First time playing HILDRYN in Warframe

The final frame is here! Join Ricky Summer as he plays the long awaited Hildryn for the very first time...
0:00 Intro
1:55 Abilities
10:18 Fashion
11:51 Modding
15:14 First time playing Hildryn
24:10 Theorycrafting
26:42 Augments
30:08 Max rank gameplay
33:45 Final build
37:35 Conclusion
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[@alexutopia]

Really cool thing you can do with her is to pop her ultimate and jump out to operator form. She will stay in the air keeping up the field. One of the only frames that keeps an ability going while you can run around as the operator.

[@xuanhiepluong4798]

Finally someone say this So underrated

[@TheRCTAddict]

but her 4 is ineffective against high-level content, which is precisely the kind of content you'd want to use her for. lack of pillage = lack of shield+armor strip, meaning balefire isn't going to be killing SP enemies no matter how much you pump the damage.

[@xuanhiepluong4798]

@@TheRCTAddict her 4 is for utility,trigger arcane,cc,operator can run around and do some damage on trash mob,and with full shield,she stay it for a long time

[@sdbegotist]

Used if for Orphix Venom to get energy orbs for general use

[@Nephutis]

hildryn main for LIFE!! she's just so damn dependable! you can kill steel path enemies with just blazing pillage, it's insane. i use roar on her but honestly she has a lot of good helminth options. also cool tip, if you use link shields on a companion, not only will it inherit her stupidly huge shield, but pillage will also restore shields to the companion, so she's great for smeeta kavat enjoyers.

[@noahloyd9176]

Some fun facts about Hildryn: She is where the concept of Shield Gating came from. Originally, it was exclusive to her (hence her passive being effectively identical to shield gating on other frames), but you could spread the effect to your teammates with Haven. It became such a popular thing that DE actually made it an innate passive on all Warframes. As such, Hildryn technically does not have a passive ability anymore. However, she does still have a unique interaction with frames like Nidus and Inaros, as Haven is one of the only ways to give them shields, which applies a shield gate to them that they ordinarily do not have access to (you can get this effect with one of Cephalon Suda's Osprey eximus specters, too.) The reason that she 'feels' more effective against Corpus with Pillage is because you can't see a visual reflection in armored units of just how much armor they've lost until they've lost *all* of their armor, which changes their HP bar from yellow to red. As the defenses of Corpus enemies (their shields) are part of their Effective HP (EHP) pool, you can visually see a portion of that ripped away by Pillage. Now, again, at a technical level, the armor stat is also considered EHP, which is why you'll see a lot of players praise Valkyr for having such a high EHP pool, even though Grendel and Inaros can have a higher HP value; as such, reducing the armor of Grineer does technically reduce their EHP the same way Corpus units' shields (their EHP) are reduced. I agree, though, not having visual feedback on Grineer really does make it feel weaker. Balefire Charger can be tap-fired without charging. It behaves similar to most bows, like the Paris and Cernos, dealing more damage when fully charged, but also able to quickly pump out weaker shots to handle weaker enemies or spread status effects. Its base rate of fire is very slow, however, so increasing fire rate has the double effect of increasing the rate you can pump out un-charged shots, as well as the rate of charge. Without fire rate increases, you can frequently click to tap-fire and nothing will happen, just down to the 'reload' delay. Hildryn is considered one of, if not the best, Railjack pilots in the game. Since all abilities she uses drain shields, as long as she has shields active, she can rapid-fire the abilities of any Railjack she is piloting, without needing to draw from the usual energy pool. Unlike Lavos, who puts Railjack abilities on cooldowns, Hildryn can essentially spam them all without mercy. Alas, this does not apply to Necramechs or Archwings. It is worth noting that the energy orbs dropped by enemies under the effect of Aegis Storm can be picked up by your Necramech, so you can effectively build up energy for your 'Mech with her, too. Adaptation has been recommended elsewhere, and I have to agree; having such a massive shield pool and the ability to not only refill it on demand with Pillage, but being able to bolster it with a massive Overshield pool, makes Adaptation more effective on Hildryn than on perhaps any other Warframe. She doesn't need Arcane Grace, as she should almost never be fighting with her shields down, but Arcane Aegis, if you can get your hands on it, is practically made for her. Every drop of incoming damage has a chance to apply up to twelve seconds of up to 30% shield recharge, which ignores the usual effect of damage interrupting your shields' regeneration, effectively keeping you topped up for free. If you're familiar with games like, say, League of Legends or Dota 2, there's some generalized character archetypes; some of them become stronger if they get rich and buy a bunch of items that passively increase their power, while for others, their strength is directly tied to the powers they use and what level they're at. In my experience, Warframe has some similar archetypes: Mesa could be considered one whose abilities push them to the limit, whereas frames like Inaros feel more like servants to the gear you bring with you. To a degree, Hildryn falls into the latter category, which I would describe as a more 'passive' Warframe, not one that's completely passive, but one whose abilities can be toggled on or activated, and then you play the game with your weapons. I'm actually really fond of this style, rather than ones heavily reliant on their abilities to accomplish anything; this is why I prefer 'tanking' with Grendel as opposed to Revenant. It's completely a playstyle thing and up to personal preference, but it heavily depends on the front end; how you've built the frame, and what equipment you bring along. Which leads me to... A suggestion: For your First Time Playing video series, the videos end with the poor Warframe only able to fit four or five mods at most, with some sad empty slots and loads of missing potential. What I would love to see is a revisit to these frames as you add Reactors to them to unlock their full potential; I'm not saying to forma them to oblivion, merely adding a Reactor is enough to fit so very much more on all of the frames and unlock a huge amount of missing potential. Frames like Hildryn really suffer when locked at 30 capacity, since you can't build much of anything on her with such a low amount, even with an aura on. Just a thought! Keep an eye on invasions, as sometimes they will have Reactor and Catalyst blueprints as rewards, and Nightwave has them as well; DE frequently adds alerts that reward them around the time of devstreams, too. Could be a fun way to make a quick jump-in with an old 'Frame you haven't visited in a while and seeing what they can do with double the power.

