Xaku Prime is? the latest Prime Warframe to come to the game, but alongside Xaku, we also got Trumna Prime and Quassus Prime. The Trum?na is a particularly powerful weapon, capable of clearing entire rooms of enemies with the press of a single button. If you build it right, that is.

You'll need to get your Xaku relics, your Quassus relics, and your Trumna relics sorted out before you can start playing around with these new addi?tions, but if you?'re ready for some explosively serious DPS, keep reading for our take on a low-cost Trumna Prime build.

How to build Trumna Prime in Warframe

Trumna Prime comes with solid critical chance and critical damage stats as well as ??an excellent status chance, so we'll be building it around scaling status damage with Galvanized Aptitude and getting critical hits.?? A weapons platform frame like Gauss is a perfect pairing with the Trumna.

The playstyle here is simple, sure, but satisfying. Simply charge up your Trumna's alternate fire by getting five kills, then activate your alternate fire for a room-clearing explosion courtesy of a bouncing grenade. If you've go??t a solid Riven, this weapon can get mind-bogglingly powerful.

The best Trumna Prime mods in Warframe

The name of the game with mods is mitigating the Trumna's intense recoil with Stabilizer, boosting critical chance and damage with Vital Sense and Critical Delay, adding in viral damage, ??and then scaling that with Galvanized Aptitude. The last mod here is flexible, so feel free to add in a Riven.

Arcane: Primary Merciless

Exilus: Stabilizer

Mods:

• Primed Cryo Rounds (Can swap with Rime Rounds)
• Malignant Force
• Galvanized Aptitude
• Galvanized Chamber
• Critical Delay
• Vital Sense
• Vile Acceleration
• Radiated Reload (Can swap with Hammer Shot, Primed Firestorm, or a Riven)

On its own, the Trumna deals heat and impact ??damage, while we're modding for viral and radiation damage. Together, this gives you quite a few elements to scale Galvanized Aptitude's damage off. If you'd prefer a higher status chance over ??extra viral damage, Rime Rounds works fine, too.

The flex mod slot here is Radiated Reload. The Trumna's reload speed is rather slow, so this mod is nice to have, but Hammer Shot is a reliable pick, increasing status chance and critical damage. With Hammer Shot, you won't need to swap Primed Cryo R??ounds for Rime Rounds, either.

Pri??med Firestorm is another option, but keep in mind that it'll only work with the Trumna's? alternate fire. And the alternate fire grenade bounces around, already dealing damage in a fairly large range. Ideally, if you've got the currency for it, a good Riven is perfect for this particular build.

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Kuva Lich and Sisters of Parvos weapons are some of the strongest weapons in Warframe, but with Warframe: 1999, a new class of weapon is being added: Infested weapons. These come t?o us by way of a new adversary system: the Technocyte Coda.

There's a ton of content in Waframe: 1999, and a new Prime is on the way, but keep reading to learn what the Technocyte Coda are, how the system will work, and what Infested weaponry you can look forward to playing with when Warframe: 1999 releases later this year.

What are the Technocyte Coda in Warframe?

The Technocyte Coda are Warframe's latest adversary system that are Infested versions of Kuva Liches or Sisters of Parvos. Technocyte Coda are based on On-lyne, a 1999-era boyband in the Warfarme universe. On-lyne is made up of Zeke, Drillbit, Harddrive, DJ RoM, and Packet.

Instea??d of fighting Liches?????????????????????????? or Sisters, you'll be chasing Technocyte Coda 'band members' across your star map. However, the Technocyte Coda adversary system doesn't just have a new aesthetic and new weapons to unlock and upgrade, the system itself has some major upgrades.

How do Technocyte Coda work in Warframe?

Like always, you can't be targeted by a Sister or Lich to chase after a Technocyte Coda. To find a Technocyte Coda, you'll have to defeat Infested enemies in Warframe: 1999 content, which have a chance to drop a unique item on death??.

Then, you'll bri?ng the item to a nearby computer terminal, where you'll complete a hacking puzzle. Once the puzzle is completed, the process will c?ontinue after you extract from your mission, much like how it works once you capture a Kuva Lich or Sister of Parvos.

Once extracted, you'll be able to see your particular Technocyte Coda and any relevant customization in a splash screen, while your Technocyte Coda will rob you of certain resources at the end of mission???s until you defeat them, like a Sister of Parvos or Kuva Lich does.

You can face off with your Technocyte Coda in any Warframe: 1999 mission, and once you damage it enough??, it'll become vulnerable to a Parazon attack. However, you will need a new set of Antivirus Parazon mods to use when fighting Technocyte Coda.

Antivirus mods are acquired in a 'specialized bounty mission' and are themed around 1999-era antivirus com??panies. After you damage your Technocyte Coda enough and figure out the c?orrect order of Parazon Antivirus mods, you'll finish off the process with a Railjack mission.

Like with Sisters or Liches, you can either vanquish a Technocyte Coda, or you can convert it for tr?ading.? The big change with this system comes down to how you acquire certain weapons. Unlike Liches and Sisters, Technocyte Coda aren't attached to specific weapons.

How Technocyte Coda are different from Liches and Sisters in Warframe

Instead of being able to see an attached weapon before you start your Technocyte Coda process, vanquishing Technocyte Coda will award you with currency that you can then spend on an Infested wea??p??on of your choice at a vendor with a rotating selection of weapons.

