Thank you all for the support and compliments everyone! It means a lot. A REWORK GUIDE HAS BEEN MADE: ua-cam.com/video/4Cv80rilQxw/v-deo.html Some corrections from the comments: 1. Fusion strike has no limit to the amount of Auras you can have out on the field, the only thing limiting you is your energy and duration. So even more value! 2. Sentient Wrath will only hit enemies that have a homing projectile, all the extras are only there for aesthetics and will only phase through enemies acting as an indicator for when you can recast Sentient Wrath. 3. Titania was the first Warframe that wasn't created by Ballas, Caliban is second. I'll make sure to keep this comment updated with any more corrections that come. Other than that Have a great day and I will catch y'all next time!
do you think you could do banshee next ? im trying to crack her myself since i noticed not many of them run around but im having difficulty, an in depth guide like that could really help.
If sentients wrath doesn't home in on an enemy, it will continue on its original path, however, these walls CANNOT hit enemies. TLDR walls cannot hit enemies if they aren't homing on it.
Hi again, just thought I'd mention that if you are experiencing lag as Caliban you can sometimes spawn additional sentients that still gives the shield regeneration buff if you have enough casting speed (I managed to get 6 sentients at once, but it requires you not to be host). It's probably not what you're looking for when it comes to advice but it's been in the game ever since Caliban came out so I thought I'd mention it.
This isn't even the worst part in my personal experience. The massive amount of Narmer Isoplasts you need for him is the bottleneck, especially when you don't get lucky with your bounties.
Dude i love the way you go through the Warframes abilities and mention EVERY single little detail, which nobody else on this platform cares to mention (if they even know about them). Now, having a new perspective on what he can actually do with his abilities, i'm eager to finally try him out, as well as playing atound with his Sentient Wrath helminth on other frames! The ability looks and feels sick as well as being hella overloaded in terms of perks.
Thank you for the compliments! Always love to see your positivity, amazing as always. Also if you don't have him weeeeeeeeeeeeeeellll you might need to farm him, sorry. BUT there's no rush you can take your time with it!
What made Caliban click for me in my mind is picturing him not only as a beast of two worlds, a twin-throne prince, but also a mage-Knight. A dual-discipline field regent of might and mana, leading his loyal few outcasts into battle to vindicate their struggle. Now we just need a neat skin and some augments for him
By watching both of your warframe guides, i have 3 things to say: 1- tierlists sucks all the fun in games by making things apper worst then they really are; 2- i really love your style of videos, this very very detailed guides are so fun a insightfull, warframe is a really hard game to master build crafting, and this kind of video helps a lot; 3- perfect musical taste, dark synth are bangers. Anyways, keep up the great work!!
"you don't need to be the Meta" This is so true. I've been playing this game for almost 8 years now (2800 login days completed two days ago) and this is what I settled down to. Maybe it's the 45+ boomer mindset I have right now. It's why I take my shattered lash Loki into many missions and just hang back and let others do the killing. I don't need to always be doing the killing even though I can easily hold my own if really required. I see all these thermal Sunder titanias and garudas and Tenet/tonkor gauss' roughing it out in missions, while I just stay in the back, hoovering their "hard" work and still somehow mostly reaching the finish line first. Life's easy when you let the pawns do your work for you😁
Almost everyone has missed how insanely good Caliban has become over time. I wouldn't quite put him in S-tier because he does require a fairly active playstyle (whereas the absolute best warframes can do as well with less effort). However, he's got high duration AOE defense strip (armor and shields), immense survivability, can apply powerful damage vulnerability, and has incredible CC. I have to assume that anyone who still thinks Caliban is weak or mediocre just hasn't played him since he was released.
Fantastic. This and the Vauban guide are great. Please keep making thrm for other frames. Dont feel you have to rush, the quality is what makes them so enjoyable and very informative. Cheers!
My only complaint is I didn’t find you a couple years from now with videos like this for every frame. This is truly top shelf stuff, please keep it up 👍
Bruh you’re the BEST. I’ve been subscribed for a while and also have been looking for an up to date caliban guide forever. Thank you for your hard work!!
The Cult of Caliban has a new member. I suck at Steel Path but a half assed build took me to 30 minutes. A thing i dont do and im a long time player. I actually think i can do Netracell missions with him easy. Thnak you
Highly looking forward to your next video! The wealth of info & creativity is so refreshing & very much welcomed. I’ve been playing this game for many years & I don’t nearly have the knowledge you have on mechanics & such. It’s reinvigorated my love for the game even though I never stopped playing it haha I’ll definitely be looking at all frames through a different lens now!
OK, just finished the video guide. You genuinely delve into the nuts and bolts of how the frame works, despite the popular discourse surrounding their popularity. Your trend of different builds to fit different play styles is a welcome addition to the normal offering from Warframe creators of "one build to rule them all". Just like your last video, I came away with new knowledge and a fresh perspective that provides fertile ground for build crafting. Thank you! Lastly, it's obvious you have a profound respect for the game, the well-intended decisions of the developers, and WF creators who may disagree with you. That alone is enough to place you amongst the upper echelon of content creators. Keep up the superlative works.
Thank you so much. I know Warframe is a game of trying out many different things to see what works best for yourself. Sometimes there is that "one build" that outperforms the others, but that shouldn't diminish the other capabilities a frame has. I appreciate the compliments, seriously.
I think my favorite part of watching these videos is to see how you play compared to most other content creators, i personally think you know more than most of them XD
Instant sub man you just instantly notice the amount of effort that went into this video. I just started playing caliban like 3 days ago and i already love playing him. Im lucky to find this video. One of the only videos that went this much in depth about the char.
this guide inspired me to use Caliban and I've had success with a Tau purple shard replacing equilibrium and running a rank 5 arcane steadfast over that on the nourish. It's a large workaround for just equilibrium but the extra mod slot gives him even more adaptability.
I picked up caliban a few months ago to try to see if he was as bad as everyone said he was, and genuinely he was actually endgame viable. Got to the point where I could run SP Tuvul Commons and have no deaths while my teammates were on life 2. I hope this really lifts the veil on how good caliban really is and I very much appreciate learning the specifics of his abilities.
I’m not necessarily a Caliban main but I seriously enjoy him and greatly appreciate you giving him the love he deserves. The community has underrated him for a long while and it’s kinda sad to see considering he’s a bit difficult to get alone.
Absolutely loved the video, packed to the gills full of information. I especially like the way you show what stats affect abilities in each way. It comes off a lot better than what other people do, which is just reading off the wiki. I also liked how often you used the word "adapt" when talking about how Caliban plays like other frames, very fitting Was not super into the intro myself, but that might just be a me thing
Thank your for the compliment and support! Honestly the intro was supposed to be with a different song but copyright BS was trying to take over and the artist of the original song Carpenter Brut hates how it is being handled. It would have been Hotline Miami 2: roller mobster WHICH fit way better for the mood. Sadly I didn't test and committed too hard on it. Also just wanted to stay in the Caliban "theme", it's all good if it's not your cup of tea, just seemed like a fun thing to do.
