There is one really interesting, if fairly irrelevant, use for Hildryn you didn't mention: Orphyx missions. The orphyx have a bubble that forces you out of your frame, and so Necramechs are used for the bulk of the mission. What this menas is that most frames are largely useless as they'll jsut sit empty outside the bubbles. However, by building Hildryn for duration and efficiency, she can keep Aegis storm active for almost the entirety of a round, during which she is CCing adds and generating orbs which can be picked up by Necramechs between rounds. During the Orphyx Venom event, most people who were farming it were running Hildryn in order to make sure they never ran out of energy in their mechs. Now that the game mode is almost entirely forgotten about, this doesn't mean much, but if they ever made the rewards worth it, or if someone has a strange passion for it, it could be worth noting.
Replacing her 4 with Chroma's Elemental Ward from Helmith and running a blue emissive color allows Hildryn to double dip, as casting abilities "damages" shields and will trigger Elemental Ward shocking enemies. Stack Blazing Pillage and she can nuke low level missions (especially Corpus).
My preferred build is Elemental Ward: electricity instead of her 4, Around 200% strength, Blazing Pillage and Archon Vitality to double the damage of said augment, and an Epitaph modded for viral and as much heat without a riven as you can get on a pistol. Prime with the Epitaph to give your Blazing Pillage a much higher heat inherit on Steel Path, or don't bother on most other mission types.
@@panpanda9715 I found the Arca Triton the best cheese for Grendel farming. My friend ran this Hildryn set up and while it worked, my heavy attacking non-stop seemed to kill things much faster and in a wider area than his elemental warding.
I will always be an elemental ward hildryn simp. I was totally unable to do the steelpath mobile defense on the zariman no matter what defense Warframe I tried but when I finally used EW Hildryn she did it easily first try barely any effort required on my part.
You can dash while hovering. A lot of people don't seem to know that. Also, if you're using the augment for her balefire chargers, it's really easy to stay hovering because the enemies are forced to stay still, allowing for easy shots to replenish sheilds. With high efficiency, duration, and power, she can stay in the air indefinitely. She's my favorite lol.
Even with the dash your movement speed in her 4 is just too slow. Coupled with not being able to use her 2 and it is just a bad ability. Aegis Storm is fun to use sometimes but it needs fundamental changes to make it a good ability. Balefire charges are mostly good. Wouldn't say no to a smol stat increase though.
good job you are a true user of the frame something's can only be known by maining a frame i main nidus and titania they said i could not use aerodynamic with her because it doesn't count as jumping when she uses her four turns out they lied now i have over 240% damage reduction while airborne and i even have a video i haven't uploaded to prove it and i am the only one running around with a super duper tanky titania capable of outperforming rhino in the index keep up the good work
@@davonterrell1 it's not that they were lying it's that it really didn't used to affect Titania's 4 but it got shadow patched to work the patch she got her prime, also do know damage reduction for airborne resistance mods is capped at 90% damage reduction since patch 25.7.8
It should be noted that Balefire Surge has been broken (in a bad way) for ages. It does not proc all of the time when you're a client, but works just fine if you're the host. Hopefully they'll fix this when her prime is out, but don't count on it.
Love Hildryn. I subsumed Chroma onto her over her Balefire. With low efficiency your casts are expensive but due to how Chroma's subsume works it makes it kick out EXTREME heat procs and electricity if you are using her Blazing Pillage as well.
@@VitchAndVorty By subsuming Chroma and putting Elemental Ward on Hildryn and setting her energy type to blue, electricity alongside having extremely poor efficiency your pillages will cost around 200-300 shields to cast which in turn kicks out high damage because of how Elemental Ward works on Hildryn where casting abilities and using her shields counts as her shields taking damage. It will allow for massive burst damage that will simultaneously melt enemy armor and CC them due to either getting stunned by heat or electric procs pretty reliably as well. It's a bit of an expensive build due to needing high strength and because of low efficiency it is recommended to run Aegis/Barrier or both if you don't mind double-casting pillage for 100% armor strip.
If I remember well, the ragdolling on her 1 and the stagger on her 3 happen if you have overshields. Also, one tiny details that DRASTICALLY helps any Hildryn build : Raksa Kubrow. As long as your shields are not full, it keeps giving you shields, even with channeling abilities. There are some cooldowns to Raksa's abilities, but you only really hit these cooldowns if you fully rely on your Kubrow to sustain your shields. If you're already good with her 2, Raksa only acts as a backup. This helps a lot if you want to build around her 4 as it really helps with the sustainability.
Note: balefire's ragdoll effect only works while hildryn is overshielded. 3 and 4 gain damage boosts while overshilded too. Also, also, the Rakta Dark Dagger can help hildryn keep her shields up against unpillagable enemies And lastly, as much as it pains me to say it, gloom just completely over _shadows_ aegis storm. High strength means you can stop enemies in their tracks and you're not locked out of spamming pillage.
with the voracious metastasis build i would replace the continuity with either more shields or strength, having a negative duration will have your burst of energy for each teammate to be nearly instantaneous which looks fun
I can also recommend one Yellow shard for casting speed as it lets her get back in faster since relying on her second can be time consuming. I use one Tauforged yellow, and plan on using red power strength in the other four slots. Two yellow tau or not is a waste, as the strength from the reds are better in the long run.