It's currently unclea??r how much currency vanquishing a Technocyte Coda will award you as well as what the prices of Infested weapons will be. Digital Extremes notes that the rotat?ion will be similar to Ergo Glast's Tenet Weapons, and that system works as follows:

• Five weapons are available
• Rotation changes every four days
• Only one purchase of a weapon is allowed per rotation
• Weapons have random progenitor bonuses and increases

If the new vendor works exactly like Ergo Glast, you can expect fully upgrading Infested weaponry to take a lot longer than it would with Kuva or Tenet weapons. However, Digital Extremes has said the Technocyte Coda Vendor will be "similar" to Ergo Glast, so there may be changes.

What Infested weapons will be available in Warframe: 1999?

When Warframe: 1999 launches, 10 Infested weapons will be available. These are upgraded versions of pre-existing Warframe weaponry,?? though we don't have their stats just y?et:

Primaries:

• Hema
• Sporothrix
• Synapse

Secondaries:

• Catabolyst
• Pox
• Tysis

Melees:

• Caustacyst
• Hirudo
• Mire
• Pathocyst

Digital Extremes also promises that three all-new Infested weapons will be added, but we currently d??on't have any details on what those weapons will be or how they'll perform.

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In Warframe, the Drifter is the Operator's counterpart, and while the Drifter can be used anywhere your Operator can, the Drifter has a ton of extra functionality in Duviri. Much like the Operator's Focus Schools, the Drifte?r has its own upgrade system in Duviri, Drifter Intrinsics.

Keep reading for a breakdown of what the Drifter Intrinsics actually are, how you go about unlocking them, and which ??ones are the most important.

What are Drifter Intrinsics in Warframe?

Drifter Intrinsics are skill points for the Drifter. You can spend Drifter Intrinsics on four different categories of upgrades to make the Drifter more powerful in Duviri: Combat, Riding, Opportunity, and Endurance. Although, some upgrades will work outside of Duviri??.

In general,? though, the four categories of upgrades do the following:

• Combat: Upgrades for the Drifter in combat
• Riding: Upgrades for riding Kaithe
• Opportunity: More options of weapons and Warframes in the Circuit
• Endurance: Upgrades for the Drifter's survivability and Warframes in the Circuit

The vast majority of Intrinsics will?? only work in Duviri, and many Intrinsics will only apply in open-world Duviri content, not in the Circuit. However, this is not a hard-and-fast rule.

How to unlock Drifter Intrinsics in Warframe

Unlike Railjack Intrinsics that are more like XP, Drifter Intrinsics are earned through decrees and completing various activities in Duviri, both in the Circuit and in the open-world.

When you complete a side ?objective in open-world Duviri, finish a wave in the Circuit, or do one of the main objectives in open-world Duviri, you'll be rewarded with three Intrinsics each time. When you finish the Undercroft in open-world Duviri, you'll earn yourself six Intrinsics.

Finding a Los?t Islands of Duviri Fragment will net you five Intrinsics, while defeating the final boss of open-world Duviri, the Orowyrm, will net you 15 Intrinsics on normal and 22 Intrinsics in Steel Path. Simply killing enemies or playing content outside of Duviri will not earn Intri??nsics.

You need 255 Intrinsics to max out a category, so with four categories, you'll need a total of 1020 Intrinsics to fully upgrade the Drif?t??er, Kaithe, and your frames in the Circuit.

What Drifter Intrinsics are the best in Warframe?

In general, the most useful category is Opportunity. On the other hand, the least useful category is Riding. However, all c??ategories are worth leveling if you p??lay Duviri.

Opportunity focuses on giving you more choice in the Circuit, and with better weapons and Warframes, you can last longer in the Circuit and more quickly unlock Incarnon weapons. Riding makes traversing open-world D??uviri easier, but you can also earn decrees that do the same thing.

There are also Intrinsics that apply outside ?of Duviri, which a??re definitely worth getting:

• Combat, Rank 9, Muscle Mass: Drifter and Operator deal 25% more damage
• Endurance, Rank 9, Tough As Old Boots: Regenerate +5 health/s as Drifter and Operator

Rank?? 9 in Riding will u?nlock Kaithe for use in other open-worlds, but the Archwing is just a lot quicker. Endurance and Combat can definitely be a big help when playing The Lone Story, where you don't earn many decrees, but otherwise, decrees can make you plenty overpowered.

How to farm Drifter Intrinsics quickly in Warframe

As discussed above, playing any of Duviri's three modes? can earn you Drifter Intrinsics, but not all three modes are equal when it comes to farming up Drifter Intrinsics.

The Circuit is just about the worst place to go for Intrinsics. Not only is it quicker to earn Intrinsics in The Lone Story and The Duviri Experience, but the Circuit is unreliable. Most co-??op partners quit after just a fe?w waves, and you have to get lucky on your loadout to go far anyway.

The Lone Story is decent for farming Intrinsics, because with a competent team it can be done fairly quickly and earn you around ~50 Intrinsics per run, but it's not the best. If your teammates aren't pulling their weight, The Lone Story c??an take a while and not earn you much.

This all adds up to why The Duviri Experience is the absolute best place to farm Intrinsics. Yes, games can last for over an hour, but you can earn 100s of Intrinsics in a single game. All yo??u have to is complete as many side objectives as you can befor??e eventually finishing the main stages.

