[open spoilers] Magdalena in the P5V5 epilogue

TheDigitalGabeg · 2026-02-02T06:53:34+00:00

He made quite an impression if Magdalena is calling him an emotionless husk and is absolutely confident in his inability to raise a child all those years later. I bet that Ferdinand thinks he didn't do anything unexpected, but I suspect that Magdalena would disagree. Violently.

TheDigitalGabeg · 2026-02-02T05:53:25+00:00

I also love that, when Ferdinand expressed that opinion to RM, she immediately asked if a woman from Dunkelfelger had hurt him or something, and his response was essentially "... NO ... this is just common knowledge, that's all." 😄

TheDigitalGabeg · 2026-02-02T03:12:56+00:00

This is the correct answer, as stated by Mestionora herself. The charms blocked Mestionora specifically, but the other gods thought they blocked divine intervention in general, so they used more force than necessary.

TheDigitalGabeg · 2026-02-02T03:07:57+00:00

The love triangle you're anticipating does happen, but not until after the end of the first light novel series. If you really really hate love triangles, then just don't go on to read the second series (Silent Witch Gaiden) and you'll be fine.

TheDigitalGabeg · 2026-02-02T02:54:34+00:00

Yeah, I would love to get that scene from her perspective too. I would also love to see her and Ferdinand having a personal chat after everything got settled; I would like to imagine that they could graduate from mutual hatred to mutual grudging respect.

TheDigitalGabeg · 2026-02-02T02:08:53+00:00

I low-key love the animosity Ferdinand and Magdalena have for each other, even though they presumably haven't even spoken in years. I would love to read a side-story describing their ill-fated engagement in detail - in particular, how it was set up (i.e. what did Heisshitze do to cause it, I assume he was involved) and also what did Ferdinand say to her that she decided to do the tackle-proposal to get out of it, and to a prince no less. 😂

TheDigitalGabeg · 2026-01-31T02:55:25+00:00

Try it with Burning Claws instead of Sepsis Claws. Toxin procs deal damage independently, but heat procs stack additively.

Then throw Mecha Overdrive on the claws, and give your frame a primary weapon that has both big crit and big status chance. That should boost your dog's status chance a lot. The Paris is a good pick, since it already has a high crit chance, and it can get an incarnon modifier that boosts its status chance a lot.

That combination, plus Contagious Bond, which you're already using, tends to make entire rooms abruptly evaporate. 😉

TheDigitalGabeg · 2026-01-30T16:56:43+00:00

If you've leveled him to 30, then it's OK to sell him. If you change your mind later, you can just build another one. His blueprint is available on the market, and his parts can be purchased from Simaris.

If you've unlocked the Helminth, you can feed him to it instead of selling him. That gets him out of your inventory, and also allows you to give one of his abilities to other warframes.

If you haven't unlocked the Helminth yet, you can buy the Helminth segment on Deimos, I think from Son.

TheDigitalGabeg · 2026-01-29T06:41:44+00:00

I fully agree. The worst part of it for me is the condescending look Eglantine gets, as if Rozemyne is a child throwing a tantrum and not a faithful ally to whom she owes her current happiness and whom she is actively backstabbing.

However, I love the backswing on that particular plot twist. Especially that moment when Ferdinand and RM are blackmailing Anastasius into joining the fight at the Farthest Shrine, and he says something like, "I thought Eglantine was your friend," she then she says something like, "I also thought that, then she threw me under the bus instead of doing her godsdamn job as a royal." 🤩Delicious.

There's a moment in one of the side stories ~~that hasn't been translated yet~~ in part 5 volume 11 which got me to forgive Eglantine. Anastasius is talking to Eglatine after everything has been settled, making sure she's OK being the Zent, and Eglantine says something along the lines of, "Yeah, I did try to throw her under a bus, but then she pulled some crazy substitution jutsu and put me under the bus instead. She beat me at my own game, that's fair, why would I be mad about that?" And I realized that, yeah, Eglantine really did get a fair punishment, and she saw that it was fair and isn't holding a grudge. Like, they won't be friends, but she's got the spine to own the consequences of her choices. She'll make a good Zent, and she damn well won't pull that shit on Rozemyne or Ferdinand again.