@@noahedenborg4221 Condemn require enemies to be nearby while Rebuild Shields does not. For someone liking her 4, you can cast Rebuild Shields while in copter mode. So there is that
@@Tripleyou yeah but condem like I said can give onershields and crowd controls which is help full and it's even better against infested cus of overshields protecting from toxin dots
If you plan on using Balefire in your Builds, I personally like to subsume Gloom onto Hildryn, and combining that with Arcane Avenger and Combat Discipline. She can run Gloom very easily due to building high strength anyway and using shields as her resource. Same for the Voracious Metastasis Build. Thanks to the self-heal, you can also run Combat Discipline + Arcane Avenger!
Making energy orbs is actually pretty useful. I used Hildryn as my Warframe of choice during operation Scarlet Spear, as you could deploy her outside the no-Warframe bubble to still affect enemies inside. That way, there was a steady drop of energy orbs to fuel the Necramech. It's also useful if you're trying to help newer players, who don't have access to the tools necessary to having a good energy economy yet. I've found it to be much better to keep Aegis Storm on Hildryn, and instead replace Balefire, as its damage is lower than what we can achieve with regular weapons these days.
But for newer players, if they are using it for orbs they don't need said orbs. Unless you mean you use it on hildryn to help new players in the group with you.
Hildryn has the potential to make the tankiest shield recharging companions as she can have a built Moa companion with *Blast Shield* equipped and also use *Shield Link* alongside *Guardian* Edit: Blast Shield adds 3000 overshield to the Moa that has it on top of refilling the shield, on cast of the ability given by the mod regardless of shield capacity or having hit or not the initial target of the cast
as a loooong time HIldryn main. Blazing pillage is an amazing augment. and yeah, just having a high damage, good range haven build, you can just do the magneto stroll through earth missions, watching everyone die just by getting close to you. best sense of overwhelming power in the game. tied with Mesa obliterating everything. but the fact it's so hands off, is what makes it so good, even if the damage isn't as high. but high level missions, yeah, when you get those arcanes equipped, to support your shields. you're about as tanky as Inaros. largely because what doesn't outright kill you, is easily repaired because shields recharge. Exploiter orb boss is a PUSHOVER compared to Profit Taker. there's almost no Adds to worry about, the damage is managable, it's more about one of those "Game mechanic" type bosses, think Zelda bosses, than it is a stupid damage sponge. So go get that Shield Momma!
The only problem with Exploiter Orb is getting to the fight. You need R5 with Eudico and you need Thermia. Getting both, especially if you want to farm Hildryn, sucks
Also worth noting that Balefire is unique amongst exalted secondaries in actually being buffed by Airburst Rounds. As it's not eligible for arcanes this is actually a pretty enticing build. Against Infested, it's also always worth running Silence, as it stops Ospreys from using their toxin cloud, and Toxic Ancients from throwing their grapple wire, even through overguard.
Question: Does Cascadia Flare benefit your Balefire? I know it does for Titania's Dex Pixia, and if it does then keeping a secondary "stick" with the arcane can be a good way to boost the damage of the Balefires
No Cascadia flare does not effect exalted secondary no secondary specific arcane effect them they can be trigger but no effect like dmg from flare or crit chance from overcharged
@@noahedenborg4221 Ah okay, that explains the weirdness I was experiencing when using it. I thought it was from multishot, but a UI bug explains it better.
Thanks! Great post, and helpful as always. Absolutely you are my go to for explanations, every time, without fail. That being said, I have a suggestion/request. PLEASE do an entire video on how damage works. I watched your damage types, and that was great! I watched a "how it works" from someone called Semtexagon and ... to say it was all over the place is an understatement. I dont say this to undermine one of your fellow content creators. I'm sure those who love his delivery were able to understand and get great information. I'm simply saying that for me, I felt perhaps dumber on the subject, after I watched the video. You always seem to put things in a clear, understandable manner, with recommendations being brief and extremely tonthe point, at the right time. Again, the "damage types" video is like a Bible to me. I want to be able to mod, effectively, myself, without ever looking at "overframe" or some other mod suggestion site. I am SURE many others do as well. The only way to do that, is to know what..exactly...our mods are doing. And..to know that...we need to know how damage works. The only thing I got out of the Semtexagon video was that mod slots apparently have an order. Anyway...I would be absolutely overjoyed if you did this Kengineer. And...again..thanks.
so theirs a weird build you can do on hildryn that revolves around her ae4gis storm, its probably not amazing but basically, you swap out pillage for something, i haven't tried this yet but I'm hoping to put gloom in here, as it is one of the only helminth abilities, as far as I'm aware, that is a case once, drain effect, meaning, you may be able to cast gloom and then start flying, while the ability is active, although, this functionality will need to be tested for the mods you run adaptation, redirection, augur reach, primed continuity, fleeting expertise, balefire surge stretch, and borealis hatred, aerodynamic and aviator for aura and exilus, for arcane you run arcane aegis and arcane barrier, you may also choose to swap out some range mods for extra damage if you wish, with this setup you take advantage of the permenant damage resistance form aerodynamic, and aviator, paired with adaptation, your shields take barely any damage at all, the arcane mods + balefire surge will then recharge your shields, letting your fly indefinitely, making for a pretty weird defensive support build 175% efficiency + primed continuity, gets your shield drain from abilities down to laughably low numbers 6.58 shields per second this is certainly not the best build on hildryn, just stacking a bunch of strength + elemental ward, will get your team mates shields up to 2-3k depending on your team setup high strength is bad for players who are shield gating however, so you can also go the other way, running overextended (to reduce shields given), brief respite (for ally shield regen), and voracious metastasis (for energy regen), as long as your allies are running the decaying dragon key you can buff their shield gating ability by quite allot, and reduce their requirements to be able to shield gate in the first place, and as you know, allies will also get the extra invulnerability time when their shields break, making hildryns the best support character, to make shield gating easier, less requirement for coaction drift, augur mods etc, or even running less brief respite mods, this will however, remove most of hildryns armor stripping ability in favor of keeping the team alive
After the various ember world on fire changes I swapped in Hildryn for the built and so it has been ever since. She does everything my ember used to while also having effectively unlimited energy (also makes her a great railjack pilot as long as you can resist chain spamming abilities). Downside being j never got on with her 1 or 4 so no matter how I run her one ability always remains useless to me.
