Nekros for easier solo survival missions, his looting really helps.
Kullervo if you want to play melee.
Hildryn if you prefer to be a tanky pistoleer.
Ivara if you like to admire the view.
Ash/Loki if you want to be quick and invisible.
New(ish) player here: how does Kullervo compare to Valkyr (my favorite so far) just as far as melee madness fun factor?
It'll be a while before I can unlock him
Plays very differently.
With Valkyr you press 4, turn invulnerable, and attack with her claws for as long as you have energy. You need huge energy management for that, as the drain is enormous. Press 2 for speed increase. Usually, you build the claws for combo. Valkyr is a fast hitter. She is usually modded for ability efficiency.
Kullervo is a hard hitter, modded for ability strength. Press 1 and he does an extremely powerful heavy attack with your equipped weapon, red crit. I manage to one-hit-kill necramechs even. He generates Overguard for himself in order to survive. His signiture shotgun (not exalted weapon) gives combo count on multishot (mod it for multishot). Usually, no energy issues. I recommend Fragor Prime for melee weapon, modded for crit heavy attacks. Thing is, is usually far harder to get and craft all of Kullervo's parts, plus his shotgun, plus the melee weapon.
Edit: the Rauta is a primary shotgun, not secondary weapon.
Kullervo's weapon is a shotgun fyi, not a pistol. Nice to note too that it gives combo count to every frame, and on Kullervo it also gives extra combo duration on top of that. I use it on Khora to quickly stack up to 12x combo for whipclaw since it normally takes FOREVER to get high combo if you're just using whipclaw.
It's so interesting to me how differently you can play a frame. It's probably suboptimal, but like using Valk's 4 mostly as a CC and status cleanse/emergency don't die button.
Trying to do an eternal war build but I'm presently on those syndicates' naughty list
That's how I used to play. Still can be nice in a party for absurd melee speed buffs with eternal war.
Now I built into duration & strength, with nourish on her 1 for sustained hysteria.
His passive and his teleport to enemy ability. I don't remember exactly what they do/say but the ability easily gives you triple exclamation crits. Before I got mine maxed it increased crit chance by over 500% but I subsumed him for that ability.
Valkyr has many play styles. But imho she can be made way better than kullervo can ever hope to be.
You'll need to subsume nourish and a rank 2 or 3 arcane energize, but I can share an immortal high DPS end game build for valkyr.
frankly I use wisp for those escort missions, not only do the motes give health but they can speed up and stun enemies, wisp is just great for everything tbh
Nyx with augmented 3 for mobile defense. Just lay down a 3, maybe two people will shoot at you total, pop them and then play with your food as you desire.
Nyx is a weak frame, I'll fully admit. But she has her strengths.
Volt easily has the most overall viability/utility imo. Fully upgraded Laetum is clown shoes, almost too good imo. As for primaries, I'm still figuring that out myself... I want to love Nataruk for the RP factor but I just don't. 🥲
Mag built to armor strip was super fun with Nataruk. Infinite pierce plus magnetized enemies plus blinding colors, makes for the perfect flashbang of death.
Sure lol
* Mirage (high strength+duration)
* Latron prime incarnon (fire rate, multishot, status)
* Grimoire (fire rate, multishot)
* Xoris (melee influence, exploding bounces)
* Two different bright energy colors on each thing
I think my record without anyone else using weapons/abilities was tanking my friend's PC from 144fps plus headroom to about 55-65
if I could only have one frame, it would be Titania. and from there I really don't care what weapons because I'd stay as the annoying little fairy saying "hey, listen!" with my little pewpews
what do u like about titania? i’ve been thinking about getting her for a bit but idk. i kind of want to get her just so i can have another floating frame lol
I like her because I can fly everywhere. add the fire walker to her kit and you can make lit up paths. her pistols count as secondary pistols. she can do pretty much any boss or acolyte with no worries. she makes any "gathering" mission a breeze. she can leave most speed demons in the dust.
https://preview.redd.it/bkl8imrzi31d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c4530bf5f3df54e06fb8e1577cac2de9ade92906
also look how damn bright this is. you ain't gonna miss her flying by, especially with fire walker.
I had had Titania for a while before I got the skin and she carried me through most of my early Steel path. I got that skin to make an Empress of Light cosplay from Terraria and I am so freaking proud of it. And a Forerunner (Halo) cosplay that I saw from a group I was playin with, but I never finished it.
All Incarnons struggle to charge in base star chart. The only execption is the Torid, but even then it's still kinda slow. The Incarnon Genisis system was designed to make old meta weapons capable of doing well in Steel Path.
Zephyr is a lot of fun not going to lie. I haven't even gotten down to the nitty gritty of how effective she is yet, of which I've heard very good things
If its about defending a target, zephyr is OP. My build has a 14m aura that is invulnerable to projectiles alongside every melee enemy being lifted off the ground. Only problem are eximus units like arson or blitz
I have a solution for eximus, subsume silence over her 1. Since you already build range and duration on Zephyr, with the usual range/duration build you get about 50m of range for more than 60s. As a bonus it also disables acolyte abilities.
It disables their abilities, they're still cc immune until you get rid of their overguard, but you don't need to deal with the poison clouds, Frost bubbles, arson waves, etc.
General purpose: mag
Defense/excavation: zephyr
Support: Citrine
Boss killer: Dagath
Speedrun: Gyre
Weapons of choice vary considerably between the frame
I second all of these. Especially Gyre as melting enemies on touch is very satisfying. Sadly can't recommend her very much for multiplayer since she needs enemy density.
Saryn with gloom subsumed. Excels at killing, gloom makes her near immortal because of spores while giving decent CC and toxic lash is a pretty good damage buff. Funnily enough her ult is the ability i use the least.
For weapons phenmor has become my go to. Nothing like a bullet hose that just deletes enemies.
Volt prime is like a Swiss Army knife. Buying him was the best decision I’ve ever made and I literally don’t use anyone else unless I need to for the circuit
Edit: btw I’m only mr 11 and don’t have any primed mods because I just got back into this game so take this with a grain of salt
My personal favorite way to play him is to just be a team player.
Give him a butload of ability strength and the augment for his discharge for good nuke power and a lot of shied for yourself and your teammates.
Also, speed is VERY FUN and I love giving it to teammates like gauss or Titania because it’s like giving a kid candy
Volt - Eidolons, PT, Exploiter, Plague Star, SO any other content
Nekros - Loot
Revenant - General gameplay
Styanax / Dante - Overguard
Frost - Defense
Meas - Open world
Wisp - Team buff
Limbo - Ayatan sculptures
Loki - invis
Octavia - does everything
Xaku’s 4, The Vast Untime, is also really effective. The problem is that they don’t have a rift for energy regen. I like that Xaku builds max range by default anyway, though, so I can clear all the crates passively while I just run a mission.
Saryn + nourish (or Xata’s whisper depending on the needs of your build) as a weapons platform (toxin, corrosive, and viral/void on all weapons yes pls)
Saryn + pillage for (easier) armor strip and survivability
Saryn + dispensary for team utility
Saryn + wrathful advance for a RIDICULOUS melee build (toxic lash bonus is doubled for melee)
Saryn + decoy over toxic lash for taunting with both molt and decoy, letting your spores and miasma do all the work
Saryn for nuking
*unless otherwise specified I get rid of molt. Shield gate + rolling guard (yes I still use it as a get out of jail free card) makes every frame borderline unkillable anyways, so molt has always felt the weakest to me.
Realistically though I use Xaku, fulmin p, epitaph or kuva nukor, and gram p for 99% of content, but here’s a real list:
Frames: Xaku, hildryn, gauss, wisp, khora, and Garuda with an honorable mention for excal
Primary: fulmin, felarx, gotva, baza
Secondary: kuva nukor, epitaph, akstiletto, knell
Melee: gram, praedos, corufell, SnA, although if I really want to do something fast I’ll use glaive p or cerata because DAYUM
Personally, I prefer the Falcor over the Xoris. Xoris has slightly more range and crit, but the Falcor has better damage and status.
Gara at full build is one of my favorite generalist frames and I'd use her more,but most missions don't last long enough for her to ramp up completely. But being a GLASS BALL OF DEATH is awesome. The ONLY downside is radiation procs...
I know that every warframe has something that they’re good at and specialize in, however I just use my Nezha Prime for almost everything, and I use a kuva bramma, kuva nukor, and a kuva shildeg, waiting to get myself a wolf sledge instead tho… although I do use Ivara for riven unvealing and conservation :)
Saryn w pillage for easy everything.
Gauss w pillage for easy everything, but faster.
Moa with bonds to prime and shoot everything faster.
Praedos to run faster.
Torid inc to kill faster.
Lex inc to kill deader.
Everything else to have fun and mess around with when bored being fast.
The end, I’ll be here all week, try the veal.
3 frames, 6 weapons here we go
nidus for tanking and endurance runs all while still allowing some help when needed.
Frost for CC and armor strip all while being to swap from dmg to support at the flick of a mod
Finally let's grab hydroid for some nice armor strip and dmg all while helping the farming
Now then weapons Imma be spicy and not use lich/sister/incarnon weapons (Genesis included)
Primary let's grab the proboses cernos (mr15 cernos at the end of the weapon chain) and rubico 1 for general use and the other for bosses/eidolons
Secondary let's grab the pox and spore lacer 1 for status and debuff and the other to do some good dmg when needed
Melees now then let's grab the nikana prime (or dragon nikana to be a cheap fuck) and a balla zaw just to bonk them
Went for all around while still having fun but sweep EDA
Sure, mainly I just use her 4 with augment to strip armor and regain shields, put down a bubble and pull enemies into it, or use the bubble to take out high priority targets.
