THESE Archon Shards make us MORE OP than EVER!...

[@MHBlacky_ENG]

*Here is where I was wrong:* - no flaw found yet...

[@satoutatsuhiro866]

11:25 I do not think corrosive and CP stack additive to each other. So if i am not mistaken you can not get full armor strip in any way with corrosive + gren shards warframe wiki CP : When Corrosive Projection is combined with the status effect Corrosive..., the armor reduction is multiplicative

[@twoheadedgiantgaming7029]

You cannot actually full strip with only one corrosive shard and corrosive projection, this is due to corrosive projection stacking multiplicatively with armor reduction from corrosive and heat instead of additively, so even at 13x corrosive stacks with corrosive projection, the enemy is left with 0.0164% armor (this is going by what the WF wiki says on the corrosive projection page)

[@lsaria5998]

As far as I understand it, Corrosive Projection's aura is additive with itself, but multiplicative with status effects; that means a single shard still can't fully strip. This would be odd though because it effectively makes the Tau shard pointless since it provides very little added value over a normal shard. A single Tau isn't enough to strip but 2 normals are. This is especially true for high level Steel Path, since once you scale to level 200-250, the remaining damage reduction will still outweigh the corrosive damage against armor even before you have to worry about the Alloy enemies. Odd decision from my point of view; Normal 3 Tau 4, or even Normal 1 Tau 2 would make more sense.

[@saomaidm123]

@@twoheadedgiantgaming7029 it 1,64 not 0.0164 armor

[@saomaidm123]

@@lsaria5998 stat between normal and tau always 50% of each other, so your decision is nonsence. if DE go by your way they have to change stat on all other variant.

[@Voperleed]

So the shards do what every frame should have as default...damage scaling.

[@undeadinside3571]

The purple ones are better red ones for melee frames. Red does 25% melee crit and purple does 50%. Khora about to be even more crazy!

[@joshbertolasi33]

Yep

[@undeadinside3571]

@@funfun701 nothing has been nerfed in a good while. Ever since Rebecca took over, we keep getting game breakingly powerful things

[@azpain786]

My baruuk is gonna go nuts​@@undeadinside3571

[@augustinvaclavik6282]

​@@undeadinside3571which is much better than nerfs generally

[@francobuzzetti9424]

armor % bonuses ALSO apply to IGNORING the armor, so 98% armor reduction then 75% of the remaining 2% of armor is ignored then 75% dmg bonus I'm still amazed at just how many people don't know or mention this part which is the most important

[@NovaH00]

ATTENTION: Corrosive projection DOES NOT stack additive with corrosive procs, meaning you cannot armor strip with Tauforced Emerald and CP. TF emerald combine with CP yield a armor reduction of 96.72%. If you combine that with heat, it become 98.36% armor reduction. Of course you can use 2 normal shards to get 100% reduction with 14 corrosive procs only

[@esaigonzalez8157]

For reference to those who Mesa, the new Topaz shards secondary critical chance buff will allow you to hit over 200% CC on regulators. 25+((25×.75)×4)+(25×1.87)+(25×2.4)=206.75 The formula above is: base CC + 4 max stack tau forged topaz archon shards + primed pistol gambit + max combo duration secondary outburst. Swapping PPG for creeping bullseye only puts you at 210 so you'll still need 4 shards, wouldn't recommend it because of that. This costs 4 slots leaving 1 completely free. Not sure what BiS for Mesa is but thought this was pretty big to share. Last slot can use the extra corrosion stacks and help full strip with corrosive projection. Utilizing the new shards means you'd want consistent heat procs so corrosive + heat build seems like the way to go for this type of build. I'm unfamiliar with how good thermal sunder is but if it works well enough you can offset heat onto that skill and instead go with new radiation + firerate mod as well as toxin on regulators instead. Use archon continuity for corrosive procs. Edit: Just thought about it and did the math. You can use 3 tauforged topaz + 1 normal and still reach 200%. Math would be: 25+((25×.75)×3)+(25×.5)+(25×1.87)+(25×2.4)=200.5 This is good since you need to combine 1 tauforged red + 1 yellow just to get 1 topaz tau making it quite expensive. This allows you to use standard red + yellow instead to save on those.

[@maurymanna19]

Mesa's 4 is not so good for high lvl SP runs. Just give her a good pair of Dual toxocysts instead. Also, like the videos says, giving her 100% AR is pretty ineffective, Just don't.

