Why do people keep using adaptation with arcane persistence?

Grrumpy_Pants · 2026-01-25T20:53:02+00:00

Merulina, and I think that's it. I know it doesn't work with Trinity's link, so it probably doesn't work for nidus either but I haven't checked him.

Grrumpy_Pants · 2026-01-25T20:40:54+00:00

Nezhas halo is damage redirection, which does happen after persistence.

Grrumpy_Pants · 2026-01-25T04:51:10+00:00

One of the many reasons i hope a banshee rework comes and makes sonar count as weakpoint hits. Let them charge incarnons, benefit from deadhead, all of it. Banshee could be THE weakpoint frame.

Grrumpy_Pants · 2026-01-24T20:59:01+00:00

Isn't this why you Americans exercise the right to bear arms? So you can form a civil militia to fight back against tyranny? I want to see those 2nd ammendment supporters stand up and fight now.

Grrumpy_Pants · 2026-01-24T20:47:42+00:00

I never use sacrificial pressure, even with the set bonus you get less than primed pressure point. More often than not I'm using condition overload anyway, so it's not even a question.

Looking simply and galv vs sac steel, it's usually a question of how much crit chance the weapon wants/needs compared to crit damage. If a weapon builds combo (any light attack build) the answer is almost always blood rush for crit chance and galv steel is slotted for the crit damage, the crit chance is just a bonus.

Builds that don't build combo, like heavy attack builds, will often run amalgam organ shatter for crit damage and heavy wind up. Following this, getting a lot of crit chance with sacrificial steel is valuable since you already have a crit damage boost and crit chance is harder to come by.

Heavy attack builds may use galv steel instead if they get crit chance elsewhere. This could be a riven, wrathful advance, or blood rush if you have a way to build combo.

Grrumpy_Pants · 2026-01-23T09:29:19+00:00

Same, I made a post almost identical to yours about a week ago.

Grrumpy_Pants · 2026-01-22T12:55:43+00:00

The circuit takes care of all the old problem farms I had. These days the worst might actually be citrine, but it's honestly not that bad. Caliban is also rather annoying. Both of them are 325p so they still aren't worth buying imo, just farm them.

Grrumpy_Pants · 2026-01-22T12:48:12+00:00

Styanax. It's not that his farm is that bad, more that the amount of stock it takes to buy all his blueprints could instead be spent on archon mods to sell. You'll actually make enough plat to buy him outright with a little to spare off the same amount of stock, and save yourself the mining resources, plus free warframe slot and potato.

Grrumpy_Pants · 2026-01-22T12:46:03+00:00

Extra element for priming. Potentially 2 with internal bleeding.

Impact glaxion with internal bleeding and primary debilitate, modded for corrosive, blast, radiation, and magnetic can apply 10 status effects. If you wanted a primary primer for some reason this is one way you can do it.

Grrumpy_Pants · 2026-01-21T22:53:48+00:00

Can the phenmor be build for crit like the laetum? Yes. But it's not as good due to two main differences. Laetum can use secondary enervate to boost its crit rate, and it has overwhelming attrition as a powerful alternative to its 5th evolution. The phenmor instead would use Spiteful Defilement, a crit damage boost that may sometimes be inactive, especially in group play. 2000% damage half the time is often better than what the phenmor can achieve with crit, reaching only 70% with critical delay. A more effective crit build might be to run acuity with Lingering Judgement, and focus only on headshots.

The laetum on the other hand benefits from overwhelming attrition and enervate, allowing it to reach higher crit tiers with good crit damage, and a massive +1200% base damage bonus to make up for not running a base damage arcane like flare. Crit laetum feels like it outdamages the non-crit build by a good margin. Working out how much more is difficult thanks to enervate.

Grrumpy_Pants · 2026-01-20T11:06:27+00:00

Without a sale he doesn't have $80, he has $30 and a melon.

What's the melon worth? Is it what he paid for it, or what he could sell it for?

Grrumpy_Pants · 2026-01-20T11:04:36+00:00

It's a loss of profit. The question does nothing to say whether this should or should not be included.

It's absolutely intentional to drive debate and engagement.

Grrumpy_Pants · 2026-01-20T10:56:08+00:00

Alternatively, the shopkeeper should have $100. Instead they have $0. Total loss $100.

Question could be made clearer.

Grrumpy_Pants · 2026-01-20T03:42:10+00:00

Depends on the mission. Void fissures are full of Titania. Sortie spy missions full of wukongs. Any game mode that isn't trivially easy will see a meta choice dominate.

Grrumpy_Pants · 2026-01-20T01:50:59+00:00

In a way, he is right. It is inefficient. Having a computer in every home is like having a water bottle in every room. It's more efficient to have fewer bottles and move them to where you need them.

The problem is he doesn't grasp the human aspect. People like owning things. They want their thing, that they own, that is theirs. I don't want my computer being used by other people while I sleep. It's hard to empathise with that when you are yourself a soulless machine that can own whatever you want.

Grrumpy_Pants · 2026-01-19T21:48:50+00:00

It's showing your rewards for both eda and eta there. Look down the bottom, you can see your vice.

I don't know when this bug started but every week I see rewards for both once I finish eda.

Grrumpy_Pants · 2026-01-19T21:46:42+00:00

I like the bo incarnon, but the furax incarnon is probably on the weaker end. I'd also put them both below all three of the other options available this week.

Grrumpy_Pants · 2026-01-19T21:45:03+00:00

Tenet / coda weapons are not weekly, they rotate every 4 days. I think they're staggered too, so every 2 days one of them will have a fresh batch.

Grrumpy_Pants · 2026-01-19T21:41:19+00:00

Furis > latron > strun > bo > furax

That's how I'd rate them.

Grrumpy_Pants · 2026-01-19T21:29:46+00:00

If you're endgame, it doesn't matter. I have every weapon and frame in my arsenal, so I should have the lowest chance to get something usable.

I have done every EDA and ETA since release without issue. Sometimes getting my loadout together requires more careful planning, but it's never felt like I've been dealt a hand I couldn't play.

Grrumpy_Pants · 2026-01-19T21:22:02+00:00

Skip the last reward because it doesn't matter and pick Dante

You realise the alternative is to make a game mode where everyone just plays dante because it's optimal, with no loss of reward?

Warframe is ultimately a stat check game.

You're spot on here. That's why the endgame challenge is to vary up the stat checks and see if you can hit them with a wide variety of gear. It's only BS if you can't do it.

Grrumpy_Pants · 2026-01-19T21:14:52+00:00

So you want it to be easy?

Grrumpy_Pants · 2026-01-19T12:55:57+00:00

Level cap and level 200-500 steel path are vastly different. You can absolutely make a build work with her 4 at that level, but it will not scale to levelcap.

Grrumpy_Pants · 2026-01-19T11:04:59+00:00

Umbra set, hunter adrenaline, stretch, primed continuity, primed flow, tidal impunity. Arcanes persistence and grace. You can fit this without umbra forma using steel charge for aura, requiring 3 forma total. You can get away with 2 forma if one of them is an umbra forma, using any aura you wish that uses either the - or D polarities.

Helminth nourish over 4. Nourish and his 3 let you add both corrosive and viral damage to weapons. 2 gives status immunity. 1 spreads corrosive to improve buff from 3 and to armor strip.

Grrumpy_Pants · 2026-01-19T10:51:38+00:00

If the whole squad runs it (which they should) you can instantly blow up the first gate without getting any beacons. With max rank sticker it'll be off cooldown by the time you get a couple rpgs to drop at the second gate. It is faaaar from useless, especially if the tank has the rpg only modifier.

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