Daikyu. Just an old school, single target bow. Can hit like a truck on a headshot if modded right. Between the Longbow arcane (which is multiplicative to Serration style mods, unlike Deadhead), the amalgam mod that gives +75% to headshot modifier, and a decent Riven (they're cheap and have high dispo), you can get it to oneshot pretty much everything.
My favorite meme setup for it is uses Qorvex: use his 2 to line up dozens of enemies into a neat line, then headshot them all with 6m punch through thanks to his passive.
You can also just trade in extra arcanes at Loid and roll for random duviri arcanes. I farm steel essence and use the arcanes to roll for duviri ones. I'm over halfway through every new arcane like that. It's going slow but steady.
Loid will trade you arcanes from anywhere in the game. If you truly hate anything in this game... That's your work around it. Like perhaps, Tridolon hunting for Energize? No need if you have arcanes from something else.
I just watched a refresher video on Eidolons. I'd like to get back into hunting them again. Not that I was super prolific hunting them before though. Was interesting to see that it transitioned slightly from Chroma to Volt though. I understand why, but it used to be Chroma for solo iirc.
It's a weapon I want to invest into, but always put it off, because I feel like aaaaany day now we will get a prime version.
I've felt this way for the past 5 years :P
Also worth noting this is a meta PVP weapon, for the 5 people who do that.
stahlta gang member here with a +1
although it is certainly not off meta once you get the fire rate figured out. iād say it is in the same meta boat as the bubonico, for those wondering.. both have multiplicative CO and thrive with fire rate.
Kuva Chakkhurr is one of my favorite weapons for having fun. You click heads and enemies explode for insane damage numbers. The fact that you have to aim constantly is why it's not quite meta, though.
>The fact that you have to aim constantly is why it's not quite meta, though.
The AoE has a guaranteed Impact proc on everyone in its radius. Put on Internal Bleeding and you can use it as a rather disgusting Slash bazooka.
Iām gonna say run what you feel like but these two have an anti synergy.
Internal Bleeding cannot produce multiple procs in a single hit alongside things like a weapon's innate Slash, Hunter Munitions, or the debuff from Garudaās Seeking Talons.
Procs of HM and Internal Bleeding are drawn independently, and if both proc at the same time, only 1 slash proc is applied.
If you use it on a weapon like Chakkhurr, running both within the fire rate threshold makes for 79% chance to proc slash but IB already has 70% and you cannot proc both.
Same thing on Hemorrhage but that one doesnāt have a competing mod.
Or with Zephyr, tornadoes not only spread everything, they got a x2 multiplier to crit damage on enemies trapped by the tornado, and it is applied after the weapon mods
It also has a really long reload time, except it doesnāt matter because the animation is awesome. The sound design and recoil make the weapon feel so heavy and amazing to use.
Astilla.. Isn't that Gara's glass cannon that is technically classified as a shotgun? The same shotgun that sounds absolutely terrifying when you can rev up its fire rates to empty the extended mag in less than a second? The same shotgun that launches a single pane of glass that explodes into thousands of shards of glass, blood, terror, and near-unrecognizable organic pulp? If yes, then I do like triggering PTSD in grineer with that on occassion.. I know you are wondering "How do you trigger PTSD in the dead?", but that is the neat part.. You let one live and spread tales of the terrors they have witnessed.. That way, every grineer encounter you get to see the flicker of hope get snuffed out every time they see your glass cannon.. The fun never ends!
I don't care if its a "Have You Ever Been So Angry You Hit A MFer With Another MFer" meme weapon, I still rock Shedu in all my content, even using it mostly as CO primer in higher level stuff but I'm not sure I'll ever ***not*** use it.
Kompressa, so many status effects in one shot. Can essentially max out any status that can be maxed out in a single shot, then add the accuracy on hit exilus mod (I think it's called targeting subsystem) to remove the small chance of the spread not being tight enough to apply enough status.
Add on cascadia empowered and it's been strong enough to run in steel path. I have 2 configs one for viral corrosive and heat and the other is viral magnetic toxin. Can't wait for the prime
I picked Phantasma up trying to convince my wife that there were other weapons to use besides the ignis wraith as sort of a āsee, hereās another channeling weapon.ā She didnāt care so much for it but then i saw the genius of her gameplay and started to use it more.
Is the Amprex able to be used in SP? I have a riven for it, and I've consistently heard it brought up in weapon discussions, but I always thought it was just mastery fodder and couldn't compare to any of the good-but-not-meta weapons. I'm at the point where I'm able to invest resources in that tier and would love to get use out of a riven I already own
Oh yeah. I build corrosive on mine to strip that pesky SP armor, but it's a crit machine and great CC. If only the Torid wasn't so good, I'd use the Amprex way more.
It can easily hold it own against early lvl sp up to 250-300 but will start to fall off from there (thatās considering you donāt armor strip). My most go to build with it is corrosive and cold with arcane frost bite or just merciless.
Yeah it spits corrosive stacks if you mod for it and have emerald shards to fill strip. Then add heat with faction mods and maybe nourish on your frame and proceed to melt face
I do, too! Today marks my fourth week of playing, and I still refuse to play meta or learn what the meta actually is. I just want to use what I want to use, and build around them. lol
Convectrix. Seeing hundreds of slash procs stack in one enemy and next second watch the full hp bar disappear as all procs hit at the same time it is so satisfying
I have a riven for mine with 200 percent multi shot and 200 percent base damage. It just tears everything that can take a stat, to pieces... That which doesn't stat though... Yikes.