[@overstall]

About her passive. While you are correct that it was what lead to shield gating for all warframes she does still have a unique passive. While all frames have shield gating it only last for 1.3 seconds with full shields while hildryn's lasts for 3 seconds. This also extends to any allies that are under her haven effect. Her passive also makes it so that while she has overshields damage cannot bypass her shields, such as toxin. The thing about her giving inaros and nidus shields is not true. She does nothing for them as they don't have shields to begin with. I don't know if I would call her the best railjack pilot, in fact, when you start to have a surplus of energy pizzas she becomes one of the worst. This is due to the fact that every time she uses a railjack ability its cost goes up for some time. You have to wait for it slowly go back down. This cost can go over the max amount of shields you can have. While other frames can hop out for a second and use a energy pizza and wellspring to get there energy back up.

[@TheRCTAddict]

I would strongly agree with that last suggestion! My Hildryn build uses 4 forma and an Aura Forma in addition to a potato, so I would say at bare minium a potato and a couple forma if you aren't gunning for super high-level content or a lot of optimization. she needs some investment to really shine but she's totally worth it if you do.

[@Psycorde]

Shieldgating came from outside the game, inspired by games with similar mechanics.

[@finleymorris04]

Also fun fact, there was an issue a while back where equipping energy siphon gave Hildryn permanent shield gating, making her completely immortal unless she was hit by toxin damage. This wasn’t even a bug or really an exploit, everything was functioning correctly, DE just hadn’t done the math to realise one mod made her unkillable.

[@lag00n54]

as long as she can over shield the poison won't do much as she is immune to status while overshield

[@knicklichtjedi]

Ohhh Hildryn! One of my favorites! Cant believe we played every frame already ;_; Some notes and builds in addition to chat: (Sorry, its a bit longer. At the bottom you can find my favorite Helminth Hildryn Support build) Notes: - Hildryn as extended shield gate (she was the test before every other frame got the small 0.3/1.3s gate) - Pillage is incredibly weak at low levels, because it is based on shield/armour stripped and low level enemies have low values. - The higher you are up in Aegis Storm the smaller your lift radius becomes. - You might want to change your Arcanes. Energize doesnt work on her and Grace is very meme-ish with 100 HP or so. I recommend Arcane Aegis and Barrier! Aegis, when it procs is basically infinite energy! - Her Blazing Pillage Augment is awesome. With it, you can pillage shield- and armourless enemies like infested. Without it, she cant regen her shield against these enemies normally. - In terms of Efficiency: There is an argument to be made to go negative Efficiency with Blind Rage. Pillage scales incredibly with Strength and negative efficiency does not impact her that much, because her "energy pool" is so big. - Adaptation works on her shield! Builds: - Hildryn has insane Helminth options (I removed her 4, because its the most clunky; except for build 2): --- Gloom - big slow with high strength and allows to run Combat Discipline + Arcane Avenger for big crits! --- Spectrorage + Augment - High range and two energy generating abilities flood the room with blue balls. --- Voracious Metastasis - Best support ability for her ever. Its allows Arcane Avenger like above, but here the energy cost to shield conversion works, meaning with my 290% strength I sacrifice 750 shields to heal myself for 1.4k (nice but meh) BUUUT I grant my allies a whopping amount of 750 Energy! Thats sooo much energy!

