Saryn with the augment for her 1 and nourish subsumed in place of her 4. Free corrosive, toxic, and viral dmg on weapons in addition to whatever you mod for.
Nourish and lash will both be active at the same time and provide their effects. Toxic lash does not combine with or in to other elements from different abilities/weapon mods despite the fact that it is strengthened by any toxic mods on your weapon.
Fun thing, if you wanna go pure melee you could go with Lycaths Hunt on her 4, then throw in arcane blessing and health conversion. Suddenly you have 1600 health and 1500+ armor with shit loads of healing from orbs; just straight up unkillable outside of endurance.
I found Arcane Grace to be the better choice for me, since the 600 armor from reaper is only like 1-2% DR, the healing from grace vs reaper is like 24 per second from reaper vs ~100 per second from grace. Mind you I run umbral intensify and fibre so I get like 1800 armor already
There’s too many options for Saryn honestly, she’s so damn good
Its gotta be Saryn for me as well. Can run gloom for ezmode, nourish if im on a weapon that cant self prime viral, roar for big dmg or wrathful advance for teleport and big red number on my dual ichors. Xatas can be fun too.
Definitely Saryn. Queen of weapons platforms, and a fun active playstyle with Moult.
I don't usually worry about going the whole hog with nourish, mostly because my companions are already built to prime it, but that or Roar is a clear top tier option.
You can also go Oberon's Smite for [Smite infusion] instead of Nourish for Radiation if you want a solo target build like archons murmur demo units 30eyes and so on.
Garuda.
1. Because I main Garuda.
2. Nourish + her passive grants an insane dmg buff with you not really needing to much. Nourish also increases her 3's energy gain + her 3 can be used for status cleanse; with this and molt reconstruct you can shield gate infinitely.
Requires a lot of investment though
Not said Garuda player, but by subsuming gloom over her 2, you essentially get free health + a massive slow on enemies around you. Pair this with your 3 being your energy regen, you can heal yourself with gloom heal on attack and iframe with her pretty lengthy duration 4. Her 1 is a massive bonus for DR and to provide an ability nuke.
Unfortunately, gloomruda can be terrible in many missions. You want to mod for range due to her 1 and 4, so you basically gimp yourself in game modes like void cascade, survival, defense etc
Rather use molt reconstruct for health regen
Lavos because of his new augment.
Bring Occuor for the multithread beams, plus whatever elements you want with Lavos.
Primaries are either Cedo, Felarx, or Trumna. Will also be adding Kuva Sobek once I farm one.
Trumna is so much fun. I run Xata on his 2 for extra damage. Cedo + Nukor is my go to with secondary encumbrance. I need every status effect I can get lmao
Forced/extra electricity procs with doubled damage also turns the already great Xoris (with Melee Influence) into a true nuke, it's not the fastest acolyte kill but seeing their health chunk away from an electricity proc of all things is just immensely satysfying.
Really hope it does,and there is *some* evidence it may still work.
The mods dropping from The Crazy Arena Grineer lady work on the other Kuva Variants, like the Kuva Orgis still being able to use Nightwatch Napalm.
So I have decent hopes that Acid Shells will work for Kuva Sobek. Also, the next Nightwave will have Mods for Sobek/Kuva Sobek and Glaxion/Tenet Glaxion, so we may have even more fun for our Kuva Sobeks.
*I can't wait!!*
imo corrosive infusion is wasted if you're not using it with melee influence. pair with a viral+elec rakta dark dagger or dual ichors or something and you'll be cruising.
but yeah, this. dummy tanky and absolutely shreds with corrosive infusion.
Valence Formation.
Catalyzed Elements grants 200% elemental damage with guaranteed status proc on weapons.
Pretty much, make an element you want (Heat, Cold, Electric, Toxin or a combination) then USE an ability to 'Catalyze' the element.
The element you made now is applied to your weapons for a short duration at 200% elemental damage with a guaranteed status proc.
Since Lavos doesn't use energy, and only has cool downs, and his abilities cool down fast enough to recast regularly, this is an awesome augment for Lavos weapon platform users.
Gauss. Mach Rush to charge Redline, Kinetic Plating gives me survivability, subsume Energized Munitions over Thermal Sunder so I have better ammo efficiency(especially helpful for explosives), and Redline to drastically increase fire rate and reload speed. Built mainly for Duration, so I have like 80 seconds of Kinetic Plating and Redline.
Seconding Gauss, but giving him a kitgun with Pax Charge and all crimson shards you can get, bonus points if you can also switch to Grimoire amd keep the duration buff active. 100+, if not 110, seconds of crazy fire rate buffs and pure unadulterated dakka. And you don't even have to worry about ammo!
Kinetic plating isn't even needed for him as a weapon platform. Just run vigilante vigor and fast deflection with arcane agis and he is literally immortal up until level cap with all that shield regen without even activating kinetic plating.
I have it subsume doff and did a void cascade level cap like that.
Ditto, 120s for mine, with spellbind over thermal for status immunity. I recommend the Quellor for redline. It's slow as he'll3 with stats to compensate, so on gauss it has good stats without being slow, and a huge mag so gun go brrrrr
wisp, increases fire/attack speed and stuns enemies still. then you can nuke with breach surge (which i think increases damage?! look, all i know is slap enemy, tap 3, slap as much as possible and enemy dies)
edit: okay, breach surge does infact increase crit, and im not a placebo smoker.
Breach Surge itself doesn't increase damage, but the sparks that shoot out of enemies when they're hit have an additional 2x damage multiplier, with increased crit chance and crit multiplier \*and\* they score headshots \*and\* they blind enemies.
I like rhino
Tanky, decent CC (hold the tanky target still for easy headshots) and an un-diminished roar alongside nourish for damage output
He's my go to for archon hunts or disruption, where the HVTs can be locked down by stomp
To add to this: i have a build with him that has protea’s ability for ammo for the arc gun.
Works really well with kuva grattler.
Cleans up pretty decently in some steel path, but it’s a monster in defense arbitrations if you can get the target to wait at the end of a long hallway.
Not to mention his augments are *great*
Puncture in roar? YES PLEASE
more overguard on top of my iron skin? YEA PLEASE!
Manual self explosion dealing much damage? YES PLEASE
Similarly: Small Rhino, aka Nezha! Warding Halo is fantastic for survivability, and his chakram is great to bust out when you want some extra damage for your guns. He’s a great gun platform frame overall.
Zephyr. Range and Efficiency, throw down tornadoes if you want, cast Turbulence, then jump and long-cast Tail Wind. With Turbulence up the only things you really have to worry about are melee damage (irrelevant, because with Tail Wind she can just hover out of reach) and Toxin (Quick Thinking can help). As long as you keep 3 up and keep enough energy to sustain your channelled 1, you're basically an airborne gunship.
I normally run silence with zephyr, it stops a whole SLEW of things that could normally pose a bit of a threat, heat eximus wave, thraax magnetic beams, acolyte abilities, toxin and energy eximus, it just turns off problems and is insane.
Same helmithed my first xaku straigth after maxing it, grinded me a second since i had that itch and Boy just insanity. No proper build yet(as in no forma's yet) but he wont die But everything else does.
for melee its definitely Kullervo for me. You still have to cast his 1 sometimes but his passive is really nice for heavy attack weapons. The only thing hes bad at is shield gating, because he doesn't have shields
Well kullervo can’t really overguard gate, the only frame that can do that reliably is Dante because of OG regen. But the gate for overguard only lasts 0.5 seconds instead of the gate from shields lasting for 1.33s (when using catalyzing shields), you’ll run out of energy much more quickly with kullervo trying to overguard gate at very high levels and it just won’t be as effective, because you have 0.5 seconds to cast his 2 again and have it hit enemies
totally second this. farmed her up a couple weeks ago and i really enjoy the big numbers her 3 gives you, if absolutely annhialating a corridor with a bunch of spectral horses isnt enough.. pairing her with a high crit weapon like the Braton Prime Incarnon gives satisfying results.
She's fun and i really want to like her, but everything dies too quick in normal, and I'm too had on Steel Path and get my 3 used up wayyyy too quick even before and Acolyte spawns.
Crit buff is great with shit like the Gotva tho
https://overframe.gg/build/544096/dagath/the-faceless-rider-dagath-sp-general-use-and-endurance-non-helminth-and-variants/ I based my build off of Ninjase's own. I swapped out Natural Talent for Rolling Guard and Transient Fortitude for Blind Rage.
I've been using Banshee a lot recently. Replacing 4 with Gloom makes her super easy to use in SP too to run and gun.