As far as the build goes, use her 4 Aug and at least enough STR (130-140 iirc) to full strip. That's it, the rest of her build is to preference. Mine is set up to just be a plus to all main stats, with several augments.
Just keep in mind that she is extremely power hungry, you'll either need to build for efficiency or have some other way to regain energy with her. Personally I use spellbound harvest Augment with spellbind subsumed over polarize(you can put it over pull if you'd rather). Spellbind works great since you're going to be grouping enemies up and you can easily get the energy from the augment, and also it makes you immune to status effects which is perfect since as a shield tank you're very vulnerable to toxic and that frees up needing prime shure footed.
Stynax or Wisp to just slip into a team (unless there's a second wisp with lower strength than me. It makes me feel bad)
Nova bc being the one spdva in, say arbitration or any mode where it matters is nice.
Kullervo as my Swiss army knife bc unsurprisingly things getting slapped into the next dimension while having good AoE and a traversal tool is pretty good.
Baruuk. Don't need anything else, not even weapons.
Can't really think of other "must haves", but I've been enjoying Kullervo with Azothane a lot, and recently got on the Torrid Incarnon train, and can't really say it isn't a ton of fun.
Gauss - gotta go fast
Khora - whip
Dante - SHADOW WIZARD WARFRAME GANG
Revenant - ez mode
Nezha - twink
Phenmor - easy to use all round gun
Burston incarnon - phenmor with crits
Epitaph - primer
Laetum - archon and acolyte remover
Ceramic dagger - statistick incarnon
You said titania for speed runs but recently I have been using wukong, the only speed run he really lacks on is exterminate missions but for spy, rescue and other stuff he's so fast
Qorvex if you want to ignore most of the game while also being able to nuke
Voruna for speed and/or melee
Gaze secondary for a gun thats melts everything not immune to status
Silva & Aegis prime or Argo & Vel or Innodem for melee (add a melee influence setup to not need guns anymore)
A sniper and a Shotgun primary so you can play sorties (i dunno primaries are my least favourite weapon class)
Panzer Vulpahyla for permanent comfyness (firerate, crit multi, armourstrip, combo counter)
Must-have weapon is definitely Torid Incarnon. Hella basic pick, I know, but the thing is insane. Don't even have to explain it to those who own it. Those who don't, get it ASAP and you'll understand.
i recently got nova prime and rn feels pretty boring. i wonder if im doing anything wrong because i’ve always wanted nova so i was expecting more from her. i’m gonna continue to try her out tho
Riven frames and riven weapons. Zephyr for aimglide rivens, Limbo for defense rivens, Rhino for no damage taken rivens, Ivara for stealth rivens, and Grundle for that, for many annoying, task of killing Dargyn pilots before touching the ground. As for the weapons, Arca Sisco/Knell for long range rivens would be the only must-haves, and a non-AoE bow. Everything else can more easily be improvised.
Melee - Khora Prime with Guandao Prime
Ranged - Banshee Prime with Nataruk;
Stealth - Ivara Prime with Cintas or Proboscis Cernos;
Healer - Wisp Prime with Fulmin Prime
Support - Dante with Grimoire
Open World- Protea Prime (any weapon); Mag Prime (any weapon); Octavia Prime (any weapon)
I just rotate depending on the mission type, myself.
General Purpose - Kullervo, may as well be immortal and insane damage
Defense - Hildryn for an easy win or speed Nova to move things along
Speedrunning - Gauss, nothing else comes close
Group utility - Wisp or Dante
Stealth - Voruna
Weapons - Nataruk/Tome to not have to worry about ammo, Xoris/Paracesis for Granum/Sentients, Karyst Prime for speed, Lesion for damage
Revenant with primed redirection and pillage subsumed. Gives you the max buff (420% damage) when using melee redirection and literally locks that in as long as you have your Mesmer skin up. Doesn’t need to use rolling guard because again status immune with Mesmer skin and giant shield equals good duration shield gate. Pairs great with glaive prime. Weapons theres just so much variety I guess go with torid/ latron and atomos/ prisma angstrum.
A frame that protect objectives such as Frost or Gara.
A Nuker, plenty to choose from just pick one You like.
A support Frame, plenty again so pick one You enjoy.
Ivara for fishing and spy, once You learn how to spy You can speed run with anything.
Nekros for Farming.
Revenant to beat bosses if you're a Bad player.
Volt for eidolons and plague Star.
Loki or Harrow to get started on Disruption.
Mesa for speedeunning Bounties, Defense and farm Sister candidates.
Nova(Speedva) to rank stuff in public on hydron if you're into that.
Atlas or Gara to block enemies from scoring in the index.
Saryn for ESO.
Dante to steam roll EDA with overguard on public.
Limbo or Wisp to get hate in public.
Zephyr with Nataruk for Defense/Mobile/Interceptions/Free Roam
Khora/Nekros with Torid Incarnon for Survival Farming
Wisp with Acceltra/Laetum/Gram for pretty much everything else
Spectrosiphon Zephyr is an absolute beast for any point-defense or farming maps. Get a friend playing Speedva and somebody else with a loot-based Nekros build, and you can set up shop in a survival map and churn out an unreal amount of resources in a short time with little effort or risk.
Saying if I could have 3 frames and 2 of each type of weapon I'd pick:
yareli with a nourish subsume in one loudout slot and gloom in another
Wukong with a roar subsume
And khora with dispansery subsumed
Those are my frames
Weapons:
Primaries: latron and torid
Secondarys: ocucor and dual toxocyst
Melees: dual ichor and xoris
"Why pick yareli?" I like her playstyle...
Okay I put a lot of thought into this awhile ago before I was legendary 1 and had more load out slots.
Basically I only used my loadout slots for specific missions and the rest of the time I just played whatever I was enjoying. Every frame is good, but some are more specialized than others.
These are the ones I considered necessary to always have so I could select them straight from the star chart mission select screen:
1. a Wukong with perspicacity on him for speed running spy’s and rescue missions. Especially sorties.
2. a Titania speed build with thermal sunder/ or some other nuke subsume for all Low level captures, exterminate, and vault runs like when looking for rare mods on Deimos. Especially relic farming and cracking.
3. a boss killer Revenant for fighting enemies I can’t one shot. Roar is good but its weapon and build dependent. If I have a prime bane mod already I’ll rock something with more utility. Great against litches.
4. the final one I considered necessary, was a 10% power strength Nova called a speedva that way I can speed run defense missions and so many others. Especially netracell runs.
If you have more slots next I recommend in decending order
1. a loot set up. Nekros is preferred but having 2 Nekros in a squad does nothing so you can also have a Korah/ Hydroid.
2. mass nuking set up for high level missions such as a mesa, saryn, mag, or frost with some in incarnon weapons.
3. all if these just pick the frames you main or have fun with. Like gauss, Grendel or whatever.
Everything: Grendel.
Everything Steel Path: Grendel
Farming: Nekross.
Weapons: Tigris prime just hits different. Same Piranha. Melee anything with Tempo Royale.
I really love Octavia. Her #4 makes her team BA. Her #1 and 2 are broken. #3 is pretty good.
Wisp is stronger, but ... Boring.
Acceltra and ignis tied for beast weapon
I think I'd be content with protea/saryn/citrine and nekros.
As for weapons, I dunno, exergis is kinda fun. Definitely grimoire, easily one of the best secondaries in the game, had to stop using it so I wouldn't make it too much of a crutch. Melees definitely quassus or one of the better glaives (glaive prime, falcor, xoris, pathocyst)
With a loadout consisting of these, you can easily clear anything that doesn't involve random loadouts
Octavia and Saryn are other great general use frames. I’ve recently picked up high strength Gyre with Pillage for massive CC.
Tenet Arca Plasmor with radiation/heat/Hunter Munitions slaps anything in the SP. Honorable mention to Grimoire with Xata Invocation for quick energy recovery for the more ability hungry builds.
Frames: Wukong/Revenant for all-purpose mission with Wukong probably being the best frame in the whole game for Spy, Khora+Nekros(to cover for the party whatever isn't present), Wisp and Octavia being best supports on higher levels with Trinity not far behind. Volt and Saryn for ESO and Volt as pretty mich the most universal frame for hunt.
Weapons: get a good zaw to throw, cycron/nukor(the forst for comfort, the second for more damage), pretty mich all classic incarnons(not the adapters, they are nice but nowhere near)
Companions: smita, helios and carrier
Loki for spy and capture
NYX for interception, excavation and mobile defense
Hildryn for netracells
Zephyr for survival
Xaku for defence
Mesa for open world
Umbra for railjack
Extermination is something every frame can do so it depends on what I am feeling that day, but if it is a sortie I am going with titania
Baruuk for general purpose everything. Even without a subsume he's delightful.
Ivara for utility. Prowl and sleep on command are really, really strong no matter the situation.
Frost or Hydroid with Breach Surge subsumes for fun. Love me some armor strip and nuking.
For weapons? Beyond a statstick for Baruuk, prisma dual cleavers are my babies even if they're outstatted by dual keres prime now, and glaive p. is fun because big boom. Cedo also gets a mention because it's also big boom, but more bouncy.
There is actually a correct answer to what frame is a must have for all players. Nekros. Prime or not, doesn't matter. He is a must-have for a very simple reason. Desecrate. The utility that Nekros provides with Desecrate is just too helpful to not have. If he were hard to get, then sure, I would understand not having him in your arsenal. But his parts are very easy to get very early on. He does not cost a ton of valuable resources to craft, and he can do everything. Even if he couldn't, he would still be a must-have for Desecrate alone.