[@finleymorris04]

Hildryn has some BUSTED Helminth combos. When she uses Voracious Metastasis, it will restore almost 1000 energy to teammates due to her shield mechanic instead of energy. Even more busted is putting chroma’s Electric Elemental Ward on her. EM reflects damage taken to enemies in a radius, at a 10x multiplier. The shield cost of her abilities counts towards this. This means you can build her for maximum strength and range, and with the blazing pillage augment, and you’ll be dealing ~20000 damage to all nearby enemies every single time you cast her 2, and this grows even higher with each consecutive cast due to armour stripping. Not to mention, Electric Elemental Ward also gives bonus shields and shields regen.

[@kaungsetmoe4876]

True dat.

[@geraldloo1639]

I recommend using the Rakta Dark Dagger while using Hildryn. The dagger has an effect where you will regain shields and overshields while hitting an irradiated target, which happens to be quite easy to do. Unlimited shields/power!

[@shadowtalk2]

She's really good if you put adaption on her, what I do is I sacrifice efficiency and make it up for it with strength and range, and truth be told like everyone says she gets better the higher the level against everything but infested, That's why a lot of people use her for steel path.

[@K-lero]

Hildryn main here, some tips that i´ve found through the time i´ve played with hildryn: *Adaptation is great! the 90% DR works on shields so it is wonderfull to deal with enemies without looking at your shield/energy bar going to hell because of their damage. * Balefire can be transformed into one of the best room-cleaners of any kind, including bramma or ogris. This is because of the high base damage, but also because it can increase it´s radius both by range mods and (primed) fulmination, reaching some insane radius. * The greater the enemy level, the greater shields restored by pillage, so until some point, the more lvl the enemy, stronger hildryn gets. This does not apply to infested because they dont have shields nor armor so its a big F you to pillage, but the augment can go around this to some extent. Still, toxin at high lvls can oneshoot her =(. * There are some expensive arcanes that works wonderfully with hildryn: Arcane Aegis and Arcane Barrier. Both of this arcanes boost the hell out of shields, and since the shield pool is enormous, they have plenty of chances to activate replenishing tons of shields. So they are at the same time an "arcane energize" and "arcane grace" of sorts for hildryn.

[@lag00n54]

there are only a handful of infested with armour and they aren't always

[@635574]

Zooming and vertical scroll when viewing the frame specifically was added with Angels of the Zariman.

[@RickySummer]

Oh, good. I'm not going insane...

[@kaungsetmoe4876]

The general build is go all out on duration and secondly on strength, efficiency is something u can just minimise on her unless u tryin something out for yourself. Also, I highly recommend chroma helminth ability with electric emissive, it boosts her shield and also has a massive return dmg multiplier to enemies depending on ability str.

[@SenseofNoneYT]

I know people will suggest some next level sh*t but hear me out. No corrupted mods. Balefire Surge. Fly around in Aegis Storm while shooting Balefire explosions. Efficiency reduces the shield drain per shot. Ability str bumps up the shield gain per shot. With the right Balefire mod setup, it's just fun. I mean... it's not SP strong but it can handle Sorties well. I just have the most fun playing Ironman. Not to mention Balefire Surge not only completely turns off Nullifiers, it gets more shields from them. Man, I remember before the helminth patches came in. I was using a hildryn with max range and Rebuild Shields from helminth which back then, she could cast while in Aegis Storm. Literally unlimited shields for everyone throughout entire bounties. Everyone was immortal. Even had an angelic fashion frame on to boot. The guardian angel hovering over everyone and giving protection. Fun and kinda sad episode. Good luck with your endeavors tho! I'll patiently wait for the next upload.

