Just moved from Destiny 2 to Warframe. Even though I am 11 years behind everyone, I am really enjoying this game and learning a lot from your videos. Thank you.
My favorite is vasca kavat, why every 2 min I get a free revive. The rest my frame can handle it. I tend to play tank frames or invisible frames and sometime I get killed by toxic or an upsi so yes a free revive is super handy
One extra synergy about Diriga you missed: Arc Coil procs Archon Stretch. Yup. That means even running Diriga will ensure you will have +2 Energy Regen/s on all the time, if you have the mod capacity on your Warframe.
It should be noted that pretty much everything that is valid for Diriga's Arc Coil is also valid for Hounds' Synergized Prospectus. The difference is basically between choosing a good sentinel weapon or general utility with the Hound.
@@WarframeFlo Synergized Prospectus also does the same thing, in case that wasn't mentioned in the video either. I believe any companion ability with electric added via Manifold Bond also activates it.
Diriga will not proc archon stretch. That was nerfed. But it did at one time. On the other hand this video does miss one HUGE synergy with Diriga. Arc coil+manifold bond+mystic bond= Free ability casts every few seconds. Give diriga a verglas modded with fire, viral, contagious bond, fired up and he can proc this easily.
For resources specifically, the Chesha Kubrow is king now. Retrieve is essentially a mini Nekros Desecrate, although unfortunately you can't reduce the CD on a beast.
Awful claws, though. I'll take my room clearing crit/status linked mecha sunika with 300% status chance and contagious bond to mini nuke. Now that the dogs can actually kill meaningful amounts and levels of stuff, I think you get a lot more loot support out of the extra kpm offered than you get out of 6 discount desecrates per minute and no extra kills.
i did the calculations but maybe double check. An average mob has a 7% resource drop chance (i just checked butcher, leaper, and heavy gunner on the wiki), and chesa has a 45% chance to get a resource, so one cast is worth 45/7 = ~6.5 kills. It casts every 10 seconds so you get 65kpm worth of resources out of it. That seems worth it to me. I doubt you'd get that kind of kpm from any companion unless you aren't killing anything in your warframe
Chesa Kubrow is the new Farming dogo. Has a 30 meter "Desecrate" with a 10s CD, you can put a Retriever mod, has a 10M disarm ability... great companion
I have personally been loving Huras Kubrow for ability based warframes just permanent invisibility while nuking rooms as grendel or Garuda. I should also just mention that claws are insane honestly the amount of nuking my kubrows can do by themselves is crazy.
You and TheKengineer are the two main wf channels I watch, thanks for these teaching videos! I recently was able to get good enough gear to start doing Void Cascade in Steel Path, hoping to take it to level cap eventually.
On the Adarza I recommend Elusive posture. You mostly care about the buff and that will help keep it alive. The Duplex clones will STILL ATTACK. Meaning you can both keep your cat alive and take advantage of the claws.
The Artax is very strong now. Yes, the Taxon weapon. Its unique perk now says that regardless of its elements, it always adds a 20% Cold to damage. It both boosts your cold damage and secondary elements depending on cold, AND always give you a separate part of cold damage. This means you can go for Viral+Heat+Cold, Blast+Cold, Corrosive+Heat+Cold, all those things for free. It unlocks Shivering Contagion builds without having to use cold mods as well, and it can also proc Primary Frostbite for example (along with that cold mod for robotics that didn't get mentioned in the video). It isn't a crit weapon, but since it's a beam weapon with very good status, it can actually dish out some good damage if you make it spam heat. Expecially if you equip Galvanized mods that you can trigger on your non-shotgun weapons. Heat inherit can also randomly occur if you hit an enemy with very strong heat proc and the companion decides to attack that same enemy. P.S. Any thoughts on the Tazicor btw?
Cryotra can accomplish a similar thing that maybe wasn't experimented with or touched on here. Modding Cryotra for toxin damage lets the grenades proc cold, toxin, and viral in an AoE. I believe Stinger can also proc corrosive, electric, and toxin in a similar way. May be a bugged interaction though.
@@guppyitsallgood I just tested those interactions. Stinger can proc Toxin despite having it combined with other elements to form Corrosive for example. Cryotra seems to behave similiarly, indeed it can proc cold but from my testing that cold proc is not very consistent, even with Shivering Contagion. Both weapons seem to have a special radial attack stat that always deal their type of damage regardless of mods. The Artax on the other hand is way better at spamming status since it's a fast beam weapon from my testing. The only way to make that crit reliably is to hit enemies affected by puncture, maybe through the Piercing Roar augment which is already very good, Roar buffs sentinel weapons anyway as well.
I find it funny that I was just thinking of fully committing to mod nautilus to help me in steel path since my nautilus rn got 2 free slots since I didn’t put forma on yet but it STILL shreds 80-90 enemies which bothered me since I was behind on the dmg ;-; but great video! Hope you can make a vid on nidus or on the what incarnons are the best to have. Keep up the work my boi 🎉
Surprised you didn’t mention huras. They actually still attack enemies while keeping themself and you invisible unlike shade who won’t attack when you are invisible. Makes playing caster type warframes an absolute blast and cake walk. And Huras can do some insane damage on it’s own.
Null Audit, the one that gives Eximus abilities, works with Manifold Bond. So when you kill a Jade Eximus and your Hound steals its ability the Jade Light procs multiple statuses.
