DPS For Equilibrium Dungeon

Wondering what people use for DPS for Equilibrium. Ive been running the Praxic Blade but there's gotta be better options I'm sure.

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Drakon4314

Wolfsbane for Harrow is the most common one I see. For sere 1 div and 2 shotguns being either the threat level or chaperone with the renegades kinetic synthesis mod goes crazy

LordAshur

When I did solo flawless on Hunter, I ran attrition orbs Wolfsbane on pris void for both bosses and Bastion/Gifted Conviction/Tempest Strike for first.

thyrandomninja

Bastion Conviction Tempest, that sounds like a cool combo. I’ve basically never used bastion or tempest strike, so I’ll have to try that out. Already done my SF, but I mean just for general play it sounds fun

LordAshur

Oh yeah, that’s one of my go-to neutral game builds. If you have combo blow x3, bastion+tempest strike will one shot most non-boss yellow bars, including champions

xKairos-23

I always liked Bastion, but I honestly never knew exactly what it did. I just read the perks- I will 1000% be trying this out. Especially since I got the Catalyst to drop the other day.

LordAshur

Bastion is basically one-two punch and trench barrel combined. It slaps so hard on arc hunter

thyrandomninja

Sounds sick, thanks for bringing it to my attention o7

LizzieMiles

Issue with WB is I think only 1 person can benefit from using it cuz there’s a limit on how many of those tornadoes exist

If you have a teammate doing wolfsbane already, any lightweight sword or a Stryker’s Sure-Hand with Rampage/Redirection (please trust me on this second roll, it fucks really hard, especially on Harrow where there are lots of adds nearby to keep Rampage and Redirection up)

Twerk_masta_1000

If you want to keep using swords but nearly double your damage, use Wolfsbane.

Run attrition orbs and use the hunters journal for 'Argent blade' & 'radiant orbs

Pre charge the alt fire before DPS. Once triggered, heavy - light light heavy on repeat until the timer hits near zero, but swap off the axe before the timer goes away

When you swap back to the axe, your axe should be partially pre-charged

BionicWhiteJedi2 [OP]

I kinda forgot about Wolfsbane after my day 1 attempts. It did cook.

sudomeacat

Like literally or figuratively?

BionicWhiteJedi2 [OP]

Been so long since I had used it, its kinda been collecting dust in the vault. There are too many weapons and builds I've been wanting to try.

sudomeacat

Same here, I got sick shortly before AoT dropped, and there’s so much to do but I don’t have as much time to play nowadays :(

BionicWhiteJedi2 [OP]

Yeah its crazy how much there is to do.

Twerk_masta_1000

Class specific tips with wolfsbane:

  1. Hunter: run with Fortunes Favor. Prismatic, tether, and facet of purpose
  2. Warlock: run with Sanguine & Well of Radiance.
  3. Titan: IDK what exotic, but use pure strand for banner of war
eseerian_knight03

Abeyant Leap maybe for Woven Mail on demand? Otherwise not much would help. Bubble is decent if you're not in a team with Tether and Well.

Hallowfire Heart and Path of Burning Steps.

NightmareDJK

There is a new Wolfsbane setup with Shards of Galanor and the 4 piece VoG set bonus.

KimiNoSenpai

For titan probably synthocepts. It buffs melee and sword damage when there are multiple enemies nearby, which there will be.

Lispiini

Pretty sure it sadly does not buff sword dmg. It DOES buff glaive tho. 😭

KimiNoSenpai

Oh you're right. Dang

JobeariotheOG

Winters guile celestial fire SoF

BionicWhiteJedi2 [OP]

2nd time I've heard about that today. Is there a video or something on it?

Silvermoon3467

https://youtu.be/3Mr-h_uG-AE?si=qksF_Z_Jm3ofhYL_

is the one I watched but it's kind of... just what it sounds like. People recommend you use a glaive to stack Winter's Guile because it's stronger than your unpowered fist but you kind of just get 10 stacks before damage, start damage and trigger the second buff, pop Song of Flame and spam Celestial Fire at it until it's dead or you run out of super.

There are definitely optimizations to be made to it like getting a source of weaken and using a 1-2 Punch Shotgun but I'm not sure how necessary they are. Guy in the video uses his entire artifact basically to give himself 15% weaken on melee + devour while using Vexcalibur to make it very, very safe to get stacks but I'd guess you can run a solar artifact with Tractor and a legendary glaive instead and put up similar if not better numbers.

BionicWhiteJedi2 [OP]

Thank you for this. Gonna have to get something going for it.

