Release Date: July 31st, 2015
A duality of contrasting forces in a single entity, Equinox unleashes wrath like the onset of daybreak, or draws life to a close like dusk's approach. Shifting between two forms allows her to bolster Tenno strength in light or provide recuperative respite in darkness. Equinox dawned in Update 17.0.
Acquisition
Equinox requires a unique method to craft: Tenno must forge both the Equinox Night Aspect and Equinox Day Aspect in the Foundry – each of which requires its respective Neuroptics, Chassis, and Systems – before the Warframe itself can be built. Component and Aspect blueprints can be obtained by defeating Tyl Regor on Titania, Uranus. Equinox's main blueprint can be purchased from the Market.Drop | Chance | Expected | Nearly Guaranteed |
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Day Aspect Blueprint | 11.28% | 21 – 22 | 69 ± 18 |
Day Chassis Blueprint | 12.91% | ||
Day Neuroptics Blueprint | 12.91% | ||
Day Systems Blueprint | 12.91% | ||
Night Aspect Blueprint | 11.28% | ||
Night Chassis Blueprint | 12.91% | ||
Night Neuroptics Blueprint | 12.91% | ||
Night Systems Blueprint | 12.91% |
Expected refers to total number of attempts a player can expect to need in order to receive at least one of each drop associated with the respective values.
Nearly Guaranteed refers to the total number of attempts a player needs to obtain a 99%, 99.9%, and 99.99% probability to receive at least one of each drop associated with the respective values.
For more detailed definitions and information on how these number were obtained, visit here.Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
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Time: 72 hrs | |
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Day Aspect
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Time: 72 hrs |
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Time: 12 hrs |
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Time: 12 hrs | |
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Systems | |||||
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Time: 12 hrs |
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Night Aspect
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Time: 72 hrs |
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Market Price: N/A | Blueprint Price: N/A | ||||
Neuroptics | |||||
![]() 15,000 |
![]() 150 |
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![]() 500 |
Time: 12 hrs |
Rush: ![]() | |||||
Chassis | |||||
![]() 15,000 |
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![]() 1,000 |
![]() 300 |
Time: 12 hrs | |
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Systems | |||||
![]() 15,000 |
![]() 1 |
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![]() 500 |
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Time: 12 hrs |
Rush: ![]() |
Warframe Guides
“I am the Lotus. I will guide you, but we must hurry.” Guides are created by users like you. They aren't as strictly regulated as most pages, so keep an eye out for dated or subjective information.
Have your own build and playstyle? You can contribute too! Instructions are within. |
See Category:Equinox Guides to read user-made guides on how to play this Warframe.
Notes
- Equinox's first Emissive Color determines which form she begins with during a mission – light-colored hues has her start in her Day Form, and dark-colored hues has her start in her Night Form. This does not affect her overall gameplay otherwise.
- Equinox currently requires the most components to build, requiring four blueprints each for the Night and Day Aspects, and one for the Warframe itself. This totals to 9 components.
- Equinox is one of the most expensive Warframes in credits to build, with the total cost amounting to
225,000. This includes the cost to buy the Equinox blueprint from the Market along with the cost in constructing a Forma.
- Equinox is currently the only Warframe that requires a Forma to build.
- Rushing through all the components requires
300. If a player desires to rush all of the components, including the main blueprint, it may be wiser to outright buy the Warframe from the market for
325, which saves
15 for the pre-installed Orokin Reactor and the Warframe slot.
- Equinox is currently the longest to build out of all Warframes. Each component to the Day and Night Aspects takes 12 hours to craft, the Aspects themselves both take 72 hours, and the Warframe itself takes another 72 hours, to a total of 156 hours at minimum.
Trivia
- Despite the androgynous nature of Equinox's design, former Community Editorial Coordinator Adam Ma has confirmed that Equinox is a female Warframe with a masculine form.[1]
- Equinox appears as her composite form (both day and night) in any shared space, such as in the player's Landing Craft, in Relays, or while using Archwings. This form can also be seen briefly when shifting between forms with
Metamorphosis.