One thing not mentioned here is the Deimos predesites and the Helminth charger. They all have a unique trait on their claws that gives them +25% damage on their claws as either toxin or viral damage, notably this isn't affected by the new elemental conversion mods, so they will always do viral/toxin damage do matter what.
Coolant leak is now really good as well, its basically arc coil with a 10s cooldown. Manifold bond essentially removes the cooldown as well. Also oxylus is pretty good for just collecting loot on the side with its precept change , especially if you're running around in the open worlds
This is going to be helpful. Just came back after maaany years and hacking my way through all those new features and types of mods and other items now available. Nice to see companions got more love now. I recently managed to get my Railjack and Necramech done and started leveling. Kinda fun those modes. Necramech doesn't seem to have so much content though but maybe I'm just really early in it. Feels like a big chunky mech with big guns, wish there would be more stuff like in a mech warrior or armored core game
Unfortunately Bite and the beast 60-60 mods were not touched in the update and are still so ludicrously rare (only drop in couple specific places in the entire game, from rarely spawning enemies, at 0.6% drop chance from those enemies...) that most players do not have them, and thus can only mod without damage types or possibly for only 1 or two. Without drop changes to these, many people are very limited in companion building.
@ImFateHI did you transmute random mods or specific mods that were related to companions? Cause I heard that transmuting let's say 4 rare stance mods has a higher chance that the mod will be a stance mod but idont know how accurate this information is
@@Gee-bg2rv Mods work on a group of factors. 4 of a kind has better odds of that kind. Rarity, polarity, and type are all influenced. Claw mods are labeled weird, listed among melee mods, so I'm not sure if that affects weighting, but you'd ideally use 4 rare V polarity claw mods for the best odds at a 60/60 claw mod.
Btw the Diriga weapons does very low damage, so swap out Assault Mode for something else then put stat stick mods like Vigiliante set on the mod spaces on the weapons you don't use.
DE cooked fantastic. Not only companions are not useless, most of them also having specialities. Eximus killer, status primer, status cleanser, crit buffer, crowd controller etc.
I hadn't seen it in action and I have already leveled and trashed all of the previously trash-worthy kubrow species but I knew from the way they had been changed that the Sunika would actually have real mission usage so I was back to breeding this patch, lol. Glad to see it's getting a chance to shine.
My puppy, Lucy, may not seem like much, she may not be some super unique dog, but I adore her, I've had her for years, and she protects me with her life. Can't ask for more than that🤗🖤
Kinda sad you didn't mentioned the huras kubrow and the shade sentinel, as both are perfect for survivability with essentially perma invisibility for frames that mainly use their abilities to kill (i.e. khora, voruna, xaku, atlas etc)
Moa's are still my favorite. Sentinal weapon rework is amazing. A para moa with duplex bond, manifold bond, contagious bond, whiplash mine, and the tazicor is great for CC, status procs and finishers.
No one talked about them at all but to tbf they barely got touched I was hoping they would get more love I mainly use blast shield and whiplash mine not sure what to use
I still feel Carrier is slept on for the fact people forget it exists after seeing what other pets provide status stacking wise. Cryotra is a bit janky compaired to before but definetly a nice touch as it is a fan favorite of mine as I discovered it thanks to a riven by accident and went for it. Tips for cold builds: Arcanes that are about cold all take into effect if your pet deals the cold so primary frostbite will trigger on this as well as secondary shiver and if you have it frozen targets give your warframe ability if you use that arcane as well. Cold builds are buffed by high critical and puncture builds respectively I've ran corosive cold on my Kuva Sobek with the mods mentioned in a prior video. If you run it with Galv multi with vigilante multi you can combo it with the multi and crit cold arcane and have close to 55 pellets per shot after landing your 40 cold status hits. This alone allows you to melt most targets with sheer volume fire. I messed with it as a joke originally and thanks to cryotra the damn gun turned out to be one of my most nastiest weapons. Due to cold not really doing well against eximus I paid it with a secondary fortifier and Synoid Gammacor incarnon (10.3k dmg to target with 8x dmg to overguard, return 1 overguard per 100 dmg delt to overguard). Personally I think secondaries are a great choice for a eximus delete option thanks to that arcane and there are plenty of super good secondaries that can follow that up! I used Tennet Plinx with electricity progenator to make it corosive base and I had to make a second one magnetic because both were too hard to pass on. I dont run extra loot pets because I want to invest into team play or for "tactical target delete" (Eximus elimination), I'll run 2 or 3 more times to get the item personally. Though I do get the apeal of 30% chance of additonal loot when its a hard grind...
