I agree that damage scaling should be rebalanced, but that sources of DR should be adjusted as well to something like 50-75% max on self and 25-50% max on ally targets. Expecting 90% damage resistance or invincibility on most frames is pretty extreme and makes more creative kits that aren't focused on numbers less viable. If damage output of enemies was reduced, squishy frames would be less reliant on shield gating or other forms of functional invulnerability to be viable, and those strategies could be nerfed in conjunction to be relegated to "oh shit" buttons that you need to put some thought into.

For some reason mesa’s regulators have a riven dispositions three

You may say these are obvious, but I'm sure many people did not in fact know Trinity was a character that existed. Ignore the fact I've made this comment post rework

chroma wants to have a chat

Hey quick question I always come to you cause your the best with helping new players but I have two normal warframes that I wanna gift to new players but everyone says I can only sell them cause there not prime is there any other way? So I can gift them.

I have to say Mecha lavos is slept on. Get a kubrow that hunts eximus. Then you got a tank and nuke all in one.

Thanks SO much for making this, always knew DR had lot more going for it than others thought but now I really know how it works ❤

I mean there's a lot eximus spawning more than normally

I'm here literally just to see coolkid shadowbox the 10 year old tech most of these exalts have

Chalky Chair

Assimilate now also makes you invincible

I guess is time for an updated tier list

I love running Radiation/Viral or Corrosive/Radiation/Heat on Exalted blade cus it just makes no sense

I just want to solo level cap all content with excalibur exalted blade but man it seems impossible

I dont know if ypu know this but valkyr can proc and benefit from the gladiator set with her claws. I run gladiator might on her claws with some of the other gladiator mods equiped to my melee and warframe

Let’s go walk latch !!!

watching this video louder than my girlfriends playing Ptolemaea by Ethel Cain so I don't get scared

If anyone wants to try a weird non-meta setup (if you could ever even call Excalibur “meta”) I’ve found that Chroma’s Elemental Ward with the cold color + adaptation makes Excalibur pretty tanky. You get a lot of armor anyway from the umbral mods so leaning into that just felt right.

ty, very informative

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1:35:20 what about dreamers bond

This is the video i needed to see I have been struggling so hard with survivability in high end content with everything other than shield gating and invisibility. I want to use my other frames, but i never knew how to get them to survive Thanks for this video

This video makes a lot of good points. Furthermore, I'd suggest that DR setups are actually more forgiving most of the time. Shield-gating can make you unkillable if you play perfectly, but if you lose focus for 2 seconds you die. If you had been playing a DR setup instead you would just be down to 92% HP. KEKW Also, H-09 Apex asks, "How's that shield gating thing working while you can't cast?"

Chroma isn't even a warframe.

youtube has been hiding this zesty warframe youtuber from me

17:17 bro 😂

My favourites are Mesa's Regulators and Titania's Dex Pixia (dual autopistols). The former because I built it with the most basic mods yet it melted high-level enemies, that now I upgraded with Mesa Prime and proper galvanized mods. The latter just because they're by default really pack a punch

If you think DR is dead you don't know how to use Baruuk the right way. Not only does his daggers apply up to 90% dr to him and his allies they also disarm the enemy. and yes his dr applies even to over guard

Im glad we have multiple loadouts too. I agree with heat being best, but I love the look of lightning so if im going low lever stuff for fun or farming, Ill run electricity.

This is the first time I've paid attention to WF in years so I guess I'm just using this to see what i missed in terms of new frames

0:35 its a skill issue, you dont have to respect the opinion of fools speak such nonsense.

15:41 Especially with the Jade shadows update, in those Exams units burn straight through 20000 overguard. If I'm not paying attention and avidly searching them out but it's hard when every 5th enemy is a Jade eximus unit.

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The biggest problem with cc is you do it with epitaph slow on 1 shot. Why use an ability

I love these discussions, thx!

listening to the intro I was assuming people where refering to level cap content. In base steel path tanking with any strategy is trivial.

This is how I felt when I started Steel Path not knowing my 4000 damage rifle wasn't gonna cut it

my excal's survivability is killing the enemies before they kill me

Shieldgating (especially back in the days with the decaying key) was a way to make any frame instantly immortal with little to no extra effort. I think that was and partly still is the main argument for shield gating as opposed to DR.

Also should be noted about Gauss, is that melee attacks also charge his battery!

oh thank god nobody knows about how strong yareli is still. phew.

Question: why. In the fuck. Doesnt mags passive interact with MAGNETIC

1 Note I would add for 'Invincibility' like Mesa's 3rd ability quirk, is that Zephyr can also tank bullet shots, but not melee, with her 3rd ability

24:53 Nearly 10 years of playing... countless random youtube videos, 1,600 hours in the game, and this is the first time I've ever heard this... I both hate that it's so hidden and love the fact I'm still learning new things about this game after all this time, that's wild

When i first saw the thumbnail I didn't see how cool the X is, subtle yet effective

46:05 "bosses not being able to be CCed" Nova molecular prime casually inflicting most dangerous mobs (including bosses) with 75% Slow:

Something I haven't seen anyone talk about anywhere is using Archon Continuity with a green energy chromatic blade, giving you a DOT and free corrosive armour strip while allowing space to mod another combo element on. With that set up you can have armour strip whilst still putting damage onto enemy types where armour is less of a problem, ie corpus and infested. I do toxin/Rad. Also abandoning crit chance to use Kullervo's Advancing strike for free crits and being able to spec solely for CD through use of 4-5 purple archon shards and Arcane Battery allowing spec into high crit damage while leaving the frame's mod slots free for both Rj augment and Chromatic blade alongside other choices. With RJ aug and the Molt Augmented arcane you can hit into the millions easily and get more crit than can ever be provided through avenger while still having all the status from chromatic. Arcane reaper, Adaptation, and Healing return with Umbral modset will give all the survivability you can ask for as long as you hit literally anything with your blade. Exalted Blade is stupid powerful minus its sometime strange behaviour (wave fall off) and good modding will chunk anything in front of you, not to say it couldn't use some TLC cough cough melee arcanes pls DE

i am terrified to use excal in SP for reasons, but in duviri he can be stupid. build with decrees for finishers, ability and melee. perfection

*8 months later* DE:"Who wants more eximus... I mean Riven Slivers" Got done with a 5 wave Defense for my lich on Earth, level 55-75 enemies. Round 5 had 5 eximus spawn in all at once. Note, their overguard feels like its 4x as much as their health. As soon as the overguard drops they die. Absolutely ridiculous. Its so bad I ended up finding this video. Now I have a decent weapon. But many NEW players DONT. DE stop it. Second, considering people start with 3 warframe slots (use to be two) Having a CC frame unable to do jack shait means you have to delete them for others. Making nuke frames your only choice... I hate being in public matches cause thats all that happens. Enemies get nuked so hard i am left standing there wondering why I am wasting my time like this. As Josh Strife says, thats a quit moment. And believe me, i quit once before. Overguard wasnt a thing when I left. Nor were the sisters. This just makes things more annoying and I hate it at this quantity. Overguard sounds great on paper cause Limbo kinda got boring just sitting there in my bubble on a mobile defense. Changing defense to a timed mode honestly wouldn't make me want to play it more. I'd rather play survival still.