Warframe builder: the most effective builds for Nidus, Atlas, Oberon, and extra

Nidus is a really versatile Warframe with skills that are perfect for crowd management and tanking. But he’s additionally able to dealing huge quantities of harm with the appropriate setup. He may even present some help in your crew with therapeutic powers and a harm buff – this Warframe construct makes use of each capability so you may present first rate help in no matter type it’s required.

Nidus Warframe skills

Passive – Adaptive Mutation
If your well being is decreased to zero you’ll turn into Undying and devour 15 Mutation Stacks, regaining half well being and turning into invulnerable for 5 seconds.

Active 1 – Virulence
Mutation Stacks are gained by hitting enemies with Virulence. Nidus can achieve as much as 100 of those Mutation Stacks, which grant a most of 250 armour and considerably elevated Ability Strength. Nidus additionally regenerates 10 vitality per enemy hit by Virulence, though the influence of this decreased by a number of the mods geared up as a part of this Warframe construct.

Active 2 – Larva
Spawn an infested tentacle monster that grabs close by enemies and pulls them right into a mass of writhing limbs, dealing harm within the course of.

Active 3 – Parasitic Link
Nidus can hyperlink himself to a close-by Warframe, which will increase each Nidus and his goal’s Ability Strength so long as they continue to be linked. Alternatively, you may hyperlink your self to a close-by enemy, which offers a proportion of the harm Nidus receives whereas Parasitic Link is energetic.

Active 4 – Ravenous 
Create a pool that spawns maggots that focus on enemies and explode upon loss of life, dealing heaps of harm. The infestation pool additionally heals allies.

Nidus Warframe construct mods

Primed Flow – massively will increase your vitality pool for extra capability makes use of
Primed Continuity – further capability period for Ravenous, Parasitic Link, and Larva
Transient Fortitude – will increase Ability Strength 
Intensify – much more Ability Strength
Vitality – will increase well being considerably, which is beneficial for this Warframe construct as Nidus has no shields and a big base well being pool 
Rage – changing a good portion of well being harm acquired into vitality, Rage is right for Nidus, whose mixture of a big well being pool and a scarcity of shields attracts the utmost profit from this mod
Stretch – prolonged vary for Larva 

Exilus Mod 
Cunning Drift – much more vary for Larva
Aura Mod
Corrosive Projection – reduces enemy armour, which is at all times useful

How to make use of the balanced Nidus Warframe construct

Playing Nidus is all about accruing Mutation Stacks as quick as doable for elevated survivability and harm. The finest manner to do that is to focus on giant teams of enemies utilizing Larva after which comply with up with Virulence. Not solely will this give Nidus loads of Mutation Stacks, it additionally regenerates plenty of vitality, offered your Larva grabs sufficient enemies.

Use Parasite Link that will help you survive towards high-level enemies – hyperlink your self to heavy enemy models corresponding to Grineer Bombards and you’ll take little or no harm, and there may be at all times Ravenous if it’s good to prime up your well being. Equipping launchers and area-of-effect weapons like Lenz can be suggested as this Warframe Nidus construct is closely centered on combating a number of foes in tight areas.

Previously, few Warframe builds made use of Atlas, however latest updates have made this a way more fashionable Warframe decide amongst gamers within the know. This Warframe construct focuses on skills like Landslide and Petrify, which are perfect for taking down high-level enemies, offered you’ve the appropriate mods geared up.

Atlas Warframe skills

Passive – Monolithic
Atlas’s Passive is twofold. Firstly, this Warframe is resistant to knockdown results whereas on the bottom. Secondly, and extra importantly, Atlas can acquire Rubble from useless petrified enemies and Rumblers. Rubble heals Atlas if injured, but when Atlas is at full well being then Rubble gives armour that decays over time.

Active 1 – Landslide
Atlas expenses an enemy in vary and punches it dealing influence harm. This acts like a melee assault with a 200% crucial harm multiplier and 5% crucial likelihood. Range mods can enhance the vary of the influence, whereas Strength mods and base harm mods in your geared up melee weapon will enhance Landslide’s harm. Hitting successive enemies with Landslide will reward you with much more harm, vitality discount on landslide, and an even bigger radius upon influence.