- When customizing her appearance, a button in the bottom right of the screen labelled "Metamorphosis" allows players to switch between Equinox's three forms. However, leaving the Appearance menu reverts Equinox back to her Composite form.
- Equinox refers to a biannual event where daytime and night are of roughly equal duration.
- During her development, Equinox's separate forms were originally referred to as Anima and Animus, both of which are concepts in Jungian Psychology. They are respectively described as the feminine and masculine aspects of a person's psyche. Equinox is still referred to as 'AnimaAnimus' internally in the game files.
- When Equinox is equipped with Wisp's Agile animation, and unarmed, she will split into her day and night form. Similar to Wukong who spawns his Celestial twin with the same Animation
References
“Market forces dictate that you need to evolve or die.” The Void Relics for this item have been removed from the drop tables at this time and are no longer available.
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Release Date: April 2nd, 2019
Equinox Prime is the Primed variant of Equinox, possessing increased armor, health, energy capacity, and additional
and
polarities. Equinox Prime was released alongside
Stradavar Prime and
Tipedo Prime.
Acquisition
Equinox Prime's main and component blueprints are acquired from the following Void Relics.Blueprint | ![]() |
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Lith P4 Uncommon (V) Meso A2 Uncommon (V) Axi K5 Uncommon (V) Axi T3 Uncommon (V) Axi T4 Uncommon (V) |
Lith L1 Uncommon (V) Meso M3 Uncommon (V) Neo A3 Uncommon (V) Neo D2 Uncommon (V) |
Lith C6 Common (V) Lith D2 Common (V) Lith L2 Common (V) Lith M4 Common (V) Meso G2 Common (V) Axi A8 Common (V) Axi P1 Common (V) |
Meso E2 Rare (V) Meso E3 Rare (V) Meso E4 Rare (V) Neo E2 Rare (V) |
Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
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Time: 72 hrs |
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Neuroptics | |||||
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Time: 12 hrs |
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Chassis | |||||
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![]() 150 |
![]() 5 |
![]() 4000 |
Time: 12 hrs |
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Systems | |||||
![]() 15,000 |
![]() 2 |
![]() 575 |
![]() 225 |
![]() 5,400 |
Time: 12 hrs |
Rush: ![]() |
Warframe Guides
“I am the Lotus. I will guide you, but we must hurry.” Guides are created by users like you. They aren't as strictly regulated as most pages, so keep an eye out for dated or subjective information.
Have your own build and playstyle? You can contribute too! Instructions are within. |
See Category:Equinox Prime Guides to read user-made guides on how to play this Warframe.
Notes
- Equinox Prime, compared to
Equinox:
- Higher Health (125/375 vs. 100/300)
- Higher Armor (150 vs. 125)
- Higher Energy (165/248 vs. 150/225)
- Different Polarities (
vs.
)
- Higher Mastery Rank required (5 vs. 0)
- As a Prime Warframe, Equinox Prime possesses a special passive ability where contact with an Orokin Void Death Orb will make them release an energy pulse that grants 250 Energy to all nearby allies. This effect can only occur once per Death Orb, and can occur even if the Death Orb has been previously destroyed.
- Equinox Prime features additional particle effects for two of her abilities.
- While switching form with
Metamorphosis, there will be swirling particles around her body, as well as stripes of energy that fly out and loop back to her. Switching from day to night and night to day have slightly different paths of particles.
- Casting
Rest & Rage will produce effects on affected enemies. In day form, vertical circling particles will appear around the enemies and then fade away. In night form, rotating sprinkling particles will appear above enemies for the duration of the ability.
- While switching form with
Trivia
- Equinox Prime Helmet in composite form is asymmetrical, with her right horn facing up and her left horn facing down. This is opposed to her day form and night form, where both horns face the same direction.
- This is opposite to her non-Primed variant, whose composite helmet is symmetrical and day/night forms' helmets are asymmetrical.
- Also, Equinox Prime's composite form seamlessly blends appearances of day form and night form together, instead of symmetrical division.