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In Warframe, the Helminth is an infested being that lives in your Orbiter. You can use the Helminth to transfer the a??bility of a Warframe to a different Warframe, add new abilities unlocked at the Helminth to Warframes, Invigorate Warframes to make them stronger for a limited time, insert Archon Shards into Warframes, and combine Archon Shards to make more powerful Shards.

The Helminth is an incredibly powerful mechanic every Warframe player should use, but it isn't explained well and can be confusing. Read on for? a breakdown of all the v??arious Helminth systems as well as how to unlock your Helminth, how to upgrade it, and how to level it up efficiently.

How to unlock the Helminth in Warframe

The Helminth is located in the room in your Orbiter opposite to your personal quarters. The room itself becomes accessible when using Nidus, Nidus Prime, or a Warframe with a Helminth Cyst.

When using Nidus, you can enter the Helminth room and interact with the Helminth to receive a Helminth Cyst. Af?terward, you can infect other Warframes you come into contact with during missions. A day after ??being infected, a Helminth Cyst will appear on a Warframe.

However, you can't actually use the Helminth, even if you can access its room, until you purchase a Helminth Segment for your Orbiter. You can purchase the segment from Son at the Necralisk on Deimos. You will need to be Mastery Rank 8 and Rank 3 with the Entrati.

The Helminth Segment costs 15,000 standing, and its crafting requirements are:

• 5 Purple Velocipod Tags
• 20 Adramal Alloy
• 5 Saturated Muscle Mass
• 15 Ganglion

After a 24-hour crafting time, you'll be directed to the Helminth room, and you'll be given a chance to name your Helminth. Then, you can start using it. However, ??to access Invigorations, Archon Shards, or to be able to upgrade Archon Shards, you'll need to upgrade your Helminth.

How to upgrade the Helminth in Warframe

Ther??e? are three different upgrades, by way of Orbiter segments, for the Helminth.

The Helminth Invigoration Segment allows you to Invigorate Warframes, which gives a Warframe temporary buffs that last for a week. You can purchase the segment from Son at the Necralisk on Deimos. You need to be Mastery Rank 8 and Rank 5 with the Entrati.

A Helminth Invigoration Segment costs 30,000 standing, and its crafting requirements are:

• 5 Vizier Predasite Tags
• 20 Tempered Bapholite
• 10 Pustulent Cognitive Nodules
• 15 Pustulite

The Helminth Archon Shard Segment allows you to socket Archon Shards into Warframes, which give Warframes powerful, permanent buffs. The Helminth Archon Shard Segment Blueprint is a reward for completing the Veilbreaker quest, and its crafting requirements are:

• 2 Entrati Lanthorn
• 10 Devolved Namalon
• 5 Sporulate Sacs
• 50 Thrax Prisms

The Helminth Coalescent Segment allows you to combine Archon Shards to create either more powerful versions of Shards or new types of Shards with different sets of buffs. You can purchase the segment from Bird 3 at Sanctum Anatomica on Deimos. You need to be Rank 2 with the Cavia.

A Helminth Coalesecent Segment costs 30,000 standing, and its crafting requirements are:

• 50 Stela
• 5 Echo Voca
• 5 Entrati Lanthorn
• 25 Necracoil

How to use the Helminth in Warframe

The Helminth's core mechanic is subsuming. Basically, you s??acrifice a Warframe (a base variant, not a prime) to add one of its four abilities to the Helminth. Then, you can add that ability to other Warframes, overwriting one of their four abilities of your own choosing.

Once you subsume a frame to unlock an ability in the Helminth, that ability will be forever addable to other Warframes. However, only a specific ability on each Warframe is subsumable. This is done for balance reasons, and you can check the Wiki for the full list of subsumable abilities.

Keep in mind that a subsumed ability may work differently than the ability does normally on its original frame. For example, Rhino's Roar is a subsumable ability and a very popular one at that, but Roar boos?ts damage less when subsumed onto another Warframe versus on Rhino himself.

It's also worth noting that Augment Mods can be used on Warframes with the corresponding subsumed ability. So, Rhino's Piercing Roar mod can be install??ed on any frame that has Roar.? However, some Augment Mods will have functionality specific to their original Warframe.

Aside from subsumed abilities, the Helminth has its own set of abilities you can add to frames, too. Some of the Helminth abilities are quite powerful, like Energized Munitions that makes your weapons only consume ammo every four shots instead of every shot while?? it's active.

However, you can't do any of t??he above without the neces?sary resources.

How to feed the Helminth in Warframe

Regardless of whether you're Invigorating a Warframe, socketing in Archon Shards, or subsuming abilities, every Helminth action has a price. And you pay in Secretions.

There are seven different categories of Secretions made up of various resources from across the game. For example, the Oxides Secretion is made up of metal resources, like Alloy Plates. By ?feeding the Helminth these resources, your Oxide Secretion fill??s up.

A Secretion can be filled up to a maximum of 100%. How much a particular resource fills up a Secretion depends on your Helminth's appetite. The more you feed your Helminth a particu??lar resource, the less it will fill up its Secretion. So, you'll need to vary what you feed your Helminth.

However, if you give your Helminth some time after feeding it, feeding it that resource again will fill up your Secretion as normal. What your Helminth is hungry for is represented by arrows on that resource in the feeding menu. The Helminth can be hungry, not hungry, or ?neutral.

