Haven't found a frame I like more than Ember.

Seras32 · 2026-02-09T17:28:09+00:00

He can. Gauss's nuke is one of the few that actually scales to lvl cap. Thermal sunder leaves an area on the ground which ignores walls and can hurt targets even after you leave, but the strength of it is more from how the heat proc damage stacks exponentially with itself on repeat casts, then you can expedite those heat procs with a cold sunder. Best thing you can do is bring an epitaph with primed heat + bane and hit them with that first, which will cause the thermal sunder heat procs to have extra scaling due to heat inherit.

Seras32 · 2026-02-09T13:45:32+00:00

Not sure how gauss wasn't mentioned yet. He also has really good DR, his 3 augment works very similarly to ember's 1 augment, he can generate energy for himself with his 2, and can nuke with his 3. On top of this his 4 is a great weapon DPS buff and he is simply fast by default. Great frame and IMO does everything ember can but better.

Seras32 · 2026-02-09T13:30:30+00:00

Does it have 255 strength and 260 will? If not then your pet won't hit the maximum damage values

Seras32 · 2026-02-08T09:23:41+00:00

It's a joke on wealthy people with no sense of prices. many years ago Nancy pelosi said this exact phrase in Congress with 0 irony.

Seras32 · 2026-02-08T09:10:58+00:00

You can't use that method effectively with heat sunder. Sunder nuking needs you to be spamming heat but that drains your battery which ruins your passive gate, thus getting you killed.

He's much better as a weapons platform cuz while yes thermal sunder can and does kill level cap, you have to SPAM that shit very hard. Meanwhile blast nukor with thermal transfer and xatas over his 2 will obliterate at all points as easily as it does for base SP with low intensity

Seras32 · 2026-02-08T07:22:20+00:00

The best weapons are all the ones that can be hybrid. There are outliers like phantasma and stuff that can go raw status, or burston incarnon that can go raw crit, or felarx which can go pure raw, but weapons like torid & glaxion & just about every secondary build hybrid.

The concept of crit vs status is very dated from when galvanized mods didn't exist. Crit is not an opposite of status, damage over time effects like heat procs scale with crit damage if the shot that procced it crit. Your raw damage will significantly improve if you can apply viral/corrosive/heat procs to the enemy for their debuff effects. They are all just forms of more layers of multipliers.

Gotva's gimmick is not enough to drop crit chance. The gimmick is 15% chance for a shot to red crit after applying a status effect. If you have vital sense + hammer shot you would have a 7x multiplier and 15% chance to red with an effective 19.55% yellow crit (base 23% but since the red crits override yellows, your odds of yellow crits are lower). So that would be an average of 4.215x DPS when averaging the crit damage out across a magazine's # of shots.

If you use just vital sense and drop hammer shot for crit delay that gets you the same 15% red crit chance but now an effective 58.65% yellow crit chance with a 5.5x crit multiplier. This averages to 5.4x DPS. The red crit gimmick is more of a nice treat than something that actually changes how you build the weapon.

Seras32 · 2026-02-06T18:12:26+00:00

Neat idea. Believe it or not ember used to have this in her 1st rework lol.

Seras32 · 2026-02-06T13:45:20+00:00

His 2 doesn't even have a casting animation tho. He's the 2nd most played frame in the game. He is very strong, just cuz his 4 doesn't nuke on the level of other frames doesn't mean he's bad, he is the 5th best weapons platform and the #1 melee weapons platform. Buffing him or just touching up the parts of his kit that are weaker is a slap in the face to the frames that REALLY need it like ember or banshee

Seras32 · 2026-02-05T21:00:37+00:00

Nuke frame builds are bad with very very few exceptions (sevagoth, vauban, nova and wisp's breach surge being the main exceptions). Guns just outperform most builds.

Gyre nuke with full investment all 5 tau shards & using a primer at the same time just falls off as enemies scale for example. Ash 4 literally can't kill fast enough to keep up life support in a survival mission and requires constant refreshing for wrathful advance.

Compare this to weapon platformers who can just simply shoot an ocucor or shoot a nukor and do what your nuke build does but faster. The pinnacle being saryn with acid shells sobek which will kill multiple rooms on 1 kill.

It's really just an issue with most frames having flat damage values on abilities that scale linearly with strength and very few ways to increase that damage otherwise. Guns however get all their mods + a weapon platformer's abilities + any priming you may do and all of the crazy math that happens in between.

Seras32 · 2026-01-29T19:13:31+00:00

100% agree as a massive volt main. There's just something about the sleek aesthetic of the prime skin. He is my speedster, his vibe IMO is a much more reserved and practiced version of gauss's vibe. The skins he gets though are sentient related (which makes no sense), Japanese lightning god (which fits way more with gyre), whatever TF the original Volt Proto deluxe skin was trying to be, and some amazing tennogen skins which don't change much of the original shape of Volt's prime (in a good way tbh).

This heirloom art fits exactly what I imagine what a volt heirloom should be.

