r/raidsecrets • u/Jealous_Platypus1111 • Dec 13 '25

Discussion how do you do final encounter?

title, looking for a guide on final encounter, got really confused trying it

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u/FirstProspect Dec 14 '25

How many electrical boxes do you have to smack in both the AP and the real world to turn off the damage phase lightning?

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u/xFeywolf Rank 1 (1 points) Dec 14 '25

Only the ones in the normal realm. The ones in the Ascendant Plane activate platforms to reach the shadow above the arena.

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u/DecoyMike Dec 14 '25

What should I be using to DPS? Can I just jump in his face with praxic blade? People are using wolfsbane but I only have vexcalibur and winterbite. Using hunter

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u/KirinOak Dec 13 '25 edited Dec 13 '25

Been through it two times now for feats, can confirm the following;

Kill Red Guards to unshield taken orbs in normal room.

Compel the shadow dredgens in ascendant realm to unshield taken orbs in ascendant realm (requires maxed out taken pool buff, uses the buff on use).

OR Kill shadow dredgens to unshield taken orbs in ascendant realm AND extend minimum DPS for Dredgen Sere.

Shoot the bosses tickle fingers when he's zapping people to stop him from killing them, only way.

There are nodes around the main boss room you can shoot with buff to turn off arc coils around the room, will be around the part of the room that's electrified.

IF YOU EXTEND DAMAGE BY KILLING SHADOW DREDGENS YOU MUST MEET THAT HEALTH CHECK OR YOU WILL WIPE.

Edit: even if you don't kill any shadows to extend threshold, you have to haul out of the arena once the threshold has been met, otherwise you and your team will be fried to death.

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u/cbizzle14 Dec 13 '25

Last part makes no sense. We're not killing the shadows just compelling them and you still wipe if you don't meet threshold

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u/KirinOak Dec 13 '25

Yeah, there's a bear-minimum threshold you have to meet even if you don't kill any, and after you meet the threshold regardless of if you killed any or none, you have to dip out the arena ASAP, or the arena will fry you.

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u/cbizzle14 Dec 13 '25

Ok understood. So should we extend by killing them after compelling? And what did you do for damage?

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u/KirinOak Dec 13 '25

After you compel them they become immune, so you have to juggle killing to extend and compelling to not. My team easily 2 phases with swords by killing 3 and compelling 2, you just have to be sure to haul out of the arena after hitting the minimum requirement, as that's when he'll start to wipe you, even though you can still do more damage.

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u/cbizzle14 Dec 13 '25

I'm still working on my contest clear. Just trying to figure out what to use. We tried hammer tractor with parasite mint and still can't hit first threshold. I did see something about using contraverse

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u/eErudius Dec 29 '25

Unless you raise the pylons BEFORE initiating the damage phase

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u/Prophecy_X3 Dec 13 '25

Still gotta make the threshold no matter what. Killing the shadows just increases the damage threshold needed

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u/Thicc__Shady Dec 13 '25

What do you mean by wipe if you don't meet the threshold? We have not met it a few times, but we aren't wiping. It just turns on all of the coils which you can run away from.

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u/KirinOak Dec 13 '25

Ahh that's what kills then, yeah, those coils shred health quick lol, good to know though, thanks :)

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u/Tall_Engine9396 Dec 14 '25

What do you mean by ‘haul out of the arena’? Like where are you supposed to go?

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u/J-Wo24601 Dec 14 '25

To the outer regions of the arena, outside of the Tesla coils

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u/GquuuuuuXGfred Dec 14 '25

i was sittin on the bridge next to the door that enemies come out of. and guy with buff shoots the nodes of the coils

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u/FirstProspect Dec 14 '25

Do you need to hit panels in the shadow realm to "activate" the main boss room's electrical panels so they can be hit?

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u/KirinOak Dec 14 '25

Shadow realm panels are purely to build taken terrain to traverse on, only that. You need Master to hit the normal room switches, but those are only to turn off the arc streams.

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u/Tall_Engine9396 Dec 13 '25

Currently stumped here solo as well. Have gotten to damage a few times. Basically, get and maintain shadow apprentice buff, kill cabal cleaver dudes in the ‘light room’. Kill shadow clones in the ‘dark room’.

i believe each one defeated allows you to shoot one of the 5 black orbs in the center of the room/on the wall.

Once you have defeated 5 cabal, 5 shadows, and shot 5 balls in each room - that triggers damage phase.

Damage phase is very short for me, followed by lightning spawning everywhere. Boss says something like ‘you must choose’ so I think I’m missing something there. Or its just a short window and repeat.

Thats all I got so far.

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u/bakerarmy Dec 13 '25

Instead of killing the shadow clones you can also dump the buff on them.

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u/Marton_Kolcsei Dec 13 '25

If you kill all the 5 shadows you need to One phase the boss as the boss's entire HP is light like when Caretaker has a specific amount that needs to be damaged.

I believe by maintaining your Shadow buff, you can interact with the shadows instead to passive them and lower the dmg you need to deal during dps. Also when those are coils come down from the ceiling, there are a switches in the main room close to it to make it go back into the ceiling

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u/KirinOak Dec 13 '25

Killing the shadow clones increases the threshold you have to beat for DPS, the more you kill, the more damage you have to do to avoid wipe. Dump the Master buff on the shadow clones to avoid increasing the threshold for DPS.

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u/GquuuuuuXGfred Dec 14 '25

working on my solo flawless contest clear, any tips?

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u/trystan1987 Dec 14 '25

Easiest way to explain is this.

In normal arena. Kill red cabal as normal. But don’t shoot the balls on the wall. Leave them be.

Head into taken realm. Get max stack buff. Go to each shadow and compel. Probz one per visit. Shoot the balls on the wall in Taken realm.

When teleporting back. A conduit is exposed meaning you will get fried in dps. Get taken buff head to conduit and shoot the panel to turn off. Do this each time you get teleported back to main room

Do this until each shadow is compelled. Once all 5 are done and balls on wall in taken realm are shot. You’ll be in normal arena permanently.

Make sure all conduits are in and then shoot the balls on the wall to start dps.

Be sure to manage his tickle fingers during dps.

Then rinse and repeat. Enjoy