The Unfortunate Sands Of Inaros

[@NovaUmbral]

So before I get grilled by the Inaros mains, let me explain I did NOT say that Inaros is the worst warframe, at the end I clearly stated that Inaros is NOT worse than Hydroid, in my opinion, I think he's better than him. Second, why does my Inaros only have 3-4k Health? I don't play Inaros past level 250 or so, so I don't care about having super high HP, I run gloom for most of the time as you can see on screen, my health is always high plus it doesn't even matter, an Inaros with even 2.5k health can survive the entire star map.

[@angeloviedo945]

Lol why do u feel the need to defend your opinion abiut a video game character? It’s ok to have your opinion if you think he’s worse or not then some other character, just sayin

[@CollateralKaos]

Tbh he is in the exact same place as hydroid anyway, he is completely outclassed at what he does (even laziness in many cases since revenant doesn't care about any stats other than strength, even with the subsumes you normally put on him). No need to defend your point because it is clear: Inaros has nothing going for him other than limited survivability with no abilities. He needs a rework or buff even to just make him meh. Is he fine to use? Sure, but is he in any way good and nothing kore than a flavor pick? Absolutely, and refusing to understand that is just lunacy... at least understand that your pick is for flavor and not effectiveness.

[@scottbrooks3403]

I actually love this frame and if I’m honest it’s stupid people feel the need to make the warframe the main source of damage when with give us a three weapon load out to use with our frame wepons are just as if not more important for damage in most cases unless you plan to do level cap and most people don’t he is easy to play easy to make a build for to survive even on steel path to the point a new player could do it who is so green he just finished the starchart it’s true that to of his abilities are terrible but his first and four are both good his fourth is actually to help him tank damage but at the cost of health to fuel it his one can easily get it back however so it’s not a big deal but I do agree that why he is a good frame one of the best having to abilities that the whole community hates is grounds for a rework that’s half a frames kit unless the frame is like equinox but that is a special case for most frames to terrible abilities would be crippling to the point people who ovoid it or level it and get rid of it the fact Inaros still has fans is a testament to how good the frame was despite this disadvantage and it’s because he was released at a time when there was not many good tank options outside rhino there really isn’t any I can think of not that a new player could get back in those days I hope that he gets a rework if only for those two abilities it would do wonders for this frame as his high health and armor alone with his First ability is enough to do base starchart with little effort and I think that a rework could shut up all the hate that Inaros players get it’s almost as bad as limbo I would play as Inaros and people would leave as soon as a join and I know it’s not my internet because mine is amazing it’s honestly frustrating dealing with a community that typically either stays silent or gets on mic/typing about how trash I am for playing Inaros frame shaming needs to stop it’s a big problem to the point players openly discriminate by leaving or refusing to work with someone over a frame preference the eidelon hunting meta from back when that was a big deal was a good example of people being awful to other people over small things such as experience in it or what frames they like even if the wepon they have can one shot the thing the problem hear is two fold in my opinion one is the lack of frames kits being updated to work in the current day content but also the way the players treat one another over this specifically because they like a certain frame and shame them the fact you felt the need to make points in the video to defend yourself as well as a pinned comment is very telling about how the community treats you someone as small as liking or disliking a frame the shaming and hate needs to stop in this community before it ends up like WOW did I play other frames but Inaros is my frame for when I want to grind steel path and chill for a bit something I’ve come to enjoy I hope this comment helps you feel better and maybe gets some of the community to see how wrong they have been treating eachother this community was built on helping eachother and being supportive and if it doesn’t go back on that path the community is going to permanently lose what made it so special and I really don’t want that to happen anyway hope you have a good one sorry the comment is so long but I wanted to get my points across so that you didn’t misunderstand my intentions

[@GNF_cao]

​​​@@scottbrooks3403 if you wanr to chill on steel path just play revenant XD And people who leave or trash talk you cause you are inaros are just dumb AF Everyone can play what the fuck they want (except if they troll the game ) And yeah inaros imo is the worst frame worst than hydroid and caliban and yareli But its okay if you want to play it as long as you take fun on the game who cares about who you are playing or what gun you are playing ? I dont understand people who trash other player... Anyways take care bro

[@jrmloh]

Negation Swarm Augment also frees you up from fitting Primed Sure Footed as it also grants you Stagger immunity while Scarab Armor is active.

[@jackpfefferkorn3734]

It's funny to think that giving Inaros 1 point of shields would probably make him the tankiest frame in the game.

[@Densoro]

I legit hoped this would be his Prime buff xD

[@stephenschneekloth1535]

Shield gating is so backwards, it needs a rework so that high shields are actually better than low shields

[@alecdickens1042]

​@@stephenschneekloth1535 I f---in hate that players who rely on shield gates straight up call high shields and *Nidus* useless.

[@ragnafiro5658]

​@@alecdickens1042 at least with Nidus, he has 5 seconds of health gating with no downtime via passive provided that you build him in a way that forsake EHP stacking in favor for minmaxing his stack generation that in SP, he can easily gain around 30-50 stacks in mere 5 seconds LUL. Basically an infinite loop of permament invinc.