A green arrow means the Helminth is hungry for that resource, so you'll fill up yo??ur Secretion the maximum amount, while a red arrow means it's tired o??f something, and you'll fill up your Secretion a lot less. No arrow means your Helminth is neutral on the resource in question.

Lastly, the Sentient Secretion works diffe??rently from the rest. You can feed yo?ur Helminth Sentient resources to restore its appetite for a particular resource. So, if you have a lot of one resource the Helminth is tired of, you can change its arrow from red to green by feeding it.

How to level the Helminth in Warframe

How many Warframes you can subsume, as well as what Helminth abilities you have access to, is determined by your Helminth's Metamorphosis rank. Essentially, this is the level of your Helminth?. To even begin subsuming frames, you need to be at Metamorphosis Rank 1.

Leveling your Helminth is simple. By feeding it resources, subsuming Warframes, socketing in Archon Shards, or Invigorating frames, you'll get Metamorphosis XP. However, leveling your Helminth quickly is a more difficult task?, espe??cially considering the resource costs of feeding it.

Invigorations give you tons of Metamorphosis XP, so even if you don't plan on using a particular frame, Invigorating is a great way to level up fast. You should also take care when f??eeding your Helminth not to waste you??r resources, which means wasting precious Metamorphosis XP.

A resource with a green arrow can fill up?? a Secretion by up to 30%, so feeding your Helminth a resource it's hungry for when the corresponding Secretion is alr?eady at 90% isn't very efficient. So, don't feel the need to keep your Secretion levels at 100%, just fill them up as you need to.

You also can remove a subsumed ability from a Warframe and then add a new one, whic??h can be an effective way of spending your Secretions that in turn can be filled up again �both of which will give you Metam?orphosis XP. Just be careful not to feed your Helminth resources you need.

As a word of caution, even when you're being efficient, the Helminth isn't something that most players can just reach the maximum level with in a few days. Depending on how ?many frames you have to subsume as well as what resources you have, it can take a month or longer.

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Warframe's last prime frame, Sevagoth, was released in late August, so it's likely we'll see another one before the year's out. (Probably somewhere around when Warframe: 1999 drops.) But who's coming next? Sevagoth marked a major change in the release cadence of prime frames, which has led many to speculate that Xaku Prime will be the next addition to Warframe.

People are still digesting the Koumei & the Five Fates update like the new frame or the tons of QOL added, but others are looking toward the future. Xaku would be the first non-binary prime Warframe, which would explain why Sevagoth changed how prime frames release. So, here's everything you need to know about Warframe's next prime frame.

Sevagoth changed how prime frames are added to Warframe

Since 2012, developer Digital Extremes has stuck to a Male-Male-Female-Female release cadence for prime Warframes. This, in part, explains why precisely when new frames get added to the game doesn't exactly p?redict the date their prime counterpart will come out.

However, Sevago??th, the last prime Warframe released, changed this cadence, making the sequence go Male-Male-Female-Male for the first time since the game's launch. It may not sound like a big deal, but changing a pattern that's been kept up for ov??er a decade is worth some thought.

Here are all the Warframes released since 2023:

• Sevagoth Prime, Male, August 2024
• Protea Prime, Female, May 2024
• Gauss Prime, Male, January 2024
• Grendel Prime, Male, October 2023
• Wisp Prime, Female, July 2023
• Hildryn Prime, Female, March 2023

Digital Extremes hasn't elaborated on why this has changed, nor have they announced what's coming next, but that's nothing unusual. While there may not be an official explanation, there is an unofficial one: Digital Extremes is setting up Xaku to be Warframe's next prime frame.

Why Xaku could be Warframe's next prime frame

Canonically, Xaku is a non-binary Warframe, the first in Warframe history. What's more is that Xaku was the next War?frame introduced after Protea, making 2024 about when you'd expect to see Xaku Prime released. However, a Male-Male-Female-Female release ?schedule complicates things.

It makes sense that Digital Extremes wouldn't want to release Xaku in a traditionally male or female slot. But with the release of Sevagoth Prime, the next Warframe could be eit??her male or female, considering that the pattern's been broken, and this makes it the perfect time to drop a Xaku Prime.

Although, since there aren't more non-binary frames just yet, as well as the fact that if Xaku is next there will only have been one female frame released from late 2023 through early 2025, the pattern would?? likely be reestablished after Xaku Prime, meaning the following release schedule:

• Caliban Prime, Male, Early 2026
• Lavos Prime, Male, Late 2025
• Gyre Prime, Female, Mid 2025
• Yareli Prime, Female, Early 2025
• Xaku Prime, Non-Binary, Late 2024

Some members of the community point out that a release schedule like the above would mean Lavos getti?ng the short end of the stick, since he released right after Xaku (and before Sevagoth), but if Digital Extremes does plan to return things to normal after Xaku, this is the most li?kely order.

Why Xaku might not be Warframe's next prime frame

On the other side of things, some argue that Xaku's lore makes it impossible for them to get a prime versi?on. Though this would be the first Warfra??me that didn't get a prime counterpart, Xaku's position in the lore is undoubtedly unique, particularly in terms of how they were created.

Instead of being created by the Orokin, Xaku was created after th??ree Warframes lost in the Void fused together. So, Xaku isn't a traditional Warframe, if they're even a 'Warframe' in the traditional sense of the word when it comes to the lore, meaning a Xaku Prime might not make sense.

