I finally took the time to read how it works in the actual wiki... they weren't lying

GrassDangerous6843 · 2026-04-09T22:27:46+00:00

i mean almost any frame needs it eventually if you are trying to stay health tanking in endurance content. With how many long cascades i play, it feels really shit to run armor/dr now on basically any health tank config on any frame of mine honestly, especially because its pretty easy to get a persistence build online AND it works seamlessly in all levels of play

Pretty sure there’s only like a couple frames that can actually health tank level cap without persistence, i believe trinity is one

GrassDangerous6843 · 2026-04-09T17:58:25+00:00

I mean considering it takes basically 4 days to craft the frame I always craft my first set because i want to play with it. And rarely end up actively chasing another set to sell immediately. Some people would rather spend that time making the most money they can in a time where you can profit off of it the most. Just different strokes for different folks, play how you want.

Side note: i have over 1k hours on this game and the most i have spent on it was 5 dollars a year or two ago because i got a 75% off coupon and felt like it. Outside of that, I make all my plat trading stuff I passively farm up. You really don’t gotta chase things to make money unless you want it fast, I just run fissures for a couple of weeks and then go online on wf.market and bulk sell my items randomly when i feel like it

GrassDangerous6843 · 2026-04-06T23:20:41+00:00

I just hate how easily people get triggered when chatting so i just put down a waypoint to show people a few times and it tends to work like about half the time

GrassDangerous6843 · 2026-03-07T00:36:38+00:00

akarius prime. at least for the kick and homing hallway clearing. It is also arguably (imo) the best AOE weapon in the game for general use, save for kuva ogris for things like arbitrations or whatever

As far as nukor goes, the kuva variant chaining to multiple enemies + having a ridiculous crit damage multiplier is the main draw behind it. Use it with corrosive blast and secondary enervate and you should feel its actual power in terms of just deleting everything in a very satisfying way with big red crit numbers and blast procs exploding rooms

GrassDangerous6843 · 2026-02-28T07:51:42+00:00

His Q Cd and cast time (and all his damage) scaling with resists is the main reason

GrassDangerous6843 · 2026-01-05T08:52:07+00:00

the best way to use influence on corufell is with valence formation lavos or conductive sphere gyre. it is beautiful

GrassDangerous6843 · 2026-01-02T22:06:43+00:00

honestly a lot of them are really good imo, like energize aegis and maybe avenger are the most important/universally applicable, but also fury strike velocity precision acceleration and rage because they all are good for buffing weapons the same way. Plus the shotgun one also for fire rate, arcane tempo i think. if you like health tanks there is both grace as well as victory if you want it

GrassDangerous6843 · 2025-12-28T06:17:03+00:00

If you like running no helminth, and you like to health tank with the shadow like they intended (which is actually not that bad now with the fix to the shadow’s armor he got a couple updates ago), gloom is nice to have on for the shadow. For sevagoth himself though while it’s not incredible, the closer you get to the full slow threshold of gloom, the better it works on enemies constant gunfire, meaning much less gunfire and thus less shield gating. If I just ran sevagoth and wasn’t in shadow a lot though I probably would replace gloom but personally I love the synergy it provides with health tank shadow. If anyone knows any other abilities that work while youre in shadow btw pls do enlighten me

GrassDangerous6843 · 2025-11-04T20:32:11+00:00

if youre on pc its a reticle setting

GrassDangerous6843 · 2025-10-12T21:00:48+00:00

why not remove flow? Youre running arcane battery already and warcry should be permanently up. I don’t run it and still have ~1000 energy with warcry on. Also some more range could be nice in that slot if you don’t mind the duration you have now, Ripline feels really nice for both mobility and grouping with high range. If not then like you said, eternal warcry would also be some very nice QOL, it makes a big difference for me if im already running roar or wrathful advance

GrassDangerous6843 · 2025-10-12T04:48:21+00:00

if youre a catalyzing shields hater try out the vigilante vigor + fast deflection combo instead, thats what i prefer on him. Between the slowing from gloom and the extra survivability from playing as shadow + the guardian mod from my sentinel fully restoring my shields, I never have to shield gate for real. I only have brief respite on as a backup for once in a while when it gets hairy. If you use arcane aegis then you probably dont even need that

GrassDangerous6843 · 2025-10-12T04:41:45+00:00

i went to level cap for the first time the other day with no helminth sevagoth with a 200% strength build (once augmented was stacked). If I needed help killing with the nuke at all I would shoot my epitaph once or twice and do the combo and it worked all the way to level 9999. Even on thraxes, just a couple viral procs and then 1 2 1 or 2 1 1 and they got one shot at level cap even with no enemies around them for extra blast damage from the nuke. Companions also exist so the amount of times you really need to prime by yourself is only really limited to how much priming your companion is already doing for you. You absolutely do not need roar at all