[@HellishSpoon]

​@Stephen Schneekloth the shield gate time should be dependent on amount of shields you have

[@tomphaa]

Inaros is my "I haven't played Warframe for a while and I have no idea what's going on so therefore I have 6k HP just so I can't die to figure things out" Definitely works great for that.

[@NobleLeader6]

I find that Oberon fills that role for me. My Oberon is a take on the classic Rage & Renewal build with roughly 100 HP/s, Phoenix Renewal, and Adaptation. Definitely my "I'm gonna fuck around, but I don't feel like finding out" frame.

[@XmortoxX1990]

This the frame I most desperately want a rework. I love the Egyptian/Mummy theme and he used to be my main, until I realize he doesn't really do anything. He could an amazing tank if DE revisits this frame eventually

[@futavadumnezo]

Watch MrWarframeGuy Inaros videos and you'll understand the potential.

[@cherryrook8684]

Inaros is nice for lazy face tank. But imo Baruuk does the same thing but better while having infinite scaling dmg because of desert wind. Seems to be the new trend of newly released frames, and now they actively denied that they will go back to rework old frames..

[@dialena4418]

​@@cherryrook8684 baruuk is extremely fun too as well as night unkillable ( quite good for defensive missions even ) nezha can also do it while being a caster, rhino a gun specialist and revenant.... is revenant

[@ericfrancisco6615]

Eventually is the key word here. Sadly DE still prioritizes Tennogen more than reworks.

[@AnymMusic]

​@@ericfrancisco6615 I mean tennogen and reworks are not handled by the same teams but I get you

[@futavadumnezo]

His abilities need to scale. And some extra range. Other than that they synergies quite nicely. Oh and if his passive can scales it would add to his survivability. His pocket sand ability could use armor strip, it just feels like a natural thing.

[@donovandelozier7156]

Finishers if i understand right ignore armor so his pocket sand is a pseudo armor strip for melee weapons

[@theopeneyes]

While it's true there are tankier frames than Inaros he has 1 main advantage over them, he doesn't die to Nullifiers, ability negation or lack of energy. Inaros is the best "lazy tank" in that he doesn't need to keep abilities up to stay alive and literally doesn't care if his abilities are negated or he's out of energy. He becomes borderline invincible with arcane grace and guardian, they don't even need to be maxed. Using my own experience as an example farming Voruna's 80-100 mission I had to be pretty active to keep my Nezha's warding halo up to stay alive, with Inaros I honestly forgot to keep an eye on my health or do any of the stuff we usually do with other warframes to stay alive.

[@mfallen6894]

For real. In SP when playing with most frames I'm watching timers, keeping track of shields/health, etc so that I've always dot DR up. With Inaros I can grind SP survival for an hour or two to get Steel Essence while watching a podcast, and don't even have to pay attention to what's going on in the game outside of getting kills. In a game as grindey as this, there's always a place for a bag of health that doesn't die.

[@TheGreatCyberwolf]

Nullifiers can clear 4's armor, which in super-high levels can lead to a swift death. BUT that can be easily countered by Arcane Ultimatum, as it procs on melee finisher and, thanks to his 1, Inaros can just infinitely refresh it.

[@Highyeena]

I still main Inaros, and have since he first released all those years ago. He's still got my favorite design (though that would be Voruna if she was *actually* a werewolf frame instead of... what we got now? She feels half-designed imo) and I love the *idea* behind him being like a pharaoh warframe, but the execution these days... Still holding out for a rework T.T

[@rico653caines3]

Ive been trying to get his Prime. I have all the parts except for the nuero. Hell I'm willing to give a whole harrow Prime set for his Nuero since I already have Harrow Prime. 😂

[@deletedaccount7]

​@@rico653caines3 sell the harrow set and just buy a neuroptics from someone, a harrow set could 100% get you enough plat for a inaros neuroptics and then some.

[@indrickboreale7381]

His Sandstorm could be turned into a debuff, because cursing people is a pharaoh thing

[@beeleuazevedo8142]

U tough man...

[@futavadumnezo]

Just watch MrWarframeGuy Inaros's video's. People just don't know how to build him.

[@holonholon1141]

Something I never see mentioned is that Pocket Sand applies a stealth multiplier to enemies, so now in the age of Innodem, Inaros is actually a really strong melee buffer. If you run Xata or Eclipse he actually has some of the highest damage potential in the game.

[@Densoro]

o: I’m gonna have to play around with this…

[@blazeinhotwings]

Inaros is the perfect frame for just “I don’t wanna die” with no effort at all. My go to for archon hunt. I can just build around roar, get enough health and armor that nothing can kill me and unga bunga blast the archon. Although I don’t use him when I actually want to do anything other than not die.

[@CollateralKaos]

Problem is revenant is better at this than him even since your protection scales off strength unlike inaros. Since you can just dump everything but strength with a dash of duration you can usually just cast maybe 3 times in an entire archon hunt. Factor in that all that strength affects your buffs while inaros has to split focus on survivability and buffs and... oof. Regardless, at least inaros has that use of needing no abilities to tank, only 1 situation, and that's Zariman bounties.

[@Josearnaldomanuel2]

Nyx + assimilate augment does the "No effort I don't wanna die" better. Revenant is also better but with a bit more micromanagement. Inaros falls off hard past 1 hour SP.