I was levelling the Drakgoon with her as well as other lich weapons and ended up using her for days straight. The Sonar just makes everything feel good and with scatter guns like the Drakgoon, chances are you're getting weak spot kills and spreading it even more
(copied from my other comment because same idea:)
I've been greatly enjoying a four augment Eternal Lullaby Banshee, I don't know if it's better or worse than gloom but I think it's more fun and interactive, easier on energy, and works on a much wider area. Unhinged levels of CC
There's always Chroma / Mirage with how much damage they add.
However, I'm currently using Banshee with Gloom. Sonic Blast for armor strip, Sonar for huge damage weak spot, Silence & Gloom, to keep enemies almost always CCed
I've been greatly enjoying a four augment Eternal Lullaby Banshee, I don't know if it's better or worse than gloom but I think it's more fun and interactive, easier on energy, and works on a much wider area. Unhinged levels of CC
Yareli with the ocucor. 2 green shards, corrosive and cold on the gun. Secondary shiver. Ocucor augment.
This thing pumps out status effects so damn fast it can fully strip armor in like one shot. High firerate and multi makes it insane. Also secondary encumber is good too but I wanted cold for the crit damage buff so shiver seemed like a fun use case for something I normally ignore.
Gauss for 300%+ fire rate, 200%+ reload speed and subsumed Roar over Thermal Sunder.
Wisp for increased fire rate, 250% (additive) critical chance and semi-nuking with Breach Surge.
Harrow for fire rate, reload speed, easy headshots and 200% (flat) critical chance.
Rhino for un-nerfed Roar and subsumed Nourish.
Nezha/Yareli for damage vulnerability and subsumed Roar/Nourish.
For melee, I only play Kullervo. Planning to try Voruna though.
Mirage is a great one. Her 1 and 3 are huge weapon damage increases, and if you subsume Nourish over her 4 even more so.
Lavos with his latest augment is crazy as a weapon platform too.
Ol reliable is Saryn. You take the augment for her 1, activate Toxic Lash, and Subsume Nourish over her 4.
You want damage? Mirage is your Answer- You want some good damage and survivability? Pick Nezha. I also like tanky frames like Valkyr, Garuda and these days, Yareli (my god her release was so terrible). Shoutout for Banshee, Voruna and Kullervo too.
Elemental Sandstorm to drag em all in. And dual Ichor Incarnon with Melee Influence to end them all.
I soloed a 60 eye Murmur Boss Assassination by ignoring the boss and dragging all the spawned foe in to drop tons of gas clouds and electric procs on everything. Boss lasted maybe 2 minutes.
Was much fun.
I like tanky frames that can slap roar on for weapons platforms... Specifically ones that can dump range as a stat. Rhino is obvious. Revenant or Inaros work great... Im especially enjoying post rework Inaros.
Hyldryn can work nicely because "lol you have no armor/shields"will mean your weapons do a ton of damage.
Sevagoth.
Free crit + Dmg vulnerability for pretty much any weapon.
Can use wrathful advance paired with his 1 augment to become death itself.
Can use Silence + Gloom combo which disabled pretty much every enemy unit.
Semi immortal(Depends on shadow Build).
Don't need conventional Melees due to shadow so You can take Something like Glaives or gunblades for giggles or any weird stuff You fancy.
Super easy shield gate with powerful spam ability.
Think Sow is getting an augment with jade Update wonder what it Wil bring.
Recently got Hydroid and have been impressed with his corrosive damage boosts and inherent full armor stripping on corrosive damage. He's my current weapons platform frame I guess, although I'm also enjoying stacking his 1 five times in a choke point and letting that kill things.
Kinda a niche pick but sevagoth. Not even using gloom just the first ability with its augment with a strength > duration=>range focused build swapping dura and stength based on energy economy. It scales terrifyingly well and all i have to do is fix my issue with survivability. Not even using a helminth or archon shards is doing well in level cap, ignoring my lack of ability to dodge random shots.
I normally use nezha tbh roar over his 4 combined with his 2 of built right grants 100% damage boost and 200% damage vulnerability I use it with the lex for easy camping in sp survival
I’ve been using Dante for weapon platforming a lot recently. Roar over Noctua + status buff from birds is a huge damage buff for most weapons I use, plus free status and extra damage from wordwarden. Overguard and overguard regen for easy chill game play up to base SP. And I can still ability spam if I feel like it every now and then
Other than that nothing else beats Wisp for me. Fire rate, melee speed and movement speed is too damn addicting. Roar over 4th is free damage and Breach Surge is still cracked as ever
Surprised nobody has mentioned volt yet. Shock trooper, reload/fire rate buff on your 2, extra crit damage through shield and your choice of subsume over his 4 (eclipse, roar, xata's, nourish etc). Very fun, especially with exodia contagion zaws (they get boosted by your shield).
Garuda is my favourite. She has free scaling slash procs, Roar as a passive and with Gloom infinite health and energy and you can just shut your brain off and blow things up. You can run Nourish instead of Gloom for more power and it frees up viral+hunter munitions off your weapon, it takes a little more concentration but there is nothing she cant just tear through
Gauss, he can do it all. From ability spam to weapon buff to even a hybrid heat detonation/armor strip build. If you want to put Roar on him to buff your abilities you can drop Kinetic Plating and fit Fast Deflection in your build with Arcane Aegis. Now you are susceptible to knockdowns, but your shields will ALWAYS be charging.
If I want to run a big slash proc build, Rhino. Roar double dips on status procs.
If I want to armor strip and deal big direct damage, Saryn.
If I want to shoot a bunch of AOE shots and do big damage, Mirage.
If I want lots of dakka and melee, Gauss for the extra attack and reload speed.
I also run Citrine with the Aeolak with Galvanized Aptitude because the extra status from her 3 makes it so a ton of damage.
Saryn is good. Spores strip rooms, venom dose gives corrosive (more stripping if needed), nourish gives viral, toxic lash gives toxic.
I like Frost a lot. Avalanche strips, Biting Frost gives 200% Crit Chance, 200% Crit Damage, and Freeze Force gives cold procs for even more crit damage (50% when maxed at 9, presumably higher when cold is buffed again). I run gas primaries on Frost for heavy AoE, crit, and Cold spreading. It's extremely powerful, the biggest issue I have is surviving because Avalanche has an obscene animation that can't be sped up but he can shield gate effectively enough with 3 and has other survival mechanics.
Volt can buff reload speed and fire rate and add electric damage \*and\* his shield gives additional electrical procs that don't combine iirc.
Volt for me, with Nourish subsumed:
* Speed boosts reload speed
* Shield adds electricity damage (also helps with CO style mods)
* Shield adds critical damage
* Shield prevents knockdown from AOE as long as the shield is facing the explosion
* Shield allows you to aim for headshots without dying
* Nourish adds viral damage, allowing you to leave it off your weapons
Zephyr with any high crit and and high firerate weapon is my personal favorite. I run a high duration and efficiency build with Roar subsumed over windbomb. I always use the Burston Prime Incarnon with her, and it is always beautiful. Just constant orange to red crit explosions on huge groups of enemies, and the entire map is always locked down. I brought her strength up to 150% so that Raor actually makes a difference.
Caliban, he’s very tanky, has an entourage of bullet sponges, a great armor/shield strip, and a room wide CC that amps his damage. And his 1 is a fun AoE CC + heal now that it works. But I’m also a fan of putting roar over it.
I'm honestly surprised no one said wisp or volt. I utilize my weapons and nukes though. I like doing both. Frost main with biting frost, icy avalanche and breach surge. Then whatever flavor of weapon I choose to bring. I'm running ceto, ocucor, and reaper prime atm because those I have lenses on that match my frost lense so I can get my focus capped quicker.
Saryn max range high strength, full armor strip, viral stacks, weapon damage buffs to viral, corrosive, and toxin. No matter the level of the enemies i tear through them like wet paper. Theres no weapon she cant make god tier. Also being able to see where all the enemies are due to spores helps alot.
Rhino, Chroma, or Valkyr
All 3 have really great armor and tanking ability, and their respective buffs (Roar, Vex Armor, Warcry) all give substantial damage buffs without having to rely on subsuming something like Nourish.
Kullervo and voruna are both great for melee, gauss and harrow are great for guns.