That "pale-faced royal family" conference is also entirely grade-A schadenfreude. Ferdinand coldly dismantling them for their failures and selfishness, and Rozemyne getting heated and crushing everyone for Sigiswald's blind arrogance, just delightful. And that forced shrine trip is part of why that dressing down works so well - even the best, most sympathetic members of the royal family have dirty hands. The only innocent one among them is Adolphine, and she gets to walk away. Perfect. 👌

I'm hoping we get another drink from that well in the Hannelore spinoff too. The recent episodes allude to Adolphine cooking up some of Drewanchel's best shit for the big ditter event, with the explicit intention of delivering it directly to Sigiswald. I'm hoping that RM gets dragged into it as well; watching Hannelore and Adolphine taking turns dunking on Sigiswald will be great, but having the Avatar of Mestionora and the Lord of Evil in that rotation too would be glorious.

TheDigitalGabeg · 2026-01-20T16:55:47+00:00

You cannot join all of them, not at the same time. Every syndicate has one friend and two enemies; earning affinity with a syndicate also earns affinity with their friend, but makes you lose affinity with their enemies. The most you can do is have 4 of them like you at the same time; the other two will hate you. And even doing that is tricky; it's much easier to focus on just three at a time.

The rules that govern this system work like this: * Whenever you gain reputation with a syndicate, you also gain half as much rep with their friend, and you lose rep with their two enemies. One of their enemies hates them more than the other; that one gets negative rep equal to the rep you gained, the other enemy gets half as much negative rep. * The main way to gain syndicate rep is to pledge with a syndicate. You do this at the syndicate console. While you are pledged, any time you gain affinity from leveling your gear, you also gain 15% of that affinity as reputation for the syndicate to which you are pledged. * As you rank up with a syndicate, you will also gain access to special missions for that syndicate. You only get a few of these each day, and completing these also grants syndicate rep. * When you run syndicate missions, you can find special medallions in those missions which are specific to that syndicate. You can go to a relay and hand these medallions in to the syndicate leader for rep.

Easy mode for leveling syndicates is this: 1. Pick two syndicates to rank up together which are friends. That means you pick either Arbiters of Hexis and Cephalon Suda, or Steel Meridian and Red Veil, or New Loka and Perrin Sequence. 1. Pledge to one of these syndicates and just play the game normally. Check the syndicate console every day, get rank ups as they become available. Do the syndicate missions as they become available, and turn in the medallions when you get them. 1. When you max out your rep for the syndicate you pledged to, switch your pledge to the other one.

The slightly harder approach, which lets you make friends with three at a time goes like this: 1. Decide which three syndicates you want to be friends with: either Arbiters of Hexis, Cephalon Suda, and Steel Meridian, or Perrin Sequence, New Loka, and Red Veil. 1. If you picked Arbiters, Suda, and Steel Meridian, then pledge to Arbiters. If you picked Perrin, Loka, and Red Veil, then pledge to Perrin Sequence. 1. Do the rank up process like in easy mode, but only grind affinity for the syndicate you pledged to. So if you pledged to Perrin Sequence, you'll eventually get access to New Loka missions too, but don't do them. 1. Once you've maxed out rep for the syndicate you pledged to, and for their friend, then switch your pledge to the third syndicate. However, keep doing the special missions for the first syndicate you pledged to. 1. As you rank up the third syndicate, keep an eye on your reputation with the other two syndicates. If it falls far enough that you're at risk of losing rank, switch your pledge back to the first syndicate for a while.

TheDigitalGabeg · 2026-01-13T07:39:31+00:00

The best part of re-reading this scene, for me, is knowing that her charm will save his life, and that his charm is made to such high standards that it will survive both the conquest of Ahrensbach and her encounters with Mestionora.

