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 [Maim] from the Day form to apply Bleed procs. This allows you to instantly kill low level enemies but it has a hard cap on damage potential.

🔢 Helminth Options 🔢

Rest & [Rage] provides little benefit to a nuke build. Metamorphosis is also weak if you're using the Day form for the entire mission.

Empower grants enough ability Strength for Provoke and it's augment to grant maximum bonuses. Without it you'll need to use [Blind Rage] or [Energy Conversion].

Roar boosts the damage from [Maim] and double the damage from Bleed procs.

Breach Surge provides a damage loop in missions where enemies run to you. It also provides mild crowd control.

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.

📊 Ability Stats 📊

Range and Strength are the primary focus of this nuke build with Duration and Efficiency being kept near the baseline.

⏲️ Duration ⏲️

Duration is boosted to help your subsumed ability or your energy economy. It should be tailored to whichever ability you've chosen to subsume rather than her base kit.

⛽ Efficiency ⛽

Efficiency is kept at the baseline to save a mod slot. If you're having issues with your energy economy replace a flex mod for Streamline.

📏 Range 📏

Range is boosted to give Maim additional coverage on most tilesets. Flex mods can be replaced for Stretch on large tilesets.

💪 Strength 💪

Strength needs to be near 250% to get the full benefit from Peaceful Provocation. Blind Rage can be used instead of Transient Fortitude if you're not using Empower.

↔️ 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 🔧

• [Growing Power] is necessary for the build to hit the 250% Strength breakpoint. Replace it if you have other ways to hit that threshold.
• [Power Drift] is another important aspect of the Strength threshold. It can also be replaced if you're able to hit the 250% Strength breakpoint.
• [Augur Reach] and [Augur Secrets] are flex mods depending on your build needs. The polarity plan may have difficulty fitting in stronger mods so be cautious when replacing them.
• Survivability is useless on this build as it's tailored for low level enemies.
• [Peaceful Provocation] gives a large damage bonus to Maim through the ability Strength bonus it grants. Other augments aren't as useful for this build.

⚙️ 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 [Fury] are usually the call.

Arcane Strike can allow you to kill stragglers that survive the [Maim] Bleed pseudo nuke. It isn't necessary against extremely low level enemies. Tertiary defensive arcanes like Arcane Aegis or Arcane Guardian 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

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

Weapons

• 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

📧 Contact Information 📧

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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.