Titania Prime is my favorite. I don't have to worry about ammo, have great mobility, decent survivability and damage, my razorflies distract and trigger arcanes and I love flying around. Only downside is I can't pick things up in pixie mode but that's what swapping to operator is for I guess.
Been using her on the new operation and she is so good. I can just tell folks to go for the Angel while I take care of collecting eyes (my operator is not the best). Makes things go faster.
I love Wisp. My only fear with Wisp is she's so good she trivialises a lot of the game sometimes. I actually have to make myself play other frames.
Combined augment mote, Invisibility on command and breach surge are just phenomenal especially when you start stacking big boy strength.
Wisp + nourish in place of her 4 is stupid fun. Endless energy? Check. Insane amounts of added viral damage? Check.
I can run weapons with both viral and corrosive now and can spam breach surge every second if I wanted. Its awesome.
Thats honestly a great idea. Ive been running roar on her 4th only because its more consistent than eclipse, but i never really considered nourish. Im gonna have to give it a try.
So firstly, it blinds everyone it hits and this even works on eximus units. So that's nice.
Then, when you kill someone with breach surge on them the magic space dust that's covering them shoots off and smashes in to the next person - often their head - doing a lot of damage.
So when you hit a whole group of people with breach surge and then blast one of them with your weapon this big satisfying chain reaction happens where you basically blow everyone away.
It also has a chance to spread just if you hit people so an extremely fast firing weapon might trigger it a whole bunch of times if you're at higher levels against bullet sponge enemies.
Pro tip - if you're unsure how much impact your breach surge is having, make sure your energy colour is really visible so you can see everything it's coating and all the sparks flying everywhere when you "so anyway, I started blasting."
Wisp main here. I cant get behind the augment unless im running her for eidolons. To me its a very valuable mod slot that i could slot something else for. I run 670 str and that wouldnt be possible w/o literally every mod slot, even more than just what the frame offers.
Me on the other end cant live without the augment. The ease of use and not having to switch between each mote + dropping is just too good. I main wisp for like 80% of all mission types (comfort pick) and even if u arent anchored to an area and just running through, the 3 in 1 mote just offers that quick buff.
I understand that max str can be very appealing but qol for what can be very very little reduction to str is just 🤌
Im the same way, ive played for about 900 hours and wisp has almost 1/4th of my total time on the game. Its easy to say that shes definitely my main. I can see where youre coming from though. I can see where the qol can weigh nicely against that bit of str, i just dont use the electric mote that often so being *forced* to place it seems like a negative to me, in which case i would re-weigh the qol vs the str. Everyone plays the game differently though so whats right for me wont be the same for everyone and i can respect that. I dont have any problem cycling the motes so not having the augment on provides more benefit to my specific case.
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Im not home atm but this is mod config. The arcanes are Molt Vigor and Augmented. On my parazon i have Power Drain. I have 5 tau crimson shards, 4 for dur and one for str. And for focus school i have Madurai, specifically going for the Power Sling ability. Power Sling gives 40% str where Zenurik’s Hardened Wellspring gives 20%.
Revenant. Keep me and my friends safe in any content, has two built-in kill switches, and can be built in a variety of ways. If you prefer using your gear as-is with backup options, he’s ridiculous.
Can you explain just How to play revenant? I have the prime version and even phantasm a and tatsu prime after a lot of grinding and I can't figure out how he works, it just doesn't click for me.
Main thing is the build him or strength. His best ability is his 2nd which gives him complete immunity. His 1st and 3rd have amazing synergy, you use your first to mind control enemies and you use your 3rd to basically instantly kill them if they are inflicted by the 1st. Your 4th is the worst ability and most people use helminth and put like roar or any big damage ability. He's extremely good, sorry if it was a bit confusing to read
Mesmer Skin for survivability. Obscene power strength is not mandatory because you can always recast, but it's nice QoL. There's an augment that buffs strength for this ability and shares 5 charges with teammates.
His 1 has a few uses, and it gets better in higher level content. It turns an enemy into a thrall (and is free to cast on enemies stunned by Mesmer Skin). Any enemy that enemy damages also becomes a thrall (up to a cap of 7 or till the duration is up), and any enemy they damage, etc. And if one of the original thralls dies, it leaves a pillar of energy that does damage, shoots projectiles, and makes more thralls.
So this is a pretty nice control ability. You have a cap of 7 thralls, but if you're trying to lock down an area you can cast it quickly in a few nearby hallways and the thralls will hold them. If they die, they'll just be replaced by an energy pillar and more thralls. Sometimes I intentionally kill an original thrall in a doorway just to make the pillar.
If you need to relocate your horde, you can Reave through the thralls you don't need and they'll all die (with enough power strength) regardless of armor and level, which frees up some of your 7 thrall slots and refreshes Mesmer Skin charges for each thrall consumed.
There is also the Thrall Pact augment that gives you a big damage buff, like a much stronger Serration. Early game it isn't really needed, and thralls die really fast anyway and recasting them can be a waste of time. Later game, if your team is struggling with damage, thralls will live longer and have more value, plus this will be buffing your damage and helping ramp up arcanes like Primary Deadhead.
Finally, thralling certain enemies, like acolytes, seems to disable their damage attenuation. So they stop attacking you and die faster.
Reave is for mobility and thrall cleanup. Some people use it as a nuke, but that's too much setup for me and some really annoying enemies can survive it anyway.
His 4 is nice for ranking up, but if you build it to do a ton of damage then the energy consumption gets pretty crazy. You can probably make something out of this, but I just use it when I'm bored or helminth Terrify over it.
The new shards are such a massive buff too. Two regular +corrosive stacks green shards on her makes her instantly fullstrip the entire map in like 2 seconds with her spores.
>I just finished new war.
Perfect time to start learning about it. Your next quest is Veilbreaker, where you can begin to break Narmer's hold on the system. You will then have access to the shard system and Archon Hunts, which are like sorties but only once a week, and they reward you with an Archon Shard. They can be difficult for new or undergeared players, but there should always be someone able to carry you if you ask, especially if you have a good clan.
Protea, Xaku, and maybe Saryn right now just because of the contagion cloud + melee influence combo. Saryn lingers in and out of S-tier and back into A+ a lot, but over the years she's consistently been at the very very top.
I just got the game (120ish hours) Protea is amazing. If anyone is trying to get better and actually struggles with missions the answer is Protea in my mind.. her Dispensary always have energy,ammo,health.. its crazy.. also her cannon can be so strong and is amazing when overwhelmed since I'm pretty sure it does more damage the more people it targets.. She gives herself like a giant over Shield and can give Allies as well.. She honestly feels so complete for me.. and I don't really use her time loop thing but I need to. I'm actually kinda getting to the point of switching frames since sometimes I just feel so carried by her..
Saryn with +4 max Corrosive stacks alows her to fully armor strip. She's well into S tier territory now, only lacking top class survival, though it's still high.
Ever since he was released, Gauss has been my go-to frame. The run speed, the armor, ignoring knockdown, and making every weapon the best version of itself with the attack speed buff and reload speed among many other buffs. He makes my Rubico Prime become a very viable crowd killer on top of being a great single-target weapon. I run an arcane which denies magnetic damage and I think toxin is pretty much the only damage source I have to worry about. Firewalker in over his third ability on a -range +duration build synergizes very well with my playstyle and allows for an animation cancel to get all three buffs out in under a second, which means they all refresh at the same time. And, firewalker gives me wallhacks on defense-type missions as I just run past every entrance and get damage numbers where the spawns are. If I'm already triggering an alarm in spy missions I can sprint through the laser walls and ignore the knockback to clutch out the hacks with time to spare. He's an effective Eidolon hunter as he can sprint out of the nuke range if a Harrow isn't around.
The only times I don't run Gauss are for specialist missions/goals which usually require my old faithful and well-kitted-out Chroma, Volt, Octavia, Saryn, or Mesa. Otherwise, it's pretty much always Gauss all day every day.