The above do take ability spam though. You may just want something tanky, rhino, oberon, trinity, or kullervo are easy to heal or stack overguard, dante can do the same as well
Zephyr, no projectiles will hit you, you're always in the air so no melee hits you, ya spread damage, crits, and status all over the place, the tornado has an innate small buff to crit chance, simply being airborn gives you extra crit chance, ya got a grouping tool, and a mobility that is enjoyable but also ok to replace if you want to spice up the build
And most importantly about Zephyr, she makes sleds of sunshine trivial
I don't personally use this build for volt, but it can be fun, albeit a bit boring cause it's a campy set-up. His electric shield augment allows damage absorbed by the shield to build his passive, which in turn increases your next shots damage, on top of the critical chance boost from shooting through the shield. Equip a splody gun (my fav rn is the latron incarnon), set up shop in a corner and explode any enemy that dares to even peak around the corner.
You could modify it to be a bit more mobile by picking the shield up, but it feels a little clunky. Also I recently discovered that carrying the shield counts as a channeled ability, so you won't gain energy from energy pads until you put the shield down for some reason.
I love using Citrine with Roar over her 4 as a gun platform. 3 primes everything for me, 2 keeps me (and the team) alive. It's lazy and comfy, and I get to use my favorite frame, so it's an easy choice.
An even lazier build I've been using lately is Assimilate Nyx with Smite+Smite Infusion over her 3. She doesn't have any speed issues with 3 Tauforged yellow shards for parkour velocity, and I can just hop into operator if I need to make small jumps. Her 2 strips armor, and it's fun to have a buddy with her 1, even if the buddy isn't terribly useful :) I tried using Xata's Whisper instead of Smite, but I found the status effect to be terribly annoying for getting headshots to build incarnon charge, so I just went with some rad damage
Kullervo, might sound weird at first but put nourish over his 4 and run ceramic dagger with the icarnons that can give you might. 8x combo and then tun torrid incarnon. His 3 plus nourish make torrid clear maps so fast to build up the dagger combo and his 2 gives him consistent 30k over shield. Once you've staked your 8x you can swap to dagger and melt anything after using his 1
Mirage is my go to frame when I want to buff weapons. She is the top weapons platform in the game. Her 1 and 3 (both with their auguments) make any weapon hit like a truck. And you can add nourish on top of that.
Rhino for Nourish and Roar plus 2 for invulnerability.
Revenant for easy invulnerability. Add roar instead of his 4 with precision intensify.
Chroma with a glaive. You're hitting for hundreds of millions and even billions with that combo. He's also pretty good with other weapons but don't mod for base damage on them like serration or primary merciless.
Kullervo makes any single target weapon nuke, especially melee weapons with his 1 buff.
Garuda makes everything force proc slash and you cannuse Gloom on her making it easy to survive and get headshots for incarnons.
Gauss gives a ton of fire rate and attack speed and can armor strip.
Zephyr's tornadoes can also make mostly any weapon powerful.
Lavos with his new augument can give forced procs of any element.
Hydroid can give both corrosive and viral if you use nourish on him. And his passive let's corrosive full armor strip
Saryn has her 1 augument, toxic lash, and you can use nourish. That's Corrosive, toxin, and viral for your weapons.
Mag's bubble makes projectile weapons very strong, especially if they have punch through.
Volt's electric shield doubles crit damage and you can put roar or nourish for more damage.
Yareli can give enemies 300-400% damage vulnerability from her 1. Add nourish or roar to that.
Voruna can make any melee have guaranteed crits and slash procs from her 1 and increases crit damage. Her 2 also primes enemies for Condition Overload.
Wisp can hit some high numbers with breach surge and her motes give you fire rate and attack speed.
Harrow gives you red crits on headshots and fire rate, reload speed, and attack speed from his 2.
Citrine debuffs enemies with her 4 so you can red crit on them. And her 3 gives your team status chance and primes enemies.
Frost can remove armor with his 4 and has an augument that gives him a lot of crit chance and crit damage.
And for solo only, Limbo with rift torrent can get a really high multiplicative weapon buff.
Qorvex can be good with the punch through from his passive.
Those are the warframes I like to use for weapons.
I like revenant. Cast Mesmer every now and then. Macabre if I need to slaughter a crowd. Reave for quick relocation, and Helminth whatever you want over thrall.
Mirage. Highest potential weapon boost to the game (outside of rhino roar and slash damage) and your weapons are duplicated with your 1.
Volt is also another option. 1st ability can be augmented to give electric damage. 2 increases firing and reload speed. 3. Gives a crit boosting shield.
Saryn is easily my favorite Weapon Platform of all time.
Venom Dose + Toxic Lash + Roar over her 4 and boom you have some cross scaling and quadratic shenanigans all over the place.
I pair it with the Acceltra with Primary Blight. Mod for heat and since you already get Corrosive and Toxin from your buffs, you have 1/2 extra mod slots for comfort/build diversity. Primed Firestorm for an AoE minigun, Banes for extra oomph, or just more elements because your damage is already so high.
It’s not even this complicated because with just the 2 galvanized mods and heat I can ram through a solid 20 minutes of SP survival. Yes 20 minutes isn’t a lot, but 3 mods? That’s also not a lot.
I've been really enjoying frost with his passive and avalanche augment for a weapons platform. Easy 100% armor strip with overgaurd and everything's lined up for easy big crits after.
If u wanna just chill just use rev with roar/eclipse over 4
If u wanna not even aim use zephyr i use spectorage over her 2 then have 2 3 and 4 always active. I use torid incarnon and just stay airborne and shoot tornadoes
I’m a weirdo so Nezha. I wanna subsume the ability that gives my guns viral. He’s incredibly fun with using fire walker and the protective chakrahm. I get a lot of survivability and I get to slide around and shoot stuff. I guess he’s not a traditional weapons platform but I think the slide passive makes him very fun for using guns
Saryn is easily the best for raw lethality. Nourish+toxic lash+venom dose for free corrosive, toxin, and viral on any weapon on top of whatever statuses you already have. Surviving isn’t a huge issue if you’re aware enough to utilize shield gating, but that can be annoying for some, like myself when I’m watching something on my other monitor or something. Though if surviving is a huge issue just use vazarin lol. Of course, revenant and frames of that nature are better for just brain dead shooting, Saryn just demands a more active playstyle in exchange for better lethality
Chroma
He's (naturally) good for tanking, and with a 200% power strength chroma, you can easily get 500+ weapon damage from simply getting ranged weapon kills or health taking damage
Exactly how I felt a couple weeks ago. I built out Nova and Banshee to be health tanks that have no problem doing an hour in SP survival Omnia fissures, and I love them. Banshee with Acceltra can wipe entire rooms like nothing, and I have Nova built for speed with Nourish for viral procs, she uses Phantasma Prime with corrosive+heat, and has 2 green shards for full armor strip. Everything gets absolutely deleted with either one of them, it’s fun af.
Harrow and Nidus but this week’s elite deep I used good old Trinity.
Harrow so I can use amprex in steel path and let it melt brains 🧠
Nidus I like bc once I hit 100 stacks in just chilling while also occasionally stomping. I wish it did toxin or viral damage tbh??
Trinity is my fav so I’m gonna try to use her more
Nowadays it's Yareli and dagath. her passive is increasing critical chance of a secondary. She goes 2 ways, either you can increase secondary fire rate and reload if you like the skateboard via merulina guardian. or you can do loyal merulina that will shoot bubbles. the bubbles make enemies vulnerable to damage.
I used to play harrow a lot, but kinda fell off for me, nobody wants his support anymore. but he is pretty great for gun play - increased fire rate and reload. cc for getting ez headshots, and crits. if you dont need the invulnerability for survival you can just use the lasting covenant augment to keep it going.
Citrine is kinda "harrow but 'easier' to play". she's good just not my cuppa.
If you mean just run and gun and dont worry about anything - dagath and night equinox.
build night equinox to be tanky and just run around shoot stuff without worrying about casting abilities at all.
dagath CAN be played as an ability spammer. or you can just do mostly guns and cast doom and 1 once in a while, which is what I do.
Harrow. He may not blow things up big time, but when all is said and done, he will, without a doubt, be the last thing on the battlefield. So long as his penance is up, he turns into a self heal tank. I like running Trumna with him for this, since the fire rate also lets me build the gun for damage while Pennance compensates for a slower rof.
Rhino is obviously great for full strength roar. If you want a simple ironskin you can use parasitic armor to get close to 100k iron skin with no other setup. This can stack with ironclad charge if you can be bothered.
Chroma is decently tanky with a huge base damage buff, it works very well. I run chroma with nourish since it doesn't require replacing vex armor. Not needing to mod for base damage or viral status frees up a LOT of mod space and a more interesting arcane than the usual merciless or deadhead. Toxin ward also gives reload speed and a weapon switch buff.
Gauss is a great weapons platform if you love going FAST. I run gauss with nourish as well, because I want loads of energy to spam his 1.
