Equinox — Lights Out
Steel Path build. Night. Rest plus Calm & Frenzy. Sleep spreads on kill. You are a crowd-control specialist, not a nuke.
Codex Checked · Compared against current game data for this update. · Update 43.5 · 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Current
Spy-adjacent tiles, Defense, people who like rooms that snore
Wrong drop or mechanic?
Why this build?
Steel Path for Spy-adjacent tiles, Defense, people who like rooms that snore
Health: Not yet — Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts still closed. Play the Starter.
- Rest is still one of the only 'the room is just off' buttons in the game.
- Calm & Frenzy is the augment that makes 2 a chain instead of a pulse.
- Range plus duration, not Strength. Maim Day is the other config.
Don’t use this for: open combat endurance · open-world / Eidolons · Capture / short missions · Exterminate speedruns
Stronger mods, Arcanes, real synergy
You don’t need the shards to run the loop. They are a later ceiling, not a gate.
Bring: Finisher melee — Sleeping enemies open finishers. A heavy melee or Fatal-style kit loves this. Guns still work.
Alternative if…
- Star Chart only → First Dusk
- This is too much Forma / cost → First Dusk — Star Chart
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Readiness
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- Required mods 0/9 · required — 0/9 named
- Forma 0/3 · required — 3 on the card. Codex does not track installed Forma.
- Helminth · optional — Not required
- Arcanes · recommended — 0/2 recommended
- Shards · optional — Optional unless the card says a breakpoint
Investment: 3 Forma · Reactor · 2 shards · 1 specialised mods. Typical farm ~1–2 hours. Trade if a route is vaulted.
Codex Checked · Compared against current game data for this update. · Update 43.5 · 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Current
Medium confidence. A solid recommendation with more situational dependencies. Confidence is not verification. Verification is separate: Codex Checked against Update 43.5.
Your next step
Next: Maim Day — Optimised
Unlock Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts before this upgrade is honest.
Maim Day — OptimisedPlan
Today → next → later
Inventory unknown — mark “I own this” on a few mods. Until then this is a plan, not a score of zero.
- NextGet Corrosive ProjectionOpen Nightwave
- After that3 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
- LaterCrimson · Ability DurationHelminth and shards are the last rungs. They are not the Starter.
- FinalLights OutSteel Path · Advanced · 3 Forma
Upgrade from here
Maim Day — Optimised
Locked behind Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts. Tick those on Progress first.
Open Maim Day — OptimisedFarm the gap
- Duality augments — Energy Transfer · Peaceful Provocation · Calm & Frenzy · Duality
Helminth & shards
What to put on the body
- 2 Crimson · Ability Duration — Rest uptime.Archon locked
- 1 Amber · Casting Speed — Rest as a pulse.Archon locked
Tonight
What is actually up
30 minutes, one hour, or two — matched to this loadout, not a dump of the Origin System.
30 minutes
Farm Corrosive Projection
One named gap. Open Nightwave
60 minutes
Corrosive Projection, then Forma
Finish the missing named card, then spend a Forma if a polarity is still fighting you.
120 minutes
One Archon Hunt
If you are logging off after this, stop at the named component. Do not start a second Forma session tired.
- Farm Corrosive Projection
Open Nightwave
Who this is for
Play this build from zero
You want rooms that snore.
- Time to a playable copy
- After Calm & Frenzy.
- First mission to practice in
- A Defense or a Spy-adjacent Exterminate.
2 button drills · 13 parts · tick the lists as you go
Before you start
0 of 3 done
Put it on the Warframe
0 of 4 done
Keep this up
Nap loop
Pocket card. Stick this on a second screen; the long version is the mission below.
- 1Night. Rest (2) the room.
- 2Kill one sleeper. Calm & Frenzy hops sleep onto neighbors.
- 3Pacify (3) if anything is still awake and punching.
- 4Mend (4) as a heal battery if the squad is messy. You are not pressing Day Maim on this config.
First mission — press these buttons
- 1
Rest the clump
22.
