Yareli my beloved, one of the high femme frames in terms of design, maybe even the highest. The frame that got me back into Warframe and in fact turned me into a Warframe main. Stop delaying Yareli prime, please!!!

With Loyal Merulina, she finally has easy level cap potential and access to her full arsenal. Like Nezha, she has a kit that naturally lends itself to both wide-range nuking and single target priority killing. Contrasting to Nezha, she’s much more oriented to crowd control, including being able to animation lock CC-resistant enemies with Loyal Merulina and max efficiency ;)

With a large natural shield pool, she can very easily reach 2.5s shield gate, or close to it, with minimal effort and no shard investment. I use this for my level cap oriented Pillage build. The lack of reliance on shards also gives her an offensive edge over Nezha if you choose to invest in her abilities as an “assassin” or priority killer.

As a priority killer and Influence nuker, she has some powerful interactions with Xata’s Whisper, especially with Cascadia Accuracy/Secondary Deadhead, Acuity and Worthy Comradery all scaling Xata’s damage unusually highly. Spreading bubbles benefits Influence through multidip, and Riptide has obvious synergies with Influence.

I generally run Furax Wraith Incarnon on Yareli since it’s an extremely powerful heavy slam and light attack Influence nuker, and Amalgam Body Count naturally fits Yareli’s focus on murdering things with her pistols. I do have a Praedos loadout specifically for Archon hunting too.

Speaking of pistols, what do I personally recommend?

• Akarius Prime: the generalist secondaries. Good crit stats (finally) so they’re versatile crowd clearers, Acolyte killers, object breakers (snow globes, breakable boss parts); they have innate Blast and high status chance.
• Atomos incarnon: Akarius Prime with an Incarnon battery, but in exchange you can basically use this as your only weapon and leave your primary for utility. Hits like a truck, high overall hybrid stats.
• Gaze secondary: Deadhead + Seeker, extravagantly high crit tiers. I use this alongside a glaive for Mark of the Beast builds. Prior to the incarnon update Gaze was my main pistol.
• Sporelacer: I think this has fallen off compared to other radial weapons, but if you’re early into SP or pre-SP, this is a deadly weapon, and the best radial battery weapon.
• Laetum: The crit build used to be close to the status build in performance, but I believe it could actually be stronger now due to Comradery and Acuity. Has a few fun paths like Shiver or Blast + Deadhead.
• Furis Incarnon: the pistol incarnon of all time. Cranks Yareli’s assassin abilities to the max. Has nice synergies with Influence weapons since they provide it with electric procs.
• Prisma Angstrum: native blast on the non-incarnon means it actually charges twice for each enemy hit by their own blast procs. Shoot it into a riptide for an instant charge.
• Grimoire: like the Angstrum, charges rapidly with Blast builds. Hits like a truck with Surge builds due to Yareli’s extravagant energy pool. Rounds out her support kit with some new toys too.
• Vermislicer secondary: if you combine this with the Scourge so it can actually headshot, it’ll really tickle some brains. Low KPM but exhilirating damage if you’re pre-incarnon.

Baruuk, my beloved. King of ‘fuck it, we ball’. Capable of all content at all levels. Can be full stealth or full tank, both can decide to throw hands with everything and win. I have seen 2000 missions completed as him, I will see many more to come.

Oberon, with or without augments, largely feels outclassed by many frames when it comes to doing a specific type of thing like healing or nuking, but still is a fun well rounded Warframe I still love.

I do think he needs a rework though.

Does anyone have an Ash setup that they like? He’s one of the few frames I cannot seem to find any joy in playing. I’ve tried Savage Silence Bladestorm and found it incredibly boring to wait for things to die.

Excalibur is cool and I will never not waste a slot on his exalted blade for life strike to turn his 4 into a heal button

Ok time to gush about Frost!

I just love the new Frost+Tenet Glaxion build with all the freeze/cold arcanes and augments, everything just fits so well and it makes for a perfectly balanced well-rounded frame.

You want massively increased crit damage on enemies that are frozen in place?

Do you like infinite energy orbs?

A weapon with excellent ammo economy and awesome looking chain effects capable of freezing and then shattering entire rooms within seconds?

Excellent armor strip and overguard generation on the same ability?

Want to support allies by also giving them overguard and additional cold damage on all weapons?

A built-in helminth slot (rip ability #2)?

A build that actually feels like it has perfect synergy and every part of it plays well with each other?

Want to be universally loved and cherished when you load into a (mobile)defense or excavation mission?

Are you also a very horny individual?

Look no further, give Frost a try!

You know who I’m hoping DE looks at next? Valkyr. She has one relatively strong move (sliding attack) on one relatively strong ability (hysteria) but I wish the rest of her claws stance was changed to better suit the style.

Also I guess Warcry is in a healthy position with its augment, but it has the typical “this is a powerful ability but if something else is killing everything then it’s entirely unsustainable” style that DE loves to design around

Sorry for missing the thread last week, here is my Drifter hugging Kalymos as an apology:

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