Dagath guide and 3 ways to play her! | Warframe

Dagath is an unusual frame and it can be hard to survive on Steel Path if you don't know what you're doing. Use these builds to roll over all missions solo!
===TIMESTAMPS===
0:00 Intro
0:21 Acquisition
1:50 ABILITIES
1:55 Passive
2:16 1 Wyrd Scythes
2:34 2 Doom
3:12 3 Grave Spirit
3:47 4 Rakhali's Cavalry
4:35 Tank issue
BUILDS
6:25 Build 1 - Full caster
9:21 Build 2 - Doom Gunner
11:59 Build 3 - Health Tank
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[@celestialkitsune]

Geez how many times did that tongue twister at the beginning take you? ❤ Also Cavalreeee 😂

[@TheKengineer]

Somehow only once. In curious contrast it took me four attempts to say the word "energy"

[@sovereigngod2054]

@@TheKengineer I love your videos dude, you’re the only warframe content creator I trust or watch!

[@bgcno2]

​@@sovereigngod2054I watch him and aznvasion for their in depth info

[@lesbo6347]

​@@sovereigngod2054kengi is the man. Intellegent, concise. I always send new players i run into to Kengineer. And always mention the dmg explained video. Lol

[@Mr.Pidgeon]

I had to turn on cc to understand it

[@megalordprime]

Forgot to mention casting her 4 makes you invulnerable so you can also use it to save yourself

[@spakeschannel]

It's the same with Voruna's second, actually.

[@drewdaletski4189]

I had to re-watch the intro a few times to convince myself I wasn't having a stroke.

[@BottleWaterson]

Sometimes Horseless Faceless Horsewoman was real fun the few times i get her on rotation

[@RaptorMk2]

Eximus units hate this one wyrd trick!

[@XanderLars2]

One tip, especially for circuit- her 3 is not tecastable while active, and the bonuses do not change until and unless you recast it, regardless of if you build up molt augmented or have some other mean of increasing strength. So, it may be a good idea to fling yourself off an edge at the start/end of each round in order to recast the ability as your strength increases to avoid risking letting them "kill" you to turn off the ability.

[@AdrianOkay]

specially important when you get the double str bonus during SP relic popping, so you can snapshot her 3 at it's strongest point

[@TheTundraTerror]

I do the same thing with Gyre and Xaku.

[@jofipa9953]

When I saw dagath I saw her as either an ability spam frame or a weapon buffer frame, and that she didn't do anything interesting or unique on the weapon buffing end, knowing she can bypass overguard might change the way I view her (tho I still think there are better weapon buffing frames and play styles out there) Her 4 spam build, is a bit sus at times with the energy problems, but it's definitely fun and unique, no one else can do what she does the way she does it...

[@reeno1357]

Playing her with a combi of combat discipline, hunter adrenaline and molt reconstruct. Casting abilities heals me, getting damage by enemies regenerates energy to cast abilities that heal me. Combine with rolling guard and the survival aspect of her 3rd ability. Her 4th ability serves also as a second rolling guard as it gives you immunity to damage for the ability cast time. You cant die and can cast her ult without energy cost at all times. You are free to get away from zenurik and if you are bored you can use equilibrium and synth deconstruct on your companion to regen even more energy if thats even necessary. Enemies cant damage you with the immunity time you get from all these "pseudo rolling guards" but you can take damage by combat discipline wich gives you back your energy, and the reconstruct arcana heals you with used energy. Its a spiral of invis heal. No shield gating needed, never died once with her

[@onvez123]

Just got back into this game and I’m loving all the new warframes! Got a couple people to play with after crossplay was added and man I’m def going to be logging some hours on this! Thanks for the vid!

[@starstreakalex7372]

today I learned that eximus units have guaranteed orb drops

[@Archivist_I]

Sounds fun!

[@SwitchyWitch_]

Honestly that thumbnail just made me remember the one singular frame from the ending of Final Fantasy VIII haha

[@IRMentat]

1-spam range build is the main way I used her before adding another item to “the shelf”. The other abilities just didn’t do it for me despite some of their utility (not helped in that kullervo came out before her and IMO has a very similar but more useful kit as it mixes AoE instant over guard and a helminth ability you can easily swap out for more dakka). That said t’s a near “perfect” kit as far as synergy goes but if I took her further I’d have swapped out the 3/4 for either a doom n gloom combo or the usual roar/eclipse/cats weapon boost to really double down on the kill potential. Most likely the 4 as other than the helminth-1 all the abilities are very narrow in their effect while having harsh cast times.

[@KisukeOboro]

I went with a caster build and am able to kill near 1200 enemies in 10 minutes of steel path kuva survival, it's insane. Rakhali's Cavalry is like the Lex Incarnon on steroids and hallways just get absolutely obliterated. I put two casting shards on her because the casting speed of her 4 is the slowest and I noticed that I tended to get caught in eximus' energy drain pools too often before the cast finished. Though two casting speed shards is probably TOO fast and I can probably use only one Tauforged shard instead of two. I also had my build slightly more energy efficient at the expense of strength because I don't have a maxed out arcane energize and I found that it really didn't matter too much for her to nuke everything in front of her with her 4. Enemies still got completely armor stripped and died even though I was only at 144% strength for a total of 50% armor reduction.