[@blazeinhotwings]

@@Josearnaldomanuel2 that would be crazy if I didn’t already mentioned my use case for inaros walk in unga bunga the archon then leave. If I wanted to play 1 hr steel Path I’d play a fun frame. Cast 0 times per mission and not die on any meaningful content is good enough for me when i just wanna get the weekly done

[@SpectreCarli]

You spelled Revenant wrong

[@quis398]

Problem is Grendel is better. My 6k hp Grendel can do steel path way better than my 14k hp inaros

[@whenyouseememe]

before rework is outdated after rework is GOD OF S A N D

[@ninjabreadman911]

i love my inaros, hes like playing an un-killable comfy couch most of the time.

[@merchantmocha4665]

Revenant

[@Freeque222]

I would add that there was an interesting build before Update 26.0 where he used not yet nerfed Covert Lethality with his sand to insta-kill anything.

[@damearstor2120]

Ah yes, when Covert Lethality used to instakill with finishers. I still have an unpotatoed Sheev with all attack speed+an unranked Covert Lethality for my Fatal Teleport Ash lmao

[@holonholon1141]

Innodem has builds that bring this back! I actually run Savage Silence on my Inaros to keep all the finisher buffs rolling. ez 90% heavy efficiency and stealth multiplier to just kill everything forever.

[@caradeanuandreivlad3071]

I can't wait for the Limbo video. You're doing great!

[@Paiitt]

Worst frame in the game

[@st6x]

@@Paiittfound the metaslave who cant read

[@AnymMusic]

​@@Paiitt how

[@istasi5201]

Going into a fight blind, inaros is my go to, sure there's more tanky options, but those also require more of you, inaros just allows you stand in shit and really just look at what's happening, how i figured the exploiter orb fight

[@Redeemer121]

"The thinking man's frame" (if you wanna not die whilst in thought)

[@Stormfin]

Honestly, if they just tweaked his passive so it slows down the bleedout or even stops it as you're sapping enemies, it would be a lot better.

[@GNF_cao]

Or if they made passive to deal actual dammage lol

[@langleysenterprise5134]

Make his passive deal percent damage instead of flat

[@Dragonlover554]

So glad you covered him. Was waiting for a video like this at some point too. Been asking for a rework of his kit since it's been horribly outdated in current day Warframe's gameplay loop. I like the concept of Sand Shadows (Diet Nekros ability, yes, but I adored it as I thought at the time they would be permanent allies until death like Atlas's golems to an extent), I absolutely adore the Scarab Swarm's whole gimmick, and his pocket sand ability is incredible (No need to change it. A very basic, but very powerful ability). Only mixed about his passive as it was the stepping stone to what our lovely gloomboy Sevagoth did I just wish they didn't leave him to decay like they did, and only "reworks" given was like only to his admittedly shitty Augments. Please rework him, DE. He has a great concept of a Pharoah Frame using the whole ancient Egypt's and blazing sands concept to dessicate enemies to Sand Shadows. Cursing foes, replicating sand shadows of themself, quicksand to ensnare enemies, and sandstorms to sweep everything around itself has a bunch of untapped potential to utilize, but so poorly executed.

[@WolfHeroEX]

Inaros' passive is so painfully bad that the one thing that could actually save him in a solo run (forgoing the passive's effect and instead utilizing Unairu's Last Gasp) doesn't trigger. Ironically, it makes Inaros the only frame that's guaranteed to die once downed without outside help, which feels like the exact opposite of the point of the passive.

[@techknight3753]

I'd say being an inpenetrable walking health bar has gotten pretty good in recent times. More and more unique weapons have provided cc/damage tools for Inaros to use while laughing in death's face

[@MathewDHennen]

I still hold Inaros as the premier afk frame and number one tank. Slap on adaptation and arcane grace and you can afk for any amount of time, even steel path and still come back to a frame that's not dead. Let's see Revenant do that. Although I do wish his abilities were better.

[@TheGreatCyberwolf]

Inaros is really powerful if used right - focus on tanking everything and CC. This is what his kit is, and while there might be frames with better killing potential, Inaros can lock down just about EVERYTHING. 1, 3 and 4 can all prevent multiple enemies from attacking and his 2 can single out high-value enemies, such as ancients or heavy gunners, even being able to convert them into a powerful, if short-lived, ally. When these become the main role of your playstyle, Inaros can hold out pretty well. He still needs some work though, especially his bleedout passive

[@MrZylix-6]

Mr. Sandman bring me a dream, Inaros rework or I’m gonna scream… Great analysis on this sadly forgotten frame, I don’t use him much but I got his prime a while back in hopes he gets a rework to make him more viable. Also holding out hope for a Lavos video, I know you didn’t have the best thoughts of my boy back during Orphic venom but… /please/ … I’m trying to spread LavosLove but it’s slow going, grant me reassurance please 🙏 lol

[@takezokimura2571]

Inaros's sandstorm: the virgin single tornado. Zephyr's tornados: Chad crit enhancer,status and damage spreader.