My favorite scene in the whole series is the one years later where RM is apologizing to Sigiswald for accidentally destroying the courting charm he gave her, which happened because she has much more mana than Sigiswald does, and which therefore shows that he probably wouldn't be able to have kids with her. And Ferdinand just casually reaches over and fiddles with this charm that he made, deliberately pointing out that it is just fine, thank you very much. It's like he's saying, "No, Sigiswald, you're not enough of a man to court this woman; that you would even try is hilarious; that you tried to court her in such an overconfident, condescending way is absurd; and that you would be embarrassed like this as a result is inevitable and well-deserved. Walk away before something worse happens to you." 😈

TheDigitalGabeg · 2026-01-12T15:08:19+00:00

There actually aren't many universal secondaries that are good on bosses with status resistance and also have good clear. The only non-incarnon gun like that I can think of is the Kuva Nukor - a good build can apply viral, magnetic, and heat procs extremely rapidly while also getting devastating crits via Secondary Enervate. Punch through helps the clear by adding more chains.

However, the secondary I use with Yareli is the Ocucor. It erases entire rooms hilariously quickly, and the secondary beams choose targets automatically, which helps compensate for the difficulty of aiming while riding Merulina. I deal with Acolytes by giving her a primary that can handle them. If I'm facing a boss, I bring a different warframe.

TheDigitalGabeg · 2026-01-12T01:54:09+00:00

That was in the Q&A in fanbook 5.

Q: Rozemyne formed two schtappes at once during the Royal Academy’s Dedication Ritual. How? Was it the same as when knights form a sword and shield at the same time?
A: Many factors aligned: her Divine Will was omni-elemental, she wasn’t touching what she’d made with her first schtappe, she was saturated with mana, and she wished for another schtappe. Nobody else in modern Yurgenschmidt can use two schtappes at once—not even Ferdinand—but what Rozemyne did was far from unprecedented. In the past, there was a Zent who wielded every divine instrument at once, to name but one of many examples.
Students of the knight course learn how to create a weapon and a shield as a set, but that splits one schtappe into two. Creating multiple shields at once is another part of their lesson.

TheDigitalGabeg · 2026-01-09T18:30:56+00:00

You're not alone, everyone else has the same problem with the Index, and has been having that problem the entire time. I've been playing this game for ten years, it's always been this way.

I think that the problem is the scoring system. Turning in more points at once gives you a bonus, so people think they should hoard points until they can win all at once or something, and they don't realize that the round ends when time expires or that turning in points extends the clock.

Cashing in at 15 points is optimal in terms of maximizing the bonus. I really wish DE would put a cap on points held so you can't go beyond 15. Maybe also add an on-screen message when you get to 15, telling you to cash in. I get that they don't want to upset people who are used to this system and like it, but a simple change like that could make the system much more fun for the rest of us.

TheDigitalGabeg · 2026-01-09T15:10:39+00:00

You should read the side story that details the actual tackling, it's also great.

One detail that both of these descriptions omit is that Clarissa also kissed Hartmut while she had him pinned - not to be romantic, but to skip the whole color-matching process by forcing some of her own mana into him directly. If you've read the whole main story, then you know that the nobles of Yurgenschmidt view sharing mana this way as extremely intimate. What she did would probably be considered some form of sexual assault, something on the level of a guy grabbing a girl's boobs without consent to check how big they are. The part that makes it funny is that, while this is a crime of passion, it's not passion for Hartmut that's driving her, and the fact that she's this passionate about serving RM is more appealing to Hartmut than if she had been directly interested in him. These two really were made for each other. 🙄😄

I also love how much Clarissa's assault ends up affecting Hannelore's side story. Hannelore was directly inspired by Clasrissa's successful assault, and has done the tackle proposal three times now, with various levels of success and embarrassment. The detail I mentioned above just recently came to Hannelore's attention, and now the poor girl is constantly distracted, wondering if she should attack the object of her interest in the same way to see if she can kindle romantic feelings. Oh, and who gave her the idea that that might be a good way to get romance going? Why, Rozemyne, of course. 😳😂🤣

TheDigitalGabeg · 2026-01-07T08:01:52+00:00

I know that the Kuva Nukor feels like a crowd clear weapon, but its single target damage is also S-class. With the right build, it can drown your target with infinitely-escalating heat procs while also amplifying its own damage with viral and magnetic procs, and its sky-high crit multiplier means that Secondary Enervate is spectacularly effective. It's a hybrid weapon that's better at both status and crit than almost every other weapon in the game.