@@ProfessorDysto that's exactly what you should take away from my comment. My criticism is just one comment. Absolutely keep doing them And by the way, to be criticising something as small as your comedic intro, should be a testament to the quality of your video having no REAL issues to nitpick
Caliban is amazing with resonator, it’s a great way to group up all the enemies for his 4 while also giving you an extra target for enemies to shoot. I also love using caliban with silence if I’m doing a level cap cascade run, which prevents the endless thrax ability spam.
not really planning to play caliban,but is it fun to watch you talk about him,also the vauban guide i did a learn as well and it was fun to watch,keep it up man
Nice to see you grinding, probably took awhile to edit and piece everything together but thanks for the content I’ll look forward to watching it while I’m at work 👍
this video was sick to watch! i love when more niche frames get some love thru a form of a unknown powerful build, but here you showed off at least 6! im convinced to try and get him now but the resources are defo a pain so maybe my next console coupon that i get will go towards Caliban. i look forward to seeing Banshee Prime vid if that's what you would pick for the next guide, i personally would love to see a Nyx vid
I wouldnt say i main any frame because i play all of them (but ash) but Caliban is in my top 5 most played. And there is a detail i would like to add: There is a bug regarding the concuboys that allows you to summon a ton. When the host is laggy, it seems there is a delay for the game to register you have summoned 3 boys, so you can just spamcast 3 to have a lot more summons depending on how laggy the host is. Which also makes cast speed WAY STRONGER for the summon build. I use Natural Talent and 2 cast speed taus, with madurai. Also, if you keep your 3s duration around 30s you can make it last almost the same as Duplex Bond and nourish shares the same duration to boot. So you can have "perfect" cycles with the 3 of them. PCont and Transient get me close enough. And in general i don't care much about the str breakpoints for his 4 cuz you kinda want high str anyways. For me its just 13331 (1 = nourish) and 4 on key points. It's an easy frame imo and i always thought he was fairly strong. The only defensive mod i use is Rolling Guard, and just augur my shields back into massive regen with the concuboys, though now with the release of Secondary Fortifier you can make any frame have 15k overguard so fuck survivability right. Also, i did not know his 1 was useful for low level clearing. Cuz i kinda banished it away after trying it once lol. I hate it.
Quit Warframe for a while and had came back during duviri. Had to restart. Caliban was my goal for while and has been my main since I got him. Love this video celebrating him. I use nourish, nexus, max strength build.🎉🎉
This is the level of depth, enthusiasm and generosity of brainstorming that is to be commended. thank you, I'm not remotely a Caliban main. but I've to admit that even after extensive play I'd given up on making him good... now, I'm willing to give it another shot, considering I have the means and the resources. and he is being looked over by Pablo for perhaps some future changes... although that's yet to be seen of course... I would like to see the conculists being a little bit buffed personally, maybe have the option to cycle them into being different types of sentients we could call on.
I’ve been playing a lot of Caliban and experimenting a ton with him recently and I’ve been loving him. Glad to see another believer spreading the gospel of our sentient friend. Great video my friend, definitely subbing
such a fresh take on a warframe guide, loved the indepth explanations for caliban's kit. also, the idea for the intro segment was great but personally i feel like execution was lacking in some aspects. overall this video is amazing
I'm very glad I came across this video and your channel, I'm currently using Caliban to give him a second chance, and I wish to see his usage rate on Warframe's yearly chart increase. There is much more I didn't know about Caliban than I thought. Once again, thank you for this valuable information, I would love to see something of such quality for Qorvex. Much love from Ukraine!
Hey, you just earned a sub. You are pretty well versed and in depth. Nothing you haven’t heard before, but assurance of consistency is always welcome. Keep it up.
Thank you so much for this video. I'm doing the nourish build and it's crazy. Tanked 2 heavy gunners in steel path while I had my sentiments down and got over shield while casting them. I love shield tanks, I'd love to see a chroma one.
I am new to the game so i dont have access to alot of frames and thats where the circuit mod comes in clutch, I try alot of warframes from their not knowing anything about them (of course not reading too cuz who does that) and for the most part after 3 to 5 rounds of playing them i get the hang of it, that was not the case with caliban i played 10 rounds with this frame and I always had the feeling that I can do better that their is a more efficient way to utilize his skill set, and your video proved me right. thank you so much for this video, you put so much effort into it making it feel like a professional essay, I dont think am exaggerating if i say your videos are among the highest quality content for warframe (and believe me i watched alot of warframe videos) please do voruna next ^^
Quality vid. If you know anything or speculate on other frames, I would enjoy this type video for that. (Vauban vid was great as an example). I hope the channel grows. You deserve the light
The way you explain Caliban's interaction with helminth systems (adapting to the ability you choose to replace, his 2 3 4 is inheritly mundane), it severely reminds me of Rhino, with your explanation, it does make sense in Caliban's perspective. "Giving Caliban the helminth system drastically changes his playstyle, it makes Caliban adapt to the respective ability you choose, and due to his 2 3 4 is mundane it makes the abilities do so much better due to the uniqueness of chosen subusmes." And this sentence, also explains Rhino, perfectly, which I do not expect at all. Great guide, I salute you.
You know I never thought of Rhino in that way, I always thought of Rhino as... well "RHINO". never occurred to me that he fits the same kind of example. Now I understand why you enjoy Rhino so much now. And thank you for the compliment means a lot from you.
Frames like Zephyr, Nidus, and vice versa never get played and people forget about them until someone makes a video about it. I hope Caliban gets a grendel like rework in time, his design is really cool.
@@ProfessorDysto I think the core issue behind Caliban is that a lot of players are looking for cohesively powerful frames with almost no downsides. Revenant with his armor is so good you can ignore anything else, but you shouldn't because the whole kit is basically good. People ignore nyx meanwhile they chase x% power strength to strip enemies or farm green shards for one purpose but ignore the practicality or usability of that goal. Saryn scales and she can double buff to dumb numbers which double dip bane mods completely nullifying lvl cap enemies. Meanwhile look at this frame who has conculysts that do nothing, even though helmith exists. Good job on the video, I had farmed him 2 times and have him sitting in the arsenal. If I get him in duviri I would have a good chance of a longer run.
@@ProfessorDysto I actually learnt quite a lot from your vid. I normally just stick with something close to the first build but some subsumes you pointed out like chromas really have me curious so thank you!