- Equinox Prime's Day Form uses mainly a dark blue hue, whereas Night Form uses white. This is the opposite of her non-Prime version which has Day Form in light colors and Night Form in dark.
- While Equinox's composite form more closely resembles her night form, with a slim build and decorative drapes, Equinox Prime's composite form bears a closer resemblance to her day form, having the gold ornaments of her day form and lacking the drapes of her night form.
- Equinox Prime only requires 4 parts, compared to her non-Primed variant, who requires 9 parts.
Bugs
- Helminth cyst is not visible on Equinox Prime, regardless of how big or how small it is.
- Unlike her normal form, Equinox Prime’s drapes clip through the ground.
Media
Passive
When Equinox collects Health Orbs or Energy Orbs, 10% of the restored amount is converted into additional Energy and Health respectively. This effect stacks with
Equilibrium. Extra health generated from
Arcane Pulse and extra energy generated from
Arcane Energize and Zenurik's Energy Pulse do not amplify the conversion, as they are not considered as being from orbs.
Equinox can shift between two forms to alter her abilities: the offensive-focused Day-Form or the defensive/supportive-focused Night-Form. Customizing Equinox's primary emission color determines what form she starts with:
- Bright hues change default form to Day-Form;
- Dark hues change default form to Night-Form.

Abilities
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Metamorphosis Switch forms, temporarily gaining bonus shields and armor in Night-Form, or bonus damage and speed in Day-Form. |
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Rest & Rage In Night Form targets are put to sleep. In Day Form targets become more vulnerable to damage. |
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Pacify & Provoke In Night Form reduces damage inflicted by nearby enemies. In Day Form increases Ability Strength of nearby allies. Energy Drain Per Enemy: 1.5 / 1.25 / 1 / 0.5 s-1 Energy Drain Per Ability: 5 / 4.33 / 3.66 / 3 |
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Mend & Maim In Night-Form, allies’ Shields are replenished with each nearby enemy killed. In Day-Form, enemies are inflicted with the Bleed Status Effect. Deactivate to cast a wave of slashing force, or restore Health and Shields to Equinox and allies in Night Form. Energy Drain: 3.5 s-1 |
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Equinox can be equipped with the following items:
Cosmetics
Augments
See Also
- Fixed a crash associated with Equinox abilities on Orphix Venom.
- Fixed a ‘None’ option erroneously appearing as an Equinox Skin.
- Fixed script error related to Equinox’s Rest & Rage.
- Fixed Equinox’s Duality Specter not using your Secondary weapon if you don’t have a Primary weapon in your loadout.
- Fixed script error at End of Mission when using Equinox.
- Fixed Galvanik Shoulder Plates, Quaro, and Narvarr Prime armor clipping through Equinox’s shoulders on both of her forms.
- Fixed Equinox Duality Augment causing the clone to hold their weapon funny if spawned during Pistol + Glaive mode.
- Armor Change:
- Equinox: 100 to 125
- Equinox Prime: 120 to 150
- Why: The conversation surrounding Arcane Guardian led to a significant review of Armor stats on Warfarmes. The Majority of Warframes received an increase in the Armor stat to increase survivability. Compounded with Shield Gating and the numerous other changes covered, we expect a much more fair feeling playing field for all Warframes.
- Fixed offsets for Equinox night form leg armor so it sits better on the leg.
- Fixed single emissive colors not showing properly on Equinox.
- Added “Dayform” and “Nightform” icons beside the emissive color selection in Equinox’s Appearance screen. Choosing a dark or a light color for your emissive will change what form you spawn into mission as -- this just makes it easy to see which one!
- Added Arsenal Ability videos for Equinox!
- Updated the following Warframe Ability Descriptions to better explain the Ability. Below are the latest edits:
- Equinox’s Mend and Maim: “In Night-Form, allies’ Shields are replenished with each nearby enemy killed. In Day-Form, enemies are inflicted with the Bleed Status Effect. Deactivate to cast a wave of slashing force, or restore Health and Shields to Equinox and allies in Night Form.”
