Been playing Warframe on Linux since 2020 when I made the switch, used to be you had to use a specific launch flag to make the game have audio and either plug in a controller or fake having one or the game would crash after around 5min. Thankfully such tweaks haven’t been necessary for years now and nowadays Warframe (and most games) just work. Things have gotten so good I rarely even check protonDB for compatibility before buying a game now!

Since his last post Qorvex got a new toy in the form of Fused Crusible. He’s now the ultimate tower defense frame, pop down your pillars, activate 4 and watch as things around them explode for cascading damage! Very effective in any high enemy density environment, completely useless against single foes.

I know it’s a manga about dragons but I still wonder where all this ice is coming from. Is she sucking out the moisture from the surrounding air? Using her own body’s water supply? I feel like that would dehydrate her incredibly quickly so maybe a mixture of both? The answer is probably ‘dragon magic’ but I’m still curious about the deeper physical implications of these powers.

Easter is almost here so I thought I would bring back the bunny frame! I admit, I never liked Ivara. She’s my least favorite of all the invisibility frames. Her kit encourages gameplay that’s just way too slow for my tastes. I think Cyte-09 does the stealthy marksman role much better, his kit is far more engaging and effective than Ivara’s. She used to be the queen of Spy and Conservation but she’s been usurped by Perspicacity Wukong and Rest&Rage Titania for both. Her bow, even with the exalted changes, remains unimpressive. All she has going on for her is Dashwire+Navigator shenanigans and using Noise+Sleep arrows to put entire tilesets to sleep, a funny but not very effective tactic.

Nourish/Roar are the boring but solid options, even with lowered power strength they still provide a considerable damage boost. A good alternative (and my preferred option) is Lycath’s Hunt from Voruna, with Equilibrium this completely solves any energy issues you could possibly have and enables the use of Arcane Blessing to give Gara a rather considerable tankyness increase. You can also add Health Conversion to give that large health pool you got an extra layer of defense to make Gara VERY hard to bring down, so long as you keep on killing to make the health orbs happen.

Gara’s already impressive nuking capabilities have been augmented even further with the Exalted melee changes! Her Shattered Lash is now a nuke itself, no longer needing to rely on her 1+4 combo to massacre crowds. All that on top of having a 90% DR with a stacking damage aura that she can share with her teammates! Very solid frame that, like Zephyr, is woefully underplayed for how powerful she is.

Free weapon slot, can never have enough of these! Thanks!

Brief post today because I’m sick and thinking is hard. Wukong is another winner of the Exalted rework, a particularly big one as his staff went from being his default subsumed over ability to his best one. Massive range, 1.0x follow through, great crit and status + Influence and fast spin attacks, the usual good stuff. For anyone who misses the Spin2Win Maiming Strike meta, Wukong brings it back now!

What an ending! I was a bit worried but they wrapped things up pretty nicely. And of course in a typical Re:Zero fashion there was no way we could end things on such a high note, gotta add some suffering at the very end. We also have season 4 confirmation already so we might not have to wait 3 years like before for this cliffhanger to resolve!

Really nice conclusion to this arc, most friendships start from a very superficial point, like liking the same thing or how they look but then learning more about the person and enjoying them for who they are. Ruri’s circle of friends might have gathered around her because of her unusual look but they all stayed with her because of who she really is, half-dragon or not.

Man did this frame get a glow up with the Exalted changes! Blood Rush, Tennokai, Influence + Chromatic Blade, combo buildup from exalted blade’s waves, so many wins for Excalibur in this update! He went from being probably the weakest of the starters late game to now likely being the strongest, the sheer potential of Influence on a pure electricity weapon with 1.0x follow through and massive range is insane. Still not really my type of warframe but he is undeniably an absolute powerhouse now, Baruuk has some serious competition now!

I hope next week we get a 30min episode (or the actual dream, another 1,5h one like the first one) because there is still so much stuff to go through and only one episode left in the season. I feel like it’s pretty much unavoidable they end it on a cliffhanger, but hopefully at least some of the plot points get resolved and we won’t be left waiting for 3+ years for answers.