Electric Elemental Ward is I think Hildryns best build for most content. Run entirely different warframe for infested -- all hoops/sacrifice to just be passible at infested is not worth it. Any non infested mission Electric ward constant proccing of hildryn's own casts / drain dealing electric damage against full stripped enemies is easy street.
One thing of note worth mentioning is that if an enemy has both Shields *and* armour, you'll need to fully deplete their shields before the armour strip will take effect. Since Pillage only takes a percentage of *current* shields, instead of maximum, its usually easier to break them with weapons first. Unless you need the Shield recovery for yourself, that is. Haven's extended Shield Gate also persists on allies until it is used, so if you're low on shields (and cant pillage them back for whatever reason) you can tap Haven on and off again to give your allies the extra buffer without expending much at all. And now, the obligatory Helminth suggestions: Electric Elemental Ward has some fun synergy. Not only does it boost your shield capacity for its duration (the amount being affected by strength), but it also returns incoming damage as lightning bolts. A niche quirk to this is that casting *any* of Hildryn's abilities will create this effect, as the shield cost is treated like damage for Ward, allowing you to zap nearby enemies for moderate damage. This probably won't kill Steel Path enemies, but it can be used to complete Grendel's Locator missions with ease. Speaking of Grendel, if you want to go the Support Hildryn route but dont want to dedicate an entire ability to just your allies, you could use Nourish instead. It amplifies *all* energy gains for allies affected (and also increases the shields Hildryn gets from energy orbs), while also giving you and your allies bonus viral damage and retaliation explosions when taking damage, all affected by strength.
Does anyone know if the amount of shields recharged from picking up energy orbs in her 4 is affected by the yellow shard effect for energy orbs effectiveness?
For pillage I just have all the high strength mods plus using the shards because I hate casting it twice because of shield of enemies it can never remove it
Hey bro great video as always. If you have time you could make the Felarx guide I have some good build I want to understand the weapon more and get a better idea to build up on.
As someone who "mains" Hildryn (my most used frame by a large margin) I can safely say that all of your builds are, unfortunately, weak. I mean sure they do work but Hildryn is capable of much much more. My go to setup for her, that I've been tinkering with and using for years is as follows: Aura: R2 Combat Discipline Exilus: Primed Sure Footed Both Balefire Surge and Blazing Pillage augments Redirection, Blind Rage, Transient Fortitude, Umbral Intensify, Stretch and Overextended. Arcanes: Avenger and Velocity Balfeire Charger: Primed Expel (depends on the faction), Galvanized Diffusion, Primed Target Cracker, Lethal Torrent Pathogen Rounds, Jolt, Primed Heated Charge, Galvanized Shot (replace Jolt with Frostbite to get Viral + Electricity against Corpus, replace Jolt with Pistol Pestilence and Pathogen Rounds with Convulsion to form Gas + Electricity against Infested) Helminth: Replace her 4th with Mag's Pull 2 Amber Archon Shards to replace Natural Talent, 2 Azure for either additional Shield capacity or Health regen to counter the drain on Combat Discipline for maximum comfiness. I also run 1 Crimson for additional 10% Power Strength. I usually run Vazarin as my main focus school for that added survivability but its a personal preference. For more utility I also run Furax Wraith with Amalgam Furax Body Count that gives even more fire rate and I used to also use Cedo to spread status but I found it unnecessary due to everything dying as is. If you want to be extra sweaty you can also run a kitgun with Pax Bolt to snapshot extra Ability Efficiency and Strength. For my companion I don't remember why (probably fashionframe reasons) but I run with Taxon that has Molecular Conversion, Fired Up and Guardian with Riven'd up Verglas - and boy does this little guy can pump out some damage. But it really doesn't matter what companion you run. This build supercharges her Balefire to do stupendous amounts of damage and massive CC that is capable of locking down entire rooms. Steel Path becomes a breeze.
Hey. If i didnt miss in the video, you didnt go over which weapons to use on Hildryn. I assume weapons are irrelevant then? I'm new to warframe. Sorry if it's a lame qustion. :D
"you need 4 formas" laughs on 11 forma hildryn. but thanks for clarifying what aegis does, i never understood what it did, looks similar to what vazarin shell does.
@@Moonwizard420 i changed from aggressive killer to support role , so i change a lot of polarities around, i played alot with friends, so we could form a party with dps healer and tank/support. playing as hildrying with haven, rejuvenation aura, voracious, keeping allies alive and with uptime, can be fun on its own.
