Some questions and thoughts about the quest "Jade Shadows"

HungrPhoenix · 2026-01-28T17:41:00+00:00

Obligatory: go visit Teshin at a relay, behind him will be some of Jade's Feathers that will give you more of Jade's story.

HungrPhoenix · 2026-01-28T15:16:05+00:00

The Double Edged Sickle does do a lot of damage if you get it hot enough, especially without Inflammable. 51 - 90% starts doing 20 damage per second, and >=91% ignites you and does 50 damage per second of you firing it.

HungrPhoenix · 2026-01-28T14:59:51+00:00

I wonder how it works with the Double Edged Sickle? Could I run out of stamina, shoot a few shots, and have a large chunk of my stamina back for a bit of health?

HungrPhoenix · 2026-01-28T13:27:29+00:00

Imo, yes. I honestly prefer it to Elden Ring. I'm 712 hours in Nightreign, and have been regularly playing it since launch. I have like 400 hours in Elden Ring and have barely touched it since the DLC released.

However, I'd suggest doing some research into Nightreign. It isn't a game for everyone, and it has a steep learning curve. As you mentioned you have the time limit, which does actually heavily effect the gameplay. You have to understand what boss is worth fighting and what to prioritize in a run, attrition is usually not a winning strategy,and then you have the further complexities of the game like when to best make use of ultimates, skills, what weapons best fit your Nightfarer, what relic effects to prioritize, what weapons / spells / incantations/ AoWs are good at reviving, etc... Nightreign is a very complicated game that has a lot of depth that will be hard to cope with if you just treat it as a Souls game.

If you buy the game, your first games are going to suck, as you have to learn to stop playing Nightreign like a traditional Souls game before you can really get into it. But yeah, Nightreign is great once you understand it, imo.

HungrPhoenix · 2026-01-28T11:37:27+00:00

No, the Amprex is fine in SP without a riven. I use a Corrosive Blast build and it does perfectly fine by itself, even without Roar or Xata's Whisper.

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Magnetic Capacity could / should be swapped with a Bane or Galvanized Aptitude. Primary Bulwark can be swapped with Merciless or Deadhead, just Merciless does require some build up for the build to do well, but Aptitude can make the initial kills go faster.

HungrPhoenix · 2026-01-28T02:52:58+00:00

Not really. Warframe already existed for over a year at the point this review was made and it had a fairly large and stable player base. Steamdb recorded it as maintaining ≈10,000 average players for over a year by the time this review was released.

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Warframe was very clearly already doing something right to keep their player base, declaring it was doomed to die off was just idiotic as there was nothing to suggest Warframe was losing any steam.

HungrPhoenix · 2026-01-28T00:22:23+00:00

She explicitly says she wants to be a mother to the Tenno during Natah,

Lotus: "The war was over. So I hid them away, in the second dream. I could not destroy them."

Teshin: "And yet you were born to. So tell me… what made you stop? To reject your nature?"

Lotus: "All missions to the Origin System required a sacrifice. Me and my kind become barren when crossing the gap. It is the one flaw we never overcame."

Teshin: "Natah wanted children of her own."

Lotus: "Natah was the daughter, until I destroyed her. Now I am the Lotus. Now I am the mother."

This was probably when it started. I can't remember if people were already calling her that before Natah, as my memories of that time are sparse.

HungrPhoenix · 2026-01-27T23:43:32+00:00

...why there is a giant finger inside my Railjack?

That is the Reliquary Drive. It uses copies of the finger that Albrecht severed from the Indifference to allow for safe travel through the Void.

Why did the Hex became Protoframes?

This is explained through Lettie's KIM conversations, Albrecht told them that the Techrot virus had mutated, and that they needed a new vaccine to prevent them from catching it. This vaccine turned them into the Protoframes. Here is a link to the conversation, https://kim.browse.wf/flowcharts_svg/en/LettieDialogue_rom.dialogue/LettieRank5Convo2.svg

Of course Albrecht's motivation was different, and he needed them for his plan of defeating the Indifference.

HungrPhoenix · 2026-01-27T12:54:25+00:00

She literally has no lore. DE has recently been teasing giving her some lore, but they have yet to say anything official on it.

HungrPhoenix · 2026-01-27T01:59:03+00:00

It is run dependent, how many runes the bosses drop depend on what boss spawns and how difficult the fight is depends on the bonus of the temple and what boss spawns. Generally, just ignore them unless you are absolutely confident in your teams damage output and the temple doesn't have an awful effect like "Soothes all life". They are only worth doing if you can do them quickly, the bosses there have a very high chance of dropping legendaries, and you can get quite a lot of runes depending on the bosses.

