I’m sitting on a pile of over 200k Endo and nothing to spend it on, it’s the damned Credits that are always a bottleneck for me! I would rather pull my nails out than do more Index so I always end up running short on them.

Screw Gothic 3 and 4, this is the real sequel us Gothic fans have been waiting for! A genuine delight to play through, and the Polish voice acting was just as incredible as it was in Gothic 1 and 2, despite being a fan project! Waiting patiently for the Mod of the Decade edition to re-play it again and try out all the new things they add (very excited for the teased mage path!)

I’ve been playing a lot of Khora lately, she’s become my go-to DPS frame of choice. Large part of why is how much of a glow-up Venari got in the companion rework, with the Assassin Posture they lock-in on Eximus units or Acolytes and tear through their overguard and armor (thanks to Sharpened Claws) near instantly. Not to mention the general mayhem they can cause with the insane status chance their claws have coupled with Contagious Bond. I’m ever so slightly worried about the impact pseudo-exalted rework will have on her Whipclaw, losing the 30% crit chance from Ceramic Dagger means red crits will no longer be achievable which nerfs the damage considerably. Gaining an arcane slot does little for her as Melee Exposure already works on Whipclaw, any other arcane you will be able to slot in has to compete with the raw power of 240% of more elemental damage. I hope DE rebalances the numbers when reworking the pseudo-exalteds and doesn’t just copy them, Khora would likely survive just fine but frames like Atlas will become unusable without the crit chance buffs they get from Incarnons.

Priscilla’s power lets her sacrifice things she loves to prevent damage to herself, huh? If this extends to beyond just objects, it would explain why she keeps most people she cares about at arm’s length. Makes you wonder how many of her 8 husbands died a premature death due to this “gift”.

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The newest recipient of the Heirloom skin! Rhino is as ancient as the game itself and still holding up strong to this day, very fitting for his theme. Sure, there are better tank frames and his Roar is no longer unique to him, but he still receives the strongest, unnerfed version of it and his survivability is still more than good enough to stand up to (almost) everything the game throws at you. He is usually the 2nd frame most new players get their hands on and a very reliable alternative to whatever warframe they chose to start with. He’s a very versatile frame you can bring to any mission and do fine with, plenty strong enough to carry you through the entire starchart and beyond. Praise be his mighty codpiece!

DE really should change Railjack’s abilities to have a cooldown instead of draining the energy of your frame, they feel so much better to use that way. Then again, nobody is playing the game mode and it’s pretty much abandonware at this point so I don’t expect it to receive any changes.

With his prime right around the corner I thought it good time to revisit Lavos. I was surprised to see no mention of any changes to him during last Devstream when they showed off his prime, I feel like he could definitely use some cooldown reduction on his 4. 30sec is way too much for what this ability does, and with how much setup it requires to actually do reasonable damage. I feel like Lavos is being held up almost entirely by how absurdly strong Valence Formation is, he doesn’t really have anything else going on for him other than his high natural tankyness.

It’s finally back! They knew what the were doing by opening up with Priscilla undressing. Sorry for the 3 months break, have some boobs!

Regulus might be immortal but that just means Reinhardt gets to have the cathartic experience of breaking his spine over and over again while kicking him around until Subaru figures out how to actually kill him for good.

Capella coming in to finish the job and give poor Felix even MORE trauma.

Shame this is the last of the community releases, although I fully understand why they would stop. I generally prefer the community translations to the official ones, I’ll especially miss the chapter related memes we got on the last page. Off to the high seas I go, I guess (fuck geo-locked content).

I was surprised by that one myself, I haven’t used the weapon since the AoE ammo nerfs myself and we have a ton of much better crowd nuking weapons available now. I guess people who don’t have Incarnons are using it for low level nuking, thus inflating its stats? Don’t know why else it would have such overtly high kill numbers.

The other Hex frame that received a touch-up with 1999, while I was very much impressed with Nyx I can’t say the same about Trinity. She’s in a strange spot where her support skills are good in a vacuum but Warframe is not really a game where her specific way of supporting really shines. She can allows you to be incredibly greedy for energy, not care about status effects or enemy damage, but those are things most Warframe players already take into account when making their builds. A good build doesn’t need external sources of energy, healing or survivability - that’s what makes it good! If you knew you always had a Trinity with you, you could change your build to be really greedy but Warframe doesn’t have any content that requires or incentivizes pre-build groups with select Warframes anymore. In most actual content with random players a more generic support like Wisp will be far more useful.

That’s what Bonfire Ascetics are for, no need to beat the whole game over and over when you can just boost individual areas to whatever NG+ level you want!

Best Souls 2!

I see you have exquisite taste!

One thing regarding old frames, try to keep the base (non-Prime) versions until you unlock Helminth (if you didn’t already, ignore me if you did) from the Deimos syndicate. You can feed them to it instead and unlock one of their abilities for subsuming onto other warframes, much better than the few credits you would get for selling them and it saves you from having to re-farm them again.

Thank you, I appreciate that a lot! I’m really happy my weekly threads were what got you back into the game! I used to be a Reddit lurker myself but Lemmy and the Fediverse as a whole needs more content and I like this place and want it to continue so I forced myself to be more active. I can’t take credit for starting the Weekly Warframe idea (that honor goes to Selkie210 with the very first Weekly Warframe) but after they stopped posting them and no one else picked it up, I took up the mantle as I liked the idea. Here we are 2 years later, with all frames covered and going through revisits!

I have a pretty bad facepalm moment myself, I was a very impatient new player and with the very limited warframe and weapon slots you get I often sold both weapons and frames before getting them to rank 30 because I wanted to try out a new shiny thing I crafted instead. To this day I still have some weapons left at odd ranks like 16 or 29 on my profile that I need to re-craft and level up for mastery.

I gotta say, I was very surprised by how much better Nyx feels to play after the rework. Getting a new passive, having her bolts spread on kill, removing the extra energy drain from Absorb and making her Mind Control less derpy really did wonders for making this frame less clunky to play! She has a really strong and versatile kit now that can be build in multiple ways, including going all in Mind Control and it actually not being terrible! My ancient Nyx Prime has some incredibly cursed polarities on her from the ancient (and terrible) builds I used on her back in 2017 and now I actually have a reason to go fix those!

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

Reject relationships, embrace cat

I can vouch for Fedora, I used plenty of distros from Arch to Ubuntu (and many of it’s forks) and even weird outliers like Solus and Fedora is the most boring distro out of all of them, and I mean that in the best way. To quote a certain Todd: “It just works!” Do note you will probably want to enable RPM fusion (basically mandatory if you use nVidia) to get access to useful non open source and license encumbered packages Fedora can’t ship by default (like media codecs). Other than that, install Steam and whatever other launchers you want and enjoy a boring, reliable distro.

Roll your tongue into a tube and suck the drink through it, obviously!