[@dimwoo]

"Wyrd" is pronounced "weird". It's the old english version of the same word. "Wyrd" used to mean a kind of supernatural destiny or fate but now means 'strange, uncanny'.

[@Spritus3241]

Something i'd like to mention that may be a bug and was not in the video: - Grave spirit is currently not affected by Empower or Energy Conversion, tested as the critical damage buff from Grave spirit did not increase. This was done with Empower alone, EC alone, and Empower followed by EC for max output and none worked. - Although I've not got any specific arcanes to proc ability strength or power donation (from an ally), it is safe to assume conditional/temporary power strength does not affect Grave Spirit. if this could be fixed, i can see critical builds for Dagath being even more viable with potentially 200%+ Grave spirit activation paired with high multiplier weapons.

[@111kino]

Power donation, molt augment, and the str buff from the double cast Zenurik energy zone all affect it. I can't speak on anything else but those have been consistent enough for me to ask you to double check the empower or EC bug.

[@uberwarlocker]

When tekky cooks, he broils. nice opening man xd

[@thedango6890]

I like the deatjcube idea ty.

[@richardwhite3521]

Fire intro.

[@mason3358]

A little late, but with the new augment, think about using dispensery for energy upkeep as well

[@Nekufan1000000]

What I love about the archon shards that not enough people mention (cause "power creep") is how many frames I can just make big HP tanks. Dagath and Voruna for example, I can slap about 3 blue shards into them, use triple umbral, and suddenly they can romp around in level 800 steel path without worrying about shield gating.

[@reconsix20ar2]

Voruna doesnt Even need shards, just slap arcane blessing and health conversion put equilibrium blind rage flow and then go full power or adaptation

[@DrewBoivie]

@@reconsix20ar2 Yeah, Voruna goes tanky surprisingly easy. Alternatively, its pretty easy to make the frame nearly 100% uptime stealth if you only use abilities. Overall, its one of the most sneaky-survivable frames...and has phenomenal damage.

[@vasRayya]

shield gating is so boring and I'm tired of seeing every youtuber build for it my dagath has 3k hp and 1k armor, gets energy back from equilibrium and hunter adrenaline to spam abilities everywhere pair with adaption and she rolls SP like it's nothing, without having to spastically try and keep your shields up for shield gating

[@DrewBoivie]

@@vasRayya I'd be interested to see what specifically its running, but it sounds like the ability modifiers are probably on the low side with that much in the tanky stats. Pair that with a top weapon, and I'm sure its fine...but there are much better warframes to just be tanky weapons platforms.

[@reconsix20ar2]

@@DrewBoivie probably standar SP HP tanks with adaptstion works over level 700 more if they havr another Skill to resuce dmg

[@qvcybe]

the first power also has a auto target like effect as it homes in on targets ( also oddly i have had it hit things behind me )

[@budzee313]

yeah it targets in a radius but prioritizes enemies that you are facing

[@qvcybe]

@@budzee313 so i actually can target anything around you if you don't have enough targets in front of you?

[@budzee313]

@@qvcybe yea if they're in range

[@ZarkhanXeron]

In my Dagath build I added 5 Azure Shards to her so she just kind of became a tank

[@IamIK3]

Hol up, I didn’t know the Kengineer had bars like that

[@BebRav3InGam3]

Is there any chance you could make an excalibur video? Your website only shows a generic stat stick under that warframe...

[@aggammer3485]

As someone who didn't enjoy shield gating before the update i was disappointed when the new frame's survivability was shield gating, exactly as it was done before the update too, so i dropped her relatively fast, sure she does have big damage but making her survive is such a hassle On the other hand, i did find out that with the buffs to shields and shield mods (specifically boreal's hatred) caliban is now a surprisingly good frame, which currently fits my seasonal "use me till a new frame drops" frames

[@KickieB]

If you can get the arcane that gives you shield regen, caliban is straight up unkillable save for toxin damage (i'm pretty sure the shield regen getting unlocked by the arcane makes your sentient friend shield regen also activate regardless of being in combat or not)

[@vasRayya]

you can build her for thousands of hp and armor without sacrificing much base stats

[@quinn669]

I've just been using Dagath for status proc builds (my normal playstyle). I did NOT know that doom dealt true damage. I need to move my subsumes

[@nate.680]

Same here

[@Madman13K]

has the abyssal zone matchmaking been altered? I definitely got put into squads at least some of the time when I ran it, at least outside of Steel Path. Can't remember if I did on steel path, but that was certainly much quieter

[@Umbrellie_]

Yeah, it was a bug on launch. Public matchmaking was SUPPOSED to be off, but it slipped through, and accidentally started matchmaking everyone, Steel Path or not, which obviously was an issue. Low level Tenno getting dropped into nearly impossible SP missions for them, and High level Tenno getting put into standard non-SP missions they didn't want to be in.