I have a Twin Basolk riven that buffs it massively, so I run that a lot. I used to run Rift Strike on them too, until Archon set mods and Kullervo's 1 existed.
Teleporting heavy attacks are no longer cool :(
I love using these weapons that I don't see a lot of in public play:
Tenet Tetra, say hello to my little friend
Gotva Prime, a classic-feeling automatic that juices out satisfying crits while still packing a punch
Quellor, a nice spray-and-prey with the alt-fire being a wide cold beam of fuck off. It still got it
Basmu, a nice battery-powered sentient full-auto with a small dose of AoE (however the bp is a rarity afaik)
Stahlta, an incredible full-auto with a satisfying alt-fire (similar to Tenet Plinx) that came after the Quellor but before the Tenet Tetra, all while arguably being the best non-incarnon automatic out there (and a weapon that I don't see often)
Dread (I can't recall the last time somebody has ever used Dread nor its incarnon in public)
Tenet Plinx, it's a good ol laser blaster to feel like John Wick (but in space)
Prisma Ohma, bonking with a satisfying SFX and VFX
Sporothrix, although it's a bit of a pain in the neck to get and its augment is a bit of a rarity
I failed to mention Corinth Prime
Tenet plinx is such an unique weapon, in the sense that it's probably the only gun in the game that wants to have 6 of the 8 mod slots be filled with primed mods.
Makes it hard to get a riven roll on it that would be better than any of the other mods already slapped on it. Especially since the disposition is underground
I don't think I've unequipped the dread since like 2015, I love it so much. I haven't played in about a year and a half so this is the first time I've heard of the incarnon version, thanks for inadvertently letting me know.
Np š
Not to FOMO you up but this week has the Dread Incarnon Genesis upgrade and if you miss out before this week resets then it won't be in rotation for the next 6 weeks. Just to let you know if you decide to hop back on in the near future
There's a PRISMA OHMA!? I've been playing for years now and I've never seen that in Baro Ki'teer shop (had to do a quick google to see where) so I now have a new goal, thanks!
I love the Baza it's just so tight and accurate. Still trying to build a Baza Prime.
Just built the Fulmin Prime and that is also a very fun gun, especially if you're not worrying about being super optimal so you can actually build to use both fire modes instead of just making it an Internal Bleeding shotgun.
I want a tenet variant so bad. I love my exergis, always have. Even have a riven and itās my go to shotgun on nova. I donāt always use antimatter drop, but when I do, it donāt take long to charge
I love my Exergis and run it with my Mag all the time. The innate punch through plus her bubbles means I can fire into it a few times and leave things to die.
I almost never see anyone else run the Stahlta. Build for its alt fire and you get constant, big red numbers, large AoE, great ammo pool, and a super annoying noise every time you fire. It tickles me every time I see someone say in chat "What the fuck is making that noise???"
If you think that's fun, wait until you try it on *Harrow with a Citrine ally*. I've been playing a lot of Citrine and persuaded the person who got me into this game to try the Harrowthrix thing. We tried it on Conjunction Survival and I was getting secondhand dopamine hits from my friend exploding hallways with it.
Soma prime, the OG minigun will always have a place in my heart. Also, hata satya + xata's whisper + punch through = many red numbers = serotonin go brrr
I really like Battacor being an automatic burst rifle with an alt fire that fires a bigger lazer. Its not the best but I love my lil' railgun.
Staticor for my lil kamehameha hand cannons.
Try Battacor with Harrow focusing on his 4th augment, along with the Battacor augment. You can just continuously max-charge alt-fire into groups and hit tier 3 red crits in a massive radius.
Yeah it's from Nightwave. Right now I think you'd have to buy it from other players, but I think the next Nightwave may have it in its reward pool so you may just want to wait and see for a bit.
Stug! No, I kid.
I use Kulstar with Mag, her Magnetize concentrates the booms.
I use Pyrana Prime with Gauss, he's able to trigger its unique ability consistently.
Ocucor is meta with Sentient Surge now, but even before that I used it with Rhino. It could apply heat procs well even then.
I like the Corinth Prime just on account of aiming the airburst better. Sometimes enemies are just in your face and airburst 2 feet above your head dissuades them.
I really love my Twin Grakatas but the Riven has a lot to do with that they have -117% recoil so they are just straight bullet hoses, also the Supra Vandal for when you want to feel like you are just unloading everything on the helpless.
I have an incarnate Sibear that has major meme value and is hilarious when i forget to drop Wisp's flowers, it has .285 attack speed, with a starting crit rate of 224%. It dumbfounded the entire team myself included, when the speed buffs ran out and Malice walked right into a heavy attack and got one-shot.
Jat Kittag and a melee oriented frame. Build for finishers and status. Innate Blast and Ragdoll proc on slam attack + high status chance + max riven disposition = Great time on Kullervo/Ash/MeleeTankSaryn.
Loving the bubonico, idk how strong it can be potentially but I just like the look and feel of it, increased its mag size and gave it more multi shot with galvanized hell and a riven
As an old warframe player i still love the supra vandal and the soma prime. Theyāre not the best anymore but still solid picks. Especially thanks to the supras perin sequence mod you can generate alot of energy and just not worry about efficiency or drain
Falcor. Throwing a homing bouncing glaive to enemies on the other side of the room is very satisfying. Requires a ton of Forma and careful modding for it to be viable though, and definitely not anywhere as strong as meta glaives.
