Equinox Gameplay Guide

[Equinox] has two separate and distinct kits that she can swap between at her leisure. Night Form is more defensive and provides several different forms of survivability and crowd control. Day Form focuses on offense and provides damage buffs along with a scaling nuke. The weakness of these varying playstyles are their inability to be used at the same time.

📝 Build Overview 📝

This build uses the [Duality] augment for Metamorphosis to easily burst down strong enemies. This is primarily used in The Index as it's cheap and efficient at wiping large groups of Brokers but this build can be used against other content.

🔢 Helminth Options 🔢

Mend & Main doesn't have a purpose in a [Duality] build. Range is usually low so it also becomes the weakest ability in content outside of The Index. Pacify & Provoke is another good option to replace.

Dispensary provides free health, ammo, and energy in content that doesn't readily provide any of those. This is especially important for The Index as it allows you to camp more opportune areas. It also synergizes with [Equilibrium] to grant even more free energy.

Null Star can be used with health mods to massively increase your survivability. The [Duality] Specter won't benefit as heavily but it allows you to play more passively.

Quiver gives you and the [Duality] Specter complete invisibility at the cost of a more demanding energy economy.

Other quality of life abilities are decent but provide a lot of redundancy due to the existence of operator mode and the previously mentioned abilities. Buffs are too weak due to our ability Strength.

📊 Ability Stats 📊

Duration is the primary focus of this build with a bit of Efficiency thrown in to benefit the energy economy. Range and Strength grant no benefit to the Duality Specter so they have no investment.

⏲️ Duration ⏲️

Duration has heavy investment to benefit [Duality] and your subsumed ability. Null Star needs maximum Duration for full damage reduction so a flex mod should be replaced for Augur Message in those variants.

⛽ Efficiency ⛽

Efficiency is increased by a bit to keep her energy economy in check. This build doesn't use defensive mods to keep the [Duality] Specter alive so it needs to be recast often at higher levels. The [Duality] Specter also has a habit of repositioning itself in suboptimal areas so you're sometimes forced to recast it even against easier enemies. Streamline is a flex mod if neither of these issues come up.

📏 Range 📏

Range is useless on this build and [Narrow Minded] has no downside. Adding additional mods to bring your Range back over the baseline isn't suggested unless you're running a subsumed ability that needs Range investment.

💪 Strength 💪

Strength is nearly useless on this build and we run no mods that increase it. Some subsumed quality of life abilities can mildly benefit from some Strength investment but it probably isn't worth the opportunity cost from lost mod slots.

↔️ Alternate Playstyles ↔️

Most builds utilize tools that can be swapped out to serve the same purpose albeit in a different manner. The following suggestions are an outline and aren't exhaustive.

🔧 Mods 🔧

• [Enemy Radar] helps you and your team to find enemies. This is especially important on runs in The Index that aren't abusing spawn manipulation. It can be replaced if there's sufficient Enemy Radar range to see enemies on the entire map.
• [Preparation] allows you to immediately start using the [Duality] Specter when the mission begins without having to utilize energy regeneration. The Index has limited energy pickups so you'd have to wait for several seconds to get the strategy rolling. It can be replaced on other mission types.
• [Firewalker], [Equilibrium], and Streamline are flex mods depending on your build needs. Replace them as you see fit with mods that fit into the polarity plan.
• [Rolling Guard] is our only form of survivability against extremely high level enemies. [Vitality] and [Adaptation] benefit the [Duality] Specter but high level Index Brokers will burst it down even with significant health investment. It's easier to just recast the Duality Specter than to spend multiple slots keeping it alive.
• Duality is necessary for the build to function. Other augments aren't useful in this setup anyway.

⚙️ Arcanes ⚙️

Arcane Energize synergizes with [Primed Flow] and keeps your energy topped off. It can be replaced if you have other strong forms of energy recovery either through abilities or other energy support frames. Offensive arcanes like Arcane Avenger or Arcane Strike are usually the call.

Arcane Aegis grants a massive survivability increase when it procs. It can be replaced if you're having issues with consistency in activating it. Tertiary defensive arcanes like Arcane Guardian or Arcane Grace are usually the call.

📋 Final Notes 📋

Metamorphosis isn't necessary to utilize either set of abilities. [Equinox] begins a mission in Day or Night form depending on her primary emission color. This allows you to replace Metamorphosis if you're only planning on using a single form throughout the entire mission.

[Equilibrium] is the name of [Equinox]'s passive and the mod that provides a stronger version of the same effect. Both synergize with builds that farm health orbs through various means. Dispensary provides a boosted health orb that correctly converts to a boosted energy bonus. [Synth Fiber] allows you to pick up health orbs even when you're completely full on health so that you can benefit from the energy.

🔄 Linked Builds 🔄

Frames

• Boss Rage Shared Polarities
• Maim Nuke Shared Polarities
• Maim Bleed Shared Polarities
• Pacify Stall Shared Polarities
• Crowd Control Affinity Shared Polarities

Weapons

• Kuva Bramma: General Use Shared Index Loadout
• Kuva Nukor: Condition Overload Primer Shared Loadout
• Kronen Prime: General Use Melee Shared Loadout
• Kronen Prime: Naramon Alternate Melee Shared Loadout

Other Necessary Tools

• Smeeta Kavat: General Use Shared Loadout
• Panzer Vulpaphyla: General Use Alternate Shared Loadout
• Adarza Kavat: General Use Shared Critical Chance Loadout

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🏆 Credits 🏆

• NICHE - Developed tools that made generating builds far easier.
• Dragazer - Helped to clarify certain melee interactions.
• Marr - Helped with proofreading original build format.

🛑 Disclaimers 🛑

This build may make certain assumptions about mechanics that can change after a patch. Multiple unnecessary forma may be used to facilitate more options across multiple builds with one polarity plan. Certain sub-optimal mods may be run to fit them into the forma polarity plan. We do not make builds that purposely attempt to abuse mechanics that aren't intended by the developers. None of these previous statements are excuses for a fundamentally incorrect build and we ask that you please contact us when we're wrong. We do not consent to anyone other than the original author of this guide posting it without permission.