Hildryn with Elemental Ward, Hildryn with Roar, Hildryn with Fractured Blast, Hildryn with Thermal Sunder, mmm Hildryn with Sentient Wrath?! Oh Hildryn... Gloom? You saucy minx! (Rolls off bed with Hildryn body pillow.)
hildryn is like sevagoth mainly gotten for the helmith ability both are good but if hildryn andher abilitys got some changes she wouldnt jsut be pillage for sevagoth they could jsut not have gloom be helmith and hes good
"Requires 400% Strength" So what you're saying is, Hildryn with an Invigoration and/or with a Strength buff during Arbitrations/Archon Sortie can be a true menace
@@rolandkoch3894 From what I know it's not too bad as long as there aren't like multiple people all slowing. My fix was just to reduce the range a decent bit so I could just focus on a small group. Thanks for the idea with Hildryn!
Yeah hildryn as a warframe shes good depending o your play style to whixh i dont really see her as a necessity but tobjust use max rank and helminth pretty much
@@Joe90h not rework just QOL buff like how they buffed garuda and revenant. Also she aint that strong, her 2 25% is literal dog shiet compare to tharros strike that does the same thing with 50% and doesnt need LOS and u also need to waste a mod slot for aug if u wanna play in any infested maps, her 1 and 4 is also dog shiet, she has cc cleanse but no anti cc so u still need to use psf or poise. As u can tell she has glaring issues not “plenty strong” at all
Dangerous to put augur mods in your build, it can cause your shieldgate to be 1.3 instead of 3 seconds. I advice to mention this at the very least since this has been the one big problem thay has bugged hyldrin from using those mods.
No high praise for blazing pillage's kill potential, no mention of electric ward being tailor made for hildy, or archon vitality being a great option. 5/10 Warframe review.
honestly I'm gonna be that guy and say Hildryn needs to be tweaked badly but not reworked because she doesn't need a full rework like Inaros does but right now I honestly lump her in with Yareli as one of the more useless frames now her 1 is actually pretty bad and honestly from what I've seen more people just use her 2 and 3 over everything else and her 4 is pretty bad all around for energy orb drops compared to other frames like Mag or Khora when running Spectrorage with the augment or other loot frames and that's not factoring in that her 2 doesn't regen shields while her 4 is active honestly the only tweaks I would do is give her 1 a little bit of an aoe projectile like the plasmor because as it is now it's pretty mediocre and her 4 should just remove the gimmick of floating altogether and make her a mobile CC unit like say Sevagoth with Gloom and make it to where her 4 doesn't block use of her 2 given that's the biggest issue with her kit
You can also subsume chroma's first. Put on the electric one and watch your shields go up. Also, that plus your three can make allies gain funny amounts of shields
@@noahedenborg4221 hildryn s third gives allies shields and overshields, although her second also cleanses any status so there's also that for support
It's only hard if you don't actually play the game. Seriously. Just play it. I ended up with 2 complete ones just playing the game, well I made 1, played it years ago and needed like Neuroptics for the second one after coming back from a 3 year Hiatus for the Helminth system. A lot of people still run her outside of the Thermia Fractures event that happens every 2 weeks now.
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There is one really interesting, if fairly irrelevant, use for Hildryn you didn't mention: Orphyx missions. The orphyx have a bubble that forces you out of your frame, and so Necramechs are used for the bulk of the mission. What this menas is that most frames are largely useless as they'll jsut sit empty outside the bubbles. However, by building Hildryn for duration and efficiency, she can keep Aegis storm active for almost the entirety of a round, during which she is CCing adds and generating orbs which can be picked up by Necramechs between rounds. During the Orphyx Venom event, most people who were farming it were running Hildryn in order to make sure they never ran out of energy in their mechs. Now that the game mode is almost entirely forgotten about, this doesn't mean much, but if they ever made the rewards worth it, or if someone has a strange passion for it, it could be worth noting.
Replacing her 4 with Chroma's Elemental Ward from Helmith and running a blue emissive color allows Hildryn to double dip, as casting abilities "damages" shields and will trigger Elemental Ward shocking enemies. Stack Blazing Pillage and she can nuke low level missions (especially Corpus).
For anyone didn't know yet, this trick is also the best cheese to Grendel farm (especially on that defense mission)
With 400% strength this can nuke steel path enemies
My preferred build is Elemental Ward: electricity instead of her 4, Around 200% strength, Blazing Pillage and Archon Vitality to double the damage of said augment, and an Epitaph modded for viral and as much heat without a riven as you can get on a pistol. Prime with the Epitaph to give your Blazing Pillage a much higher heat inherit on Steel Path, or don't bother on most other mission types.
@@panpanda9715 I found the Arca Triton the best cheese for Grendel farming. My friend ran this Hildryn set up and while it worked, my heavy attacking non-stop seemed to kill things much faster and in a wider area than his elemental warding.
I will always be an elemental ward hildryn simp.
I was totally unable to do the steelpath mobile defense on the zariman no matter what defense Warframe I tried but when I finally used EW Hildryn she did it easily first try barely any effort required on my part.
You can dash while hovering. A lot of people don't seem to know that. Also, if you're using the augment for her balefire chargers, it's really easy to stay hovering because the enemies are forced to stay still, allowing for easy shots to replenish sheilds. With high efficiency, duration, and power, she can stay in the air indefinitely. She's my favorite lol.
She can’t strip with her 2 while she in her 4 right? So what is the 1 even gonna do? Scratch enemies?
Even with the dash your movement speed in her 4 is just too slow. Coupled with not being able to use her 2 and it is just a bad ability.
Aegis Storm is fun to use sometimes but it needs fundamental changes to make it a good ability.
Balefire charges are mostly good. Wouldn't say no to a smol stat increase though.