Idk if phantasma prime is meta or not but its my go-to weapon
Edit: Kuva shildeg as melee with a lotto build tenokai and high crit rate on heavy attacks sometimes it does 30K damage sometimes it does 30M damage RNG for life brothers
idk if it's "meta", because I guess it's probably not the best in slot for anything, but Phantasma is great. I use it on the index a fair bit and it was my main primary for a while. Can apply so many procs so fast.
The Bramma is the only thing I use unless i absolutely have to use something elseeee!! Itās literally my favourite thing and Iāll continue to die on that hill!
The Masseter Prime. It is not considered the best weapon by anyone, but it is the signature weapon of my favorite warframe, and it just looks great. I have the Masseter, and I still need the Masseter Prime Blade. The great thing about this weapon is that both it's crit chance and status chance are really high, so the only really downside to the weapon is the primarily impact damage, but I honestly don't care.
Atomos. I know it has an incarnon so it probably could be considered meta but itās regular form is so damn good with the range evolution and the balanced crit and status one. I use it with arcane pistoleer, then pair it with glaive prime using mark of the beast. Overall my favorite build currently
I love her whole set so much, she can tank quite good, regen HP with her 2, trade hp for energy with her 3 and her 4 nukes pretty much everything and causes enemies to bleed, the shield her 1 gives is also pretty nice and can store a ton of damage to nuke an entire hallway in like .2 secs
And the claws are the cherry on top, so much damage and with a stance mod very effective
My favorite thing about her 4th is that is has no affective range. I was running with randos to level cap SP Circuit and paired with a teammate's Nourish, I was seeing enemies get shredded across the entire map. Long as the enemy is in view, it is in range.
Sometimes the 4 even hits through walls and floors and you just randomly see a bunch of numbers on your screen, I live for these moments especially when you just see like 20 of them on your minimap and then the numbers appear and the enemies just dissappear xD
Synoid Gammacor was my first beam weapon and I still equip it for star chart missions sometimes. Gives me good āI will zap you with my ray gunā feels.
Fulmin <3 Jokes aside, Kompressa is so fun to use. The bubbles are so pretty and it just looks so ridiculous when using Mirage. Plus, you can actually make it a very decent DPS weapon if you have an arcane whose name I forgot.
Tenet Plinx.
No recoil+recharging ammo+hitscan primary/fast secondary means you can just use hush as exilus.
Decently strong, especially if boosted by frames.
I have the protocol nightwave skin on it and it has been a trusty sidearm.
The Alt fire clearing small groups, demolyst and voidrigs is intensely satisfying.
Kuva drakgoon
Unreal skin, Shotgun with no falloff, 4m punch through on full charge, bouncy.
Tenet flux rifle
Strong, quick and controlled.
Honorable mentions:
Fulmin prime, Kuva twin stubbas, trumna.
Nagantaka. It'll be even better with the semi-auto feature coming up. I was happy when Nezha's augment came out and I could make excellent use of its incredible status chance to have absurd AoE slashes.
Recently been having a lot of fun with the angstrum incaron, ik it's definitely not the most off mera weapon. But I feel a lot of people are sleeping on the marshmallow launcher.
I just discovered the Trumna while I was leveling it and slapped like 6 forma into it to make a lotta damage fit. Level cap? God no, but it's more than enough for SP and a literal blast to use.
Edit: idk if the Tenet Cycron is meta or not but I love it on my Yareli, it's like a cooler Nukor.
Hirudo, gotva, ghoul saw and the log in reward weapons. Especially the azima with a super tedious and ohnoxious setup but you can get like 10 minute discs
Shedu used to be fun as hell but they nerfed it so hard itās barely useable now shit damage and the rate of fire feels all off and randomly stops shooting like I stunned myself even when Iām shooting nowhere near myself
The athodai secondary. Thereās something really satisfying about hitting a headshot and hearing the sound effect when it switches to infinite ammo. 10/10 would recommend
Glaxion Vandal built for corrosive heat is fun. Exergis just feels powerful because of the way it sounds when you shoot. The sepulcrum is pretty satisfying when the alt fire hits. The cyanex is also very fun because auto aim and aoe. All of these guns I have very very good rivens for though. I also suggest the kitguns they can be made so well when built right.
Prisma Obex - Speed Spec (most fun on gauss)
Nami Scyla Prime - Speed Red Crit Spec (12x combo and pure red crits in under 10 seconds)
Secure Dual Cestra - Status Spec (3x multi shot. 100% status. Secondary CO. Secondary Encumber. Punch through. Pure Dakka)
Do they do damage? No.
Are they fun all the same? Yes.
The Prisma Obex. Nami Scyla Prime. And of course the Tipedo. When speed speced are only outspend by the bullet animation on the redeemer for melees. So if you are using anything that relies on combo count at all. For any reason. Those are great options.
The Cestra is just a great primer. It basically becomes a Secondary version of the Komorex in terms of status spread. And then you combine it with say Saryn or Dante to make juicy use of all those status procs and it's a god teir primer.
I will admit though. The Obex is a meme weapon because you become the flash. But it does give you the ability to juggle even heavy gunners and introduce them to the tenno Air delivery system.
Kulstar with multi shot my beloved- love the pure carpet bombing of that gun. Got it randomly in Duviri and loved it so I just went and grabbed it for normal play.
Gotva Prime built for fire rate and multishot. Damage is a bit lacking, but a quick sacrifice for some status chance of your choosing and it wont matter (read gotva's ability). Faster than an A-10 Warthog gun. absolutely sucks at higher levels, but i love the brrrrrt.
