The 5 BEST Ash Builds for 2025! | Warframe 1999

[@Lior1055]

I miss ash's instant cinematic 4 so much. Many warframes are great weapons platformers, but his ult was special. It was like a murderous trance with the coolest kill animations. Now it's just so tredious to see those animations again that I just don't bother. Still hope they revert his ult one day though and give him some real changes. Maybe if he gets a proto frame they'll care about him 🙄

[@OmegaTheMyth]

Ash actually currently performs an additional hit during Blade Storm that utilizes many mods. Summoner's Wrath, Critical Chance, Critical Damage, Base/Melee Damage, Elemental Damage, Finisher Damage, Attack Speed (capped at 50% for finishers) are all mod types I've seen to work. The critical chance and seemingly critical damage of your melee weapon are what is used for this hit. Finisher Damage from Silence and Radial Blind affect it the same as the blue numbers. Have over 100% critical chance on your melee and you'll notice yellow and orange crits on Blade Storm attacks separate from the blue numbers. Blood Rush doesn't work. This phantom hit also doesn't seem to care about what combo you're at so you can get damage upfront. Unfortunately this does not fix the problem with Blade Storm being it's extremely slow kill rate and tedious targeting mechanics. He needs more clones and a more streamlined way to mark enemies.

[@Chimarocks67]

Happy new year morning you got me interested in using ash now Great buildsss

[@SageMarty]

from a living fire to some ash... huh

[@XKietseroX]

They need to buff stealth frames… it’s an insult that it’s an improvement to subsume Cyte-09’s invis over Ash and Lokis…

[@I-Yui-I]

You don’t need more invis. It’s perfectly fine for what it is you set off to do

[@Bolts3]

It’s just annoying how his 2 only lasts for 20 seconds even with a ton of duration like I don’t wanna recast every 5 seconds

[@I-Yui-I]

@ it’s really isn’t that bad

[@kvab24]

Ash’s augment beats it at least but they do need a rework

[@bigmemer4398]

@@I-Yui-I it is. Ash's invis is carpal tunnel trash you gotta nonstop recast Arcane Trickery was popular for a reason, now we have too many arcanes to fit per build

[@Ghost_2552]

Hey morning! Was wondering when you were gonna post the new reconifex build you have a quick thing of the weapon in your banshee is broken video but it only had one mod on it and never actually mentioned your full build for the weapon hope you see this and hope you had a good holiday season and happy to see your upload! Much love!

[@ronflexronflex7530]

Surprised you don't use Arcane Crepuscular for one of the 3 platform builds, I imagined it could be very good for that type of builds. Final crit multi and strength while invis is pretty much the dream no?

[@ciaranodowd5723]

I built a bladestorm ash build last week using the innodem and with lots of base damage and finisher mods, I saw it hitting around 350k on armoured steel path scaldra. I only had 144% strength for the armor strip so I'm pretty certain the weapon damage is still factored as if your weapon itself was performing the finisher

[@Dmassimini7]

I get that these might be his “best builds” but in my opinion bladestorm builds are the least fun with Ash. I much prefer smoke shadow + helminth abilities. I am on my 5th ash prime and all of them are min maxed for certain playstyles/helminths. Some of my favorite Ash builds to play are the mega face tanks with Gloom or Nuetron star(fun fact, Ash has a surprisingly high base EHP meaning you can build him into quite a formidable face tank), the armor strippers with creeping terrify, or fire blast/purifying flame or orphanim eyes, dark verse spam caster,and wrathful advance when you want to go melee only. Obviously your roar, silence, and nourish builds are going to be extremely strong for weapons platforming too.

[@RaKuSpL]

I wonder if maybe DE should either remove the old shuriken augment or make it base kit and remake it to then with the augment you instatly spawn attacking shadows on marked targets from your 4, and maybe increase the amount of shurikens from 2 to either 4 or make it moddable to a cap. This would make ash much more mobile and active.

[@peddypeoples941]

I moved on to dante as my main, bladestorm is just inefficient, slow, clunky. As a weapons platform ash still is strong but a lot of other frames do it way better. Ashs 1 should hit a lot more targets and mark them for his 4 and bladestorm needs a tremendous speed buff to keep up with modern warframe. His 3 was cool once when it killed harder targets in one hit...