[@MisterJW]

I love the Sand Clones with the Augment since their damage is mainly tied to the enemies damage output and not yours

[@noahedenborg4221]

I like that augment aswell it's fun to just make an army

[@excalibursonic32]

Army of three Shadows...

[@jasonm2477]

I can't say this about many other frames, I actually liked his quest. Not super long or grindy, no long unskipable cut scenes, no long walks up a snowy hill and no getting locked into it. But still had a story

[@mehlessmidori602]

My favorite thing about Inaros is that his Pocket Sand can blind liches and Parvos Sisters.

[@lolthesystem]

Inaros needs a rework, especially in terms of ability synergy and high level survivability (No frame should be relegated to low levels, that's how we got the Ember situation). His HP-only concept is fine, but could be expanded on by pulling some stuff from Sevagoth's and Nidus's books. Give the mummy man an actual Mummy form on death to revive himself via melee hits, for example (yes, it would be almost like Sevagoth in that sense). OR you could make it so Scarab armor acts like a pseudo-Quick Thinking: As long as he has Scarab Armor, he avoids lethal damage at the cost of some of that armor. His 1 is fine, it has a decent range and blinds enemies, completely viable at any stage of the game. His 2 needs to either be completely changed to something else or do some kind of scaling damage (like %HP in true damage form, for example). It could sinergize with the rest of his kit if we make it do more damage based on if you hit the enemy with another skill first. His 3 also needs a retooling. The concept is okay until you realize you can't do anything else while you're in it, making you VERY vulnerable while also not doing nearly enough damage or CC (since Eximus don't care about CC now). Turn it into a full blown area denial skill instead, you cast it somewhere and it stays there for a duration, ragdolling or slowing enemies who try to go past it. His 4 is mostly fine if we go with the Quick Thinking style passive, but otherwise it needs to be changed as well. Remove the need to stay still to charge it or make it MUCH faster. Also make the status immunity Augment into a base feature and change the augment to do something else. Other ability concepts: Sand Dash ala Revenant (stuns/blinds when passing through enemies), Sand Curse (marks enemies and makes them take extra damage from all sources for a duration OR slap them with status like Voruna), Pyramid (Static beacon giving buffs/healing in an AOE), Sand Soldier (summons an allied sand shadow to fight alongside you, press X to eat it to regain health and Scarab Armor).

[@TURBOMIKEIFY]

Inaros was my main for months! I almost never died (say for negligence and trying different ways to kill the mob) in high tier missions, and I almost never do missions over a lvl 50. Sorties were a breeze, say for my crap knowledge of how to build at the time. I’m still boo boo with building, but the meta and additions during my 3 year hiatus from this game. I’m so happy I came back to it! It was the first game I downloaded when I decided to end my PS+ last month. I had a 14 hour session yesterday, and still haven’t been to sleep! I’m gonna play again tonight!

[@Lucy2Juicy]

I cannot lie despite any points in his performance overall, Inaros goes hard, eating people into sand into his chest is the hardest thing in Warframe

[@Redeemer121]

Resident sandman literally to angy to die

[@zarafex-0923]

As an inaros main ya his 2 and 3 will need work as well as his coffin passive.

[@MusicFreak0426]

Just found your channel a few days ago, and have been binging your content. My only gripe is that this isn’t 45 minutes like the Ember video. But what more is there to say about Inaros lol. Shorter content is the trend, but I just can’t get enough of your content ❤

[@Franku40keks]

Once you play him as a melee only frame his abilities make more sense, but yeah a rework would be nice.

[@darthplagueis13]

I think the issue is that Inaros still has pretty high pickrate, so DE are afraid to touch him too much. If a frame is complete dogwater to the point that noone ever plays them, then you've got nothing left to lose with changing them but if a frame is technically pretty bad but still popular, then you could accidentially ruin them.

[@ClockworkBlade]

I remember his release… I said he’d be nothing more than a tank, which any other tank could do his job better and do more…. I wish I weren’t right because I love the concept of Inaros. His sand focus reminds me of home and makes me feel powerful, but I know he has nothing to his name as sad as it is to say

[@ericfrancisco6615]

I think he loses out on being a good minion mancer. People who say his minions suck, one easy way to rework it is to tie health and armor with the Link mods which animal companions benefit from, have a hard cap of seven minions with slightly extended duration and get heals from his finishers. That way it encourages some active minion management.

[@parnmkie]

my sands of time inaros is op 95% gloom and hunters adrenalin feed back loop nothing can kill me and all damage recharges my energy keeping gloom up even steal path exams are nothing cuz of my dagger zaw.

[@gaymohammed3137]

Sounds absolutely lame. My Gyre can stand afk in a corner, Just pressing 2 every now and then (pillage) and I annihilate whole rooms in seconds. And yea I don't die either thanks to permanent shield gating. Everything Inaros can, other frames can do it better (the gameplay you describe sounds like an weaker version from my support equinox build...)

[@bustercallPrime]

He’s still my favorite frame because I can throw on arcane grace and a fun weapon and never die with my 9k hp build with roar😊

[@TheMrCtoer]

I wonder how a rework of Inaros would work if they make is so that he can gain overguard from one of his abilities since he doesn't have any shields, after the Circuit got released and having used that one decree that gives Overguard on melee kills, I really have to wonder if that's one way of buffing Inaros.