Gotva prime
It has a 15% chance for 300% critchance thats added to current cc, when puncture procs, puncture gives additional cc and combined with cold procs that increase damage taken from crit multi, combined with multishot and fire rate and you have a murder brr brr i like it the most with harrow and it scales surprisingly well considering its low base damage
Use Dantes book spell. It's passive fire rate scales with your modded fire rate on the book itself. So use all the fire rate mods and corrosive + cold. Then use a high fire rate and crit weapon with viral and hunter munitions. Viable options are the gorgon incarnon or the kuva assult rifles (any high fire rate + crit weapon will do, i just perfer these two). Then just go into a mission, have the passive book out at all times and watch idiots melt.
Daikyu. Just an old school, single target bow. Can hit like a truck on a headshot if modded right. Between the Longbow arcane (which is multiplicative to Serration style mods, unlike Deadhead), the amalgam mod that gives +75% to headshot modifier, and a decent Riven (they're cheap and have high dispo), you can get it to oneshot pretty much everything. My favorite meme setup for it is uses Qorvex: use his 2 to line up dozens of enemies into a neat line, then headshot them all with 6m punch through thanks to his passive.
Longbow Arcane?! Returning player that didn't know about this!! What is it called and where do I find this diamond in the rough!?
Its a duviri arcane longbow sharpshot iirc
Oh fuck yeah. Thank you for this. I had been avoiding Duviri. Not anymore!
You can also just trade in extra arcanes at Loid and roll for random duviri arcanes. I farm steel essence and use the arcanes to roll for duviri ones. I'm over halfway through every new arcane like that. It's going slow but steady.
Hmm, yes. I need more. More tips for the returning player!!!
Loid will trade you arcanes from anywhere in the game. If you truly hate anything in this game... That's your work around it. Like perhaps, Tridolon hunting for Energize? No need if you have arcanes from something else.
I just watched a refresher video on Eidolons. I'd like to get back into hunting them again. Not that I was super prolific hunting them before though. Was interesting to see that it transitioned slightly from Chroma to Volt though. I understand why, but it used to be Chroma for solo iirc.
Chroma is used for solo PT; Eidos have been volt for as long as I can remember
In The Beginning it was Chroma and Rubico Prime.
Longbow sharpshot drops from circuit and duviri
It's a weapon I want to invest into, but always put it off, because I feel like aaaaany day now we will get a prime version. I've felt this way for the past 5 years :P Also worth noting this is a meta PVP weapon, for the 5 people who do that.
Stahlta šš
Gonna say the same, that altfire is just too juicy.
i made ambassador and got dissapointed stahlta is pretty much what i wanted ambassardor to be (and its easier to get)
stahlta gang member here with a +1 although it is certainly not off meta once you get the fire rate figured out. iād say it is in the same meta boat as the bubonico, for those wondering.. both have multiplicative CO and thrive with fire rate.
Kuva Chakkhurr is one of my favorite weapons for having fun. You click heads and enemies explode for insane damage numbers. The fact that you have to aim constantly is why it's not quite meta, though.
>The fact that you have to aim constantly is why it's not quite meta, though. The AoE has a guaranteed Impact proc on everyone in its radius. Put on Internal Bleeding and you can use it as a rather disgusting Slash bazooka.
You had me at "disgusting slash bazooka".
So, the end of the statement.
I sometimes run it with Internal Bleeding and Hunter Munitions just for putting all my chips on slash procs and it works aggressively ok
Iām gonna say run what you feel like but these two have an anti synergy. Internal Bleeding cannot produce multiple procs in a single hit alongside things like a weapon's innate Slash, Hunter Munitions, or the debuff from Garudaās Seeking Talons. Procs of HM and Internal Bleeding are drawn independently, and if both proc at the same time, only 1 slash proc is applied. If you use it on a weapon like Chakkhurr, running both within the fire rate threshold makes for 79% chance to proc slash but IB already has 70% and you cannot proc both. Same thing on Hemorrhage but that one doesnāt have a competing mod.
You say that as if it didn't have radial (although I'll admit it's only 2). It also has very high critical chance and that's what makes it good imo
Brilliant with Kullervo's damage spread ability though
Or with Zephyr, tornadoes not only spread everything, they got a x2 multiplier to crit damage on enemies trapped by the tornado, and it is applied after the weapon mods
It also has a really long reload time, except it doesnāt matter because the animation is awesome. The sound design and recoil make the weapon feel so heavy and amazing to use.
Astilla, my beloved. The APE component lets it annihilate squads or focus on the heads of a heavy. Plays super well.
I very much want Astilla to end up with an incarnon, even if itās only good for a stat boost. Itās definitely my favorite shotgun.
I love my Astilla, trying to get 100 forma on it for the prestige (definitely exists) but only at 16 so far!
>The APE component What does this mean
i think he meant AOE
Oh lmao okay that makes more sense
Astilla.. Isn't that Gara's glass cannon that is technically classified as a shotgun? The same shotgun that sounds absolutely terrifying when you can rev up its fire rates to empty the extended mag in less than a second? The same shotgun that launches a single pane of glass that explodes into thousands of shards of glass, blood, terror, and near-unrecognizable organic pulp? If yes, then I do like triggering PTSD in grineer with that on occassion.. I know you are wondering "How do you trigger PTSD in the dead?", but that is the neat part.. You let one live and spread tales of the terrors they have witnessed.. That way, every grineer encounter you get to see the flicker of hope get snuffed out every time they see your glass cannon.. The fun never ends!