[@wonderlandnise]

A tip if anyone doesn't know, pop your kiddo out if you run out of shields for a bit and when you come back the shield recharge timer will have run out and should have started recharging already :)

[@penisboss5976]

The main reason people don’t really use balefire surge is that it’s using a mod slot to increase the efficiency of ONE ability, when you could be using that mod slot to increase the efficiency or damage of ALL abilities. Plus, there are other ways to permanently destroy nullifier bubbles, like just hitting the generator at the top of the bubble. The other augment is actually quite good for damage if you want to just run through missions and kill everything before you see it, and also lets you pillage infested I believe. From what I remember you just want a ton of strength on hildryn, and duration, because pillage’s rage actually scales with duration similarly to nova’s 4. It’s shield gain also scales with strength iirc, which means if you mod for strength you don’t need to worry about efficiency

[@TheRCTAddict]

25:00 This is SO true, and I think it's why using her has kept me engaged with Warframe for so long. Engaging gameplay keeps things from getting boring. Glad to finally see Hildryn on your channel! As a Hildryn main, I've been eagerly anticipating this. You usually want +Strength, +Duration, -Efficiency, and =Range. 36:03 I don't know why you saw builds with Overextended considering her bread and butter is Strength. Don't bother with increasing Efficiency because her "energy" is a heck of a lot easier to get back than with a normal frame. She's been my main ever since I first used her, I love her diversity of being able to be support AND tank AND nuke depending on the build. For Arcanes, Arcane Barrier and Arcane Aegis are both highly recommended. Even at rank 0, they're absolutely worth using. This may or may not sound crazy, but I would actually recommend using her in Steel Path content _more_ than regular-level content. Her 2 just doesn't refund enough shields to make it effective with weaker enemies, unless you've got a +Strength helminth invigoration or an Arbitration buff. Essay incoming! I have a lot to say about Hildryn after having used her so much, as you might imagine. * 1 is underrated in my opinion -- having an exalted AOE weapon with crazy damage and decent range means you're free to run powerful single-target weapons like Tenet Flux Rifle for dealing with Eximi. Primed (or regular) Fulmination and Galvanized Diffusion are both mods I'd recommend. Don't really bother modding for status _or_ critical, since the low chance for both isn't worth it. Just mod for pure damage, and remember to soften enemies up with her 2 first if they're higher level. * 2 is usable against Grinner just as reliably as Corpus. Because of this, do NOT use Corrosive Projection! You're nerfing your own 2 if you do. I would recommend Pistol Amp instead, to buff the damage of her 1 even further. Also, you NEED to 2 a lot more frequently if you're going to spam her 1, because of how much shield it uses each shot. * 3...there isn't much to say that the tips didn't already give away. It gives allies the same 3 second shield gate she has, and enemies affected by it get heat procced if hit by Pillage with her Blazing Pillage augment equipped. * 4...I'll be honest, I barely used it and Helminthed it away as soon as possible. It's really not worth using compared to the Helminth potential the ability slot offers, and I don't like how restrictive it is. _Especially_ the inability to cast Pillage during it - it makes you a sitting duck afterwards unless you end it early. Using shields for abilities and getting them back so easily with 2 means she's a fantastic base to use for Helminth abilities in place of her 4. On the topic of Helminth abilities: * Gloom is the obvious first choice since the heat proc from Blazing Pillage means that every enemy in line of sight of Haven and range of Gloom is stunned for several seconds. Rather potent CC! * Voracious Metastasis is an insane support ability, rivalling the effectiveness of Harrow or Trinity for squadwide energy gain while being far more consistent because it ONLY relies on her affinity range and shields, and not the presence of enemies, which is far from consistent with the AOE meta killing enemies before they can be targeted for energy regen. The one downside is that, like EV Trin, it doesn't work if the target is channeling an ability i.e. Mesa 4 or Ember 2, something that Tribunal Harrow wouldn't have to worry about, since his energy gain acts like an energy pickup. * Condemn is incredibly useful on Hildryn, and for Infested content is essential. You'd think she'd be scary to use against Infested, but I've found her usable even after the rework as long as you keep condemning for overshields to block the toxin damage. Chaining up those pesky ancients and ospreys also prevents them from ruining your day in the first place! * Xata's Whisper allows her 1 to absolutely decimate Eximus units in a matter of moments, even at higher levels. * Eclipse is overall probably a better option than a "simple" damage buff like Roar, since it synergizes well with her mixed tanking and nuking abilities by buffing both aspects. (And with Total Eclipse, it can spread to squadmates just like Roar does.) There's more I could mention but I don't want this comment to be even longer than it already is, haha.

[@ryandugan9176]

Hey man thanks for coming back to show us your first times. This series has been amazing to watch. Do you think you'll do a tier list once you've really pushed the limits with endgame as well?