I've be running an electric elemental ward with caliban and it's been slapping fools and being tanky as hell, also used the sentient skin for sentinels and have a horde of sentients all killing rooms of SP enemies and I'm not even shooting XD
New ish player here. My current goal is to get all frames. There are too many people saying a frame is bad and giving the bare minimum for builds it's honestly kinda sad. Thanks for the cool vid man 😊
Very informative video for the unsung warrior, personally I used full umbra stacks and vitality with armars hatred and power drift. With that build I can go pretty long in a sp kuva survival
Okay, man. You made me play the absolute *hell* out of Vauban when you dropped all that info on him before. But Caliban? That wasn’t something I expected. If you ever take a look at my first main frame, Limbo, then allow me to share one tip: Banish has a hold that lets you cancel it early for no extra energy cost, and manually trigger Radial Banish on your 3 on top of that. In some cases, it makes his 4 a less effective way of pulling enemies into the rift (unless Acolytes are capable of rolling out of the rift, which I don’t have any concrete evidence of if they can or not). This opens your 4 up as the slot to helminth, which lets you take advantage of Precision Intensify. I myself slotted in Pillage, and it works hilariously with his 3’s augment
I'd vote for Banshee, I have her prime but every time I look at her skills I just get overwhelmed cause I don't know what to do with her, and I assume a lot of people experience the same
You can also if willing to use a kit gun , using theorem infection can give summons up to 15x damage and on kit gun the corresponding arcane can give an element , if you really want to do it can use a second kit gun with diff arcane and get dual elements albeit that’s really pinicky to upkeep , basically same tech nekros can do , is amusing if using nourish or other buff at same time on top of strip they just delete stuff haha
i went into caliban recently has i wanted to make my own judgment of every frame and wanted to learn more of shields so i read lots of overframe and content talked with my 3 buds that play him a bit and found 3 things 1. saxon set is fun has hell. 2. crescent is great with hunter command and now use it more then panzer (still less then my sisters hound). 3. -shield recharge delay can be a great comfort tool for frames that can use adaptation and has some kind of immortality (nyx without assimilate using absorb is fun) or invis (ivara with more use of clock arrow or navigator or just using prowl lightly) or shield regain (harrow) for everyday SP content (not really high cascade but under 1-2k its fine for life) now for caliban even after the video i have problems with his theme but its still fine he feels sentiant just not what we think first about has he is not really the adaptation part but the abilitys part of them has for abilitys his 1 needs to flat be 2x damage then now and have it be slash makes it cheaper to use so its fun has rn its the worst ability in the game (even decoy can be used with banish and switch teleport gives slight immunity or speeds up bountys) his 2 is fine his 4 is great but his 3 is problematic i think they should enemy level + (10 x str) or make them be able to be like orbs from protea where it will force the shield to regenerate but at the cost of them losing a lot of hp both can work or even both and i like him i am now using him quite a bit but not having shield gate makes him not has comfy has my other options to use in some gamemodes has while i can get myself to insane survivability its using tech he cant abuse like limbo or nyx with things like quick thinking plus 1 blue shard hp regain he does not have the space for the arcane guardion and energy nexus dreamers bond and so on and has no consistent panic option like lavos first ability great video :D learned quite a bit and might change my problems with him
This video here has a similar view to my adoration to Caliban. He has incredible potential, a solid foundation, but missing the meat to really make him flourish proper. Got him a year after his release, and been having a blast playing his kit. Really hope DE address some of his major flaws in the near future because he needs some love. Nobody gives him the time of day thanks to how people run their meta-addled minds. There are some things I never learn from him, and gonna utilize it for the future. Personally I like running Nourish to give his Conculysts Viral along with spreading it en masse. Gives it heavier CC to match my play style a tad more. Gonna try that Thermal sunder one though, looks like fun.
I agree on the meat part, but he still has some on his bones just not a lot compared to others. Thank you for the compliment, hope you enjoy Thermodynamics!
I loved your video, I was looking for some videos explaining how Caliban works, his mechanics and how to build it for become a Caliban main, and your video is really complete. Thank you so much, with all this info I know how I want to build my Caliban :) And btw, where do u find the list of warframe abilities that affects the conculyst? I cant find it
Sadly there is no official list. A lot of it came down to testing, but any Warframe ability that can buff the target with more damage or a specific element works with Conculysts.
Oof both those choices be tough. Banshee has so much potential but being made of tissue paper. While Valkyr is either the literal invincible frame or just the eternal war melee machine with 2 next to useless abilities. My vote is banshee because I am curious if you find a way to make her survival kinda comfy because I have tried and failed in that regard (not counting gloom because but gloom works on everything). 😅 Love the content keep being awesome!
Caliban suffers a similar fate to Oberon and that is acquisition. Ive always thought he was an okay warframe and the hate is pretty much over exaggerated. IF Caliban was farmable AFTER the sacrifice questline we'd see quite the different treatment for him.
Honestly yeah, it would be fitting in some way to get access to him after completing the second dream, but it would also break the lore a bit as well. Sadly with him tied to the New War the chances of that are fairly slim, BUT his prime could allow people to play him a lot more than usual just like Grendel. That will be some time though.
Caliban, my beloved as a Caliban lover, I looooove using his 4, plus the little sentient crew is fun, and his 2 as surprisingly good. My biggest gripe though is that his one really doesnt do it for me, and I wish I didnt have to cast his 3 well, 3 times. Beyond that though he has a really fun and unique kit, and also just looks and feels cool too.
Oh hey, i was wondering when this was getting uploaded. I have played a lot of Caliban since he was released so i was looking forward to this since i mentioned him on Freak's stream and you teased it. Still a bit annoyed that the Conq's baseball bats don't get coloured. I do not know why but when i read "Don't be afraid" my head just goes: "Yes, this is to be read with a Welsh accent". So there is that.
Might be interesting to see a Valkyr video. She's relatively simple, all things considered, but there's still some nice build potential there: - Her high armour value makes Arcane Blessing have way more impact on her than many other warframes - Her high armour value is base armour, not reliant on abilities or passives like some warframes, and can thus have some hilarious scaling builds (Mecha mod set in particular works hilariously well, Mecha Pulse is insane off of Valkyr) - She's probably the most generalist and accessible of the melee-using warframes, with Warcry having low upkeep with Eternal War and only further enhancing her natural tankiness - One of the few frames with access to finishers on command as part of her base kit - Has invulnerability during her healing phase Because she's one of those warframes where all of her abilities are kind of their own thing rather than some uber-synergistic kit, helminth options tend to work rather reliably for her. Heck, she is, to-date, the only warframe I've legitimately used Hideous Resistance on just as a general melee survivalist build.
Playing her with Lycath's Hunt and Equilibrium has been a revelation for me. She did go in my mind from "need a buff" to "she is already a monster" very quickly.
@@Okaazkul It's been possible to go full Hysteria for quite a while, but the new age of health orb accessibility has definitely made it a lot easier. My primary issue with Hysteria is just how much it's a spin attack machine. The spin attack is so overpowered compared to the rest of the weapon that there's just not a whole lot of point to using anything else, so it ends up being kind of boring honestly. Fun-wise, I definitely prefer using Hysteria as a healing phase and using a normal melee weapon to get a bit of variety.