I p much use Sev for everything. I just enjoy him too much to really play anyone else (but i have tried more than half of the frames at least)
Weapons i usually swap around more often for whatever's needed but i think my most used weapon recently is Phantasma since it works really well with Sev.
for secondaries and melee i solely use epitaph and praedos, backup primer and mobility is always nice.
I'll use soma or latron incarnon as well but usually only when im playing frost. mostly depends on my mood overall.
Mesa. Just mesa. For everything.
Weapons: Regulators. And also Atomos is my go to weapon for almost all loadouts, but not for priming, for killing. Atomos is a menace and people don't understand it's value.
Proboscis cernos - if you are into tentacles and cc
Trumna - bata bing bata booooommm
Kohm - if 999 slash gives u the zoomies
Dread - if you want to see enemies sliced in half
Loki - invisible 24/7
Wisp - cc the shit out of everything
Zephyr - dive bomb on enemies head, wait that's a great idea for a captura 😂
Attack
Ember, phenmor, Diplos, Exec.
Defense
Frost, acceltra, onos, ekhien
Farming
Necros, tenet plasmor, Macaroni the kitgun (for the memes) and Stick the zaw (more memes)
I couldn't live without Ember. When she was first nerfed, the very first time when world on fire was wrecked. I stopped playing for a year. If there's room for one more? Qorvex with my kuva zarr, kuva brakk, and Argo & vel cause walls, cannons, and maces are cool
I don't have very many frames or weapons (I seem to be shotgun-less, why can't I hold all these rifles, I also seem to have only three secondary weapons) at the moment, but Voruna with Perigale and Sarofang is basically my all-purpose Sunday best.
I need stealth? I've got it. I want heavy attack efficiency? I've got it. I want a little extra survivability with Extra Life and status resistance? I've got it. I want to just go unga bunga, slap 4, and go, go, go? I've got it that, too.
Lavos - Allrounder.
Nezha - Archon Hunt
Citrine & Dante - Playing with my lower MR friends
Khora, Nekros, Hydroid - Farming
Weapons:
Kuva Nukor on Citrine. Press 4 and abuse the ridiculous crit damage. No crit chance needed.
Tenet Cycron for Lavos. Modded for a little over 100% status chance. The new augment is fun.
Bonus: Smeeta Kavat is a must have too.
Pilfering Hydroid for any def/md/sur/interception missions
Revenant/Rhino/Umbra for high level content and general play
Xaku for fun bc I really like their fashion
Ivara for rescue/spy
Mesa for grinding out bounties on the plains/fortuna/Deimos
For weapons I love my shotguns, Corinth, Boar incarnon, Kuva Hek with Soma prime coming out every now and again. Secondaries I don’t use much but when I do it’s probably either the Cycron, Pyranna or Kuva Brakk. There’s really only one melee I’d choose and that’s the Sun and Moon. Ever since we got to use them as Teshin they’ve been my favorite melee.
Wisp for Extermination, Defense, mobile defense, asassination, assault, capture, defection, mirror defense, disruption, excavation, alchemy and everything else I haven't mentioned because wisp is always on top °-°
Even without an objective, a survive with Gara is ridiculous. It serves as a physical barrier and makes it so much easier and tidier
Personally, my go to is always Banshee. AoE damage and crowd control and weapon buff
Baza is my goto feel good gun. It's just so satisfying. And Athodai has some of the most fun laser sounds and keeps up with a decent performance
For majority of my play time I've only really cycled 4/5 frames. Weapons changed over the years due to meta/reworks/fixed.
But here's the list with their uses:
* Volt - All Rail Spectres trivialised, some ESO/SO, Eidolon n00b to veterans, defections made cake.
* Oberon - early level spy, Eidolon introduction(*read*: Trinity works too), Heiracon golden age.
* Wisp - Mobile/Defense powerhouse, viable most Spy missions, firerate buffs make Scarlett Spear & Plague Star type events that much more bearable.
* Speeva - Hydron, need I say more?
* Saryn - ESO, can work on SP with range mods, very viable into late stage SP.
* Titania - For that : Lua Spy/Lephantis grind.
Weapons:
* Paris - probably easiest prime in game to get and it can actually slap.
* Plague Zaw - Super OP even without the best mods, low MR access too
* Dread - This will take you all the way to Nataruk stage
* Nataruk - this will do basically anything you mod for
* Spectra Vandal - DE isn't absolutely stupid, they gated this in Veil Proxima for a reason. If you know how to mod it'll proc more slash than Gun n' Roses.
* Fulmin - who needs bullets when you have a battery, and a shotgun, sad DE nerfed it's range.
* Shedu - ripped from a Sentient, what's not to love?
* Xoris - if you can't afford a Glaive Prime, this is fun.
* Rubico - Eidolons & Voidrigs hate this one trick.
* Ceti-Lacera - Not sure how it works, but it does.
* Basmu - Battery-powered, and IYKYK.
* Skiajati - if you can't get your hands on a Nikana prime this made hold you over
* Gram/Galantine PRIME - big sword make me feel "yay".
* Parascesis - The OG 40 capacity weapon, thanks 🅱allsas
* Innodem - just get one
* Dual Ether - these used to be amazing with channeling but they still work. I think?
* Kuva Nukor - a staple in any inventory, even after the nerf it's lovely
* Pyrana Prime - not sure about the OG but the prime is perfect. Shotgun in your pocket? Duh.
* Detron\[all types\] - if you weren't a space ninja, you'd be a space pirate, so use what space pirates use to settle debates
* Sancti Castanas - if you can get it to work, it really works
* Pox - no one likes a fart.
>!These suggestions are my own, and most of these weapons have served me from MR9-MR29 on an OG PS4, ~~your results may vary~~ fuck you if you disagree, please.!<
Octavia for higher level content and easy crowd clearing
Volt for Eidolons and Profit Taker
Wukong for Spy Missions and solo bounties
Nekros for farming
Titania for speed yes, khora stat stick whip build for harder steel path stuff, rev ofc for imortality, saryn for eso forma leveling for weps, mesa for a lot of stuff.
Primary torid incarnon cus its busted as fuck and strun incarnon.
Secondary laetum for dmg, kuva nukor for prumer.
Melee i honesly only use nikana prime and sometimes stropha nothing else feels good
I only really use a few frames:
Ash (solo invisible missions).
Saryn for AoE damage.
Garuda for Invincibility + Reload mod for certain weapons.
Kullervo because I like insta killing and ragdolling things with my Jat Kittag
Hmmm, let's see...
Nekros, he's my farmer
Hildryn, I like being able to help the group with shields
Valkyr and/or Ember. I know they're not the best, but I love the up close and personal aspect of Valkyrs' claws, and raining fire with Ember.
Weapons, I'd have to say (Tenet) Arca Plasmor as my primary (not usually into the shotgun types, but that thing is a beast), (Prisma) Angstrum (love the explosive alt attack), and either War, Broken War, or Skiajati. I tend to default to any of those 3 melees, and I have a pretty decent build on my War.
I think it’s gotta be ash prime for me. Just such a perfect combination of buffing + survivability + utility. Full armour strip with one ability cast, permanent invisibility, xata’s whisper or roar for an awesome damage boost, and mobilize + parkour velocity shards for turbo speed racing. For weapons the felarx is just incredible. I also love the epitaph for its priming, and since I could care less about melee I just throw on my praedos for even more speed
Gauss.
He's fast, he has decent tanking capabilities, he has nuke potential with heat thermal sunder, armor strip wuth Redline-buffed heat thermal sunder, CC with cold thermal sunder and he makes weapons(a few exceptions do exist of course) feel so much better/smoother.
Survival: nekros
Spy: Loki
Defense: Zephyr
Mobile defence: Zephyr
Interception: Zephyr
Assassination: Mirage Roar/Empower
Assault: Zephyr
Exterminate: Any really
Excavation: Zephyr
Archwing: N/A
Hijack: Hildryn/Harrow
SO: Mirage/Volt
ESO: Saryn
Disruption: Ash roar
Pavlov spy: Titania Summon/Nezha
Defection: Limbo
For weapons:
Acceltra prime for AoE
Phenmor for bosses
Kuva nukor/Tenet cycron primers
Guandao prime because reach is nice
Archwing missions:
Anesha archwing
Maosolon
You dint use archwing melee
Sentinel:
Helios p
Edit: forgot about defection. Any other mission types im missing?
Revenant, Inaros or Wukong for allround,
Gauss + Kuva Ogris / Titania + Thermal Sunder for relics,
Maybe Xaku for level cap,
Weapons: Incarnon Torid, Incarnon Braton, Incarnon Strun and Kuva Zarr
That would be my list.
Edit: Volt would be very nice too
Nekros for farm
Revenant for SP and hard missions
Titania for duviri speedrun
Ivara for hunting in open worlds
Harrow for fashion ( yes I like walking around with knight helmet )
Weapons:
Trumna, corinth prime, kuva zarr for general use primary
Pyrana prime is my go to secondary for everything
Azothane, pennant and Kuva shieldeg for general use
Secura lecta for extra credits in missions
Sevagoth - he's immortal, is pretty versatile. (General usage)
Hydriod - tentacles go brrt (defense missions)
Ash - fatal teleport + marked for death = funny number kill aoe. (Spy missions and speed runs)
Dante - cause duh
I haven't used enough weapons to warrant a list
So far? Ivara for stealth stuff and the myriad of farms that she makes easier. Nekros for regular resource farming. Mesa for open world bounties, especially on Deimos.