- 2
Kill one sleeper
Calm & Frenzy hops sleep to neighbors. Repeat.
Common mistakes
Going Day 'for damage'
This config is a lullaby. Maim Day is Config B.
When this feels easy
- 1Duration shardsThey stay down longer.
Parts checklist
0 of 13 owned. Tap How on anything you still need.
Dependencies
16 dependencies
Frame → mods → unlocks. Tick Collection and Progress. This is a decision graph, not a wiki tree.
- 1●equinoxframe
- 2○Corrosive Projectionmod
- 3○Cunning Driftmod
- 4○Calm & Frenzyaugment
- 5○Overextendedmod
- 6○Stretchmod
- 7○Primed Continuitymod
- 8○Narrow Mindedmod
- 9○Flowmod
- 10○Streamlinemod
- 11○Molt Efficiencyarcane
- 12○Arcane Energizearcane
- 13○Crimson · Ability Durationshard
- 14○Amber · Casting Speedshard
- 15○Steel Pathunlock
- 16○Archon Hunts (shards optional)unlock
Depends on
What this loadout needs
Required is a gate. Recommended is a ceiling. Optional is a later farm — don’t stall the card for it.
Required
Corrosive Projectionmissing · Open Nightwave
Cunning Driftmissing · Lua Halls of Ascension
Overextendedmissing · Orokin Vaults
Stretchmissing · Enemy drops
Primed Continuitymissing · Wait for Baro Ki'Teer
Flowmissing · Enemy drops
Streamlinemissing · Enemy drops and early missions
Recommended
Optional
Strength
~145–180%
Duration
180%+ Rest duration is the product
Range
200% Rest radius
Calm & Frenzy spreads Rest (or Rage) to nearby enemies when you kill a victim. Range is the spread.
From the mods
Live power
Additive from max-rank Codex mods. Efficiency clamped 15–175%. Umbral set is +11% Strength per extra piece.
- Strength
- 40%
- Duration
- 254%
- Range
- 184%
- Efficiency
- 130%
- Energy
- +150%
- Capacity
- 46 / 67
Weapon HUD
Arsenal numbers
Base × damage mods × crit expectation × fire rate × multishot. No faction, no quantization. Galvanized kill stacks are a slider, not assumed.
- Damage
- 35
- Crit
- 12% × 2.00
- Status
- 26%
- Fire rate
- 9.58
- Multishot
- 1.00
- Avg hit
- 39
- Arsenal DPS
- 376
Toggle common mods
Equinox mods
- AuraCorrosive ProjectionNightwave
- ExilusCunning DriftLua
- 1Calm & FrenzyKilling a Rested enemy spreads sleep.Arbiters / New Loka · 25k
- 2OverextendedVaults
- 3StretchDrops
- 4Primed ContinuityBaro
- 5Narrow MindedRest duration. You already have Overextended for range.Vaults
- 6FlowDrops
- 7StreamlineDrops
| Slot | Mod | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aura | Corrosive Projection | Nightwave | |
| Exilus | Cunning Drift | Lua | |
| 1 | Calm & Frenzy Killing a Rested enemy spreads sleep. | Arbiters / New Loka · 25k | |
| 2 | Overextended | Vaults | |
| 3 | Stretch | Drops | |
| 4 | Primed Continuity | Baro | |
| 5 | Narrow Minded Rest duration. You already have Overextended for range. | Vaults | |
| 6 | Flow | Drops | |
| 7 | Streamline | Drops |
Finisher melee
Sleeping enemies open finishers. A heavy melee or Fatal-style kit loves this. Guns still work.
Arcanes
Molt Efficiency
Duration. Sleep longer.
Zariman
Arcane Energize
Optional.
Eidolon
Archon shards
- 1
Crimson · Ability DurationRest uptime.2 · Netracells - 2
Amber · Casting SpeedRest as a pulse.1 · EDA
| # | Shard | Qty | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crimson · Ability Duration Rest uptime. | 2 | Netracells | |
| 2 | Amber · Casting Speed Rest as a pulse. | 1 | EDA |