I really wanna say Valkyr just because of all the new melee stuff that came out, but i feel like Banshee would be a better idea. If she's in a similar position to Caliban, where there isn't a lot of documented tips and tricks (or if you can find something new), then it'd make more sense to do her first. Then you could do Valkyr next!
Minor error with big consequences: Fusion Strike auras are _NOT_ capped at 2. There is _NO_ cap to the number of Fusion Strike auras that can be active at once.
WOW I have no idea how I missed this, thank you! I could be wrong on this but back in the day when he released I believe he was limited to two. I have no clue if this is accurate or not but to be honest the gameplay doesn't change that much with Caliban, it's just WAY more effective than I first though. So thank you again for this, Fusion Strike is even STRONGER now!
@@ProfessorDysto Ye. I have to say, I also ended up putting casting speed on Caliban. He is, no joke, the only warframe in the game I have ever told people that casting speed isn't just helpful, it's dang near mandatory. Before Archon Shards, I legitimately had Natural Talent on my build for him.
This video has inspired me to dust of Caliban and take him for a spin into Steel Path. Testing a variant of the Thermal Sunder build and looking forward to trying out Coil Horizon. You can also utilize Gauss' augment to boost elemental damage if using Thermal Sunder, which can be pretty potent. I'm curious why you went with Equilibrium on several of the builds, do you have a companion running Synth Deconstruct to generate them>
Good eye, yup I sure do it's my primary way of managing energy on most of my Warframe builds. I plan on making a build video of my companion builds that way people can have a good guideline for energy, survivability, and extra stats.
I'm only 15 minutes in and hearing and reading about Fusion Strike, googled around, but couldn't find anything: does it work like Pillage does in that it's coded as damage against shields? Cause Pillage scales with Roar to fully shield strip as early as early as Corrosive Projection or Magetic procs enable a full shield strip. So if Roar works, you can put it on his 1 and have full armor and shield strip at 164% Strength. Tharros Strike would do that, too, but I haven't tested either. Gonna watch the rest of the video now and hope that you tested this, lol.
Never knew about that interaction with pillage that's a new one to me. But I went and tested out Fusion strike to see if it does the same thing but sadly it doesn't, seems like the Aura is the thing that causes the strip and it is separate from the damage the ability. Thanks for the insight though!
Yo, imma try reev for mobility cus why not, the condemm I use helps me to recover shields and it has been my go to option for him. the coil and the viral tempest ones are very interesting to say the least, imma give them a try as well.
Nicely put viddeo! Tbf the only reason I haven't given mine to helminth is due to the prime coming out next year 🤣 My one thing regarding Adaptation vs his passive would be how beneficial would be to run Cal on a squad that most likely runs adaptation as well. Do they benefit from the passive at all if that's the case? If not maybe Caliban could be seen as more of a solo-oriented frame?
Even if you're running in a team going full adaptation his passive can still come in to play in some aspects. While the 90% completely disappears once the duration is gone, his passive is still there draining over time so instead of starting at 0 resistance Caliban's passive can help the team get a head start restacking the resistance, it also helps the companions stay alive for longer too. It mostly goes unnoticed most of the time, but it does help in a small way. But Caliban does work well as a solo frame a s well, just because his passive cannot be utilized by the team doesn't mean you should disregard him as a support for the team, his 2 and 4 are still excellent abilities.
@@ProfessorDysto I see. That also means Vazarin could be his school of choice since (at least in my case) I'll be tanking and stripping defenses with the frame; and also provide shield regen/health regen/more passive range with op/drift 🤔
You are right, but I had to look this up. Seems like it's a heated debate online, but official dictionaries and such state is as not an official word in the English dictionary, even though the word exists. I find that slightly odd. But I did come about a coincidence, Shakespeare used "Casted", what are the chances of that?
Yup, I have put my other projects on pause ATM to focus on getting his back up and running again. He has a LOT of changes and it drastically changes his playstyle.
Thank you all for the support and compliments everyone!
It means a lot.
A REWORK GUIDE HAS BEEN MADE: ua-cam.com/video/4Cv80rilQxw/v-deo.html
Some corrections from the comments:
1. Fusion strike has no limit to the amount of Auras you can have out on the field, the only thing limiting you is your energy and duration. So even more value!
2. Sentient Wrath will only hit enemies that have a homing projectile, all the extras are only there for aesthetics and will only phase through enemies acting as an indicator for when you can recast Sentient Wrath.
3. Titania was the first Warframe that wasn't created by Ballas, Caliban is second.
I'll make sure to keep this comment updated with any more corrections that come.
Other than that Have a great day and I will catch y'all next time!
do you think you could do banshee next ?
im trying to crack her myself since i noticed not many of them run around but im having difficulty, an in depth guide like that could really help.
If sentients wrath doesn't home in on an enemy, it will continue on its original path, however, these walls CANNOT hit enemies. TLDR walls cannot hit enemies if they aren't homing on it.
Hi again, just thought I'd mention that if you are experiencing lag as Caliban you can sometimes spawn additional sentients that still gives the shield regeneration buff if you have enough casting speed (I managed to get 6 sentients at once, but it requires you not to be host).
It's probably not what you're looking for when it comes to advice but it's been in the game ever since Caliban came out so I thought I'd mention it.
The real reason I haven't built Caliban is anomaly shards must be farmed from railjack, and I gave all my isoplast to Little Duck.
This isn't even the worst part in my personal experience.
The massive amount of Narmer Isoplasts you need for him is the bottleneck, especially when you don't get lucky with your bounties.
Fair fair.
I did farm him, I really don't suggest you do unless you want mastery that bad
The farm wasn't that bad, but I really enjoy railjack and was trying to speed run Fortuna bounties so the isoplasts were fairly passive.
my guy. u can get a free caliban rn. go join a warframe.
Dude i love the way you go through the Warframes abilities and mention EVERY single little detail, which nobody else on this platform cares to mention (if they even know about them).
Now, having a new perspective on what he can actually do with his abilities, i'm eager to finally try him out, as well as playing atound with his Sentient Wrath helminth on other frames!
The ability looks and feels sick as well as being hella overloaded in terms of perks.
Thank you for the compliments!
Always love to see your positivity, amazing as always.
Also if you don't have him weeeeeeeeeeeeeeellll you might need to farm him, sorry.
BUT there's no rush you can take your time with it!
The production value on this is NUTS.
45min of pure Caliban enjoyment. Kudos!
What made Caliban click for me in my mind is picturing him not only as a beast of two worlds, a twin-throne prince, but also a mage-Knight. A dual-discipline field regent of might and mana, leading his loyal few outcasts into battle to vindicate their struggle.
Now we just need a neat skin and some augments for him
Hi , I'm here after the caliban rework . And happy to say that your builds not only hold up , but are probably way better.
I'm working on another guide for him currently.