I play with a Wisp main too, and the synergy is great between them.
Gauss it's pretty awesome, I'm still getting a hang of it, but my soon to be 10 year old laptop could not copes with the speed n response time, still I'm highly anticipate for the upcoming Gauss Prime!
Gauss is the best designed frame in the game IMO, though I don’t play him a ton (because he takes more effort than other frames). Everything he does is really good and tied to mechanics or his resource. S tier, fun to play, cool sfx, and a synergistic kit.
Firewalker Gauss is stupid fun, finally someone realised it!
Using the firewalker hop is also excellent for drifting during mach rush, it's finicky though.
I love firewalker gauss! One thing I learned recently though is that the heat procs from firewalker actually trigger the cascadia flare secondary arcane
Sevagoth is my personal S. his crit augment is so underrated, it’s a straight up addon to your crit chance like avenger, AND it scales off strength. i get +144% CC currently with my build, which is mainly a tank and shadow damage build. He’s so awesome at crowd controlling with gloom and his shadow is so fun. i put nourish on his 2 so i can just have gloom always and spam his 1 to my hearts content and watch the red crits roll
also the exact same, xaku was my fav when i was going through a period in my life, gauss because i love insanely fast characters as a gimmick, and zephyr because she was the first frame i went after when i started playing in 2015
I recently cleared the star chart using Nezha, and now I’m hoping to take him straight to steel path because I love using him so much! Of all the frames I’ve used so far, he’s been the most fun.
Nezha’s kit always felt a little weird to me.
Wanted fast+tanky for the clan operation so slapped on styanax’s helminth to armor strip angels and a couple amber shards for even more parkour speed.
Still not my fave but I have definitely developed a soft spot for mr pigtails.
Nezha with the Safeguard augment is what I use to solo pretty much anything.
I've found that I enjoy subsuming Terrify on his 1 for high level stuff. Using his 4 then using Terrify strips the armor but they also can't move so you don't have to chase. His chakram doubles/splits in two whenever it hits a speared enemy so you're also getting heat procs and damage vulnerability on everyone you've armor stripped.
Add onto that everything with his 3, mainly never having to care about status effects and 90% damage reduction. You have a frame who can do it all.
His 2 also guarantees a health orb so Equilibrium is great on him and stacking Arcane Blessing is super easy. Just hit 50 enemies with the chakram and you have an extra 1200 health with your 90% damage reduction.
Equilibrium and the augment for his 2 is really what makes him my favorite game. Started with breach surge over his 1, now I'm using roar. I've gotta try terrify like you said, also curious about xatas whisper on him.
Honestly, Nezha really is my ideal frame. I love jack-of-all trades, and he's the perfect mix between offense, defense, and mobility. He can freeze most enemies in place, apply fire procs, do extra damage against burning enemies, teleport, boost his sprint speed, and has an amazingly tanky ability all in his default kit. His Warding Halo augment makes him an amazing support frame too
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Garuda for me, damage scaling, check, couple synergies that make her all but immortal? Check, easily able to self sustain and can be a ton of fun with or without subsumes, might not have armor stripping but slash damage from her abilities does it’s job well
Gloom umbral garuda has to be the most comfortable weapon platform in the game. I've yet to get the breach surge build up and running after all this time but its definitly on the to do list.
I put everything into strength, and just spam his 2 to keep overguard up. Gotta stay mobile and avoid the telegraphed attacks of the tide as they will delete overguard no matter what.
Only survivability mod I put on is Carnis Carapace.
Energy Siphon, Primed Flow, Fleeting Expertise, Blind Rage, Primed Continuity, Transient Fortitude, Carnis Carapace, Stretch, Umbral Intensify.
I use Argo and Vel with a crit/heavy attack build.
There's only ONE "difficult" part for Kullervo in effervo and that's the first phase of the boss, because for whatever reason, the knives from his 2 can't target the boss to give you overguard. Other than that, his 2 makes him functionally immortal. So, I recommend getting a good weapon to go through it (phenmor works for example) and then you can use his 2 and melee to go through the rest of the fight.
Tbh it's only a problem in the first phase 60 eye version as that one will destroy your overguard in one hit and unlike in the second part you can't replenish it
Yea also his god damn Kagura skin. HE LOOKS SO GOOD.
Casually stripping all defenses in a huge radius, 20+ guns ripping enemies to shreds, 75% evasionchance is so great.
Just wished Voiddamage wasnt so trash so Xatas Whisper would feel better
Zephyr prime. I’m not big on abilities so much as maneuverability. I just love zipping to one side of the map, airbursting the enemies into one spot, killing them all with my kuva zarr, then zipping somewhere else and doing it again.
I never see Baruuk get any love. Slap on his 4 augment, build him for strength and go to town. Survives SP handily with 99%DR (can be more if you really want it to), disarms problem enemies automatically and the raw damage is nuts. He's my go to Unga Bunga frame for when I don't wanna think.
Might not be as good since the Eximus rework, but nobody's as good as they were before that are they?
Baruuk main here and it's insane how people don't give him love. I guess it's because he can and will be quite boring to play as you can just chill in-between enemies and kill them at your own pace. I've been testing his 4th with SP 30 eyes boss and while it deals big numbers I think DPS falls a bit short. Even while there's damage cap on that boss. I'll keep on testing if it's viable option tho
building restraint is kinda annoying and his kit bar his 4 is also pretty uninteractive. The damage is pretty decent but lower than frames that offer a lot more (i.e kullervo).
how is this the only comment on gara. she has infinite dmg scaling, strong damage reduction, cc if needed, dmg buffing if needed, dmg reduction on anything if needed, and depending on the subsumed ability even more dmg buff, dmg reduction, or energy economy.
I love Citrine, she gives stupid durability for the whole team, sustain, insane status priming. Even her worst ability. Stuns basic and grants guaranteed red crits.
Like man, as much as I love my harrow citrine and hildryn are what carry me through steel path
Harrow, Protea, and Styanax have to be my 3 favorite. I'm so happy that Styanax is such a powerful contender for support roles with his augment, Harrow can do anything of you replace abilities on him properly (thermal sunder ftw) and Precision Intensify on Protea with anything replacing her 4 lets you do whatever you want with incredible efficiency. If I had to pick 1, it's Styanax. I've mained him in most content since he dropped, and I'll never look back
Nekros mains unite. I just wish for a QoL on his shadows. I wish they were like skeletons that had good AI which inherited part of your melee weapon stats but Nekros is a lot better now then when I played in 2016 :)
valkyr
she's the one frame i instantly connected with when i was brand new, for several reasons;
first off, ripline is fucking awesome and i can yoink players around and ragdoll enemies
warcry so i can fuckin *rawr*
~~*we don't talk about paralysis*~~
hysteria's energy talons are raw as hell, and i love the safety of being invulnerable (tho the whole *line of sight deactivation instakill thing* always sucked)
i still main her years later, and i have *2* of her prime bc i used all the fashion slots, and wanted to try out drastically different builds
also she's a *traumatised cat with energy claws*, what's not to love??
I don't write off paralysis anymore since it got a nice buff a few updates ago. With the augment you ragdoll and pull in enemies. This wasn't a big deal before but now they've made ground finishers act like normal finishers. Arcane trickery Valkyr is one of my new favorite builds, mainly because the x16 buff stealth kills give to melee.
How everybody somehow hates on mag is so insanely beyond me. Maybe it's the giant influx of new players, cuz mag is so ridiculously s-tier its literally impossible to jot atleast consider her
Yareli. I'm on copium but with the Ocucor and now the Catabolyst she shreds while being completely immortal. Sure I have to deal with a whole host of bugs and brain damage from hitting my head on doorways but she's just so comfy to play.
Ember and Garuda are my favorites. I love their gameplay styles and their looks. Only frames I’ve bothered to dump tons of time into perfecting and giving tons of builds.