Interesting idea related to companions. I just wanna remind that on other builds of dethcube you can use the signature weapon a gas punch through plus minus accuracy build that works a bit similar to heltrum aoe trigger for energy supply. Related to hounds it’s always an issue which hound build etc it’s a ok standard for example you can use the melee main weapons of the hound to stack up full of status and condition overload to give the ability with the bond mods to kill other enemies Funfact related to companions, I think it was Vicious bond mod that armor strips partly an enemy, either swipe you could theoretically let the Panzer/kavat/sly shred group of enemies and with khora there’s a potential larger armor strip
sunika was my favorite kubrow previously just because it was my first one and my longtime companion in the game, and she came out looking like a big hyena. Now Socks is also incredibly strong and blows up even quite high level eximus units
I feel like all lists forget shade. My hot take i guess but on ability spamming Warframe like Dante , Xaku and Dagath with shade, shield gating is just secondary defense since you are almost permanently invisible
Keep in mind that the clones from Duplex Bond cannot activate abilities (not even passives), so they are a mere distraction and added damage/status procs. I'd also like to mention the following information: - While testing, I noticed that Tandem Bond on a Panzer gets you to 12x combo in no time, which makes it perfect for melee builds. - The Mecha Set on a Huras is quite fun, since the Kubrow makes you invisible, and then you just have to look for the marked target to blow the whole room (very easy to do with a Chakkurr). - Vasca Kavats with Contagious Bond have the potential to create a chain reaction where the whole room bleeds to death (They are the bleed procs cat, since they do 5 stacks with a single use of their skill). - I've not tested this yet myself, but I saw a video on Reddit where someone had the Strain Consume mod, and it kept adding max HP into them until the code crashed and got the user into negative HP (and yes, the player died when that happened). I've still not tested predasites, but they seem to be focused on status and honestly, seem to remain on the bottom of the pets selection. - Vizier has the highest status chance (30%), terrible crit chance (5%) and their claws do corrosive + impact, they can heal you with their spores and their spit is a CC for a single unit. Their skills are not that great honestly. - Medjay has the lowest status chance (20%) and the highest crit chance of the predasites (10%, so yeah, their crit sucks overall), and their claws do Slash + Viral. Skill wise, they are focused on CC with a dash that stuns enemies on a wide area, and spores that explode on a very small AoE after absorbing enough damage (or enough time has passed). - Pharaoh sits in the middle (25% status and 7.5% crit) and they do puncture + gas. Their spores add +100% toxic damage to your attacks (which combines with any element you might have on) and they spit a parasite on an enemy that spawns tentacles to any target within 10m slowing them (50%), which acts as a sort of CC. If anything, I think this one is the one with the most potential for chaos because you can do Viral, Heat and Gas, and then have them spread through contagion bond (and as a bonus, it will CC with it0s 50% slow).
moas mentioned 🥳 iirc you can run ALL specific moa mods on any moa, granted you have them. So if you don't like para moa's head, you can build one just to get the mods from it, then build a different one Also diriga is my favorite sentinel design, I really hope we get a prime or kuva/wraith variant. Helios is corpus but it got a prime so... we can hope
Not that I disagree with the panzer build, I just like my buffer panzer, here's the build: Tenacious Bond: +1.2x Final CD Multiplier Reinforced Bond: +60% Fire Rate Calculated Redirection: Only rank9 is needed to proc Reinforced Bond, and no Forma is needed, if its rank10 you'll need to forma it once. # Retriever: Depends on you Martyr Symbiosis: Free revive Viral Quills, Panzer Devolution: Free Viral Damage (Primed) Animal Instinct, Fetch: Always good that's 9/10mods, I use Tek Assualt for last one but it is not needed. To proc Tenacious Bond, you need Bite on your claw for it to work
there is some more that should have been in the list like suhasa kubrow for invisibility with caster frames and chesa kubrow for looting with new mod + it's own augment however this is still a very amazing list.
De made artax to always keep 1 cold damage, so it spread cold regardless of elements. carrier has a mod that break container in an area around, making looting easier. oxylus has a mod to break and collect loot from containers from far away.
Technically u can have diriga proc 8 statuses if u pop on coolant leak combo it with shivering contagion, then mod ur lazor rifle for viral heat radiation and technically for the fun of it u can add the aero perifory mod and add some sleep in there too for style points.
May I suggest looking into the new Multron? It's like a Helstrum but trades ailments for power and enough crit to feasible proc Tenacious Bond with a Riven (which goes for cheap, apparently). It's explosion also forces stagger, so it can keep a small group of enemies pinned down.
I really wish we could find a better way to say something is "very strong" other than calling it broken. Nothing in this video is so OP it needs fixing. There are zero broken things on display here.
Second this, Tazicor is great as a budget Diriga, having hitscan AoE priming while running around with the chaining beams, and you can put it on any sentinel so you can actually run other useful abilities rather than being locked to the arc coil.
I highly recommend to use Verglas Prime over Cryotra on any Nautilus Prime builds. Because why freezing enemies if you can simply kill them instantly. It is also the only weapon combination on a sentinel where you can get more than 50% companion crit chance to trigger the 1.2x final crit damage multiplier for your Warframe. This synergi is insane! Also add reinforced bond to give you a whopping +60% fire rate boost.
@@KhristianM. not sure what you mean. Verglas beam spreads over other nearby enemies. My Nautilus / Verglas setup can kill a group of 20x level 185 Orokin heavy gunners in a matter of 3-4 seconds.
Hi! I just wanted to ask some questions regarding some of the builds, and was hoping you (or someone) could clarify! 1. On the Adarza Claws build you seem to build for viral, but then you have Chilling Claws. Doesn't the new elemental Claws mods cause all elemental damage to just be one element, i.e. no combined elements, i.e. it's no longer viral since it is all converted to cold now? 2. When you say you are running magnetic on the claws, are you just referring to the impact -> magnetic from e.g. Bell Ringer and Magnetic Strike? Since on the Sunika Kubrow you have a cold mod as well, but no electricity mod. Also for the Panzer Vulpa you say it's corrosive, but I only see an electricity mod and no toxin mod? 3. I think all beast builds were using Pack Leader and Reinforced Bond, even when not hitting 1200 shields. Is it only for the reload to restore overguard functionality?