Also what are the chances that you have a BB profile picture? (You'll see in the next one).
By watching both of your warframe guides, i have 3 things to say:
1- tierlists sucks all the fun in games by making things apper worst then they really are;
2- i really love your style of videos, this very very detailed guides are so fun a insightfull, warframe is a really hard game to master build crafting, and this kind of video helps a lot;
3- perfect musical taste, dark synth are bangers.
Anyways, keep up the great work!!
Thank you, I really appreciate this.
"you don't need to be the Meta"
This is so true. I've been playing this game for almost 8 years now (2800 login days completed two days ago) and this is what I settled down to. Maybe it's the 45+ boomer mindset I have right now. It's why I take my shattered lash Loki into many missions and just hang back and let others do the killing. I don't need to always be doing the killing even though I can easily hold my own if really required. I see all these thermal Sunder titanias and garudas and Tenet/tonkor gauss' roughing it out in missions, while I just stay in the back, hoovering their "hard" work and still somehow mostly reaching the finish line first. Life's easy when you let the pawns do your work for you😁
I salute you sir.
A true veteran and sage all in one.
Almost everyone has missed how insanely good Caliban has become over time.
I wouldn't quite put him in S-tier because he does require a fairly active playstyle (whereas the absolute best warframes can do as well with less effort).
However, he's got high duration AOE defense strip (armor and shields), immense survivability, can apply powerful damage vulnerability, and has incredible CC.
I have to assume that anyone who still thinks Caliban is weak or mediocre just hasn't played him since he was released.
Fantastic. This and the Vauban guide are great. Please keep making thrm for other frames. Dont feel you have to rush, the quality is what makes them so enjoyable and very informative. Cheers!
Thank you for the compliments, and I appreciate the support!
Glad you enjoyed it!
great video professor, I think banshe and valkyr deserve a guide from your hands
Thanks for the compliment!
Also Oberon
@@jamesogeto3061 oberon another cool warframe that deserves a video by the hands of professor
My only complaint is I didn’t find you a couple years from now with videos like this for every frame. This is truly top shelf stuff, please keep it up 👍
Bruh you’re the BEST. I’ve been subscribed for a while and also have been looking for an up to date caliban guide forever. Thank you for your hard work!!
Thank you for the compliment means a lot!
Hope you find some fun with Caliban.
The Cult of Caliban has a new member. I suck at Steel Path but a half assed build took me to 30 minutes. A thing i dont do and im a long time player.
I actually think i can do Netracell missions with him easy.
Thnak you
Thanks for reminding me why I put 2 Umbral forma into Caliban - he wears them well.
Highly looking forward to your next video! The wealth of info & creativity is so refreshing & very much welcomed. I’ve been playing this game for many years & I don’t nearly have the knowledge you have on mechanics & such. It’s reinvigorated my love for the game even though I never stopped playing it haha I’ll definitely be looking at all frames through a different lens now!
OK, just finished the video guide. You genuinely delve into the nuts and bolts of how the frame works, despite the popular discourse surrounding their popularity.
Your trend of different builds to fit different play styles is a welcome addition to the normal offering from Warframe creators of "one build to rule them all".
Just like your last video, I came away with new knowledge and a fresh perspective that provides fertile ground for build crafting. Thank you!
Lastly, it's obvious you have a profound respect for the game, the well-intended decisions of the developers, and WF creators who may disagree with you. That alone is enough to place you amongst the upper echelon of content creators. Keep up the superlative works.
Thank you so much.
I know Warframe is a game of trying out many different things to see what works best for yourself. Sometimes there is that "one build" that outperforms the others, but that shouldn't diminish the other capabilities a frame has.
I appreciate the compliments, seriously.
Fun fact if you have a fast enough casting speed and a bad enough connection to a host you can summon practically an infinite amount of conculyst
Fantastic production quality and a plethora of excellent information on a long-reviled and misunderstood frame. Love the voice!
The edits are top notch.really enjoying your content
Thank you, Thank you!
I think my favorite part of watching these videos is to see how you play compared to most other content creators, i personally think you know more than most of them XD
Thank you, making me blush.
Instant sub man you just instantly notice the amount of effort that went into this video. I just started playing caliban like 3 days ago and i already love playing him. Im lucky to find this video. One of the only videos that went this much in depth about the char.
this guide inspired me to use Caliban and I've had success with a Tau purple shard replacing equilibrium and running a rank 5 arcane steadfast over that on the nourish. It's a large workaround for just equilibrium but the extra mod slot gives him even more adaptability.
I picked up caliban a few months ago to try to see if he was as bad as everyone said he was, and genuinely he was actually endgame viable. Got to the point where I could run SP Tuvul Commons and have no deaths while my teammates were on life 2. I hope this really lifts the veil on how good caliban really is and I very much appreciate learning the specifics of his abilities.
Thank you so much for the compliments.
I hope people will see the potential that Caliban has as well.
I’m not necessarily a Caliban main but I seriously enjoy him and greatly appreciate you giving him the love he deserves. The community has underrated him for a long while and it’s kinda sad to see considering he’s a bit difficult to get alone.
Absolutely loved the video, packed to the gills full of information. I especially like the way you show what stats affect abilities in each way. It comes off a lot better than what other people do, which is just reading off the wiki. I also liked how often you used the word "adapt" when talking about how Caliban plays like other frames, very fitting
Was not super into the intro myself, but that might just be a me thing
Thank your for the compliment and support!
Honestly the intro was supposed to be with a different song but copyright BS was trying to take over and the artist of the original song Carpenter Brut hates how it is being handled.
It would have been Hotline Miami 2: roller mobster WHICH fit way better for the mood. Sadly I didn't test and committed too hard on it. Also just wanted to stay in the Caliban "theme", it's all good if it's not your cup of tea, just seemed like a fun thing to do.
@@ProfessorDysto that's exactly what you should take away from my comment. My criticism is just one comment. Absolutely keep doing them
And by the way, to be criticising something as small as your comedic intro, should be a testament to the quality of your video having no REAL issues to nitpick
Yes! He has returned.
Caliban is amazing with resonator, it’s a great way to group up all the enemies for his 4 while also giving you an extra target for enemies to shoot.
I also love using caliban with silence if I’m doing a level cap cascade run, which prevents the endless thrax ability spam.
I love the idea of the silence, makes him even more anti-everything.
not really planning to play caliban,but is it fun to watch you talk about him,also the vauban guide i did a learn as well and it was fun to watch,keep it up man
Nice to see you grinding, probably took awhile to edit and piece everything together but thanks for the content I’ll look forward to watching it while I’m at work 👍
this video was sick to watch! i love when more niche frames get some love thru a form of a unknown powerful build, but here you showed off at least 6!
im convinced to try and get him now but the resources are defo a pain so maybe my next console coupon that i get will go towards Caliban.
i look forward to seeing Banshee Prime vid if that's what you would pick for the next guide, i personally would love to see a Nyx vid
Thanks for the compliment!
