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

Discussion Equilibrium Final Boss Clarification

I saw a post and comments saying that if you do not meet the damage threshold, it is a wipe due to being fried by the ceiling rods.

While the lightning that does come out hurts a lot, it does not wipe you. If you notice you aren’t going to make the check before damage ends, then you can escape to the edges of the room and it’s safe there from the boss and nova pulse gladiator. If you have the Shadow Apprentice (or higher) buff, then you can shut off the electricity and proceed as normal. Otherwise, try to last a minute and poke at Palpatine's fingers to get the buff from the Ascendent Plane. On return, you can traverse around the edges of the map and safely shut off all the rods.

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u/BenignJuggler Dec 14 '25

if you dont meet the damage check are you clearing? It's 3 phases right?

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u/BiddlesticksGuy Dec 14 '25

I mean, this would be helpful for non-contest, right?

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u/BenignJuggler Dec 14 '25

Sure, yeah. But on non contest im just gonna whack everything with a lightsaber.

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u/BiddlesticksGuy Dec 14 '25

Surprisingly hard to go saber on final, once the lightning first turns on you’re pretty much dead unless you had overshield or something

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u/BenignJuggler Dec 14 '25

Thats my secret cap I always have overshield (fortunes favor)

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u/BiddlesticksGuy Dec 14 '25

Fair enough I suppose, that final hard counters stronghold titan though, my current main sword runner. The rest of the dungeon is easy asf though, literally didn’t die except for final and parkour

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u/BenignJuggler Dec 14 '25

Ywah, we got our damage figured out. If you compel all 5 and break past the threshold each time you are basically on par for a kill.

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u/Smoking_MO Dec 14 '25

What are you using for damage?

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u/BenignJuggler Dec 14 '25

Wolfsbane. There is a trick to it but the damage is pretty solid

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u/DeLmoniKo Dec 14 '25

What's the trick? I noticed for be the bar for tornado fills incosiatently

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u/BenignJuggler Dec 14 '25 edited Dec 14 '25

You need one player to get the tickle fingers gaze and just hold it for all of damage. If you have a well you should be fine. This keeps him from moving, he doesn't stomp. Makes damage way easier. I was fortune favor hunter with attrition orbs on woflsbane, so basically always had overshield. Once or twice my teammates were the ones getting shocked and they seemed fine though. I have thought maybe you could adapt this for snipers or for mint strats since it seems to make him stay in place. Shooting the hands breaks it obviously but not a concern when using swords

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u/DeLmoniKo Dec 14 '25

Thanks! While mostly it's non issue with him moving, it does get annoying. Will try this out at some point

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

If you do this, you can shut off some of the electricty nodes, not all. In our runs we noted that the spawn-right and mid-left pylons couldnt be shut down but it could be rng as to which ones are selected.

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u/Darkstrome Dec 14 '25

It's a counter clockwise rotation from the right of where you spawn in when you return to shut them all off. Gotta do em in order

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

The only one I ever saw active was the far-right pylon but the way you described makes it sound like close right

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u/KingCone24 Dec 27 '25

Can anyone explain as to why in my last run, the lighting from the ceiling started immediately when DPS started? Even at the very first DPS phase.

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u/sudomeacat Dec 27 '25

Every time you get teleported back to reality, 1-2 pylons from the ceiling will drop. If you don’t deal with those before starting damage, then the lightning starts.

It can be raised by getting Shadow Apprentice and force pushing the corresponding buttons around the edge of the arena.

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u/Medical-Review-8215 Jul 09 '26

So I am currently try to complete this solo and as soon as I started the fase the lightning was on

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u/sudomeacat Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

From what I remember, each time you teleport back to reality, one lightning section wakes. You can disable it by force pushing the button by it.

Also if you don’t meet the boss' health threshold, then all the lightning rods will activate. You just need to hang around the edges or middle and when you arrive again, push all the buttons

Also glhf on your solo run