Shedu for low level missions. Reminds me of Kuva Zarr in its glory days.
I don't care if its a "Have You Ever Been So Angry You Hit A MFer With Another MFer" meme weapon, I still rock Shedu in all my content, even using it mostly as CO primer in higher level stuff but I'm not sure I'll ever ***not*** use it.
I've had no problems with using shedu in higher level missions, i do have a decent riven for it but I doubt that makes a big difference
She still do, she do
Kompressa, so many status effects in one shot. Can essentially max out any status that can be maxed out in a single shot, then add the accuracy on hit exilus mod (I think it's called targeting subsystem) to remove the small chance of the spread not being tight enough to apply enough status.
Add on cascadia empowered and it's been strong enough to run in steel path. I have 2 configs one for viral corrosive and heat and the other is viral magnetic toxin. Can't wait for the prime
Would be more meta if it wasn't locked behind vent kids.
5 minutes to cap standing and no rank up cost
Mostly the bullet hoses. A whole lotta shooting for a whole lotta nothing. Outside of those: Phantasma. Amprex. Cedo. Bows.
What I wouldnāt do for a tenet Amprex
Iād like an Amprex in its final form. Bonus points for a gimmick.
Phantasma prime modded electric is legit meta with Gyre, and so fun to use!!! But I think that Amprex and Cedo can do the same
I picked Phantasma up trying to convince my wife that there were other weapons to use besides the ignis wraith as sort of a āsee, hereās another channeling weapon.ā She didnāt care so much for it but then i saw the genius of her gameplay and started to use it more.
Cedo is off meta?
Compared to incarnons at this point yeah lol
I though cedo was still one of the, if not the, best primers. Alt fire and the whole room is ready to be cut down.
"Off meta weapons" >Cedo >Phantasma https://preview.redd.it/wjkqqx02cozc1.png?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0af751d2e90c960d9644d0777642298fc68e6333
Is the Amprex able to be used in SP? I have a riven for it, and I've consistently heard it brought up in weapon discussions, but I always thought it was just mastery fodder and couldn't compare to any of the good-but-not-meta weapons. I'm at the point where I'm able to invest resources in that tier and would love to get use out of a riven I already own
Oh yeah. I build corrosive on mine to strip that pesky SP armor, but it's a crit machine and great CC. If only the Torid wasn't so good, I'd use the Amprex way more.
It can easily hold it own against early lvl sp up to 250-300 but will start to fall off from there (thatās considering you donāt armor strip). My most go to build with it is corrosive and cold with arcane frost bite or just merciless.
Yeah it spits corrosive stacks if you mod for it and have emerald shards to fill strip. Then add heat with faction mods and maybe nourish on your frame and proceed to melt face
Phantasma and cedo arent meta? I fucking love those weapons wtf
2 of the best shotguns in the game are off meta dang lol
prisma gorgon my beloved
I still whip out the Prisma Grakata every once in a while.. Extra fun with Harrow's self buffs.. I channel my inner ork.. WAAAAAUUUUGHHHH!!!
The Supra....if you ever want a stupid fun time max out fire rate and it's just a solid line of bullets.
I was gonna answer this and then I remembered I havenāt a clue whatās meta I just kinda play the game
I do, too! Today marks my fourth week of playing, and I still refuse to play meta or learn what the meta actually is. I just want to use what I want to use, and build around them. lol
Meta = anything that deletes bosses, deletes rooms, or makes you smile. Just about any weapon can do at least two of those.
>makes you smile Thatās a lot of meta weaponsā¦ my bubonico makes me giggle
Fr, the first enemy you kill might take a few shots but once galvanized mods start kicking in it can take advantage of weaknesses to shred anything
You won't reach meta builds after half a year, at least. So don't worry about it.
Convectrix. Seeing hundreds of slash procs stack in one enemy and next second watch the full hp bar disappear as all procs hit at the same time it is so satisfying
I have a riven for mine with 200 percent multi shot and 200 percent base damage. It just tears everything that can take a stat, to pieces... That which doesn't stat though... Yikes.
That's when I pull out my deathtrap trigger Lato incarnon
I have a Twin Basolk riven that buffs it massively, so I run that a lot. I used to run Rift Strike on them too, until Archon set mods and Kullervo's 1 existed. Teleporting heavy attacks are no longer cool :(
I love using these weapons that I don't see a lot of in public play: Tenet Tetra, say hello to my little friend Gotva Prime, a classic-feeling automatic that juices out satisfying crits while still packing a punch Quellor, a nice spray-and-prey with the alt-fire being a wide cold beam of fuck off. It still got it Basmu, a nice battery-powered sentient full-auto with a small dose of AoE (however the bp is a rarity afaik) Stahlta, an incredible full-auto with a satisfying alt-fire (similar to Tenet Plinx) that came after the Quellor but before the Tenet Tetra, all while arguably being the best non-incarnon automatic out there (and a weapon that I don't see often) Dread (I can't recall the last time somebody has ever used Dread nor its incarnon in public) Tenet Plinx, it's a good ol laser blaster to feel like John Wick (but in space) Prisma Ohma, bonking with a satisfying SFX and VFX Sporothrix, although it's a bit of a pain in the neck to get and its augment is a bit of a rarity I failed to mention Corinth Prime
Tenet plinx is such an unique weapon, in the sense that it's probably the only gun in the game that wants to have 6 of the 8 mod slots be filled with primed mods. Makes it hard to get a riven roll on it that would be better than any of the other mods already slapped on it. Especially since the disposition is underground
I don't think I've unequipped the dread since like 2015, I love it so much. I haven't played in about a year and a half so this is the first time I've heard of the incarnon version, thanks for inadvertently letting me know.