[@adriansue8955]

Shield Gating Passive Yeah, Hildryn was DE's experiment to see how shield gating would play out before they decided to enable it across the board ... I suppose HIldryn really deserves a new passive now...

[@RickySummer]

Other comments have said it's a beefier version of shield gating, but it'd be nice if she had something unique, huh?

[@lag00n54]

nah her Shield gating is still better though warframe only has 1 seconds of invul time she has 3 I don't see other warframes being able to build low shield and still be nigh invul

[@Kamii05]

I've found that running 270% strength while ignoring efficiency is fun especially with gloom.

[@christo997]

I run 400% strength so 100% of armor and shields get stripped with just one pillage. With blazing pillage and a decently modded balefire steel path is a breeze

[@lordvitae]

Thank goodness your means of traveling back in time does not seem affected by the change in schedule 😁👍

[@Emerald-md7cs]

Absolutely love these videos even being a vet I love seeing your opinion on the frames Rick can’t wait to see your opinion on mag love the content and the stuff you do and love your version of warframes music 😁❤️

[@A_Ataman_N]

Wow after years of playing WF I finally find perfect content creator. Before was only searching for tips, guides and thats all. Looking forward to watch your story playthrough and frames analysis :)

[@ChaothicCanine]

Surprisingly, pillage works on grinner, cause drains their armor, but hildryn have two builds, the range and strength for high damage tank or range and efficiency for using Aegis Storm for tank support creating orbs for your team, she have some synergies, but pillage doesn't work with infested, you need blazing pillage to get shields if you put fire with Haven ability on infested, she is a strong mommy, hope you try helminth, cause pillage goes on helminth, so any warframe can drain enemies to get overshields, but i recommend for you to get "Adaptation", you get from arbitration mission reward, it's very useful for shields also duration depending on how your build gonna be, cause less duration, means faster pillage

[@dragonheart1357]

"Pillage doesn't seem good" he says about one of the most subsumed abilities in the game and one of the most op abilities in the game on every frame that uses shield gating to survive XD The thing about Pillage is that it strips shield AND armor, so you being against Grineer doesn't matter, you still get shields back. You just don't see much of it at the beginning because it's only like 10% on Rank 1

[@MrSirStephen]

As a hildryn main, i can definetly suggest some fun stuff :3 Personally i replaced her aegis storm with chroma's ability set to electricity. Tons of shields. Also going pure strength on her can be used to strip both corpus and grineer of almost ALL defenses. Just stay clear of Infested. Toxin and Hildryn do not mix :(

[@nhiko999]

Works with the heaven/pillage augment provided you spam the 2 to strip the toxin procs... but yeah, not ideal.

[@Vivincubus]

So... people did tell you that she works on grineer by *permanently* stripping armor, but still skipped over the percentage part.. which has her excel the higher enemy armor and shield values become

[@patientboat1979]

People weren’t given useful tips at all, like why tf are people putting overextended on her? Isn’t the best strat to go max strength?? Also who told him to put efficiency on her?? Wtf🤦‍♂️

[@seanfortes7156]

Something that might be throwing you off a little bit about Pillage, if you are like me, and like to get noticeable visual feedback, is that often when you reduce enemy armour and shields, you may not necessarily notice. So like when you first tried using Pillage against Grineer, that, on top of the fact that its more effective against higher armour/shield values, will make the ability seem weaker. Like what is it actually doing? It doesn't look like its doing anything right? No visual feedback (unless you are acquainted with some of the more in depth nuanced Warframe systems/mechanics) For myself, it wasn't until I used certain Warframes like Nyx and Ash, and abilities that were under certain thresholds. Like Ash can fully armour strip/100% armour strip, if you reach a certain strength threshold. So when you do it, a Grineers health bar will go from yellow/gold to red. Visual feedback. They also get far easier to kill, especially on higher difficulties. Same with Nyx, when she Shield strips, you see the blue part of Corpus instantly disappear. If they don't reach those thresholds though... like say... 80 percent armour or shield strip, you will still see yellow/gold bars and blue bars... so less to no visual feedback. When learning new systems, this lack of immediate visual feedback can make understanding the mechanics difficult. So just because something may not seem like its doing something, doesn't mean its doing nothing, necessarily. As counter intuitive as it may seem, fighting much high level enemies, with more armour and shields, could potentially help you realise how much more potent and effective Pillage is, because you can start to feel the effectiveness more, and are rewarded by more shields/over shields etc before Gloom, Pillage was (and still is for some Warframes) one of the best defensive Helminth powers to adopt. Like consider Mesa? Pillage as its percentage based, can't like... strip a bunch of Steel Path Grineer of their armour, but if you cast it once or twice, not only will you get shields/over shields for Mesa, but reduce a lot of surrounding Grineer's armour values significantly, so Peacemakers will shred them faster/easier. In contrast, you do have powers that fully armour strip, like Ashe's Shuriken with the augment, but the amount of enemies it hits is less, you have to aim it, requires an augment, and doesn't give you shields. Regarding squishiness and management, Hildryn can basically be shield Inaros, but yeah it does usually require investment, like a Reactor etc. Also, another consideration, Warframes are probably generally balanced around what they are like at 30. When you took off Augur Accord you almost lost like 1000 shields, and you were just at Rank 11! Imagine it, and other shield increase options at Rank 30? Then... throwing on Adaptation? Then also Pillage to cleanse status? Or if you want to be lazy like me, also use Rolling Guard. Granted I don't really use Balefire, just because there are too many other incredible Warframe weapons to choose from, but its augment is useful when in 4. Speaking of great weapons, I know you haven't done a weapon video in a while, but the Laetum and Phenmor could be decent weapon for it. They even have a built in challenge feature you could use to hype yourself up on the eventual final evolution of the weapons. As far as how good they are, I am already hearing that Geneva is drafting up all sorts of new legislation. Oh and great video as always!