@@dr.krimson1010 that's fine if you think so. I think she's fine the way she is. I still have plenty of fun when I use her :)
good job you are a true user of the frame something's can only be known by maining a frame i main nidus and titania they said i could not use aerodynamic with her because it doesn't count as jumping when she uses her four turns out they lied now i have over 240% damage reduction while airborne and i even have a video i haven't uploaded to prove it and i am the only one running around with a super duper tanky titania capable of outperforming rhino in the index keep up the good work
@@davonterrell1 it's not that they were lying it's that it really didn't used to affect Titania's 4 but it got shadow patched to work the patch she got her prime, also do know damage reduction for airborne resistance mods is capped at 90% damage reduction since patch 25.7.8
It should be noted that Balefire Surge has been broken (in a bad way) for ages. It does not proc all of the time when you're a client, but works just fine if you're the host. Hopefully they'll fix this when her prime is out, but don't count on it.
Love Hildryn. I subsumed Chroma onto her over her Balefire. With low efficiency your casts are expensive but due to how Chroma's subsume works it makes it kick out EXTREME heat procs and electricity if you are using her Blazing Pillage as well.
This build not being mentioned at all as a great map nuke made the video nearly cringe. 5/10 is a generous score.
I don't follow. Please elaborate more.
@@VitchAndVorty By subsuming Chroma and putting Elemental Ward on Hildryn and setting her energy type to blue, electricity alongside having extremely poor efficiency your pillages will cost around 200-300 shields to cast which in turn kicks out high damage because of how Elemental Ward works on Hildryn where casting abilities and using her shields counts as her shields taking damage. It will allow for massive burst damage that will simultaneously melt enemy armor and CC them due to either getting stunned by heat or electric procs pretty reliably as well. It's a bit of an expensive build due to needing high strength and because of low efficiency it is recommended to run Aegis/Barrier or both if you don't mind double-casting pillage for 100% armor strip.
If I remember well, the ragdolling on her 1 and the stagger on her 3 happen if you have overshields. Also, one tiny details that DRASTICALLY helps any Hildryn build : Raksa Kubrow. As long as your shields are not full, it keeps giving you shields, even with channeling abilities. There are some cooldowns to Raksa's abilities, but you only really hit these cooldowns if you fully rely on your Kubrow to sustain your shields. If you're already good with her 2, Raksa only acts as a backup. This helps a lot if you want to build around her 4 as it really helps with the sustainability.
Note: balefire's ragdoll effect only works while hildryn is overshielded.
3 and 4 gain damage boosts while overshilded too.
Also, also, the Rakta Dark Dagger can help hildryn keep her shields up against unpillagable enemies
And lastly, as much as it pains me to say it, gloom just completely over _shadows_ aegis storm. High strength means you can stop enemies in their tracks and you're not locked out of spamming pillage.
She really benefits from the Sequence procs from something like the Prisma Grinlok or the Secura Dual Cestra.
with the voracious metastasis build i would replace the continuity with either more shields or strength, having a negative duration will have your burst of energy for each teammate to be nearly instantaneous which looks fun
I can also recommend one Yellow shard for casting speed as it lets her get back in faster since relying on her second can be time consuming. I use one Tauforged yellow, and plan on using red power strength in the other four slots. Two yellow tau or not is a waste, as the strength from the reds are better in the long run.
for interception missions you can cover 1 point with aegis storm and another with your operator.
Im suprised that running the helminth Rebuild Shields works as long as you have a tiny tiny sliver of shields left, instantly restored to full
condem is actually better cus rebuild shields dont give overshields while condem does
@@noahedenborg4221 Condemn require enemies to be nearby while Rebuild Shields does not. For someone liking her 4, you can cast Rebuild Shields while in copter mode. So there is that
@@Tripleyou yeah but condem like I said can give onershields and crowd controls which is help full and it's even better against infested cus of overshields protecting from toxin dots
@@Tripleyou You can use Rebuild while in her four you say ... This changes things
I never even considered arcane steadfast for my hildryn build. Thank you.
Hildryn may not be Valkyrie, but you can't use her floaty skill without hearing Ride of the Valkyries on full blast inside your head.
I definitely can
I just hear the helicopter meme song
@@kenwasused Fortunate Son
If you plan on using Balefire in your Builds, I personally like to subsume Gloom onto Hildryn, and combining that with Arcane Avenger and Combat Discipline. She can run Gloom very easily due to building high strength anyway and using shields as her resource.
Same for the Voracious Metastasis Build. Thanks to the self-heal, you can also run Combat Discipline + Arcane Avenger!
Ughh, gloom
Why not put max fire rate pistol mod and arcane
Replace 4 with Mesa gallery or chroma toxic
Enjoy Megaman gameplay
surprised at no mention of the electricity elemental ward combo she can do
Making energy orbs is actually pretty useful. I used Hildryn as my Warframe of choice during operation Scarlet Spear, as you could deploy her outside the no-Warframe bubble to still affect enemies inside. That way, there was a steady drop of energy orbs to fuel the Necramech.
It's also useful if you're trying to help newer players, who don't have access to the tools necessary to having a good energy economy yet.
I've found it to be much better to keep Aegis Storm on Hildryn, and instead replace Balefire, as its damage is lower than what we can achieve with regular weapons these days.
But for newer players, if they are using it for orbs they don't need said orbs. Unless you mean you use it on hildryn to help new players in the group with you.