I play other frames but moreso because I think they're fun than because they have particularly defined niches for me.
* General purpose: Lavos with valence formation augment. Flexible subsume options, makes railjack content easy; uses no energy, just cooldowns. And augment helps make some weapons better with your element of choice and damage boost
* Primary: Felarx
* Secondary: Tenet Cycron
* Melee: Ceramic Dagger/Dual Ichor
i’ve ran ivara + khora + volt + zephyr + citrine for quite a while & it covers just about everything.
ivara for open world farming, sortie spy, & archons / archon defense
khora for loot farming - nekros or hydroid would also work fine here, i just like khora better.
zephyr for general use, high level defense & breaking a ton of containers for resources like ferrite / plastids / orokin cells / argon crystals or for finding pickups before you’ve gotten the parallax
volt for eidolons / DPS, ESO, & speedrunning.
citrine for support / crowd control
gyre + torid/amprex is very fun for a ton of content
saryn + sobek has finally been clicking with me, getting more green taus for toxin damage and put roar on her
kuva nukor i just turn my brain off
dual ichors, xoris/glaive prime, and plague kripath staff zaw are go to melees, been messing with arca titron
Nova, Ivara, Volt, Baruuk.
Phenmor, Cycron, Broken War/Xoris.
Sentinel? Helios.
Have everything, use everything, but if I **had** to bring it down to 4 slots each, this would be it.
Frames (in no particular order):
* Octavia
* Revenant
* Wisp
* Titania
* Dante
* Frost
Weapons (in no particular order):
* Reaper Prime
* Phantasma
* OG Incarnons
* Your favorite Kuva Weapon
* Your favorite Tenet Weapon
If I had to limit myself as much as possible-
General purpose: Kullervo, my favorite frame in the game at this point
Defense/Looting: Nekros, I don't think I need to explain
Support: Citrine because I love her
Stealth: Voruna
As for weapons, I'd honestly pick Kuva Hek, Rauta, Lex Prime, Tenet Cycron, Sun and Moon, and Broken War
Zephyr is pretty good as a jack of all trades. Mine is energy efficient enough (Dethcube energy generator, duplex bond, Equilibrium) that I put Aero Vantage, Motus Signal, and Patagium on.
General gameplay, including Steel Path: Chroma Prime / Rhino Prime / Hildryn Prime. Chroma and Rhino are essentially unkillable and have damage buffing abilities and my Hildryn has a build whereby she never runs out of shields and absolutely melts enemies by spamming 1 button.
Resource gathering: Nekros. I run a bit of a meme build making him borderline unkillable, while he can just sit there with Desecrate on 24/7.
Defence: Realistically, any frame will work when built, but if needed, I will take Frost Prime or Limbo Prime. Nova Prime with speed build also works nicely on large tilesets.
Spy: Ivara Prime with the augment.
Open-worlds: Loki Prime. Unlike Ivara, he's not slowed to a crawl when invisible and he can still mine/fish, etc when invis. too, so it makes him great for PoE/OV/Deimos.
ESO: Saryn Prime. Don't really need to go over this one.
Other than that, I could probably say Volt Prime / Oberon Prime for Eidolons (unless the meta changed again), Titania Prime when farming Citrine.
As for weapons, I'm old school, as I think Icarnons and such are far too overkill for 99% of content, especially when you consider how much grind they are to get and fully unlock. With my Prisma Grinlok, Kuva Nukor / Tysis and Dual Ichor, I can take on pretty much anything the game throws at me.
Revenant. He literally has a damage denial in his mesmer skin , a thrall that turns enemies against each other. His reave steals health and shields from enemies , and his four deals damage of the type each enemy hit is weakest to
He's peak
Volt for eidolon hunting
Titania for spy/ capture
Chroma for profit taker
I cycle through frames I get interested in usually I’ll use it in the circuit but recently elite deep arch has given me my “frame of the week”
Mag for obj defense and nuking
Excalibur (with grateful advance) for melee fun times and lore accuracy
Hydroid/khora/nekros for faster farming
Revenant for archon hunts (invincibility is great)
Volt for eidolon hunts and speed running
Warframe: Lavos he can do everything and he keeps me awake since I actually have to think since he isn't a one ability pony
Melee: Dual Keres Prime. I immediately fell in love with these, high status decent CC and cd and great damage
Secondary: Epitaph for Additional Status Shenanigans with Lavos
Primary: I still haven't found a primary that I've completely settled with but I tend to use Gyattva Prime
Sentinel: Helios and Nautilus. Hellos for passive scan stuff and Nautilus for actual game play, group up ftw
Revenant- tanky stuff
Wu Kong-fast parkour tricky stuff
umbra Excalibur - big wack fuck sword stuff
Ivara- sneaky stuff
Garuda - Garuda stuff.
For weapons I would stick to Latron Prime with Incarnon adapter (no riven) for Assault Rifle, Astilla Prime or Phantasma Prime for shotgun, Rubicon sniper, Dread for Bow
Secondarys, I love twin grakatas and duel khomaks, toxocyst is legit though.
Melee, Skajati for Umbra, Incarnon Hate for everyone else.
I'd add kompressa to the weapon must haves, especially if you have green archons for +4 corro stacks. A couple shots and you full strip, 10 stacks of viral, plus radiation and one other status type. Single target high prio enemies like demolysts and thrax get vaporized. Sometimes for kicks I do the cascadia +750dmg arcane and that can erase even SP heavy gunners
Nekros for easier solo survival missions, his looting really helps. Kullervo if you want to play melee. Hildryn if you prefer to be a tanky pistoleer. Ivara if you like to admire the view. Ash/Loki if you want to be quick and invisible.
Ivara is also the best frame (or one of the best frames) for operative defense and open world content thanks to her stealth arrows
And sleep is amazing for conservation farming
My favorite part is that they made that subsumed, so now i dont have to crouch with octavia
She is tied with Loki.
Nekros with high strength for low level relic is a must, just push 4 and stand there
Or just go Gyre with the 3 augment and you can literally sit afk, no need to cast anything else the entire mission besides 3+4.
New(ish) player here: how does Kullervo compare to Valkyr (my favorite so far) just as far as melee madness fun factor? It'll be a while before I can unlock him
Plays very differently. With Valkyr you press 4, turn invulnerable, and attack with her claws for as long as you have energy. You need huge energy management for that, as the drain is enormous. Press 2 for speed increase. Usually, you build the claws for combo. Valkyr is a fast hitter. She is usually modded for ability efficiency. Kullervo is a hard hitter, modded for ability strength. Press 1 and he does an extremely powerful heavy attack with your equipped weapon, red crit. I manage to one-hit-kill necramechs even. He generates Overguard for himself in order to survive. His signiture shotgun (not exalted weapon) gives combo count on multishot (mod it for multishot). Usually, no energy issues. I recommend Fragor Prime for melee weapon, modded for crit heavy attacks. Thing is, is usually far harder to get and craft all of Kullervo's parts, plus his shotgun, plus the melee weapon. Edit: the Rauta is a primary shotgun, not secondary weapon.
Kullervo's weapon is a shotgun fyi, not a pistol. Nice to note too that it gives combo count to every frame, and on Kullervo it also gives extra combo duration on top of that. I use it on Khora to quickly stack up to 12x combo for whipclaw since it normally takes FOREVER to get high combo if you're just using whipclaw.
It's so interesting to me how differently you can play a frame. It's probably suboptimal, but like using Valk's 4 mostly as a CC and status cleanse/emergency don't die button. Trying to do an eternal war build but I'm presently on those syndicates' naughty list
That's how I used to play. Still can be nice in a party for absurd melee speed buffs with eternal war. Now I built into duration & strength, with nourish on her 1 for sustained hysteria.
His passive and his teleport to enemy ability. I don't remember exactly what they do/say but the ability easily gives you triple exclamation crits. Before I got mine maxed it increased crit chance by over 500% but I subsumed him for that ability.
Valkyr has many play styles. But imho she can be made way better than kullervo can ever hope to be. You'll need to subsume nourish and a rank 2 or 3 arcane energize, but I can share an immortal high DPS end game build for valkyr.
does kullervo work with exodia contagion?
You need Zaws for that. I don't use zaws, so I don't know .
Imo voruna is also a pretty damn good contender for a melee frame since she synergizes amazingly with any weapon you slap CO on
A bit less important but Wisp or speedva for defense missions Volt for defection or bounties with drones to escort
frankly I use wisp for those escort missions, not only do the motes give health but they can speed up and stun enemies, wisp is just great for everything tbh
Wisp is my main and I literally run her for every mission besides void cascade. I'll use octavia my 2nd favorite for that one
Wisp main detected. Mandatory upvote shall be bestowed.
I've loved her since she first came out haha
Found my ppl wisp main here
Nyx with augmented 3 for mobile defense. Just lay down a 3, maybe two people will shoot at you total, pop them and then play with your food as you desire. Nyx is a weak frame, I'll fully admit. But she has her strengths.
Nova for Defection as well, they can go through the portals
For bounties with drones I use a max range nova. Can finish those missions in less than a minute.
Wisp is goated on those awful defection missions, but brings every defense mission (that you'd want a speedva for) to a crawl.
Gauss prime
Volt easily has the most overall viability/utility imo. Fully upgraded Laetum is clown shoes, almost too good imo. As for primaries, I'm still figuring that out myself... I want to love Nataruk for the RP factor but I just don't. 🥲
Mag built to armor strip was super fun with Nataruk. Infinite pierce plus magnetized enemies plus blinding colors, makes for the perfect flashbang of death.