I've been using a MOA since shortly after I started playing (2019), so seeing MOAs mentioned at all makes me happy. Though, if you don't mind me asking, is Stasis Field worth running? I like to use Blast Shield as well to give my MOA more survivability, so I'm struggling to pick whether to go with Stasis Field or Whiplash Mine.
It's a shame that smeeta is still the best for getting loot. Would be fun to have some flexibility but giving up rare resources for some token meme damage just seems silly. Excellent video as always
I really hope they buff Spare Parts or allow Retriever mods to be equipped on Sentinels, because right now I have no reason to use a Sentinel in most content. I need *loot,* I can kill things just fine.
It was mentioned in the comments that Diriga's arc coil will proc Archon Stretch. So will the claw mod that turns all statuses into Electricity. It was also mentioned that you missed the Huras Kubrow, I'm surprised this was missed due to the high increase you get on the Huras for crit chance, crit multiplier and status chance if you use an appropriate weapon that will increase these, such as the Paris Prime or the Kohm.
Fun fact when i first played warframe back in 2013 i bought a Dethcube for platinum cause i didnt understand how the currency worked and i quit the game after the dethcube dissapointed me lol
Just moved from Destiny 2 to Warframe. Even though I am 11 years behind everyone, I am really enjoying this game and learning a lot from your videos. Thank you.
You're not behind, you're blessed with all the adventure ahead of you
The best time to play is right now
No need to worry, it took me just 3 months to catch up. You can pull it off too
Same lol
Been playing for a few months now and still feel like a noob though 😅😂
You have the advantage of experiencing the story for the very first time, you’re in for a treat :)
2:20 panzer
3:41 sunika
5:13 adarza
5:42 nautilus
7:53 bhaira hound
8:55 wyrm
10:03 diriga
11:23 dethcube
12:10 smeeta
13:10 raksa
14:03 honorable mentions
My favorite is vasca kavat, why every 2 min I get a free revive. The rest my frame can handle it.
I tend to play tank frames or invisible frames and sometime I get killed by toxic or an upsi so yes a free revive is super handy
Thank you for the stamps
Ty!!
Have a nice weekend
@@chamucolizvaska is so underrated. It's a must run on titania, and outside of her, free revives are excellent for general play on other frames
Finally, a companion guide. I was waiting for this, so much was added to them this update.
Hope it helps!
@@WarframeFlo I dont understand why is it better than nautilus or taxon default weapon so please explain
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i clicked on this video before my notifications told me it was released
Hehe thank you!
One extra synergy about Diriga you missed: Arc Coil procs Archon Stretch.
Yup. That means even running Diriga will ensure you will have +2 Energy Regen/s on all the time, if you have the mod capacity on your Warframe.
Thats actually pretty good i didnt know that!
@@WarframeFloThis also works with Theorem/Residual Arcanes if you give summoned allies Electricity!
It should be noted that pretty much everything that is valid for Diriga's Arc Coil is also valid for Hounds' Synergized Prospectus. The difference is basically between choosing a good sentinel weapon or general utility with the Hound.
@@WarframeFlo Synergized Prospectus also does the same thing, in case that wasn't mentioned in the video either. I believe any companion ability with electric added via Manifold Bond also activates it.
Diriga will not proc archon stretch. That was nerfed. But it did at one time.
On the other hand this video does miss one HUGE synergy with Diriga. Arc coil+manifold bond+mystic bond= Free ability casts every few seconds.
Give diriga a verglas modded with fire, viral, contagious bond, fired up and he can proc this easily.
For resources specifically, the Chesha Kubrow is king now. Retrieve is essentially a mini Nekros Desecrate, although unfortunately you can't reduce the CD on a beast.
Chesa the way to go resource farming
Awful claws, though. I'll take my room clearing crit/status linked mecha sunika with 300% status chance and contagious bond to mini nuke. Now that the dogs can actually kill meaningful amounts and levels of stuff, I think you get a lot more loot support out of the extra kpm offered than you get out of 6 discount desecrates per minute and no extra kills.
Yep. Smeeta was my most used companion, now I only have him on when leveling. Chesa is about to take his spot in my profile now. RIP smeeta
i did the calculations but maybe double check. An average mob has a 7% resource drop chance (i just checked butcher, leaper, and heavy gunner on the wiki), and chesa has a 45% chance to get a resource, so one cast is worth 45/7 = ~6.5 kills. It casts every 10 seconds so you get 65kpm worth of resources out of it. That seems worth it to me. I doubt you'd get that kind of kpm from any companion unless you aren't killing anything in your warframe
yeah taking a pet for their damage over their utility is insane lol. unless you're doing some kind of challenge run of course
I love how you include beginner builds in almost all of your videos you are a life saver compared to the other ccs 😭 thank you sm for your work ❤
I love how flo always makes videos short and educative, he doesn't waste time talking about whatever, instead he gets straight to the point
Chesa Kubrow is the new Farming dogo. Has a 30 meter "Desecrate" with a 10s CD, you can put a Retriever mod, has a 10M disarm ability... great companion
3:01 YOU CAN SHOOT THAT?!
i was shooooked too!
Bro, for real, i just roll away, thats more simple 😂
Yep!
I don't even need gymnastics now for that thing.
Bruh, it was literally written in patch notes when Jade update dropped that you can shoot that...