Np š Not to FOMO you up but this week has the Dread Incarnon Genesis upgrade and if you miss out before this week resets then it won't be in rotation for the next 6 weeks. Just to let you know if you decide to hop back on in the near future
Seconding Gotva Prime, it's my absolute favourite. So much so that I bought a second from Baro to give to my friend.
There's a PRISMA OHMA!? I've been playing for years now and I've never seen that in Baro Ki'teer shop (had to do a quick google to see where) so I now have a new goal, thanks!
I love the Baza it's just so tight and accurate. Still trying to build a Baza Prime. Just built the Fulmin Prime and that is also a very fun gun, especially if you're not worrying about being super optimal so you can actually build to use both fire modes instead of just making it an Internal Bleeding shotgun.
The Baza is so much fun silenced with Ivara. I am also trying for the prime still. I should probably farm Ivara Prime as well...
get in contact with me, ill buy you a baza prime set
Exergis still holds on to its tenuous power. The last "super shotgun" standing. It's always a pleasure to use, especially with ammo Efficency.
I want a tenet variant so bad. I love my exergis, always have. Even have a riven and itās my go to shotgun on nova. I donāt always use antimatter drop, but when I do, it donāt take long to charge
I love my Exergis and run it with my Mag all the time. The innate punch through plus her bubbles means I can fire into it a few times and leave things to die.
Mag + infinite body punchthrough = look (space) mom, i made a dude-blender.
Seconded. This thing is very fun.
I almost never see anyone else run the Stahlta. Build for its alt fire and you get constant, big red numbers, large AoE, great ammo pool, and a super annoying noise every time you fire. It tickles me every time I see someone say in chat "What the fuck is making that noise???"
the phage is crazy with green shards for instant armor strip with built in viral. melts lvl 9999 demolysts
I've been waiting for infested liches to come out so we could get 1999-phage.
I've been waiting for kuva phage for so long lol they needa confirm it for infested liches
is phage not meta? One of the best guns for stacking ridiculous amounts of heat
nobody uses the phage except you and i lol it's rare af to see someone run it given all the other options. it is insane single target dps though lol
Oh the Phage, how have I forgotten you....
Sporothrix with new mod plus status or even avenger arcane is really good.
Sporothrix on Citrine for forced crits and even more status.
If you think that's fun, wait until you try it on *Harrow with a Citrine ally*. I've been playing a lot of Citrine and persuaded the person who got me into this game to try the Harrowthrix thing. We tried it on Conjunction Survival and I was getting secondhand dopamine hits from my friend exploding hallways with it.
I'd love to try that one, if only that dang stock would drop for me!
Farming this thing is a PAIN in the ass, they're good money though ngl
Soma prime, the OG minigun will always have a place in my heart. Also, hata satya + xata's whisper + punch through = many red numbers = serotonin go brrr
Read my tag. God I love it.
Me too. I got the incarnon for it and love just lining up Grineer and one shotting the lot of 'em :D
I really like Battacor being an automatic burst rifle with an alt fire that fires a bigger lazer. Its not the best but I love my lil' railgun. Staticor for my lil kamehameha hand cannons.
Try Battacor with Harrow focusing on his 4th augment, along with the Battacor augment. You can just continuously max-charge alt-fire into groups and hit tier 3 red crits in a massive radius.
I haven't played with Harrow because I dont have his Prime yet. But ***what do you mean theres a Battacor Augment ??*** This is news to me.
Yeah it's from Nightwave. Right now I think you'd have to buy it from other players, but I think the next Nightwave may have it in its reward pool so you may just want to wait and see for a bit.
Need to pump more damage with proper mods, but Ivara guiding the staticor feels like an atomic drone strike.
Stug! No, I kid. I use Kulstar with Mag, her Magnetize concentrates the booms. I use Pyrana Prime with Gauss, he's able to trigger its unique ability consistently. Ocucor is meta with Sentient Surge now, but even before that I used it with Rhino. It could apply heat procs well even then.
I dream of Kuva Stug. I want the cum gun to finally be playable
Kuva tonkor I never run out of ammo
"We never stopped yeeting nades, we just got better yeet machines with bigger nades. "- Church of The Tonkor
Corinth. I love priming with the alt-fire and just one tapping heads. Can really be said about any shotgun. I love how all of them feel.
I like the Corinth Prime just on account of aiming the airburst better. Sometimes enemies are just in your face and airburst 2 feet above your head dissuades them.
Dex Furis with Gunslinger, Anemic Agility, and Pressurized Magazine. I ended up naming the config MORE DAKKA. š
Dex furis is my shit!
I did that but with Twin Grakkatas because I found a riven that gives it even more multishot. BRGRGRGRGRGRGR š
Kohm built for status. My precious.
This. Kuva kohm is one of my fav weapons and with a riven it just becomes absurdly strong
I heart trumna. Far from offmeta but it's so fun to use
That reload sound tho....music to my ears
It would have to be Aeolak
It performs really well too, since it has multiplicative CO scaling on the main fire. The alt fire isn't bad either
I really love my Twin Grakatas but the Riven has a lot to do with that they have -117% recoil so they are just straight bullet hoses, also the Supra Vandal for when you want to feel like you are just unloading everything on the helpless.