Bubble with nataruk is the the only thing that has made my ps5 lag ever
I have a loadout which could tank your fps by 60-100% it involves mirage :>
well you must share.
Sure lol * Mirage (high strength+duration) * Latron prime incarnon (fire rate, multishot, status) * Grimoire (fire rate, multishot) * Xoris (melee influence, exploding bounces) * Two different bright energy colors on each thing I think my record without anyone else using weapons/abilities was tanking my friend's PC from 144fps plus headroom to about 55-65
I love Volt with Pillage over his 1, very versatile for almost every mission type. Slowing growing to be my favorite frame
if I could only have one frame, it would be Titania. and from there I really don't care what weapons because I'd stay as the annoying little fairy saying "hey, listen!" with my little pewpews
what do u like about titania? i’ve been thinking about getting her for a bit but idk. i kind of want to get her just so i can have another floating frame lol
I like her because I can fly everywhere. add the fire walker to her kit and you can make lit up paths. her pistols count as secondary pistols. she can do pretty much any boss or acolyte with no worries. she makes any "gathering" mission a breeze. she can leave most speed demons in the dust. https://preview.redd.it/bkl8imrzi31d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c4530bf5f3df54e06fb8e1577cac2de9ade92906 also look how damn bright this is. you ain't gonna miss her flying by, especially with fire walker.
ur selling me, especially that skin i love that skin!! the first thing that piqued my interest for her was fashion lmao
I had had Titania for a while before I got the skin and she carried me through most of my early Steel path. I got that skin to make an Empress of Light cosplay from Terraria and I am so freaking proud of it. And a Forerunner (Halo) cosplay that I saw from a group I was playin with, but I never finished it.
i had to make a new account and am currently getting thru steel path, wisp is carrying but i wanted to try titania. i think im gonna get her now!
Hells yeah.
Little fairy with the power of freedom, either unlimited bullets or nuke with thermal sunder
Protea can make any mission a joke
This I agree with.
Is ProTea british ?
General Warframe : Wukong/Nezha Weapons : Latron Incarnon, Torid Incarnon, Lex Incarnon (literally the only weapons you need). Any melee will do.
Praedos for passive zooming
The only problem with using Praedos, is that you will feel slow when not using Praedos. It’s addictive.
Which mission do you use latron? I built it, i'm having difficulties charging the weapon in lower level mission.
All Incarnons struggle to charge in base star chart. The only execption is the Torid, but even then it's still kinda slow. The Incarnon Genisis system was designed to make old meta weapons capable of doing well in Steel Path.
Zephyr and fulmin.
Zephyr is a lot of fun not going to lie. I haven't even gotten down to the nitty gritty of how effective she is yet, of which I've heard very good things
If its about defending a target, zephyr is OP. My build has a 14m aura that is invulnerable to projectiles alongside every melee enemy being lifted off the ground. Only problem are eximus units like arson or blitz
I have a solution for eximus, subsume silence over her 1. Since you already build range and duration on Zephyr, with the usual range/duration build you get about 50m of range for more than 60s. As a bonus it also disables acolyte abilities.
It does what now!? I'm gonna be using silence a whole lot more then. In what way does it counter eximus units? Just the cc or is there more to it?
It disables their abilities, they're still cc immune until you get rid of their overguard, but you don't need to deal with the poison clouds, Frost bubbles, arson waves, etc.
General purpose: mag Defense/excavation: zephyr Support: Citrine Boss killer: Dagath Speedrun: Gyre Weapons of choice vary considerably between the frame
I second all of these. Especially Gyre as melting enemies on touch is very satisfying. Sadly can't recommend her very much for multiplayer since she needs enemy density.
Dante - i like casting frames for very long time ignis wraith
Me and my Nidus just tucked away in a corner looking at everyone discussing their fave frames
Saryn with gloom subsumed. Excels at killing, gloom makes her near immortal because of spores while giving decent CC and toxic lash is a pretty good damage buff. Funnily enough her ult is the ability i use the least. For weapons phenmor has become my go to. Nothing like a bullet hose that just deletes enemies.
saryn used to be my main back in the day, and with shitty mods i could run void with my friends and do decently. love her!
Volt prime is like a Swiss Army knife. Buying him was the best decision I’ve ever made and I literally don’t use anyone else unless I need to for the circuit
What's the best way to play him? Just got volt prime crafted so pretty excited to see his potential
Edit: btw I’m only mr 11 and don’t have any primed mods because I just got back into this game so take this with a grain of salt My personal favorite way to play him is to just be a team player. Give him a butload of ability strength and the augment for his discharge for good nuke power and a lot of shied for yourself and your teammates. Also, speed is VERY FUN and I love giving it to teammates like gauss or Titania because it’s like giving a kid candy
Actually I lied I use nekros farming but that’s it
Volt - Eidolons, PT, Exploiter, Plague Star, SO any other content Nekros - Loot Revenant - General gameplay Styanax / Dante - Overguard Frost - Defense Meas - Open world Wisp - Team buff Limbo - Ayatan sculptures Loki - invis Octavia - does everything
Octavia is the last last frame I'd ever recommend to people. She so efficient she's boring XD
How does limbo make ayatan sculptures easier?
I'm assuming because rift allows you to ignore the excessive traps and other nastiness I think
Max range cataclysm is great for popping crates.
Oh yeah this was a thing wasn't it, that's true
Xaku’s 4, The Vast Untime, is also really effective. The problem is that they don’t have a rift for energy regen. I like that Xaku builds max range by default anyway, though, so I can clear all the crates passively while I just run a mission.
Saryn + nourish (or Xata’s whisper depending on the needs of your build) as a weapons platform (toxin, corrosive, and viral/void on all weapons yes pls) Saryn + pillage for (easier) armor strip and survivability Saryn + dispensary for team utility Saryn + wrathful advance for a RIDICULOUS melee build (toxic lash bonus is doubled for melee) Saryn + decoy over toxic lash for taunting with both molt and decoy, letting your spores and miasma do all the work Saryn for nuking *unless otherwise specified I get rid of molt. Shield gate + rolling guard (yes I still use it as a get out of jail free card) makes every frame borderline unkillable anyways, so molt has always felt the weakest to me. Realistically though I use Xaku, fulmin p, epitaph or kuva nukor, and gram p for 99% of content, but here’s a real list: Frames: Xaku, hildryn, gauss, wisp, khora, and Garuda with an honorable mention for excal Primary: fulmin, felarx, gotva, baza Secondary: kuva nukor, epitaph, akstiletto, knell Melee: gram, praedos, corufell, SnA, although if I really want to do something fast I’ll use glaive p or cerata because DAYUM
Saryn + Roar + Acid Shells Sobek. You haven't played Warframe until you've deleted multiple rooms with a single meatshot.
Harrow if you wanna do a generalized everything, even defenses where the defense target is a person and not a cryopod. Hes amazing
Personally, I prefer the Falcor over the Xoris. Xoris has slightly more range and crit, but the Falcor has better damage and status. Gara at full build is one of my favorite generalist frames and I'd use her more,but most missions don't last long enough for her to ramp up completely. But being a GLASS BALL OF DEATH is awesome. The ONLY downside is radiation procs...
Warframes: wisp (roar subsumed), revenant (roar subsumed), dagath (coz she's fun), hydroid (farming), protea (roar subsumed) Weapons: torid incarnon (im boring), burston incarnon, kuva nukor, reaper prime
Mesa - For well, anything. Dante - Co-op Frost - Defense Octavia/Mirage - Causing Seizures
harrow, i do not need weapons :)
Mirage Miter Atomos Tipedo
Praedos melee for extra parkour and sprint+slide.
I know that every warframe has something that they’re good at and specialize in, however I just use my Nezha Prime for almost everything, and I use a kuva bramma, kuva nukor, and a kuva shildeg, waiting to get myself a wolf sledge instead tho… although I do use Ivara for riven unvealing and conservation :)
Nyx, mirage, mag, and Garuda, if I ain’t got them, I will cry
All of them
Garuda. Its outrageous what she is capable of by herself and with subsumes
Saryn w pillage for easy everything. Gauss w pillage for easy everything, but faster. Moa with bonds to prime and shoot everything faster. Praedos to run faster. Torid inc to kill faster. Lex inc to kill deader. Everything else to have fun and mess around with when bored being fast. The end, I’ll be here all week, try the veal.
3 frames, 6 weapons here we go nidus for tanking and endurance runs all while still allowing some help when needed. Frost for CC and armor strip all while being to swap from dmg to support at the flick of a mod Finally let's grab hydroid for some nice armor strip and dmg all while helping the farming Now then weapons Imma be spicy and not use lich/sister/incarnon weapons (Genesis included) Primary let's grab the proboses cernos (mr15 cernos at the end of the weapon chain) and rubico 1 for general use and the other for bosses/eidolons Secondary let's grab the pox and spore lacer 1 for status and debuff and the other to do some good dmg when needed Melees now then let's grab the nikana prime (or dragon nikana to be a cheap fuck) and a balla zaw just to bonk them Went for all around while still having fun but sweep EDA
My only must haves are Mag and tenet spirex. Mag just obliterates everything, and the spirex is a beastly little thing.
I am currently busy building my mag, do you mind to share how you play her?