[@RickySummer]

Yeah, absolutely. There was actually a part I cut out of the vid where I was confused because there was very little visual feedback. It's nice to have confirmation that something is working. I'll have to try her in Steel Path some time. See what happens 👀

[@suwuicidal]

@@RickySummer if you use her blazing pillage augment (I haven’t finished the video so I don’t know if you did) steel path becomes trivial

[@Megan_XD]

Was it a bit of in space with Markimoo in the end or am I seeing things?) And congratulations with testing all the warframes by now! It was such a pleasure to see you always trying your own approach and enjoying the process ^_^

[@N3pt0on]

Ricky man I know you said you didn’t really like her but, Nova is super fun to play once you understand how her abilities work :)

[@hypersectomy]

I like to max range and efficiency and sit over defence objectives like a mother hen.

[@RickySummer]

That's how you roleplay correctly as Hildryn 🐔

[@635574]

Theres a hidden synergy with chroma electric subsume on her because losing shields form 2 counts as taking shield damage and it triggers the electric wards damage. And yes you cannot find that unless you read wiki or main the electric dragonlord.

[@Darthmufin]

I was watching your post stream when you were playing her then halfway through twitch just refused to load the video anymore, just had a black screen with 0:00 for the time and even refreshing didn't fix it so ill have to wait until you upload it to your other channel but id like to point out that when Hildryn has overshields toxin damage (the only damage type that bypasses shields) can't go through her shields, nor do procs. So as long as you spam her 2 (and pressing 2 again instantly recalls the ability back to you so you get the shield buff faster) and keep getting shields she is fairly hard to kill though IMO she needs Gloom subsumed on her to slow enemy attacks down, as on steel path 5k shield hildryn can have all her shield gone in a couple seconds. Her passive hasn't been updated since shield gating was added, believe it or not hildryn was the only frame that had that ability which is why that says its her passive. In reality, her passive is you have invulnerability LONGER than other frames when your shields break to 0 after you manage to reach full shields, and haven extends this passive to allies linked :) Personally i never use her 1 as it uses too much shield and does less damage than explosive weapons like the bramma, her 2 is her main ability and not only strips shields but strips enemies of armor too, letting you deal more damage, her 3 is mostly a utility to use with her augment so enemies get set on fire AND give her bonus shield, and her 4 is useful for team helping as enemies lifted are forced to drop energy orbs which can be used by your team but otherwise does low damage and costs a ton of shield, plus you cannot cast her 2 while in it which is very dumb. Oh and one more thing, while in her 4 the higher you fly up, the lower the radius of the lift on enemies, you need to stay against the ground for maximum CC range. Also if you want any tips or suggestions on using Mag feel free to ask, i use her a TON. She will however, need a full build to be at her best so you'd have to invest some forma :p

[@Darthmufin]

Also also, your balefire surge is doing blast and electricity which is pretty bad :P You will want to make viral damage at least, since you will then get viral and electricity. You were massively reducing your damage by doing that as grineer resist both blast and electric, and blast does nothing for corpus.

[@AuthorityCat]

She's great with gloom. Blazing pillage is non-negotiable. She's one of the best.