[@eblizzy7280]

Subsume ophanim eyes from jade to ash min max for range n strength 125 duration is good and voila the ultimate dmg buffer ash

[@OM4R_FARUK]

Wiki says summoner's wrath aura also works on shadow clones

[@morning8590]

It doesn't sadly, I think it SHOULD work but it doesnt atm, when it becomes unbugged im gonna make a video on it trust me :)

[@NyrosTheVirus]

Noice Love me some Ash, Used to be main him back in the day. Then I'd go T4 solo with ash, play conclave and do the raid... good times. What Archon shards do you recommend on Ash? I like to go either bladestorm build or stealth crit build, ty :)

[@lucfal5978]

According to the wiki, Ash’s clones count as summons for the new arcane and aura mod. I haven’t had a chance to test to see if they really do affect the clone damage and if so how much.

[@morning8590]

They dont work thats why you see a "sad pet build" tab in my builds lol, tried them, they do nothing sadly

[@Xbow-oy9tv]

Kinda fucked was looking forward to this too

[@ccadet3651]

@Xbow-oy9tvme too ash just looks so cool 😅

[@ccadet3651]

@morning you show the fatal teleport killing everything around the target of the finisher but you don’t have melee influence on your rapier ? Can you explain this?

[@rhetorikunleashed5114]

Any companion recommendations for Ash?

[@noahedenborg4221]

honestly bladestorm should be turned into a psuedo exalted imo and it wont make it op since you still have to hover ur crosshair on the enemy to mark them def would use the invis arcane crepe yes i will call it crepe also fun fact the ether daggers have 900% stealth dmg multi rather then the normal 700%

[@someclevername8167]

If they’re gonna keep the targeting mechanic for Bladestorm, the reticle needs to be in a cone in front of Ash so he doesn’t have to manually mark every single enemy. He’s strong, he just needs a ton of QoL

[@adrianmedina7782]

Im impressed u dont use Arcane Crepuscular on any build. At least for the 3 firts builds it could fit very well, i mean, those builds are for weapon platform porpuses

[@Anjoureklooss]

Have been an Ash main for years, every single time DE do an update he gets bugged out. Sick of how neglected Ash has become, I love the fatal teleport style and mostly build around that. When i first played him his 4th took my breath away, was incredible. Now it really is nothing like it was. Ash is an assassin, and that is how i play him. Thanks for this video, also enjoy using the Slaytra at times.

[@NyrosTheVirus]

II just tested in simulacrum and Slaytra doesn't work on bladestorm :(

[@Anjoureklooss]

@NyrosTheVirus pity, such a good weapon.

[@lrwkobra1]

Can you tell another ash main why my fatal teleport is just not doing the execute on anything? Very rarely works, and i cant figure out why.

[@Anjoureklooss]

@@lrwkobra1 you need the augment mod Fatal Teleport. The factions sell them or try the market. Hope this helps :D

[@ccadet3651]

He shows the fatal teleport killing everything around the target of finisher but doesn’t have melee influence? Can you explain this?

[@t_sh_s3529]

before i watch this does this video has every play style ? like gun runner or his 4th ? edit i hate that they nerfed his 4th when in the first place he wasn't the dante lol if you would call him that + it doesn't count as finisher kills now sadly

[@gamersgang2420]

What about the survivability ? , if i got hit by the heat eximius or the toxin eximius for example how can i survive this cuz I Know even when ash is invisible he can be damaged

[@nathanstowers5296]

Marked for death works with finishers? I thought they patched that

[@morning8590]

They did, but then they unpatched it, but nerfed it, so now marked for death is capped essentially nerfing it for every frame

[@nathanstowers5296]

Thanks for the info brother!

[@vnmbeastwolf8741]

Since i stole your fashion and your old builds i guess it’s only right to steal your new ash builds

[@Griaq]

i dont know why de keeps stealth nerfing my boy

[@NameIsDoc]

I thought clones count as summons and get buffed by thr aura mod...

[@mywaifuisaloli1016]

The aura mod does not affect Ashe's shadow clones, even though it is said in the wiki that his clones are considered as such, might be a bug cuz Ashe's clones proc Acrane Camisado, arcane that give a % power stenght when a summon attack

[@morning8590]

Yea its all lies, ash got left out 😢

[@NameIsDoc]

Aww dang thanks to both of ya.

[@OmegaTheMyth]

It affects a seemingly new phantom attack that Ash's clones do alongside the blue damage numbers. It's capable of using a lot of mods including this aura.

[@morning8590]

@@OmegaTheMyth It use to be able too, but thats been nerfed out the game, unless something recently changed, thats been squashed

[@pugnatirgtr2533]

Ash rework where

[@Gyhsjgj]

REVIVE BLADESTORM

[@Knight-Seeker-Inbra]

More level cap builds :)