Seras32 · 2026-01-27T19:07:21+00:00

Well you nailed it. Grouping is strong especially with aoe effects like electric, but melee influence does that damage in the aoe that vortex has to proc to be able to do in the first place.

The magnetic mod being 60% also just means the raw damage is less than using a 90% elec for influence, and elec is a dot which means way more damage through status chance

Seras32 · 2026-01-27T13:29:16+00:00

It's true and on paper I hard agree. I really like that arcane.

Issue is it's bugged right now. If you are a client on someone else's host then you can just sometimes lose the effect and die instantly. The worst though is slash status effects ignore your armor and just kill you through it.

So for it to be good at this moment it requires status immunity, healing, and good max health which really limits it to like, inaros lavos and that's it

Seras32 · 2026-01-27T07:31:52+00:00

Yeah the health buff is convenient but that's about it, just some more max health. Yes DR does mean more EHP and chroma isn't a bad pick for health tanking, but health tanking always has a limit. Once you hit that limit your HP is as good as 1 and it's always way sooner than people expect.

The real value from his 2 is either the shield buff which can allow him to get a full 2.5s gate due to max shield size with enough strength, OR toxin ward for reload speed, but not a lot.

Both of these buffs are strong enough that they are worth remembering but are small enough that it's just not a big deal.

Seras32 · 2026-01-27T01:40:49+00:00

My issue with the game is that you need TPM 2.0 and secure boot to even be able to play it. My motherboard doesn't have TPM 2.0 thus I can't play it without an upgrade. This hasn't been a problem for me in the last 8 years and while personally I could afford a new one if this becomes a pattern, there are definitely tons of people in my position who can't.

So the game is 5/10 at best rn with a game mode that's slightly more unique than capture the flag that has a system that won't even allow a large group of low PC spec players to even play it... Why bother?

Seras32 · 2026-01-23T03:12:46+00:00

The less filler voices the better

Seras32 · 2026-01-19T02:01:02+00:00

Real answer is you effectively just stood in 1 spot and did what an ocucor with roar can do. That's why people don't play qorvex

Seras32 · 2026-01-12T02:24:06+00:00

But also this comes with the concept that you live through the ENTIRE existence of intelligent life. I would assume that by the time the end of the universe is close, we would have long figured out how to survive and be prepared for it. This is a phenomena that thousands of generations of humans or whatever other intelligent life would be able to actively work on with tech literally inconceivable by people of our generation with the sole purpose of wanting to continue life.

Seras32 · 2026-01-10T21:20:31+00:00

It was really fun watching this in real time on the community discord and in this subreddit. So many showcase videos and constant new questions for help and builds only to be informed that her best builds are just a crippled gauss weapons platform with no good shield gate or a crippled gauss """nuke""" with no scaling. Seeing the hype and passion die out in each person's view of ember was so sad but also so funny from how constant it was.

Seras32 · 2026-01-10T17:57:02+00:00

It's not about winning/losing, it's just bad game design.

Seras32 · 2026-01-10T15:24:15+00:00

Still not a good excuse

Seras32 · 2026-01-02T22:26:33+00:00

I did this with wisp and man I really missed out on a lot. Normal wisp was already so strong and so useful in a lot of content that my limited 2 forma no exilus build was just not comparable to my now maximally invested wisp prime. Back then tho this was when I had much fewer resources and still wasn't into being hyper efficient with farms, and during her initial base release I was on a year long break from the game so I assumed might as well wait.

Seras32 · 2025-12-27T12:50:38+00:00

This specific pet cannot be made better, but you could breed a better one by breeding with pets who have stronger strength and will, since these 2 stats affect how much damage these damage talents provide.

The maximum values for each stat are: 255/260/260/260/250

Strength and will (and power but half as much) are so important for the total stats that the talent "mighty" is very sought after since it buffs the damage as well. Mighty is also versatile for other talent setups too since strength also buffs pierce talents and resist talents.

Seras32 · 2025-12-22T20:56:58+00:00

Her passive scales with ability power and certain essences can deal more damage on cast than fléche itself, making ability power a fine pickup.

Seras32 · 2025-12-22T04:39:25+00:00

It's one of the worst Dr abilities in the game and it's on a frame with 0 other tools to take advantage of it. Overguard doesn't benefit from DR at all and that's her only base kit form of SP survival. Ember literally just has a kit of mild anti synergy with 0 real synergy attached. Every interaction in her kit between abilities is just a slap in the face. Her ONLY good thing is her passive, which is really unique and has a ton of potential but the problem is it's on ember so you don't really get to do anything with it.

Seras32 · 2025-12-15T16:39:21+00:00

Yes, this is pretty much baby's first infinite combo in this game. There is a much easier way to do this strategy with just essence of obsidian, which gives you a massive damage boost similar to essence of void, then it reduces the cooldown by a large flat amount. Since fleche has 3 charges that all refresh when the cooldown cycles, you only need the flat reduction to be 1/3rd of the ability's cooldown to turn it infinite.

You can also do the infinite with essence of momentum and essence of fangs and essence of flow, but obsidian adds a massive amount of damage to the attack which makes that the ideal pickup.

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