Hildryn has the potential to make the tankiest shield recharging companions as she can have a built Moa companion with *Blast Shield* equipped and also use *Shield Link* alongside *Guardian*
Edit: Blast Shield adds 3000 overshield to the Moa that has it on top of refilling the shield, on cast of the ability given by the mod regardless of shield capacity or having hit or not the initial target of the cast
Imma check it out
Their is a Volt mod "Rechargeing Barrier" that instantly fills the shield when you pass through his shields .....great pairing Hildryn/Volt
But u don’t even see volt in any survival missions anymore u only see volt specters and passing that shield doesn’t do anything
@@turkeykent3719 but its synergy for playing in squad bro
@@erisium6988 yeah and u dont see volt much in squad anymore is still my point
as a loooong time HIldryn main. Blazing pillage is an amazing augment. and yeah, just having a high damage, good range haven build, you can just do the magneto stroll through earth missions, watching everyone die just by getting close to you. best sense of overwhelming power in the game. tied with Mesa obliterating everything. but the fact it's so hands off, is what makes it so good, even if the damage isn't as high.
but high level missions, yeah, when you get those arcanes equipped, to support your shields. you're about as tanky as Inaros. largely because what doesn't outright kill you, is easily repaired because shields recharge.
Exploiter orb boss is a PUSHOVER compared to Profit Taker. there's almost no Adds to worry about, the damage is managable, it's more about one of those "Game mechanic" type bosses, think Zelda bosses, than it is a stupid damage sponge. So go get that Shield Momma!
The only problem with Exploiter Orb is getting to the fight.
You need R5 with Eudico and you need Thermia.
Getting both, especially if you want to farm Hildryn, sucks
Also worth noting that Balefire is unique amongst exalted secondaries in actually being buffed by Airburst Rounds. As it's not eligible for arcanes this is actually a pretty enticing build.
Against Infested, it's also always worth running Silence, as it stops Ospreys from using their toxin cloud, and Toxic Ancients from throwing their grapple wire, even through overguard.
Wdym? Her overshield stops toxin dmg why do even need it?
@@turkeykent3719 it's more for SP where the overshields won't save you from multiple grapple hooks or the dreaded osprey cloud.
Always love your videos and perfect timing
Question: Does Cascadia Flare benefit your Balefire? I know it does for Titania's Dex Pixia, and if it does then keeping a secondary "stick" with the arcane can be a good way to boost the damage of the Balefires
I didn't know that about Titania! Cascadia flare does extra heat damage, I can't remember. Anyway that would be awesome on Hildryn
@@Wooskii1 if it affects secondary weapons, it probably is busted on the Dex Pixia. It's got some very busted builds.
No Cascadia flare does not effect exalted secondary no secondary specific arcane effect them they can be trigger but no effect like dmg from flare or crit chance from overcharged
@@noahedenborg4221 Ah okay, that explains the weirdness I was experiencing when using it. I thought it was from multishot, but a UI bug explains it better.
Thanks! Great post, and helpful as always. Absolutely you are my go to for explanations, every time, without fail. That being said, I have a suggestion/request. PLEASE do an entire video on how damage works. I watched your damage types, and that was great! I watched a "how it works" from someone called Semtexagon and ... to say it was all over the place is an understatement. I dont say this to undermine one of your fellow content creators. I'm sure those who love his delivery were able to understand and get great information. I'm simply saying that for me, I felt perhaps dumber on the subject, after I watched the video. You always seem to put things in a clear, understandable manner, with recommendations being brief and extremely tonthe point, at the right time. Again, the "damage types" video is like a Bible to me. I want to be able to mod, effectively, myself, without ever looking at "overframe" or some other mod suggestion site. I am SURE many others do as well. The only way to do that, is to know what..exactly...our mods are doing. And..to know that...we need to know how damage works. The only thing I got out of the Semtexagon video was that mod slots apparently have an order. Anyway...I would be absolutely overjoyed if you did this Kengineer. And...again..thanks.
so theirs a weird build you can do on hildryn that revolves around her ae4gis storm, its probably not amazing but basically, you swap out pillage for something, i haven't tried this yet but I'm hoping to put gloom in here, as it is one of the only helminth abilities, as far as I'm aware, that is a case once, drain effect, meaning, you may be able to cast gloom and then start flying, while the ability is active, although, this functionality will need to be tested
for the mods you run adaptation, redirection, augur reach, primed continuity, fleeting expertise, balefire surge stretch, and borealis hatred, aerodynamic and aviator for aura and exilus, for arcane you run arcane aegis and arcane barrier, you may also choose to swap out some range mods for extra damage if you wish,
with this setup you take advantage of the permenant damage resistance form aerodynamic, and aviator, paired with adaptation, your shields take barely any damage at all, the arcane mods + balefire surge will then recharge your shields, letting your fly indefinitely, making for a pretty weird defensive support build
175% efficiency + primed continuity, gets your shield drain from abilities down to laughably low numbers 6.58 shields per second
this is certainly not the best build on hildryn, just stacking a bunch of strength + elemental ward, will get your team mates shields up to 2-3k depending on your team setup
high strength is bad for players who are shield gating however, so you can also go the other way, running overextended (to reduce shields given), brief respite (for ally shield regen), and voracious metastasis (for energy regen), as long as your allies are running the decaying dragon key you can buff their shield gating ability by quite allot, and reduce their requirements to be able to shield gate in the first place, and as you know, allies will also get the extra invulnerability time when their shields break, making hildryns the best support character, to make shield gating easier, less requirement for coaction drift, augur mods etc, or even running less brief respite mods, this will however, remove most of hildryns armor stripping ability in favor of keeping the team alive
not going to use her but this does help me understand how the hildryn players do their things
After the various ember world on fire changes I swapped in Hildryn for the built and so it has been ever since. She does everything my ember used to while also having effectively unlimited energy (also makes her a great railjack pilot as long as you can resist chain spamming abilities). Downside being j never got on with her 1 or 4 so no matter how I run her one ability always remains useless to me.
