Equinox's Pacify & Provoke issue [found bug]

[No_Quarter]

recently I started messing around with Equinox's Duality build.
Turns out it is a lot of fun, for it you should maximize duration and give as much ability strength as possible so your Metamorphosis boosts are stronger.
I ended up having Duality active for 20 seconds, Metamorphosis effects last for 70 and for that I had to trade ability range which is now at 34% and I have no efficiency.

It is a build for close combat so for higher level missions I need strong armor boost for Night Form, in order to get that I can trigger Provoke in Day Form and get boost to power strength when swittching to Night Mode causing me to get more armor.

Now, issue begins when I start to repeat that tactic.
When casting Provoke - those traces spawn and go in circles around your ability range. That' neat.
But when I turn off Provoke those traces are still running.
When I switch ot Night Mode, those traces are still running.

Now the best part comes, when I return to Day Form and trigger Provoke one more time - it spawns another circle of those traces flying around, right together with the circle from the first Provoke cast that is not effectife atm.
Third one causes more.
Now imagine 20 minutes of survival, how many times do I need to trigger it.....

If you thought that's the best part hear this - in that build my Provoke range is 5.44 meters meaning I CANNOT SEE ANYTHING!!!
Quite as I said, after 10-15 casts there is A WALL in front of me.

I kinda have doubts this was intended, is it a known bug, did it come recently?
Shouldn't those traces be gone after I disable the ability?

EDIT: posted a screenshot, I could tryhard to make it worse but this was simulating a high level battle where I should cast Provoke on every Metamorphosis, well, every other that is as it only makes sense to do so in Day Form
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1230251295

EDIT Prime: Having "Particle System Quality" on Low caused this problem. Medium and High settings do not trigger this behavior

[Perpetually tired]

Should've made a screenshot, sounds hilarious. Generally it seems the last update broke a few abilities on different warframes. Nidus's 4th leaves permanent infestation growths with some effects working and some not. CLASSIC update.

[No_Quarter]

Originally posted by Mr. Fox:

Should've made a screenshot, sounds hilarious. Generally it seems the last update broke a few abilities on different warframes. Nidus's 4th leaves permanent infestation growths with some effects working and some not. CLASSIC update.

posted a screenshot the main post, thought it would be more relevant that way

as you see it, it is unplayable which makes me sad because I really love Equinox and her ability to be all-in-one pack without sacrificing too much

*ordis voice*
last update seem to have provoked a lot of problems. ha. ha.

[Perpetually tired]

You should try posting this in the official forums of warframe in the bug section. I'm guessing there's going to be a hotfix update today or tomorrow.

[No_Quarter]

Originally posted by Mr. Fox:

You should try posting this in the official forums of warframe in the bug section. I'm guessing there's going to be a hotfix update today or tomorrow.

yeah I copy/pasted this topic there, hope it gets fixed soon as I kinda only want to play Equinox right now

[Aces High]

Couldn't you change the colour of the energy to something less "visible" like black (I have no idea if that would work, but if it is close to say, Frost ice globe, or Limbo Cataclysm / banish, it might help)

I'm building the parts for Equinox right now, I'll be able to test it for myself later.

[No_Quarter]

Originally posted by Hussien the sand nibba:

You only Build Equinox for her 2nd sleeping abiity or her 4th ability, and all the 3 of these don't need strengh, build it for max range, some duration and max efficincy, remove flow because you won't need it.

I am sorry, I missed the part where this is relevant to the topic of reporting an issue?

Thank you for your kind suggestion but getting close to 900 hours, I kinda know how to build things to fit my playstyle and to get the best out of it.

So if you are ignoring stuff on warframes just because you cannot understand how to build them you are missing out a lot in this game. Duality build clears rooms in seconds, it is fun for a change compared to spam 4, especially considering that in terms of "spam 4" Banshee is just flat out better.
Duality build is fun, at least for me, and stats show that I do considerable % of team damage with it and I can solo defense things more comfortably and more engaging than press 3 than 4 and look at numbers and then press 4 again for Nuke. It is string but not really fun as brawling.
And I am surprised how Equinox is able to brawl it out with this build

Reason I love Equinox is because she can do everything, 150% damage boost, up to 1000 armor boost, CC, boost abilities, cripple enemies, AoE slash proc, and even heal.
Playing around each of her abilities can be a benefit to you and your team, she has the widest set of abilities and stacking and combining them leads to surprising results.

Example for Duality, I go Day Mode, damage boost kicks in, mobility kicks in, other part does 300% damage rampage (mods included), I use Provoke and get Armor boost when I switch to Night Mode. Than I use 4 and trade off damage by doing tactical yolo, after which I close the 4 and heal my self whih helps me endure up to my next Metamorphosis.
My build is not extreme in terms of strength, my armor boost is 600 without Provoke and around 700 with it, so combined 800 armor approximately tripples my effective HP, add healing ability to that and you can sustain a lot.

But again, you can use Valkyr which is just better n terms of "trade off damage and use 4 to heal your self" but Equinox is wider package and only warframe for me where 3 configuration slots are not enough.
Experimenting is fun and this game offers you a lot of ways to do it.

But I can agree with you that on most builds for Equinox I do not use Flow at all

[No_Quarter]

Originally posted by Aces High:

Couldn't you change the colour of the energy to something less "visible" like black (I have no idea if that would work, but if it is close to say, Frost ice globe, or Limbo Cataclysm / banish, it might help)

I'm building the parts for Equinox right now, I'll be able to test it for myself later.

*much later, 12 hours for each part, 3 days for each half, 3 days for final

she is worth it tho, I can tell you that

About changing the color, yeah, I could try that but I still kinda think that this kind of behaviour is not really intended, here is the picture from simulacrum where I spammed 3
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1230311859

doubt any color could fix that, also, RIP my FPS

[Aces High]

Originally posted by No_Quarter:

Originally posted by Aces High:

Couldn't you change the colour of the energy to something less "visible" like black (I have no idea if that would work, but if it is close to say, Frost ice globe, or Limbo Cataclysm / banish, it might help)

I'm building the parts for Equinox right now, I'll be able to test it for myself later.

*much later, 12 hours for each part, 3 days for each half, 3 days for final

she is worth it tho, I can tell you that

About changing the color, yeah, I could try that but I still kinda think that this kind of behaviour is not really intended, here is the picture from simulacrum where I spammed 3
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1230311859

doubt any color could fix that, also, RIP my FPS

Uff, yea, that would make the warframe impossible to enjoy, hope they'll fix that.

I'm looking forward to testing Equinox, even though the wait for building her is extreme, could be better if you got one "side" of her in one quest, do a couple of mission with that side to unlock the other side, then do the main quest to combine the two sides.

[No_Quarter]

Originally posted by Aces High:

Uff, yea, that would make the warframe impossible to enjoy, hope they'll fix that.

I'm looking forward to testing Equinox, even though the wait for building her is extreme, could be better if you got one "side" of her in one quest, do a couple of mission with that side to unlock the other side, then do the main quest to combine the two sides.

me too

it is the longest build in warframe but as said, she can do everything, a jack of all trades, so it is kind of justified, she is always on top lists of warframes.
And very special as no other warframe has 8 effective abilities, maybe Ivara can go into that group as she has the ability to choose the effect for her first ability.
Chroma gets to choose his color before the game, Equinox can utilize all of them at any time.

Not the easiest to master tho

[No_Quarter]

Apparently it is bug with graphic settings.
having "Particle System Quality" on Low caused this problem. Medium and High settings do not trigger this behavior.

[Aces High]

Nice!