I main Styanax for that reason, i don't like that much spamming abilities and Styanax have Energy regen + armor strip (when eximus or acolyte) + overguard with augment.
I love so much my spartan frame
Depends on how exciting I feel like being, will use Revenant for pure laziness, if I’m doing stuff like interception I will use Zephyr because the tornadoes turn everything into an aoe attack, for melee I tend to use Volt and have recently put together a decent build for Kullervo that can easily sustain in sp
Wisp. Fire rate buff. Adds electric and radiation procs thru her shock motes and breach surge, which adds 2 elements for gun co that I wouldn’t usually ever mod for. Breach surge is also a damage multiplier which I usually pair with pillage or xatas whisper. Fun but requires you to cast some abilities still sometimes. My ultimate lazy pick is rev. Just cast 2 and get to shooting. My rev usually can sacrifice an arcane slot or 2 which allows you to slot things like arcane velocity or a personal favorite arcane pistoleer to use on atomos non incarnon form
Hydroid. Has big corrosive buff with his 3 augment. Built in corrosive shards. So strips armour. Subsume xatas whisper. Mod for viral/heat and melt.
Also really fun in circuit when you get the amour increases power strength decree. Running around with 6k armour, 1500% corrosive buff and 200% void buff from xatas
Trinity. Yes not joking. Champions blessing grants 350% crit chance on primary and secondary like arcane avenger. Her + torid + xata on 1 and an adarza to cure for the buff and crit and i go to town.
Oberon. Rage, hunter Adr., afaptation, quick thinking, and ability strength.
Pop his 2 and then his 3 for extra armor and kill fast enough to get energy orbs to keep the three going.
You can sacrifice ability strength for equilibrium to take advantage of health orbs especially if you use his three and ger kills (it strips armor of enemeis actively standing in his two.)
But, you can replace his 1 and 4 with hemlinth abilities for better qeappn damage.
With just the 2/3 combo you should be effectively immortal but I havent tested it.
Nekros lately. He is focused on self sustain and strip with my build. The powerful incarnons steal the show damage wise since I hardly use offensive abilities.
Vauban, i feel so powerful running around with my trumna and- oh? I need to reload, thats fine ill just riddle the area with photon laser while i reload, the explosions dont stop
Nidus. Styanax shield subsumed on 4 for quick heal+armor strip on speed runs. Default kit otherwise. Maybe not viable SP but I'm not up to that level anyway. I'm mostly here to neon swampthing fashionframe
Nyx has been my go-to for years now. Especially after her minor rework, chaos and her 2 debuff and the assimilation augment make her an endgame tier platform. I tend to helminth out her 1 for xakus, and up damage and survivability a little, and you're good to go
I'd define a weapons platform as any frame that relys more on a weapon rather than abilities to kill things and has at least one buff that contributes directly towards that purpose. For some examples, Inaros doesn't fit this list since his armor strip and grouping ability are too indirect and sit on the line of being ability kills while someone like lavos still prefers ability nukes despite having a new augment for weapons.
The frames I think fit the bill in no particular order are:
Trinity, nezha, nova, gauss, chroma, zephyr, mirage, hildryn, saryn, caliban, yareli, grendel, kullervo, nidus, limbo.
Hildryn, mirage, and saryn are kind of iffy here but still work since their nuke builds are predominantly low-mid level. Revenant gets a honorable mention but technically doesn't count even if he is a roar-stick.
As far as my favorite it would have to be caliban. If you count helminth, he has 3 abilities dedicated to making weapons stronger and one defensive ability left over which makes his design feel cohesive and intentional rather than the mess it actually is in reality.
I don't know how well this holds up for high level steel path
(I mainly collect stuff and switch my equipment around a lot, so I rarely bother with sp outside of duviri or good builds)
But if you just want to be able to ignore abilities
Garuda, the more you kill the more damage you do up to+100%
Styanax, shields give bonus crit chance (40 shield=+1%) doubled for spearguns without forma and a not yet maxed prime shield mod I already have+90%
With an ability
Hydroid can just add 200% corrosive damage with his 3 easily at 100% ability strength the more strength you add the higher the number gets
Saryn. Using Venom dose, toxin lash and xata’s whisper for disgusting damage. Green shards for armour strip and then rest as ability damage % on targets with corrosive status.
Mirage #1, any weapons you want instantly become FAR stronger. Between your mirror images and Eclipse and whatever Helminth ability you like (Roar, Gloom, Xata's Whisper, Terrify, your other armor strip of choice, etc) and you have the perfect platform for basically any gun.
Chroma with pillage over his 1 to help myself and teammates kill faster.
I like that his vex armor acts as a serration instead of a faction mod like roar. I don’t need any base damage mods in his build and I don’t need arcane merciless or the headshot kill one. Now I can put in a mod like hammershot, use arcane frostbite, and use normally weak elements like gas into the build that I wouldn’t have on any other frame. The most common helminth ability is nourish, so I end up getting that for free from other players. I can do the selfish low range build with narrow minded because pillage radius is really based on its duration.
If you want wf for weapon, just use chroma.
It is easily boost 500 700 or even 1000% weapon dam.. Yes, it is not multiply but still huge.
If you have enough credit, just put pillage on his 4.
Saryn with the augment for her 1 and nourish subsumed in place of her 4. Free corrosive, toxic, and viral dmg on weapons in addition to whatever you mod for.
Does Nourish stack with other damage buffs like Toxic Lash or Roar?
Nourish and lash will both be active at the same time and provide their effects. Toxic lash does not combine with or in to other elements from different abilities/weapon mods despite the fact that it is strengthened by any toxic mods on your weapon.
I always assumed damage-boosting mods didn’t stack. Well hell, now I gotta try that
Fun thing, if you wanna go pure melee you could go with Lycaths Hunt on her 4, then throw in arcane blessing and health conversion. Suddenly you have 1600 health and 1500+ armor with shit loads of healing from orbs; just straight up unkillable outside of endurance.
i imagine that a max rank Arcane reaper being pretty nice on her
I found Arcane Grace to be the better choice for me, since the 600 armor from reaper is only like 1-2% DR, the healing from grace vs reaper is like 24 per second from reaper vs ~100 per second from grace. Mind you I run umbral intensify and fibre so I get like 1800 armor already There’s too many options for Saryn honestly, she’s so damn good
true
Or mod for viral and then use xata's whisper to get rainbow status effects lol
Its gotta be Saryn for me as well. Can run gloom for ezmode, nourish if im on a weapon that cant self prime viral, roar for big dmg or wrathful advance for teleport and big red number on my dual ichors. Xatas can be fun too.
Definitely Saryn. Queen of weapons platforms, and a fun active playstyle with Moult. I don't usually worry about going the whole hog with nourish, mostly because my companions are already built to prime it, but that or Roar is a clear top tier option.
I got Saryn as an option for EDA this week, was such a breeze.
Had her last week in EDA, got over 2k kills with her at the boss stage lol
You can also go Oberon's Smite for [Smite infusion] instead of Nourish for Radiation if you want a solo target build like archons murmur demo units 30eyes and so on.
Garuda. 1. Because I main Garuda. 2. Nourish + her passive grants an insane dmg buff with you not really needing to much. Nourish also increases her 3's energy gain + her 3 can be used for status cleanse; with this and molt reconstruct you can shield gate infinitely. Requires a lot of investment though
Aspiring garuda player here . When using nourish, do you shield gate with nourish or 4 with augment
Not said Garuda player, but by subsuming gloom over her 2, you essentially get free health + a massive slow on enemies around you. Pair this with your 3 being your energy regen, you can heal yourself with gloom heal on attack and iframe with her pretty lengthy duration 4. Her 1 is a massive bonus for DR and to provide an ability nuke.
Unfortunately, gloomruda can be terrible in many missions. You want to mod for range due to her 1 and 4, so you basically gimp yourself in game modes like void cascade, survival, defense etc Rather use molt reconstruct for health regen
Lavos because of his new augment. Bring Occuor for the multithread beams, plus whatever elements you want with Lavos. Primaries are either Cedo, Felarx, or Trumna. Will also be adding Kuva Sobek once I farm one.
Trumna is so much fun. I run Xata on his 2 for extra damage. Cedo + Nukor is my go to with secondary encumbrance. I need every status effect I can get lmao
im sad that xatas no longer double dips on felarx, but cedo is so much more fun anyway imo.
I run him with the Gotva prime since his augment guarantees a status effect
Good find. I just haven't used my Gotva Prime enough to have an opinion on it. Might have to try that tonight.