I have personally been loving Huras Kubrow for ability based warframes just permanent invisibility while nuking rooms as grendel or Garuda. I should also just mention that claws are insane honestly the amount of nuking my kubrows can do by themselves is crazy.
I wished Helminth Charger could've been most powerful pet, the origin from a warframe implies they can have warframe powers.
Same! I still use the helminth charger with my nidus, just cuz they look cool together.
I’m pretty they are no? I’ve been running strain set and it adds a 240 damage buff, on top of any other buffs or damage boost
He's very powerful right now, especially if you run him with HP frames.
You and TheKengineer are the two main wf channels I watch, thanks for these teaching videos!
I recently was able to get good enough gear to start doing Void Cascade in Steel Path, hoping to take it to level cap eventually.
Aznvasionplays makes some top tier builds that are worth your time. Full explanations, and felxibility with most builds. Give him a look.
On the Adarza I recommend Elusive posture. You mostly care about the buff and that will help keep it alive. The Duplex clones will STILL ATTACK. Meaning you can both keep your cat alive and take advantage of the claws.
The Artax is very strong now. Yes, the Taxon weapon. Its unique perk now says that regardless of its elements, it always adds a 20% Cold to damage. It both boosts your cold damage and secondary elements depending on cold, AND always give you a separate part of cold damage.
This means you can go for Viral+Heat+Cold, Blast+Cold, Corrosive+Heat+Cold, all those things for free. It unlocks Shivering Contagion builds without having to use cold mods as well, and it can also proc Primary Frostbite for example (along with that cold mod for robotics that didn't get mentioned in the video).
It isn't a crit weapon, but since it's a beam weapon with very good status, it can actually dish out some good damage if you make it spam heat. Expecially if you equip Galvanized mods that you can trigger on your non-shotgun weapons. Heat inherit can also randomly occur if you hit an enemy with very strong heat proc and the companion decides to attack that same enemy.
P.S. Any thoughts on the Tazicor btw?
Cryotra can accomplish a similar thing that maybe wasn't experimented with or touched on here. Modding Cryotra for toxin damage lets the grenades proc cold, toxin, and viral in an AoE. I believe Stinger can also proc corrosive, electric, and toxin in a similar way. May be a bugged interaction though.
@@guppyitsallgood I just tested those interactions. Stinger can proc Toxin despite having it combined with other elements to form Corrosive for example.
Cryotra seems to behave similiarly, indeed it can proc cold but from my testing that cold proc is not very consistent, even with Shivering Contagion. Both weapons seem to have a special radial attack stat that always deal their type of damage regardless of mods.
The Artax on the other hand is way better at spamming status since it's a fast beam weapon from my testing. The only way to make that crit reliably is to hit enemies affected by puncture, maybe through the Piercing Roar augment which is already very good, Roar buffs sentinel weapons anyway as well.
I find it funny that I was just thinking of fully committing to mod nautilus to help me in steel path since my nautilus rn got 2 free slots since I didn’t put forma on yet but it STILL shreds 80-90 enemies which bothered me since I was behind on the dmg ;-; but great video! Hope you can make a vid on nidus or on the what incarnons are the best to have. Keep up the work my boi 🎉
Surprised you didn’t mention huras. They actually still attack enemies while keeping themself and you invisible unlike shade who won’t attack when you are invisible. Makes playing caster type warframes an absolute blast and cake walk. And Huras can do some insane damage on it’s own.
Null Audit, the one that gives Eximus abilities, works with Manifold Bond. So when you kill a Jade Eximus and your Hound steals its ability the Jade Light procs multiple statuses.
One thing not mentioned here is the Deimos predesites and the Helminth charger. They all have a unique trait on their claws that gives them +25% damage on their claws as either toxin or viral damage, notably this isn't affected by the new elemental conversion mods, so they will always do viral/toxin damage do matter what.
“Predasites” *shows a picture of a Vulpaphyla
That, my friend, is what we call a floment
Hehe
Coolant leak is now really good as well, its basically arc coil with a 10s cooldown. Manifold bond essentially removes the cooldown as well.
Also oxylus is pretty good for just collecting loot on the side with its precept change , especially if you're running around in the open worlds
This is going to be helpful. Just came back after maaany years and hacking my way through all those new features and types of mods and other items now available. Nice to see companions got more love now. I recently managed to get my Railjack and Necramech done and started leveling. Kinda fun those modes. Necramech doesn't seem to have so much content though but maybe I'm just really early in it. Feels like a big chunky mech with big guns, wish there would be more stuff like in a mech warrior or armored core game
Amazing tips on the cryotra. Love the thing. Tx a bunch
I just got back into the game after some years so I appreciate this a lot
Unfortunately Bite and the beast 60-60 mods were not touched in the update and are still so ludicrously rare (only drop in couple specific places in the entire game, from rarely spawning enemies, at 0.6% drop chance from those enemies...) that most players do not have them, and thus can only mod without damage types or possibly for only 1 or two. Without drop changes to these, many people are very limited in companion building.
I got lucky that I got bite, shock n venom from transmuting mods. I only do it when I have a stock of rare mods to combine.
@@ImFateHI I have bite, venom, and frost due to lucky drops when farming Profit taker and such, but I will likely never have shock or flame.