Was looking for info on Aegis Gale. Didn't realize it was just released on Oct 2024. I feel like it makes Hildryn so OP :)
Electric Elemental Ward is I think Hildryns best build for most content.
Run entirely different warframe for infested -- all hoops/sacrifice to just be passible at infested is not worth it.
Any non infested mission Electric ward constant proccing of hildryn's own casts / drain dealing electric damage against full stripped enemies is easy street.
One thing of note worth mentioning is that if an enemy has both Shields *and* armour, you'll need to fully deplete their shields before the armour strip will take effect. Since Pillage only takes a percentage of *current* shields, instead of maximum, its usually easier to break them with weapons first. Unless you need the Shield recovery for yourself, that is.
Haven's extended Shield Gate also persists on allies until it is used, so if you're low on shields (and cant pillage them back for whatever reason) you can tap Haven on and off again to give your allies the extra buffer without expending much at all.
And now, the obligatory Helminth suggestions:
Electric Elemental Ward has some fun synergy. Not only does it boost your shield capacity for its duration (the amount being affected by strength), but it also returns incoming damage as lightning bolts. A niche quirk to this is that casting *any* of Hildryn's abilities will create this effect, as the shield cost is treated like damage for Ward, allowing you to zap nearby enemies for moderate damage. This probably won't kill Steel Path enemies, but it can be used to complete Grendel's Locator missions with ease.
Speaking of Grendel, if you want to go the Support Hildryn route but dont want to dedicate an entire ability to just your allies, you could use Nourish instead. It amplifies *all* energy gains for allies affected (and also increases the shields Hildryn gets from energy orbs), while also giving you and your allies bonus viral damage and retaliation explosions when taking damage, all affected by strength.
Does anyone know if the amount of shields recharged from picking up energy orbs in her 4 is affected by the yellow shard effect for energy orbs effectiveness?
Wouldn't be a warframe video without making fun of inaros
He deserves a rework so badly. Iove the Egyptian/Mummy theme of him and the sutpid high HO he can reach, bit that's it. He just big walking HP bar
Inaros4Life
I run wisps helminth on hildryn and with the pillage augment she nukes steel path with just abilities.
vazarin focus school 1st ability 2nd buff is for shield recharge which hildryn benefits a lot.
For pillage I just have all the high strength mods plus using the shards because I hate casting it twice because of shield of enemies it can never remove it
Hildryn is so flipping good. with the combination of augments and Helmith. she can do basically everything.
same goes to every warframe some jsut do them better
Hyldrin…. high strength and shield mods…. Strength shards…. Adaptation…. THEN ADD PARASITIC ARMOR TO RUIN THE BUILD!
Hey bro great video as always. If you have time you could make the Felarx guide I have some good build I want to understand the weapon more and get a better idea to build up on.
Something I noticed. Why not use a rank 4 Stretch instead of Augur Reach???
ahh I missed the ol days while running orphix with a max str hildryn
As someone who "mains" Hildryn (my most used frame by a large margin) I can safely say that all of your builds are, unfortunately, weak. I mean sure they do work but Hildryn is capable of much much more. My go to setup for her, that I've been tinkering with and using for years is as follows:
Aura: R2 Combat Discipline Exilus: Primed Sure Footed
Both Balefire Surge and Blazing Pillage augments
Redirection, Blind Rage, Transient Fortitude, Umbral Intensify, Stretch and Overextended.
Arcanes: Avenger and Velocity
Balfeire Charger:
Primed Expel (depends on the faction), Galvanized Diffusion, Primed Target Cracker, Lethal Torrent
Pathogen Rounds, Jolt, Primed Heated Charge, Galvanized Shot
(replace Jolt with Frostbite to get Viral + Electricity against Corpus, replace Jolt with Pistol Pestilence and Pathogen Rounds with Convulsion to form Gas + Electricity against Infested)
Helminth: Replace her 4th with Mag's Pull
2 Amber Archon Shards to replace Natural Talent, 2 Azure for either additional Shield capacity or Health regen to counter the drain on Combat Discipline for maximum comfiness. I also run 1 Crimson for additional 10% Power Strength.
I usually run Vazarin as my main focus school for that added survivability but its a personal preference.
For more utility I also run Furax Wraith with Amalgam Furax Body Count that gives even more fire rate and I used to also use Cedo to spread status but I found it unnecessary due to everything dying as is. If you want to be extra sweaty you can also run a kitgun with Pax Bolt to snapshot extra Ability Efficiency and Strength.
For my companion I don't remember why (probably fashionframe reasons) but I run with Taxon that has Molecular Conversion, Fired Up and Guardian with Riven'd up Verglas - and boy does this little guy can pump out some damage. But it really doesn't matter what companion you run.
This build supercharges her Balefire to do stupendous amounts of damage and massive CC that is capable of locking down entire rooms. Steel Path becomes a breeze.
Why would you use Combat Discipline?
@@Moonwizard420 To trigger Arcane Avenger
Good idea about the furax amalgam mod with balefire, thanks.