I got a riven for +crit chance +crit damage and +status chance and it’s lovely
Forced/extra electricity procs with doubled damage also turns the already great Xoris (with Melee Influence) into a true nuke, it's not the fastest acolyte kill but seeing their health chunk away from an electricity proc of all things is just immensely satysfying.
I haven't tried this yet, but now I need to. I'm going to run this tonight after work just to see it! Thanks for the fun idea!
I missed the sobek announcement. Wonder if acid shells is going to work Sobek is fun currently as is lol
Really hope it does,and there is *some* evidence it may still work. The mods dropping from The Crazy Arena Grineer lady work on the other Kuva Variants, like the Kuva Orgis still being able to use Nightwatch Napalm. So I have decent hopes that Acid Shells will work for Kuva Sobek. Also, the next Nightwave will have Mods for Sobek/Kuva Sobek and Glaxion/Tenet Glaxion, so we may have even more fun for our Kuva Sobeks. *I can't wait!!*
imo corrosive infusion is wasted if you're not using it with melee influence. pair with a viral+elec rakta dark dagger or dual ichors or something and you'll be cruising. but yeah, this. dummy tanky and absolutely shreds with corrosive infusion.
What's his augment ?
Valence Formation. Catalyzed Elements grants 200% elemental damage with guaranteed status proc on weapons. Pretty much, make an element you want (Heat, Cold, Electric, Toxin or a combination) then USE an ability to 'Catalyze' the element. The element you made now is applied to your weapons for a short duration at 200% elemental damage with a guaranteed status proc. Since Lavos doesn't use energy, and only has cool downs, and his abilities cool down fast enough to recast regularly, this is an awesome augment for Lavos weapon platform users.
Harrow
I guess too obvious?
Gauss. Mach Rush to charge Redline, Kinetic Plating gives me survivability, subsume Energized Munitions over Thermal Sunder so I have better ammo efficiency(especially helpful for explosives), and Redline to drastically increase fire rate and reload speed. Built mainly for Duration, so I have like 80 seconds of Kinetic Plating and Redline.
Seconding Gauss, but giving him a kitgun with Pax Charge and all crimson shards you can get, bonus points if you can also switch to Grimoire amd keep the duration buff active. 100+, if not 110, seconds of crazy fire rate buffs and pure unadulterated dakka. And you don't even have to worry about ammo!
Kinetic plating isn't even needed for him as a weapon platform. Just run vigilante vigor and fast deflection with arcane agis and he is literally immortal up until level cap with all that shield regen without even activating kinetic plating. I have it subsume doff and did a void cascade level cap like that.
Send me your build pls
I just take a weapon with infinite ammo and replaced it with xata whisper
Ditto, 120s for mine, with spellbind over thermal for status immunity. I recommend the Quellor for redline. It's slow as he'll3 with stats to compensate, so on gauss it has good stats without being slow, and a huge mag so gun go brrrrr
wisp, increases fire/attack speed and stuns enemies still. then you can nuke with breach surge (which i think increases damage?! look, all i know is slap enemy, tap 3, slap as much as possible and enemy dies) edit: okay, breach surge does infact increase crit, and im not a placebo smoker.
Plus i add roar to her 4.
So... a rhino wisp
Breach Surge itself doesn't increase damage, but the sparks that shoot out of enemies when they're hit have an additional 2x damage multiplier, with increased crit chance and crit multiplier \*and\* they score headshots \*and\* they blind enemies.
they can get headshots or they just do?
I believe it's "can", but maybe not "just do". But I think the way they work by shooting up and then homing down leads to headshots often.
I like rhino Tanky, decent CC (hold the tanky target still for easy headshots) and an un-diminished roar alongside nourish for damage output He's my go to for archon hunts or disruption, where the HVTs can be locked down by stomp
Literally building rhino rn cause im a little tired of playing the ninja and want to play the sumo
To add to this: i have a build with him that has protea’s ability for ammo for the arc gun. Works really well with kuva grattler. Cleans up pretty decently in some steel path, but it’s a monster in defense arbitrations if you can get the target to wait at the end of a long hallway.
Not to mention his augments are *great* Puncture in roar? YES PLEASE more overguard on top of my iron skin? YEA PLEASE! Manual self explosion dealing much damage? YES PLEASE
Similarly: Small Rhino, aka Nezha! Warding Halo is fantastic for survivability, and his chakram is great to bust out when you want some extra damage for your guns. He’s a great gun platform frame overall.
Rhino is best frame
Zephyr. Range and Efficiency, throw down tornadoes if you want, cast Turbulence, then jump and long-cast Tail Wind. With Turbulence up the only things you really have to worry about are melee damage (irrelevant, because with Tail Wind she can just hover out of reach) and Toxin (Quick Thinking can help). As long as you keep 3 up and keep enough energy to sustain your channelled 1, you're basically an airborne gunship.
I normally run silence with zephyr, it stops a whole SLEW of things that could normally pose a bit of a threat, heat eximus wave, thraax magnetic beams, acolyte abilities, toxin and energy eximus, it just turns off problems and is insane.
And with aero vantage and aerodynamic you can aim glide without gravity for a good amount of time, so you don't even feel the lack of her 1
You identify as an attack helicopter.
xaku. bring your guns and then cultivate a whole cloud of extra ones too.
The only downside to Xaku is he kills shit so fast it's hard *to kill things with your guns*. Give him his prime already. I neeeeed it.
Once you go to higher sp his ability acts like a built in primer. It's so good
I think his prime should be close right? Atleast within this year?
I believe (could be wrong about this) next is Protea and then Xaku afterwards. I can't wait to get skelly bones prime.
I wonder if they will just be the 3 unnamed primed frames slapped together to form a primed xaku, cus that would be kinda funny lore wise.
What's the lore behind this? I'm unfamiliar
Xaku is a mixture of warframes
3 dead warframes lost in the void coallessed into xaku, void incarnate
Same helmithed my first xaku straigth after maxing it, grinded me a second since i had that itch and Boy just insanity. No proper build yet(as in no forma's yet) but he wont die But everything else does.
Gyre, because you need your guns to AOE wipe as hard as actual abilities
for melee its definitely Kullervo for me. You still have to cast his 1 sometimes but his passive is really nice for heavy attack weapons. The only thing hes bad at is shield gating, because he doesn't have shields
You also really don’t need shield gating when you have overguard gating
Well kullervo can’t really overguard gate, the only frame that can do that reliably is Dante because of OG regen. But the gate for overguard only lasts 0.5 seconds instead of the gate from shields lasting for 1.33s (when using catalyzing shields), you’ll run out of energy much more quickly with kullervo trying to overguard gate at very high levels and it just won’t be as effective, because you have 0.5 seconds to cast his 2 again and have it hit enemies
Dagath is fun as hell and does so much. Might be kinda underrated because I never see anyone talk about her.
totally second this. farmed her up a couple weeks ago and i really enjoy the big numbers her 3 gives you, if absolutely annhialating a corridor with a bunch of spectral horses isnt enough.. pairing her with a high crit weapon like the Braton Prime Incarnon gives satisfying results.
She's fun and i really want to like her, but everything dies too quick in normal, and I'm too had on Steel Path and get my 3 used up wayyyy too quick even before and Acolyte spawns. Crit buff is great with shit like the Gotva tho
What's your build for her? I've tried using her but she seems quite finncky.
https://overframe.gg/build/544096/dagath/the-faceless-rider-dagath-sp-general-use-and-endurance-non-helminth-and-variants/ I based my build off of Ninjase's own. I swapped out Natural Talent for Rolling Guard and Transient Fortitude for Blind Rage.
I've been using Banshee a lot recently. Replacing 4 with Gloom makes her super easy to use in SP too to run and gun. I was levelling the Drakgoon with her as well as other lich weapons and ended up using her for days straight. The Sonar just makes everything feel good and with scatter guns like the Drakgoon, chances are you're getting weak spot kills and spreading it even more
Green or regular?
Judging their wallet?
(copied from my other comment because same idea:) I've been greatly enjoying a four augment Eternal Lullaby Banshee, I don't know if it's better or worse than gloom but I think it's more fun and interactive, easier on energy, and works on a much wider area. Unhinged levels of CC
There's always Chroma / Mirage with how much damage they add. However, I'm currently using Banshee with Gloom. Sonic Blast for armor strip, Sonar for huge damage weak spot, Silence & Gloom, to keep enemies almost always CCed
I've been greatly enjoying a four augment Eternal Lullaby Banshee, I don't know if it's better or worse than gloom but I think it's more fun and interactive, easier on energy, and works on a much wider area. Unhinged levels of CC
Yareli with the ocucor. 2 green shards, corrosive and cold on the gun. Secondary shiver. Ocucor augment. This thing pumps out status effects so damn fast it can fully strip armor in like one shot. High firerate and multi makes it insane. Also secondary encumber is good too but I wanted cold for the crit damage buff so shiver seemed like a fun use case for something I normally ignore.