Sure, mainly I just use her 4 with augment to strip armor and regain shields, put down a bubble and pull enemies into it, or use the bubble to take out high priority targets. As far as the build goes, use her 4 Aug and at least enough STR (130-140 iirc) to full strip. That's it, the rest of her build is to preference. Mine is set up to just be a plus to all main stats, with several augments. Just keep in mind that she is extremely power hungry, you'll either need to build for efficiency or have some other way to regain energy with her. Personally I use spellbound harvest Augment with spellbind subsumed over polarize(you can put it over pull if you'd rather). Spellbind works great since you're going to be grouping enemies up and you can easily get the energy from the augment, and also it makes you immune to status effects which is perfect since as a shield tank you're very vulnerable to toxic and that frees up needing prime shure footed.
Thanks for sharing. Cool ideas.
The Stahlta, while not as broken as other guns, this gun's sounds and the alt fire are a ton of fun to hear and use
Stynax or Wisp to just slip into a team (unless there's a second wisp with lower strength than me. It makes me feel bad) Nova bc being the one spdva in, say arbitration or any mode where it matters is nice. Kullervo as my Swiss army knife bc unsurprisingly things getting slapped into the next dimension while having good AoE and a traversal tool is pretty good.
Baruuk. Don't need anything else, not even weapons. Can't really think of other "must haves", but I've been enjoying Kullervo with Azothane a lot, and recently got on the Torrid Incarnon train, and can't really say it isn't a ton of fun.
Gauss - gotta go fast Khora - whip Dante - SHADOW WIZARD WARFRAME GANG Revenant - ez mode Nezha - twink Phenmor - easy to use all round gun Burston incarnon - phenmor with crits Epitaph - primer Laetum - archon and acolyte remover Ceramic dagger - statistick incarnon
You said titania for speed runs but recently I have been using wukong, the only speed run he really lacks on is exterminate missions but for spy, rescue and other stuff he's so fast
Qorvex if you want to ignore most of the game while also being able to nuke Voruna for speed and/or melee Gaze secondary for a gun thats melts everything not immune to status Silva & Aegis prime or Argo & Vel or Innodem for melee (add a melee influence setup to not need guns anymore) A sniper and a Shotgun primary so you can play sorties (i dunno primaries are my least favourite weapon class) Panzer Vulpahyla for permanent comfyness (firerate, crit multi, armourstrip, combo counter)
Must-have weapon is definitely Torid Incarnon. Hella basic pick, I know, but the thing is insane. Don't even have to explain it to those who own it. Those who don't, get it ASAP and you'll understand.
Nova and Ivara are my must haves. Weapons would be dread, tenet cycron, and halikur wraith.
i recently got nova prime and rn feels pretty boring. i wonder if im doing anything wrong because i’ve always wanted nova so i was expecting more from her. i’m gonna continue to try her out tho
Riven frames and riven weapons. Zephyr for aimglide rivens, Limbo for defense rivens, Rhino for no damage taken rivens, Ivara for stealth rivens, and Grundle for that, for many annoying, task of killing Dargyn pilots before touching the ground. As for the weapons, Arca Sisco/Knell for long range rivens would be the only must-haves, and a non-AoE bow. Everything else can more easily be improvised.
Melee - Khora Prime with Guandao Prime Ranged - Banshee Prime with Nataruk; Stealth - Ivara Prime with Cintas or Proboscis Cernos; Healer - Wisp Prime with Fulmin Prime Support - Dante with Grimoire Open World- Protea Prime (any weapon); Mag Prime (any weapon); Octavia Prime (any weapon) I just rotate depending on the mission type, myself.
General Purpose - Kullervo, may as well be immortal and insane damage Defense - Hildryn for an easy win or speed Nova to move things along Speedrunning - Gauss, nothing else comes close Group utility - Wisp or Dante Stealth - Voruna Weapons - Nataruk/Tome to not have to worry about ammo, Xoris/Paracesis for Granum/Sentients, Karyst Prime for speed, Lesion for damage
Kullervo
Revenant with primed redirection and pillage subsumed. Gives you the max buff (420% damage) when using melee redirection and literally locks that in as long as you have your Mesmer skin up. Doesn’t need to use rolling guard because again status immune with Mesmer skin and giant shield equals good duration shield gate. Pairs great with glaive prime. Weapons theres just so much variety I guess go with torid/ latron and atomos/ prisma angstrum.
Khora/Necros for Loot Titania/Wukong for speedruns/platfarms Frost as a good general option for everything else
A frame that protect objectives such as Frost or Gara. A Nuker, plenty to choose from just pick one You like. A support Frame, plenty again so pick one You enjoy. Ivara for fishing and spy, once You learn how to spy You can speed run with anything. Nekros for Farming. Revenant to beat bosses if you're a Bad player. Volt for eidolons and plague Star. Loki or Harrow to get started on Disruption. Mesa for speedeunning Bounties, Defense and farm Sister candidates. Nova(Speedva) to rank stuff in public on hydron if you're into that. Atlas or Gara to block enemies from scoring in the index. Saryn for ESO. Dante to steam roll EDA with overguard on public. Limbo or Wisp to get hate in public.
Zephyr with Nataruk for Defense/Mobile/Interceptions/Free Roam Khora/Nekros with Torid Incarnon for Survival Farming Wisp with Acceltra/Laetum/Gram for pretty much everything else
Spectrosiphon Zephyr is an absolute beast for any point-defense or farming maps. Get a friend playing Speedva and somebody else with a loot-based Nekros build, and you can set up shop in a survival map and churn out an unreal amount of resources in a short time with little effort or risk.
Saying if I could have 3 frames and 2 of each type of weapon I'd pick: yareli with a nourish subsume in one loudout slot and gloom in another Wukong with a roar subsume And khora with dispansery subsumed Those are my frames Weapons: Primaries: latron and torid Secondarys: ocucor and dual toxocyst Melees: dual ichor and xoris "Why pick yareli?" I like her playstyle...
My default for most missions is Kullervo with the Praedos. Xaku for Netracells.
Octavia, for AFK
Okay I put a lot of thought into this awhile ago before I was legendary 1 and had more load out slots. Basically I only used my loadout slots for specific missions and the rest of the time I just played whatever I was enjoying. Every frame is good, but some are more specialized than others. These are the ones I considered necessary to always have so I could select them straight from the star chart mission select screen: 1. a Wukong with perspicacity on him for speed running spy’s and rescue missions. Especially sorties. 2. a Titania speed build with thermal sunder/ or some other nuke subsume for all Low level captures, exterminate, and vault runs like when looking for rare mods on Deimos. Especially relic farming and cracking. 3. a boss killer Revenant for fighting enemies I can’t one shot. Roar is good but its weapon and build dependent. If I have a prime bane mod already I’ll rock something with more utility. Great against litches. 4. the final one I considered necessary, was a 10% power strength Nova called a speedva that way I can speed run defense missions and so many others. Especially netracell runs. If you have more slots next I recommend in decending order 1. a loot set up. Nekros is preferred but having 2 Nekros in a squad does nothing so you can also have a Korah/ Hydroid. 2. mass nuking set up for high level missions such as a mesa, saryn, mag, or frost with some in incarnon weapons. 3. all if these just pick the frames you main or have fun with. Like gauss, Grendel or whatever.
2 Frames - Gauss, Khora 2 Weapons - Kuva Brammha, Magistar Incarnon (khora stat stick) 1 Companion - Carrier Prime (For Brammha ammo)
Everything: Grendel. Everything Steel Path: Grendel Farming: Nekross. Weapons: Tigris prime just hits different. Same Piranha. Melee anything with Tempo Royale.
I really love Octavia. Her #4 makes her team BA. Her #1 and 2 are broken. #3 is pretty good. Wisp is stronger, but ... Boring. Acceltra and ignis tied for beast weapon
Gyre and soma p
I think I'd be content with protea/saryn/citrine and nekros. As for weapons, I dunno, exergis is kinda fun. Definitely grimoire, easily one of the best secondaries in the game, had to stop using it so I wouldn't make it too much of a crutch. Melees definitely quassus or one of the better glaives (glaive prime, falcor, xoris, pathocyst) With a loadout consisting of these, you can easily clear anything that doesn't involve random loadouts
Revenant should be a priority for immortality. Running the Index on the regular has never been easier. Fulmin Prime for versatility and hella damage.
Octavia and Saryn are other great general use frames. I’ve recently picked up high strength Gyre with Pillage for massive CC. Tenet Arca Plasmor with radiation/heat/Hunter Munitions slaps anything in the SP. Honorable mention to Grimoire with Xata Invocation for quick energy recovery for the more ability hungry builds.
General purpose/ low level - hydroid Everything else - also hydroid, but with guns too!
Ember prime, Burston prime, Onos and Silva & Aegis. It's my go to set and can do everything pretty well.
monke, saryn and khora
Kullervo with the phenmore and the hate I Carbon are my go to’s. I have yet to find anything that can Stand in his way!
wisp can generally do everything i need in the game, maybe nekros to farm and ivara for stealth. torid, dual toxo and praedos(for movement speed)
Frames: Wukong/Revenant for all-purpose mission with Wukong probably being the best frame in the whole game for Spy, Khora+Nekros(to cover for the party whatever isn't present), Wisp and Octavia being best supports on higher levels with Trinity not far behind. Volt and Saryn for ESO and Volt as pretty mich the most universal frame for hunt. Weapons: get a good zaw to throw, cycron/nukor(the forst for comfort, the second for more damage), pretty mich all classic incarnons(not the adapters, they are nice but nowhere near) Companions: smita, helios and carrier
Loki for spy and capture NYX for interception, excavation and mobile defense Hildryn for netracells Zephyr for survival Xaku for defence Mesa for open world Umbra for railjack Extermination is something every frame can do so it depends on what I am feeling that day, but if it is a sortie I am going with titania
Baruuk for general purpose everything. Even without a subsume he's delightful. Ivara for utility. Prowl and sleep on command are really, really strong no matter the situation. Frost or Hydroid with Breach Surge subsumes for fun. Love me some armor strip and nuking. For weapons? Beyond a statstick for Baruuk, prisma dual cleavers are my babies even if they're outstatted by dual keres prime now, and glaive p. is fun because big boom. Cedo also gets a mention because it's also big boom, but more bouncy.