[@zacrylist5748]

he's still one of my favs, but has been replaced as my main By Revenant due to the fact he can do more then just face tank, i feel like he needs a touchup but i don't wanna just hand him shields, i would rather see more life stealing albitys or something of the like, or maybe a sort of overshield mechanic when you life steal above his max health

[@taaseenrahman8000]

I love the Dale Gribble warframe. Pocket sand!

[@ladiesman2138]

I'd like D.E. to react to these videos and explain their bads and goods of each

[@pinkreaper5693]

Recently got into warframe and your videos are definitely a big part of why I'm so interested in each individual frame, love the vids!

[@Claritism]

You should do a video series on rework ideas for lackluster frames. Either having people submit them or searching them up on r/Warframe or Warframe Forums.

[@toddoverholt4556]

I think my biggest beef with people hating on inaros are steelpath elitists who think that if it a frame cant be used for solo stug only kuva fortress steel path survial then its absolutely garbage

[@altoid3453]

1:46 this sounds like trying to hit a word count total

[@xanthousizalith5641]

The thing with Inaros being a good beginner frame is that, if they spend ANY time in the community, they've probably heard a bunch of memes about how he sucks. If they haven't, they probably won't realize how good he can be or even that Baro sells his Quest. So is he a good Warframe? Yeah, Dessication is super useful and the HP Steal is lovely for solo players and since it's his Subsume everyone will try him out for at least a little bit in order to get his Mastery before feeding him to the Helminth or decide to keep him. But in my opinion I really think he needs some drastic buffs and a total rework of his 3 that gives some kind of Utility or insane damage. Also I find it ironic that Inaros, who's a Phaoroh, can only have 3 Sand Shadows while little baby Nekros can have like 9

[@voicetest6019]

Hell, just the other day I had a newbie actually get mad that we(the vets of the clan) were saying don't spend money to get Wukong Prime. He wanted the "easy frame." Refused to even listen to us telling him to get the regular version of Wukong.

[@damearstor2120]

​@@voicetest6019 nothing worse than a new player that also fell to the Wukong trap

[@xanthousizalith5641]

@@voicetest6019 Lmao, really? Isn't the regular Wukong just chilling in the Tenno labs next to Volt and Nezha?

[@voicetest6019]

@@xanthousizalith5641 Yup. But they insisted that because the prime was the best, that's the one they had to have.

[@DGEddieDGEtm]

I still have to get Health Boi basic to feed to the wall fleshlight.

[@cyberdragon4020]

Being a long time player as soon as I saw inaros drop I fell in love with both the ascetic and kit over time 8 do agree that the kit was getting bland and over shadowed but over all I never stopped using him I cleared my whole steel 0ath with him 95% it solo and I've been working 9n him since with subsuming ability and just overall making builds and in the end(being current time) I still pick my inaros due to being able to solo eidilons profit and a lot of other things This was a great video and even if it's seems simple I'm glad inaros has been in the game this long

[@sadpandah7597]

Dude I came back to d2 and warframe and watching your videos is so good, you remind me of a style from pokemon "how good was X pokemon" and I love these videos u clearly put a lot of work and I hope more people appreciate!

[@clementfermn6711]

At this point DE could literally make a whole expansion for those two neglected frames getting their upgrades. Hydroid using that damn kraken and just being better. Inaros adapting to the modern era and being more intense. Like damn i feel bad for them

[@donovandelozier7156]

Well... hydroid has gotten that rework now... fingers crossed on inaros

[@stayshift]

I popped Aquablades on him and now everytime I use Inaros, everyone in my squad knows I am not taking anything seriously. He's a fine frame that allows for some unga-bunga gameplay. He's fucking riot on Archon hunts.

[@OptimalToast]

Inaros was great as a new player, got me through a lot of the game and was almost always my go to for new stuff that I hadn't properly learnt the mechanics of, reworked Jackal, Profit Taker for example. For fun I used to run a meme build around his 3 for mobile defence. Last thing I did with him was put on Mesa's Shooting Gallery, gave him some decent cc for lazy solo Disruption runs. Not used him since his Prime, Revenant took his roles.

[@chillausmc]

Inaros was my 3rd frame and has a special place in my heart. He let me hang with higher up teams throughout star chart without having to be revived. I would very much like to see a re-work to make him add armor to team mates or add some type of cool #4 that (sandblasts) wipes out enemy shields/armor.

[@joelhall3820]

I had him built for range and duration. Pocket sand then covert lethality dagger. You could CC entire rooms and kill them at your leisure. Then they changed covert lethality and eximus units and he lost that ability too.

[@RoyalTfrii]

It's a shame that he was more stronger in the lore than in the gameplay

[@revan1lord]

This is the case with nearly every warframe. Nekros is a god of death and can use an entire dead army as his own. He can use the dead souls of bosses as his own, but ya know, game logic. Hydroid literally can turn into water. Locked door? Slip into the cracks. A room full of baddies? Puddle and Volt. Literally makes a portal to an infinitely deep ocean. Can make water constructs. But ya know, game logic. Mag...can manipulate and control metals of all types... Locked door? Mag Big bosses using metal armor or weapons? Mag. Capture a ship? Mag Disruption? Literally just Mag. Frost. Is an ice god essentially. Can freeze water particles in the air. Water anywhere? Frost. Bosses? Freeze them.

