Temple singlehandedly fighting Influence meta by washing electric procs out with an 8.5x heat multiplier.
Overall they're pretty well-rounded. Lizzie is a great utility weapon due to the ADS providing all the elements you would normally want. She hits like a truck too, and clears crowds easily. Rippers Wail is the kind of "healing" ability that restores shields once health is full, so it gives you a shield gate after the intangibility from the performance is done.
I think Equinox's other problem is that you're actively punished for swapping, too. Pacify & Provoke fall off when you swap, and you need Energy Storage otherwise Mend & Maim fall off when you swap. Which sucks extra hard on Equinox since she's one of the severe MAD frames: her strength softcap is 200%, she wants lots of range, and Night form requires intense energy economy due to uncapped energy drain per target on Pacify.
I love Equinox, I want DE to love Equinox too.
Actually, my context for "high KPM" is any number of Influence setups, like high-parkour Heavy Slam or Stealth Xata, or even meme setups like Stealth Xata Ichors. But yeah comparing any frame to Influence is pretty unfair.
I guess having to pop towers isn't bad, as long as I'm not being forced out of the room I'm camping. Just feels like forever since my KPM has been so low I've had to do that.
So the pillars are actually working against my KPM? I guess I'm thinking about the frame wrong, people describe him as high damage or high KPM, but it seems like he's actually the least offensive CC frame, at least in content where you can pick your weapons.
Yeah, I tried dropping down to just Flowquilibrium and Boreal and the energy economy is totally fine. I have a Xata Invocation grimoire for emergencies too.
Built for more aggressive strength and 235% range and his KPM is still lacking. Damage is nearly double now. What's the strategy for pillar placement? At the moment I pick a connector tile with close spawns, drop pillars at the ends, then shoot Crucible at enemies as they clump up. The Crucible and pillar blasts seem to tick very slowly, so I think that's my issue.
I'll give him one last spin on next week's EDA, assuming it doesn't roll Constricted for the fourth week in a row. After that I'm willing to accept that I just like Vaub's mobile and weapon buffing style more, and Mr Sits In Place is just too diametric to my playstyle.
You can shield gate the self-damage now! Recommend bringing Arcane Warmth to block cold procs from the Instigator drones too.
Honestly probably just bring something like Wukong, Lavos, Valk or Qorvex with triple umbral, parkour, and Arcane Warmth.
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Late answer, but Zephyr with a good melee beats basically everything in this game. You have to love her movement though.
Zephyr herself wants Funnel Clouds, and if you're doing a slam build, you want Nira mods as well. After that it's free, but she really likes range and duration, and strength is only necessary on Air Burst Rounds builds.
For a blast slam build, any arcane is fine, including no arcane. Retaliation is quite nice now that we have Primed Redirection, once you've acquired it. If you're running Nira, or an Incarnon, you can skip base damage. You want initial combo, attack speed, Seismic Slam. Crit mods on most weapons. Electric if you're running Melee Influence.
For survivability, I recommend getting your hands on some Ancient Protector spectres, either from Loka kill squads or from Loka directly. Investing in Protective Sling from Vazarin is huge as well, and I honestly recommend running Vaz in most cases, as it makes the game a lot more fun in my opinion. A Fortifier secondary is a huge asset as well: Grimoire, Akarius Prime, Lex Incarnon and Atomos Incarnon are all excellent choices.
Equilibrium sure does affect universal orbs, basically doubling Universal Fallout from 2.5 to 5.25 energy per enemy per rank. When I put it like that I think I can build around that.
How are you managing your energy?
Just regular orange shards I've scrounged up from weeklies, I don't tauforge them because yellow shards are just too useful for my preferred build style, which is lots of parkour speed and a bit of casting speed.
Due to Fused Crucible's uncapped energy drain, six of my mods are going to energy economy: umbral fiber/intensify/energy battery, equilibrium, fleeting expertise, primed continuity, boreal's hatred. I have been and will continue to be spending all my pix chips on peely pix, so Universal Fallout is still only rank 1.
I'll try the opposite approach to energy economy and build around a core of neutral efficiency, duration and equilibrium, and layer things in if I'm still struggling with energy economy. I was aggressive with energy since I wanted a build ready for level cap Duviri and Constricted ETAs.
I'm gonna be honest, I need help understanding how to build him. 235% range and get back to neutral strength? At the moment I'm running 190% range and 120% strength (95%+growing power) and finding his KPM isn't good enough to self-sustain in Survival off kills alone. Last run I only pulled a bit over 60, and when I think that most of my Influence builds are 120-200, it's a letdown. Theoretically he should have parity with a 54k Influence if I hit just 6 targets with Crucible, so maybe my issue is I'm not picking the right tiles to camp.
Fused Crucible is interesting, as it's one of the more offensively-oriented invincibility effects in the game. Despite the nominal roll nerf, he's still quite mobile and responsive with enough parkour speed and Amalgam Diffusion on his pistol.
Shards: 3x tauforged ability strength, tauforged initial energy, tauforged cast speed. Full strip on Avalanche can be reached with 2x tauforged red and 1x normal red, or you can ease the requirements further by running Growing Power instead of Worthy Comradery.
This build is designed to cover almost every threat you will face in EDA:
The only hole is Mirror Defense's "objectives take damage" debuff, which we have this week. I had to coordinate with a Mag friend to keep overshields on the objective.
This build is heavily invested into energy economy, including running a Sahasa Kubrow with Synth Deconstruct and Duplex Bond. Panzer is also an excellent option as well, but I like having my emotional support Dispenserdog going "bork bork!". The energy economy is so that mistakes don't happen under pressure.
Health Conversion is there to increase the snap overguard from Icy Avalanche casts. Ice Spring is there so I can keep my sanity playing slow old Frost, but you could easily run Preparation, Hand Spring or another movement Exilus.
I use a primary Gaze with Pax Seeker, although the trajectory on the seeker bolts means it doesn't work with low ceilings.
Does it have to be primary? As long as you're not using a big explosive pistol like Akarius Prime, and are willing to give up a primary, this is the exact use case for the Scourge, as it marks enemy heads with a bullet attractor.