[@esaigonzalez8157]

@@maurymanna19 It is indeed better to fully armor strip always. That is why any video talking about armor strip abilities never puts the ability at 98% removal and is always at 100% instead. The main reason peacemaker struggles in SP IS because of the scaling armor. Prior to this you would need to continuously activate and deactivate peacemaker if you planned to armor strip which would be too energy straining when coupled with wanting to also use the rest of her abilities. Now you can cycle your skills on longer rotations if it really does allow you to armor strip fully without another ability cast. If the enemy is full stripped anything can kill them quickly because that's just how it goes. Considering either of the builds I stated can deal with flesh (toxic) or cloned flesh (heat) I doubt regulators will have much of a problem at that point. This is also just talking about the regulators and not considering Mesa might have a buff ability via helminth or a companion spreading statuses like panzer vulp or helstrum sentinel. If Mesa DID struggle with higher level SP then I'm saying with this update it will probably change quite drastically and obviously not just for her.

[@maurymanna19]

@@esaigonzalez8157 good point, I wasn't thinking out the box. I'm pretty used to no t use her 4(my dual toxos are way op). Guess I'll do some more tests

[@esaigonzalez8157]

@@maurymanna19 Is there any particular reason you said to use the toxocyst on her outside the increased firerate they get from her passive? Or are you just stating that they're good in general?

[@maurymanna19]

@@esaigonzalez8157 most op akimbo guns out there. The numbers of these weps skyrocketed after incarnon mode and made it AOE. Also, it has lvl 5 riven dispo, I got a cc,CD, punch trough, -zoom. Wanna Lvl 3 red crits with overshields crit arcane(don't remember the name)? is possible. Wanna hit like a panzer? Put on encumber+galva shot. It has a perfect sinergy with Mesa.

[@RazerBandit]

Corrosive stacks from Emerald shards can be stacked, allowing 100% armor strip to be possible without Corrosive Projection with any Warframe in the game.

[@trentawsome8118]

Corrosive status effects are multiplicative with other sources of armor reduction so using corrosive projection wont work. If it did work then every party would just have to run 2 of them right now and full strip with corrosive. If you want to have corrosive full strip you have to use hydroid or at least 2 green shards. Also a full stripped enemy will always be better then a 98% enemy especially the higher level the enemy you fight against.

[@lookalike4805]

Well he does NOT want to have Full Strip... That's Exactly why he's using Corrosive Projection instead of more Emerald Shards.... He made that Very Clear (Atleast it was Clear to me) 👀

[@enderstar1016]

@@lookalike4805 and he's saying that a fully stripped enemy takes more damage regardless of the elemental weaknesses at levels high enough to matter

[@TheEvanDude112]

Holy shit. I was hoping one of the shards would increase ability efficiency that I could slap onto my Lavos, but for him to be able to fully strip armor with his default kit without a helminth, which is literally all he was missing, is insanely game changing for him ._.

[@Sasorika_Prime]

green shard recovery, green shard toxin damage, green shard corrosive stacks, busted on saryn

[@jesusthesloth8985]

Unless i miscalculated, enemies having armor is only better if the armor after stripping is less than what would provide 43% damage reduction times 4(since 75% of corrosive damage bypasses at least ferrite armor, for alloy armor it should be the original 43% value). In addition to that, corrosive projection stacks additively with ability armor strip, but multiplicatively with status effect armor reduction, which means that it is still beneficial to use corrosive projection, even if you are using emerald shards to get more max procs. (Unless you get to 14 procs/have a hydroid of course.) Please correct your statements in a pinned comment so as to not confuse newbies and to prevent misinformation to be spread.

[@aersla1731]

I don't know, as fun as they seem they seem more niche. They are too restrictive and they require you to sacrifice previous shards. There's 3 frames that do electric dmg, 2 that do corrosive, and 2 that do rad dmg, from the top of my head. So under certain circumstance they could be stronger than normal shards.

[@chaosgyro]

You can easily get your status proc from a weapon or companion. It's going to be niche, but frames that don't need a specific breakpoint number for strength might find the math works better with one of these. It really depends on how much the difference is and how much effort you want to put into getting the status effect.

[@bluexeyedxpassion]

on the green shard stat with the recover health each time enemies are damaged, i think it means the tic.

[@idkmanlifesucks4627]

For the orange shard shield on blast effect, is everyone forgetting thermal sunder hildryn? pillage & thermal sunder can get your shields back as well

[@hydragon_8570]

My brain ain’t braining

[@mbztubeie]

😂😂😂

[@darrianmatheson8224]

Lavos is going to go crazy

[@MHBlacky_ENG]

Oh yes :O

[@Jonaxt]

another thing to keep in mind: most melee weapons have a 20x damage multiplier on heavy attacks, making the hit on 2% armor enemies ABSOLUTELY INSANE cant wait to get it on my kullervo

[@N4girito]

Haii just wanted to say that corrosive projection doesn’t work like that since corrosive Procs take of the original armour value so the -18% from corrosive projection isn’t calculated in so even with a tauforged green and corrosive projection your still only gonna get 98% armour strip. Still the biggest of love to blacky for making such amazing videos (danke ;)) and thanks to the community for supporting him. 😊

[@Aegis4521]

Source?