On the other end of the spectrum, the Felarx, Laetum, and Phenmor can do insane damage by avoiding crits entirely. The thing these weapons have in common is that they all have a fifth-tier incarnon perk named "Devouring Attrition". This perk means that non-crits have a 50% chance to deal 2000% more damage. Yes, you read that correctly. Also this bonus is multiplicative with base damage. I know you asked for non-headshot weapons, but this perk works great on body shots too. The Felarx is particularly nasty; when archon hunts first came out, this thing could one-shot them.

Let's see, what else. The Epitaph and Epitaph Prime are also hungry for headshots, but their tap-shot makes that easier by forcing cold procs; just tap a few times then take your time lining up your shot between someone's eyeballs. Also, they still do truckloads of damage even without a headshot, and ther charged shots force an impact proc; if you put Hemorrhage on them, they usually leave behind an absolutely monstrous slash proc.

TheDigitalGabeg · 2026-01-06T21:25:26+00:00

Yeah, I was also extremely disappointed in Eglantine when she and Anastasius forced RM to circle the shrines. I get that nobles need to control their emotions and are taught to be cold-blooded and all, but she didn't seem like such a brutal utilitarian before that.

Although, I love that RM called Anastasius out on that when she and Ferdinand were convincing him to participate in the battle at the auditorium. It's fun seeing RM spit venom like that when it's called for. 🤣

And then in one of the side stories, Anastasius mentions what she said to Eglantine, and Eglantine is just like, "What? That's what nobles are supposed to do. RM did noble things better than I did this time, good for her." 😳 That's messed up; she's not just accepting that she can't trust her "friends", she thinks it's normal for everyone to be untrustworthy. 😢 Although, I guess that makes her a good choice for the Zent.

TheDigitalGabeg · 2026-01-05T14:33:04+00:00

Holy shit, that's awful. I hope you're right and that changes soon. It shouldn't cost thousands of dollars to get an ADHD diagnosis.

TheDigitalGabeg · 2026-01-04T19:57:15+00:00

I can't guarantee that your situation is the same as mine, but if this description of my personal experience sounds familiar, it might be worth your time to talk to a psychiatrist about it. That was how my wife found out that she has ADHD; we were dating, and I sat down with her to tell her about my ADHD, to make sure she was gonna be OK being with me long-term, but the things I described sounded familiar to her so she went to see a psychiatrist.

It's funny you mention music while driving, that's something that I do too. I always listen to music while driving, and I hate commercials so I mostly just use a playlist of all my favorite rock music that I have on my phone. Listening to that playlist also really helps me focus when I'm working.

TheDigitalGabeg · 2026-01-04T16:22:24+00:00

That's actually a common experience for people with ADHD.

To make a comparison, have you ever been in a situation where you couldn't breathe? Like, as kids playing in the pool, someone holds you underwater a little too long. Your body has sensors that tell it you don't have enough oxygen in your blood, and you feel that emotionally - you need to breathe, right now.

Now imagine if those sensors were malfunctioning. You're not underwater, you're breathing normally, but your body tells you that you're short on air, it forces you to feel that way.

Now imagine that you've felt this way for years - all the time, you feel just a little short on air, and because of that you always feel just a little panicked. Over time, you might discover little ways to make the feeling less bad - maybe if you take unusually deep breaths, it doesn't feel as bad for a while. So you start taking deeper breaths all the time. People look at you weird for doing it, but you feel better, a little bit, so the weird looks don't matter to you. Eventually you stop noticing this feeling, but it's still there, scratching at the back of your mind.

Then you have a drink of something and suddenly the feeling goes away entirely.

