces all damage taken by 17% (awesome!), Shield of Cthulhu (Eye of Cthulhu, this lets you charge by double tapping left/right and you are invulnerable for a short time as well as dealing damage to those who get rammed), etc.
Drop rates are also doubled too. Rare drops happen more often so great for farming! And for farming money too. Anyone who has burned though their money trying to reforge ONE expensive accessory will understand the pain of trying to re-earn said money.
Tips:
Banners help a LOT, the damage reduction and damage output improvements do wonders in not dying as often.
Reforge often for the best prefixes (Warding, lucky, menacing, unreal, godly, whatever is needed). The increase of money dropped really helps to offset the cost of all the reforging.
A 2x2 hole by the door will stop mobs from opening the door. Yes zombies can open the doors! Or actuator walls for doors.
Ranged weapons are your best friend (yoyos, guns/bows, whatever). Even ranged melee weapons REALLY help. Think yoyos, flails, and boomerangs. The water bolt is a solid choice for magic users as well as the vilethorn (corruption worlds). Summoners... tough luck unless you can get the slime staff. For rangers go for the minishark (Which later is needed for the megashark anyway), for bows go for the best bow you can get at that time (hellwing, gold whatever depending on where you are).
Go fishing and get lots of crates... and open them once hardmode starts for a early headstart with hardmode ores/items/potions.
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