[@N4girito]

@@Aegis4521 tested it myself :3 about 20 times and looked on the wiki and researched myself how corrosive works. 😊

[@Aegis4521]

@@N4girito aight thanks man, good to know

[@causecause1384]

As a swordsmith and swordsman, THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT IVE BEEN WAITIN FOR LETS GO BABYYYYYY

[@robbebertier1730]

Those purple ones are going to make gyre so OP.

[@squirrel_slapper]

Add a +20% (+30%) movement speed shard you cowards

[@IRMentat]

here's the thing about equilibrium, as long as you can make HP orbs then most energy costs are instantly trivialised. even 10(20%) energy per HP orb is a massive boost to the average players energy economy, going for the full equilibrium mod equivalence is overkill and also saves you a mod slot and there's so very many easy ways to generate Hp orbs in game versus energy orbs. For, say a protea(dispenser), citrine(fractured blast), synth deconstruct support there's a lot of orbs floating around from even casual killing.

[@satoutatsuhiro866]

I think equilibrium-shard is only worth it as a 1 of, as u stated. But if you expect to collect many healthorbs then just take equilibrium and skip efficiency instead

[@jitters_xp]

Bro I can't believe Warframe added chaos emeralds, new favorite update I'm bouta go super sonic m8 like the problem's chronic.

[@MHBlacky_ENG]

Hahaha have fun xD

[@jitters_xp]

@@MHBlacky_ENG **live and learn intensifies** 🦔

[@KoiosDusklight]

So... Saryn with two green shards can armor strip everything in the same postal code now?

[@MHBlacky_ENG]

Kinda ^^

[@flaredmagwell6379]

corrosive projection is multiplicative with corrosive and won't full strip, you can use 2 regular green shards to reach 14 maximum stacks for full strip

[@kazumablackwing4270]

If you can fit it in the loadout, might be worth running one of those orange ones just for the shield recovery, since epitaph's quick shot force-procs blast

[@MHBlacky_ENG]

I also think the Shield regen thing is going to be huge :O

[@naerolf09]

grendel is gonna be so strong with the new emerald shards

[@ArtemSayapov]

Pretty sure corrosive status is multiplicative with other armor reduction like corrosive projection, but you can always put 2 shards to get max 14 stacks and have full armor strip. But, like you meantioned, there are also some benefits to using the tauforged shard, since if you're inflicting corrosive, that means your weapons deal corrosive damage, and corrosive damage has a higher multiplier against armor than health.

[@chaosgyro]

It was changed to be additive some time ago

[@ArtemSayapov]

@@chaosgyro you mean armor strip abilities and corrosive projection, or corrosive stacks and corrosive projection? Because this is what the wiki has to say: "Corrosive status armor reduction is multiplicative with other armor reduction sources. This can be expressed as the following: Armor after reduction = (1 - 50%) × [1 - (20% + 6% × Number of Corrosive stacks)] × (1 - 18% × Number Corrosive Projections)"

[@lookalike4805]

@chaosgyro The Abilities and Corrosive Projection are Addative with each Other... That was the Change ... Every Other Source was Unaffected so The Corrosive & Heat Status Effects Remain Multiplicative (with each other and Abilities and the Aura) and *Shattering Impact* remains Base Value. I'm unclear on how *Vicious Bond* Works at this time. 🤔

[@MHBlacky_ENG]

I was not that sure about CP so maybe I got that mixed up but yeah, I think for anything below lvl 1000 Steel Path the -98% variant with Corrosive DMG bonus might be favourable ^^

[@Azzywrld224]

If you ask me all I heard was “citrine update”

[@ArcVaranus]

Just tested the "Recover 1 HP on Blast kills" shard effect. I can confirm that this is indeed an increase to your Maximum HP per kill. Haven't been able to test the results of multiple shards (ie, does it go past 300 HP) but it's an interesting option. Seems a little too slow... Haven't been able to test the "Recover +2 HP per toxin tick" but since it never stated a HP cap I have to assume that's a heal, not +HP

[@lookalike4805]

Huh.... Why does it say "Recover" Then ? 🤔

[@liomurasaki]

If the Heat Seccondary crit STACKS with 5 shards up to 250/325% crit chance, well, Fire Regulators would go wild

[@pachilemon4209]

It doesn't:(

[@liomurasaki]

@@pachilemon4209 sad

[@lookalike4805]

Wait Really ? Is that right ? 🧐

[@kazumablackwing4270]

One or two tauforged could also make a heat progenitor kuva nukor into a viable crit weapon as well. Pair that with a maxed cascadia flare, and that little microwave gun will melt entire maps, 3 mobs at a time

[@Zuzki507]

As a returning player, When I heard about the corrosive was not striping armor anymore and reading the community plaining about it, my thinking was "This change is bs", but the more a I read about how this work I changed to "What the hell happend to this folks, this a goddam buff", now with the green shard, corrosive is so goddam op, Keeping Armor as minimun as posible and dammage to the sky

[@MHBlacky_ENG]

Haha yes, I think for a specific level range this is extremely strong :D

[@designwithphoenix]

If I'm not mistaken heat does a little bit of armor strip so if you wanna do armor stripping combining corrosive with heat on a weapon works very well. "Heat Status Effect sets enemies on fire causing them to panic and temporarily reduces their armor up to 50% with multiple stacks." - Wiki

[@maurymanna19]

If you somehow reduce 99% of the armor with corrosive, then heat only reduces 0,5%(half the rest armor).