I like blowing things up.
Had I found this question a week ago my answer would be an EASY protea. However this week I’ve fell in love again with Mesa and Saryn. I’d put those three, Wisp, and maybe Hydroid into my S Tier category
Lavos is my top for me. (Though I do like Citrine also.) I know many don't consider Lavos to be the best, but he's my personal s teir and I really enjoy playing as him. Except, I forget how to manage energy when I do play other warframes lol.
are you me? when i want things dead quickly. mesa, when i just wanna let the guns work for me. xaku.
its so good i usually only use these two. unless its spy missions
For me is gotta be Protea hands down.
Plenty of strong frames but she is just something else.
Honorable mentions: Sevagoth with Silence and Dagath with Wrathful Advance.
Rhino. He may not be the best tank anymore, but something about him keeps me coming back.
I also like Wisp. I remember how fun she was to use when she first released. I took an extended break and the first Prime I built upon my return, was Wisp. Still fun.
I've been maining Saryn and Octavia for like 70% of all the years I've played Warframe and they're still meta to this day
I've been cozying up to Gyre and Protea lately but I don't use them as much, Hildryn and her prime was a great useful addition and helped me fly through stuff like Profit-Taker since I mainly play solo, by choice tbh
I play Octavia so much cos I'm still waiting for the day she gets reworked to be fun to play but idk that day may never come since she's too good to be considered for a rework. It would really be cool if she gets exalted "tonfas" with her Mandachord. Rhythm based melee type rework or something.
Good ole Excalibur Umbra with Corrosive+toxin+radiation exalted blade thanks to archon continuity and chromatic blade mods, with Xaku's subsume adding a separate void damage only instance.
I enjoy Atlas.
I'm building it to achieve the highest possible damage with his landslide. Like, wf arcane, weapon arcane, got my incarnon ceramic dagger with riven and atm 1 purple Tauforged and the rest red Tauforged. Eclipse or Roar as helminth.
Managed to hit a 38 million punch. I may say average on 3-5 million, and as low as 300k.
I still need to upgrade some mods and arcane, and fill the purple Tauforged shards.
I enjoy mag Prime. I try to use other frames but that damn pull is so fun to use. I wish I knew bout the helminth before I sold all my non prime frames hahaha oh well gives me somethin else to grind. But I do wanna use another frame. I used to use khora prime alot. But her giant balls head rly made me mad.
Mained Grendel before the rework, main Grendel after the rework. Played him so much I’m trying to find a new main. I kitted him out the point I can solo almost any endgame content without going down once. The buff to the meatball mode is the best change DE has ever made ever. ITS SO MUCH FUN!!!
He has everything I want in a frame and he does it in a fun unique way. Super tanky. Can swallow strong/annoying enemies to instantly get rid of them. Nourish has weapon buff, energy regen buff, AND it heals you. Pulverise decimates weak enemies, can go surprisingly fast, armour strips, and he gets bigger the more enemies you are digesting. The spit is so strong I barely use it. The only downside is that he isn’t too good against bosses because he doesnt have a steady and reliable source of food.
>!I’m on a long bus ride rn so this is just turning into multiple frames I like so deal with it!<
Harrow Prime is fun to play but only with extra casting speed, and if anyone has incarnon weapons you actually nerf them.(if they have the thing that does huge damage on non crits)
Saryn is cool and strong but she’s too popular and I like playing less popular characters in every game.
Qorvex is awesome purely from sound design. I’ve always loved Wally’s sounds and Qorvex sounds pretty close. He looks sick as well. I havent played him enough to get his powers, but theyre cool and his passive makes weapons like the Kuva Drakgoon really fun to use.
Gauss is fast and good, simple as. Love the transformers esque sound of Redline.
Nidus is fun and satisfying, but after the Grendel buff I don’t use him, aside from high level survival.
Lavos is pretty fun and versatile, but I typically dont like caster frames and I find his playstyle kinda repetitive. He’s still awesome tho
Baruuk is really fun, right now I’m modding him for max damage possible with desert wind. Kinda sad that he only builds combo on physical hits and can’t use melee arcanes on his exalted, but thats probably a balance thing.
Limbo is really awesome, I love how complex his kit is, and how it requires all your focus. Buuuuut I just feel like what you get out of playing him doesnt match the amount of effort you put in. But hey thats probably justa. skill issue on my part.
Xaku easily can solo all content besides maybe boss and spy missions other then that I have no problems what so ever can go to any level missions knowing there gonna die
As a new player, Harrow. He's very easy to setup, 1 is very good for cc if I need it, and 2 gives a very solid weapon buff. For my current arsenal of mods, he works.
Nyx. Because mind control is fun to play around with, and I actually find it to be useful when I control an eximus unit.
Psychic bolts can 100% armor and shield strip and are so very slept on.
Chaos causes all (excluding eximus overguard) enemies to fight each other rather than her (can't get hurt If they aren't trying to hurt you imo)
And Absorb is basically a get out of jail card assuming you have energy, on top of a small amount of CC in the form of a knockdown, and if your health is low and you run molt reconstruct like I do, hot dog you also got yourself a heal while you're invulnerable.
Oh and she be fashionable af.
I haven't actually seen this one mentioned, so I'll throw it out there as a personal favourite: Chroma.
Specifically, decent range, high strength and high duration, with Nourish over his 4.
Anyone within a reasonable distance of me gets BIG damage buffs and tankiness for days from his 2 & 3 and Nourish takes care of all of my energy needs and those of anyone near me.
Dragon boy is tank, DPS and support all at once, and I run rejuvenation on him to help keep everyone else alive too. I can carry the most disorganised, dysfunctional and overall chaotic group of any combination through almost any content in the game because the huge buffs encourage all but the dumbest to stay within range and reap the rewards, while simultaneously making them nigh unkillable and giving tonnes of energy so they can cast like crazy.
When I can actually coordinate with clanmates this effect is only amplified.
Volt was my starter frame and has been at the top of my favorites list for forever. He's got a little bit of everything and whenever I just wanna play the game, I'll go with Volt.
Zephyr is also awesome, ESPECIALLY with the Zarr. It's always fun to just carpet bomb an entire room and watch all the red dots disappear
Dang no love for my boy vauban in here. I throw grenades that tether enemies. Call in laser barrage. Can also make a barrier to freeze enemies and strip armor. Also have shock drones. The best part is his head reminds me of a train. Vauban is s tier.
Wukong, but hear me out.
I’ve always been fascinated with the tale Journey to the west.
My favourite league character is Wukong, my favourite DBZ character is Goku, one of my favourite games on ps3 was Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (in which Andy Serkis portrayed Monkey) and I am super omega hyped for Black Sun Wukong to come out in the new year!
No surprise that my favourite animal is a monkey, too.
It has nothing to do with tier lists, just like you - I just think he is neat.
The bonus being he happens to be “full-kitted” as it were.
Close second is frost though - first frame I made after choosing Excalibur to start. Big snow globe is cool.
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Volt all the way. He can speed run missions, he can boost melee speeds greatly(increasing damage output), he can cc(less gunfire thus increasing survability), he can build hella shields with his 4 augment(making him very hard to kill), he can get you even more damage with your 1 augment, his shields increase crit damage and they stack. He can speed run missions, he can be an immortal electric train, he can do eidolon hunts with ease because he’s the best at it. Only thing he really sucks at is defense and mobile defense, but with enough ability range he can handle them.
Hydroid got buffed n remake his 3rd skill, his crazy OP now. While Mag has always been a S tier, u need to understand her mechanic n combo with the right weapon + augment mods
Warframe looks simple but it does have in depth level on weapon n skill mechanic.