[@quanchu81]

Passive tomb's damage scales, but self-rezing comes with a decaying HP curse that drains %MaxHp overtime (kinda like losing oxygen in survival). requires aggressive lifesteal. penalty stacks with each self-rez. Not penalized from teammate revive. (1st sefRez: 200s to drain Max HP assuming no healing, 2nd: 100s, 3rd: 50s, 4th: 25s) Maybe cap number of self rezing, else it be a literal death loop. 3rd Ability could use augment to aoe pull enemies in and synergizes with 4 for easy scarab spreading. Increase sand clone cap and damage/duration affected by mods. Idk what to do with 2.

[@matthew83walker]

Soooo, the Inaros rework just got announced rencently and guess what, at least its no longer a coffin. Hallelujah; you can chase your extra lives down now ... yaaaay ... -_- but the rest is noice, the free augment + skill merge was a good move.

[@Parso_YT]

With the context of inaros’s lore and like Egyptian god sorta design he should be so much better!

[@AzaratheDragon]

As an old Inaros main, I can only hope our King of Pocket Sand gets a TLC to his kit. Especially after Sevagoths introduction, and Wukong's rework changing how some frames revive. It just feels bad that his "free" revive passive is functionally useless past level 20. Personally, if I had the ability to, I would change his revive passive to work off his scarab armor. As long as scarab armor is active and he goes down, the swarm detonates in an AoE (maybe a base range of 20m? can be affected by range mods), and finding at least one enemy, restores Inaros to life with his health restoring to the amount of scarab armor had at the time of death. So if you only had 50% scarab armor, you would come back at half health. No scarab armor, no free revive. It plays into his already existing tanky style, and doesnt interfere with a part of the kit that you're likely to subsume out.

[@ericwolf9664]

Now that you've scraped all the sand out of the reactor to analyze it, the stonehearted might have a meltdown and let the Nova video be a thing. Maybe we can visit all the strange effects of the fallout with Oberon soon after.

[@draco12999]

I would give inaros the ability to overheal himself with overgaurd, swap scarab swarm with sandstorm making it his new ult, and give him a machanic that allows him to cover and CC enimies in sand, sand coated enemies on kill would heal who killed it (to the point of over healing teamates with overgaurd) make him the overgaurd support tank, with this new sandstorm applying the sand covered status in a larfe area

[@epicsheepgamer7002]

Personally, I like the fact that Inaros is very lazy and not as ability and energy dependant. People that constantly want him to become some spammy, support, thing frame don't understand that not everyone wants to play like that. Nidus is there for that XD Power with spam. I actually find playing frames like Saryn to be super boring as I enjoy using my primary weapon mostly. I'd actually really like it if DE keeps Inaros as sort of a health/lazy frame for people who don't really want to use abilities. It also keeps some diverse playstyles within the game :)

[@gaymohammed3137]

Then play rhino? Activate his damage buff, use your ferritebarmornand with the augment for 4 activate every now and then stomp tonrefillbyour armor. Super lazy gameplay, every 1-2 minzres casting an ability and you do more damage than Inaros and more tanky.

[@Stormfin]

If Sandstorm didn't throw people around, or just let you set one up as a trap, it would be super good. You're stuck with having to gimp up your range for Larva, it's the only way they don't get doll'd.

[@airgunbubba2505]

Literally just unlocked Helminth segment, first feeding was Inaros...then i come to do some research on farming and this video pops up. :D :D :D

[@HellishSpoon]

"abilities aged like milk" his abilities were pretty useless even at release, I'd say.

[@scottrushton6154]

Im working on a new style of build for Inaros, it will take lots of time but i think i can bring him beyond meta.

[@asadullah120]

I advocate turning inaros into a companion tank warframe let me explain. His 1: keep the same His 2: change to a sandhawk( using sentinal mechanics but living pet using kubrow/kavat mods) that armor strips via sand scream and inaros death you become the sandhawk and has interaction with unairu's vengeance also companion uses tenno arcanes His 3 change to sandstorm is a aoe slash toggle ability (adds synergy to his passive if on at death) His 4 keep same but adds also to teammates armor rating when in range .

[@Anima_Draconis]

I have no clue why but I read the title as "The Unfortunate Sands of Hands"

[@june9914]

His fashion is nice but any attempt two try and find any unique interactions with him and if his supposed synergies can get you anywhere will feel like eating sand

[@Slayer_OfLight]

I always hated the fact that inaros' abilities are plain bad. They are fine as concepts but need a boost up in my opinion. Also, people tend to overlook scarab swarm's healing capabilities, since it's one of those skills that can actually heal weird allies like excavators, hijack objectives and defense targets.