This is amazing, thanks
Hey. If i didnt miss in the video, you didnt go over which weapons to use on Hildryn. I assume weapons are irrelevant then? I'm new to warframe. Sorry if it's a lame qustion. :D
"you need 4 formas"
laughs on 11 forma hildryn.
but thanks for clarifying what aegis does, i never understood what it did, looks similar to what vazarin shell does.
Why did you waste a forma?
@@Moonwizard420 i changed from aggressive killer to support role , so i change a lot of polarities around, i played alot with friends, so we could form a party with dps healer and tank/support.
playing as hildrying with haven, rejuvenation aura, voracious, keeping allies alive and with uptime, can be fun on its own.
I think about teammates, so I have repleaced 4 with Voracious Metastasis. Kind of a free energy bank for them :D
Hildryn with Elemental Ward, Hildryn with Roar, Hildryn with Fractured Blast, Hildryn with Thermal Sunder, mmm Hildryn with Sentient Wrath?! Oh Hildryn... Gloom? You saucy minx! (Rolls off bed with Hildryn body pillow.)
hildryn is like sevagoth mainly gotten for the helmith ability both are good but if hildryn andher abilitys got some changes she wouldnt jsut be pillage
for sevagoth they could jsut not have gloom be helmith and hes good
Are there any good Aegis Storm builds?
A shame they didnt buff her aegis storm
"Requires 400% Strength"
So what you're saying is, Hildryn with an Invigoration and/or with a Strength buff during Arbitrations/Archon Sortie can be a true menace
I gave my hildryn gloom ...... Named her Gloomolga ...... Works really good in the new citrine defense
I actually don't really like having people run slows there. Less currency spawning
@@victorraymond3420 really ? Gotta test that out
@@rolandkoch3894 From what I know it's not too bad as long as there aren't like multiple people all slowing. My fix was just to reduce the range a decent bit so I could just focus on a small group. Thanks for the idea with Hildryn!
@@victorraymond3420 put it instead of her balefire didn't enjoy it at all .....
An idea on Larkspur Prime and a build?
Same like normal was barely an upgrade even
Yeah hildryn as a warframe shes good depending o your play style to whixh i dont really see her as a necessity but tobjust use max rank and helminth pretty much
I feel like there will be some changes with her and u would need to make a follow up vid 😂
DE aren't currently reworking frames, and Hildryn is already plenty strong.
@@Joe90h not rework just QOL buff like how they buffed garuda and revenant. Also she aint that strong, her 2 25% is literal dog shiet compare to tharros strike that does the same thing with 50% and doesnt need LOS and u also need to waste a mod slot for aug if u wanna play in any infested maps, her 1 and 4 is also dog shiet, she has cc cleanse but no anti cc so u still need to use psf or poise. As u can tell she has glaring issues not “plenty strong” at all
Pretty sure you can use balefire during aegis storm...
Hildryn TMRW!!!!
Gun CO works on Balefire? I assumed it didn't because of the AOE...
Direct hits yes the aoe no
So many people dunk on her hovercraft but is is my favorite part lol 😅
Dangerous to put augur mods in your build, it can cause your shieldgate to be 1.3 instead of 3 seconds. I advice to mention this at the very least since this has been the one big problem thay has bugged hyldrin from using those mods.
The augar mods don't trigger with hildryn the fuck you smoking
No high praise for blazing pillage's kill potential, no mention of electric ward being tailor made for hildy, or archon vitality being a great option. 5/10 Warframe review.
Go make your own🙄
Your making me wanna get amprex lol
Aww no Archon Vitality in any build :(
Just put gloom and pillage aug mod. Hildryn can survive, except infestation. Because they dont have armor or shield.
honestly I'm gonna be that guy and say Hildryn needs to be tweaked badly but not reworked because she doesn't need a full rework like Inaros does but right now I honestly lump her in with Yareli as one of the more useless frames now
her 1 is actually pretty bad and honestly from what I've seen more people just use her 2 and 3 over everything else and her 4 is pretty bad all around for energy orb drops compared to other frames like Mag or Khora when running Spectrorage with the augment or other loot frames and that's not factoring in that her 2 doesn't regen shields while her 4 is active
honestly the only tweaks I would do is give her 1 a little bit of an aoe projectile like the plasmor because as it is now it's pretty mediocre and her 4 should just remove the gimmick of floating altogether and make her a mobile CC unit like say Sevagoth with Gloom and make it to where her 4 doesn't block use of her 2 given that's the biggest issue with her kit
She really need a rework on her 1 and 4 ability
Her balefire is solid though hopefully they buff the crit chance when her prime is out
The 400 Ability power is still needed for 1 use pillage for shields as Corrosive Projection has no effect on shields.
You can also subsume chroma's first. Put on the electric one and watch your shields go up. Also, that plus your three can make allies gain funny amounts of shields
2nd you mean
@@noahedenborg4221 hildryn s third gives allies shields and overshields, although her second also cleanses any status so there's also that for support
I never bothered to farm Hildryn because the thermia farm is so mind numbingly boring I'd rather just do literally anything else
Dude why did you call out the Hildryn interaction with Voracious Metastasis. You gonna get that killed.
We don't give a FUCK
no views, gonna get hildyrn 1st
It's only hard if you don't actually play the game. Seriously. Just play it. I ended up with 2 complete ones just playing the game, well I made 1, played it years ago and needed like Neuroptics for the second one after coming back from a 3 year Hiatus for the Helminth system. A lot of people still run her outside of the Thermia Fractures event that happens every 2 weeks now.
Gifi des idée de merde e ft