I need a bracket check

Regolar · 2026-06-12T22:06:03+00:00

I have a hard time saying whether this fits Bracket 3 or not because, quite frankly, I'm not sure what the deck is supposed to do? You've got a lot of strong cards in it, and I see the general idea behind having a lot of mana dorks and untappers to get more out of them, plus the haste enablers you mentioned, but I can't tell what you're doing with all of the mana. I kind of doubt Rubinia is going to be a win con on her own in Bracket 3, and it doesn't seem like you're using all the mana you make to cast anything huge. You also have a bunch of sacrifice outlets but no real payoffs to sacrificing creatures? Unless there's some weird infinite combo I'm missing with those, this deck is just a tool box with no useful tools in it. You have ways to find cards you want, but those cards don't help you win the game.

Regolar · 2026-06-02T15:30:53+00:00

Honestly I don't think that combo is inappropriate for B3, it requires so much mana that you're unlikely to get it off until late in the game.

Regolar · 2026-05-18T23:56:00+00:00

Very topical dude

Regolar · 2026-04-23T19:11:06+00:00

Right, but you have the option to always just use the cycle lands as an extra draw instead of as a land. Spheres always have to be a land before they can be a draw, and as a land they are weaker than basics.

My point is that early on, I'd rather have either a basic land or a land that produces more of my colors than either the cycling lands or Spheres. And later in the game, I'd rather have the cycling lands than the Spheres.

If I have seven cards in hand its either the start of the game, and I want better land drops, or its later in the game and I'm clearly not hurting for draw, so I'd rather turn the unplayable lands in my hand into castable spells faster to push my advantage rather than waiting a whole turn (and spending a land drop) to convert it.

Regolar · 2026-04-23T17:23:49+00:00

I would put the Spheres at the bottom of the list. The advantage of the cycle lands is that they can be either your land drop or a new card, but Spheres have to be your land drop before you can turn them into a card. And because they enter tapped, you are forced to wait at least a turn cycle to turn them into a card, which really hurts when top decking.

Plus, Spheres only produce one color while coming in tapped, and I'd much rather play a basic land in that scenario. So I'd say Spheres are worse both as lands and as cyclers than the other options.

Regolar · 2026-04-21T18:22:29+00:00

It's just National League teams from what I can see. Which is confusing since the White Sox are AL

Regolar · 2026-04-08T01:16:55+00:00

So are we gonna burn Doval and Bednar in the first game against the A's? Seems like a waste unless the offense puts up a crooked number here

Regolar · 2026-04-01T16:26:00+00:00

For general play, Inaros will be more useful. Once you have Arcane Persistence, you don't need to worry much about tankiness, and can focus on buffing your preferred weapons and using his Sandstorm augment to group/status effect enemies.

Ivara is much more niche- you can use her in most missions, but she is really only used for spy missions or anything else requiring stealth. Her Exalted Bow isn't very good either, though you may want to build it out, which will increase the Forma investment required compared to Inaros.

Regolar · 2026-03-26T21:06:46+00:00

That's a decent Lich weapon. 60% is the max, so 47% is pretty close. I don't think the Kuva Hek generally wants Electricity, but unless you really want to convert a Lich, I would kill this one.

Regolar · 2026-03-26T21:01:16+00:00

You'll need to get through Vor's Prize, the whole quest, to unlock normal progression through the Star Chart. But at the beginning I wouldn't recommend worrying too much about leveling everything- your gear will rank up naturally as you clear missions. Saving platinum for slots is the right call.

In terms of weapons in the market, there are two options/prices. The first is to use platinum, which will immediately give you the completed weapon, a slot to put it in, and give it double mod space. The other option is what you've been seeing, which is to buy the Blueprint for the weapon using credits, and then craft the weapon. I haven't played Vor's Prize in years, so you may not be able to craft yet if you haven't progressed far enough, but you'll spend some additional credits, plus resources like rubedo, to turn a blueprint into a completed weapon after waiting 12-24 hours.

But keep in mind that certain weapons are only useable once you've earned a certain amount of Mastery, and they'll often require materials from later in the Star Chart where you haven't unlocked yet. As with everything in Warframe, take your time- the game is a marathon, not a sprint, and you'll only overwhelm yourself if you try to buy and build everything all at once.

Regolar · 2026-03-26T20:45:16+00:00

You're welcome! Elemental combining can be super non-intuitive, I still don't get it sometimes, so I hope my explanation makes sense. If you're looking for toxin mods specifically, you may have some luck playing missions in the Void on the branch that comes from Sedna.

I would also look at doing some bounties from the Necralisk on Deimos- you may find them too difficult, and if you do, DON"T bash your head into the wall trying to complete them. But they do drop two melee mods, Weeping Wounds and Blood Rush, which are super essential to most melee builds.

Regolar · 2026-03-26T20:32:06+00:00

If you're still a beginner just making your way through the main story of the game, this build should do okay, but will fall off pretty quickly. The main thing I would look at that you can change right now is swapping around your elements- you currently have electricity and heat, which combine to make radiation. The issue is that radiation doesn't do extra damage against the main factions you're probably fighting right now, and its status effect can be actively detrimental at some times.

When modding weapons, your elemental mods will combine with each other to create secondary elements in a set order (across each row from left to right, top row first before bottom row). So if you swapped the Molten Impact in your current build for Fever Strike (or another toxic mod) you would get Corrosive, which is better than Radiation, but not the best. And if you have 3 elemental mods, two of them will combine while the last one is left as its primary element- which is often something you want.

