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Khora is a monster. Lots of people use her for farming/interception, but I much prefer to run her as a whip-cracking DPS with Magistar Incarnon, Magus Aggress, and Amethyst Archon shards for melee crit damage.

Definitely concerned that Khora won’t be able to casually hit huge damage numbers after the pseudo-exalted rework. We’ll see what happens, I guess.

They’re ok. Just a fun little toy that brings back nostalgia and not much more, at least for PvE purposes. My old hands are content to bullet jump as DE intended when they folded coptering into the game.

Are they banned in Conclave?

No frills, just on-demand damage, defense, and CC. Rhino is still a beast thanks to Roar’s unique damage interactions and Iron Skin getting reworked to provide overguard. I like playing a minmaxed Roar build when helping new players so they can get a taste of real power.

I love Combat Discipline + Avenger Trinity with negative efficiency and Slamfluence builds. It’s super braindead to play thanks to Link’s targeting and has insane synergy with Madurai/Naramon. I also dropped almost all survivability mods on my companions in favor of Bond offense/utility mods since you can just press 4.

Welcome back to the space circus. Remember, you’re here forever!

Despite the fact that many players hang out in Steel Path, it is entirely optional just like most other things in the game. Like others have mentioned, Warframe is a veritable archipelago of stuff to do.

Citrine as a Protoframe would be horrifying. I can’t imagine the dialogue tree. 😰

I too came for the space ninja pirate wizards and stayed in spite of the… other stuff.

The Second Dream was cool and all, but the new systems were so rough at launch that I took my first extended break from the game because of it.

Want: Ember, Mesa, Mirage (plus Saryn, Gyre, Khora if I’m allowed to be extra greedy)

Expect: Ash, Ember, Rhino

Please no: Jade

I think this actually is with the Deathtrap Trigger evo selected - it’s currently bugged to display the extra crit modifiers in the arsenal despite being a conditional proc.

Now add Secondary Outburst!

Besides the design flaws that others have pointed out already, I can’t play Lavos since his ability chording gives me hand pain after prolonged sessions, and I can’t use my mouse buttons for them without redoing binds or creating a completely separate Lavos-only button profile.

Cooldown-based abilities are also not my thing; I’ve played enough classic MMOs to tire of the timeline optimization meta-game.

In no particular order, I think my top 5 melee Incarnons are regular Magistar (Khora stat stick + Slam builds), Praedos (speed), Ceramic Dagger (Secondary Outburst stick), Dual Ichor, and Skana (I just think longswords are cool). Furax is also an honorable mention for secondary users - I’m not sure why Amalgam mods exist, but I’m definitely thankful for Amalgam Furax Body Count!

Okina is just outside my top 5 alongside Furax, Hate, and Innodem, but I’ll have to see if I can work Okina into more builds.

Kunai is the standout of this bunch IMO. I think it’s the only weapon in the game with such easy access to headshot homing (do Buzlok and Zymos count?); no need to prep with Scourge alt-fire or Void status. It’s carried me through countless headshot Riven challenges. Great on Cyte-09 as well for emergency Evade refreshes. The main drawbacks are its extremely small magazine size and occasional weird tracking against enemies with unconventional weakpoints.

Skana is my second favorite (ok fine, I just want an excuse to use literally any of the cool longsword skins and stances). When’s Pangolin Incarnon Genesis??

Paris is a fun one as well - super satisfying to scythe down entire hallways with a single shot. Pretty funny on Mag as well. Bhisaj-Bal makes this slightly easier for general use over Dread IMO, but Unseen Dread has the definite edge on stealth frames. Unfortunately I find bows in general fairly clunky to use, so I don’t get a ton of use out of this one.

Braton is fine, if somewhat boring. The extra damage on evo 2 only being active on channeled abilities means I only ever feel compelled to use this on Sevagoth or Ember, but even without that it’s a strong, easy-to-use Incarnon.

Lato Incarnon Genesis is the only Incarnon I haven’t tried yet. I’ve been stubbornly re-farming Lato Vandal since I was an idiot and sold my previously-mastered copy a long time ago. I don’t expect this to outshine other secondary Incarnons, but it seems strong enough on paper as a reliable Circuit/EDA pick.

This isn’t the first year they’ve done it, but heatmaps by mastery are a great enrichment to the otherwise flat ranking-by-usage data.

I kinda wish there was an option to combine stats for base/Prime frame variants, especially for Primes that released in the lookback year.

Edit: am I tripping, or are stats missing for Excal Umbra/Prime?

Finally! I’m so tired of the Fandom platform.

Also, the Stakeholder Analysis meta-wiki page is unintentionally very funny.

Sicarus Incarnon has dethroned Laetum as my comfort secondary. It’s the perfect blend of ridiculously strong and easy to use, especially with the ricochet.

Dera Incarnon with Primary Crux is very funny and my second favorite of this batch. I just wish the Incarnon fire rate was higher - I find myself camping the Incarnoff mode until it’s time to laser a priority target.

Cestra is also extremely funny but still has horrible shot spread, so it’s mostly meme gun status to me.

Sybaris is fine. I’m sure the many Sybaris enjoyers appreciate the upgrade.

Okina is pretty nuts! Definitely melee of choice on Frost, but stands out in lots of other builds too. I’m curious what the other two in your top 3 Incarnon melee are.

Pain. Although the Lich system is so convoluted that it’s hard to fault anyone for these kinds of mishaps.

It only gets better. 120-ish hours is where I’d expect the game to start really opening up for you, assuming you’ve been making progress on the star chart and mastery ranks. 😄

As you can tell, there are many foot-guns and opportunity costs in this game. If you aren’t playing under someone else’s guidance, I recommend finding a mentor, else you risk making the same expensive mistakes that I (and many others) have made.

Dissolving a fully ranked Primed Point Blank. At least for Endo.

OOF

Upgrading a second Arcane to Rank 1.

You should be able to break the arcane back down into unranked ones, unless I’m misunderstanding.

A few more from the recesses of my brain (and friends reminding me):

• Not checking Void Traces and running 100+ relics while capped
• Selling my Hema and Sibear (I’ve sold countless other weapons that I thought were “trash” at the time, but these are the two I regret most)
• Leaving 1k+ Nightwave cred on the table because I forgot to spend it before a season rolled over
• Accidentally leaving multiple Kubrows out to die from genetic regression (back when that was a thing that could happen)
• Failing a level cap defense in SP Circuit and losing rewards for the entire run (back when that was a thing that could happen)
• Somehow the first clan emblem I ever uploaded was off-center by a few pixels? I’m still not sure how that happened, but it drove everyone insane until I scrounged up the plat to fix it.

Things I’ve dunked on my friends for doing:

• Selling frames with Archon shards still equipped
• Dying to fall damage in Duviri (just roll or summon horse lmao)
• Selling unslotted Ayatan treasures
• Farming ducats for Baro and then forgetting to actually buy stuff from him

I believe in living with the consequences of my actions. I definitely made that choice deliberately and not because I didn’t know you could submit a support ticket for that.

In any case, it’s in the distant past now. Check before you click!