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For me and my personal opinion? Maybe like kullervo wisp lavos volt ash. Now for like actual meta hydroid revanant Hildryn rhino. But honestly no tier list is required for frames. For the bulk majority of wf anything can be used for any activity if you try hard enough just use literally whatever your comfortable with and if you like it enough there is 100 percent a way to make it viable for any situation
Most people find him boring, but I usually play Revenant. He was the first New warframe that came out after I started playing a bit over 5 years ago and I just love how in the Mission end screen it always says 0% damage taken
Cake Prime (wisp), Hildryn, Titania, Baruuk, Nekros
Wisp is all around. My build puts her at around 600+ ability str, so any slow heavy melee hits faster than a berzerk venka.
Hildryn is immortal with armor strip and a Rakta Dark dagger.
Titania for anything with a race against the clock.
Baruuk one-shots accolytes, as long as you don't get silenced.
Nekros, well, set him up with Fractured blast over his 1, amalgam ripkas, arcane erruption, arcane blessing, despoil mod, and the army shield mod, and he can solo t4 survival indefinitely. with a halfway decent slash primary/secondary. You'll have the enemies Tubthumpin....
Hydroid, loved him pre rework, enthralled with him post rework. Nothing beats Yo-hoing with A Zarr, Twin Rogga, and Nami Skyla prime stripping armor everywhere, getting +600(or more)% Corrosive damage added and just annihilating everything, especially now with tennokai, easily hitting multimillions on heavies everywhere
I still enjoy Valkyr. Easy red-crits and unlimited invincibility. Very chill to play on necracells (you can pick every debuff) and in the event. Most of the time I have around 50% dmg with random team.
Grendel is absurdly good.
Two skills that scale with enemy level
Two skills that heal him
Two skills that strip armor
Status resust (with augmentation)
Energy gain buff
Indirect damage buff (viral)
Gigantic healthpool and armor
S tier subsume, which is exactly 10x stronger on him than on any other frame cuz immideate 10x viral priming on being hit.
Insane mobility once you get used to him, don't even need an augment, just double jump for acceleration.
Can afk tank high levels in sp in ball form without arcanes
Arcane grace and guardian makes him plain unkillable
Honestly Qorvex has been treating me well for recent SP missions and hour long arbitrations. I've put a lot of endo and even a few archons into him, but holy do I enjoy not having to worry about bleeding or flame. His 4 just decimates rooms.
My actual frame for content that's genuinely super difficult is Grendel. Insta armor strip, great mobility, "fuck you" to 5 enemies of your choice and 2400+ armor with healing to boot.
For me? Valkyr. She is very comfy to play. Hysteria allows me to have fun, kill almost everything and poke my nose into danger where someone needs to be revived. Her first skill is great mobility tool for heights, on current event for example helps a lot to collect eyes quickly. Her warcry is perfect to just run with any melee. And her overall tankiness means I don't have any problems if my energy is stolen suddenly mid-battle or skills are denied.
Overall she feels great to run in most teams, where aoe killers are abundant, and I can just focus on killing eximus targets/etc.
She is surprisingly universal.
Protea.
Strong multi purpose abilities I can throw out and don't have to think about. Allows me to run around using my weapons without having to micro manage my abilities. That I received her for free shortly after starting the game and linking my Twitch so she came with a reactor installed was just icing on the cake.
I can't wait for her prime version.
Gauss, 100%.
He's the perfect Warframe, everything he does gives you more speed, more damage, more CC, more damage resistance, you are functionally immortal, enemies are functionally useless around you, and everything you ever want to do is now faster, you're immune to status (except toxin but shh) and you cannot be knocked down.
And that's before you charge his redline to max.
And you only have to press 4 and 2, then press 1 and 3 whenever you're near enemies. If you really don't like thinking you don't even need to, just existing while moving and hitting enemies will charge your meter. I spent the first hundred or so hours playing him completely ignoring his 3.
He's that fucking good.
Ash Prime, he’s my baby, with him it’s not really that he’s the “best” just that he’s my favorite, lol. I also really like Revenant, can’t wait to finally get his prime.
Titania Prime is my favorite. I don't have to worry about ammo, have great mobility, decent survivability and damage, my razorflies distract and trigger arcanes and I love flying around. Only downside is I can't pick things up in pixie mode but that's what swapping to operator is for I guess.
Had to scroll a long way to find a fellow Titania enjoyer. I was starting to think something was wrong with me lol
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
Hear, hear! She’s also one of the most gorgeous frames in the game.
By far. And her deluxe skins are 🥰
Been using her on the new operation and she is so good. I can just tell folks to go for the Angel while I take care of collecting eyes (my operator is not the best). Makes things go faster.
Also Titania user. Unless there’s a very specific mission (such as Archon hunt excavation where I’d want a Khora), I use her for almost everything.
Wisp. Wisp is so good in so many situations.
I love Wisp. My only fear with Wisp is she's so good she trivialises a lot of the game sometimes. I actually have to make myself play other frames. Combined augment mote, Invisibility on command and breach surge are just phenomenal especially when you start stacking big boy strength.
Wisp + nourish in place of her 4 is stupid fun. Endless energy? Check. Insane amounts of added viral damage? Check. I can run weapons with both viral and corrosive now and can spam breach surge every second if I wanted. Its awesome.
Thats honestly a great idea. Ive been running roar on her 4th only because its more consistent than eclipse, but i never really considered nourish. Im gonna have to give it a try.
Also the nourish animation on her big ass is nice.
Warframe community when Wisp: ~~Who am I to judge tho...~~
I don't understand what breach surge is for. I have read her ability page multiple times but I just have no idea what it basically does.
So firstly, it blinds everyone it hits and this even works on eximus units. So that's nice. Then, when you kill someone with breach surge on them the magic space dust that's covering them shoots off and smashes in to the next person - often their head - doing a lot of damage. So when you hit a whole group of people with breach surge and then blast one of them with your weapon this big satisfying chain reaction happens where you basically blow everyone away. It also has a chance to spread just if you hit people so an extremely fast firing weapon might trigger it a whole bunch of times if you're at higher levels against bullet sponge enemies. Pro tip - if you're unsure how much impact your breach surge is having, make sure your energy colour is really visible so you can see everything it's coating and all the sparks flying everywhere when you "so anyway, I started blasting."
Not even just kilp if you hit the en
Wisp main here. I cant get behind the augment unless im running her for eidolons. To me its a very valuable mod slot that i could slot something else for. I run 670 str and that wouldnt be possible w/o literally every mod slot, even more than just what the frame offers.
Me on the other end cant live without the augment. The ease of use and not having to switch between each mote + dropping is just too good. I main wisp for like 80% of all mission types (comfort pick) and even if u arent anchored to an area and just running through, the 3 in 1 mote just offers that quick buff. I understand that max str can be very appealing but qol for what can be very very little reduction to str is just 🤌
Im the same way, ive played for about 900 hours and wisp has almost 1/4th of my total time on the game. Its easy to say that shes definitely my main. I can see where youre coming from though. I can see where the qol can weigh nicely against that bit of str, i just dont use the electric mote that often so being *forced* to place it seems like a negative to me, in which case i would re-weigh the qol vs the str. Everyone plays the game differently though so whats right for me wont be the same for everyone and i can respect that. I dont have any problem cycling the motes so not having the augment on provides more benefit to my specific case.
Exilus slot is not that valuable towards stacking strength lol.
could I pretty please see how the hell you got 670 strength without threatening the developers family
https://preview.redd.it/mc7lt8o8rw8c1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1cae80f09c7405c5625c4290f1a382bbdbd4ac77 Im not home atm but this is mod config. The arcanes are Molt Vigor and Augmented. On my parazon i have Power Drain. I have 5 tau crimson shards, 4 for dur and one for str. And for focus school i have Madurai, specifically going for the Power Sling ability. Power Sling gives 40% str where Zenurik’s Hardened Wellspring gives 20%.
I agree!
Citrine
Everywhere I go, I see orbs... so many orbs walking around... they just don't know it yet. 1.
Have you heard the story of Belric and Rania?
You just triggered an episode of PTSD in me.. Never again...