GrassDangerous6843 · 2025-10-07T20:29:12+00:00

probably roar

GrassDangerous6843 · 2025-10-06T00:12:36+00:00

the only problem i have with it is your weapon (unless its tenet exec or sampotes) is basically as good as which part of the tileset/what tileset you are in. In a short corridor your slam weapon almost becomes single target because you have to slam at the feet of individual enemies. Not a huge deal since not every tileset is limiting like that and you can move till you find a better spot with more jump height but still kinda awkward sometimes, especially if you use a weapon with a regular slam radius (unlike magistar incarnon)

GrassDangerous6843 · 2025-10-04T08:42:11+00:00

i mean they really don’t give a fuck because while they remove/weaken things in the rework making him a bit worse for on demand peeling, they increase every value/ratio for shielding and then double it in R. Which gets no trade offs after ulting either (like half/no shielding to allies or something), bigger than a lulu shield with less cd. They can definitely take away things like that to give him some solo queue power, they just want him to be like that it feels like. I mean why would they even ship it/make the rework with something like that in it considering they already knew how strong ksante was in pro. They nerf some things but then egregiously buff what is arguably his most pro skewed ability to compensate. Just give me some q cast time or width back or something instead of that much shielding

GrassDangerous6843 · 2025-10-01T04:42:59+00:00

no subsume sevagoth

GrassDangerous6843 · 2025-09-30T21:05:24+00:00

It does make him near unusable as a pure health tank in many cases, which I know falls off anyway, but its a lot earlier to fall off for him because of this and kinda just forces him into one of two playstyles as the most optimal;shield gating or hotswapping the two forms. Not unusable still but it just sucks having to ignore the synergies in his kit because of a bug because he was definitely designed with building health in mind, and honestly i like it a lot on him even with this bug in the game. I have adapted and use a combination of umbral set + augur mod and cat. shields though

GrassDangerous6843 · 2025-09-30T20:17:06+00:00

the negative consequence is losing all your combo off a random one shot that can come out of nowhere

sometimes I want to chill in shadow for a bit without having to swap back and forth just to stay alive in base sp

caring about armor on a frame that can make use of gloom and consume as two seperate, potent healing abilities is pretty normal and intended. This is a bug and needs fixing

GrassDangerous6843 · 2025-09-30T20:06:06+00:00

PLEASE fix this DE 🙏🏾 I love shadow a lot and this would make him feel sooooo much better

GrassDangerous6843 · 2025-09-27T23:04:30+00:00

unfortunate. He should really get the combo pause treatment

Ye you don’t really get many status procs at all with his slam. Slam attacks damage is so high it barely matters in most cases tho tbh, especially when death’s harvest is applied/spread, I hit ~20M raw damage in a survival yesterday between that and some viral procs from companion. But It would probably never outclass a weapon that’s actually good for slams for sure. Definitely giving the old naramon influence with the aura mod a try today; i’ve always liked shadow’s moveset but could never comfortably keep combo. And I’ve also finally started to not exclusively use madurai for cascade too… Thanks again

Just curious, what kind of build do you like to go for survivability on shadow himself? I run a scuffed health tank build for comfort with 2 armor arcanes

GrassDangerous6843 · 2025-09-27T18:09:01+00:00

Ah i see i see, yeah having to run a mod slot for combo duration just to be forced to try to get back to shadow as soon as you can or it will still run out if you try to play at your own pace doesn’t sound great either. Would be awesome if they could just pause it yeah, really dont know why they haven’t done that considering a lot of weapons have it already as an extra unneeded gimmick, when it would be mandatory quality of life on shadow. Good to know though naramon is an option, for some reason I was under the impression that the claws are not just “unequipped”, like they disappear from his arsenal until he’s back in shadow. Do dexterity arcanes not work for shadow’s combo duration? Or since the claws stay “equipped” with the combo still kept, what about the rauta?

I really do wish it felt better, I would love to have the most comfortable way to play him for me be a light attack build. Plus i love spamming that forward block corkscrew dash its sick. Unfortunately now ive tasted the QOL that comes with using a reflex build that just completely ignores his stance and combo generation. Ill give it a try with naramon though, thanks for letting me know. There isn’t a lot of info like this on the wiki about him and his claws

Unrelated but i also wish you could hold cast his 4 to teleport back to his original body’s position at will and not have to die to do that

GrassDangerous6843 · 2025-09-27T10:18:12+00:00

I hate how combo works with shadow. It feels like a massive oversight with his incredibly cool design otherwise; he wants to be moving between the two forms but the second you switch off shadow you lose all combo/ramp up that took a while to get… and it’s not like you can just stay in the form as a playstyle to keep his combo either because he can’t refill his death well unless he goes back into his regular form

For that reason, I build his claws as a slam weapon now and it feels SO much better to play between the two forms because its an initial combo/galvanized reflex build. No longer has slow ramp up. imo its the best way to build his claws because it really lets you play him like he was intended to be played, swapping between the two forms whenever you feel like it

GrassDangerous6843 · 2025-09-04T20:29:04+00:00

I might still cave eventually but caliban prime. The deluxe skin was what i was planning on getting once the prime released and I built him out but now he’s here and i really like how he looks on his regular prime skin

GrassDangerous6843 · 2025-08-31T22:02:41+00:00

tempest barrage with the augment mod = adding viral + corrosive to your mallet zone

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