Eclipse Moon Best in Slot Gear & Strategy Guide

Eclipse Moon lives in the Eclipse Moon chamber inside Neypotzli, the prison reached from the northernmost end of Cam Torum in Varlamore. The only hard requirement is completing the Perilous Moons quest, which opens the Lunar Chest so you can actually claim rewards.

The Wiki suggests roughly 70+ Attack, 70+ Strength, 70+ Defence and 75+ Hitpoints for better gear, plus 34+ Prayer for Steel Skin, Incredible Reflexes and Ultimate Strength (70+ Prayer unlocks Piety). It is possible to clear all three moons around 60 Defence in rune armour using those prayers, but it is not practical for repeat trips. Skilling levels (Cooking, Fishing, Hunter and Herblore around 50+) let you make stronger food and potions on-site.

This is a melee fight, so bring a melee setup leaning on tanky armour with strength rather than glass-cannon gear. Eclipse Moon's three-hit attack ramps up the more hits land, so good defensive bonuses cut damage taken and reduce how often you eat. The Wiki recommends armour families that combine high defence with strength — Bandos-style bodies, Barrows pieces and Torva/Justiciar tiers — and warns against low-defence strength gear like obsidian. See our melee gear guide for the families, and use the Boss Gear Finder for your exact best-in-slot.

For the weapon, the key fact is her flat armour: every hit you land has a flat amount shaved off it, so single high-damage hits beat fast multi-hit weapons here (the Ghrazi rapier outperforms the Scythe of Vitur against Eclipse for this reason). Favour a slow, hard-hitting stab weapon over a rapid one. Almost everything else you need is found in Neypotzli itself: the only items you must bring are combat gear and an emergency teleport. Inside, you make moonlight potions (a combined prayer, super-combat and divine super-defence potion) and cook moss lizards or bream for food, both stronger than anything from outside.

Eyatlalli's glyph (positioning). Eight sigils surround the Moon. Eyatlalli imbues one of them; during normal attacks you must stand on the lit sigil or you take rapid damage that starts at 1 per tick and quickly doubles up to 16 per tick while stacking a curse that can kill you fast. The lit sigil rotates clockwise after every two standard attacks.

Standard attacks (3-hit melee). Eclipse Moon's basic attack hits three times with a ramping max hit — first hit maxes 4, second 8, third 20, for 32 total. Crucially, if one hit misses, every hit after it also misses, so good melee defence reduces the whole string. Each hit also applies stacks of the Curse of the Moons. No protection prayer reduces any of this — instead lean on Piety / Ultimate Strength, Incredible Reflexes and Steel Skin from our prayer guide.

Eclipse's curse — glancing/blinded. Her curse makes attacks occasionally "glance," reducing your max hit by 12 (8 during Clones). The chance scales up to 100% at 100 stacks, so longer fights get harder — kill quickly.

Searing Rays (New Moon special). A moon shield appears and shoves you behind it, then rays of light sweep the room. Avoid them by moving alongside the shield as it makes one full rotation; it walks at a steady pace and pauses at each corner long enough for a walking player to keep up.

Clones (Full Moon special). You are shoved to the centre and bound in place while clones spawn around you and attack in five cycles of three — 15 attacks total. Face your character toward each clone as it appears to parry the hit and send an undelayed attack back at the boss. Parry accuracy is 100%, so swap to a slow, hard-hitting weapon (and slash or crush also benefit from the accuracy boost). Remember: only melee weapons damage her during Clones.

Gather supplies at the Streambound Cavern camp, make a few moonlight potions and food, then enter the Eclipse Moon chamber to the south. During normal attacks, stay on the lit glyph and attack with your stab weapon, moving clockwise with the rotating sigil. After six standard attacks she alternates her two specials. On Searing Rays, follow the shield to dodge the light. On Clones, switch to your slow high-damage weapon and parry each clone — lower-damage players will do most of their work here, since the parry guarantees hits. Keep the fight short so glancing stacks stay low. After the kill you are teleported to a campsite to restock; loot is claimed from the Lunar Chest, which the Perilous Moons quest unlocks.

Loot is claimed from the Lunar Chest, which you can only open once you have completed the Perilous Moons quest. The full drop table is shown above. The signature reward is the Eclipse moon armour set, a ranged set requiring 75 Ranged and 50 Defence to equip, which carries the Eclipse set effect: successful attacks with the eclipse atlatl have a 20% chance to inflict a burn on any non-immune target.

• Trying to use protection prayers. They do nothing against any Moon's attacks — bring offensive and defensive prayers (Piety / Ultimate Strength, Incredible Reflexes, Steel Skin) instead, and rely on armour defence to tank.
• Standing off the lit glyph. The rapid damage doubles to 16 per tick and stacks a curse that kills fast — track the clockwise rotation.
• Using a fast multi-hit weapon. Her flat armour shaves every hit, so rapid weapons lose more — slow, hard-hitting stab weapons win.
• Dragging the fight out. Her glancing curse scales to a 100% chance at 100 stacks, cutting your max hit — kill before stacks pile up.
• Bringing ranged or magic to the Clone phase. Only melee damages her during Clones; ranged and magic deal nothing.