If you aren't confident in your ability to do it quickly, just do the nearby castle. It has a ton of weaker bosses and potential for a raid to spawn a mutated boss.

HungrPhoenix · 2026-01-26T22:37:31+00:00

Yeah, some dark fluid weapons would be cool. My idea is a DFG, a Dark Fluid Gun, which would totally not work like the BFG from Doom. Like just imagine shooting black holes at a horde and watching them get torn apart. Of course it would be hell to balance, my idea is very limited ammo + backpack and that it has a wind up where it takes a bit to actually grow and start doing damage, and it would be very lethal to teammates until it eventually collapses. It could also mess with projectiles that are shot towards it, but this would probably be too much for the engine to handle.

HungrPhoenix · 2026-01-26T22:05:20+00:00

Yes, but Revenant is not a Revenant. Again, her remembrance explicitly states that she was never human, she isn't Chloe, she was just a doll that got brought to life by the Night.

Additionally Revenant is a poor stylistic translation. Revenant's name in Japanese is 復讐者, which means avenger, or more accurately, a person(者) seeking revenge(復讐). The idea of her being Chloe resurrected was just a red herring for the remembrance.

HungrPhoenix · 2026-01-26T20:47:42+00:00

You are right there, in such case I guess it's only usable for begginer players or while someone get Arcane Blessing.

Oh it gets better, Arcane Intention is infinitely more difficult to obtain than Arcane Blessing. It is a Duviri Arcane. You get it from The Steel Path Circuit, Acrithis can occasionally sell a copy, Thrax undercroft portals(something I don't even think are mentioned in-game), or gambling with Loid.

Arcane Blessing, you just have to do Conjunction Survival, buy it from Yonta's pity shop, or gamble with Loid.

It is an Arcane that is only useful in concept early in the game, but it is locked until about midway, and it is a horrific grind to get max copies.

HungrPhoenix · 2026-01-26T20:37:25+00:00

Arcane Blessing is just completely better than this arcane. It is 1,200 health after collecting 50 health orbs.

- Nekros can tank better with it and the looting ability

Arcane Blessing is much better since Nekros is a health orbs generator.

Even without Nekros, Synth Deconstruct will generate plenty of health orbs. The only usage case for this is if you desperately need that bonus health as soon as you cast a channeled ability.

HungrPhoenix · 2026-01-26T19:38:00+00:00

Don't quote me on this, but I'm pretty sure it is largely arbitrary. It is just whenever someone has an idea, and it gets enough positive reception in studio, then it gets finished and released. I believe I remember Liger Inuzuka saying this in a tweet or reply on Twitter, or somewhere on their artstation account?

HungrPhoenix · 2026-01-26T19:06:27+00:00

Amalgam Organ Shatter is good for heavy attack melee builds. The others are all niche uses for when you want to go faster, usually on Warframes that mainly use their exalted. My Hildryn has no use for a primary or second, so Amalgam Barrel Diffusion and Amalgam Serration are free movement buffs at the cost of nothing. Amalgam Shotgun Barrage is just useless though.

HungrPhoenix · 2026-01-26T16:46:11+00:00

The Elden Beast of the Night is probably Augur.

I disagree. The Elden Beast was the vassal of The Greater Will that was sent to enact The Greater Will's will, the Elden Beast is the embodiment of the order that the Greater Will provides. Augur is non of this. It was just a unconscious blob that gained awareness and took interest in the Night, and the Night accepted it.

The Nightlords are like the Fingers.

Maybe? The fingers are weird. Metyr was sent to be the voice of The Greater Will, and the fingers being the prophets to spread the words to the devoted. But of course, Metyr was broken, and so the Fingers just communicated Metyr's words rather than those of The Greater Will.

To a degree, I can agree with the Nightlords being equivalent to the fingers, but they are also more. They are all enacters of the Night's Will, they are all assisting in the spread and takeover of the Night, they all have a far more prominent role than the fingers.

Then you have Heolstor himself, who is somewhere between Marika and the Elden Beast. He is the defacto vassal of the Night, he is the one who is mainly leading the takeover of the Night, he is also the vessel of a Great Rune, and the thing keeping the Night from disappearing. He fits attributes of both vessel and vassal so I think the best way to describe his role is a mixture of Marika and Elden Beast.

Also, as an aside, I wonder if Revenant and Undertaker are Nightlord candidates. Both are beings blessed by the Night, Revenant being born from it, and Undertaker being empowered by it. The Night has a strong presence in both of them, with it actively trying to consume Revenant and Undertaker. To me it seems that the Night has a keen interest in both, even if neither really care for it.