However, others have pointed out that another Warframe, Revenant, wasn't created by the Orokin either, but there's a Revenant Prime in the game. It would certainly be unusual if Xak??u d??idn't get a prime counterpart, but the release of Sevagoth Prime is already a departure from the norm.

Ultimately, we'll have to wait and see what Digital Extremes does at the end of the year when we can reasonably expect the release of another prime frame,? so keep your eyes peeled.

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Warframe's 1999 demo is now live in the game, and Digital Extremes has also revealed a new single from the 1999 soundtrack, The Call, for your listening enjoyment. No, an official 1999 release date has not been announced just y?et, but everything points t??o sometime in December 2024.

If you haven't been keeping up-to-date with what's going on in Warframe, the Koumei & the Five Fates update has a new frame to check out, a Caliban rework, and tons of QOL, among other ch?anges. But keep on reading to find out everything you need to know about the new demo.

Warframe's newest official song: The Call

To start off, Digital Extremes has unveiled a new single from the 1999 soundtrack: The Call. You can listen directly on YouTube above, but you can also find the song on Spotify and Apple Music. The Call w??as originally heard during TennoCon 2024 wh?ere the community was quickly taken with it.

As you'll be able to hear, The Call is a very punky, very 90s track that takes a lot of inspiration from groups like Sonic Youth. This makes a lot of sense coming after On-lyne, another 1999 ?track from TennoCon 2024, that feels similarly 90s, taking inspiration from boy bands like NSYNC.

Give it a listen, and get yourself excited for Warframe: 1999 if you aren't already.

Warframe's 1999 demo is now live in the game

Warframe's next big expansion, 1999, is set to radically expand the game in major ways with a new open-world environment, the city of Höllvania, a rideable motorcycle, Protoframe skins, infested liches, and so, so much more. And now, you can get a taste of that thanks to this ??demo.

Acco??rding to Digital ??Extremes' announcement, the following is available to check out now:

• A section of Höllvania
• The rideable Atomicycle motorcycle vehicle
• A look at the new Scaldra faction of combatants
• A fresh take on the classic ‘Exterminationâ€?mission
• The Protokol Longsword Skin

If you want to unlock the Protokol Longsword Skin, you will h??ave to complete the demo mission, but remember, the demo is just a taste of what's to come, so don't expect a big grind or tons of content. To access the demo, interact with the new console at the front of your Orbiter.

Yo?u also will need to ha?ve completed the Awakening and Vor's Prize quests first. Although, these are very early quests, so chances are you've already completed them. If you're new to the game, though, and want to see what 1999 is all about, you won't have to get through much to try it out.

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New Incarnon weapons have been added to Warframe, and as some of the most powerful ar??ms in the game, it's always worth trying them out. Of the new Incarnons, the Okina is one of the most interesting, with a unique way of spreading cold status around.

The Koumei & the Five Fates update has brought a lot more than just new weapons to the game: There's a whole new Warframe, Koumei, a major rework to Caliban, a companion rework, lots of QOL, and more. But if you're lookin??g to do some serious melee DPS, kee?p on reading.

How to build the Okina Incarnon in Warframe

Like any good weapon, you can build your Okina in various ways. This particular dual sai performs beautifully with a good Riven or some Smite mods, but this build is aimed ?at anybody who doesn't have the Platinum for all that. Rest assured, anyone can use the Okina.

The core concept here is using Melee Influence to spread status effects around, particularly electricity, which dovetails well with the Okina's ability to freeze nearby enemies and inflict cold status. Add some viral damage into the mix, as well as a ?ton of crit, and that's all you'll need.

Best Okina Incarnon evolutions

The third and fourth perks are easy choices for this build, while you can opt for Synergist Surety as your second perk, which increases status damage, b??ut this build runs Galvanized Elementalist for a status damage boost. Quickly racking up comb?os is important to activate your Incarnon, too.

Evolution II: Seeing Red (5 additional combo??s on targets afflicted by slash)

Evolution III: Orokin Reach (+1 range)

Evolution IV: Alchemy o??f War (increase status chance and duration)

However, if? you want to run an Okina with Riven or Bane mods, you'll likely prefer Synergist Surety for the extra damage. Nonetheless, expensive mods aren't necessary.

Best mods for Okina Incarnon

We're trying to maximize status chance and statu??s damage with this build so we can spread status effects and status damage with Melee Influence when we proc electricity on enemies. Then, we scale our damage off of Condition Overload to take advantage of the statuses we inflict while we use our combo Incarno?n perk to maximize our critical power with Blood Rush.

Arcane: Melee Influence

Aura: Spinning Needle

Exilus: Discipline's Merit

Mods:

• Condition Overload
• Blood Rush
• Berserker Fury (can swap with Quickening)
• Galvanized Elementalist (can swap with Weeping Wounds)
• Vicious Frost (can replace with a Smite mod)
• Virulent Scourge (can replace with Primed Reach)
• Shocking Touch
• Galvanized Steel

This is a great general-purpose ??build that won't have trouble even in Netracells. However, if you want to push it further with Smite mods or a Riven, switch Galvanized Elementalist to Weeping Wounds, add in Primed Reach, and swap Berserker Fury to Quickening for easier combos. Naturally, you'll be better off changing your second Incarnon perk to Synergist Surety if you go this route.