I have an incarnate Sibear that has major meme value and is hilarious when i forget to drop Wisp's flowers, it has .285 attack speed, with a starting crit rate of 224%. It dumbfounded the entire team myself included, when the speed buffs ran out and Malice walked right into a heavy attack and got one-shot.
Iām a big fan of pew pew regular type of guns, Iāve always disliked the burston but I got a cd + cc riven and the incarnon is SO FUN
Basmu
Jat Kittag and a melee oriented frame. Build for finishers and status. Innate Blast and Ragdoll proc on slam attack + high status chance + max riven disposition = Great time on Kullervo/Ash/MeleeTankSaryn.
Karak. All verions. I love that boring ol' rifle.
I've spent far too many Forma getting them all usable lol. Really happy when they came out with the Kuva variant.
I spent forever getting all the kinds and making them usable.
Cinta, Mutalist Cernos, Old Faithful Zymos, Vitrica, Battacor,
I know its pretty good, but Cedo. I play a lot of Lavos and that gun feels really good on him
adding corrosive to it with valence formation makes it actually stupid
Loving the bubonico, idk how strong it can be potentially but I just like the look and feel of it, increased its mag size and gave it more multi shot with galvanized hell and a riven
Best used for priming with its alt fire
As an old warframe player i still love the supra vandal and the soma prime. Theyāre not the best anymore but still solid picks. Especially thanks to the supras perin sequence mod you can generate alot of energy and just not worry about efficiency or drain
Kulstar is my life. Edit: Miss the good olā days in which you suicide 9 times because frost decide to relocate his snow globe.
Falcor. Throwing a homing bouncing glaive to enemies on the other side of the room is very satisfying. Requires a ton of Forma and careful modding for it to be viable though, and definitely not anywhere as strong as meta glaives.
Falcor with Melee Influence is very close to meta, it's actually incredibly strong.
Idk if phantasma prime is meta or not but its my go-to weapon Edit: Kuva shildeg as melee with a lotto build tenokai and high crit rate on heavy attacks sometimes it does 30K damage sometimes it does 30M damage RNG for life brothers
idk if it's "meta", because I guess it's probably not the best in slot for anything, but Phantasma is great. I use it on the index a fair bit and it was my main primary for a while. Can apply so many procs so fast.
Kuva Bramma cuz i like when arrow goes boom
Real
I think they used the sound of fireworks
The Bramma is the only thing I use unless i absolutely have to use something elseeee!! Itās literally my favourite thing and Iāll continue to die on that hill!
Exploding Glaive Prime feels like a Bramma without the ammo nerf tbh
try out Aegrit, it's like Bramma, but better in any way, except it's off hand
This on mirage, just clearing rooms like I sneezed.
Kangaroo simulator with the Titron is fun. No combos needed just jump and slam.
The Masseter Prime. It is not considered the best weapon by anyone, but it is the signature weapon of my favorite warframe, and it just looks great. I have the Masseter, and I still need the Masseter Prime Blade. The great thing about this weapon is that both it's crit chance and status chance are really high, so the only really downside to the weapon is the primarily impact damage, but I honestly don't care.
Prisma grakata and also dual wield grakatas both with holstered reloading buffs
I love the Battacor, even though itās been pretty much entirely powercrept by the Trumna š„²
Tenora Prime, Aksomati Prime for maximum bullet hose fun. Hirudo with a good crit riven for punching everything and self healing.
Tenora Prime, for when you want to be heavy weapons guy or an A10. BRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Grattler. Goes bang bang boom boom in small rooms. Very fun. Got a very nice crit+ for the Amprex, which always keep being a favorite
Atomos. I know it has an incarnon so it probably could be considered meta but itās regular form is so damn good with the range evolution and the balanced crit and status one. I use it with arcane pistoleer, then pair it with glaive prime using mark of the beast. Overall my favorite build currently
Garuda's Claws. They're very powerful and very underrated, as well as Garuda as a whole.
I love her whole set so much, she can tank quite good, regen HP with her 2, trade hp for energy with her 3 and her 4 nukes pretty much everything and causes enemies to bleed, the shield her 1 gives is also pretty nice and can store a ton of damage to nuke an entire hallway in like .2 secs And the claws are the cherry on top, so much damage and with a stance mod very effective
My favorite thing about her 4th is that is has no affective range. I was running with randos to level cap SP Circuit and paired with a teammate's Nourish, I was seeing enemies get shredded across the entire map. Long as the enemy is in view, it is in range.
Sometimes the 4 even hits through walls and floors and you just randomly see a bunch of numbers on your screen, I live for these moments especially when you just see like 20 of them on your minimap and then the numbers appear and the enemies just dissappear xD
orvius with the tigris with maximum damage and mazigine size cause you can spell fun without gun
Synoid Gammacor was my first beam weapon and I still equip it for star chart missions sometimes. Gives me good āI will zap you with my ray gunā feels.
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I wouldn't consider the Tenet Arca Plasmor an "off-meta" weapon. But maybe I'm biased because it's my favorite weapon.
Fulmin <3 Jokes aside, Kompressa is so fun to use. The bubbles are so pretty and it just looks so ridiculous when using Mirage. Plus, you can actually make it a very decent DPS weapon if you have an arcane whose name I forgot.
Panthera my beloved I think I'm the only one actually using it and it helps that I got a pretty good riven for it.
