Equinox Build

Equinox has two forms, the Day form, and the Night form. And she can switch between these two forms. Each form has unique abilities, the Day form is more offensive while the Night form is all about defense. The passive for this Warframe is Equilibrium. Her skill set is best for crowd control, damage and heal which makes her very viable in particular roles.

Equinox Special Abilities

Metamorphosis - This is the first ability, and using this Equinox can transform between Day and Night forms, changing her abilities. Changing forms give a temporary buff, Day form gives additional weapon damage and speed bonus while the Night form gives armor and shield bonus. By default, Equinox starts the mission with either one of the forms and it can be identified wither energy color. Bright colors represent the Day form and dark colors represent the Night form.

Rest and Rage - This ability helps to target an area of nearby enemies and affect them with different effects based on her current form. The ability is known as Rest when you use Night form. The enemies affected by this ability are put to sleep for a period of time. Once the duration expires the enemies will wake up and takes enough damage. In Day form, the ability is called Rage. Affected enemies receive additional damage output and will also have their movement and attack speeds increased.

Pacify and Provoke - Using this ability, Equinox emits an aura around her that has different effects based on her form. The Night form of this ability is called Pacify and emits a crippling aura. The damage reduction will be strong when the enemies are near to Equinox. The Day form of this ability is called Provoke, which will increase the ability of strength. This is a channeled ability and will remain active until it is deactivated.

Mend and Maim - It emits an aura around her. The Night form of the ability is called Mend. This emits a regenerative aura that will restock the shield for each enemy killed within the aura and can create over shields. The healing energy will be released when the ability is deactivated. The released energy will restock the shields of Equinox and other allies within the range.

The day form of the ability is called Maim and emits an aura that deals with slash damage to enemies affected by it. This effect makes them bleed over time.  Enemies affected by this ability will stun momentarily. The percentage of health and shield of the killed within the aura range will get accumulated as Slash Damage. When the ability is released, it will affect the enemies within range.

Best Equinox Builds

Choosing the aura polarity sole for Equinox build is quite easy. If you plan on using a melee only then you can go with Madurai and Steel Charge mod, otherwise, you can use Naramon polarity and Corrosive Projection or Energy Siphon. The armor reduction is very strong and it varies with different builds which will help you and your team to kill the mobs faster. This Warframe build doesn’t need a lot of forma in general, but when you want to change between different approaches you may need at least four forma.

The strength ability affects the damage vulnerability, enemy speed rage bonus, bonuses of metamorphosis, pacify enemy damage reduction, provoke bonus of strength ability, the shields restored per kill of Mend and the aura damage of maim. Similarly, Range mods affect the cast range, Rest and Rage target area Pacify and Provoke radius of aura and Mend& Maim. Considering all such things, here are some Equinox builds you may try.

Equinox Build General Power Stat Table

Special Abilities Stat Table

Focus Farm Equinox Build

This Equinox builds is mainly for crowd control, which is mostly used to farm solo missions or Focus and is also suited for team play. This build is created around the Rest & Rage ability, so the augmented mods will quite calm and Frenzy. Activating this ability while aiming for an enemy make you rush towards them and kill them with a melee weapon. The other mobs around the killed enemy will also be affected and you can quickly kill those mobs too. The fact is killing sleeping enemies are also counted as a stealth kill, therefore, gain a lot of bonus affinity and focus.

To deal with the efficiency we are using fleeting Expertise and fully ranked streamline to have 170% efficiency. In this Equinox build, primed continuity to balance the fleeting expertise which will give you some extra duration. If you want to pimp this Equinox build, we would suggest Arcane Strike. Using this will provide you a critical hit of 40% and increase your melee damage by 120% for 12 seconds and Arcane Strike hit by 10%, attack speed by 40% for 12 seconds.

Mend and Maim Equinox Build

In this Equinox Build, we use Corrosive projection in the aura slot, because Mend and Maim will disable the Energy Siphon. The explosion created by activating Mend and Maim will cause damage to its enemies within its range. Vitality will help to add some health. To improve with your range, you can use overextended and cunning drift and this will allow you to cover the majority of something like Hydron.

In order to balance out the overextended, I’m using Augur secrets, Power Drift and Intensify. We are not using Blind Rage or Transient Fortitude as they will increase the energy drain. And we are here with the final and most important mod, Energy conversion. This might not go with many builds, but it works perfectly with this Equinox build. It increases your power strength with 50% bonus when you pick up an energy orb. The power strength might be a little bit less to 200%, but it's quite more what you need.

Support Equinox Build

The special thing about Equinox is, it is not only good at its DSP but also have some convincing support and healing features too. This Equinox build uses the dark version of the Warframe and focuses on the Pacify & Provoke and Mend & Maim. You can reduce your incoming damage by activating your third ability and it also slows every enemy within the ability range. Once you got enough points accumulated to heal everyone in a group you can release Mend. The strength and range are the main focus of the Equinox builds, but to increase the duration you can also use Streamline and Fleeting Expertise.

Conclusion

With a perfect and suitable Equinox builds, this is a fun-to-play Warframe. There are a lot of approaches so finding the good Equinox build might be quite tricky, don’t worry to help you in that case we have suggested you with some best builds above. Unlike other Warframe, these will not require much Forma when you switch more than one build. Once you try and got used to it, this will be fun.