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Caliban isn't new to Warframe, but sin?ce his introduction, he was widely considered one of the (if not the) worst characters in the game. That's all changed n?ow, thanks to a massive rework that's turned Caliban into an extremely powerful, top-tier Warframe in his own right.

The Koumei & the Five Fates update has brought with it tons of changes, not just to Caliban, but companions have been reworked on top of?? introducing a new Warframe, Koumei. If you want one of the strongest builds to come out of this update, though, keep readin?g.

The top Caliban build in Warframe post-rework

Caliban's kit can be confusing, but we're targeting a simple playstyle packed with power. All you'll have to do is call in your? su??mmons, and then you're ready to start armor-stripping. Everything will quickly start dying around you, and you can dash into enemies whenever you need shields.

We'??re focusing primarily on strength here alongside range and a little extra duration at the? cost of efficiency, which won't be much of a problem with Arcane Energize, Streamline, and Caliban's Razor Gyre ability that can generate energy as you dash into enemies.

Arcanes: Energize and Molt Augmented

Aura: Growing Power

Exilus: Cunning Drift

Mods:

• Primed Flow
• Primed Continuity
• Primed Redirection
• Umbral Intensify
• Blind Rage
• Transient Fortitude
• Streamline
• Stretch

You can swap out Primed Continuity for ?Continuity, but you'll struggle with energy economy without Primed Flow and end up rather squishy without Primed Redirection. Umbral Intensify can be swapped out with Intensify to save on mod capacity if you're low on Forma.

Nourish is quickly becoming a popular subsume on Caliban, but his k?it already synergizes well, so this build won't rely on Helminth. Although, feel free to experiment. Either his first or second abilities? are going to be the prime candidates for replacement if you do want to use a subsume.

Best Archon Shards for Caliban

Archon Shards aren't strictly necessary here, but they do make a big difference. As always, Tauforged Shards are preferable. Stacking even more strength just makes Caliban's summons more powerful, while casting speed massively improves the usability of his armor strip?? ability:

3 Crimson Archon Shards: + Ability Strength
2 Amber Archon Shards: + Casting Speed

How to play Caliban in Warframe

Caliban has three different summons, including his Summulysts that have their own summons, but this build primarily uses the ranged Ortholyst summon for both damage and inflicting Tau status effects. Tau is a n??ew status effect that makes enemi?es more vulnerable to further status effects.

There's no strict weapo??n requirement here, but you just need something capable of inflict?ing a bunch of status effects. Considering the Tau effect will make statuses easier to inflict, you can even build your weapons with less status chance and more statuses, since Tau will help you proc them.

To start, summon your Ortholysts, and resummon them as they expire. Then, use your Razor Gyre ability to dash into a group of enemies and max out your shields. Use your Sentient Wrath ground slam whenever you're in a pinch and need a breather. Last, use your Fusion Strike to armor-strip enemies before you quickly annihilate them, especially if they have the Tau status.

Most of the time, you'll be alternating between resummoning your minions and armor-stripping with the occasional dash to top up shields and ground slam to stun nearby enemies. Caliban's a tanky frame, especially with his passive, and thanks to Primed Redirection, you'll have tons of shields.

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Warframe's latest update, Koumei & the Five Fates, is here, and its centerpiece is the titular Koumei, the latest?? character added to the game. In the first days post-launch, though, the community isn't quite sure what to make of Koume??i. Some argue she's too inconsistent, while others disagree.

Outside of the new character, though, Koumei & the Five Fates has brought tons of changes to the game, including a major rework to companions. If you don't know what ??to make of the chatter around Koumei, the best thing you can do is try a build of her out yourself.

Why is Koumei getting mixed reactions from the Warframe community?

Posts like this are emblematic of the Warframe community's thoughts on Koumei: ??????????????????????????Many are criticizing her kit and how she performs, but like the post above, if you dive into the comments you'll find many defending the character and ??arguing she isn't a bad Warframe by any means.

So, what are the complaints? In large part, they boil down to a couple of k??ey points:

• Her dice rolls hit the triple sixes necessary for an ability bonus too rarely
• The defensive Omamori ability is too inconsistent to depend on
• The cooldown for her decree-stacking Omikuji ability is too long
• Some challenges for earning decrees are too cumbersome, like getting wall-latch kills

Although, these issues are by no means universal. Other players argue in the opposite d?irection:

• A gambling-themed Warframe should only roll perfectly rarely
• Her Omamori ability doesn't need to be stronger with a proper shield-gating setup
• Decrees can be incredibly powerful, so awkward challenges and long cooldowns are necessary
• Koumei is an easy-to-acquire frame for new players, so it's important her power has limits

Ultimately, there's no clear answer to who's right here. While some gamers arg?ue Koumei is outclassed by many other Warfram??es, particularly in Steel Path, others have successfully taken her to level-cap missions where she can hold her own against the strongest enemies in the game.

Possible buffs or changes for Koumei

Even those who don't have problems with Koumei are happy to speculate on possible buffs or changes to her kit, and as a result, tons of ideas are being thrown out there. Here are some of the most int?eresting proposals we saw p?opping up online.

• Adding in a damage buff to her weapons or abilities dependent on her dice rolls
• Introducing a 'pity system' for her dice rolls that guarantees a perfect roll after X rolls
• Rebalancing abilities, like her Omamori, to more effectively scale off her stats
• Simply reducing the duration of her cooldowns, particularly for her Omikuji ability

Keep i?n mind, though, that Koumei is a brand-new Warframe that only launched, at the time of writing, a few days ago, so the community is still testing different builds. It's also entirely possible that in the coming weeks, Digital Extremes will make adjustments to Koumei's kit. Stay tuned.