[@lag00n54]

the only reason why Pillage felt useless is because it's low rank at max it gives more at rank 0 it only takes 10% so it eats up more than it can give back Hildryn is mostly useless against Infected as they don't have shields and armour only some units have armour but against grineer and corpus she is very effective

[@bonel0rd326]

Ok but nobody has asked the most important question Is Hildryn now your MOMMY?!

[@Area-se1bp]

Hildryn is my 2nd most used Warframe and yes ur strategy with 3 and 2 is the classic 1 ... my tip for u would be to double cast pillage ... by double casting u can gain the amount of shields harvested from nearby entities within the radius of pillage ... but this would also mean that u wouldn't get the full range as u double tap ... this tactic is good for when ure surrounded with enemies and don't have enough time to wait for the whole duration of the ability.... also whenever u get ur hands on arcane aegis and or barrier use them on her ... I personally play her with high shield build since her release ... it's a fun build and viable for high lvls (up to lvl cap) but it's not the perfect build for armor stripping and dps since I run medium amount of strength ... but I also have a strength build just for dps and armor strip aside from that u should also know that the efficiency of pillage is determined by the enemy level ... the main reason why u didn't gain even a noticeable amount of shields from the grineer at the start was bcuz of their low lvl ... if u try this in steel path u would get overshields usually from a single target ... but if u try it on normal missions on earth even a crowd of enemies won't give u as much shield as u spend on ur abilities ...

[@shadowtalk2]

This is what I do to be unkillable with her, corrosive projections, sure footed, redirection, adaptation, prime continuity, argue reach, streamline, blazing pillage, blind rage, stretch, and arcane barrier, arcane aegis. As to do a lot of damage with bellfire charger I do, Hornet strike, galvanized diffusion, lethal torrent, convulsion, magnum force, pathogen rounds, heated charge, and augur pack. With these mods my bellfire charger does 50,000 to 100,000 damage, and with adaption and my ability to steal shields I just about always have 90% resistance to all damage, and because I can steal armor it doesn't matter how much damage my weapons do they'll still hurt the enemy no matter the level, and a little tip about pillage it may say the radius is so and so but that's just the initial cast, duration extends it even farther to the point that it covers about half the map

[@TheRCTAddict]

I would run Pistol Amp instead of Corrosive Projection for greater effectiveness with Pillage and an even stronger Balefire, but other than that, good.

[@shadowtalk2]

I actually forgot about pistol amp I should trying that thank you

[@briansneary7535]

Flout, is playing the flute

[@siromnoms]

You were pillaging armor off the grineer.

[@TheLunarDawn]

Correct, her passive is Shield Gating. Infact, Hyldrin was the first frame to have Shield Gating as a prototype, where the Shield Gate we see today is a nerfed version of her passive. ...to bad that Hyldrin had a part in getting Health Gating killed.

[@angelliakas1576]

I remembered the times were shield gating wasn't a thing. I started playing Warframe about a year before scarlet spear iirc and it was a pain trying to survive as a newbie

[@RickySummer]

Yo rad bit of trivia 👀

[@sherpameat]

now we do all the weapons

[@perpetualflawzelion5486]

Ability strength matters when using pillage

[@CrowisLaf]

Do u plan on making a video on the Angels of the Zariman update?

[@waberoid]

Hildryn can solo pretty much, if not, ALL the content in the game. She is unkillable, If you die as her, you either weren't paying attention or its your first time. Though I rarely use her 4. I only use it if there are too many enemies. Her 1 is ok? Her best ability is her 3 along with 2. That's all you really do. Don't even need to use a gun.

[@XCanG]

Hildryn need a lot of strength to more put on a work her skills, she doesn't need efficiency, because with high strength she recover a lot more percentage shield/armor. Her Balefire need to use just +90% mods and status on it not important. Also she is actually a lot better vs Grineer than you think. Her only vulnerability is enemies without shields and armor, which is Infested.

[@ivan134]

You just need adaptation. Primed vigor is nice too

[@GuiFernandes.]

The season of frames comes to an end... For now

[@RickySummer]

Never forget 😔

[@635574]

How much focus farming did you do?. And especially just doing the new zariman content can give you focus for killing the void enemies. The new focus school rework made them all viable for different situations. Focus review when?

[@WorstGebEU]

are you not going to do an octavia revisit? she didn't really get a first time playing video

[@RickySummer]

For the most part I already understand and like Octavia, so she's not a great candidate for a revisit. Maybe after the tier list some time, when I get the Prime.