Active 2 – Tectonics
Atlas creates a wall of stone that may block incoming fireplace. The wall features further well being based mostly on Atlas’s armour and is invulnerable for 4 seconds after casting – any harm taken throughout this time can be added to the wall as further well being. If you employ Tectonics once more whereas close to the wall Atlas will flip it right into a rolling boulder that offers excessive harm to any enemies it hits. After 15 metres, or after it collides with the setting, it’s going to explode damaging close by enemies.

Active 3 – Petrify
Enemies in vary of this cone capability can be turned to stone for a brief period. While petrified they can’t transfer or assault and can obtain extra harm from all sources. Rubble drops are what make Atlas such a robust base for establishing tank Warframe builds round, and Petrify is an efficient manner to make sure Rubble drops. Rubble provides 50 armour or 50 well being if you’re not at max. Enemies killed by Landslide whereas petrified will drop 75 well being or 75 armour Rubble. Atlas can achieve a complete of 1,500 Armor from Rubble with armour decaying at a fee of 5 armour each second – this decay is paused for 2 seconds upon selecting up Rubble. 

Active 4 – Rumblers
Atlas will summon two rock golems that can assault enemies. The preliminary solid will even petrify all enemies which can be near Atlas for a brief period. Use the flexibility once more whereas the Rumblers are deployed and they’re going to explode dealing blast harm to any enemies in vary.

Warframe Tanks Atlas mods

Vitality – extra well being for survivability
Steel Fiber – extra armour for survivability 
Primed Flow – this construct is about continuously utilizing skills so an even bigger vitality pool is important
Hunter Adrenaline – converts a proportion of well being harm acquired into vitality
Primed Continuity – offsets a number of the adverse period results from Fleeting Expertise and Transient Fortitude in order that Petrify nonetheless lasts for a good period of time
Transient Fortitude – provides Ability Strength giving Landslide extra harm
Fleeting Expertise – will increase capability effectivity in order that skills can be utilized at much less of a price
Stretch – provides extra vary to Petrify and influence harm for Landslide

Exilus Mod
Power Drift – provides further capability harm for Landslide 
Aura Mod
Steel Charge – the melee harm offered by this mod applies to Landslide as properly 

How to make use of the Tank Atlas Warframe construct

As Warframe builds go, this Atlas construct is exceedingly easy to make use of. Hit enemies with Petrify first to show them into stone, then comply with up with Landslide for a stack of fast kills – you should definitely spherical up any dropped Rubble for the additional armour and well being. A melee weapon backed with loads of base and elemental harm mods will buff Landslide’s harm past that of any geared up Ability Strength mods. Unfortunately, on the time of writing, Sentinels with the Vacuum mod can not decide up Rubble, which makes manually gathering the dear useful resource moderately tiresome. One phrase of warning on melee weapons: keep away from something constructed for standing results as these don’t have an effect on petrified enemies.

Oberon is a top-tier help Warframe that excels at buffing allies with armour and therapeutic them over time. On prime of this, Oberon can strip away all enemy armour with the Reckoning capability, which this Warframe construct will give attention to.

Oberon Warframe skills 

Passive – Beastmaster
Oberon buffs pleasant pets with further well being, armour, and shields. His pet additionally receives an on the spot revive as soon as per mission.

Active 1 – Smite
Deals harm that causes the goal to be knocked down, undergo a radiation proc, and be confused – they may then emit orbs that deal harm to close by foes.

Active 2 – Hallowed Ground
Oberon consecrates the bottom round him inflicting enemies who enter to take radiation harm each half a second. Allies who stand on Hallowed Ground can be cleansed of standing results. 

Active 3 – Renewal
When solid, allies inside vary of Oberon can be healed each second throughout renewal. Allies who’re already at full well being can be cleansed of standing results. Allies and Oberon will even obtain bonus armour in the event that they transfer onto hallowed floor whereas the renewal buff is energetic.

Active 4 – Reckoning
Oberon lifts enemies into the air and slams them down inflicting radiation procs and dealing harm. This capability additionally reduces enemy armour and with 170%+ Ability Strength it may well utterly take away enemy armour in two casts. Enemies killed by Reckoning even have a 50% likelihood to drop a well being orb.