Don't forget there's no rush for him, you can take you time.
I wouldnt say i main any frame because i play all of them (but ash) but Caliban is in my top 5 most played.
And there is a detail i would like to add:
There is a bug regarding the concuboys that allows you to summon a ton. When the host is laggy, it seems there is a delay for the game to register you have summoned 3 boys, so you can just spamcast 3 to have a lot more summons depending on how laggy the host is. Which also makes cast speed WAY STRONGER for the summon build. I use Natural Talent and 2 cast speed taus, with madurai.
Also, if you keep your 3s duration around 30s you can make it last almost the same as Duplex Bond and nourish shares the same duration to boot. So you can have "perfect" cycles with the 3 of them. PCont and Transient get me close enough.
And in general i don't care much about the str breakpoints for his 4 cuz you kinda want high str anyways. For me its just 13331 (1 = nourish) and 4 on key points. It's an easy frame imo and i always thought he was fairly strong. The only defensive mod i use is Rolling Guard, and just augur my shields back into massive regen with the concuboys, though now with the release of Secondary Fortifier you can make any frame have 15k overguard so fuck survivability right.
Also, i did not know his 1 was useful for low level clearing. Cuz i kinda banished it away after trying it once lol. I hate it.
Quit Warframe for a while and had came back during duviri. Had to restart. Caliban was my goal for while and has been my main since I got him. Love this video celebrating him. I use nourish, nexus, max strength build.🎉🎉
Thank you for the compliments!
I'll have to try that combo myself sounds good.
This is the level of depth, enthusiasm and generosity of brainstorming that is to be commended. thank you, I'm not remotely a Caliban main. but I've to admit that even after extensive play I'd given up on making him good... now, I'm willing to give it another shot, considering I have the means and the resources. and he is being looked over by Pablo for perhaps some future changes... although that's yet to be seen of course... I would like to see the conculists being a little bit buffed personally, maybe have the option to cycle them into being different types of sentients we could call on.
I’ve been playing a lot of Caliban and experimenting a ton with him recently and I’ve been loving him. Glad to see another believer spreading the gospel of our sentient friend. Great video my friend, definitely subbing
Thank you for the compliment and support!
Here after caliban rework announcment
Need to come up with something for our boy now.
such a fresh take on a warframe guide, loved the indepth explanations for caliban's kit. also, the idea for the intro segment was great but personally i feel like execution was lacking in some aspects.
overall this video is amazing
Thank you for the compliment and critique!
bro im still kinda new to WF but your vids and the amount of depth and presentation you do is absolutely magnificent!!!! 10/10
liked, commented, subscribed. You helped me get interested to try caliban out despite all the negative opinions plaguing him. Thank you very much.
I'm very glad I came across this video and your channel, I'm currently using Caliban to give him a second chance, and I wish to see his usage rate on Warframe's yearly chart increase. There is much more I didn't know about Caliban than I thought. Once again, thank you for this valuable information, I would love to see something of such quality for Qorvex. Much love from Ukraine!
Hey, you just earned a sub. You are pretty well versed and in depth. Nothing you haven’t heard before, but assurance of consistency is always welcome. Keep it up.
Personally I'm interested in a Valkyr video. Garuda is fun, but I wanna see what love you can give to the OG claw-based murderblender.
I'm new player I saw Caliban in store and just paid a little plat to get him, been have a lot of fun clearing planets with him so far
Glad you're enjoying the game, stick around September-October he's getting a light rework and everyone will get a copy of him for free by logging in👌
Great guide! I've had Caliban since he came out and I've always wanted to make him work, I will be def be playing him more now
Thank you so much for this video. I'm doing the nourish build and it's crazy. Tanked 2 heavy gunners in steel path while I had my sentiments down and got over shield while casting them. I love shield tanks, I'd love to see a chroma one.
I am new to the game so i dont have access to alot of frames and thats where the circuit mod comes in clutch, I try alot of warframes from their not knowing anything about them (of course not reading too cuz who does that) and for the most part after 3 to 5 rounds of playing them i get the hang of it, that was not the case with caliban i played 10 rounds with this frame and I always had the feeling that I can do better that their is a more efficient way to utilize his skill set, and your video proved me right.
thank you so much for this video, you put so much effort into it making it feel like a professional essay, I dont think am exaggerating if i say your videos are among the highest quality content for warframe (and believe me i watched alot of warframe videos)
please do voruna next ^^
Glad to be of help.
Thank you for the support and compliments!
Quality vid. If you know anything or speculate on other frames, I would enjoy this type video for that. (Vauban vid was great as an example). I hope the channel grows. You deserve the light
Funny enough, I was about to look up stuff about caliban, good thing I can watch this
Caliban is great, when he gets some augments, he’ll be amazing!
The way you explain Caliban's interaction with helminth systems (adapting to the ability you choose to replace, his 2 3 4 is inheritly mundane), it severely reminds me of Rhino, with your explanation, it does make sense in Caliban's perspective.
"Giving Caliban the helminth system drastically changes his playstyle, it makes Caliban adapt to the respective ability you choose, and due to his 2 3 4 is mundane it makes the abilities do so much better due to the uniqueness of chosen subusmes."
And this sentence, also explains Rhino, perfectly, which I do not expect at all.
Great guide, I salute you.
You know I never thought of Rhino in that way, I always thought of Rhino as... well "RHINO". never occurred to me that he fits the same kind of example.
Now I understand why you enjoy Rhino so much now.
And thank you for the compliment means a lot from you.
Frames like Zephyr, Nidus, and vice versa never get played and people forget about them until someone makes a video about it. I hope Caliban gets a grendel like rework in time, his design is really cool.
Maybe some day, it would be awesome to see him get a bit of a lift!
@@ProfessorDysto I think the core issue behind Caliban is that a lot of players are looking for cohesively powerful frames with almost no downsides. Revenant with his armor is so good you can ignore anything else, but you shouldn't because the whole kit is basically good. People ignore nyx meanwhile they chase x% power strength to strip enemies or farm green shards for one purpose but ignore the practicality or usability of that goal. Saryn scales and she can double buff to dumb numbers which double dip bane mods completely nullifying lvl cap enemies. Meanwhile look at this frame who has conculysts that do nothing, even though helmith exists.
Good job on the video, I had farmed him 2 times and have him sitting in the arsenal. If I get him in duviri I would have a good chance of a longer run.
Hallelujah, Stick boi gets some lovin
as a cali main so glad this was reccomended to me so quickly what a chad
A UNICORN! Thank you for the compliment means a lot!
@@ProfessorDysto I actually learnt quite a lot from your vid. I normally just stick with something close to the first build but some subsumes you pointed out like chromas really have me curious so thank you!
Caliban is so adaptable that he can even adapt out of a garbage ability like his one by subsuming it.
