The Faceted Aegis

Stacked and multiplied: Arcane Blessing (~1605 health), Health Conversion (~1600 armour, 84% DR), Adaptation (90% DR to a type), Preserving Shell (90% DR).

Multiplied out that is about 99.84% DR and roughly one million effective HP, enough for Steel Path to around level 500 to 1000.

Fractured Blast (spam 1) makes the orbs that fund all of it.

Prismatic Gem primes status for the squad and buffs status weapons; with Prismatic Companion and Summoner's Wrath a Kubrow or Moa becomes a Contagious Bond feedback nuke.

1.

Spam 1 (Fractured Blast) everywhere for orbs, armour, health and energy.

2.

Keep Preserving Shell (4) up for the 90% squad DR.

3.

Keep Prismatic Gem (3) up for status priming and the weapon status buff.

4.

Optionally cast Crystallize (2) and shoot the crystals for forced red crits (not with AoE weapons).

EHP tanking as above, or swap Adaptation for Catalyzing Shields plus Augur mods for a shield-gate-plus-Huras-invisibility endurance route where spamming 1 makes you effectively unkillable.

Positive Duration for Preserving Shell, 3 and 4.

Efficiency dumped because 1 plus Equilibrium funds it.

Range 145% to 175% for Fractured Blast, Prismatic Gem and Crystallize.

Strength wants 200% so Fractured Blast is a guaranteed health-orb drop; beyond that it adds a second orb and energy orbs.

Blind Rage is the Strength toward the 200% orb threshold.

Stretch is the Range.

Archon Continuity is Duration plus corrosive procs for Condition Overload.

Adaptation is a DR layer.

Primed Flow, Equilibrium are the energy base.

Prismatic Companion, Recrystalize are the augments.

Summoner's Wrath aura is +75% companion damage that double-dips DoTs.

Recrystalize drops if you do not use a crystal-crit weapon.

Natural Talent is strongly recommended without cast-speed shards (3 and 4 are very slow).

Archon Vitality over Health Conversion if you lack Arcane Blessing.

Mecha Pulse for a Kubrow Mecha nuke.

Pick one.

Subsume over Crystallize (slow and clunky).

- Roar for team damage and to make Fractured Blast kill Steel Path enemies.

- Expedite Suffering to compress slash and toxin-heat procs for fast kills.

- Pillage for a full strip, shields and status cleanse.

- Terrify with Creeping Terrify for crowd control, slow and strip.

- Ensnare for grouping.

Nourish for viral and energy.

Arcane Blessing for health, Arcane Guardian for armour.

Arcane Impetus or Molt Augmented as swaps.

Any.

Madurai Power Transfer helps the slow cast times.

Vazarin for a panic i-frame.

Crystallize red-crits favour low-crit, high-multiplier weapons or weapons with no headshot multiplier (Nataruk, Dread Incarnon, Paris Prime Incarnon, Kuva Nukor).

For the companion nuke, a Huras Kubrow with a Paris Prime Incarnon statstick, or a Moa with Verglas.

The DR stack, or the shield-gate route.

The EHP route fails past roughly level 1000 where hits exceed a million; toxin bypasses armour but not the other layers.

Fractured Blast orbs through Equilibrium.

A non-issue.

The frame itself does almost no damage; it is a tank and an enabler.

Deep endurance outscales even a million EHP.

Slow cast times without shards.

A shield-gating endurance build.

A Prismatic Gem DPS full-strip Pillage build.

Strong: enormous survivability, strong squad support and priming, a hands-off companion nuke option, beginner-friendly.

Weak: no self damage, EHP route has a ceiling, painfully slow casts without investment.

Players who want a near-unkillable support that primes and heals the squad while a pet does the killing.