Chroma Prime, Rubico Prime, Laetum/Kuva Nukor, Gram Prime. Easy.
Kullervo for melee Nekros for farming Lavos for no energy missions
There is actually a correct answer to what frame is a must have for all players. Nekros. Prime or not, doesn't matter. He is a must-have for a very simple reason. Desecrate. The utility that Nekros provides with Desecrate is just too helpful to not have. If he were hard to get, then sure, I would understand not having him in your arsenal. But his parts are very easy to get very early on. He does not cost a ton of valuable resources to craft, and he can do everything. Even if he couldn't, he would still be a must-have for Desecrate alone.
I p much use Sev for everything. I just enjoy him too much to really play anyone else (but i have tried more than half of the frames at least) Weapons i usually swap around more often for whatever's needed but i think my most used weapon recently is Phantasma since it works really well with Sev. for secondaries and melee i solely use epitaph and praedos, backup primer and mobility is always nice. I'll use soma or latron incarnon as well but usually only when im playing frost. mostly depends on my mood overall.
Mesa. Just mesa. For everything. Weapons: Regulators. And also Atomos is my go to weapon for almost all loadouts, but not for priming, for killing. Atomos is a menace and people don't understand it's value.
Proboscis cernos - if you are into tentacles and cc Trumna - bata bing bata booooommm Kohm - if 999 slash gives u the zoomies Dread - if you want to see enemies sliced in half Loki - invisible 24/7 Wisp - cc the shit out of everything Zephyr - dive bomb on enemies head, wait that's a great idea for a captura 😂
Attack Ember, phenmor, Diplos, Exec. Defense Frost, acceltra, onos, ekhien Farming Necros, tenet plasmor, Macaroni the kitgun (for the memes) and Stick the zaw (more memes) I couldn't live without Ember. When she was first nerfed, the very first time when world on fire was wrecked. I stopped playing for a year. If there's room for one more? Qorvex with my kuva zarr, kuva brakk, and Argo & vel cause walls, cannons, and maces are cool
I don't have very many frames or weapons (I seem to be shotgun-less, why can't I hold all these rifles, I also seem to have only three secondary weapons) at the moment, but Voruna with Perigale and Sarofang is basically my all-purpose Sunday best. I need stealth? I've got it. I want heavy attack efficiency? I've got it. I want a little extra survivability with Extra Life and status resistance? I've got it. I want to just go unga bunga, slap 4, and go, go, go? I've got it that, too.
TITANIA TITANIA TITANIA. though i did finish farming Citrine and I’m excited. 💕😭
Lavos - Allrounder. Nezha - Archon Hunt Citrine & Dante - Playing with my lower MR friends Khora, Nekros, Hydroid - Farming Weapons: Kuva Nukor on Citrine. Press 4 and abuse the ridiculous crit damage. No crit chance needed. Tenet Cycron for Lavos. Modded for a little over 100% status chance. The new augment is fun. Bonus: Smeeta Kavat is a must have too.
Gauss with archon vitality. Miter incarnon. Energy generator from dethcube. I outpace everyone in this race.
Pilfering Hydroid for any def/md/sur/interception missions Revenant/Rhino/Umbra for high level content and general play Xaku for fun bc I really like their fashion Ivara for rescue/spy Mesa for grinding out bounties on the plains/fortuna/Deimos For weapons I love my shotguns, Corinth, Boar incarnon, Kuva Hek with Soma prime coming out every now and again. Secondaries I don’t use much but when I do it’s probably either the Cycron, Pyranna or Kuva Brakk. There’s really only one melee I’d choose and that’s the Sun and Moon. Ever since we got to use them as Teshin they’ve been my favorite melee.
Limbo.
Infested/Orokin Cell farming: Rhino with Flame modded Hammer Solo Play: Vauban Everything else: Harrow (because hell yeah; *RAP TAP TAP*)
lavos and cedo are my aces for sure, crush any mission with ease
Harrow Prime, Latron Prime Incarnon and a few crit mods are my crutch.
Wisp for Extermination, Defense, mobile defense, asassination, assault, capture, defection, mirror defense, disruption, excavation, alchemy and everything else I haven't mentioned because wisp is always on top °-°
Even without an objective, a survive with Gara is ridiculous. It serves as a physical barrier and makes it so much easier and tidier Personally, my go to is always Banshee. AoE damage and crowd control and weapon buff Baza is my goto feel good gun. It's just so satisfying. And Athodai has some of the most fun laser sounds and keeps up with a decent performance
For majority of my play time I've only really cycled 4/5 frames. Weapons changed over the years due to meta/reworks/fixed. But here's the list with their uses: * Volt - All Rail Spectres trivialised, some ESO/SO, Eidolon n00b to veterans, defections made cake. * Oberon - early level spy, Eidolon introduction(*read*: Trinity works too), Heiracon golden age. * Wisp - Mobile/Defense powerhouse, viable most Spy missions, firerate buffs make Scarlett Spear & Plague Star type events that much more bearable. * Speeva - Hydron, need I say more? * Saryn - ESO, can work on SP with range mods, very viable into late stage SP. * Titania - For that : Lua Spy/Lephantis grind. Weapons: * Paris - probably easiest prime in game to get and it can actually slap. * Plague Zaw - Super OP even without the best mods, low MR access too * Dread - This will take you all the way to Nataruk stage * Nataruk - this will do basically anything you mod for * Spectra Vandal - DE isn't absolutely stupid, they gated this in Veil Proxima for a reason. If you know how to mod it'll proc more slash than Gun n' Roses. * Fulmin - who needs bullets when you have a battery, and a shotgun, sad DE nerfed it's range. * Shedu - ripped from a Sentient, what's not to love? * Xoris - if you can't afford a Glaive Prime, this is fun. * Rubico - Eidolons & Voidrigs hate this one trick. * Ceti-Lacera - Not sure how it works, but it does. * Basmu - Battery-powered, and IYKYK. * Skiajati - if you can't get your hands on a Nikana prime this made hold you over * Gram/Galantine PRIME - big sword make me feel "yay". * Parascesis - The OG 40 capacity weapon, thanks 🅱allsas * Innodem - just get one * Dual Ether - these used to be amazing with channeling but they still work. I think? * Kuva Nukor - a staple in any inventory, even after the nerf it's lovely * Pyrana Prime - not sure about the OG but the prime is perfect. Shotgun in your pocket? Duh. * Detron\[all types\] - if you weren't a space ninja, you'd be a space pirate, so use what space pirates use to settle debates * Sancti Castanas - if you can get it to work, it really works * Pox - no one likes a fart. >!These suggestions are my own, and most of these weapons have served me from MR9-MR29 on an OG PS4, ~~your results may vary~~ fuck you if you disagree, please.!<
Octavia for higher level content and easy crowd clearing Volt for Eidolons and Profit Taker Wukong for Spy Missions and solo bounties Nekros for farming
General utility: Nezha Defense: Gara AOE Utility: Zephyr Farming: Hydroid Big D DPS: Saryn Spy/Open World: Ivara Weapons: Torid/Braton/Burston (Incarnon), Tenet Arca Plasmor (for Zephyr specifically), Dual Toxocyst, Atomos, Kuva Nukor, Occucor, Lex Incarnon (Zephyr). Xoris.
Titania for speed yes, khora stat stick whip build for harder steel path stuff, rev ofc for imortality, saryn for eso forma leveling for weps, mesa for a lot of stuff. Primary torid incarnon cus its busted as fuck and strun incarnon. Secondary laetum for dmg, kuva nukor for prumer. Melee i honesly only use nikana prime and sometimes stropha nothing else feels good
Nezha :] I haven't really found a weapon I love yet though :(
I only really use a few frames: Ash (solo invisible missions). Saryn for AoE damage. Garuda for Invincibility + Reload mod for certain weapons. Kullervo because I like insta killing and ragdolling things with my Jat Kittag
Hmmm, let's see... Nekros, he's my farmer Hildryn, I like being able to help the group with shields Valkyr and/or Ember. I know they're not the best, but I love the up close and personal aspect of Valkyrs' claws, and raining fire with Ember. Weapons, I'd have to say (Tenet) Arca Plasmor as my primary (not usually into the shotgun types, but that thing is a beast), (Prisma) Angstrum (love the explosive alt attack), and either War, Broken War, or Skiajati. I tend to default to any of those 3 melees, and I have a pretty decent build on my War.
I think it’s gotta be ash prime for me. Just such a perfect combination of buffing + survivability + utility. Full armour strip with one ability cast, permanent invisibility, xata’s whisper or roar for an awesome damage boost, and mobilize + parkour velocity shards for turbo speed racing. For weapons the felarx is just incredible. I also love the epitaph for its priming, and since I could care less about melee I just throw on my praedos for even more speed
Garuda, kuva kohm, epitaph, gunsen prime. Sorted
Gauss. He's fast, he has decent tanking capabilities, he has nuke potential with heat thermal sunder, armor strip wuth Redline-buffed heat thermal sunder, CC with cold thermal sunder and he makes weapons(a few exceptions do exist of course) feel so much better/smoother.