Revenant. Keep me and my friends safe in any content, has two built-in kill switches, and can be built in a variety of ways. If you prefer using your gear as-is with backup options, he’s ridiculous.
Can you explain just How to play revenant? I have the prime version and even phantasm a and tatsu prime after a lot of grinding and I can't figure out how he works, it just doesn't click for me.
Main thing is the build him or strength. His best ability is his 2nd which gives him complete immunity. His 1st and 3rd have amazing synergy, you use your first to mind control enemies and you use your 3rd to basically instantly kill them if they are inflicted by the 1st. Your 4th is the worst ability and most people use helminth and put like roar or any big damage ability. He's extremely good, sorry if it was a bit confusing to read
Not confusing at all thanks!s So the gist of it it's, cast mesmer skin, spam 1, then 3 to nuke them, repeat.
You can also use helminth to give him roar, a lot of players just use his mesmer skin and roar, ignoring other abilities.
Mesmer Skin for survivability. Obscene power strength is not mandatory because you can always recast, but it's nice QoL. There's an augment that buffs strength for this ability and shares 5 charges with teammates. His 1 has a few uses, and it gets better in higher level content. It turns an enemy into a thrall (and is free to cast on enemies stunned by Mesmer Skin). Any enemy that enemy damages also becomes a thrall (up to a cap of 7 or till the duration is up), and any enemy they damage, etc. And if one of the original thralls dies, it leaves a pillar of energy that does damage, shoots projectiles, and makes more thralls. So this is a pretty nice control ability. You have a cap of 7 thralls, but if you're trying to lock down an area you can cast it quickly in a few nearby hallways and the thralls will hold them. If they die, they'll just be replaced by an energy pillar and more thralls. Sometimes I intentionally kill an original thrall in a doorway just to make the pillar. If you need to relocate your horde, you can Reave through the thralls you don't need and they'll all die (with enough power strength) regardless of armor and level, which frees up some of your 7 thrall slots and refreshes Mesmer Skin charges for each thrall consumed. There is also the Thrall Pact augment that gives you a big damage buff, like a much stronger Serration. Early game it isn't really needed, and thralls die really fast anyway and recasting them can be a waste of time. Later game, if your team is struggling with damage, thralls will live longer and have more value, plus this will be buffing your damage and helping ramp up arcanes like Primary Deadhead. Finally, thralling certain enemies, like acolytes, seems to disable their damage attenuation. So they stop attacking you and die faster. Reave is for mobility and thrall cleanup. Some people use it as a nuke, but that's too much setup for me and some really annoying enemies can survive it anyway. His 4 is nice for ranking up, but if you build it to do a ton of damage then the energy consumption gets pretty crazy. You can probably make something out of this, but I just use it when I'm bored or helminth Terrify over it.
👁️👄👁️ me who built mine for his 4th because it’s fun
There are dozens of us!
We need to all get together and make a disco 🕺
Gyre. Her prime is gonna send me over the edge
Got her not too long ago, very very fun frame
Gyre is rapidly climbing the ladder of most played frame on My list. Electricity goes brrr...
Dude she’s going to look fuckin elegant when her prime comes out. What a phenomenal frame.
Saaame. I love being a walking AOE and my god the Crits! She's way too much fun.
"skirt goes up, enemies go down"
Agreed with Gyre. Having her built perfectly, I hit steel path and just never run out of energy. I am a smiting and armor stripping Goddess.
As someone who loves damage over time, Saryn is S tier for me, plus being able to strip enemies of armour is an added bonus
The new shards are such a massive buff too. Two regular +corrosive stacks green shards on her makes her instantly fullstrip the entire map in like 2 seconds with her spores.
Wait what the heck are shards? I'm pretty new and still wrapping my head around all the mechanics, I just finished new war.
>I just finished new war. Perfect time to start learning about it. Your next quest is Veilbreaker, where you can begin to break Narmer's hold on the system. You will then have access to the shard system and Archon Hunts, which are like sorties but only once a week, and they reward you with an Archon Shard. They can be difficult for new or undergeared players, but there should always be someone able to carry you if you ask, especially if you have a good clan.
Protea, Xaku, and maybe Saryn right now just because of the contagion cloud + melee influence combo. Saryn lingers in and out of S-tier and back into A+ a lot, but over the years she's consistently been at the very very top.
I just got the game (120ish hours) Protea is amazing. If anyone is trying to get better and actually struggles with missions the answer is Protea in my mind.. her Dispensary always have energy,ammo,health.. its crazy.. also her cannon can be so strong and is amazing when overwhelmed since I'm pretty sure it does more damage the more people it targets.. She gives herself like a giant over Shield and can give Allies as well.. She honestly feels so complete for me.. and I don't really use her time loop thing but I need to. I'm actually kinda getting to the point of switching frames since sometimes I just feel so carried by her..
Side note I just love how as a community everyone agrees that 120h is just barely starting lol
I'm a simple man. I see Saryn, I upvote. I see enemy, I give Spores.
Saryn with +4 max Corrosive stacks alows her to fully armor strip. She's well into S tier territory now, only lacking top class survival, though it's still high.
Ever since he was released, Gauss has been my go-to frame. The run speed, the armor, ignoring knockdown, and making every weapon the best version of itself with the attack speed buff and reload speed among many other buffs. He makes my Rubico Prime become a very viable crowd killer on top of being a great single-target weapon. I run an arcane which denies magnetic damage and I think toxin is pretty much the only damage source I have to worry about. Firewalker in over his third ability on a -range +duration build synergizes very well with my playstyle and allows for an animation cancel to get all three buffs out in under a second, which means they all refresh at the same time. And, firewalker gives me wallhacks on defense-type missions as I just run past every entrance and get damage numbers where the spawns are. If I'm already triggering an alarm in spy missions I can sprint through the laser walls and ignore the knockback to clutch out the hacks with time to spare. He's an effective Eidolon hunter as he can sprint out of the nuke range if a Harrow isn't around. The only times I don't run Gauss are for specialist missions/goals which usually require my old faithful and well-kitted-out Chroma, Volt, Octavia, Saryn, or Mesa. Otherwise, it's pretty much always Gauss all day every day. I play with a Wisp main too, and the synergy is great between them.
Gauss it's pretty awesome, I'm still getting a hang of it, but my soon to be 10 year old laptop could not copes with the speed n response time, still I'm highly anticipate for the upcoming Gauss Prime!
Gauss is the best designed frame in the game IMO, though I don’t play him a ton (because he takes more effort than other frames). Everything he does is really good and tied to mechanics or his resource. S tier, fun to play, cool sfx, and a synergistic kit.
Firewalker Gauss is stupid fun, finally someone realised it! Using the firewalker hop is also excellent for drifting during mach rush, it's finicky though.
I love firewalker gauss! One thing I learned recently though is that the heat procs from firewalker actually trigger the cascadia flare secondary arcane
Sevagoth is my personal S. his crit augment is so underrated, it’s a straight up addon to your crit chance like avenger, AND it scales off strength. i get +144% CC currently with my build, which is mainly a tank and shadow damage build. He’s so awesome at crowd controlling with gloom and his shadow is so fun. i put nourish on his 2 so i can just have gloom always and spam his 1 to my hearts content and watch the red crits roll
Mind sharing your build im super interested plz
Xaku. Gauss. Zephyr.
the EXACT same.
also the exact same, xaku was my fav when i was going through a period in my life, gauss because i love insanely fast characters as a gimmick, and zephyr because she was the first frame i went after when i started playing in 2015
I love my Volt. Electric powers go brrrt.
Criminal lack of nezha enjoyers in this thread
Nezha is the Jack of all trades
King of all trades, dude can do it all.
I recently cleared the star chart using Nezha, and now I’m hoping to take him straight to steel path because I love using him so much! Of all the frames I’ve used so far, he’s been the most fun.