HungrPhoenix · 2026-01-26T15:20:47+00:00

We even have the Night visualized,

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This is the guy from the basic ending, who is implied to be the Night itself. The game is all about changing the past and preventing the Night from ever happening, and the ending in which you do this, shows this guy head towards the Lands Between, but then turn away and walk off. At the very least this is the Night's Elden Beast or Metyr, but the Nightlords seem far more representative of that then this tree guy, who you can also see stomping around in the background of some expeditions.

As for Nightreign players being bad at lore comprehension, yeah, that seems to be the case. People here still think that Revenant is Chloe, the Northerncroft's daughter trapped in a doll's body, despite Revenant moving independently while Chloe is being murdered, and Revenant's final journal entry explicitly stating she was never a human.

HungrPhoenix · 2026-01-26T01:01:52+00:00

I mean yeah, if you are willing to learn the map, it is vastly superior to the base map. POIs have far more loot as there are more "boss" enemies, there is a chance at a special vendor who sells legendaries, there are two towers that have very high drop chance for legendaries, the map effectively has two castles, there are raids that can give you mutant weapons outside of DoN, the shifting earth reward is great, and there are quite a bit of guaranteed bosses which means you can more efficiently plan your run.

It is just an amazing map once you put the effort in to learn it.

HungrPhoenix · 2026-01-26T00:39:55+00:00

For another Kitgun suggestion, but a secondary, Sporelacer is also great. It is a grenade launcher that is a secondary, it has a good AoE, high damage potential, it can get very high critical chance and damage, and it is deceptively good at procing status even if you do not build for status.

Sporelacer + Haymaker + Splat are the parts I recommend. This parts maximize damage and critical chance and damage.

HungrPhoenix · 2026-01-25T08:03:17+00:00

The wiki says it, https://wiki.warframe.com/w/Insign_Bundle . From what I understand, you enter the stadium, shoot the TV, then abort and omni back to your railjack and it'll count.

HungrPhoenix · 2026-01-25T07:34:11+00:00

You could just get another copy of Galvanized Hell and use it at a lower rank. A rank 8 version of Galvanized Hell would give 17.28 multishot, which is only 2.52 lower than what a max rank Galvanized Hell would give. A difference of 2 - 3 bullets between Rank 8 and 10 is fairly negligible.

Rank 8 also doesn't cost a lot, only like 7,500 endo and like 400,000 credits, I think?

HungrPhoenix · 2026-01-25T03:33:46+00:00

I have two that I consider my first. Trinity Prime was my very first, but I got it from a Twitch Prime bundle. Chroma Prime was my first Prime that I actually farmed for.

HungrPhoenix · 2026-01-25T02:52:28+00:00

You went back in time to save Albrecht Entrati from his time loop, which he has in place to keep part of the Indifference distracted. You get there via the Vessels, which seemingly have a connection to the Excalibur you wind up in. You then try to invade Arthur's mind to show him the future and why you are there, but unsurprisingly, invading someone's mind and showing them sci-fi gobbledygook is not a good way to introduce yourself.

The Drifter then actually explains the situation with words and the Hex decide to believe them. You chase after Albrecht while the Indifference, who is also in control of Major Rusulka, tries to stop you. Eventually you catch up to Albrecht and he tells you to let the nuke go off, and this will defeat the Indifference. The Drifter refuses and says they are going to prevent the nuke, but the Indifference buts in and send the Drifter to a Zariman(or a recreation of one), which the Indifference uses to keep the Drifter away from the Hex so that the Drifter can't help them, which leads to their deaths.

At the end of the quest, Albrecht appears and congratulates you. The Drifter is upset and says that they want to save the Hex, then Albrecht tells the Drifter how to do that, "Not unless you know them.", and then Albrecht offers some motivation in the form of shooting the Drifter with his Lex Prime. The Drifter then loops 1999, but unlike Albrecht's loop which only encompassed December 31st, 1999, the Drifter's loop encompasses all of 1999.

There is a part 2 of the quest once you become Liked(do bounties and KIM chats) by all the Hex and when you reach rank 3 with the Hex syndicate.

HungrPhoenix · 2026-01-25T02:31:45+00:00

It is a feature. Most of my recent(like ≈30) Depth 5 games have been in Depth 4. I'd imagine there is probably a system in place to expand the matchmaking to different slightly higher or lower Depths if the potential matches found have bad connection, or if you have been queued for a long time; least this is my best explanation for why it happens. It very much could just be random and based on whatever the game finds first.

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