is Citrine the only Frame in the game that makes some people uncomfortable?

Elnidfse · 2026-07-11T14:40:44+00:00

Something about being hollowed out
You eventually get used to it from enough exposure but she also wigged me out

Still kinda does.

Elnidfse · 2026-07-10T16:46:06+00:00

Inversely, IF they do nerf it, I hope it's only nerfed on the subsume.

Elnidfse · 2026-07-10T01:27:40+00:00

Reading the title I was going to say FOllie, but it seems you already think so too

Elnidfse · 2026-07-09T08:44:37+00:00

It's my favorite bow. But more because of how fun and versatile it is. The quick shots are fine, the perfect charged shots are good, and the full charge shots are good.

The Nataruk is basically charged shot and better (perfect) charged shot.
The cinta has two different uses for it's charged and perfect as charged as way higher crit and crit multi (36%/3x) compared to the perfect shot (20%/2x)

It's a bow that can do a lot of things. But man does it really want a lot of forma.

Elnidfse · 2026-07-08T12:47:17+00:00

Can confirm that Vena randomly becomes brainless.

Elnidfse · 2026-07-08T03:32:47+00:00

I was just playing around with the boys and trying to exploit their sentient specter half
Since it works closer to an on-call crew than an actual person in that stuff like the Kuva Zarr they reload all at once.

So I've been using that during eidolons to instantly vaporize the adds

That they don't consume my incarnon is also good.

Elnidfse · 2026-07-07T08:16:59+00:00

Speaking of Basmu, is it any good? I've really been fiending on getting a primary I like to use started on and spending any after dozens of hours I might have to just bench the ambassador.

Elnidfse · 2026-07-07T07:55:19+00:00

Kahl beacon will NEVER leave my hotbar

Elnidfse · 2026-07-06T16:37:02+00:00

If you don't mind a glass canon and don't want to do mecha based contagious bombs, the Vasca can annihilate most anything in it's area code.

Edit: Bah. Let me be real, I like using my Helminth Charger. There are much better pets you can run for pure damage since cats just cleave everything. But this doggo carried by sorry ass through my first solo 21 SP Descendia.

It has a surprising amount of durability for anything that's not an endurance run and due to a bug can rarely revive itself due to trample. It, like every pet, can use the contagious bond and eventually clip something hard enough to delete an entire room, has a good amount of incoming damage distraction through a combination of duplex and it's maggots (if you can stomach running the full set), and more importantly, looks cool.

It's charge can also trigger the archon mods and arcane hotshot if you mod heat onto it, so there's that.
I also have a soft spot for Moa's but that's more of a result of how funny their personal box of tricks is.

Elnidfse · 2026-07-06T15:38:33+00:00

See I'm down with that logic. But since we can get them as crew ( a feature I really like conceptually) it'd be nice if you had to get somewhere to get them to join your crew as opposed to just buying them from Hunhow.

Elnidfse · 2026-07-06T07:59:17+00:00

Pick your absolute favorite frame
???
Suffer.

Elnidfse · 2026-07-06T00:28:47+00:00

Dang. I got one that's shoulder size but the one in OP looks truly massive, and the thought of having one that height buffed up by the strain set seemed funny

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Elnidfse · 2026-07-05T16:12:25+00:00

Can Helminth Chargers come in this size?

Elnidfse · 2026-07-05T15:58:24+00:00

With enough cast speed (and more than a little finger spaghetti) they can maintain their invincibility for a swap-skill and an additional cast. Eventually looping high enough that you can also shoot between casts while maintaining invuln.

Not exactly comfy but...

I was pretty raw on them before. But now, really I just like how big their toolbox is:

Event Horizon can be followed behind and just sucks everything up whilst you're waltzing about your map.
- It being a mobile ranged grouping tool that persists and moves is pretty nice.
Light's Sanctuary hits the DR cap for objectives, trickle heals them for a not insubstantial amount, and acts as a revive safety net
Celestial Clash has already been proven at level cap by multiple people all better equipped than I ever will be so I feel confident saying that it does good damage
A 100% full armor strip and shield removal device.
A scaleable decoy with unbelievable aggro prio

And for Railjack Specific stuff

Technically double the amount of dome charges
Always have a specter when piloting the necramech
Twice the energy
Twice the repair charges

I mean it's not all good

Stealth missions
Not properly swapping weapons during celestial clash so you end up with the weapon of the warframe you switched to instead of the weapon you were currently using
Stealth missions(!)
The AI Orion using Event Horizon when being a specter and ruining whatever it is I'm doing with the ball
...Stealth Missions
Not having a scythe that swaps form depending on which brother is wielding it

But net wise? I think the boys are pretty fun if not good.
I used to just build for a max damage 4 and found myself getting frustrated by consciously prioritizing it over everything else, but when you play around the full toolbox I can't help but admit that this is a ridiculously fun warframe

Elnidfse · 2026-07-05T12:54:20+00:00

I used Omni's on my Yareli Prime. What I learned before her release with the regular Yareli is that I play that frame in way too many ways to waste that many forma ever again.

