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Growing Power
On Status Effect with Weapon: Squad increases personal Ability Strength by 25% for 6s.
Inaros Prime
Sand Elemental
Elemental Sandstorm
- Frame
- Inaros Prime
- Forma
- 3
- Playstyle
- Helminth
- Keep 2 · Elemental Sandstorm
Elemental Sandstorm Inaros - tornado packs with melee-element status storms, heal while you spin, then finish the clump. Inaros Prime's extra polarities cut Forma versus base Inaros for the same polarity story.
Alternative builds
Build dossier · Sand Elemental
Loadout
Aura + Exilus on top, then eight general slots in two rows of four.
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Blind Rage
+99% Ability Strength · -55% Ability Efficiency
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Transient Fortitude
+55% Ability Strength · -27.5% Ability Duration
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Primed Continuity
+55% Ability Duration
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Stretch
+82.5% Ability Range
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Augur Reach
+30% Ability Range
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Elemental Sandstorm
Sandstorm Augment: Sandstorm gains 50% Ability Range and has a 100% chance of inflicting Status Effects based on the Damage Types on the equipped Melee Weapon.
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Adaptation
When Damaged: · +10% Resistance to that Damage Type for 20s. Stacks up to 90%.
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Umbral Intensify
+44% Ability Strength · +11% Tau Resistance
Arcanes
Recommended pair first, then flexible swaps.
Arsenal
Melee
Elemental weighting feeds Elemental Sandstorm.
Playstyle
Elemental Sandstorm — mod melee elements (Electric for Influence, or Viral/Heat), tornado packs, heal, prime, then finish or shoot the clump.
Passive abilities
Inaros has no shields — massive health and armor do the tanking. Finishers and Sandstorm heal; Scarab Shell adds armor and status absorb. Arcane Persistence pairs extremely well once armor is high enough.
Active abilities
- 1 Desiccation — Blind wave that steals health and opens finishers. Desiccation's Curse spawns Swarm Kavats on finisher kills.
- 2 Sandstorm — Become a healing tornado. Elemental Sandstorm primes from your melee elements.
- 3 Scarab Shell — Spend health to build armor and absorb statuses. Negation Armor is a cheat-death on fatal hits.
- 4 Scarab Swarm — Corrosive scarabs that scale with health; kills can spawn Swarm Kavats.
- Augment: Elemental Sandstorm on Sandstorm. Strength double-dips status chance.
Mod breakdown
Strength / Range
Strength for storm damage/status and Shell; Range for suction.
Duration
Longer tornado windows.
Aura / Exilus
- AuraGrowing PowerOn Status Effect with Weapon: Squad increases personal Ability Strength by 25% for 6s.Strength
- Elemental SandstormSandstorm Augment: Sandstorm gains 50% Ability Range and has a 100% chance of inflicting Status Effects based on the Damage Types on the equipped Melee Weapon.Required
- ExilusCunning Drift+12% Slide · -30% Friction · +15% Ability RangeRange
- ExilusPower Drift+15% Ability Strength · +30% Chance to Resist KnockdownStrength
Helminth
Keep Sandstorm. Roar over Scarab Swarm for gun finish after grouping.
Mission Usefulness
Steel Path Survival / Defense / Disruption
Elemental Sandstorm groups, primes, heals, and chips SP packs from melee elements.
Mobile Defense / Excavation
Tornado the point wave under Scarab Shell.
Exterminate / Capture Speed Runs
Storm clears rooms once Strength/Range are online.
Spy / Rescue / Nightmare
Not stealth.
Open World / Bounties
Open travel as a sand tornado.
Long-Range Gunplay / Eidolon-Style Content
Melee elemental storm, not Amps.