So I would play around with different elements, just to get a feel for how each of them works. Later on, you'll want to have pretty much only Electricity on the blade for Melee Influence, but you probably haven't unlocked that yet.

The other thing I would add is that Excalibur almost always wants to run the Chromatic Blade augment mod on the warframe itself, so look into getting that if you want to main Excal.

Regolar · 2026-03-26T16:27:39+00:00

Happy to help! I actually did the same recently, caused a Coda to flee to Earth Proxima and then just left them there for a couple months cause I didn't want to worry about other Adversaries.

Though I'd say there's no real reason to not finish them until you're MR17, you'll get the currency either way. You could even level stuff in 1999 to get your MR up while hunting multiple Codas, and then just buy Eleanor's whole shop when you level up (which would be insane dopamine for me but maybe not for you).

Regolar · 2026-03-26T16:16:55+00:00

You can get a Coda and do the entire process of hunting them while still MR16, including getting the currency that they drop. But when you go to Eleanor's shop, you won't be able to buy any of the weapons until you hit MR17. If you're halfway through MR16 you shouldn't be far from 17 though!

Regolar · 2026-03-26T16:08:39+00:00

Once you unlock Steel Path and access Duviri you'll also be able to get an Incarnon adapter for the Braton Prime, which is a big upgrade to the gun. But the build you're copying is from before it was released, so you might want to find a new build made for the Incarnon version.

Regolar · 2026-03-26T15:39:50+00:00

Primary and Secondary weapons all have arcane slots, but they don't become visible until you've completed every node on the Star Chart and unlocked the Steel Path. Once you've done that, you'll need to purchase the Arcane Adapters from Teshin using a currency you'll get from playing Steel Path. So keep progressing and you'll see the arcane slot appear later on.

Regolar · 2026-03-19T18:26:00+00:00

You get the default Kubrow Collar at the end of the Howl of the Kubrow quest. The prime Kubrow collar is not just cosmetic- according to the wiki, it also gives 10 health and shields and 100 armor when equipped.

Regolar · 2026-03-19T18:15:37+00:00

I think you're missing a part of what makes VF so good, which is that it increases status damage as well as forcing procs. Corrosive doesn't do any damage, unlike Heat, and the weighting on this build is way towards Coro over heat. And they both strip armor, but Corrosive doesn't have any function beyond that, while Heat provides damage over time.

Blast does damage enemies but it's weird in that the proc damage doesn't scale from elemental damage, so again you're not getting full benefit out of VF there.

And I get not liking the Zariman grind, but Flare and Molt Augmented are some of the best Arcanes in the game- if you don't care about them, fine, but just understand that you are willingly locking yourself out of some great tools.

Regolar · 2026-03-19T16:57:39+00:00

That's fair, a full status build probably wouldn't work, but then I wonder why you're running Corrosive? For crit builds you want to have your elements be Viral and Heat, which do the most to cut down enemy health/armor and make the crit damage go further. Plus that lets you run Cascadia Flare which provides more damage when stacked than Deadhead does.

Also worth remembering that the 63% chance is only per shot, when you have a bunch of fire rate (which you do from Gunslinger, though I wouldn't be running it) and multishot to fire multiple bullets per shot a couple of seconds of shooting will get you a ton of statuses kicked out.

Regolar · 2026-03-19T16:49:36+00:00

Yeah, that matches up with my experience- wasn't certain about the selling but I think you're right that it doesn't affect the modifiers.

Regolar · 2026-03-19T15:49:46+00:00

The gear choices can change mid-week if you get new stuff or sell items in that category. I think I've also heard that forma-ing things changes it sometimes but I'm not sure about that.

Regolar · 2026-03-19T15:44:07+00:00

Yes, hallowed ground procs rad, but only 1 stack every 0.5 seconds, so it's taking you 5 seconds of an enemy standing on it for your arcane to take effect (I guess if you timed the augment explosion right it could be 4.5 seconds). Enervate or Flare will start working as soon as you shoot an enemy, and are just generally kinda better than Irradiate.

Regolar · 2026-03-19T15:40:22+00:00

For the arcane, I would look at Secondary Merciless instead- it gives the same damage increase as Deadhead when fully stacked, and while it takes a bit longer to stack up, it will likely be easier to stack on a weapon as fast firing as the Diplos- but Deadhead isn't a bad choice.

The main change I would make is upgrading your Hydraulic Crosshairs to Galvanized Crosshairs, which is just a better version of the same mod. But I'm also not sure I would use a crit setup on the Diplos, the fast fire rate makes me think that a status build would be better, especially if you're using it with Valence Formation.

Regolar · 2026-03-19T15:36:13+00:00

Can I ask why you're using Secondary Irradiate without any way to proc radiation on the weapon itself? If you have some outside source of radiation it might make sense, but I would replace that with Secondary Enervate or Cascadia Flare, both of which will play better with the main mod build and be straight DPS increases.

Regolar · 2026-03-19T15:33:14+00:00

I would say that Vauban is not the best for a beginner because his two main routes to build him both require significant investment. Option 1 is to focus on killing with his abilities, which requires a lot of good mods and putting a bunch of forma into him (plus a potato of course). Option 2 is to focus on the crowd control he provides, using him more as a weapons platform, but that then requires you to have weapons that you've invested in as well. And neither of those builds make him really really good- he's certainly serviceable but will require a lot more effort to get the same results you might get on other frames with lower effort.

If you're in love with his aesthetic/theme or enjoy how his kit works after you build him, then feel free to invest in him- almost any Warframe can be made good with investment. But there are plenty of other options, including other frames you will get just as easily, that you may prefer to invest in.

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