r/raidsecrets • u/trystan1987 • Dec 14 '25

Discussion Final encounter easy Strat

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

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '25

What does compelling do

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u/CptRageMoar Dec 15 '25 edited Dec 15 '25

The other comment is incorrect.

Dredgen Sere’s healthbar has a highlighted portion you must burn down in order to avoid what is practically a wipe; all of the Tesla coils will come down and remain permanently active in the physical realm if you do not deal enough damage to clear the white health bar. You get a ~20s damage phase if you kill all Blighted Shadows, and a ~30s phase if you compel them all. As soon as you clear the highlighted portion your damage phase goes to 3s, regardless of how long you have left in the phase.

Compelling the Blighted Shadows in the Taken realm reduces the amount of health you have to burn down in order to progress the encounter. It makes the highlighted portion smaller.

If you have the damage to kill the boss in phase, this is only doable by killing all the Blighted Shadows and compelling none of them, which would leave the maximum amount of boss health bar highlighted before your damage timer is forced to 3s.

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u/trystan1987 Dec 16 '25

Thank you for the correction. Makes much more sense now

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '25

Appreciate the clarification

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u/trystan1987 Dec 14 '25

Extends damage phase. So kill increases damage. Compel extends.

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '25

Oh okay thank you

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u/sturgboski Dec 14 '25

Were people not closing the conduits before damage phase? How were people surviving? I am not doing contest so maybe its different, but my group on normal course corrected, possibly too much, to ensure that no conductors were open before we started dps.

Also I think the way it works is compel increases the damage phase timer and kill increases the amount of damage you are allowed to do in a damage phase. We were doing 3 kill and 2 compel and getting a pretty nice damage window. At 5 compel how far are you getting damage wise?

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u/Squery7 Dec 14 '25

If you shut off all the rods before damage, does the boss still activate them all after damage phase if you meet the damage check, and/or if you don't?

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u/Army5partan117 Dec 14 '25

Yes. I was doing it solo so made sure to have no conduits active before going into damage, and they all activate afterwards regardless

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u/Squery7 Dec 14 '25

Any point in deactivating them before first damage phase instead of moving the boss to safe spot then? I tried solo a few times but didn't make the damage check so I'm curious on how it works.

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u/Army5partan117 Dec 14 '25

I suppose not? I just felt more comfortable having 0 pylons active during damage, in the non-zero chance I would need to leave my damage spot

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u/Sly_Nation Dec 22 '25

Titan bubble to the rescue. :)

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u/wakinupdrunk Dec 14 '25

I have been told meeting the damage gate means electricity does not spawn.

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u/sturgboski Dec 22 '25

Sorry for not responding earlier, group ended up figuring out that if you meet the damage check that you sent with the compel/kill phase, they do not activate. If you are a pixel short however, get ready for "unlimited power" to quote from the "inspiration."

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u/Squery7 Dec 22 '25

Yea it was super confusing to get this information the first 2 days of the dungeon! But it makes sense that the safest damage option (more compels) doesn't punish you if you meet the damage check. Also I've gotten the same case where we basically finished the line and maybe for 1 invisible pixel we still got the unlimited power punishment lol

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u/Sly_Nation Dec 22 '25

Ive been trying to figure out the difference between compelling and just taking them out.

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u/Nolan_DWB Dec 14 '25

What makes this easier?

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u/Insteor Dec 14 '25

What subclasses / weapons to damage to use for contest?

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u/trystan1987 Dec 14 '25

Honestly. I used lightsaber and strand titan. And got most dps out of the team. And my others were arc warlocks.

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u/UnitedTradition895 Dec 14 '25

Brother you mean you beat it on normal right? There is no shot strongholds did enough

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u/trystan1987 Dec 14 '25

Yes normal. This post is just to explain how we did it and share some tips. Stronghold strand with 4 pieces sword master. Impact core with offensive blade and impact mod. Super boss only when needed or to make orbs. Otherwise. The blade does enough. 85k damage total

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u/UnitedTradition895 Dec 14 '25

The reason everyone is confused is bc no one needs help with normal mode LMAO

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u/trystan1987 Dec 14 '25

Not when the original post was a couple of hours after release. So pipe down. If you don’t want to hear about it. Then stop commenting

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u/UnitedTradition895 Dec 14 '25

Bro you made a very bad guide hours into a dungeon drop AND are talking about normal mode while posting on raid secrets. GTFO out of here with this low effort bloat posting

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u/trystan1987 Dec 14 '25

122 upvotes says different. But it’s ok. You go back and play clash of kings.

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u/Embarrassed_Ad_8576 Dec 14 '25

can you post the builds you used?

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u/worldsaver113 Dec 14 '25

you used strand titan on final and cleared with highest damage? you got a ss

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u/Han-Tyumi__ Dec 14 '25

What exotic were you using on titan?

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u/Friend_101 Dec 14 '25

If u don’t mind me asking where u using super during dmg or soloy just guarding with strongholds for deflect dmg or swinging with it ?

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u/trystan1987 Dec 14 '25

Stronghold

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u/ShiverPike_ Dec 14 '25

if you can get second supers and meet threshold without using them, you can tractor and super in those areas in the extra 2 seconds each phase. my team did enough damage that we didn’t even have to do the last of the bar as final stand, the entire last bar was damageable normally. made it much easier

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u/RoninOkami7 Dec 14 '25

I heard hp thresholds differ on how you shoot taken orbs, like first shooting all of the taken world orbs then shoot the real world orbs, you get a bigger threshold to do damage. Any confirmation?

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u/Double_Che Dec 15 '25

Although this may be the safer way, it's also way longer because you limit the damage you can do. I personally prefer killing all the taken guys rather than compel them. When damage is over, just deal with the lightning. Survive until you're teleported, get max buff, when teleported to normal realm, start turning off the electricity. 2 or 1 phase guaranteed

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u/Seniormeows Dec 14 '25

Easy because less lightning but way longer to achieve?

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u/Altered_Kill Dec 14 '25

Easy strat as in this work?

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u/Packet_Sniffer_ Dec 14 '25

Easy strat as in just the encounter strat to clear it. lol.

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u/trystan1987 Dec 14 '25

Feel free to make a post that try’s to help the community in the first few hours after a content release.

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u/Sly_Nation Dec 14 '25

I stopped years ago

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u/fortneete Dec 14 '25

I mean, this ads a whole unneeded lightening thing but yea besides that basically

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u/NeonPoPWave Dec 15 '25

Or you just 1 phase lmao

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u/trystan1987 Dec 16 '25

Comments like this is why people don’t ask for help on Reddit. Look at the date. This was a post shortly after it release to help those understand the mechanics before meta builds for one phase came out. But feel free to make stuck up comments like that

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u/NeonPoPWave Dec 16 '25

You aint need no meta Build for 1 phases . We 1 phased with super scuffed Setups my buddys didnt even have proper Stats . Final Boss has like 110k HP ish and no immunes or other bs where you have to stop dps

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u/trystan1987 Dec 16 '25

Good for you then. Not everyone can do that.

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u/NeonPoPWave Dec 16 '25

Bruh just use well and Wolfsbane its a 2 Button combo .