@ImFateHI did you transmute random mods or specific mods that were related to companions? Cause I heard that transmuting let's say 4 rare stance mods has a higher chance that the mod will be a stance mod but idont know how accurate this information is
@@Gee-bg2rv Mods work on a group of factors. 4 of a kind has better odds of that kind. Rarity, polarity, and type are all influenced. Claw mods are labeled weird, listed among melee mods, so I'm not sure if that affects weighting, but you'd ideally use 4 rare V polarity claw mods for the best odds at a 60/60 claw mod.
@@ImFateHIAyy fellow Spiral Knights player
Been hoping to see a companion guide after the latest update. Thanks!
If hounds get postures, I will be very excited.
Love your videos❤. Keep going!
Thank you
Thank you for making this updated and informative guide 🎉
Btw the Diriga weapons does very low damage, so swap out Assault Mode for something else then put stat stick mods like Vigiliante set on the mod spaces on the weapons you don't use.
Diriga is more suited for priming
I'm coming back to Warframe after a very long time (carrier was meta and nobody used companion weapons), perfect timing. I need to break the habit.
Wasn’t mentioned, but Archon Stretch benefits from Diriga’s electric ability. It can print energy for you!
The Sahasa Kubrow is very slept on. It digging up energy orbs combined with arcane energize is great for energy.
My kavat became a resource monster making fishing and mining crazy fast. And yeah Nautilus Prime plays the game for you
DE cooked fantastic. Not only companions are not useless, most of them also having specialities. Eximus killer, status primer, status cleanser, crit buffer, crowd controller etc.
I hadn't seen it in action and I have already leveled and trashed all of the previously trash-worthy kubrow species but I knew from the way they had been changed that the Sunika would actually have real mission usage so I was back to breeding this patch, lol.
Glad to see it's getting a chance to shine.
My puppy, Lucy, may not seem like much, she may not be some super unique dog, but I adore her, I've had her for years, and she protects me with her life. Can't ask for more than that🤗🖤
Kinda sad you didn't mentioned the huras kubrow and the shade sentinel, as both are perfect for survivability with essentially perma invisibility for frames that mainly use their abilities to kill (i.e. khora, voruna, xaku, atlas etc)
Indeed
I may not have mentioned it but others can still use it :)
All those frames don’t die anyway so nothing special about invis tbh
RIP smeeta you have served me faithfully for years
I came back recently after close to a Year off. Definitely helpful man. No game like Warframe
Moa's are still my favorite. Sentinal weapon rework is amazing. A para moa with duplex bond, manifold bond, contagious bond, whiplash mine, and the tazicor is great for CC, status procs and finishers.
No one talked about them at all but to tbf they barely got touched I was hoping they would get more love I mainly use blast shield and whiplash mine not sure what to use
@@Shocefire They're unfortunately overshadowed by Hounds, since Hounds are basically their cooler badass cousins.
@@walkelftexasranger the fact they get both sentinel and beast mods is nice ig
Umbra epitaph with encumber + hound spamming status =fun operator shenanigans up to lvl cap
There is an electric weapon for companions now that fires chaining beams might be great for deathcube
I still feel Carrier is slept on for the fact people forget it exists after seeing what other pets provide status stacking wise. Cryotra is a bit janky compaired to before but definetly a nice touch as it is a fan favorite of mine as I discovered it thanks to a riven by accident and went for it.
Tips for cold builds:
Arcanes that are about cold all take into effect if your pet deals the cold so primary frostbite will trigger on this as well as secondary shiver and if you have it frozen targets give your warframe ability if you use that arcane as well.
Cold builds are buffed by high critical and puncture builds respectively
I've ran corosive cold on my Kuva Sobek with the mods mentioned in a prior video. If you run it with Galv multi with vigilante multi you can combo it with the multi and crit cold arcane and have close to 55 pellets per shot after landing your 40 cold status hits. This alone allows you to melt most targets with sheer volume fire. I messed with it as a joke originally and thanks to cryotra the damn gun turned out to be one of my most nastiest weapons. Due to cold not really doing well against eximus I paid it with a secondary fortifier and Synoid Gammacor incarnon (10.3k dmg to target with 8x dmg to overguard, return 1 overguard per 100 dmg delt to overguard). Personally I think secondaries are a great choice for a eximus delete option thanks to that arcane and there are plenty of super good secondaries that can follow that up! I used Tennet Plinx with electricity progenator to make it corosive base and I had to make a second one magnetic because both were too hard to pass on.
I dont run extra loot pets because I want to invest into team play or for "tactical target delete" (Eximus elimination), I'll run 2 or 3 more times to get the item personally. Though I do get the apeal of 30% chance of additonal loot when its a hard grind...
Interesting idea related to companions. I just wanna remind that on other builds of dethcube you can use the signature weapon a gas punch through plus minus accuracy build that works a bit similar to heltrum aoe trigger for energy supply.
Related to hounds it’s always an issue which hound build etc it’s a ok standard for example you can use the melee main weapons of the hound to stack up full of status and condition overload to give the ability with the bond mods to kill other enemies
Funfact related to companions, I think it was Vicious bond mod that armor strips partly an enemy, either swipe you could theoretically let the Panzer/kavat/sly shred group of enemies and with khora there’s a potential larger armor strip
sunika was my favorite kubrow previously just because it was my first one and my longtime companion in the game, and she came out looking like a big hyena. Now Socks is also incredibly strong and blows up even quite high level eximus units
you'll have to take my Carrier Prime from my dead cold hands
Try something new. Carrier prime is really falling behind. It's game changing.