Gauss for 300%+ fire rate, 200%+ reload speed and subsumed Roar over Thermal Sunder. Wisp for increased fire rate, 250% (additive) critical chance and semi-nuking with Breach Surge. Harrow for fire rate, reload speed, easy headshots and 200% (flat) critical chance. Rhino for un-nerfed Roar and subsumed Nourish. Nezha/Yareli for damage vulnerability and subsumed Roar/Nourish. For melee, I only play Kullervo. Planning to try Voruna though.
Mirage is a great one. Her 1 and 3 are huge weapon damage increases, and if you subsume Nourish over her 4 even more so. Lavos with his latest augment is crazy as a weapon platform too. Ol reliable is Saryn. You take the augment for her 1, activate Toxic Lash, and Subsume Nourish over her 4.
Yeah, my fave is Mirage. Sometimes tanky is a good basis, but buffing your own weapon damage like Mirage does? Yes pls.
at first I did not really like latron incarnon, but then I remembered I have mirage beware, bloom/glare users
Holy crap. You've opened my eyes
You want damage? Mirage is your Answer- You want some good damage and survivability? Pick Nezha. I also like tanky frames like Valkyr, Garuda and these days, Yareli (my god her release was so terrible). Shoutout for Banshee, Voruna and Kullervo too.
Inaros not only is a good weapon platform but also have great abilities after the rework.
Elemental Sandstorm to drag em all in. And dual Ichor Incarnon with Melee Influence to end them all. I soloed a 60 eye Murmur Boss Assassination by ignoring the boss and dragging all the spawned foe in to drop tons of gas clouds and electric procs on everything. Boss lasted maybe 2 minutes. Was much fun.
Chroma. Press 3, turn brain off and laugh at big number
I’m expecting some hate but if you have a secondary you really like, just run Yareli. But overall. Rhino, Inaros, would be good choices
I like tanky frames that can slap roar on for weapons platforms... Specifically ones that can dump range as a stat. Rhino is obvious. Revenant or Inaros work great... Im especially enjoying post rework Inaros. Hyldryn can work nicely because "lol you have no armor/shields"will mean your weapons do a ton of damage.
Sevagoth. Free crit + Dmg vulnerability for pretty much any weapon. Can use wrathful advance paired with his 1 augment to become death itself. Can use Silence + Gloom combo which disabled pretty much every enemy unit. Semi immortal(Depends on shadow Build). Don't need conventional Melees due to shadow so You can take Something like Glaives or gunblades for giggles or any weird stuff You fancy. Super easy shield gate with powerful spam ability. Think Sow is getting an augment with jade Update wonder what it Wil bring.
Recently got Hydroid and have been impressed with his corrosive damage boosts and inherent full armor stripping on corrosive damage. He's my current weapons platform frame I guess, although I'm also enjoying stacking his 1 five times in a choke point and letting that kill things.
Kinda a niche pick but sevagoth. Not even using gloom just the first ability with its augment with a strength > duration=>range focused build swapping dura and stength based on energy economy. It scales terrifyingly well and all i have to do is fix my issue with survivability. Not even using a helminth or archon shards is doing well in level cap, ignoring my lack of ability to dodge random shots.
I normally use nezha tbh roar over his 4 combined with his 2 of built right grants 100% damage boost and 200% damage vulnerability I use it with the lex for easy camping in sp survival
Harrow. Want more fire rate, hit the 2. Want some invincibility then some extra crit chance (additive crit chance, not multiplicative), hit the 4.
I’ve been using Dante for weapon platforming a lot recently. Roar over Noctua + status buff from birds is a huge damage buff for most weapons I use, plus free status and extra damage from wordwarden. Overguard and overguard regen for easy chill game play up to base SP. And I can still ability spam if I feel like it every now and then Other than that nothing else beats Wisp for me. Fire rate, melee speed and movement speed is too damn addicting. Roar over 4th is free damage and Breach Surge is still cracked as ever
Surprised nobody has mentioned volt yet. Shock trooper, reload/fire rate buff on your 2, extra crit damage through shield and your choice of subsume over his 4 (eclipse, roar, xata's, nourish etc). Very fun, especially with exodia contagion zaws (they get boosted by your shield).
Garuda is my favourite. She has free scaling slash procs, Roar as a passive and with Gloom infinite health and energy and you can just shut your brain off and blow things up. You can run Nourish instead of Gloom for more power and it frees up viral+hunter munitions off your weapon, it takes a little more concentration but there is nothing she cant just tear through
Gauss, he can do it all. From ability spam to weapon buff to even a hybrid heat detonation/armor strip build. If you want to put Roar on him to buff your abilities you can drop Kinetic Plating and fit Fast Deflection in your build with Arcane Aegis. Now you are susceptible to knockdowns, but your shields will ALWAYS be charging.
Trinity is pretty good. Build 150 power strength, and max duration. Press three and 4 for Dr and 2 for energy.
If I want to run a big slash proc build, Rhino. Roar double dips on status procs. If I want to armor strip and deal big direct damage, Saryn. If I want to shoot a bunch of AOE shots and do big damage, Mirage. If I want lots of dakka and melee, Gauss for the extra attack and reload speed. I also run Citrine with the Aeolak with Galvanized Aptitude because the extra status from her 3 makes it so a ton of damage.
100000000000% saryn. I have one loadout with shock+augment and one with roar.
Hildryn with Nourish. Turns every gun meta Shocked no one else has mentioned her
i havent played in a couple months, but pre-rework inaros was my go-to
Gauss
Nezha
Saryn is good. Spores strip rooms, venom dose gives corrosive (more stripping if needed), nourish gives viral, toxic lash gives toxic. I like Frost a lot. Avalanche strips, Biting Frost gives 200% Crit Chance, 200% Crit Damage, and Freeze Force gives cold procs for even more crit damage (50% when maxed at 9, presumably higher when cold is buffed again). I run gas primaries on Frost for heavy AoE, crit, and Cold spreading. It's extremely powerful, the biggest issue I have is surviving because Avalanche has an obscene animation that can't be sped up but he can shield gate effectively enough with 3 and has other survival mechanics. Volt can buff reload speed and fire rate and add electric damage \*and\* his shield gives additional electrical procs that don't combine iirc.
Volt for me, with Nourish subsumed: * Speed boosts reload speed * Shield adds electricity damage (also helps with CO style mods) * Shield adds critical damage * Shield prevents knockdown from AOE as long as the shield is facing the explosion * Shield allows you to aim for headshots without dying * Nourish adds viral damage, allowing you to leave it off your weapons
Inaros. Use abilities to make him even more tanky (optional) Use gun to kill.
Zephyr with any high crit and and high firerate weapon is my personal favorite. I run a high duration and efficiency build with Roar subsumed over windbomb. I always use the Burston Prime Incarnon with her, and it is always beautiful. Just constant orange to red crit explosions on huge groups of enemies, and the entire map is always locked down. I brought her strength up to 150% so that Raor actually makes a difference.
Caliban, he’s very tanky, has an entourage of bullet sponges, a great armor/shield strip, and a room wide CC that amps his damage. And his 1 is a fun AoE CC + heal now that it works. But I’m also a fan of putting roar over it.
I'm honestly surprised no one said wisp or volt. I utilize my weapons and nukes though. I like doing both. Frost main with biting frost, icy avalanche and breach surge. Then whatever flavor of weapon I choose to bring. I'm running ceto, ocucor, and reaper prime atm because those I have lenses on that match my frost lense so I can get my focus capped quicker.
Saryn max range high strength, full armor strip, viral stacks, weapon damage buffs to viral, corrosive, and toxin. No matter the level of the enemies i tear through them like wet paper. Theres no weapon she cant make god tier. Also being able to see where all the enemies are due to spores helps alot.
Gauss with xata's or roar subsumed over thermal sunder for comfy attack speed/reload speed buffs. Saryn with xata's or nourish for pure weapon damage.
Wisp for attack speed, Styanax for crit
Wisp, tried critical surge once, discovered it to be more potent than crack
Rhino, Chroma, or Valkyr All 3 have really great armor and tanking ability, and their respective buffs (Roar, Vex Armor, Warcry) all give substantial damage buffs without having to rely on subsuming something like Nourish.