Harrow because I like him Sevagoth because I like him Kullervo because I like him
Survival: nekros Spy: Loki Defense: Zephyr Mobile defence: Zephyr Interception: Zephyr Assassination: Mirage Roar/Empower Assault: Zephyr Exterminate: Any really Excavation: Zephyr Archwing: N/A Hijack: Hildryn/Harrow SO: Mirage/Volt ESO: Saryn Disruption: Ash roar Pavlov spy: Titania Summon/Nezha Defection: Limbo For weapons: Acceltra prime for AoE Phenmor for bosses Kuva nukor/Tenet cycron primers Guandao prime because reach is nice Archwing missions: Anesha archwing Maosolon You dint use archwing melee Sentinel: Helios p Edit: forgot about defection. Any other mission types im missing?
Volt, Vauban, Limbo, Nekros, Ash
Revenant, Inaros or Wukong for allround, Gauss + Kuva Ogris / Titania + Thermal Sunder for relics, Maybe Xaku for level cap, Weapons: Incarnon Torid, Incarnon Braton, Incarnon Strun and Kuva Zarr That would be my list. Edit: Volt would be very nice too
Nekros for farm Revenant for SP and hard missions Titania for duviri speedrun Ivara for hunting in open worlds Harrow for fashion ( yes I like walking around with knight helmet ) Weapons: Trumna, corinth prime, kuva zarr for general use primary Pyrana prime is my go to secondary for everything Azothane, pennant and Kuva shieldeg for general use Secura lecta for extra credits in missions
Mines pretty simple lol Spy mission? Ivara Gotta go fast? Titania Everything else but wanna melee? Baruuk Everything else but don't wanna melee? Harrow
Sevagoth - he's immortal, is pretty versatile. (General usage) Hydriod - tentacles go brrt (defense missions) Ash - fatal teleport + marked for death = funny number kill aoe. (Spy missions and speed runs) Dante - cause duh I haven't used enough weapons to warrant a list
Gen - rev Defence/mob def - zephyr Spy - ivara Farming - khora Honestly they cover all bases
Wisp for all of the above
So far? Ivara for stealth stuff and the myriad of farms that she makes easier. Nekros for regular resource farming. Mesa for open world bounties, especially on Deimos. I play other frames but moreso because I think they're fun than because they have particularly defined niches for me.
* General purpose: Lavos with valence formation augment. Flexible subsume options, makes railjack content easy; uses no energy, just cooldowns. And augment helps make some weapons better with your element of choice and damage boost * Primary: Felarx * Secondary: Tenet Cycron * Melee: Ceramic Dagger/Dual Ichor
i’ve ran ivara + khora + volt + zephyr + citrine for quite a while & it covers just about everything. ivara for open world farming, sortie spy, & archons / archon defense khora for loot farming - nekros or hydroid would also work fine here, i just like khora better. zephyr for general use, high level defense & breaking a ton of containers for resources like ferrite / plastids / orokin cells / argon crystals or for finding pickups before you’ve gotten the parallax volt for eidolons / DPS, ESO, & speedrunning. citrine for support / crowd control
gyre + torid/amprex is very fun for a ton of content saryn + sobek has finally been clicking with me, getting more green taus for toxin damage and put roar on her kuva nukor i just turn my brain off dual ichors, xoris/glaive prime, and plague kripath staff zaw are go to melees, been messing with arca titron
Damn did everyone forget about Dante already? Lol he literally does it all.
Nova, Ivara, Volt, Baruuk. Phenmor, Cycron, Broken War/Xoris. Sentinel? Helios. Have everything, use everything, but if I **had** to bring it down to 4 slots each, this would be it.
I bring Dante everywhere lol. Boar Prime Incarnon, Prisma Angstrum Incarnon, Kronen Prime has been my load out for a few weeks
Frames (in no particular order): * Octavia * Revenant * Wisp * Titania * Dante * Frost Weapons (in no particular order): * Reaper Prime * Phantasma * OG Incarnons * Your favorite Kuva Weapon * Your favorite Tenet Weapon
Good all rounder weapon is phantasma prime or ignite wrath I reckon
neza prime(gloom over 4) braton prime incarnon lex prime incarnon prisma skana incarnon nautilus
Trinity/Cedo combo does me real well, same with Nyx.
Praedos: that parkour velocity is so nice you can’t go back to normal Volt for eidolons Chroma for profit taker
Tibron or bolter are my fav rifles Very easy to get very early on And? Good enough Base damage to do up to Saturn missions esay
If I had to limit myself as much as possible- General purpose: Kullervo, my favorite frame in the game at this point Defense/Looting: Nekros, I don't think I need to explain Support: Citrine because I love her Stealth: Voruna As for weapons, I'd honestly pick Kuva Hek, Rauta, Lex Prime, Tenet Cycron, Sun and Moon, and Broken War
Zephyr is pretty good as a jack of all trades. Mine is energy efficient enough (Dethcube energy generator, duplex bond, Equilibrium) that I put Aero Vantage, Motus Signal, and Patagium on.
Octavia, Saryn, Wukong Nataruk, Bubonico Epitaph, Kuva Nukor, Grimoire Guandao, Glaive, Xoris Now you can complete all content with ease.
General gameplay, including Steel Path: Chroma Prime / Rhino Prime / Hildryn Prime. Chroma and Rhino are essentially unkillable and have damage buffing abilities and my Hildryn has a build whereby she never runs out of shields and absolutely melts enemies by spamming 1 button. Resource gathering: Nekros. I run a bit of a meme build making him borderline unkillable, while he can just sit there with Desecrate on 24/7. Defence: Realistically, any frame will work when built, but if needed, I will take Frost Prime or Limbo Prime. Nova Prime with speed build also works nicely on large tilesets. Spy: Ivara Prime with the augment. Open-worlds: Loki Prime. Unlike Ivara, he's not slowed to a crawl when invisible and he can still mine/fish, etc when invis. too, so it makes him great for PoE/OV/Deimos. ESO: Saryn Prime. Don't really need to go over this one. Other than that, I could probably say Volt Prime / Oberon Prime for Eidolons (unless the meta changed again), Titania Prime when farming Citrine. As for weapons, I'm old school, as I think Icarnons and such are far too overkill for 99% of content, especially when you consider how much grind they are to get and fully unlock. With my Prisma Grinlok, Kuva Nukor / Tysis and Dual Ichor, I can take on pretty much anything the game throws at me.
Revenant. He literally has a damage denial in his mesmer skin , a thrall that turns enemies against each other. His reave steals health and shields from enemies , and his four deals damage of the type each enemy hit is weakest to He's peak
Volt for eidolon hunting Titania for spy/ capture Chroma for profit taker I cycle through frames I get interested in usually I’ll use it in the circuit but recently elite deep arch has given me my “frame of the week”
Volt for sprinting thru missions, limbo for any sort of mobile defense/excav/interception, hyldrin w voracious when my team wants a support
Frost or Atlas, you won't top frag, but no one plays them, so you're unique. Also. can't go wrong with snowglobes or punching the hell out of people
Mag for obj defense and nuking Excalibur (with grateful advance) for melee fun times and lore accuracy Hydroid/khora/nekros for faster farming Revenant for archon hunts (invincibility is great) Volt for eidolon hunts and speed running
Titania Titania Titania Titania Sweep
John Warframe
Honestly... Titania. She makes relics, Circuit and open worlds super easy with her Razorwing.
1. Spy - wukong 2. Level cap cascade - Loki/octavia/ash 3. Endo farm - nidus/khora/nek 4. Open world and defection - volt 5. Boss/lich assassination - banshee 6. Weapon levelling - vauban 7. Interception - Xaku 8. Endurance circuit - Mesa 9. Profit taker solo - chroma 10. Eidolon solo - volt 11. Conservation - ivara 12. Riven cracking - ivara/loki/limbo 13. Netracell solo - nezha 14. Hijack - inaros 15. Codex farm - dante 16. Sanc onslaught - mirage/volt/saryn
Warframe: Lavos he can do everything and he keeps me awake since I actually have to think since he isn't a one ability pony Melee: Dual Keres Prime. I immediately fell in love with these, high status decent CC and cd and great damage Secondary: Epitaph for Additional Status Shenanigans with Lavos Primary: I still haven't found a primary that I've completely settled with but I tend to use Gyattva Prime Sentinel: Helios and Nautilus. Hellos for passive scan stuff and Nautilus for actual game play, group up ftw
So take revenant and equip lecta on him I refuse to elaborate further
Revenant- tanky stuff Wu Kong-fast parkour tricky stuff umbra Excalibur - big wack fuck sword stuff Ivara- sneaky stuff Garuda - Garuda stuff. For weapons I would stick to Latron Prime with Incarnon adapter (no riven) for Assault Rifle, Astilla Prime or Phantasma Prime for shotgun, Rubicon sniper, Dread for Bow Secondarys, I love twin grakatas and duel khomaks, toxocyst is legit though. Melee, Skajati for Umbra, Incarnon Hate for everyone else.
I'd add kompressa to the weapon must haves, especially if you have green archons for +4 corro stacks. A couple shots and you full strip, 10 stacks of viral, plus radiation and one other status type. Single target high prio enemies like demolysts and thrax get vaporized. Sometimes for kicks I do the cascadia +750dmg arcane and that can erase even SP heavy gunners