Equinox — First Dusk
Star Chart build. Stay Night. Rest puts rooms to sleep. Mend stores heals. Pacify makes the pack hit softer. Learn one face before you swap. Primed Continuity and Primed Flow are the first real upgrade — not Blind Rage.
Codex Checked · Compared against current game data for this update. · Update 43.5 · 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Current
Junctions through the Outer Terminus. Steel Path is the next card, not this one.
Wrong drop or mechanic?
Why this build?
Star Chart for Junctions through the Outer Terminus. Steel Path is the next card, not this one.
Health: Inventory unknown — Mark what you own. Until then this is a recommendation, not a test you failed.
- Equinox is two frames. Night is the one you can play on day one without Energy Transfer.
- Rest is some of the best CC in the game. Range is the product.
- Day Maim is the nuke. It waits until you own Energy Transfer and a real Strength stack.
Don’t use this for: Steel Path endurance · level-cap content · solo level-cap
Accessible mods and a working energy / survivability loop
Bring: Any gun — A quiet primary. Sleeping enemies take finishers. You do not need Day yet.
My test
Did this still work for you?
Your note, in this browser. Separate from Codex verification — the stamp on the card is editorial, this is yours.
Readiness
Inventory unknown
Not checked — add your collection. You have not failed a test.
- 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 — 0/1 recommended
- Shards · optional — None listed
Investment: 3 Forma · Reactor · 2 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
High confidence. How strongly the Codex recommends this for its stated purpose — not a test log. Verification is separate: Codex Checked against Update 43.5.
Your next step
Next: Maim Day — Steel Path
Unlock Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts before this upgrade is honest.
Maim Day — Steel PathPlan
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 that2–3 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
- FinalFirst Dusk — Star ChartStar Chart · Moderate · 2–3 Forma
Upgrade from here
Maim Day — Steel Path
Locked behind Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts. Tick those on Progress first.
Open Maim Day — Steel PathTonight
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
Two farm routes, then a test run
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 just fused Day and Night and the ability screen looks like two games.
- Time to a playable copy
- Same day. Intensify, Stretch, Continuity. Stay Night.
- First mission to practice in
- A low Exterminate. You want to see a whole room go to sleep.
3 button drills · 10 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
Sleep loop
Pocket card. Stick this on a second screen; the long version is the mission below.
- 1Metamorphosis (1) until you are Night — cooler energy, 'Rest' on 2, not 'Rage.'
- 2Rest (2) a room. They sleep. Finishers, headshots, walk past them.
- 3Pacify (3) if something is still punching the squad. Nearby enemies deal less.
- 4Mend (4) as a channel. Kills nearby store a heal. Deactivate 4 to dump health and shields on the squad. Do not swap to Day on this config.
First mission — press these buttons
- 1
Become Night
1Look at 2. If it says Rage, press 1. You want Rest.
You will know it worked when: Cooler energy. 2 is Rest.
- 2
Sleep a room
22. They drop. Headshot, finisher, or walk by.
- 3
Mend as a first-aid kit
44 on, get a few kills, tap 4 off. Squad heals.
Common mistakes
Swapping every room 'because duality'
You dump auras and confuse yourself. One face.
When this feels easy
- 1Energy TransferThen you are allowed to touch Day.
- 2Calm & FrenzyIf you liked the sleep. Rest-CC config.
Parts checklist
0 of 10 owned. Tap How on anything you still need.
Dependencies
11 dependencies
Frame → mods → unlocks. Tick Collection and Progress. This is a decision graph, not a wiki tree.
- 1●equinoxframe
- 2○Corrosive Projectionmod
- 3○Power Driftmod
- 4○Intensifymod
- 5○Primed Continuitymod
- 6○Stretchmod
- 7○Streamlinemod
- 8○Primed Flowmod
- 9○Vitalitymod
- 10○Redirectionmod
- 11○Arcane Energizearcane
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
Power Driftmissing · Unlock Lua
Intensifymissing · Fight Lieutenant Lech Kril
Primed Continuitymissing · Wait for Baro Ki'Teer
Stretchmissing · Enemy drops
Streamlinemissing · Enemy drops and early missions
Primed Flowmissing · Baro Ki'Teer
Vitalitymissing · Jackal
- Redirection
missing · Drops
Recommended
Arcane Energizemissing · Buy 20–40 Platinum worth
Optional. Rest is cheap. Skip until you have it — Star Chart does not need Eidolon arcanes.
Strength
~145%
Duration
155% Rest
Range
145% Rest radius
If you spawn in Day, press 1 once to become Night (calmer colors, sleep on 2). Stay there.
From the mods
Live power
Additive from max-rank Codex mods. Efficiency clamped 15–175%. Umbral set is +11% Strength per extra piece.
- Strength
- 145%
- Duration
- 155%
- Range
- 145%
- Efficiency
- 130%
- Energy
- +275%
- Capacity
- 47 / 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
- ExilusPower DriftOrokin Vaults / Lua
- 1IntensifyMercury / Venus
- 2Primed ContinuityBaro Ki'Teer / relics
- 3StretchDrops
- 4StreamlineDrops
- 5Primed FlowBaro Ki'Teer / relics
- 6VitalityDrops
- 7RedirectionDrops
| Slot | Mod | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aura | Corrosive Projection | Nightwave | |
| Exilus | Power Drift | Orokin Vaults / Lua | |
| 1 | Intensify | Mercury / Venus | |
| 2 | Primed Continuity | Baro Ki'Teer / relics | |
| 3 | Stretch | Drops | |
| 4 | Streamline | Drops | |
| 5 | Primed Flow | Baro Ki'Teer / relics | |
| 6 | Vitality | Drops | |
| 7 | Redirection | Drops |
Any gun
A quiet primary. Sleeping enemies take finishers. You do not need Day yet.
Arcanes
Arcane Energize
Optional. Rest is cheap. Skip until you have it — Star Chart does not need Eidolon arcanes.
Eidolon / trade
Archon shards
| # | Shard | Qty | Source | How |
|---|