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Developer Digital Extremes revealed what changes are coming to Warframe’s companions as part of the Koumei & the Five Fates update, which is slated to arrive on October 2. Notably, big changes are coming to the Smeeta Kavat and its Charm mod, a combination that makes the Smeeta one of the game’s most popular c??hoices of companion.

The Koumei & the Five Fates update for Warframe has a major overhaul for companions in general, not just to the Smeeta. You can check out Digital Extremes�blog post to see the full list of changes, but a major focus of the rework is making companions more useful in comb?at.

Koumei & the Five Fates changes the Smeeta Kavat’s Charm mod

Before Koumei & the Five Fates, the Charm mod for the Smeeta Kavat had a 28% chance to give the player a random buff every 27 seconds. Of six possible buffs, the 'Doubled Pickups and Affinity' buff was by far the most popular, because not only would you double the XP you rece??ived, but you could also double the resources you acquired.

In Koumei & the Five Fates, the pickup buff is being removed from the Charm mod and being promoted to its own dedicated mod called Loyal Retriever, which is usable on beast companions and?? not just the Smeeta Kav??at. Loyal Retriever will give you a passive 13% chance to double each resource or credit pickup, but it won't impact affinity or rare resources.

According to Digital Extremes, that 13% nu??mber is the statistical average of time the pickup buff on Charm would be active. With Loyal Retrie??ver, though, its buff will always be active, so you won’t need to luck into it being chosen from a list of buffs.

The Charm mod, going forward, will have a 40% chance (up from 28%) to give players a buff every 27 seconds, and the new lis??t of buffs is as follows:

• 25% chance of Reinforced Shield
• 25% chance of Instant Reload (re-rolled if your current weapon doesn't need to reload)
• 20% chance of Free Ability Casts
• 10% chance of Bonus Critical Chance buff
• 10% chance of Bonus Affinity. (Affinity bonus has been increased to 3x)
• 10% chance of gaining a rare resource

If you’re looking to maximize your loot acquisition or get some extra XP, you’ll still want to run Charm on your Smeeta, thanks to the rare resource and bonus affinity buffs, but if you just care about credits and more comm?on resources, Loyal Retriever on any beast companion will work just fine. Keep in mind, though, that those Charm buffs o??nly happen at a 10% chance every 27 seconds.

How to get the Loyal Retriever mod in Warframe

If you own a Smeeta Kavat when the Koumei & the Five Fates update goes live, you’ll get a copy of the Loyal Retriever mod for free. Otherwise, Digital Extremes notes ??that you can trade for one with Conservation tags from Earth’s Conservation vendor.

As a reminder, even though you’ll get a copy of the mod for free if you own a Smeeta already, the Loyal Retriever mod is usable on all beast companions, not jus?t the ??Smeeta.

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Like many other loot-based games, The First Descendant has already experienced its fair share of infinite loot farming locations. Intentional or not, the developer is now? taking steps to fix one such location, but it is choosing? to do it in the best way possible.

A hotfix will buff all other farms, not nerf the infinite one

A recently discovered loot farming location in The First Descendant is capable of an unlimited output of loot. Called 'The Valby Run' by the community, the Strategic Outpost location within the Fortress can respawn enemy mobs infinitely. As a result, it's capable of offering item drops at around a 2-3 times higher rate than other locations, according to the developer.

Since this was completely unintentional and because we're so used to it with other loot-based games, everyone expected this to get patched out sooner than later. Instead, the Director, Minseok Joo has announced Patch 1.0.4. Instead of r??emoving the incredibly high efficiency of loot within this mission, all other Strategic Outpost locations will now match the efficiency.

The First Descendant Patch 1.0.4 notes

Although the d?eveloper originally stated no additional ??patch will be necessary next week, it will instead deploy a hotfix, titled Patch 1.0.4. It will do the following:

• Reduce cooldown time for Vulgus Strategic Outpost
• Rebalance locations for collecting Void Fragments
• Update other farming locations to match efficiency equivalent to The Fortress Outpost

Far too often we see developers nerf everything fun and efficient into the ground to prevent players from progressing more quickly than intended. As a result, the rare buff-everything-else method the developers of The First Descendant are taking is much appreciated.

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Even though The Division 2 isn't nearly as popular as, say, Destiny 2, it still enjoys a fair bit of attention. Recently, Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment announced that Division 2 would essentially adopt the Diablo 4 seasonal model, switching over to time-limited seasonal characters for progression. Not a popular move.

Since the announcement was made, Division 2 players were understandably unhappy with the fact that they'd no longer be able to take their Agents through seasonal content. Instead, they'd have to rely on seasonal characters to make progress, while legacy Agents would be left to languish in old, out-of??-date content. Thankfully, Massive Entertainment appears to have taken the players' feedback to heart, to ??some extent, and the studio has now announced that it's going to "re-evaluate Seasons 2.0 with particular attention to Seasonal Characters with the goal of progressing without them."

The Division 2 developer is reconsidering the introduction of limited-time seasonal characters

This is obviously great and all, but I feel it's worth taking Massive Entertainment's specific verbiage into account. The studio's announcement hasn't outright stated that it would do away with seasonal charac??ters or make them optional: the feature is merely being re-evaluated, and it very well could happen that it doesn't actually go anywhere in the end.