I've be running an electric elemental ward with caliban and it's been slapping fools and being tanky as hell, also used the sentient skin for sentinels and have a horde of sentients all killing rooms of SP enemies and I'm not even shooting XD
Just farmed tenet weaps yesterday with Caliban and its a blast !
Do valkyr bc its your second favorite its always better to see the passion in a persons build and guide :)
Love the carpenter brut music- especially since it‘s from Furi
New ish player here. My current goal is to get all frames. There are too many people saying a frame is bad and giving the bare minimum for builds it's honestly kinda sad. Thanks for the cool vid man 😊
Very informative video for the unsung warrior, personally I used full umbra stacks and vitality with armars hatred and power drift. With that build I can go pretty long in a sp kuva survival
I have to try Caliban now after this
Good video, imma wait for Caliban prime
I always liked his Stomp, insanely strong power imo.
Very strong indeed, especially since it increases the damage to overguard!
Okay, man. You made me play the absolute *hell* out of Vauban when you dropped all that info on him before. But Caliban? That wasn’t something I expected. If you ever take a look at my first main frame, Limbo, then allow me to share one tip:
Banish has a hold that lets you cancel it early for no extra energy cost, and manually trigger Radial Banish on your 3 on top of that. In some cases, it makes his 4 a less effective way of pulling enemies into the rift (unless Acolytes are capable of rolling out of the rift, which I don’t have any concrete evidence of if they can or not). This opens your 4 up as the slot to helminth, which lets you take advantage of Precision Intensify. I myself slotted in Pillage, and it works hilariously with his 3’s augment
Thanks for the support! they both do have "ban" at the end of their names.
Also thanks for the limbo tips too, I'll have to make a note of that.
Just heard a caliban buff is coming too from the last dev short. You will need to follow this up
I think your leg got pulled a little bit, it was just Steve reading chat out loud at the end.
@@ProfessorDysto dang
I'd vote for Banshee, I have her prime but every time I look at her skills I just get overwhelmed cause I don't know what to do with her, and I assume a lot of people experience the same
I would love to see Banshee next!
You can also if willing to use a kit gun , using theorem infection can give summons up to 15x damage and on kit gun the corresponding arcane can give an element , if you really want to do it can use a second kit gun with diff arcane and get dual elements albeit that’s really pinicky to upkeep , basically same tech nekros can do , is amusing if using nourish or other buff at same time on top of strip they just delete stuff haha
Totally forgot about that combo, been years since I have seen it mentioned.
Thanks for the support!
i went into caliban recently has i wanted to make my own judgment of every frame and wanted to learn more of shields so i read lots of overframe and content talked with my 3 buds that play him a bit and found 3 things 1. saxon set is fun has hell. 2. crescent is great with hunter command and now use it more then panzer (still less then my sisters hound). 3. -shield recharge delay can be a great comfort tool for frames that can use adaptation and has some kind of immortality (nyx without assimilate using absorb is fun) or invis (ivara with more use of clock arrow or navigator or just using prowl lightly) or shield regain (harrow) for everyday SP content (not really high cascade but under 1-2k its fine for life)
now for caliban even after the video i have problems with his theme but its still fine he feels sentiant just not what we think first about has he is not really the adaptation part but the abilitys part of them has for abilitys his 1 needs to flat be 2x damage then now and have it be slash makes it cheaper to use so its fun has rn its the worst ability in the game (even decoy can be used with banish and switch teleport gives slight immunity or speeds up bountys) his 2 is fine his 4 is great but his 3 is problematic i think they should enemy level + (10 x str) or make them be able to be like orbs from protea where it will force the shield to regenerate but at the cost of them losing a lot of hp both can work or even both
and i like him i am now using him quite a bit but not having shield gate makes him not has comfy has my other options to use in some gamemodes has while i can get myself to insane survivability its using tech he cant abuse like limbo or nyx with things like quick thinking plus 1 blue shard hp regain he does not have the space for the arcane guardion and energy nexus dreamers bond and so on and has no consistent panic option like lavos first ability
great video :D learned quite a bit and might change my problems with him
Thanks for the insight!
and thanks for the compliment, hope you find what you need!
This video here has a similar view to my adoration to Caliban. He has incredible potential, a solid foundation, but missing the meat to really make him flourish proper. Got him a year after his release, and been having a blast playing his kit. Really hope DE address some of his major flaws in the near future because he needs some love. Nobody gives him the time of day thanks to how people run their meta-addled minds. There are some things I never learn from him, and gonna utilize it for the future. Personally I like running Nourish to give his Conculysts Viral along with spreading it en masse. Gives it heavier CC to match my play style a tad more. Gonna try that Thermal sunder one though, looks like fun.
I agree on the meat part, but he still has some on his bones just not a lot compared to others.
Thank you for the compliment, hope you enjoy Thermodynamics!
i knew caliban can be good but didnt really know which way to use/build him once i make him
I actually love caliban😭 I used to run him with dispensary up until energy nexus got released then I switched to nourish
I loved your video, I was looking for some videos explaining how Caliban works, his mechanics and how to build it for become a Caliban main, and your video is really complete. Thank you so much, with all this info I know how I want to build my Caliban :)
And btw, where do u find the list of warframe abilities that affects the conculyst? I cant find it
Sadly there is no official list.
A lot of it came down to testing, but any Warframe ability that can buff the target with more damage or a specific element works with Conculysts.
@@ProfessorDysto thank you for anwser my question :)
Oof both those choices be tough. Banshee has so much potential but being made of tissue paper. While Valkyr is either the literal invincible frame or just the eternal war melee machine with 2 next to useless abilities. My vote is banshee because I am curious if you find a way to make her survival kinda comfy because I have tried and failed in that regard (not counting gloom because but gloom works on everything). 😅 Love the content keep being awesome!
Getting a in depth look at calibans kit he’s like the shield alternative to Oberon that’s had some of the nonsense taken out of the kit.
15:24 - Anti-everything certainly sounds good :D
Caliban suffers a similar fate to Oberon and that is acquisition. Ive always thought he was an okay warframe and the hate is pretty much over exaggerated. IF Caliban was farmable AFTER the sacrifice questline we'd see quite the different treatment for him.
Honestly yeah, it would be fitting in some way to get access to him after completing the second dream, but it would also break the lore a bit as well.
Sadly with him tied to the New War the chances of that are fairly slim, BUT his prime could allow people to play him a lot more than usual just like Grendel. That will be some time though.
Caliban, my beloved
as a Caliban lover, I looooove using his 4, plus the little sentient crew is fun, and his 2 as surprisingly good. My biggest gripe though is that his one really doesnt do it for me, and I wish I didnt have to cast his 3 well, 3 times. Beyond that though he has a really fun and unique kit, and also just looks and feels cool too.
Oh hey, i was wondering when this was getting uploaded. I have played a lot of Caliban since he was released so i was looking forward to this since i mentioned him on Freak's stream and you teased it.