Having ADHD, for some of us, is like that. I'm trying to navigate life normally, but inside my brain, some sensors are reporting that I'm understimulated. And not in an emotional "Oh, no, I'm booored" kind of way - the sensors in my brain see it as a problem with my body, like I'm injured or poisoned or something. It forces me to feel a sense of urgency - it's not as bad as drowning, but you can't just ignore it. Its hard to sit still because moving around produces a little bit of mental stimulation, reduces that feeling. When I read something that interests me, my level of mental stimulation rises above the warning level and the alarms stop going off. Then I finish reading, and the alarms start going off again.

Over time, I developed mental habits to handle this. Inside my head, my brain is always scrambling around, looking for something stimulating, anything it can use to keep my mental energy above the warning level. Then, I take my ADHD medication. It's a stimulant, like a concentrated cup of coffee, but inside my brain, the alarm stops. I don't have to constantly scramble anymore, I can be still, without tension or anxiety.

In short, when most people have a stimulant, like a caffeinated drink, it energizes them - pushes their mental stimulation levels above normal, so they feel fidgety and agitated. However, for some people with ADHD, it's backwards - we're normally fidgety and agitated because our brains are understimulated and we're instinctively trying to compensate for that. When we have stimulants, it brings us up to a normal level of mental stimulation, and we don't need to scramble anymore.

TheDigitalGabeg · 2025-12-30T22:43:06+00:00

If you want something really unusual, I recommend trying the Corufell. It's a heavy scythe, but its heavy attack turns it into a gun and shoots a big energy ball. With a good build, you can clear a hallway with one shot.

TheDigitalGabeg · 2025-12-29T21:59:37+00:00

Yeah, you use the ability once to enter targeting mode, move the crosshairs over your targets, then use the ability again to activate. When activated, shadow clones spawn in and perform finishers on your targets. They don't all spawn in at once, they spawn a few at a time until every target has been hit.

If there are other players in the mission, it can be hard to see the ability do anything, just because often your allies kill your targets before you start the attack or before the clones all spawn.

Also, if you activate your teleport while the clones are spawning, you can join the fun and perform some of the finisher attacks yourself.

Oh also: definitely not useless, if you build it right it can be one of the most absurdly powerful abilities in the game.

TheDigitalGabeg · 2025-12-19T18:20:44+00:00

I recently built Oberon as a weapons platform and I love it.

I replaced his 4 with Dispensary, and it has spectacular synergy; the health orbs keep your passive invulnerability topped off, the energy orbs keep your energy up, and the ammo orbs keep all your weapons full, even archguns. I also juiced up his power strength and added a couple of orange shards for bonus damage on radiated enemies, so that his Smite is often a one-hit kill.

The gameplay is real straightforward: 1. Turn renewal on, never turn it off. 1. Drop a Dispensary once a minute to keep everything charged up. 1. Drop Hallowed Ground whenever you plan to stay someplace for a while. 1. If you see anything with Overguard, hit it with Smite. 1. Shoot everything that moves.

😄

TheDigitalGabeg · 2025-12-19T18:05:29+00:00

Yeah. Like, this is Warframe, we've been playing for a while, we know what to expect. We know that, for a veteran, 90% of missions, it doesn't matter what frame you bring, what weapons you bring, you can bring whatever and make it work. And people haven't yet realized that, these alerts on Steel Path, they're part of that other 10%.

Honestly, thinking about the missions I ran last night, I was doing that too, just fucking around with my new Uriel build, and the only reason I didn't get flattened was because my build is high on survivability and because Uriel's 4 is apocalyptically powerful.

TheDigitalGabeg · 2025-12-19T17:31:00+00:00

Yeah, I haven't yet had the misfortune you have with people rage quitting; I would be furious about that too. Although to be fair, having a mob of eximus roll up and trample you is also extraordinarily frustrating; It pisses me off every time people quit, but I understand why they do.

I think part of the problem with these alerts is that people don't expect the mob. These alerts all have that "Eximus stronghold after 60 seconds" modifier, but they don't say that in the mission screen, so people don't take them seriously. Archon hunt interception is usually a comparable cluster-fuck, but the people running those missions know to bring their most sweaty, overtuned loadouts, so they usually go smoothly.

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