@@Senaphur1992nah actually😂
I've been testing with smeeta since update. The "swipe" mod is really good, you get x5 damage against grouped up enemies and a lot more procs.
Not even mentioning seismic bond on panzer is insane
Hound and Diriga are energy power plants. I got hound from first sister I killed I've been using it since. Insane damage and priming dog.
I feel like all lists forget shade. My hot take i guess but on ability spamming Warframe like Dante , Xaku and Dagath with shade, shield gating is just secondary defense since you are almost permanently invisible
I hope the invisibility mechanic is fixed. Otherwise Huras has been better.
@@A_Game_ZoneI heard they fixed the problem where shade only targets one enemy. Don’t know how effective he his though
@@kvab24 Yeah, that was the problem with shade, good to know.
I love shade!
This is a great video!
Keep in mind that the clones from Duplex Bond cannot activate abilities (not even passives), so they are a mere distraction and added damage/status procs.
I'd also like to mention the following information:
- While testing, I noticed that Tandem Bond on a Panzer gets you to 12x combo in no time, which makes it perfect for melee builds.
- The Mecha Set on a Huras is quite fun, since the Kubrow makes you invisible, and then you just have to look for the marked target to blow the whole room (very easy to do with a Chakkurr).
- Vasca Kavats with Contagious Bond have the potential to create a chain reaction where the whole room bleeds to death (They are the bleed procs cat, since they do 5 stacks with a single use of their skill).
- I've not tested this yet myself, but I saw a video on Reddit where someone had the Strain Consume mod, and it kept adding max HP into them until the code crashed and got the user into negative HP (and yes, the player died when that happened).
I've still not tested predasites, but they seem to be focused on status and honestly, seem to remain on the bottom of the pets selection.
- Vizier has the highest status chance (30%), terrible crit chance (5%) and their claws do corrosive + impact, they can heal you with their spores and their spit is a CC for a single unit. Their skills are not that great honestly.
- Medjay has the lowest status chance (20%) and the highest crit chance of the predasites (10%, so yeah, their crit sucks overall), and their claws do Slash + Viral. Skill wise, they are focused on CC with a dash that stuns enemies on a wide area, and spores that explode on a very small AoE after absorbing enough damage (or enough time has passed).
- Pharaoh sits in the middle (25% status and 7.5% crit) and they do puncture + gas. Their spores add +100% toxic damage to your attacks (which combines with any element you might have on) and they spit a parasite on an enemy that spawns tentacles to any target within 10m slowing them (50%), which acts as a sort of CC. If anything, I think this one is the one with the most potential for chaos because you can do Viral, Heat and Gas, and then have them spread through contagion bond (and as a bonus, it will CC with it0s 50% slow).
do you have a build for the Pharaoh Predasite?
@@GunsmokeXV All I have is this WIP, improvised build.
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I use the Oxylus for fishing because it's a free Luminus Dye with the "scan aquatic lifeforms" mod
moas mentioned 🥳
iirc you can run ALL specific moa mods on any moa, granted you have them. So if you don't like para moa's head, you can build one just to get the mods from it, then build a different one
Also diriga is my favorite sentinel design, I really hope we get a prime or kuva/wraith variant. Helios is corpus but it got a prime so... we can hope
oh yeah also "spare parts" works for sentinels to get you a bit extra loot, if you have the space for the mod
I like having access to Huras Kubrow for turning any caster frame into an invisibility frame.
6:43 this synergy would be 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 wit frost and his biting frost augmet S/N: I see u mention this a few secs later lol
had a moment to say "i didnt like the cold anyway"
Not that I disagree with the panzer build, I just like my buffer panzer, here's the build:
Tenacious Bond: +1.2x Final CD Multiplier
Reinforced Bond: +60% Fire Rate
Calculated Redirection: Only rank9 is needed to proc Reinforced Bond, and no Forma is needed, if its rank10 you'll need to forma it once.
# Retriever: Depends on you
Martyr Symbiosis: Free revive
Viral Quills, Panzer Devolution: Free Viral Damage
(Primed) Animal Instinct, Fetch: Always good
that's 9/10mods, I use Tek Assualt for last one but it is not needed.
To proc Tenacious Bond, you need Bite on your claw for it to work
there is some more that should have been in the list like suhasa kubrow for invisibility with caster frames and chesa kubrow for looting with new mod + it's own augment however this is still a very amazing list.
De made artax to always keep 1 cold damage, so it spread cold regardless of elements.
carrier has a mod that break container in an area around, making looting easier.
oxylus has a mod to break and collect loot from containers from far away.
they need a way to block certain buffs with an equipped weapon. if you get a crit buff on a no-crit encarnon it'll nerf you.
Since Carrier release im using only this companion, not worrying about ammo is just too good.
Technically u can have diriga proc 8 statuses if u pop on coolant leak combo it with shivering contagion, then mod ur lazor rifle for viral heat radiation and technically for the fun of it u can add the aero perifory mod and add some sleep in there too for style points.
diriga is great for energy sustain too. Synth Deconstruct means the zappy thing will be generating tons of orbs.
Arc coil + archon stretch gives passive 2 energy/sec regen to warframes without electrical abilities.
May I suggest looking into the new Multron? It's like a Helstrum but trades ailments for power and enough crit to feasible proc Tenacious Bond with a Riven (which goes for cheap, apparently). It's explosion also forces stagger, so it can keep a small group of enemies pinned down.