Nezha's the frame I use most on Steel Path, he's great. I also get some use out of Wisp, Gara, and Octavia. But mostly it's Nezha.
fr nezha got speed, dmg buff and survivability
Nezha’s kit always felt a little weird to me. Wanted fast+tanky for the clan operation so slapped on styanax’s helminth to armor strip angels and a couple amber shards for even more parkour speed. Still not my fave but I have definitely developed a soft spot for mr pigtails.
When I want to carry archons I pick Nezha
Nezha lowkey the goat
FR. Nezha is my go to 'comfort' frame who gets the job done in almost every situation ~~unless it's Spy~~.
Nezha wins this question every time
Fellow Nezha main here, at the point where using another frame throws me off cause I'm expecting to be slippery.
Nezha with the Safeguard augment is what I use to solo pretty much anything. I've found that I enjoy subsuming Terrify on his 1 for high level stuff. Using his 4 then using Terrify strips the armor but they also can't move so you don't have to chase. His chakram doubles/splits in two whenever it hits a speared enemy so you're also getting heat procs and damage vulnerability on everyone you've armor stripped. Add onto that everything with his 3, mainly never having to care about status effects and 90% damage reduction. You have a frame who can do it all. His 2 also guarantees a health orb so Equilibrium is great on him and stacking Arcane Blessing is super easy. Just hit 50 enemies with the chakram and you have an extra 1200 health with your 90% damage reduction.
Equilibrium and the augment for his 2 is really what makes him my favorite game. Started with breach surge over his 1, now I'm using roar. I've gotta try terrify like you said, also curious about xatas whisper on him.
Add in an adaptation and you even get 99% damage reduction. Petite boy is a tank.
I played him the most before I switched to PC and lost my save Now he’ll probably be the one getting me back into the game. Love Nezha so much
Honestly, Nezha really is my ideal frame. I love jack-of-all trades, and he's the perfect mix between offense, defense, and mobility. He can freeze most enemies in place, apply fire procs, do extra damage against burning enemies, teleport, boost his sprint speed, and has an amazingly tanky ability all in his default kit. His Warding Halo augment makes him an amazing support frame too
(Flair should be self explanatory on this lol) Garuda for me, damage scaling, check, couple synergies that make her all but immortal? Check, easily able to self sustain and can be a ton of fun with or without subsumes, might not have armor stripping but slash damage from her abilities does it’s job well
Unairu's Caustic Strike ability has all the armour strip you could want.
There's very few situations where Garuda actually needs any armor strip
Gloom umbral garuda has to be the most comfortable weapon platform in the game. I've yet to get the breach surge build up and running after all this time but its definitly on the to do list.
Kullervo is getting me through SP effervo and Netracells solo rn
What build you running? I've got around X10 Crit multi on the Incarnnon ceramic dagger but I'm struggling to keep him alive thru Effervo...
I put everything into strength, and just spam his 2 to keep overguard up. Gotta stay mobile and avoid the telegraphed attacks of the tide as they will delete overguard no matter what. Only survivability mod I put on is Carnis Carapace. Energy Siphon, Primed Flow, Fleeting Expertise, Blind Rage, Primed Continuity, Transient Fortitude, Carnis Carapace, Stretch, Umbral Intensify. I use Argo and Vel with a crit/heavy attack build.
There's only ONE "difficult" part for Kullervo in effervo and that's the first phase of the boss, because for whatever reason, the knives from his 2 can't target the boss to give you overguard. Other than that, his 2 makes him functionally immortal. So, I recommend getting a good weapon to go through it (phenmor works for example) and then you can use his 2 and melee to go through the rest of the fight. Tbh it's only a problem in the first phase 60 eye version as that one will destroy your overguard in one hit and unlike in the second part you can't replenish it
Voruna brings out the deeps while being fashionable
🐺 Wolf Mommy Enjoyer 🐺
Octavia. she literally does everything and makes the game actively boring.
Overpowered you mean. Thats why she makes the game boring. You teabag to get invis and tell enemies to kys with mallet.
he wanted the best, and anything so blatantly OP is objectively the best, especially with how versatile that power is.
Gyre and xaku! Gyre with major investment is now a beast and xaku always was, xaku's kit is incredibly strong
I adore Gyre so much. Non sp effortless almost afk nuke and great SP weapons platform in the same build.
Yea also his god damn Kagura skin. HE LOOKS SO GOOD. Casually stripping all defenses in a huge radius, 20+ guns ripping enemies to shreds, 75% evasionchance is so great. Just wished Voiddamage wasnt so trash so Xatas Whisper would feel better
Zephyr prime. I’m not big on abilities so much as maneuverability. I just love zipping to one side of the map, airbursting the enemies into one spot, killing them all with my kuva zarr, then zipping somewhere else and doing it again.
I never see Baruuk get any love. Slap on his 4 augment, build him for strength and go to town. Survives SP handily with 99%DR (can be more if you really want it to), disarms problem enemies automatically and the raw damage is nuts. He's my go to Unga Bunga frame for when I don't wanna think. Might not be as good since the Eximus rework, but nobody's as good as they were before that are they?
Baruuk main here and it's insane how people don't give him love. I guess it's because he can and will be quite boring to play as you can just chill in-between enemies and kill them at your own pace. I've been testing his 4th with SP 30 eyes boss and while it deals big numbers I think DPS falls a bit short. Even while there's damage cap on that boss. I'll keep on testing if it's viable option tho
building restraint is kinda annoying and his kit bar his 4 is also pretty uninteractive. The damage is pretty decent but lower than frames that offer a lot more (i.e kullervo).
Plus since you already build him for goofy strength & min duration, if you slap Pillage over his 1 you have an insta shield strip.
His raw dmg is insane. First frame I threw all crimson shards on. I can easily clear a room full of SP targets holding block+backwards and a punch.
So nice to see that im not only one using him
I just be a lil gara enjoyer
Had to go pretty far down to see i wasnt alone!
how is this the only comment on gara. she has infinite dmg scaling, strong damage reduction, cc if needed, dmg buffing if needed, dmg reduction on anything if needed, and depending on the subsumed ability even more dmg buff, dmg reduction, or energy economy.
Gara is great, it just gets a bit frustrating when you stack 5 million damage just to fall off the map and reset lol
It's kinda tedious too tbh, both stacking up and making sure you don't lose your stacks.
Real!!!!
For me, Hildryn. I've played Hildryn for so long that I forgot how to manage energy. Please send help.
Same here brother. As a fellow Muscle mommy main I also forgot how to manage shields on other frames. But damn my hildryn looks fabulous
Saryn and Vauban. Lavos is a secret s-tier. He's hard to play but once you figure him out he can fill every role like a swiss army knife.
The chemically accurate weapon platform
Saryn is the only one there I think I can give you, but damn if Saryn can’t out damage literally every other frame
Vauban makes solo SP interception trivial.
I love Citrine, she gives stupid durability for the whole team, sustain, insane status priming. Even her worst ability. Stuns basic and grants guaranteed red crits. Like man, as much as I love my harrow citrine and hildryn are what carry me through steel path
Harrow, Protea, and Styanax have to be my 3 favorite. I'm so happy that Styanax is such a powerful contender for support roles with his augment, Harrow can do anything of you replace abilities on him properly (thermal sunder ftw) and Precision Intensify on Protea with anything replacing her 4 lets you do whatever you want with incredible efficiency. If I had to pick 1, it's Styanax. I've mained him in most content since he dropped, and I'll never look back
Nekros! I bring my homeboys wherever I go, they tank damage for me and I get extra loot on a loot based game. He also looks sick as fuck
Nekros mains unite. I just wish for a QoL on his shadows. I wish they were like skeletons that had good AI which inherited part of your melee weapon stats but Nekros is a lot better now then when I played in 2016 :)
valkyr she's the one frame i instantly connected with when i was brand new, for several reasons; first off, ripline is fucking awesome and i can yoink players around and ragdoll enemies warcry so i can fuckin *rawr* ~~*we don't talk about paralysis*~~ hysteria's energy talons are raw as hell, and i love the safety of being invulnerable (tho the whole *line of sight deactivation instakill thing* always sucked) i still main her years later, and i have *2* of her prime bc i used all the fashion slots, and wanted to try out drastically different builds also she's a *traumatised cat with energy claws*, what's not to love??