[@DuckyUmbra]

​@@maurymanna19 Yep, heat only reduces the remaining armor amount

[@Naski_K]

Blacky, if you could only use one warframe forever, which one will it be? And is there something you would want to change if you can go back in time in your warframe midgame journey? Also, keep the great work🫡

[@MHBlacky_ENG]

Hmmm... I think it'd be Revenant. I like gun running and he is soooo unkillable. He's my man :D Midgame, nah I was pretty satisfied with what I did. Had an experienced friend tell me what to do xD

[@Delk19YT]

​@@MHBlacky_ENGas a living disco ball main myself I agree

[@RenegadeStriker7]

HIMberon

[@AnOriginalBreakfast]

I'd either pick Harrow or Lavos, can't live without my mains

[@iceorangutan]

wukong or nezha or gauss

[@spauy]

I would like to see that you can fuse two normal shards to a tauforged shard

[@MHBlacky_ENG]

Unfortunately it requires two Tau to get one new Tau :/

[@owlfog6955]

Mirage disco ball go BRRR with that radiation shard

[@MHBlacky_ENG]

Ooooh yeah :D

[@crackensvideo]

NOTE: NEVER use Tau Shards for the Green Shards for the Corrosive buff; two normal green shards allows Corrosive to stack to 14, which is a FULL Armor strip. Use this information as you will. ;)

[@liomurasaki]

12:34: Sir, that's not actually that great, remember that some enemies have ALLOY armor, meaning you need Radiation to get the bonus, but you'll need corrosive to get the stripping, on the other hand, under those yellow bars, there lies a red one, that's weak to Viral all around the Grineer except for their machinery, so, what you would habve in case of full stripping, is a lot of weakened enemies that are now all susceptible to your Viral damage, meaning, you can kill them all with the same weapon, because it's modded for a damage type that not only does have a 75% damage bonus, it also applies a 100~325% damage bonus multiplicative to all damage, so, you're going to get higher numbers, you only need a good primer that can fully strip them with a fast status stacking

[@page8301]

Heat is better against flesh.

[@lsaria5998]

Citrine's Prismatic Gem with Archon Continuity FTW!

[@liomurasaki]

@@page8301 but they are Cloned Flesh, Viral is better against them

[@page8301]

@@liomurasakiNo, it isn't. Heat stacks endlessly. Viral doesn't and the damage bonus from Viral also applies to Heat.

[@lookalike4805]

You Can't Mod for Both Corrosive and Viral on the Same Weapon so you can't take Advantage of the Viral Damage Vulnerability since you need to mod for Buffed Corrosive to create that Opportunity in The First Place.... But if you do mod for Buffed Corrosive you won't have any Viral Damage to Use on the Fully Stripped Targets.... MHB's suggestion just make more sense (even if it did sound Convoluted). 👀

[@lanoche]

2 Regular purple or 2 Tau forged in Baruuk with Primed Flow is gonna be lit. For Saryn a full set or x4 Green and an Amber might be a good option now.

[@Azeliniana]

Heres me waiting to try toxin mesa with archon continuity so it converts toxin to corrosive. With some +max corrosive stacks so can 100% strip with that. Throw in the hp regen on toxin procs to not die. and maybe the equilibrium shard for just energy i guess. On paper it sounds good? All the shard stats are on the patch notes. that is if they dont hotfix change them

[@thotbeater697]

I wish DE would’ve done a better job explaining how some of the new archon shards buffs work in the patch notes. Can you fully armor strip with 2 emerald archon shards or is it multiplicative and it never truly strips 100% armor? Is the topaz archon shard secondary crit chance buff additive or multiplicative? I’m scared to strip my Mesa of her tau forged crimson shards to make a topaz shard only to find out it’s not additive. EDIT: someone on Reddit just posted a video showing saryn fully armor stripping with 2 regular emeral shards. Also people are saying that the secondary crit chance buff is not additive so that sucks.

[@MHBlacky_ENG]

I was also imagining something in that direction :D

[@definiteg4909]

Shouldn't the "Violet" archon shard be called Amethyst that's what the actual crystal is called

[@iwasgroomed]

shuddup nerd

[@Werepyres]

​@@iwasgroomed Right back at ya.

[@Xbigred]

Combing corrosive project with corrosive procs do not full strip armor like your saying. You will have to run 2 greens to full strip armor.