U skipped one important kubrow which has desecrate ability ;-) But nice, good video!
Pharaoh Predasite with Mecha Mod set is pretty good now too 😊
Adarza's reflect mod + evasive posture mod has good survivability
well if you have the broken arcane magus repair you are never gonna die anyways unless one shot which wont happen with shield gating and overguard
I really wish we could find a better way to say something is "very strong" other than calling it broken. Nothing in this video is so OP it needs fixing. There are zero broken things on display here.
Broken, busted, god roll, and godly have been overly misused since 2014 its fucking ridiculous.
Awesome video as usual. One big miss is the Tazicor though! I did some testing and the tazicor with elec and gas (and radiation) is disgusting.
Second this, Tazicor is great as a budget Diriga, having hitscan AoE priming while running around with the chaining beams, and you can put it on any sentinel so you can actually run other useful abilities rather than being locked to the arc coil.
@@KoiosDusklight definitely, I particularly like it with dethcube (free hits on enemies) or carrier (if you need ammo sustain). Also on any moa
Mostly i use hound now. Those status effects so satisifying for CO build.
^^ use mine for buffs to operator the speaking ball and the laser they have is too good
Huras Kubrow is so good. Stealth + highest dmg claws (20% crit chance and 3.5x Crti Dmg base)
On beast, duplex + contagion + vicious bond with frenzied posture gives them a Melee Influence effect and you dont need 100% sc.
Interesting gonna have to try this
I highly recommend to use Verglas Prime over Cryotra on any Nautilus Prime builds. Because why freezing enemies if you can simply kill them instantly. It is also the only weapon combination on a sentinel where you can get more than 50% companion crit chance to trigger the 1.2x final crit damage multiplier for your Warframe. This synergi is insane! Also add reinforced bond to give you a whopping +60% fire rate boost.
you need riven to make verglas over 50%
@@jpvillanueva7346 That is correct. I should have mentioned that.
Freezing is AOE , verglass killing needs a bit more setup than just freeze,
@@KhristianM. not sure what you mean. Verglas beam spreads over other nearby enemies. My Nautilus / Verglas setup can kill a group of 20x level 185 Orokin heavy gunners in a matter of 3-4 seconds.
I've been using the predasites a lot since the rework
thanks i have a companion attacking with machine gun like me . didnt bother much on others
I was wondering what you were gonna do with this video and its topics...😂
Playing with adarza just to slap resource retriever in her... those "x2" in the bottom of the screen is vicious
Hi! I just wanted to ask some questions regarding some of the builds, and was hoping you (or someone) could clarify!
1. On the Adarza Claws build you seem to build for viral, but then you have Chilling Claws. Doesn't the new elemental Claws mods cause all elemental damage to just be one element, i.e. no combined elements, i.e. it's no longer viral since it is all converted to cold now?
2. When you say you are running magnetic on the claws, are you just referring to the impact -> magnetic from e.g. Bell Ringer and Magnetic Strike? Since on the Sunika Kubrow you have a cold mod as well, but no electricity mod. Also for the Panzer Vulpa you say it's corrosive, but I only see an electricity mod and no toxin mod?
3. I think all beast builds were using Pack Leader and Reinforced Bond, even when not hitting 1200 shields. Is it only for the reload to restore overguard functionality?
Adarza, panzer, and deathcube are my favs
robo hound has been my go to for the past 6 months. too good of priming and energy sustain to change
nice video❤
can you make a cestra build video 😊
No Helminth Charger?
It got a big buff with the Strain mod set.
Maybe a guide on Helminth charger?
I've been using a MOA since shortly after I started playing (2019), so seeing MOAs mentioned at all makes me happy. Though, if you don't mind me asking, is Stasis Field worth running? I like to use Blast Shield as well to give my MOA more survivability, so I'm struggling to pick whether to go with Stasis Field or Whiplash Mine.
It's a shame that smeeta is still the best for getting loot. Would be fun to have some flexibility but giving up rare resources for some token meme damage just seems silly. Excellent video as always
No it isn't, the Cheska kubrow is the best for loot now
@@WiiSage You mean with Retrieve? Maybe for early game
I really hope they buff Spare Parts or allow Retriever mods to be equipped on Sentinels, because right now I have no reason to use a Sentinel in most content. I need *loot,* I can kill things just fine.
Tenno with verglas prime riven looking at that nautilus prime build be like:
Pathetic...
My goat
I used to use the panzer vualpiphia just bc it was imortal vacuum and now i still use it but for its intended purpose plus the new loot bonus mod
It was mentioned in the comments that Diriga's arc coil will proc Archon Stretch. So will the claw mod that turns all statuses into Electricity. It was also mentioned that you missed the Huras Kubrow, I'm surprised this was missed due to the high increase you get on the Huras for crit chance, crit multiplier and status chance if you use an appropriate weapon that will increase these, such as the Paris Prime or the Kohm.
Thank you!
The hound is so much better than what you have stumbled on here, ive been using it for a while, can turn it into a 2.1b dot spreader
Fun fact when i first played warframe back in 2013 i bought a Dethcube for platinum cause i didnt understand how the currency worked and i quit the game after the dethcube dissapointed me lol
Nice video
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Thanks I’m always looking at increasing CC
adarza can buff allies sounds OP to me