Tag: Prime

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Hydroid

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Overview: Summon blasts of water from above, grab enemies from beneath, plunder foes for bonus damage and extra loot. If this sounds fun then you should check out Hydroid, with parts available from Councillor Hek on Earth and the blueprint for sale in the market. Prime: The primed version of Hydroid comes with improved armour, shields and energy capacity, but the relics containing his parts are now vaulted – keep an eye out for an “unvaulting” event, ask friends or clan members if they have his relics or try making a deal in the trading channel. Special: Any non-boss enemy … Continue reading Hydroid

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Equinox

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Overview: Bring the flame of day or the cloak of night with Equinox, an adaptive sorceress with an answer for almost anything. Equinox is two frames in one, and you’ll have to repeatedly battle Tyl Regor on Uranus to obtain the eight required components. Prime: Equinox Prime is currently vaulted, so you’ll have to ask friends and clanmates if they have relics, try your luck on the trading channel or wait for an unvaulting event. Equinox Prime boasts improved health, armour and energy capacity. Special: Gain 10% of healing from health orbs as energy, and 10% of energy from energy … Continue reading Equinox

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Mag

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Overview: Disrupt shields, crush armour and redirect projectiles – Mag is a powerful support and indirect DPS frame. She can be easily acquired from Sergeant on Phobos, or selected as your starting Warframe. Prime: Mag prime is currently vaulted, meaning you’ll need to ask friends and clanmates if they have her relics, try the trading channel or wait for an unvaulting event. Special: Mag has a small vacuum aura , allowing her to pull in pickups from a short distance away. Pros: Good shield, surprisingly high durability from powers, superb crowd control, can strip armour, can heal and fortify squad-mate … Continue reading Mag

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Hildryn

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Overview: Casting powers using her shields, Hildryn is the first frame to dispense with energy entirely. If you are looking for a powerful support choice that can take a massive beating, drain enemy shields and armour, inflict ongoing radial crowd control and damage and never have to worry about energy, pick up the components from the Exploiter Orb and the blueprint from Vox Solaris in Fortuna, Venus. Prime: Hildryn prime is available from relics, boasting enhanced health, shield capacity and sprint speed. Special: Hildryn uses her shields to cast powers rather than energy, does not take bleed or toxin status … Continue reading Hildryn

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Limbo

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Overview: Channelling the power of the rift to disable foes and protect allies, you can obtain this dimension-hopping trickster during The Limbo Theorem quest available from your codex. Prime: Limbo prime can be found on vaulted relics, meaning that you’ll need to wait for a prime resurgence event or ask clanmates if they have his relics if you want to obtain this variant. Special: Limbo can enter the rift plane (as opposed to the material plane) by dodging, leaving behind a portal that allies can also enter. Being in the rift has a number of effects: Pros: Energy regeneration for … Continue reading Limbo

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Grendel

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Overview: A durable frame with scaling damage and unique crowd control, Grendel is a silly but highly resilient choice. His blueprint is in the market, and you can buy locator beacons for his components from the Arbiter of Hexis as Arbitration rewards for quite a bit of Vitus Essence. Note that the missions to acquire his parts are pretty tough as they disable all non-augment mods on your equipment – consider using frames like Hildryn or Inaros for their high base health/shields. Prime: Grendel prime has yet to be released, and will not be for at least a year. Special: … Continue reading Grendel

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Volt

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Overview: Quick, versatile and cheap, this frame is shockingly good for its price. Thanks to stunningly good radial crowd-control and a deployable shield/weapon amplifier, Volt scales extremely well in high level content. You can pick up the blueprints from your clan “Tenno” lab, or select it as your starting frame. Prime: Volt prime is currently vaulted – though his relics are sometimes available from Baro Ki’Teer, the Void Trader that appears every second week. Other than that, you could try bugging friends, clanmates or the trade channel. Special: Build up to 1000 static charge as you move around, applied to … Continue reading Volt

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Khora

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Overview: Khora specialises in damage and crowd control. Tangle enemies in whips and nets, leaving your prey helpless as you send Venari in for the kill. Get the blueprints from the basic Sanctuary Onslaught game mode. Prime: Khora Prime is currently obtainable from void relics, and enjoys improved armour, shields and energy. Khora Prime is accompanied by Venari Prime with improved health, armour and damage. Special: Accompanied by Venari, a moddable kavat that can be re-summoned if defeated. Venari has the same base stats as a normal kavat and does not take up your companion slot. In addition, Khora moves … Continue reading Khora

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Nidus

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Overview: Turn the infestation to your advantage as Nidus, parasitising foes and regenerating incoming damage. Complete The Glast Gambit quest and infested salvage missions to put him together. Prime: Nidus Prime is currently available, boasting improved health, energy and armour. Special: Nidus gains mutation stacks as he deals damage with powers, with each stack empowering his his abilities. In addition, when reduced to 0 health Nidus will consume 15 mutation stacks to activate Undying, restoring 50% of his health and becoming invulnerable for 5 seconds. Finally, Nidus gains additional power strength, armour, health energy and some health regeneration as he … Continue reading Nidus

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Garuda

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Overview: The gore-soaked ghoul. Draining health and inflicting bleed status effects with disturbing speed, Garuda is an unusual take on a support-based frame. The blueprints can be acquired from the Vox Solaris quest and parts from Orb Vallis bounties. Prime: Garuda prime is currently available in void relic rewards. She boasts an improved energy pool and armour rating over her normal version, as well as enhanced talons when using no melee weapon. Special: Garuda deals more damage the more she kills – up to 100% bonus damage from all sources if she kill fast enough. She also gains additional energy … Continue reading Garuda