[@voicetest6019]

At the launch of Railjack when it was particularly difficult, only really three frames could easily survive void grineer crewships, Him, Mesa and Revenant. Rhino had the vulnerability between his iron skin ending and a new one starting, and the crewship gunners did so much damage that Nezha's 90% DR wasn't safe, but it was at least workable. Inaros and the Mara Detron carried my relatively newbie ass through those times until I got a Mesa and Revenant, and until they sadly nerfed railjack difficulty for the first of two times. As for Hydroid, replace his 4 with Yareli's Aquablades and use his Tidal Surge augment. You now have one of the fastest warframes that does passive damage to everything around him and has status cleaning immunity. Easily workable in everything below steel path. You're welcome.

[@nomercy8989]

I played him for like 70% of my 2000 hours in the game

[@mfallen6894]

He needs an ability overhaul, big time. I still use him on solo endless quite a bit. Inaros with Grace and Guardian, a good melee with a riven, phenmor and the kuva nukor and you're good to go hours in endless. Great for days where you want to be braindead and farm. With shield-gating Atlas kind of took this spot, since you can throw on Aegis and Energize, grab a stat stick, and go around punching enemies for long arb's, etc. But yeah, keep the big bag of health, just give him a decent kit (and subsuming roar or pillage doesn't count, lol)

[@sonicstarfighter]

Great video 👍 Can't wait for "The Crotch-Kicked CHROMA" vid.

[@davidmccabe7831]

for his kit I find that building for strength isn't needed just put on some armor, HP, adaptation or rolling guard, hunter adrenaline and then just range w/ some duration so pocket sand goes brr or my 4 just does some cc with it spreading rapidly, and just fly through the normal to medium diff areas with ease if all I want to do is try out the base builds on weapons I have to try or overall just don't wanna die... I did invest the argon crystals for more armor and one to have the hp regen so I can just vibe since no arcanes for tank yet but yeah inaros is a vibe if not doing a high level diff or certain objective gamemode

[@NameIsDoc]

Inaros sits pretty as the begining frame. when you don't know what to do and just want to play a new gamemode or whatever grab good old mummys boy and do the tasks without dying. Also while his support isn't as great getting scarab storm off on objectives might as well make them invincible.

[@willydonka1041]

Passive should definitely do % health true damage, probably something like 5% Devour being some kind of weapon buff would be neat, Inaros and Allies can devour an enemy to gain bonus corrosive damage on weapons? If it doesnt already, probably give it bonus % health damage (not true damage) so it can scale better (Scarab swarm stripping would assist that) Could also just make this a buff aura the sand shadows give, make them sort of like Lone guardians that provide a corrosive damage buff to all allies in their radius (following whoever devoured to create them, with dessication augment giving weaker ones or ones that synergise with Devour's ones somehow?) Sandstorm could be a mono-directional CC ability, you cast it in a direction and it'll push/pull enemies in that one direction. Best use would be pushing/pulling enemies into a corner. Range just makes the 'lane' longer so it can pull into that corner better. Sandstorm as it is isn't unique or useful, since it just throws enemies everywhere and stops you from being able to actually do damage. Augment could just proc elements imbued into the sandstorm via shooting, similar to zephyr tornadoes, also giving it utility as kind of a priming ability? Could also make it based on emissive colour like chroma. Scarab swarm could probably do with maybe stripping armor everytime scarabs 'bite' enemies, scaling with strength (probably like base 15% per bite) since I guess that was the purpose of the corrosive damage when corrosive could full strip unless it cant even proc that? It's probably not perfect at all, it's all just off the top of my head so there's probably issues or it's overpowered, but I feel we have warframes that do this and stronger already.. I wouldn't want to make Inaros's kit overall completely different, since the theme is interesting sort of and wouldn't want to take away his simplicity for those that like it that way.

[@Densoro]

I like dropping health mods entirely to try and play Inaros as a CC healer, but even then, he’s…pretty rough.

[@Xplicit_ll]

Ok I honestly like inaros because since he was showcased on dev stream 69 he is firmly implanted in my top 5 till the end of time

[@WarframeFlo]

🐐🐐🐐

[@MysteriousGir]

His 4th ability is actually pretty good for defense cause other healing abilities are diminished on defense targets. His healing is much faster than other sources if you choose to do a defense.

[@ChandlerBing96]

Would be interesting if his abilities centered around sacrificing his health to turn enemies into durable pawns that then drew fire away from him. Possibly make it so his max is decreased the more pawns he has?

[@yabuli4886]

Please do one about Nova

[@princesscadance197]

12:25 "Inaros... Does *that*" I'm sorry, but your semi-deadpan tone saying that got a laugh out of me.

[@dragonhearthx8369]

No warframe that was released before 2020 is going to get a rework. They will just make a new frame.

