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  • luxetobscura@dormi.zonetoWarframe@dormi.zone•Weekly Warframe Revisited: CitrineEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I recently took Citrine to EDA after a long period of dust collection and was pleasantly surprised by how well she aged.

    • Automatic priming with Prismatic Gem and (Re)Crystallize’s crit chance/damage bonuses make her a fun substrate for weapon builds that would otherwise be constrained by mod slots.
    • She also makes excellent use of Archon Continuity/Stretch and Arcane Impetus, freeing up efficiency/strength mod slots for defense and parkour.
    • Fractured Blast serves a dual purpose as health/energy regen and constant shield gating, so you can comfortably run negative efficiency (or deal with Energy Exhaustion/Constricted personal modifiers) as long as you keep up the KPM.

    My main gripes:

    • Preserving Shell upkeep is difficult in enemy-scarce environments and damage reduction doesn’t scale super well as of right now. I did the most boring thing possible and opted to run a shield gating build instead.
    • Crystallize casts so slowly that I felt compelled to use two amber cast speed shards.
    • Can we talk about how shitty Mirror Defense is, even after the overall defense changes to 3 waves per rotation? The hardest part about playing Citrine is farming her parts in the first place.
  • luxetobscura@dormi.zonetoWarframe@dormi.zone•Weekly Warframe: TempleEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Not really sure how I feel about Temple yet. I love the design (glam rocker with a flamethrower guitar probably would’ve been my hyperfixation like 15 years ago), but it really feels like Arcane Hot Shot was designed specifically for this frame, and I’m not too happy about Temporal Archimedea’s timegated progression.

    To expand on the metronomic clunkiness of the Backbeat mechanic that other people have mentioned already, it introduces an extra latency in the gameplay loop. Normally it goes something like: see enemy > aim > cast. With Backbeat, now it’s: see enemy > aim > delay until next Backbeat window > cast. So optimal gameplay essentially forces you to quantize your casts to the hard-coded Backbeat frequency. The most obvious brute-force solution to this is to simply Always Be Casting on the Backbeat, but that feels profoundly dumb.