Ash is getting some much needed changes in the next update and I’m quite looking forward to them! He was always my favorite of the invisible frames so I’m happy to see him get some love. His 1 is getting a dmg boost which likely doesn’t matter (unless it scales with the mods on his new exalted weapon, that would actually make it interesting!) but the projectile increase from 2 to 5 makes running it with it’s armor stripping augment much more appealing. Smoke Screen getting a massive 50% duration increase makes this ability way more comfortable to use without needing to slot in every single duration mod possible (or subsuming over it and running Arcane Trickery instead). Teleport is actually useful now without needing to run it’s augment, I still wish it worked like Kullervo’s 1 and just let you teleport to anywhere. And Blade Storm getting turned into an exalted weapon and having it’s mark mechanic condensed to just 1 turns it into an actual good end game nuke!

I don’t think Reinhard and Wilhelm made up, if anything their relationship is more hostile now than ever. Wilhelm called out to him using his name, asking Reinhard if he regretted his actions. After getting his answer, he turns his back to him and addresses him as “Sword Saint Reinhard-dono”, using a very formal tone and his title and tells him he has nothing more to say to him. He goes from trying to reach out to a family member to coldly addressing a title bearer, a title that he likely hates considering what is has done to his love. While he understands why Reinhard did what he did he cannot accept his answer and so tells him to effectively “get lost”, just in a more polite manner.

What an amazing episode! The Astrea family really is cursed, everyone in there seems to be miserable all thanks to the “blessing” of the sword saint. It turned Theressia from a happy flower loving girl into a war-scarred orphan, while poor Reinhard did the only reasonable thing he could do in the moment and it destroyed his relationship with his grandfather and pushed his father to hate him even further, considering he “killed” his grandmother twice now. It makes one almost able to feel some sympathy for even Heinkel, although I still can’t feel bad for the bastard.

We have the numbers and Atlas is looking goooooood. 35% crit and 15% status makes modding for both a good choice, especially with the explosive potential of Influence. The 2.8m of base range is going to be crazy powerful as well, assuming it applies to the AoE parts of pseudo-exalteds. With Primed Reach that’s a free extra 5,8m of range added to the base 2m, a massive increase and that’s without any range on the frame! Add to that the much higher total damage once ramped up thanks to the combo changes and the consecutive punches frame is looking really good! Now if only DE also did something about the carpal tunnel you get by playing him, this whole pseudo-exalted rework would be perfect. Let me hold down the ability key to equip is as my melee weapon, or at least make holding it just continually cast the ability, please!

Ruri is becoming more and more dragon every day! At this point I feel like it’s a matter of time before she grows scales or wings. This is definitely the shifting point in the story, she can no longer just blend in with human society and has to consider whether she is OK with still trying to participate in it despite her differences. Also, sensei definitely knows too much, not enough to make me think he’s a dragon himself but some kind of dragon researching scientist? A government agent? Definitely not just a normal teacher, for sure!

He’s far an away the worst weapons platform frame in the game. Is he playable? Of course, Warframe is an easy game! But you would be far better served by playing even a basic Rhino compared to Chroma. Base damage increases are just not really that valuable with gun arcanes providing you more than enough. A Revenant with max power strength and Roar subsumed is completely invincible and has over 100% multiplicative damage multiplier that double dips on DoTs. Wisp can prime enemies with Breach Surge while also buffing your fire rate and can easily run Roar as her 4 as well. Nezha goes fast, has a multiplicative damage multiplier in Chakram and can spread DoTs from weapons across a massive area with Divine Spears. Compared to those, Chroma just falls off completely, not to mention 2 of his abilities are boring buffs that could easily be merged into one and the others do absolutely nothing. He looks really cool, his theme of a knight that wears the pelt of a slain Sentient dragon is awesome but the frame itself just sucks.

The loot frame! Not much else to say about Nekros, he’s known for his Desecrate and that’s pretty much the only thing keeping him relevant, the rest of his kit is middling at best. His Shadows are only useful for the purposes of soaking damage for Nekros with the Shield of Shadows augment. Terrify is a passable armor strip and Soul Punch is an ability that exists. It’s a good thing this is a grindy game with a ton of resources that drop from enemies or else poor Nekros would be warming the bench along with Chroma, Loki and Limbo.

Regulus is down! Guy really went out in the worst possible way, slowly alternating between the pain of stopping his heart and drowning. He gets no sympathy from me though, bastard more than deserved it! Watching Emilia go full ORAORAORA on him was great, and of course Reinhard just couldn’t resist having the flashiest possible entrance, pulling off the Saitama special and launching himself off the moon.