[@BlackViod]

mercy kills absolutely gives you health back

[@RBRSC]

Ah, Inaros, walking pile of HP, second to none in this regard. But why? No, seriously why does he have that HP? He's not a tank. Full stop. He's not a tank. No other aspect of his kit functions as tank. His armour is only one step up form the squishiest of casters, and his abilities are all summoning, cc, or healing focused (all of them end up doing the latter). Even with his scarabs full bonus he doesn't get near Atlas, Grendel, Lavos, Frost, etc for armour. Lavos can even out-eHP him because of the base armour difference. I could only guess that Inaros was, at one point, designed as a "blood mage" type character, meant to cast from his HP rather then energy (like Hildyn does with shields). But this then got scrapped except off his 4th ability. Kit wise he's a healer (and healer's do of course have inherent survivability in almost any game), and he's coasting off that and having an illogical HP stat in probably accidental synchronicity. Then a bunch of the rest of his kit is trying to be a Summoner (his 2, the synergy on his 3, and the augment of his 1) but that's a dying dream without huge systemic changes to NPC damage vs health and AI overhauls. With a dash of CC that can't really be his primary function because its too short-ranged vs your other big CC casters. Inaros is a healer (probably the 4th or 5th best currently, if you actually do it and have a team who knows how he works) with a dash of "okay" CC and summons that hot garbage like all other summons. And a seemingly random amount of HP that happened to help him out when things outside his own kit wandered along (primarily arcane grace) And DE's in a corner now, because everyones playing against his actual kit. So they'd need to literally make a new Warframe's worth of kit to make him fall in line as a tank proper. IF they polish out his existing kit, he's a healer with some CC and unless they make him cast from HP it won't really shift much for him other then maybe being somewhat less clunky (IE just casting the 4 from HP instead of the stop-and-charge-up step) (If you're curious about the armour stuff Inaros is tied with Excal, Hydroid, Rhino, and Saryn for Armour. (Nezha, Oberon, Voruna, and Wisp are just under), so he's in there with a bunch of DPS and other healers). Rhinos about the only Tank in that group and thats because Iron Skin (which makes Inaros HP look like nothing) As frames with more armour go: Atlas, Caliban, Chroma, Citrine, Frost, Garuda, Grendel, Hildryn (yeah the shield frame has more armour then Inaros), Khora, Lavos, Nidus, Sevagoth(Shadow, which you should always be as Sevagoth), Styanax, Valkyr, Wukong That entire list can self-heal/get temp HP (frost via Icy Avalanche), Several have invulnerable phases. Sevagoth and Nidus can both do the "come back from death" gimmick better then Inaros. And there's a lot of better CC, Armour Striping, or other support functionality.

[@pyromasteralex]

Interesting point, But. A nicely built inaros is almost unkillable to level 140 steel path enemies. does that pale in comparison to what a proper tank could do? yes, does it pale in comparison to what a good player using rolling guard and shield gating do? yes. But that inaros didnt need to think, didnt need to care about the enemies attacking him, didnt even need to care about the special enemies turning off his abilites and stealing energy. Inaros is a tank, a nice happy chill tank, but one with a very noticeable drop off point, and you know what? thats ok. Inaros knows his niche and hes ok with that, he doesnt need to be more then that.

[@RBRSC]

@@pyromasteralex The same build at that point on Lavos, Grendel, Wukong, or Hildryn will have the same (or more likely better, depends if you're just splatting health/armour at random and lettting Grace/Guardian keep up) eHP..Without even factoring in abilities (because anyone who does any of the research knows abiities throw Inaros tanking to be barely top half of the roster)

[@Did_No_Wrong]

I would love for you to talk about Khora and how she made most defense Warframes like Frost irrelevant.

[@aqrom8907]

how to fix inaros, do whatever u want with 3 abilities, make the 4th a duration/ energy drain based buff that caps the dmg u can recieve per shot, like max 3k dmg per shot with high strenght so u can tank 2-3 shots at any enemy lvl

[@FullCaber]

i like idea of mummy warframe but dang i wish we could get some cool scarab swarm abilities n such

[@DragonSoul621]

Gloom inaros is my to go steel path farming frame when it comes to just turning off my brain and listen to audio books.

[@Lord_Ocram]

Inaros is still the same as when I got him? Splendid

[@biggypupps9628]

Woah he did inaros next

[@th0masli240]

love ur vid nova, but i think it would be better if u also share ur build in the vids, thx

[@GravSh4rk]

Please do Oberon at somepoint, his hallowed ground is so lame now and he's too balanced to be really good

[@princesscadance197]

I wish Inaros could take one after Atlas and summon mummy-like golems to fight alongside. Atlas has his rock men, why can't the Ancient Egyptian-themed Inaros have mummy NPCs? Perhaps instead of doing... Rather pitiful damage like the Rumblers, these mummies can instead use their bandaged bodies like rope, and ensnare a vast majority of enemies, even the reworked Eximus units to CC them a bit while Inaros and allies deal damage.

[@John7Wirth]

Me as Inaros main: *laughs in 300+% max range, 200str, 175% efficiency elemental-heatviral-sandstorm from Silva&Aegis(Prime) getting 10K+ dam instances per second within 5-10s and getting 85-120kpm in steel path Grineer/Corpus missions* (all this with adaptation and 4K health and 1,5K armor through archon shards and arcanes)

[@Lordoftherobe]

Inaros is my favorite frame even though he's straight doo doo water. Even bought the prime just cause I love how unique his design and abilities are.

[@UmbraVolpes]

Ahhh inaros, the stealth tank

[@Hattori75]

I've been somone who loved inaros in concept since his release but thinking about it besides his 3 which needs a complete overhaul to something to increase his tankiness, he really just needs number tweaks on a few things, notably his passive and his 2.

[@ammi5311]

Rework idea : turn into mummy milker