

Screw the Helminth system in its entirety. So here is my biggest recommendation for you: Don’t use it. You know what? All this Helminth stuff is completely and utterly optional. Just build a wall in front of your Helminth and ignore it. I can sit here and hope that maybe Loki’s Decoy or Zephyr’s Air Burst will be made better, but that’s not going to happen.īut these nerfs can come at any time and at any moment. It’s clear that DE would rather just nerf what’s popular than buff what’s unpopular.

They haven’t, and the only other major change we’ve seen has been to nerf an ability insanely. Originally, I thought that the pre-nerfs to some abilities wouldn’t be too bad and that maybe DE would consider buffing other abilities. Why should you be cautious though? Because of the next segment: Expect nerfs. They have resources and platinum to burn. You don’t have to do too much work, just check in on the most popular Warframe partners and go from there. If you don’t have the supplies and resources to experiment, then just wait for everyone else to experiment for you. Even if you take your time, you can still find yourself lacking – I’ve probably spent way too much Cryotic on my Helminth, to the point that I need to go farm some more to replenish my supplies. Not everyone has the resources to keep up. The costs to test out all these abilities are pretty high. Wait for others to experiment, but be cautious. So save your resources, grab a Warframe you never use and stick some random abilities on it. Your Helminth gains experience for any ability you put on a Warframe, and Helminth abilities are mostly cheaper than subsumed Warframe ones. The ONLY good use for these abilities is for cheap leveling up.
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I mean, who on earth is willing to sacrifice an ability, so you can instantly hack a console? Seriously, we have ciphers for a reason, and there’s Parazon mods that are far easier to obtain and use, rather than wasting resources on an ability. Sure, Empower and Infested Mobility are alright, but most of the Helminth abilities are kinda crap. That’s where the (mostly mediocre) Helminth abilities come in. But worse, they’re also expensive to add to your other Warframes.Īt the same time though, you need to do SOMETHING to level up your Helminth. I should feel bad about this, but that Valkyr existed for literally a minute before getting ‘vored’ Use the Helminth abilities to level up your Helminth. Alternatively, just subsume frames that are really easy to farm, like the Dojo frames, or early level frames like Mag and Rhino. So you might as well just subsume spare Warframes that you don’t need and already have the Primes or. Most Warframe abilities that get subsumed aren’t even that useful. Most Warframe abilities are meh at best, and the cost to subsume Warframes is very high. While you could race ahead and subsume everything now, there’s no hurry. I don’t see any real need to race towards subsuming every single Warframe immediately. Just subsume whatever you have lying around. That being said, I’ve been playing around a little with the Helminth system, and I’ve come up with a very simple, very biased guide on Helminth. And, of course, there was the Marked for Death ability that made Ash good for about five seconds.

The costs are arbitrary and all over the place, the abilities chosen are weird, some have been arbitrarily nerfed. But when you look more deeply at it, you can tell that it’s all a mess. When it comes to the surface idea, I think the Helminth system is great. I’m pretty biased when it comes to the Helminth system.