[@The_Ragequit_Cannon]

If corrosive projection gets you a base 18%, and corrosive procs top out at 80% with only one green shard giving you 98%, then yeah, you'd only need one green shard

[@brodull1142]

Full stripping can be a hindrance since you need to deal another damage type depending on the health weakness.

[@lookalike4805]

I'm positive he didn't say that. 🤔

[@thricestrat]

Ok as a D2 transplant (ya I know) I have to ask - are you like the Rick Khakis of warframe?

[@gloomygloomstalker3878]

Knowing Khakis this sounds like an insult/question about who to avoid 💀

[@notaj_]

if you just use two green archon shards it full strips armor

[@Oma_tb]

My baruuk is loving the sound of violet

[@c.c.anubis]

This may sound a bit noobish, but I'm just returning to the game, and I didn't want to "test" and waste my couple shards, but, regarding those bonuses, I saw they all have multiples, so I was wondering, do I get all those bonuses when equipping a shard, or do I need to choose only one of them and I get that specific one? Thank you in advance.

[@srkquad4519]

You can only choose one of those bonuses listed

[@c.c.anubis]

@@srkquad4519 I see, ty

[@PrinceDamienSilves]

Why wouldn't we want more crit chance on a secondary? Latum SHREADS steel path survival 4+hours in. Or atleast mine does. And additional crit chance means even more damage especially if you've got a high crit chance build in the first place

[@chonkachu671]

Laetum's last evolution benefits heavily from a lower crit chance, the 2000% damage on non-critical hits, replacing the crit chance for faction mods does a metric shit ton over crit chance builds from what I've tested but that doesn't mean crit chance builds are bad at all, at the end of the day you're just comparing a sledgehammer with another sledgehammer and seeing what does breaks things better

[@pixelschubser2556]

​@@chonkachu671 The damage output is WAY higher up to milions of damage - vs. 45k on the low crit one - when you go for overwhelming attrition. Source? Own testing and videos for that on the channel "Aznvisionplays". And you can also get this damage without rivens! Just for comparison: Overwhelming Attrition: 2,869 total damage in my arsenal. 1,200% extra damage from Overwhelming attrition + 360% from primary deadhead (without the headshot multiplier) = 1,560% 2,869 damage x 1560% x 4.8x critical damage multiplier = 214,830.72 damage in the arsenal Devouring Attrition: 2,869 total damage in my arsenal 2,000% extra damage from Devouring Attrition (only 50% of the time and only on no crits!) + 360% from Primary Merciless = 2,360% 2,869 damage x 2,360% = 67,708.40 damage in the arsenal BUT also only ca. 50% of the time! (depending on your luck). With my riven, that has 51.8% critical damage and tenacious bond that gives me +1.2x critical damage multiplier, i got 7x critical damage in my arsenal and there i get: 2,869 damage x 1560% x 4.8x critical damage multiplier = 313,294.80 damage in my arsenal before all priming or warframe abilities! With frost and the augment biting frost, you get red crits nonstop and millions of damage all the time on frozen enemies! My highest was almost 3 million damage on full stripped and frozen lvl 150 corrupted heavy gunners with an corrosive build. On a sidenote: Devouring Attrition has the 50% chance for the +2,000% damage on each shot and thats it. Devouring Attrition has a timer of 10s whenever it triggers and is basically active all the time for ALL hits for the +1,200% damage bonus, as long as its active! (test it out, you will see what i mean) I am no math nerd so that was basically my peak of explanation for all of this xD Watch Aznvisionplays for an detailed explanation :)

[@Magik0429]

The Topaz ones are looking real good for Mesa🥴

[@twoheadedgiantgaming7029]

So is the emerald one if you mod her regulators for corrosive (or for toxin and use archon continuity)

[@MHBlacky_ENG]

Absolutely! :D

[@AnthanKrufix]

How does the "Ability Damage" thing affect Equinox's 4? Equinox's 4 notoriously does not scale on Ability Strength, only the slash damage over time does, the burst damage scales entirely on how charged the bomb is with no scaling on Strength... But if the new Shard Bonuses DO increase the burst's damage then... ooh lordy.

[@Giffsen]

Volt, Hydroid and Oberon will be dven more OP now

[@MHBlacky_ENG]

I wouldn't necessarily call Oberon OP but yeah they're all gonna be even greater ^^

[@Strykerx31]

​@MHBlacky_ENG Hey don't Mock Oberon, mine is kitted to be a combat medic and that fker has 850+ Armor buff, and 200 Hp over time with 900 energy.

[@lsaria5998]

The Violet Equilibrium shard should be great on something like Citrine. The sheer number of health orbs she generates makes the full effect of Equilibrium overkill so I think with just one or 2 Tau shards you can free up that mod slot. I'm planning to replace it with Precision Intensify on Gloom subsumed over her 4th ability so it will have max Slow with just Umbral Intensify.