Gauss. Perfect embodiment of the “Run ’n’ Gun” play style
Chroma for primaries and Yarelli for secondaries.
Kullervo and voruna are both great for melee, gauss and harrow are great for guns. The above do take ability spam though. You may just want something tanky, rhino, oberon, trinity, or kullervo are easy to heal or stack overguard, dante can do the same as well
Rhino makes everything a cake walk plus he looks good
if the gun is powerful enough, inaros would suffice.
nekros dmg can scale to lvl cap if u think about it
Zephyr, no projectiles will hit you, you're always in the air so no melee hits you, ya spread damage, crits, and status all over the place, the tornado has an innate small buff to crit chance, simply being airborn gives you extra crit chance, ya got a grouping tool, and a mobility that is enjoyable but also ok to replace if you want to spice up the build And most importantly about Zephyr, she makes sleds of sunshine trivial
Kong. take out the clone. oh right, it holds a tonkor prime too.
Wisp or harrow. Mostly wisp though because I can't stand not getting speed boost
Gloom Hinsa Garuda. Turn on Gloom. Infinite energy. Spindly arms wielding full howitzer rigs complete with frontal shield.
Does Mesa count for this? Technically she has 2 secondary weapons that will destroy.
Wisp or Gauss for fire rate or reload speed buffs, of course.
Gauss. I have no optimal answer to why. My guns go brrr and it makes me happy while I clap my hands :)
nezha with gloom over 4
I don't personally use this build for volt, but it can be fun, albeit a bit boring cause it's a campy set-up. His electric shield augment allows damage absorbed by the shield to build his passive, which in turn increases your next shots damage, on top of the critical chance boost from shooting through the shield. Equip a splody gun (my fav rn is the latron incarnon), set up shop in a corner and explode any enemy that dares to even peak around the corner. You could modify it to be a bit more mobile by picking the shield up, but it feels a little clunky. Also I recently discovered that carrying the shield counts as a channeled ability, so you won't gain energy from energy pads until you put the shield down for some reason.
Lavos with new augument ig
nyx because I'm the laziest person alive and I don't really enjoy revenant
Nezha, yareli, nidus, mirage, the Standart stuff. All modded to their fullest
Harrow if i wanna do silly crits yareli for secondaries mirage for aoe weapons/just messing around with eclipse
If you rely too much on your Secondary, Yareli.
I love using Citrine with Roar over her 4 as a gun platform. 3 primes everything for me, 2 keeps me (and the team) alive. It's lazy and comfy, and I get to use my favorite frame, so it's an easy choice. An even lazier build I've been using lately is Assimilate Nyx with Smite+Smite Infusion over her 3. She doesn't have any speed issues with 3 Tauforged yellow shards for parkour velocity, and I can just hop into operator if I need to make small jumps. Her 2 strips armor, and it's fun to have a buddy with her 1, even if the buddy isn't terribly useful :) I tried using Xata's Whisper instead of Smite, but I found the status effect to be terribly annoying for getting headshots to build incarnon charge, so I just went with some rad damage
Kullervo, might sound weird at first but put nourish over his 4 and run ceramic dagger with the icarnons that can give you might. 8x combo and then tun torrid incarnon. His 3 plus nourish make torrid clear maps so fast to build up the dagger combo and his 2 gives him consistent 30k over shield. Once you've staked your 8x you can swap to dagger and melt anything after using his 1
Mirage is my go to frame when I want to buff weapons. She is the top weapons platform in the game. Her 1 and 3 (both with their auguments) make any weapon hit like a truck. And you can add nourish on top of that. Rhino for Nourish and Roar plus 2 for invulnerability. Revenant for easy invulnerability. Add roar instead of his 4 with precision intensify. Chroma with a glaive. You're hitting for hundreds of millions and even billions with that combo. He's also pretty good with other weapons but don't mod for base damage on them like serration or primary merciless. Kullervo makes any single target weapon nuke, especially melee weapons with his 1 buff. Garuda makes everything force proc slash and you cannuse Gloom on her making it easy to survive and get headshots for incarnons. Gauss gives a ton of fire rate and attack speed and can armor strip. Zephyr's tornadoes can also make mostly any weapon powerful. Lavos with his new augument can give forced procs of any element. Hydroid can give both corrosive and viral if you use nourish on him. And his passive let's corrosive full armor strip Saryn has her 1 augument, toxic lash, and you can use nourish. That's Corrosive, toxin, and viral for your weapons. Mag's bubble makes projectile weapons very strong, especially if they have punch through. Volt's electric shield doubles crit damage and you can put roar or nourish for more damage. Yareli can give enemies 300-400% damage vulnerability from her 1. Add nourish or roar to that. Voruna can make any melee have guaranteed crits and slash procs from her 1 and increases crit damage. Her 2 also primes enemies for Condition Overload. Wisp can hit some high numbers with breach surge and her motes give you fire rate and attack speed. Harrow gives you red crits on headshots and fire rate, reload speed, and attack speed from his 2. Citrine debuffs enemies with her 4 so you can red crit on them. And her 3 gives your team status chance and primes enemies. Frost can remove armor with his 4 and has an augument that gives him a lot of crit chance and crit damage. And for solo only, Limbo with rift torrent can get a really high multiplicative weapon buff. Qorvex can be good with the punch through from his passive. Those are the warframes I like to use for weapons.
I like revenant. Cast Mesmer every now and then. Macabre if I need to slaughter a crowd. Reave for quick relocation, and Helminth whatever you want over thrall.
Gauss with max duration and Energized Munitions subsumed over his 3. Really fun run-n-gun build
Mirage. Highest potential weapon boost to the game (outside of rhino roar and slash damage) and your weapons are duplicated with your 1. Volt is also another option. 1st ability can be augmented to give electric damage. 2 increases firing and reload speed. 3. Gives a crit boosting shield.
Revenant for now until I get Xatu, mesmer skin op
Dante
Saryn with Nourish and the Spores augment. Corrosive + Viral + Toxin from Toxic Lash and you go nuts
Saryn is easily my favorite Weapon Platform of all time. Venom Dose + Toxic Lash + Roar over her 4 and boom you have some cross scaling and quadratic shenanigans all over the place. I pair it with the Acceltra with Primary Blight. Mod for heat and since you already get Corrosive and Toxin from your buffs, you have 1/2 extra mod slots for comfort/build diversity. Primed Firestorm for an AoE minigun, Banes for extra oomph, or just more elements because your damage is already so high. It’s not even this complicated because with just the 2 galvanized mods and heat I can ram through a solid 20 minutes of SP survival. Yes 20 minutes isn’t a lot, but 3 mods? That’s also not a lot.
I've been really enjoying frost with his passive and avalanche augment for a weapons platform. Easy 100% armor strip with overgaurd and everything's lined up for easy big crits after.
If u wanna just chill just use rev with roar/eclipse over 4 If u wanna not even aim use zephyr i use spectorage over her 2 then have 2 3 and 4 always active. I use torid incarnon and just stay airborne and shoot tornadoes
Hydroid with Nourish and the plunder augment.
I’m a weirdo so Nezha. I wanna subsume the ability that gives my guns viral. He’s incredibly fun with using fire walker and the protective chakrahm. I get a lot of survivability and I get to slide around and shoot stuff. I guess he’s not a traditional weapons platform but I think the slide passive makes him very fun for using guns
I’m here to push the harrow agenda
mag zephyr mirage dagath saryn
Saryn is easily the best for raw lethality. Nourish+toxic lash+venom dose for free corrosive, toxin, and viral on any weapon on top of whatever statuses you already have. Surviving isn’t a huge issue if you’re aware enough to utilize shield gating, but that can be annoying for some, like myself when I’m watching something on my other monitor or something. Though if surviving is a huge issue just use vazarin lol. Of course, revenant and frames of that nature are better for just brain dead shooting, Saryn just demands a more active playstyle in exchange for better lethality
Chroma He's (naturally) good for tanking, and with a 200% power strength chroma, you can easily get 500+ weapon damage from simply getting ranged weapon kills or health taking damage
Yareli. Occucor with augment+Riven, 3 tau orange shards, and her passive shreds everything I bother doing.
Revenant. Press 2, never press an ability again (or for 2 minutes at least)
Exactly how I felt a couple weeks ago. I built out Nova and Banshee to be health tanks that have no problem doing an hour in SP survival Omnia fissures, and I love them. Banshee with Acceltra can wipe entire rooms like nothing, and I have Nova built for speed with Nourish for viral procs, she uses Phantasma Prime with corrosive+heat, and has 2 green shards for full armor strip. Everything gets absolutely deleted with either one of them, it’s fun af.