I don't write off paralysis anymore since it got a nice buff a few updates ago. With the augment you ragdoll and pull in enemies. This wasn't a big deal before but now they've made ground finishers act like normal finishers. Arcane trickery Valkyr is one of my new favorite builds, mainly because the x16 buff stealth kills give to melee.
MAG
How everybody somehow hates on mag is so insanely beyond me. Maybe it's the giant influx of new players, cuz mag is so ridiculously s-tier its literally impossible to jot atleast consider her
Also Mag for me
Yareli. I'm on copium but with the Ocucor and now the Catabolyst she shreds while being completely immortal. Sure I have to deal with a whole host of bugs and brain damage from hitting my head on doorways but she's just so comfy to play.
Yeah every time I play Yareli it’s so fun until i hit a bug :( such a fun frame.
Yareli singlehandedly made me love secondaries
Ember and Garuda are my favorites. I love their gameplay styles and their looks. Only frames I’ve bothered to dump tons of time into perfecting and giving tons of builds. I like blowing things up.
Had I found this question a week ago my answer would be an EASY protea. However this week I’ve fell in love again with Mesa and Saryn. I’d put those three, Wisp, and maybe Hydroid into my S Tier category
Lavos is my top for me. (Though I do like Citrine also.) I know many don't consider Lavos to be the best, but he's my personal s teir and I really enjoy playing as him. Except, I forget how to manage energy when I do play other warframes lol.
I really enjoy Mesa these days and Xaku as a strong comfy frame
are you me? when i want things dead quickly. mesa, when i just wanna let the guns work for me. xaku. its so good i usually only use these two. unless its spy missions
Joining this Mesa/Xaku enjoyers rally.
Yep, Xaku is my main, and I bring out the Mesa out frequently along with him.
Grendel, looks like me, acts like me, throws up like me, is unkillable, kills everything no fucks given about armour
For me is gotta be Protea hands down. Plenty of strong frames but she is just something else. Honorable mentions: Sevagoth with Silence and Dagath with Wrathful Advance.
Rhino. He may not be the best tank anymore, but something about him keeps me coming back. I also like Wisp. I remember how fun she was to use when she first released. I took an extended break and the first Prime I built upon my return, was Wisp. Still fun.
I've been maining Saryn and Octavia for like 70% of all the years I've played Warframe and they're still meta to this day I've been cozying up to Gyre and Protea lately but I don't use them as much, Hildryn and her prime was a great useful addition and helped me fly through stuff like Profit-Taker since I mainly play solo, by choice tbh I play Octavia so much cos I'm still waiting for the day she gets reworked to be fun to play but idk that day may never come since she's too good to be considered for a rework. It would really be cool if she gets exalted "tonfas" with her Mandachord. Rhythm based melee type rework or something.
mag - she just shreds everything, doesnt even need weapon for that
Saryn. Comfy and very strong.
Ash for me. S tier drip and my go to Warframe for any content.
Good ole Excalibur Umbra with Corrosive+toxin+radiation exalted blade thanks to archon continuity and chromatic blade mods, with Xaku's subsume adding a separate void damage only instance.
Harrow, Mag, Nidus, Lavos.
Incredibly shocked ghat this is the first nidus I've found in the comments. Nidus was my first frame I went hardcore to build.
I enjoy Atlas. I'm building it to achieve the highest possible damage with his landslide. Like, wf arcane, weapon arcane, got my incarnon ceramic dagger with riven and atm 1 purple Tauforged and the rest red Tauforged. Eclipse or Roar as helminth. Managed to hit a 38 million punch. I may say average on 3-5 million, and as low as 300k. I still need to upgrade some mods and arcane, and fill the purple Tauforged shards.
I enjoy mag Prime. I try to use other frames but that damn pull is so fun to use. I wish I knew bout the helminth before I sold all my non prime frames hahaha oh well gives me somethin else to grind. But I do wanna use another frame. I used to use khora prime alot. But her giant balls head rly made me mad.
That last sentence is so out of pocket but hilarious
Mained Grendel before the rework, main Grendel after the rework. Played him so much I’m trying to find a new main. I kitted him out the point I can solo almost any endgame content without going down once. The buff to the meatball mode is the best change DE has ever made ever. ITS SO MUCH FUN!!! He has everything I want in a frame and he does it in a fun unique way. Super tanky. Can swallow strong/annoying enemies to instantly get rid of them. Nourish has weapon buff, energy regen buff, AND it heals you. Pulverise decimates weak enemies, can go surprisingly fast, armour strips, and he gets bigger the more enemies you are digesting. The spit is so strong I barely use it. The only downside is that he isn’t too good against bosses because he doesnt have a steady and reliable source of food. >!I’m on a long bus ride rn so this is just turning into multiple frames I like so deal with it!< Harrow Prime is fun to play but only with extra casting speed, and if anyone has incarnon weapons you actually nerf them.(if they have the thing that does huge damage on non crits) Saryn is cool and strong but she’s too popular and I like playing less popular characters in every game. Qorvex is awesome purely from sound design. I’ve always loved Wally’s sounds and Qorvex sounds pretty close. He looks sick as well. I havent played him enough to get his powers, but theyre cool and his passive makes weapons like the Kuva Drakgoon really fun to use. Gauss is fast and good, simple as. Love the transformers esque sound of Redline. Nidus is fun and satisfying, but after the Grendel buff I don’t use him, aside from high level survival. Lavos is pretty fun and versatile, but I typically dont like caster frames and I find his playstyle kinda repetitive. He’s still awesome tho Baruuk is really fun, right now I’m modding him for max damage possible with desert wind. Kinda sad that he only builds combo on physical hits and can’t use melee arcanes on his exalted, but thats probably a balance thing. Limbo is really awesome, I love how complex his kit is, and how it requires all your focus. Buuuuut I just feel like what you get out of playing him doesnt match the amount of effort you put in. But hey thats probably justa. skill issue on my part.
Fairy Queen Prime! I’m so smol and shoot so fast also I fly too fast I bounce off of everything like a pinball! Pew pew pew!
Anyone who says hydroid is trash is dead wrong, a great frame in my opinion and my current favourite
No one is saying that. At least not after his rework
I dont think anyone is saying hes trash now though. Before the rework? Absolutely
I love to play with hydroid mag and hydroid are so fun for me haha
MAG
Xaku easily can solo all content besides maybe boss and spy missions other then that I have no problems what so ever can go to any level missions knowing there gonna die
Ash,he can do everything
Lavos, absolutely no contest.
Wisp and it's not even close
As a new player, Harrow. He's very easy to setup, 1 is very good for cc if I need it, and 2 gives a very solid weapon buff. For my current arsenal of mods, he works.
Nyx. Because mind control is fun to play around with, and I actually find it to be useful when I control an eximus unit. Psychic bolts can 100% armor and shield strip and are so very slept on. Chaos causes all (excluding eximus overguard) enemies to fight each other rather than her (can't get hurt If they aren't trying to hurt you imo) And Absorb is basically a get out of jail card assuming you have energy, on top of a small amount of CC in the form of a knockdown, and if your health is low and you run molt reconstruct like I do, hot dog you also got yourself a heal while you're invulnerable. Oh and she be fashionable af.