[@DerdOn0ner]

Dagath, the Doom Girl

[@pcdeltalink036]

I don’t understand why they can’t allow random matchmaking for the mission. Sure I can solo it but it would be quicker with others.

[@DrewBoivie]

Dagath feels like kind of a missed opportunity to me. Its got a cool theme, visuals, and some interesting abilities...but it just doesn't feel strong or like it does anything particularly well, and for what it does do other frames do it more easily.

[@RossKyle95]

It’s just a super active caster , in terms of strength she is ridiculous if you play to that style , pretty much glass cannon aka plays a lot like banshee weirdly

[@banggillmoto1116]

Damn that plat, 5000 wow... I played the game for 7 years on off and yet still have 2 plat😂

[@TravisStockton]

dagath cured my insomnia

[@YuukaleNarmo02]

Dagath goes great with Revenant's Reave. Doom and viral ensure Reave one-shots enemies.

[@Prawnsly]

It's not really worth it though, except when you get above level 2000ish enemies, which is about 0.000001% of the time. The rest of the time, it's quicker and easier to just shoot them. Reave is overrated.

[@RossKyle95]

As a one shot maybe but it’s also an exceptionally good mobility tool with HP recovery

[@NinjaSyao]

@@RossKyle95 Agree on this and it also kinda fits her whole spooky theme, so bonus points for that ^^

[@RPZSTA]

took me forever to farm her, i aint doing it twice for helminth lmfao, but she is currently being built. I am a valkyr main butt i gyatt to have her,

[@DaddySadiist]

That intro gave me a stroke. I wanted to ask a question and hopefully you'll answer. I watched you rank all the frames about 10-11 months ago and was wondering where you'd slot in Citrine, Kullervo, and Dagath into that?

[@WorldGoods]

The syndicate warframe

[@xJosh434x]

Dagath is good for Arbi's

[@gils501]

I just came here to say this frame reminds me of the Faith trilogy & that is really not good 😂

[@Endymion0021]

I appreciate the weapons focused builds way more than the cast 4 to win setups, mostly because I dislike the visuals and sounds of the kaithes 😅

[@AliasSchmalias]

No kidding? To me the horses are one of the most satisfying abilities ever!!

[@kuroshinigamida7846]

07:54 also not puting psf or handspring

[@akashbhagwan5342]

well

[@Dedmos2322]

the thumbnail reminded me of that gus fring meme. *im completely unhinged*

[@SmoochyRoo]

Nah, just use life strike on your glaive and You're all set 😊

[@csikosa01]

It's pronounced "weird" not "word"

[@AlienFromBeyond]

Indeed, since it is wyrd that weird originates from.

[@generalgrievous4604]

Sooo no head

[@George_M_]

Nourish over her 1 for energy economy, fairly high range and duration, don't need that high strength. Combo spam 2+4, wipes trash across a wide range even on SP, debuffs surviving heavies. Not instakill everything like Kullervo but fairly effective.

[@POLICEBRUTALITYLOVER]

Dagath is Dead...

[@a7xgod214]

I played wf so much for years on end but now they keep releasing frames that are sub par and need a helmith ability instead of just making a good warframe. Why does every frame need a hemilth it’s lazy and the community loves it

[@ozzmonster9487]

The last three warframes have been Dagath, Kullervo, and Citrine which have all been great and hardly need a helminth to be effective.

[@noahedenborg4221]

yeah literally the last few frames dont need a helmith

[@alessandrocreanza2641]

as a non native english speaker i understood nothing of the first 10 seconds

[@marcmoulding5346]

Never liked her 4 Will be used the last build In this video, I think.

[@SamanthaLaurier]

I really don't like Dagath. A frame clearly intended to survive with shield gating just feels fundamentally wrong. I've never built for shield gating, it was never fun and it always felt bad to me.

[@phreshhmon]

Wat?

[@gabrielidalgo1]

What kills her for me is just too many buttom pressing, 1 2 4, rince and repeat at nauseum, not rly a fan of that..... and releasing with hydroid's rework left her in the shadow for sure

[@marquisepixley684]

I disagree with you

[@gabrielidalgo1]

@@marquisepixley684 i respect that

[@AliasSchmalias]

@@marquisepixley684 You disagree to his opinion? Interesting, I didn't know that is possible. Or were you referring to his last sentence? Can you be more specific than that?

[@dudeguyforever3742]

Woah im awfully early

[@MasterofthisReality]

Of course it has a ton of needed bullshit needed to make her. I'm sick of this 100hr farm crap

[@lookalike4805]

It actually only takes 1 Hour 😳

[@cavemanpretzel9520]

I mean I feel like needing 17 runs tops is not that bad of a farm

[@MasterofthisReality]

@@cavemanpretzel9520 people have lives and jobs. 17 runs for me would be spread out over like 6 weeks since I only have 2 days off a week and I want to do and play other things.