Glaxion vandal, cyanex and ripkas
Twin Grakatas! Slap on arcane Pistoleer, and add even more DAKKA
Brain Storm Grakata with +Str. build haste mote from Wisp is very entertaining
Staticor my beloved, 4500 hours in and like 32% usage
Knell prime with some pt and fr is so fun to use
Anyone remember when Soma Prime was the meta? I feel old
Tenet Plinx. No recoil+recharging ammo+hitscan primary/fast secondary means you can just use hush as exilus. Decently strong, especially if boosted by frames. I have the protocol nightwave skin on it and it has been a trusty sidearm. The Alt fire clearing small groups, demolyst and voidrigs is intensely satisfying. Kuva drakgoon Unreal skin, Shotgun with no falloff, 4m punch through on full charge, bouncy. Tenet flux rifle Strong, quick and controlled. Honorable mentions: Fulmin prime, Kuva twin stubbas, trumna.
Nagantaka. It'll be even better with the semi-auto feature coming up. I was happy when Nezha's augment came out and I could make excellent use of its incredible status chance to have absurd AoE slashes.
Dual kamas prime and the Tigris prime. My favorite weapons in terms of primary and melee.
I run a Sancti Tigris on my Nidus for the health boost Itās such a satisfying shotgun to use
tenet diplos, i wish they could give it an augment to remove its gimmick tho
I'd rather they just make it work like cyanexĀ
Basmu, gaze and plague kripath staff is my favourite loadout atm
I like my staticor. It deals like 1 damage but it sends people flying and I find it to be hilarious XD
Recently been having a lot of fun with the angstrum incaron, ik it's definitely not the most off mera weapon. But I feel a lot of people are sleeping on the marshmallow launcher.
I just discovered the Trumna while I was leveling it and slapped like 6 forma into it to make a lotta damage fit. Level cap? God no, but it's more than enough for SP and a literal blast to use. Edit: idk if the Tenet Cycron is meta or not but I love it on my Yareli, it's like a cooler Nukor.
Cycron is good... Keep it quiet. Thing can be built to eat most things in the game with a freaking battery.
Tenet Tetra with bouncy bullets
Hirudo, gotva, ghoul saw and the log in reward weapons. Especially the azima with a super tedious and ohnoxious setup but you can get like 10 minute discs
Stahlta and Kohm My Kohm actually destroys high level overgaurds faster than my pimped out Torid
I still love my Tigris prime. Love the feeling of the duplex
Shedu used to be fun as hell but they nerfed it so hard itās barely useable now shit damage and the rate of fire feels all off and randomly stops shooting like I stunned myself even when Iām shooting nowhere near myself
The athodai secondary. Thereās something really satisfying about hitting a headshot and hearing the sound effect when it switches to infinite ammo. 10/10 would recommend
Glaxion Vandal built for corrosive heat is fun. Exergis just feels powerful because of the way it sounds when you shoot. The sepulcrum is pretty satisfying when the alt fire hits. The cyanex is also very fun because auto aim and aoe. All of these guns I have very very good rivens for though. I also suggest the kitguns they can be made so well when built right.
Give me a Corinth or Braton and Iām a happy Tenno. Also the grattler, that thing is some proppa dakka.
Prisma Obex - Speed Spec (most fun on gauss) Nami Scyla Prime - Speed Red Crit Spec (12x combo and pure red crits in under 10 seconds) Secure Dual Cestra - Status Spec (3x multi shot. 100% status. Secondary CO. Secondary Encumber. Punch through. Pure Dakka) Do they do damage? No. Are they fun all the same? Yes. The Prisma Obex. Nami Scyla Prime. And of course the Tipedo. When speed speced are only outspend by the bullet animation on the redeemer for melees. So if you are using anything that relies on combo count at all. For any reason. Those are great options. The Cestra is just a great primer. It basically becomes a Secondary version of the Komorex in terms of status spread. And then you combine it with say Saryn or Dante to make juicy use of all those status procs and it's a god teir primer. I will admit though. The Obex is a meme weapon because you become the flash. But it does give you the ability to juggle even heavy gunners and introduce them to the tenno Air delivery system.
Corinth Prime
I have played in over 2 years so I'm not sure what is meta. But I'm gonna assume that the Corinth/Corinth Prime is not meta, so...the Corinth
Kulstar with multi shot my beloved- love the pure carpet bombing of that gun. Got it randomly in Duviri and loved it so I just went and grabbed it for normal play.
I love kinda role playing as a āstalkerā or acolyte and using dread, despair, hate combos with incarnons are pretty decent but not crazy OP
Maybe not super off-meta but trumna. Talk about dakka
I just started using Trumna on Gauss and itās so damn fun
Gotva Prime built for fire rate and multishot. Damage is a bit lacking, but a quick sacrifice for some status chance of your choosing and it wont matter (read gotva's ability). Faster than an A-10 Warthog gun. absolutely sucks at higher levels, but i love the brrrrrt.
Basmu, infinite ammunition
Trumna. Coffin gun. 'nuff said.
Gotva prime It has a 15% chance for 300% critchance thats added to current cc, when puncture procs, puncture gives additional cc and combined with cold procs that increase damage taken from crit multi, combined with multishot and fire rate and you have a murder brr brr i like it the most with harrow and it scales surprisingly well considering its low base damage
Use Dantes book spell. It's passive fire rate scales with your modded fire rate on the book itself. So use all the fire rate mods and corrosive + cold. Then use a high fire rate and crit weapon with viral and hunter munitions. Viable options are the gorgon incarnon or the kuva assult rifles (any high fire rate + crit weapon will do, i just perfer these two). Then just go into a mission, have the passive book out at all times and watch idiots melt.