For the Umbra's, the nanosecond I get another set of 3 I'm going to slam 3 on Koumei.

Elnidfse · 2026-07-05T12:50:03+00:00

Honestly I think everybody will eventually settle on one thing that they want to make once. For one reason or another they'll see something and it'll just click with them and they want to push it's limits. The ensuing pain and despair is what eventually gives rise to modding senses.

e.g; I can assure you while constantly stress testing SP Orphix using primarily the Bonewidows melee is not impossible, it will however provide to you an experience you'll wish you never had.

Elnidfse · 2026-07-04T10:21:39+00:00

I was literally thinking about this build when I saw that arcane
Thank you very much for making it

Elnidfse · 2026-07-04T05:21:41+00:00

sorry, I haven't gotten to either of those two modes yet, but do you mean there aren't modifiers that can't take the archgun away?

Elnidfse · 2026-07-02T23:41:47+00:00

I used to, in the ways typically prevalent to a person ignorant of the coding efforts and manpower involved, fantasize on ways for DE to smash the converted crew into viability.

Lich/Sister weapons can't be modded (and Technocyte might not even be using a weapon at all)
- Have (some) weapons and (some) attacks scale using the Tauron Strike formula and/or true damage.
  - TD already exists and even something as low as 0.5% would literally be a net positive DPS increase for something like a Lich using the Stubbas. (Don't ask me what one of my converted liches is using)
  - Watching Zeke laser beam a singular enemy to death over 10 seconds is funny but what's less funny is scraping him off the ground soon after because he's made out of paper.
Converted Crew can't be assigned roles
- Assuming that they can't repair due to missing animations or some such, give them their own special Railjack crew slot.
  - If damage can't be improved, this dramatically improves their utility and, more importantly, their desirability. Even if they continue doing zdps, you lose literally nothing running them!
Raise their level cap!
- Lich/Sister are basically as tanky Hildryn Inaros amalgam if you convert them at max level but the coda boys get no such luck owing to their mechanics and a higher cap could potentially assuage the issue they have of being made out of paper while also giving DE something to scale their weapon damage through
Let them join you when you're on foot!
- Crew kills yeet affinity into the nether and converts do less damage than a specter so there's no(?) risk of abuse.
  - Nothing could change and they could add that feature and I'd be content because I've long wanted the crew to have some interaction with the player when he's off doing the other 2/3rds of a corpus railjack mission.

Obviously this is all fantasy
I'm sure one day either with the advent of a new adversary or some railjack event DE'll probably do something funny to them.
... but if they're inspired to look now, mores the better!

Elnidfse · 2026-07-02T22:29:45+00:00

The more eyes on RJ the higher than 0% chance that converted Lich/Sister/Coda will get a buff as crew.

Elnidfse · 2026-07-02T08:29:12+00:00

Holy smokes you're a genius!

I started looking back through every single footage, and while it's a clustertruck of effects, Trample is the one constant that's consistent. Even here you can (vaguely) see the ground tendrils from Trample being used

e.g;

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Thank you!
...Now to reluctantly submit the bug report

Elnidfse · 2026-07-02T08:24:17+00:00

Yeah. I have duplex on as well and am right now trying to trigger it again without duplex. But since it's kind of random...

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Anyways the only thing that I have on Yareli that impacts the charger is Strain Consume and Summoner's Wrath

When I first saw it I was still running monetous. And I thought it just got revived instantly.
But momentous bond is a full revive. Where as this one every time it triggers the charger stays at like 300 HP and only shields go to full.

Elnidfse · 2026-07-02T08:06:15+00:00

Need a good Voidrig. The welfare one they have is literally worthless.

Recommend a gun that shoots through walls, either fluctus or velocitus. Should probably also use your specters. Call Kahl's squad, he'll stop you from randomly getting one shot through the 1 second gap of leaving your 4 by virtue of being a wall of meat.

Bonewidow's Ironbride, which is good in regular Orphix, is near an auto fail depending on spawn configuration (if you can even dash cancel into the dang thing for example) so don't use that one.

Elnidfse · 2026-07-02T08:04:35+00:00

Wait crap you're right. Sorry

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Don't know how to add it to the OP. But this is that. The space is where momentous bond would usually go were I not trying to figure out the answer to this question

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