[@drowzydullahan]

Should also free up Nekros and Voruna too, since you just make so many damn orbs on'em too.

[@lookalike4805]

I'm going to level with you... Even Equilibrium itself is Kinda Underwhelming I only use it on Valkyr, Mesa and Titania... No One Else 🤐

[@shadesrage7027]

Ok imma get laughed at for this but that orange shard will do amazing with caliban especially with the blast damage thingy and my helminth(Gauss ability) which deals a lot of fire damage

[@upperdecker9992]

My Lavos will love these

[@MHBlacky_ENG]

Oh yes :O

[@twodragoon3446]

Is the electricity from the purple archon shard is additive electric dmg or does it mix with my other weapon mods? If it additive by itself this is going to be a major gyre buff since I can apply a large amount of electric procs to get to red crit immediately and her 4 has a hidden bonus that increases weapon dmg that already have electricity and then boosted based on strength mods and shards, plus a couple of red shards to boost the purple…… this could be insane…..would love if you could confirm

[@TheOmegaPlayer]

I will say, the +toxin damage from emerald shards is great on lavos because of the scaling damage of his fourth and it being AOE. I was chunking an acolyte's health bar with just 3 status effects on him.

[@MHBlacky_ENG]

Then that's awesome :D Didn't think about that ^^

[@No0Ba]

It would be great if you can add time stamps for the video Great content keep it up ❤

[@onenote6619]

If your abilities can generate status effects. Oberon's 2 can, but Hildryn's 3 cannot (for example).

[@yofolkdem1256]

That 2nd purple option is great for Garuda Talons, if the 3rd option works for her 3, oh boi watch out.

[@OniGanon]

The shield on Blast proc shard would be particularly relevant on the likes of Gauss, Mag, Caliban, Rhino and Styanax. Nova could theoretically benefit but she usually has negative Range so I'm not sure how well that would work.

[@Way2Smacked]

With hydroids rework this is gunna go crazy!

[@LusciniaRose]

The Topaz shards' crit chance seems to be bugged. It does not reliability stack up on enemies effected with a heat proc, it also doesnt reliably build up when I tried using the Atomos for pure heat damage. I tried using it with Mesa's Peacemakers but they neither built the stacks or benefited from added crit chance if you pre built stacks with a different weapon.

[@itscyano8142]

Same

[@ERBanmech]

So the damage increase from the new shards function like a bane mod, taking the final total and increasing the damage by that percentage. Very clever. The shards are neat, there are a limited amount of frames that can prime the necessary electric, blast / heat, or corrosive status on their own without priming weapons. Edit, the other options on the shards obviously help with priming.

[@noahwithana4149]

Orange shard secondary crit chance is multiplicative right? Asking for my friend the kuva nukor.

[@lookalike4805]

I don't think so 🤔 Feel free to Test it.

[@vergil9981]

There is no multiplicative on crit chance is either base crit chance like avenger or additive like any other mod

[@MHBlacky_ENG]

I think it's additive to Crit Mods

[@Wooskii1]

That orange shard seems like it could be obscene with the right weapon. It might even cause a nerf to some blast weapon(s) with good synergy (I just can't think of one off the top of my head. Blast Regulators maybe?) Warframe has been feeling a bit restricted, yet too easy sometimes, if that makes any sense. I haven't even used Catalyzing Shields. I just use one Augr mod or Brief Respite and I've been (mostly) fine, I did get smacked pretty hard in solo Void Cascade a couple times (literally using old builds without Dragon Key for .33 seconds). I don't know how hard the new content will be, but I think if I can find a blast weapon like the Acceltra, but with plenty of ammo, it sounds like I'll likely be invincible. Crazy.

[@xjoe_64]

thanks for the super useful video! really needed this!

[@MHBlacky_ENG]

Aaae thank you as always for the super awesome support ❤️ I also can't wait to get my fingers onto the new Shards :D

[@jimihazel1874]

Does the secondary crit chance on orange shards mean its additive or is it a base crit chance bonus? Cause if its the second that means you wont have to always run arcane avenger for certain weapons

[@DragonKing067]

I see the corrisive good on saryn, since more stacks means more spore damage

[@BZUltimix]

These new archon shards are great :D

[@MHBlacky_ENG]

Agreed :D

[@zslayerw]

BRO VOLT IS GONNA BE CRAAAAZY

[@MHBlacky_ENG]

Not just him but yeah xD

[@Sans_-qe2wd]

Im excited to see what gyres damage is gonna be like with these shards😂

[@zzzzzzzzzPP]

Im not crazy right? The old amber shard is now yellow?