Still a bit annoyed that the Conq's baseball bats don't get coloured.
I do not know why but when i read "Don't be afraid" my head just goes: "Yes, this is to be read with a Welsh accent". So there is that.
Thanks for the support means a lot!
Hope it was worth the wait.
@@ProfessorDysto It was.
Might be interesting to see a Valkyr video. She's relatively simple, all things considered, but there's still some nice build potential there:
- Her high armour value makes Arcane Blessing have way more impact on her than many other warframes
- Her high armour value is base armour, not reliant on abilities or passives like some warframes, and can thus have some hilarious scaling builds (Mecha mod set in particular works hilariously well, Mecha Pulse is insane off of Valkyr)
- She's probably the most generalist and accessible of the melee-using warframes, with Warcry having low upkeep with Eternal War and only further enhancing her natural tankiness
- One of the few frames with access to finishers on command as part of her base kit
- Has invulnerability during her healing phase
Because she's one of those warframes where all of her abilities are kind of their own thing rather than some uber-synergistic kit, helminth options tend to work rather reliably for her. Heck, she is, to-date, the only warframe I've legitimately used Hideous Resistance on just as a general melee survivalist build.
Playing her with Lycath's Hunt and Equilibrium has been a revelation for me. She did go in my mind from "need a buff" to "she is already a monster" very quickly.
@@Okaazkul It's been possible to go full Hysteria for quite a while, but the new age of health orb accessibility has definitely made it a lot easier.
My primary issue with Hysteria is just how much it's a spin attack machine. The spin attack is so overpowered compared to the rest of the weapon that there's just not a whole lot of point to using anything else, so it ends up being kind of boring honestly.
Fun-wise, I definitely prefer using Hysteria as a healing phase and using a normal melee weapon to get a bit of variety.
Ive got a 3 umbral forma Caliban. People said it was a waste. I say its drip.
Power move.
I really wanna say Valkyr just because of all the new melee stuff that came out, but i feel like Banshee would be a better idea.
If she's in a similar position to Caliban, where there isn't a lot of documented tips and tricks (or if you can find something new), then it'd make more sense to do her first. Then you could do Valkyr next!
Minor error with big consequences: Fusion Strike auras are _NOT_ capped at 2. There is _NO_ cap to the number of Fusion Strike auras that can be active at once.
WOW I have no idea how I missed this, thank you!
I could be wrong on this but back in the day when he released I believe he was limited to two.
I have no clue if this is accurate or not but to be honest the gameplay doesn't change that much with Caliban, it's just WAY more effective than I first though. So thank you again for this, Fusion Strike is even STRONGER now!
@@ProfessorDysto Ye. I have to say, I also ended up putting casting speed on Caliban. He is, no joke, the only warframe in the game I have ever told people that casting speed isn't just helpful, it's dang near mandatory. Before Archon Shards, I legitimately had Natural Talent on my build for him.
upcoming Eclipse chance to add more tankiness/ weapon damage on top of Caliban's kit :P
More builds! Saryn, Oberon, Wisp 🙏❤🫵
Oh wow I didn’t even realize this was 40mind until you said it😂😂
Oh and Banshee
This video has inspired me to dust of Caliban and take him for a spin into Steel Path. Testing a variant of the Thermal Sunder build and looking forward to trying out Coil Horizon. You can also utilize Gauss' augment to boost elemental damage if using Thermal Sunder, which can be pretty potent.
I'm curious why you went with Equilibrium on several of the builds, do you have a companion running Synth Deconstruct to generate them>
Good eye, yup I sure do it's my primary way of managing energy on most of my Warframe builds.
I plan on making a build video of my companion builds that way people can have a good guideline for energy, survivability, and extra stats.
Good vid, nice builds = subbed
Everyone hates on caliban, but he's a very fun and able frame.
I'm only 15 minutes in and hearing and reading about Fusion Strike, googled around, but couldn't find anything: does it work like Pillage does in that it's coded as damage against shields? Cause Pillage scales with Roar to fully shield strip as early as early as Corrosive Projection or Magetic procs enable a full shield strip. So if Roar works, you can put it on his 1 and have full armor and shield strip at 164% Strength. Tharros Strike would do that, too, but I haven't tested either.
Gonna watch the rest of the video now and hope that you tested this, lol.
Never knew about that interaction with pillage that's a new one to me.
But I went and tested out Fusion strike to see if it does the same thing but sadly it doesn't, seems like the Aura is the thing that causes the strip and it is separate from the damage the ability. Thanks for the insight though!
@@ProfessorDysto Damn, too bad. Thabks for testing it! Your vid made me excited to waste some forma on building this boy.
Caliban feels like post nerf Gyre before she got her augment, somehow incomplete. Probably why he's not that popular or even hated.
Yo, imma try reev for mobility cus why not, the condemm I use helps me to recover shields and it has been my go to option for him. the coil and the viral tempest ones are very interesting to say the least, imma give them a try as well.
Nicely put viddeo! Tbf the only reason I haven't given mine to helminth is due to the prime coming out next year 🤣
My one thing regarding Adaptation vs his passive would be how beneficial would be to run Cal on a squad that most likely runs adaptation as well. Do they benefit from the passive at all if that's the case? If not maybe Caliban could be seen as more of a solo-oriented frame?
Even if you're running in a team going full adaptation his passive can still come in to play in some aspects. While the 90% completely disappears once the duration is gone, his passive is still there draining over time so instead of starting at 0 resistance Caliban's passive can help the team get a head start restacking the resistance, it also helps the companions stay alive for longer too.
It mostly goes unnoticed most of the time, but it does help in a small way.
But Caliban does work well as a solo frame a s well, just because his passive cannot be utilized by the team doesn't mean you should disregard him as a support for the team, his 2 and 4 are still excellent abilities.
@@ProfessorDysto I see. That also means Vazarin could be his school of choice since (at least in my case) I'll be tanking and stripping defenses with the frame; and also provide shield regen/health regen/more passive range with op/drift 🤔
free caliban after rework gonna push this vid
My only complaint is that casted isn't a word, cast is the past and current tense of the word.
You are right, but I had to look this up.
Seems like it's a heated debate online, but official dictionaries and such state is as not an official word in the English dictionary, even though the word exists. I find that slightly odd.
But I did come about a coincidence, Shakespeare used "Casted", what are the chances of that?
Don't think Caliban is bad he just suffers from being obtained in rail Jack
Sentients wrath is really good, one of my fav frames to use it on is actually ember
I started playing caliban cause of this video and with his rework I'm wondering if your going to revise the build for him in a future vid
Yup, I have put my other projects on pause ATM to focus on getting his back up and running again. He has a LOT of changes and it drastically changes his playstyle.
Hooold up a second.. does that mean i will be farming Narmer Isoplasts now?!
😡😤
also in addition if you don't have PST, subsume spellbind for his 1