Oberon Warframe construct mods

Vitality – extra well being, extra survivability
Primed Flow – bigger vitality pool for capability casts
Rage – higher vitality economic system 
Stretch – will increase the vary of Oberon’s skills, which is essential for Reckoning as it’s going to sweep up extra enemies
Intensify – Ability Strength buff for extra harm and armour stripping
Transient fortitude – further Ability Strength buff
Streamline – decrease vitality price for capability casts
Primed Continuity – skills last more

Exilus Mod
Cunning Drift – will increase capability vary
Aura Mod
Growing energy – Buffs Ability Strength by 25% by means of standing procs and stacks if different gamers in your group have this mod geared up

How to make use of the Reckoning Oberon Warframe construct

What makes this Oberon probably the greatest Warframe builds going is its capability to utterly shred enemy armour. Reckoning and Smite are the important skills to buff – the previous strips armour whereas the latter is very efficient towards enemies with low armour. Equip a standing impact weapon (ideally viral) and begin spreading procs for the almost fixed 25% Ability Strength buff from Growing Power – you may set off this extra usually by equipping a Sentinel with Artax. This Reckoning Oberon Warframe construct is very efficient towards Grineer because of their weak spot to radiation harm.

This Excalibur Warframe construct focuses on the Exalted Blade capability, which may be very fashionable amongst Warframe builders due to the excessive quantities of harm it offers together with with the increase mod, Chromatic Blade.

Excalibur Warframe skills 

Passive – Swordsmanship
Attack quicker and do extra harm when utilizing swords.

Active 1 – Slash Dash
Dash between enemies, putting them with the Exalted Blade.

Active 2 – Radial Blind
Enemies in vary of this capability can be blinded for a brief period, which leaves them unable to assault.

Active 3 – Radial Javelin
Launches javelins at your targets dealing influence, puncture, and slash harm. Radial Javelin additionally pins targets to partitions or stuns them if the harm will not be sufficient to kill.

Active 4 – Exalted Blade
Summons the Exalted Blade, which takes the place of your melee weapon. Attacks with this sword will ship out waves of vitality that harm enemies of their path. The harm of that is capability will not be solely affected by Excalibur’s Ability Strength mods, but additionally the mods on his melee weapon, corresponding to base harm mods, assault pace mods, standing likelihood mods, and crit likelihood mods. 

Excalibur Warframe construct mods

Vitality – extra well being for… dwelling
Intensify – extra harm for exalted blade. 
Chromatic Blade – this increase mod will trigger the harm sort of Exalted Blade to vary relying on Excalibur’s vitality color: white is chilly harm, purple is fireplace harm, inexperienced is toxin harm, and blue is electrical harm. The mod will even enhance Exalted Blade’s standing likelihood by 50%, which stacks with any standing likelihood mods in your geared up melee weapon, too. This capability will drain vitality whereas energetic and deactivate in case your vitality runs out
Hunter Adrenaline – vitality regeneration is extraordinarily essential for Chromatic Blade
Primed Continuity – decreased vitality drain whereas utilizing Exalted Blade
Primed Flow – better vitality pool for utilizing Exalted Blade 
Streamline – decreased vitality price for skills and fewer drain on Exalted Blade
Quick Thinking – not solely crucial, however provides survivability, which could be a problem with this Warframe construct

Exilus Mod
Power Drift – extra harm for Exalted Blade
Aura Mod
Steel cost – but extra harm for Exalted Blade

How to make use of the Chromatic Blade Excalibur Warframe construct

This Excalibur Warframe construct may be very easy: activate Exalted Blade and kill the whole lot with it. Job carried out. You must also equip your melee weapon with the Condition Overload mod as this provides a large quantity of harm and works very properly with the Chromatic Blade mod because it boosts Exalted Blade to 100% standing likelihood. It must also be famous that you could mix the basic harm from Chromatic Blade with the aspect in your melee weapon – for instance, toxin harm and a melee weapon with fireplace harm will mix to make gasoline harm.

Loki is a stealth Warframe that excels at traversing for lengthy intervals of time completely undetected. He can distract enemies with a decoy and disarm them to make taking them out a lot simpler. 

