The Sentient Swarm

Ortholyst DPS multiplies through Strength several times over: a direct 2.5x, an exponential boost from their level scaling (their level is 30x Strength), and Razor Mortar's electric and fire-rate multipliers (each 1 + 0.7x Strength).

With Camisado, Molt Augmented and Madurai you reach 400%+, and with shards 500% for roughly 800x.

Fusion Strike full-strips at 200% Strength, 164% with Corrosive Projection.

Invert tap/hold.

1.

Hold 3 to select Ortholysts, tap 3 to summon; keep them up.

2.

Cast 1 (Razor Gyre) often, and whenever shields break, to restore shields, gain energy, group and trigger Razor Mortar.

3.

Cast 4 (Fusion Strike) for the 20m+ lingering strip zone.

4.

Cast Sentient Wrath frequently for the slow, the damage vulnerability and Tau status.

Shield tanking for casual and base Steel Path (shields' innate 50% plus Caliban's passive 50% adaptation, plus Adaptation itself for 95%).

Shield gating for endurance: overshields from 1 or 3 count for the full 2.5s gate, so spinning in Razor Gyre with over 1150 overshield resets it every time.

Do not run Augur mods; they overwrite the 2.5s gate with a tiny one.

Positive Duration for Lethal Progeny and Razor Mortar uptime.

Efficiency at 45% because Razor Gyre nets energy per enemy hit; 100% if you drop Blind Rage.

Range 145% to 235% for all abilities.

Strength is the entire build.

Blind Rage, Transient Fortitude, Umbral Intensify are the Strength stack, with Primed Continuity holding Duration.

Archon Stretch is Range plus passive energy off Razor Mortar.

Primed Flow is the pool.

Rolling Guard is the status cleanse.

Summoner's Wrath aura is a faction-style buff for the Ortholysts that double-dips their electric status.

Razor Mortar is the turret damage form.

Transient Fortitude or Rolling Guard to Overextended for more Range.

Coaction Drift in the exilus boosts Summoner's Wrath to ~99%.

Adaptation over Rolling Guard for passive tank.

Pick one.

Subsume over Razor Gyre, Sentient Wrath, Lethal Progeny or Fusion Strike depending on focus.

- Nourish over 4 for viral on Lethal Progeny and weapons plus an energy multiplier.

- Roar over a slot for status weapons, though Summoner's Wrath is already a large summon buff.

- Brightbonnet for even more Strength and Ortholyst DPS.

- Shock with Shock Trooper for an electric add to Ortholysts out of mortar mode and to influence melees.

Arcane Camisado for a fast 60% Strength off the summons, Molt Augmented for another 60%.

Molt Efficiency as a Duration swap.

Madurai for 50% cast speed on Fusion Strike and 40% Strength.

Caliban's abilities apply Tau status, a final status-DPS multiplier, so status weapons pair best: Torid Incarnon, Boar Incarnon, Strun, Kuva Nukor, influence melees.

A companion (Diriga, Hound) that primes puncture, corrosive and cold buffs the Ortholysts directly.

Overshield gating off Razor Gyre plus Sentient Wrath's slow plus Rolling Guard.

It fails if you stop spinning with the gate down, and to Augur mods breaking the long gate.

Razor Gyre nets energy per hit.

Arcane Steadfast and Archon Stretch back it up.

Slow at low levels where Ortholysts have little to scale against.

Bosses.

The 5-forma cost and the reliance on hitting very high Strength.

A hyper-mobile endurance variant.

A Pyrotechnics Flechette variant.

Strong: damage that scales with the enemy forever, strong crowd control and strip, self-sustaining shields, low weapon investment.

Weak: weak early, boss-blind, forma-hungry, wants extreme Strength to shine.

Players who want a summoner whose turrets out-damage weapons the deeper the endurance run goes.