[@George_M_]

Yeah they washed out the color to make it differ from "topaz"

[@satoutatsuhiro866]

I do not like the new amber shard look. I made a 5 tau-ambershard frame just for the looks :(

[@MHBlacky_ENG]

yep

[@turkeykent3719]

For the orange shard shield on blast effect u want a weapon or lavos with as low as possible status duration since blast cap at 10 and u wont get anymore shield when that happens.

[@noahedenborg4221]

9:38 sounds like healing return

[@eric988]

Hmmm, didn’t we just so happen to get a new weapon that loves dealing electric damage?

[@TiredDoktor6391]

no, but rubico prime or zenith on volt are still a great options for eidlon hunts

[@mateuszrutowski5643]

you can put two green ones which will give 14/16 corrosion, or 5 green ones which will give 20/25 corrosion

[@marcusspade8223]

ok you convinced me. ill actually do the new content before the following update comes out this time lol

[@geosurf9064]

These seem rather niche outside the melee crit damage ones which are just straight upgrades for melee exalted frames which can all reach above 500 energy with a primed flow. The multiplicative damage for abilities will be nice for some frames but the frames that are already have strong damage with their abilities don't need these as they already easily kill a few hours into a SP mission. I am glad they arent straight upgrades to existing shards besides the melee crit damage ones and just give more options to play around with.

[@ltcantonigaming7591]

hydriod just got wetter

[@MHBlacky_ENG]

Haha yeah xD

[@felix_patriot]

dumb question but... can you not just use two green shards both with the increase corrosive stacks effect, to get full strip?

[@rileyhogan8919]

Yea just put 2 on my saryn and she's mad stupid

[@TiredDoktor6391]

you can and combine it with mesa's regulators and you have yourself an armor stripping gattleing gun or put 2 on lavos and his 3rd ability can armor strip all enemies it touches as it travels

[@lookalike4805]

You can.... But why would you do that ?

[@sylasgarcia-cruz4994]

​@ariannazari6391, do regulators even procc enough status to make it matter? Since they focus randomly on enemies (as far as I can tell) won't the corrosive stacks decay before high level enemies are full stripped?

[@TiredDoktor6391]

@@sylasgarcia-cruz4994 Mod for Ludacris amounts of fire rate, some status chance and multishot Also, do not dilute your elemental table with other elements like using nourish

[@Turtle828]

Ability DMG (Corossion) on Saryn sounds good

[@lookalike4805]

I'm almost Certain Subsuming Roar will be more Powerful than all Ability Damage Shards and you get the Added Bonus of Double Dipping If the Ability Applies a Damaging Status Effect. But that's just my Game Plan.... 👀

[@kazumablackwing4270]

​@@lookalike4805I mean, you could do both for more gains. Kinda wonder how the green shards will affect the augment for her 1, as in will other players also get the corrosive damage given by it boosted as well

[@lookalike4805]

@kazumablackwing4270 You can't Because you don't have an Infinite amount of Shard Slots. So any Shards you Dedicate to Damage Instead of Strength just Makes Roar (and other non Damage Abilities) Weaker. Long Story Short.... DE screwed Up..... Again ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@MHBlacky_ENG]

Yep ^^

[@janovmi2]

does the stacking electricity damage to primary marge with combined elements or will it be on top ? also do mirage clones count for the ability damage ? also the shield on blast thing ... cedo has inate blast on glaive fire also the thing with remaining armor also applies to radiation/cold and since everyone has radation now with the new mods...

[@evid3nt]

Oh boy my tentacle boy going to be more op

[@MHBlacky_ENG]

He sure will ^^

[@tetraxenonx2550]

so it's like having seration * faction dmg * new shard dmg

[@KFC757.]

Couldn't you slot 2 greens shards? To get full strip?

[@KaiserReb]

Yes

[@csr-viila5947]

Yup

[@Xkea1]

I feel like at wht point do we say we need better reworks i.stead of better patches that take a week to farm up

[@jinxchaos8995]

I just want something that makes my abilitys toxic it'd be really cool to add damage to none damage abilitys like wisps thing to heal but if enemies step in it, it deals aoe dmg

[@ismayonez6865]

I have to hold back my intrusive thoughts to buff up my kullervo's mellee crit damage even more so he one shots everything even harder 😂

[@MHBlacky_ENG]

Haha I think many people think about this xD

[@OniGanon]

Can he reach 500 energy? Because if not you may as well just use red shards.

[@ismayonez6865]

@@OniGanonWith primed/archon flow yeah

[@DuckyUmbra]

​@@OniGanon yes easily 👍

[@sonoak]

I use 3 red melee cd shards now. So those are gonna get converted to violet for sure.

[@BBBence1111]

Does this damage scaling work on Exalted weapons? Maybe I should get a few of them for my Dex Pixia

[@MHBlacky_ENG]

Sure 😉

[@__syn]

Are you able to do more ability damage with status effects coming out of a primer? Or only affected by abilities doing that kind of damage to enemies?