Loki Warframe skills

Passive – Wall Grapple
Loki can cling from partitions for longer.

Active 1 – Decoy
Create a holographic decoy that aggros enemies. The decoy has its personal well being and shields so it may be destroyed.

Active 2 – Invisibility
Become invisible to enemies. Also applies a stealth harm multiplier to all melee assaults made by Loki whereas invisible. Enemies will nonetheless react when Loki assaults them so preserve shifting between hits.

Active 3 – Switch Teleport
Loki swaps positions together with his goal – this additionally confuses them and renders them unable to assault for a brief period.

Active 4 – Radial Disarm
Disarm all enemies inside vary and inflict influence harm. Enemies hit by Radial Disarm are not have the ability to use their ranged weapons and can use melee weapons as an alternative. 

Loki Warframe construct mods

Vitality – extra well being, by no means a nasty factor
Stretch – extra vary for Radial Disarm
Overextended – much more vary for disarming foes
Primed Flow – expanded vitality pool for extra capability castsStreamline – capability casts price much less vitality
Natural Talent – shortens the solid time of all skills, significantly helpful for Radial Disarm and Invisibility
Irradiating Disarm – trigger all enemies hit by Radial Disarm to undergo a radiation proc, making them assault each other whereas additionally being disarmed
Primed Continuity – will increase the period of invisibility and makes the radiation proc from Irradiating Disarm last more. 

Exilus Mod 
Cunning Drift – prolonged vary for Radial Disarm
Aura Mod
Whatever you like. Steel Charge works properly

How to make use of the Irradiating Disarm Loki Warframe construct

This Warframe Loki construct is sensible for dispersing and weakening giant teams of enemies, making it simpler in your crew to get to work on more durable foes. If survivability is a matter then you may at all times flip invisible and use decoys, stealth assaults, and fast motion to tackle high-level enemies with out taking an excessive amount of harm. Part ninja, half help – what’s to not love?

Ivara is arguably the most effective stealth Warframe as she will be able to stay invisible indefinitely, put enemies to sleep, distract them, and deal large harm with Artemis Bow. This Ivara Warframe construct will give attention to staying invisible for so long as doable whereas nonetheless racking up loads of kills with finishers.

Ivara Warframe skills

Passive – Sentry
Reveal all enemies as much as 20 metres away on the minimap; you should utilize mods like Enemy Radar or Enemy Sense to extend the vary. 

Active 1 – Quiver
Ivara has a choice of 4 arrows to select from. Cloak arrows will trigger Ivara and any allies inside its radius to turn into invisible. Dashwire arrows will type a zipline that Ivara and her allies can run throughout. Noise arrows will trigger enemies to maneuver in direction of the realm of influence to research. Sleep arrows will put enemies to sleep which leaves them weak to finisher assaults. 

Active 2 – Navigator 
Take management of an arrow and steer it in direction of a goal. The projectile features 100% harm per second within the air (as much as a max of 500%), which could be elevated with Ability Strength.

Active 3 – Prowl 
Ivara turns into invisible, gaining bonus harm to headshots and permitting you to pickpocket enemies. Movement pace is decreased whereas cloaked. Do word that bullet leaping, sliding, or sprinting will cancel prowl – rolling and leaping is not going to. Prowl drains your vitality whereas energetic and once you carry out cloaked melee assaults. Ability period and effectivity mods can mitigate this drain. Obviously, unsilenced weapons will break this cloak impact.

Active 4 – Artemis Bow 
Use an exalted bow that fires volleys of arrows however drains vitality with every shot. The harm of the Artemis Bow is affected by Ability Strength and your geared up mods.