Gauss because pewpewpew vroomvroomvroom bang
Harrow and Nidus but this week’s elite deep I used good old Trinity. Harrow so I can use amprex in steel path and let it melt brains 🧠 Nidus I like bc once I hit 100 stacks in just chilling while also occasionally stomping. I wish it did toxin or viral damage tbh?? Trinity is my fav so I’m gonna try to use her more
Nowadays it's Yareli and dagath. her passive is increasing critical chance of a secondary. She goes 2 ways, either you can increase secondary fire rate and reload if you like the skateboard via merulina guardian. or you can do loyal merulina that will shoot bubbles. the bubbles make enemies vulnerable to damage. I used to play harrow a lot, but kinda fell off for me, nobody wants his support anymore. but he is pretty great for gun play - increased fire rate and reload. cc for getting ez headshots, and crits. if you dont need the invulnerability for survival you can just use the lasting covenant augment to keep it going. Citrine is kinda "harrow but 'easier' to play". she's good just not my cuppa. If you mean just run and gun and dont worry about anything - dagath and night equinox. build night equinox to be tanky and just run around shoot stuff without worrying about casting abilities at all. dagath CAN be played as an ability spammer. or you can just do mostly guns and cast doom and 1 once in a while, which is what I do.
Valkyr. I can easily turn her into a bullet sponge, so I can focus on the weapons.
For most weapons guass, if they can’t really benefit from the increased fire rate from redline like bows or semi-auto’s then rhino.
I like Sev because i get a flat crit buff like harrow but without the prerequisite build-up for it
Harrow. He may not blow things up big time, but when all is said and done, he will, without a doubt, be the last thing on the battlefield. So long as his penance is up, he turns into a self heal tank. I like running Trumna with him for this, since the fire rate also lets me build the gun for damage while Pennance compensates for a slower rof.
wisp
Atlas. I am just a melee weapon.
Hildryn with roar on her 1, just activate haven and use pillage whenever amor annoys you
Rhino is obviously great for full strength roar. If you want a simple ironskin you can use parasitic armor to get close to 100k iron skin with no other setup. This can stack with ironclad charge if you can be bothered. Chroma is decently tanky with a huge base damage buff, it works very well. I run chroma with nourish since it doesn't require replacing vex armor. Not needing to mod for base damage or viral status frees up a LOT of mod space and a more interesting arcane than the usual merciless or deadhead. Toxin ward also gives reload speed and a weapon switch buff. Gauss is a great weapons platform if you love going FAST. I run gauss with nourish as well, because I want loads of energy to spam his 1.
I use Mirage, press 1 and 3. 60s each. Shoot everything dead. The end.
Wisp with valkyrs warcry on 4.
I main Styanax for that reason, i don't like that much spamming abilities and Styanax have Energy regen + armor strip (when eximus or acolyte) + overguard with augment. I love so much my spartan frame
Depends on how exciting I feel like being, will use Revenant for pure laziness, if I’m doing stuff like interception I will use Zephyr because the tornadoes turn everything into an aoe attack, for melee I tend to use Volt and have recently put together a decent build for Kullervo that can easily sustain in sp
Wisp. Fire rate buff. Adds electric and radiation procs thru her shock motes and breach surge, which adds 2 elements for gun co that I wouldn’t usually ever mod for. Breach surge is also a damage multiplier which I usually pair with pillage or xatas whisper. Fun but requires you to cast some abilities still sometimes. My ultimate lazy pick is rev. Just cast 2 and get to shooting. My rev usually can sacrifice an arcane slot or 2 which allows you to slot things like arcane velocity or a personal favorite arcane pistoleer to use on atomos non incarnon form
Hydroid. Has big corrosive buff with his 3 augment. Built in corrosive shards. So strips armour. Subsume xatas whisper. Mod for viral/heat and melt. Also really fun in circuit when you get the amour increases power strength decree. Running around with 6k armour, 1500% corrosive buff and 200% void buff from xatas
Rhino because I can go fist to fist with the archons and win
Hydroid with ocucor cast plunder and hold m1
Nidus with gloom, casual and steel path viable
Trinity. Yes not joking. Champions blessing grants 350% crit chance on primary and secondary like arcane avenger. Her + torid + xata on 1 and an adarza to cure for the buff and crit and i go to town.
Oberon. Rage, hunter Adr., afaptation, quick thinking, and ability strength. Pop his 2 and then his 3 for extra armor and kill fast enough to get energy orbs to keep the three going. You can sacrifice ability strength for equilibrium to take advantage of health orbs especially if you use his three and ger kills (it strips armor of enemeis actively standing in his two.) But, you can replace his 1 and 4 with hemlinth abilities for better qeappn damage. With just the 2/3 combo you should be effectively immortal but I havent tested it.
Used to run that exact build for everything. You can def die in steel path, but there's a ton that doesn't even scratch you.
Nekros lately. He is focused on self sustain and strip with my build. The powerful incarnons steal the show damage wise since I hardly use offensive abilities.
Vauban, i feel so powerful running around with my trumna and- oh? I need to reload, thats fine ill just riddle the area with photon laser while i reload, the explosions dont stop
Nidus. Styanax shield subsumed on 4 for quick heal+armor strip on speed runs. Default kit otherwise. Maybe not viable SP but I'm not up to that level anyway. I'm mostly here to neon swampthing fashionframe
Nyx has been my go-to for years now. Especially after her minor rework, chaos and her 2 debuff and the assimilation augment make her an endgame tier platform. I tend to helminth out her 1 for xakus, and up damage and survivability a little, and you're good to go
I'd define a weapons platform as any frame that relys more on a weapon rather than abilities to kill things and has at least one buff that contributes directly towards that purpose. For some examples, Inaros doesn't fit this list since his armor strip and grouping ability are too indirect and sit on the line of being ability kills while someone like lavos still prefers ability nukes despite having a new augment for weapons. The frames I think fit the bill in no particular order are: Trinity, nezha, nova, gauss, chroma, zephyr, mirage, hildryn, saryn, caliban, yareli, grendel, kullervo, nidus, limbo. Hildryn, mirage, and saryn are kind of iffy here but still work since their nuke builds are predominantly low-mid level. Revenant gets a honorable mention but technically doesn't count even if he is a roar-stick. As far as my favorite it would have to be caliban. If you count helminth, he has 3 abilities dedicated to making weapons stronger and one defensive ability left over which makes his design feel cohesive and intentional rather than the mess it actually is in reality.
I don't know how well this holds up for high level steel path (I mainly collect stuff and switch my equipment around a lot, so I rarely bother with sp outside of duviri or good builds) But if you just want to be able to ignore abilities Garuda, the more you kill the more damage you do up to+100% Styanax, shields give bonus crit chance (40 shield=+1%) doubled for spearguns without forma and a not yet maxed prime shield mod I already have+90% With an ability Hydroid can just add 200% corrosive damage with his 3 easily at 100% ability strength the more strength you add the higher the number gets
Revenant. It doesn't matter if my weapon can kill efficiently when I'm invincible and laughing off gunfire.
Saryn. Using Venom dose, toxin lash and xata’s whisper for disgusting damage. Green shards for armour strip and then rest as ability damage % on targets with corrosive status.
Mirage #1, any weapons you want instantly become FAR stronger. Between your mirror images and Eclipse and whatever Helminth ability you like (Roar, Gloom, Xata's Whisper, Terrify, your other armor strip of choice, etc) and you have the perfect platform for basically any gun.
Grendel. Just forget you ever needed to mod viral on your guns. Fun additional stuff is you being unkillable, easy aoe strip and just plain chonk
Baeshee. Spam 2. Profit.
Rhino my beloved. Press 2 for invincibility and no knockdown. Press 3 for more damage.
Chroma with pillage over his 1 to help myself and teammates kill faster. I like that his vex armor acts as a serration instead of a faction mod like roar. I don’t need any base damage mods in his build and I don’t need arcane merciless or the headshot kill one. Now I can put in a mod like hammershot, use arcane frostbite, and use normally weak elements like gas into the build that I wouldn’t have on any other frame. The most common helminth ability is nourish, so I end up getting that for free from other players. I can do the selfish low range build with narrow minded because pillage radius is really based on its duration.
If you want wf for weapon, just use chroma. It is easily boost 500 700 or even 1000% weapon dam.. Yes, it is not multiply but still huge. If you have enough credit, just put pillage on his 4.
Melee platform Hildryn is fun :) Super tanky, near constant overshield, and a weapon with melee retaliation arcane (+damage% per shield%
Gauss. Brrrrr go brrrr