- Fixed wonky cloth appearance on some Warframes, like Equinox Prime.
- Fixed the Subhuti Syandana clipping through Equinox’s Day Form.
- Fixed Equinox having an incorrect Ability tip in her Abilities Arsenal screen.
- Fixed Equinox’s cloth appearing as gray patches while in the Star Chart.
- Fixed Equinox Background having the wrong UI Icon when selecting it in the UI Customization screen.
- Fixed colors not blending correctly into Equinox’s Night form design.
- Fixed a script error when using Transference as Equinox
- Mend restores shield (Depends on power strength) per enemy killed to Equinox and nearby Allies that are within range.
- Fixed a crash caused by Metamorphosis.
- Conclave: Rest & Rage range reduced.
Hotfix: Specters of the Rail 13
- Conclave: Reduced the duration of Metamorphosis.
- Conclave: Mend and Maim can now only be activated at 100 energy.
- Fixed a gradual decrease in performance that could occur in long duration missions if a player cast Metamorphosis ability while having a Sigil equipped.
- Added a HUD Power Strength buff indicator for Provoke.
- Fixed a crash that would occur when randomizing Equinox’s appearance.
- Fixed Equinox turning all white when using Metamorphosis to switch from Day to Night form.
- Conclave: Metamorphosis -
Push & Pull
- Rest & Rage will now slow boss-type enemies instead of putting them to sleep.
- Fixed an issue with visual ability FX lingering for too long.
- Augment: Metamorphosis -
Duality
- Augment: Rest & Rage -
Calm & Frenzy
- Augment: Pacify & Provoke -
Peaceful Provocation
- Conclave: Lowered the damage of Maim Ability in Conclave.
- Conclave: Rest and Rage no longer require a target to activate in Conclave.
- Conclave: Fixed Conclave Mobility not being properly normalized, and Movement Speed being adjusted by mistake.
- Fixed Mend & Maim visual FX not properly displaying if the player is stealthed while the Ability is active.
- Conclave: Targets affected by Rest will be immune to damage for 1 second on Wake, there is no immunity if Rest expires naturally.
- Conclave: Increased damage and speed bonus of Metamorphosis Day Form in PvP.
- Conclave: Increased radius of Pacify & Provoke aura in PvP.
- Fixed an error that would cause changing the color customization of an Archwing to also change the color customizations on Equinox.
- Fixed Rest & Rage Ability ending early when switching forms
- Fixed Equinox’s cloth dangles appearing on other Warframes after selecting a Conclave loadout.
- Conclave: Fixed Equinox's Energy colour not properly affecting states in PvP matches.
- 4th Ability has had its energy drain-per-second changed from 5 to 3.5
- Rest & Rage has had its base range doubled.
- Overhealing from Mend will now restore shields.
- Switching between forms with Equinox has been reduced to a 1 second delay.
- Fixed Maim doing damage to the player when deactivated on a Rampart.
- Power Efficiency Mods now apply to Pacify and Provoke.
- Players that did not receive a unique helmet for Equinox has been given a helmet retroactively.
- Fixed visual issues with attachments on Equinox’s Day-form.
- Fixed typos visible in Equinox’s Day and Night Systems description in the Foundry.
- Fixed players not being able to equip Arcane Enhancements on Equinox’s Helmet.
- Conclave: Duration increased of Rest in PvP.
- Conclave: The first hit on a Target that is affected by Rest does no damage and wakes them up in PvP.
- Fixed Equinox sliding instead of jogging when using Rest/Rage while moving.
- Fixed Equinox being able to heal Defense objectives.
- Fixed Mend HUD buff indicator not going away if you then use Metamorphosis.
- Fixed the Harkonar Syandana not sitting properly on Equinox when in Night-form.
- Fixed Clients seeing Equinox using the wrong idle animations on Night and Day forms.
- Fixed one Aspect of Equinox requiring two helmets, instead of a helmet, chassis and systems.
- Fixed the positioning of the new ‘cape’ Syandanas on Equinox.
- Introduced.
Ability SFX
- Using any ability
- Using
Mend & Maim
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