
Animal Instinct
+30m Loot Radar · +18m Enemy Radar

Shade · Companions
Best pickGhost stealth on the unprimed Shade — Animal Instinct and Regen instead of Primed variants, Duplex clones for cloak-safe priming, and basic survivability mods so new players get invis without the Prisma farm.
Exilus on top, then eight general slots. Weapons have no Aura slot.

Ghost
Cloaks owner when enemies are within 24m. The cloak is disrupted if owner attacks.

Vacuum
13.5m Companion Gather-Link. Detects and collects items, including mods.

Duplex Bond
Companion will clone itself each time you expend 100 energy, up to 3 clones. Clones live 30s and cannot use Abilities. Their kills have a 50% chance of dropping Energy Orbs.

Regen
Sentinel recovery time reduced by 20s. Revives with 10s of invulnerability.
Why each mod is in this Shade loadout.
Budget Exilus radar — same job as Primed Animal Instinct without the rare-mod tax.
The whole point of Shade: cloak when enemies are close. Identical precept to Prisma; only the body stats differ.
Pickup radius so stealth clears don’t force you to break cloak for loot.
Clones shoot and prime while Ghost keeps you invisible — big power spike for a low-cost sentinel.
Unprimed recovery cut. Weaker than Primed Regen but enough to bring Ghost back after a pop.
Eximus kills slash revive time — compensates for weaker Regen on the budget body.
Shield bulk; base Shade is fragile, so Redirection is the cheap survivability pillar.
Health buffer for the moments Ghost is down and enemies look at the sentinel.
Armor so the budget chassis lasts a few more hits between Regen cycles.
Frame builds that list Shade in Arsenal.