JobeariotheOG

just search it up and you’ll easily find many videos

Killer-joke

Titan can pull some serious damage with stacked hallowfire and big bonk. Pair it with tractor cannon. Shoot for weaken then go bay blade.

thyrandomninja

My group uses wolfsbane for both bosses and they go down in two phases with next to no preparation, even if you all go in with no nano-assault charge, no radiant, no weaken

BallMeBlazer22

I just finished solo flawlessing the dungeon and a lot of the advice/videos about it online are from when the dungeon launched so a little outdated now. I used my warlock for the run and played prismatic the whole time.

  1. For Harrow, a lot of the advice/videos online suggested wolfsbane with attrition orbs. I tried it and was mostly 3 phasing the boss(some of this was due to my own stupidity in terms of not precharging the alt mode and not nailing the swap to have half charge once alt mode runs out), and overall I was not loving the damage. Switching to anarchy, (with breach and clear), and an elemental honing fusion allowed me to consistently 2 phase the boss and was much easier in terms of setup needed to get optimal results. You could very easily swap honing fusion out for a controlled burst one if you aren't playing a class that can get you to x4/x5 honing easily or even a bait and switch rocket pulse(though you probably would run out of ammo very quickly and the phase can be decently long if you get some of the extends).

  2. For sere, 1k voices(w/ particle) made it a clean 2 phase, which was very nice because it reduced the number of compels I needed to do in the dark room. I did have dawn chorus to boost ignitions, but was using my entire super to live and not for dps so I think you could use it on other classes or even with its not great fireteam scaling.

With the selection of artifacts we have so many options now, so I'm sure other options that are just as good if not better exist, but these were just what worked for me.

BionicWhiteJedi2 [OP]

I appreciate the details. Honestly really helpful advice.

BallMeBlazer22

No problem, hope you have fun with it as it's a very fun dungeon!

Prophecy_X3

For Sere, did 1k delete his tickle fingers or did you have to swap to something else to shoot them?

BallMeBlazer22

1k handled them for me, but had a rocket pulse in case it didn't.

Prophecy_X3

Sweet thanks

Philosobong

When it first came out I was doing it with solar bonk titan and wormgods + tractor. Now you probably run hallowfire + tractor and do more damage

Kinggold9000

How does hallowfire do more damage then wormgods? Genuinely asking because I could solo 2 phase each boss with wormgods. I haven't really looked at or used hallowfire.

Philosobong

Max stacks on hallowfire makes the super do a ton of damage. Probably still a solo 2 phase either way. Might make it easier to one phase in a full fireteam, though. Haven't tried it yet so not sure.

BozzyTheDrummer

I used 1k with the catty and pumped out some fat DPS

kingturk1100

Praxic is free on all bosses. I do enjoy using 1k on final boss now though

SirBreauxseph

We just run Lament the whole time, it works out just fine.

NightmareDJK

Wolfsbane has powercrept Lament even with the new buffs to Lament.

BionicWhiteJedi2 [OP]

I did just get the catalyst the other day even though I heard its not that great.

SirBreauxseph

they walked back the massive nerf to lament, and with the catalyst, you can now trigger ignitions on top of the normal lament-loop. the heal from lament is also just super convenient in lots of situations. sure there might be better options, but it's a safe pick that still can carry you through quite easily.

BionicWhiteJedi2 [OP]

I did hear about that walk back. I guess I was wrong then. I may have to try that next time.

SirBreauxseph

give it a go! honestly, me and some clannies have been using it pretty much exclusively in a large number of dungeons. it's very versatile.

BionicWhiteJedi2 [OP]

Think it has any solo flawless strength? Really wanting the emblem for Equilibrium but worried about my skills on that last boss.

SirBreauxseph

What class do you play on? Only issue with lament solo on sere is his hands attack, and if there's any other lightning going on in the area. i'd say yes it's doable, just might be lil tricky.

i haven't tried any solo attempts of equi yet, so i can't be all that helpful with that question, sorry lol.

BionicWhiteJedi2 [OP]

Im a Warlock main but no worries I just like hearing about anything that's viable.

Any-Gap-6379

How exactly do you use Lament? What's the loop?

SirBreauxseph

rev 3x light + rev 1 heavy, 2 normal light, repeat. at least i think that's still the optimal rotation? idk. it works just fine. throw some lucent blade mods on for better charge rate too.

frenchnoob87

1k voices with catalyst, works on any character and can be played with bolt charge titan, dawn chorus warlock or deadshot hunter. For a special weapon running a mint retrograde or any good precision special weapon should be fine to handle the tormentor on the 2nd encounter.

