The Hungering Light

Reservoirs have infinite duration, so on a static point you drop up to six and never cast them again.

Breach Surge sparks trigger 10% on hit and 100% on death, take the damage of the weapon hit that caused them, multiply by around 5 to 6x, and deal radiation with headshot potential.

Nourish adds viral to the sparks and the energy multiplier that keeps you casting at 45% Efficiency.

Worthy Comradery in the aura raises the sparks' crit chance to around 175% on headshots, letting them orange crit.

1.

Cycle Reservoirs with tap 1, plant one of each with hold 1.

Haste and Shock matter most.

2.

Stay invisible: jump repeatedly, or tap Wil-o-Wisp (2).

Every shield break, tap 2 once to go invisible, drop a decoy, and fully reset the gate.

Double-tap 2 for 3s of i-frames against a damaging status.

3.

Cast Breach Surge (3) to blind, then shoot blinded enemies to generate sparks.

Casting 3 on a mote teleports you there and doubles the Surge radius.

4.

Keep Nourish (or Eclipse or Roar) active.

With three Augur mods on the frame and two on a secondary or sentinel weapon, one Wil-o-Wisp cast generates 108 shield at 45% Efficiency, about a 0.8s gate without Catalyzing Shields; Breach Surge gives about 0.92s.

Add Catalyzing Shields over an Augur mod and either 2 or 3 gives the full 1.33s with no pistol requirement.

Duration 150%+ for longer Wil-o-Wisp invisibility and mote uptime.

Efficiency negative because everything except Sol Gate is cheap.

Range 145% to 235% for Breach Surge stun radius and Shock mote reach.

Strength 250% to 350% for the Haste buff, the Breach Surge multiplier, and the subsumed ability.

Blind Rage, Umbral Intensify are the Strength core.

Primed Continuity, Constitution hold Duration.

Augur Message, Augur Secrets are two of the Augur mods feeding the shield gate, with Augur Secrets also adding Strength.

Archon Stretch is Range plus a passive energy trickle when a pet or Wordwarden carries viral-electric.

Equilibrium converts orbs.

Catalyzing Shields for the guaranteed 1.33s gate.

Vigorous Swap for 2.65x Breach Surge damage.

Natural Talent for cast speed if you skip cast- speed shards.

Primed Flow for a bigger pool.

Critical Surge for up to 250% crit chance based on teleport distance.

Worthy Comradery for the spark crit chance.

Corrosive Projection for armored targets.

Combat Discipline to self-proc Arcane Avenger and Nourish's AoE.

Brief Respite if you run no Augur mods.

Pick one.

Subsume over Sol Gate.

- Nourish is the default: free viral on weapons and sparks, a viral retaliation proc when hit, and the energy multiplier that makes negative Efficiency work.

- Eclipse if you specifically run Glaives or Exodia Contagion, which it double-dips; at 300% Strength that is a 3.6x weapon multiplier and about 6.85x on the resulting sparks.

- Roar for a consistent multiplier that also buffs allies and triple-dips melee influence, at lower ceiling than Eclipse.

- Pillage for a one-cast armor strip at 400% Strength, or 328% with Corrosive Projection.

Arcane Crepuscular for 30% Strength and a flat crit-damage multiplier while invisible, which requires you keep 2 active or jump-melee.

Arcane Concentration for Duration.

Arcane Arachne (2.5x sparks) or Molt Augmented are strong swaps.

Madurai for the Strength and cast speed.

Zenurik if you drop the energy-return subsume.

Vazarin for the safety net.

Wisp's airborne invisibility survives melee attacks but not gunfire, so ranged melee (Glaives, Exodia Contagion) pairs perfectly with the passive.

For Contagion, subsume Eclipse.

Invisibility plus the Wil-o-Wisp shield-gate reset plus optional Rolling Guard.

It fails to sustained toxin ticks in the gap between casts, and to standing still, visible, with the gate on cooldown.

Nourish's multiplier plus Equilibrium plus Archon Stretch.

Arcane Energize if you drop Nourish.

Bosses.

Very open tiles dilute Breach Surge.

The spark loop needs you to actually be shooting blinded enemies, so a pure melee build gets less from it.

A Sol Gate nuke with Roar.

A red-crit weapon platform with Energized Munitions.

A pure mote support build with Roar.

Strong: strong self and team buffs, invisible survival that scales into endurance, a real nuke through sparks, flexible subsume.

Weak: setup-heavy, boss-blind, wants a specific weapon style to get full spark value.

Players who want a buff-support frame that also survives and clears without relying on a nuke ability alone.