It's a shame, too, because the new Seasons 2.0 rework does seem genuinely exciting, even if there is a dearth of fresh content available in The Division 2 at this point in ti?me, and the new seasonal character approach took the wind out of its sails. "This change will not impact the previously announced Year 6 plans," says the announcement, "but it will require us to assess the changes necessary to the new Season??al Experience, which will be integrated with Year 6 Season 2 this fall."

More information should be coming in as the developer figures out what's what and what's not with the new model, so fans ought to stay tuned for sure. Masssive has promised that this information will be published with a livestream and subsequently tested in a Public Test Server, whi????ch is obviously good news.

In the end, it's hard to say what's going to happen next with The Division 2. The game has been slowly trucking along in the background, persevering way longer than some of its most prominent competitors, but Ubisoft appears to be confused on what to do with it next. A proper sequel isn't even on the docket yet, and the Brooklyn DLC? is still shrou??ded in mystery. Time will tell, I suppose.

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Recover lost memories in Relic Hunters Legend

There are many looter shooters on the market, but the upcoming game Relic Hunters Legend manages to stand out thanks to its adorably cartoo?nish visuals. A closed beta will be made available soon, giving the public a? taste of what Rogue Snail is cooking up. Here's everything you need to know.

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Relic Hunters Legend's Closed Beta

Relic Hunters Legend is an upcoming online top-down looter-shooter set to release on Steam. It features action RPG elements along with fast-paced? gameplay. There wi?ll also be plenty of customizable weapons and powerful equipment to have fun with.

A single-player campaign will be available. You'll also be able to enjoy the online co-op with your friends or meet new players in missions designed for four players. Players worldwide can sign up for Relic Hunters Legend's closed beta on Steam.

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Relic Hunters Legend's closed beta begins on July 20 at 9:00 AM CST, and it will run until July 24 at 9:00 AM CST. It's free, and it will feature a variety of co-op and si??ngle-player missions. Feedback from the close?d beta will be used by developers.

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What is Relic Hunters Legend About?

The story takes place in a world where a villain named Duke Ducan has convinced everyone that he is responsible for everything good that has ever happened. It is up to Pinkyy and the rest of the Hunters to find relics and restore the memories of the past. If you want to delve deeper into the story, a Relic Hunters Legend comic is available.

You can play as one of the Hunters, and they each have a unique set of abilities. Hunters include Ace the pilot, who is a member of the Physical Support class, and Pink??yy the leader, who belongs to the Physical Tank class.

Though the game has yet to receive a release date, interested player??s can add the title to their wishlist on Steam.

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The Borderlands DLC gets a Wonderlands standalone

Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep is one of, if not the most, well-remembered DLC additions in the Borderlands series. It was popular enough that Gearbox is currently working on a full game spiritual successor, and today, Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep is also getting a standalone version.

2K and Gearbox announced today that a standalone called Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep: A Wonderlands One-Shot Adventure is coming to PlayStation 4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S?, and PC via Steam and Epic. And it'??s available today, too.

As part of the launch, Assault on Dragon Keep is free on the Epic Games Store until No??v. 16, so roughly the next week. Otherwise, it's going for ?$9.99 on the other storefronts.

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Even as someone with a hot-and-cold relationship with the Borderlands franchise, Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep is a standout to me. It was impressive back in 2013, when it arrived as DLC for Borderlands 2. Not just for its Dungeons & Dragons referencing, mind you, but for how it tackled one of the big story developments in Borderlands 2, and how that affected its characters. Borderlands 2 in particular hit a high note for me with how it tackled some tougher material, and I liked Dragon Keep for how it kept that through-line going.

That said, it's also an entire DLC featuring Tiny Tina. For some folks, that's a deal-breaker. But hey, if you wanted to give it a shot and see if Borderlands meets D&D works for you, this is probably the best opportunity to do it. Plus, it ends up now acting as a predecessor to the upcoming Tiny Tina's Wonderlands. If you want to know how it all ties together, and learn a little Borderlands history in the proce??ss, seems like a good opportunity to do so.

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Several other Division projects are in the works too

It seems like there's a fair bit in store for the universe of Tom Clancy's The Division. Today, Ubisoft announced a free-to-play game set in The Division universe,? and provided a few other updates on other projects as well?.

In today's blog post, Ubisoft announced that its Red Storm studio is working on a free-to-play game called The Division Heartland. Red Storm has worked on various Tom Clancy video games stretching back to 1997, and Heartland will be a standalo?ne game that will "provide an all new perspective on the universe in a new setting.??" It's currently set for a 2021-2022 window for PC, consoles, and the cloud.

Ubisoft also confirmed that The Division will be coming to mobile as well, with more details to come later. There's also more The Division 2 content on the way from Ubisoft Massive, including a new game mode, set for a late 2021 release and a Division Netflix film on the way as well.

That's a lot on the way if you're a fan of Tom Clancy's The Division. Even if not, a free-to-play version certainly sounds fairly interesting. And given the sheer flood video game adaptations coming to Netflix? as of late, sure, I'll watch a movie starring Jessica Chastain and Jake Gyllenhaal. I hope there's a montage of them grinding a raid for loot.

Ubisoft will have more news this summer, as its next Forward is currently planned for the all-digital E3 2021. 

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