[@kevinchandler6135]

Blazing pillage is 👍

[@kevinchandler6135]

Good

[@brunoceschini5962]

Ricky using Arcane energize in hyldryn -_-

[@instantpain6645]

Ricky arcane energizer doesn't work on Hildryn she needs arcane aegis and arcane barrier she relies more on those arcane then she does on her mods. For mods Prime Vigor and redirection duration mods and power strength mods that's how you mod Hildryn range isn't that important as it only really aids the 4th ability.

[@RickySummer]

Yeah. I learned that in the stream, but don't have anything to replace it, unfortunately. That's interesting, there seems to be two different schools of thought between the comments and Twitch chat when it comes to mods.

[@clementstillen4976]

Hyldrin with gloom il really good

[@hypersectomy]

FInal Frame Destination. Final Frame Girl. Fight Frame Fight. Final Frame Fantasy.

[@RickySummer]

Final Frame Countdown... dada daa daa!

[@Nather157]

Pillage's effectiveness is dependent on enemy's armour and shield amount, so higher the armour and shield enemies have, the easier Pillage will be effective, in another word she does better in higher levels like 70. And since you can't Pillage Infested because they normally don't have armour, you wouldn't want to run Hildryn in Infested missions unless you have shield arcanes for it.

[@RickySummer]

That's so wild that she's basically a no go in infested missions. I don't recall there being many (any?) other frames that are just no good against certain enemies.

[@AbelMystel]

@@RickySummer Unfortunately, to make hyldrin work against infested, you can either get the balefire augment which gains shield on direct hit when the weapon is fully charged or use helminth to give her harrow's condemn.

[@soybab]

@@AbelMystel Or use Blazing Pillage

[@Darthmufin]

@@AbelMystel Blazing pillage also works as enemies who get set on fire recharge shields but it barely counters the drain from haven

[@Darthmufin]

@@soybab lol

[@whitedragon1204]

lol she is the anthem warframe.......R.I.P. game your legacy is still in this warframe

[@GSMMW]

Didnt like Hildryn in fact she was the first frame I subsumed to get rid of her; that was my only enjoyment.

[@RickySummer]

Absolutely savage 😆

[@Frostywolf132]

Nekros??

[@angelliakas1576]

Okay so I know this is supposedly the last First Time video (until more warframes come out) BUT. HEAR ME OUT. You haven't done a video on Nekros, the literal necromancer of Warframe. What do you have to say for yourself Mr. Summer?

[@RickySummer]

Time makes fools of us all ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@PastaLuigi]

can you please do rhino next???

[@RickySummer]

Unfortunately Rhino was ranked up before I started the series. That's why I haven't done a video on him.

[@PastaLuigi]

oh..

[@trikk9964]

... a bit... chonky... she is.

[@Ashley-lm4nv]

Drop continuity.

[@Agnathor]

wth is that unmaxed primed continuity? SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!

[@RickySummer]

You got any extra capacity for me? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@Agnathor]

@@RickySummer i always have some extra capacity for Ricky!

[@oneedgyboi606]

This game frustrates me as a long time player because I see people who are relatively new get a ton of stuff wrong that I find obvious before I remember that none of it is explained in game. You got a lot wrong and I really can't blame you for any of it.

[@RickySummer]

Well, like what?

[@lag00n54]

@@RickySummer i'm assuming one be would be the pillage i guess as it's easy to brush it off due to low ranking abilities always perform subpar than it should and she is more effective in higher lvls as she is able to get more out of it but that's fine it's kind of D.E is fault due to poor wording/not thoroughly explained

[@Transmission23]

˙ʎʇılɐǝɹ ɹno ʇ,usı sıɥ⊥

[@dragonheart1357]

funny thing is you kinda want negative duration for Pillage. The duration also determines how far it travels, it's like Nova's 4, but if you have high duration you have to wait for it to fully expand before it comes back and the longer that takes the higher the risk of you dying while you wait for your shields is. And with a high strength low duration build you can achieve a 100% strip and 2-3 Steel Path enemies in your radius are enough to cap out your overshield

[@635574]

Its a bit problematic because she was the first frame to have shield gate and thats why you basically need to read her tips to understand how shieldgate works. But Hildy has one advantage and thats even the overshields have their own gate. And maybe its longer, i didn't read wiki in a while

[@lag00n54]

there is a build for hildryn where you have low shield to keep procing the passive it's makes her nigh invisible

[@lag00n54]

and it is longer

[@lag00n54]

the usual is around a second her's is flat 3 seconds of invul time