[@helloyu6270]

Is the orange shard “extra crit on heat kill” a flat bonus like adarza/arcane avenger, or a multiplicative bonus based on your weapons crit chance just like a regular crit chance mod?

[@MrThatguyandrew]

That's a really good question

[@K-dis_Boher]

from what I've seen/heard it's a flat bonus, so stacking regular shards can get you to 250% crit on secondaries regardless of their own CC, so it's pretty nuts in the right setups; keep in mind I think the enemies need to die from the actual heat DOT, and not just from dying whilst afflicted with heat

[@helloyu6270]

@@K-dis_Boher that is insane. Mesa has 4 or 5 different viable build paths now, I wonder which is going to end up being the go to.

[@vergil9981]

Reminder that epitah (arguebly the best primer in the game) has force blast and cold procs on his uncharges shot so yeah specially in stealpath when you fight 10+ enemys (most of the time) you are getting around 100+Shields back per shot with the thing ... So no emeral is not the best archcon shard is fk topaz shit gives you INFINITE shields on demand Not to mention that this allows a lot of frames to get rid of brief respite for shield gating using better auras like discipline combat w avenger, growing power , steal charge , corrosive proyection , etc

[@MHBlacky_ENG]

Exactly! This gives us much more flexibility ^^

[@ekyu88]

Thank you for your nice explanation of the new shards. Unfortunately this time, DE gave us tricks instead of treats in addition of limiting all composite elemental procs to only a max of 10 stacks. I think this won't go well with a lot of people.

[@thesun4490]

WE NEED RANGE SHARD

[@MHBlacky_ENG]

That'd be awesome ^^

[@undeadinside3571]

DE wont do that. I dont think they'll ever let us pass 300% without invigorations or reactant buff

[@TiredDoktor6391]

xaku and vauban will break the game if range gets higher

[@ulbaulba]

Looking forward to Orange Secondary Crit Chance shard for my Titania archon vitality heat status dex pixia build

[@MHBlacky_ENG]

This will be huge. Also on Mesa :D

[@littlelight6211]

​@@MHBlacky_ENGI added this on to my Mesa and it doesn't seem to be working very well I am applying heat with my regulators and it's taking upwards of 50 to 75 kills to get a single stack of the 1.5% CC. Im applying it and even letting them take damage from the heat procs but its not working. I even just switched to my secondary which also has heat built on it and its the same story, really hope its just bugged and not intentional otherwise it'll only be good for long endurance runs.

[@gabrielgade1112]

I wonder how they interact w my main titania, since I can pick what damage her exalted does Also, i wonder if theyll add more combinations, i think it would be interesting if we could combine shards of the same color (at a great cost ofc) to get more from the same shard

[@josephethandelrosario3576]

Recover hp and increase max hp are two different things, isnt it? I dont quite get the blast kills part

[@roberthansen6392]

With the violet shards critical damage being doubled if energy is over 500 is that total energy and it automatically reduces back down when your enery falls below thats my assumption

[@roberthansen6392]

I did some testing with it from what it seems as long as your total is over 500 you keep the double buff even when you fall under from using abilities

[@MHBlacky_ENG]

Nah, it says maximum Energy. I think as soon as your max energy is over 500 it will be permanent...

[@roberthansen6392]

@@MHBlacky_ENG yup that's what I noticed in the testing arena

[@sonoak]

So it does the same as a red shard, unless you have 500 energy.? So kullervo gets over 600 energy with primed flow. So if I use red shards for melee cd than it will be worth it

[@christophermule8180]

Okay thats pretty cool and all, but what in hell is that volt build??? The range was massive

[@MyDemon32]

Looks like the good ol max range discharge volt build.

[@reconsix20ar2]

That it's the "slap all the range mods You can find and slap dischsrge augment" special

[@eisenmann_d]

At this point they aren't shards, they're Skittles

[@MHBlacky_ENG]

Haha hope they taste better xD

[@undeadinside3571]

​@@MHBlacky_ENGi bet they taste like rock candy

[@ceniux1022]

so what i heard was gyre might be viable in steel path

[@OniGanon]

She's been viable the whole time. She just needs an armour strip. Preferably Pillage, but Terrify also works.

[@MHBlacky_ENG]

Sì Señor ^^

[@glanzvollegurke2793]

Do Orange archon shard (With the crit bonus for secondary’s) count on Titania?…I realy want to build her with that

[@PostmanPat_1]

Yep

[@glanzvollegurke2793]

@@PostmanPat_1 well…in that case. I need 5 orange shards xD

[@PostmanPat_1]

@@glanzvollegurke2793 Yh lol (already got full tau red so cba to go get rid of it

[@MrVoid-tr4bz]

so if i understand correctly, a tauforged emerald with +3 corrosive stacks would buff my spores dps increase per enemy?

[@stealthninja4195]

Use 2 normal green shards for +2 corrosive stacks each and a tauforged green for ability damage.