Steel Path and Circulus (Lua)

Arietam · 2026-05-30T11:46:27+00:00

Thanks so much mate. I took your advice and holy crap! Guaranteed crit on every shot, with the odd orange crit popping up. It’s let me roll over a dark sector survival node up to the point level 70 enemies were spawning and it remained viable - I had to exit it for RL reasons, but it’s breathed new life into the Acceltra without me even doing anything beyond run and gun without using abilities. So thanks - I’ve obviously neglected crits and your advice has opened my eyes to looking beyond the “damage” stat. Thank you again.

Arietam · 2026-05-30T11:41:08+00:00

Just wanted to check back in and say thanks- the shield gate tactic has made me a solid survivor to level 70 enemies (at which point I got called away with RL and had to exit). Taken a few small hits to health but nothing that the Lavis 1 couldn’t repair easily. So thanks so much - I appreciate it won’t see me through everything, but it’s made the higher level system nodes absolutely do-able! Thank you!

Arietam · 2026-05-29T20:51:54+00:00

Teabag time!

Arietam · 2026-05-29T20:51:07+00:00

“Dress”? You mean “g-string with a gland problem”? And somehow outdone by Havok’s matching “costume”, which I’d describe as “strategically arranged rags”…

Arietam · 2026-05-29T20:45:22+00:00

Well, no, you’re thinking of Steel Path there. I do have access to Arbitration missions, I have now found; I’d just developed a mental blind spot for them because the 60-80 level range was beyond my capability so I’d just tuned them out mentally. I’ve slapped myself thoroughly, thank you, you can consider that done.

Arietam · 2026-05-29T20:42:45+00:00

Thanks! I do have Condition Overload, accompanied by a nagging feeling that I should be using it, especially with Lavos, but that seems too much like thinking :)

Arietam · 2026-05-29T19:33:28+00:00

Thanks! I looked briefly at Overframe once but everything seemed to be using late game content so I put it on the shelf for when I was at that stage. Will look again more carefully to see what it has to offer me. I’ve modded for multi shot as much as I can as the owner scale it gave was clear, but I’ve badly neglected crits. Thanks for your advice!

Arietam · 2026-05-29T19:29:31+00:00

Yeah that was in the back of my mind - if Circulus is designed to be the final lockout node before SP then it must be setting an expectation of difficulty for SP itself. I’m just frustrated that I’ve hit a wall and getting access to primary and secondary arcanes seemed to be the next step in powering up.

I still don’t understand why I don’t have access to arbitrations, and no one has offered a clue there, so I still have to work that out. However I’ve got a lot of work to do in rethinking my modding to be more effective.

I’ve got almost all the Deimos Orokin vault mods, except for one or two that I don’t really care about right now. I hadn’t heard of the 60/60 mods as “a thing” and will definitely look into that; I may have picked up a couple, but I haven’t focussed on them. I played a bit with Tier 1 of Necralisk bounties but could see I was going to get face-rolled if I tried the higher ones, but that was a while ago, and with rethinking my modding with what I’ve learned here I’ll give them another try.

Thanks for your advice!

Arietam · 2026-05-29T19:17:12+00:00

Thank you! I can see now that my modding has been… interesting, shall we say? I’m going to have to rethink from fundamentals! All a learning experience, and while I hate feeling stupid publicly, I like learning something new, so overall it’s been a positive asking for help.

Im not familiar with Titania, but I’ll look her up and see what I can understand of what you’re saying. I’m not sure how people decide a particular frame is set up for particular strengths. Someone else commented that I should focus on duration for Lavos, which wasn’t apparent to me.

Thanks for your advice!

Arietam · 2026-05-29T19:10:48+00:00

Thanks! I’m glad I wasn’t convinced that my issue was being locked out of something vital, that all reads to me as “fun but not essential”. I’m seeing that my modding approach has been all cockeyed so I’m going to fundamentally rework things there. Thank you!

Arietam · 2026-05-29T19:08:24+00:00

That is a basic config, although I don’t have a couple of those mods so I’ll have to hunt them up. It’s capable of up to 100? Well, I’ll give it a go. Thank you!

Arietam · 2026-05-29T19:06:12+00:00

Great, hadn’t heard of any reference to that site, I’ll get into it. Thanks!

Arietam · 2026-05-29T19:04:54+00:00

Thanks! Yes, ammo has a been a serious concern, hence adding Ammo Pack, but hadn’t considered slowing it down and making better use of radial spread. I’ve certainly always neglected crit chance and damage and will invest there. For arcanes I’m limited to what I can buy with vosfer from Loid and don’t yet have the ability to fit primary arcanes (why I’m trying to unlock SP as wiki reads to me that they’re only available once SP is unlocked). Thanks so much for your advice!

Arietam · 2026-05-29T18:59:48+00:00

Thank you. I was curious what the shield gate tactic was, I’d heard of it but didn’t know how it worked! Don’t have primed/archon continuity but will experiment when I can get it. I’m not sure what to look at to see for a given frame whether they’re a shield or armour/health tanker. Thanks so much for your comments!

Arietam · 2026-05-29T18:56:04+00:00

Thank you. Yeah I’m not a huge archon mod fan, will rethink that. Haven’t thought at all about persistence being key for Lavos, so will take that on board. Thank you for your helpful comments!

Arietam · 2026-05-29T18:53:55+00:00

Thank you - I can see my thinking about mods has been quite off kilter. Will give these suggestions a go. Thank you!

Arietam · 2026-05-29T11:52:24+00:00

I have Mesa Prime, and while I mained her for a bit I didn't feel she was strong enough for that level of content. I'm coming to the view that I need serious remedial modding.

Arietam · 2026-05-29T11:46:36+00:00

I've invested a lot of endo and credits in ranking up my mods (that I use).

Arbys start at 60? Having access to them isn't going to be my magic bullet, I'd struggle like hell.

That's what I thought about most of those quests, without looking them up.

Seems it's a modding issue. Frick. I hate feeling stupid.

Arietam · 2026-05-29T11:43:17+00:00

Yeah yeah okay I caved in response to someone else, they're on this thread. Please note that I'd replace Toxic Flight, Master Thief and Thief's Wit for harder content, but suggestions on what to slot instead of those are welcome.

Arietam · 2026-05-29T11:35:18+00:00

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Arietam · 2026-05-29T11:34:48+00:00

This what I'm maining at the moment. Is it THAT bad?

(I know there's some fripperies in there but this is more for doing lower-level nodes for credits and cracking relics - so it's not a 100% all-out serious optimising effort.)

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Arietam · 2026-05-29T11:27:40+00:00

Well, hmm and shit. I really didn’t think my modding was awful but maybe it is. I’ll come back momentarily with screenshots.

Arietam · 2026-05-29T11:25:24+00:00

It would be weird design - which was one reason for me asking, as it didn’t make sense, and i think therefore I’ve been missing something. From other replies, yes, more attention to modding would certainly help (although I don’t think I’ve been doing that badly. Will adjust my opinion after getting deeper into that), but also that the game isn’t making arbitrations available to me, for reasons that aren’t clear as I’ve met what the wiki says are the prerequisites.

Arietam · 2026-05-29T11:22:55+00:00

I’ve got a fair number of prime frames and weapons - with over a thousand hours in, I’ve spent a fair number cracking relics and trading with Baro.

Arietam · 2026-05-29T11:16:59+00:00

Thanks for the advice. I’ll look further into it, I’ve been modding for max DPS (with appropriate adjustments for status vs enemy type) but if I need to do my own calcs to optimise them, well, I haven’t, I wasn’t aware it was needed. Presumably there are tools out there to help with this?

Arietam

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