Can we talk about the equinox farm

[ilson]

I mean 8 parts from one boss with warframes screwy RNG what were you thinking. This is the kind of thing that frustrates players and drives them away!

Best solution to me would be to make the neuroptics, chassis and system not have an aspect component, so the night/day aspect bps share the same ingredients dropping the actual number of different components to 5. Like baking, you can make many different things from the three base parts of flour, sugar and butter by just adding the flavour ;)

Second, just split day and night onto two different bosses.

[Berzerkules]

The Equinox farm is hellish. First you have to travel like 1000m to reach the boss fight. If you're lucky you don't get a map with a shark wing section in it. If you do get a sharkwing map you're better off just aborting and starting again. Once you reach the boss you have a multi stage time gated fight. It takes a second to hit the guy then a minute of doing nothing. Best part is you have to farm 8 pieces from that specific fight. 

Took me 60+ runs the first time to farm. I got lucky when I farmed equinox to feed to helminth and it only took 11 runs. 

[FrostedMike]

I like the idea of splitting the parts to two different bosses, one boss reflects the day and the other boss reflects the night. Making the farm easier and giving each aspect their own flavor.

I don't like the aspects sharing the part blueprints. Having an "Equinox *Part*" to use on both aspects. It takes away the uniqueness of each aspect. Equinox is two differnet warframes combined into one, using the same blueprints for both aspects conflicts with this concept.

The farm wasn't too bad for me and I farmed this warframe twice. Once for the warframe and second time for the helminth. RNGesus was on my side as it seems.

[TARINunit9]

7 minutes ago, Berzerkules said:

If you do get a sharkwing map you're better off just aborting and starting again.

The only Sharkwing section that's going to take a month off your life is the twisty spiral cavern with the geysers that erupt. All the others you can just Blink through and be done with them in about 10 to 15 seconds, just like a normal tile

[NinjaZeku]

Move Hydroid, the Water Frame, to Uranus which is a Water tileset.

Move Equinox, the Day & Night Frame, to Earth, which has Day & Night cycles,
and let a respective part for the Two Forms drop from each of the Two Forms of the boss there.

(Also, make the Manics in the Tyl boss fight able to drop Ash parts already,
and / or increase regular Manic spawn / drop rates.)

[Berzerkules]

Just now, TARINunit9 said:

The only Sharkwing section that's going to take a month off your life is the twisty spiral cavern with the geysers that erupt. All the others you can just Blink through and be done with them in about 10 to 15 seconds, just like a normal tile

It wasn't worth my time to learn the sharkwing tile. Abort and reset only takes a few seconds. 

The grind for equinox is already terrible, sharkwing just makes it worse.

[vegetosayajin]

equinox farm is ez even with bad rng

ivara farm, harrow farm, nidus farm, khora farm...oh boi

[(PSN)robotwars7]

2 hours ago, NinjaZeku said:

Move Hydroid, the Water Frame, to Uranus which is a Water tileset.

Move Equinox, the Day & Night Frame, to Earth, which has Day & Night cycles,
and let a respective part for the Two Forms drop from each of the Two Forms of the boss there.

(Also, make the Manics in the Tyl boss fight able to drop Ash parts already,
and / or increase regular Manic spawn / drop rates.)

get out of here with your Logic and Common sense, we don't do that here!!

[TARINunit9]

6 hours ago, Berzerkules said:

It wasn't worth my time to learn the sharkwing tile. Abort and reset only takes a few seconds. 

Plus the three minutes it takes to get back there

[UUDDLRLRBA_START]

19 hours ago, TARINunit9 said:

The only Sharkwing section that's going to take a month off your life is the twisty spiral cavern with the geysers that erupt. All the others you can just Blink through and be done with them in about 10 to 15 seconds, just like a normal tile

Sharkwing is easy. Just follow the yellow glowing power cable on the sea walls to the exit.

[Butterfly85]

I wonder how much her prime will sell for once its vaulted, especially as it's a hell of a lot easier to farm than her regular.

[zehne]

Maybe worth mentioning here, but for some bosses you are better of with a super heavy hitting weapon instead of a brrrrrrrrrrrt weapon.

This is simply because some enemies have damage cap mini phases.  When I originally farmed equinox (which I recently fed to helminth because I kept it around even after I moved on to prime) I used nova + Paris Prime (back in my MR 7 days) and it was super easy.  Even with 'better' weapons, my trusty bow could just dump in the necessary damage in one go to consistently push Regor to the next phase in one shot (instead of shooting him some and him then going invis and dancing around).

[(PSN)AyinDygra]

On 2020-09-25 at 4:50 AM, NinjaZeku said:

Move Hydroid, the Water Frame, to Uranus which is a Water tileset.

Move Equinox, the Day & Night Frame, to Earth, which has Day & Night cycles,
and let a respective part for the Two Forms drop from each of the Two Forms of the boss there.

(Also, make the Manics in the Tyl boss fight able to drop Ash parts already,
and / or increase regular Manic spawn / drop rates.)

This has been my suggestion to them for years now... glad someone else mentioned it in this thread, so I didn't have to ;)

[MorradiX]

On 2020-09-25 at 11:24 AM, Berzerkules said:

The Equinox farm is hellish. First you have to travel like 1000m to reach the boss fight. If you're lucky you don't get a map with a shark wing section in it. If you do get a sharkwing map you're better off just aborting and starting again. Once you reach the boss you have a multi stage time gated fight. It takes a second to hit the guy then a minute of doing nothing. Best part is you have to farm 8 pieces from that specific fight. 

Took me 60+ runs the first time to farm. I got lucky when I farmed equinox to feed to helminth and it only took 11 runs. 

60?!??! 😬

 

Guess I lucked out with "only" 19  :D 

 

Not doing it again though  :/

 

 

[SpiritTeA]

Terrible map, boring boss fight, I guess I’ll never craft equinox. I’m too lazy for such grind, better make another  lich

[KnossosTNC]

I got both my original and Helminth sets in an afternoon. It did get very repetitive, though, especially once I figured out that Protea aces through it like nothing.

I kind of wish it was two bosses you fight simultaneously, with one dropping Day parts and one dropping Night parts. I think that would make it more tolerable without reworking the frame crafting requirements.

[kgabor]

6 hours ago, Butterfly85 said:

I wonder how much her prime will sell for once its vaulted, especially as it's a hell of a lot easier to farm than her regular.

My estimation would be peaking around 200-220p tops when vaulted, probably around 120p or below for the majority of the vaulting.

Maim Equinox works in a similar fashion as the old WoF Ember, most people uses Equinox as a Maim-bot so that would be the primary appeal for people to buy the frame.

Rest Equinox is really strong, but niche, i don't even think a lot of people knows how survivable and strong Equinox is, especially with Skiajati and the Rest augment.

Easily rivals Vauban in the cc department.

But the majority doesn't even know night form exists.

It would probably end up being a cheap frame, maybe not as cheap as Mag or Volt or Trinity, despite being a strong pick, but still cheap.