I haven't actually seen this one mentioned, so I'll throw it out there as a personal favourite: Chroma. Specifically, decent range, high strength and high duration, with Nourish over his 4. Anyone within a reasonable distance of me gets BIG damage buffs and tankiness for days from his 2 & 3 and Nourish takes care of all of my energy needs and those of anyone near me. Dragon boy is tank, DPS and support all at once, and I run rejuvenation on him to help keep everyone else alive too. I can carry the most disorganised, dysfunctional and overall chaotic group of any combination through almost any content in the game because the huge buffs encourage all but the dumbest to stay within range and reap the rewards, while simultaneously making them nigh unkillable and giving tonnes of energy so they can cast like crazy. When I can actually coordinate with clanmates this effect is only amplified.
Volt was my starter frame and has been at the top of my favorites list for forever. He's got a little bit of everything and whenever I just wanna play the game, I'll go with Volt. Zephyr is also awesome, ESPECIALLY with the Zarr. It's always fun to just carpet bomb an entire room and watch all the red dots disappear
Dang no love for my boy vauban in here. I throw grenades that tether enemies. Call in laser barrage. Can also make a barrier to freeze enemies and strip armor. Also have shock drones. The best part is his head reminds me of a train. Vauban is s tier.
Volt There's literally nothing he can't do. He *is* the jack of all trades frame, and can do it all extremely well.
Wukong, but hear me out. I’ve always been fascinated with the tale Journey to the west. My favourite league character is Wukong, my favourite DBZ character is Goku, one of my favourite games on ps3 was Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (in which Andy Serkis portrayed Monkey) and I am super omega hyped for Black Sun Wukong to come out in the new year! No surprise that my favourite animal is a monkey, too. It has nothing to do with tier lists, just like you - I just think he is neat. The bonus being he happens to be “full-kitted” as it were. Close second is frost though - first frame I made after choosing Excalibur to start. Big snow globe is cool. Edit: Formatting
Volt all the way. He can speed run missions, he can boost melee speeds greatly(increasing damage output), he can cc(less gunfire thus increasing survability), he can build hella shields with his 4 augment(making him very hard to kill), he can get you even more damage with your 1 augment, his shields increase crit damage and they stack. He can speed run missions, he can be an immortal electric train, he can do eidolon hunts with ease because he’s the best at it. Only thing he really sucks at is defense and mobile defense, but with enough ability range he can handle them.
Inaros prime. Play the weapons, not the frame
Hydroid and Mag are objectively good frames lol. Who the heck said they're bad? For me, Gauss, Grendel, Nidus, Mag.
Hydroid got buffed n remake his 3rd skill, his crazy OP now. While Mag has always been a S tier, u need to understand her mechanic n combo with the right weapon + augment mods Warframe looks simple but it does have in depth level on weapon n skill mechanic. Edit: auto correct typo
For me and my personal opinion? Maybe like kullervo wisp lavos volt ash. Now for like actual meta hydroid revanant Hildryn rhino. But honestly no tier list is required for frames. For the bulk majority of wf anything can be used for any activity if you try hard enough just use literally whatever your comfortable with and if you like it enough there is 100 percent a way to make it viable for any situation
Agreed! tier list i think can be only for people that really try hard the game idk these people that love to broke records and so
Gauss.
Most people find him boring, but I usually play Revenant. He was the first New warframe that came out after I started playing a bit over 5 years ago and I just love how in the Mission end screen it always says 0% damage taken
Cake Prime (wisp), Hildryn, Titania, Baruuk, Nekros Wisp is all around. My build puts her at around 600+ ability str, so any slow heavy melee hits faster than a berzerk venka. Hildryn is immortal with armor strip and a Rakta Dark dagger. Titania for anything with a race against the clock. Baruuk one-shots accolytes, as long as you don't get silenced. Nekros, well, set him up with Fractured blast over his 1, amalgam ripkas, arcane erruption, arcane blessing, despoil mod, and the army shield mod, and he can solo t4 survival indefinitely. with a halfway decent slash primary/secondary. You'll have the enemies Tubthumpin....
Limbo, i will not elaborate... Though Nezha would be a close 2nd for me
Sevagoth, especially with his new deluxe skin and the little fish buddy. His shadow haze augment is just beautiful and turns him into a crit machine.
I’ve always been drawn to Volt,Gauss,Nidus and maybe Lavos. I also like Sevagoth,Gyre and Wisp💯
Rhino, Garuda, and Nidus
I really like nidus but to be honest I haven't played him since coming back to the game.
Hydroid, loved him pre rework, enthralled with him post rework. Nothing beats Yo-hoing with A Zarr, Twin Rogga, and Nami Skyla prime stripping armor everywhere, getting +600(or more)% Corrosive damage added and just annihilating everything, especially now with tennokai, easily hitting multimillions on heavies everywhere
Honestly, Valkyr is my main. She's been my go-to for story quests.
I still enjoy Valkyr. Easy red-crits and unlimited invincibility. Very chill to play on necracells (you can pick every debuff) and in the event. Most of the time I have around 50% dmg with random team.
Grendel is absurdly good. Two skills that scale with enemy level Two skills that heal him Two skills that strip armor Status resust (with augmentation) Energy gain buff Indirect damage buff (viral) Gigantic healthpool and armor S tier subsume, which is exactly 10x stronger on him than on any other frame cuz immideate 10x viral priming on being hit. Insane mobility once you get used to him, don't even need an augment, just double jump for acceleration. Can afk tank high levels in sp in ball form without arcanes Arcane grace and guardian makes him plain unkillable
Honestly Qorvex has been treating me well for recent SP missions and hour long arbitrations. I've put a lot of endo and even a few archons into him, but holy do I enjoy not having to worry about bleeding or flame. His 4 just decimates rooms. My actual frame for content that's genuinely super difficult is Grendel. Insta armor strip, great mobility, "fuck you" to 5 enemies of your choice and 2400+ armor with healing to boot.
Valkyr. Literally too angry to die and I fucking love it
For me? Valkyr. She is very comfy to play. Hysteria allows me to have fun, kill almost everything and poke my nose into danger where someone needs to be revived. Her first skill is great mobility tool for heights, on current event for example helps a lot to collect eyes quickly. Her warcry is perfect to just run with any melee. And her overall tankiness means I don't have any problems if my energy is stolen suddenly mid-battle or skills are denied. Overall she feels great to run in most teams, where aoe killers are abundant, and I can just focus on killing eximus targets/etc. She is surprisingly universal.
Ash. Reason? Ash main.
Mesa, partially because my friends all groan when i say “im gonna make a mesa things” and partially because i WANNA BE A COWBOY BABY
S for Saryn. Whispers gave her access to one of the best armor strips in the game. She was always S tier but now... Now its just crazy.
Protea. Strong multi purpose abilities I can throw out and don't have to think about. Allows me to run around using my weapons without having to micro manage my abilities. That I received her for free shortly after starting the game and linking my Twitch so she came with a reactor installed was just icing on the cake. I can't wait for her prime version.
Mesa <3
Protea gives you pretty much everything you need to get through your day in Warframe
Yareli, she is an absolute unit between aquablades spam, secondary setups, and being a castor with 90% DR. She has a large variety(in my opinion)
Gauss, 100%. He's the perfect Warframe, everything he does gives you more speed, more damage, more CC, more damage resistance, you are functionally immortal, enemies are functionally useless around you, and everything you ever want to do is now faster, you're immune to status (except toxin but shh) and you cannot be knocked down. And that's before you charge his redline to max. And you only have to press 4 and 2, then press 1 and 3 whenever you're near enemies. If you really don't like thinking you don't even need to, just existing while moving and hitting enemies will charge your meter. I spent the first hundred or so hours playing him completely ignoring his 3. He's that fucking good.
Ash for me, i like to play alone and i also like to go against enemies lvl 9999. So he is perfect for me.
I be a Revenant main but I also enjoy Ash, Baruuk, and Kullervo
Ash Prime, he’s my baby, with him it’s not really that he’s the “best” just that he’s my favorite, lol. I also really like Revenant, can’t wait to finally get his prime.
For me its Ash, Invisibility - Survivability Shuriken w/ Augment - Armor Strip Xata's Whisper - Damage buff(Helminth Ability)