Molecular Tide

Molecular Prime's 75% slow or speed both cap at 150% Strength; the listed 154% clears it.

Molecular Fission lets Null Stars seek and prime enemies in a 12 to 20m radius so you rarely recast Molecular Prime itself.

Neutron Star adds a forced heat proc that stuns (prolonged hugely by the slow) and strips up to 50% armour over 2s, about a 3.7x damage multiplier against armour.

Nova's passive plus Equilibrium keeps energy flowing at 45% Efficiency.

1.

Tap 4 for the 75% slow, or hold 4 for the 75% speed.

2.

Tap 1 for Null Stars; recast 1 periodically to fire all stars for heat procs and Molecular Prime.

3.

Use 3 (Wormhole) for traversal and shield gating.

4.

Use 2 (Antimatter Drop) for low-level nuking, or as a 25,000-in-200,000-out amplifier with a hard-hitting weapon.

Shield gating: Brief Respite plus three Augur mods gives about 0.9s off 2, 1s off 3, 1.45s off 4; Catalyzing Shields makes every cast a full 1.33s.

Null Star's 90% damage reduction (now on shields and health, near-100% uptime with Molecular Fission) passively tanks base Steel Path to about level 500.

Duration scales Molecular Prime's spread and the Null Star particle count (24 at ~200%).

Efficiency is negative because the passive funds it.

Range 145% to 235% for Wormhole, Antimatter Drop, the star seek radius and the Neutron Star and Molecular Prime radii.

Strength only needs to clear 150%.

Blind Rage is the Strength (past the threshold it does little).

Overextended, Stretch set the Range.

Primed Continuity holds Duration.

Primed Flow, Equilibrium are the energy base.

Molecular Fission, Neutron Star are the augments that make priming passive.

Brief Respite aura feeds the gate.

Drop Equilibrium for violet Equilibrium shards and add Augur Message, Augur Reach, Rolling Guard or Fast Deflection.

Arcane Sculptor over Concentration or Hot Shot for free Wormhole spam.

Pick one.

Subsume over 2 or 3.

- Nourish for viral Null Stars, a weapon viral buff, and an energy multiplier.

- Roar for ability and status damage (full ability-DPS builds exist).

- Xata's Whisper to trigger off Molecular Prime's blast procs and buff blast weapons.

- Silence for Eximus and Acolyte lockout, stun prolonged by the slow.

- Pillage for a strip and shield return.

Arcane Concentration for the Duration spread, Arcane Hot Shot for 300% crit chance (easy to keep with Neutron Star; skip it on Phenmor, Laetum, Felarx).

Arcane Sculptor or Molt Efficiency as swaps.

Any.

Madurai for Strength and cast speed.

Vazarin Sling as a backup.

Any crit weapon with Arcane Hot Shot.

Molecular Prime's death explosions inherit on-kill effects: Devouring Attrition on first-gen Incarnons (Phenmor, Laetum, Felarx) for area nukes, Acid Shells on Sobek, Amalgam Argonak strip, Okina spectral daggers.

Shield gating plus the slow plus Null Star DR.

It fails in the gap with no crowd to gate on, and to toxin.

The passive plus Equilibrium.

Arcane Sculptor if you spam Wormhole.

Molecular Prime's amp is a multiplier, not a nuke, so a weak weapon stays weak.

Bosses take the doubled damage but you still need to deal it.

Wormhole energy without Sculptor.

An endurance Nourish variant.

A pure ability-DPS Roar build.

A Silence comfort build.

A Pillage build.

A full-EHP tank Slowva.

Strong: a squad-wide 2x damage debuff, flexible slow or speed, self-funding energy, part-strip and crowd control from one augment.

Weak: amplifier not a nuke, boss damage still on the weapon, needs a strength source for the threshold cleanly.

Players who want to double the whole squad's damage and slow the room to a crawl.