314rocky

If youre a warlock, geomags with an arc heavy puts out consistently for me

Funky-Squirt

Just did my solo flawless run today with hollowfire + tractor, might be harder to get to the stacks with a team but if you do you can comfortably 2 phase him. Awesome survivability with the bonks but can be a little finicky sometimes with the spins

BionicWhiteJedi2 [OP]

I wanna solo flawless it real bad but I'm a warlock main

CanFishBeGay

The usuals for melee range bosses. Lament, Wolfsbane, Acrius, etc. I personally lean towards Acrius but usually the boss is dead before I finish my Hallowfire Burning Maul beyblade session so it's kinda a moot point

Imthereal_AB

I very nearly one phased this on Titan with the following build:

https://dim.gg/apv4z4q/Hallowfire

I included some options but I used Threat Level with 1-2 punch and trench and Fafnir as my heavy since I was working on the catalyst. Energy weapon doesn't really matter, just make sure you pop your hammers when you have 10x sunfire furnace stacks. I also used Hammer of Sol but Burning Maul is also amazing if you use the light attack repeatedly

ThePotablePotato

I used Acrius for Contest and Solo. It’s still a pretty solid option, and I personally find it more consistent than Wolfsbane. That’s more a personal thing though, most people still recommend Wolfsbane for Harrow

SKULL1138

Me and one friend two phase harrow and almost one phase Sere just using a Praxic blade combo between Titan and Warlock, one on Void and one on Solar to weaken and ignite.

Add in a third and you’d want Arc or possibly a Titan using banner of war.

Other things are more optimal but you should be one phasing both bosses with a 3 man team set up properly with high weapons damage etc using Praxic.

BionicWhiteJedi2 [OP]

I thought it was powerful for sure. One friend i ran it with today was using 1k and it sure embarrassed me on damage numbers.

SKULL1138

What class and subclass are you using with Praxic?

Also 1k can’t be beat, but only one person should be running it, equally if you’re running solar for Praxic then your ignitions are cancelled out by his.

I hope that makes sense but I can try and clarify more when I know what your running and your stats.

BionicWhiteJedi2 [OP]

Damn that makes so much more sense. Yeah i was running the getaway artist build on Song of Flame. I should've swapped supers I guess.

SKULL1138

The best thing would be for you to run a void super, your damage numbers won’t be that much better but you will increase everyone else’s damage as well because your attacks will weaken the target.

Also, make sure your weapon stat is high as a pilot’s piece box if possible, and run double kinetic surges.

You won’t out damage the 1k user anyway unless you get a shot of being the 1k guy. Let him do his job and you do yours.

Additionally if on Prismatic Getaway do the combo

Eat Grenade, dive for Helion, use strand needles, pop one and done super and then start wailing with blade. Use the most recent artefact with all the sword stuff and make sure you do the three light and one heavy combo.

BionicWhiteJedi2 [OP]

Yeah with how gassed up that gun is now I'm not surprised its gonna be on top, given it wasn't great for so long it kinda deserves it now. I appreciate the advice, I'll definitely have to do that next time we run. I don't think we had a debuff anyway.

Dark_Jinouga

Probably shouldn't helion with a 1k user, since it can mess up the initial scorch and make all ignition much weaker

SKULL1138

Good point actually.

ownagemobile

Isn't 1k only worth with the catalyst?

SKULL1138

Yes, with Catty is what I am referring to. It’s not even meta without that

ripcayde_6

For titan I used a strand banner of war setup, worked really well. Used vexcalibure for protection and hands. On final boss, then just shotgun hammer for the rest of the dungeon.

AcedPower

I use Lament for Harrow and Truth with catty for Sere. I build up Trueseeker and Reaper's Tithe by firing two rockets at the shade up top, then I kill 4 thrall with the last rocket for x4 Reaper's.

BionicWhiteJedi2 [OP]

I just finished that catalyst yesterday and was wondering if it was usable against Sere. Good information lol.

AcedPower

Definitely usable, you just gotta plant an AoE grenade at your feet sometimes if adds are still up. I DPS on top of one of the half walls just to minimize the risk of blowing myself up. I have died a couple times using it, but not enough to not use it given I'm pretty sure I could one phase Sere solo with it.

R3D_R4Y_

Praxic is good for first boss Wolfsbane and Lament are top options for heavy. For final you can do 1KV/Queenbreaker with PR. I’ve seen some teams use Praxic/Wolfsbane on him aswell though