Ivara Warframe construct mods

Streamline – reduces the vitality price for activating Prowl and performing melee assaults whereas cloaked
Constitution – reduces the vitality drain on Prowl
Primed Continuity – additional reduces the vitality drain on Prowl. The capability period will even preserve enemies asleep for longer when utilizing sleep arrows
Narrow Minded – much more period and vitality effectivity 
Stretch – counteracts the adverse vary stat from Narrow Minded in order that sleep arrows retain some space of impact
Primed Flow – bigger vitality pool so you should utilize Prowl for longer
Fleeting Expertise – much more time in Prowl 
Infiltrate – provides Ivara a 25% buff to motion pace when cloaked (not solely crucial and could be swapped out)

Exilus Mod 
Cunning drift – counters the adverse vary impact from Narrow Minded
Aura Mod
Whatever you like. Enemy Radar is an efficient match for skills like Sentry

How to make use of the Prowl and Covert Lethality Ivara Warframe construct

This construct is meant for use with a dagger that’s geared up with the Cover Lethality mod. Why? This lethal weapon mod provides 100 base harm to melee assaults with a dagger or deadly harm when performing a finisher, which makes it a very devious increase to make use of in tandem with prowl. Moreover, with sleep arrows it’s going to immediately kill enemies regardless of their stage. Ivara’s pickpocketing capability whereas in Prowl can be very useful for survival missions, permitting you to steal life help modules with ease. One piece of recommendation if you’re utilizing Ivara for these mission sorts: convey a sentinel with Vacuum because the sluggish motion in Prowl will make accumulating life help modules tedious.

Inaros is a really highly effective tank and crowd management Warframe with a number of therapeutic skills for you and your allies. This Inaros Warframe construct is all about utilizing the Dessication capability together with the dagger mod, Covert Lethality. 

Inaros Warframe skills

Passive – Undying
When bleeding out after being downed Inaros can drain well being from enemies and finally revive himself, though this solely actually works on low-level enemies. Additionally, if Inaros kills an enemy with a finisher (excluding floor finishers) it’s going to heal him for 20% of his most well being. 

Active 1 – Desiccation 
Blind enemies with sand in a cone assault. This additionally offers harm over time – 25% of which is returned to you as well being. Enemies which can be blinded by this capability are left weak to finishers. 

Active 2 – Devour
Trap your goal in sand rendering them unable to maneuver or assault, dealing harm per second, and therapeutic Inaros unexpectedly. If the enemy is killed by this capability they may turn into a Sand Shadow and assault enemies, however these usually are not very highly effective or helpful. 

Active 3 – Sandstorm
Become a sandstorm that flings any enemies in its radius round whereas dealing slash harm – this can devour vitality each second that it’s energetic.

Active 4 – Scarab Swarm
Charge this capability to commerce well being for hardened scarab armour – throughout this time Inaros can not transfer and can enhance his base amour worth by as much as 100%, shedding 29 well being per second within the course of that may simply be healed again. Use the flexibility once more to change 25% of the scarab armour and 25 vitality to ensnare targets within the Scarab Swarm. Any enemies caught can be unable to assault or transfer and can take corrosive harm, all of the whereas any allies in vary can be healed.

Inaros Warframe construct mods

Vitality – add to an already enormous well being pool, with max rank Vitality you should have a complete of 4,620 well being
Steel Fibre – enhance base armour for higher harm resistance
Primed Flow – a bigger vitality pool for capability casts 
Hunter Adrenaline – as Inaros has no shields all of the harm he receives can be to well being, which works very properly with this mod 
Overextended – extra vary for Desiccation in order that extra enemies can be blinded 
Stretch – much more vary for Desiccation
Negation Swarm – This increase mod modifications Scarab Swarm armour in order that it additionally prevents standing results. It will even forestall him from being knocked down, which could be very helpful when combating greater stage enemies
Primed Continuity – enhance the period of the blind from Desiccation which means extra time to carry out finishers on stricken enemies 

Exilus Mod
Cunning Drift – much more vary for Desiccation
Aura Mod
Up to you, however well being mods like Physique and Rejuvenation are at all times helpful for a tank Warframe construct like this one

How to make use of the Covert Lethality Inaros Warframe construct

This Inaros Warframe construct can kill enemies at any stage if they’re affected by Desiccation because of finishers – a dagger with Covert Lethality geared up is required for this. Keeping a inventory of Scarab Swarm armour will massively enhance your survivability and with Negation Swarm you may even keep away from getting knocked down, which is right for tanking the assaults of high-level enemies. The Undying passive and the well being it gives from performing finishers is a neat bonus, too.

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