Arcane Battery Energy Tank Chroma | Warframe 

A few notes / improvements upon the builds seen in the video: I actually think that swapping Primed Flow for Narrow Minded and using Nourish instead of Empower would be a better build, both to reduce maintenance of Vex Armor as well as boost energy income even further via Nourish - this updated build is linked in the video description. I should have swapped Killing Blow for Melee Elementalist on the Xoris.

My words when you explained the build were “Thats a goofy ass chroma build, I want it”

Good to see that we still have people doing builds like these and not just broken weapons on broken frames, Nice work

Don't normally comment on RU-vid video's but making an exception here! Reason being I would like to thank you as your one of the creators on RU-vid doing WarFrame videos explaining stuff to us and you take your time explaining what we are looking at and you explain it in a way that is very easy to understand, An not rushing through a video so fast that makes it hard to get our head's around. Also you don't take any question asked as a stupid question and re explain in a different way and wanted to say thank you for that.

Perpetual motion Chroma.

The craziest part about this build is seeing a sentinel actually kill enemies in SP

Interesting little fact for ya, If you time Rhino's ironskin right while standing in the jade light beam, you can go from a base 12k ironskin to over 2m ironskin with a 300% strength build simply from tanking the jade beam during the invulnerability after casting. The jade eximus light beam is a linear scaling debuff, where it doubles in damage every time you take an uninterrupted damage tic from it. I think it's fire damage, but not entirely sure.

Your builds are so creative and interesting! Great job man. I hope you can get more recognition 🎉

Secondary surge is either worded poorly or the buff in the HUD isn’t displaying the correct numbers. I haven’t actually tested the damage, but based on just looking at the HUD buff, you don’t need 1600 energy to get the full effect. The multiplier keeps stacking on every ability cast until you shoot your secondary. If you cast an ability while having 200 energy, you get a 2x multiplier. Then if you cast another ability while having 200 energy, it goes to 3x, and it can stack all the way up to 8x. I didn’t actually test to see if I was getting 8x damage when I stacked it that way, but based on the HUD buff, it should work. The arcane says nothing about it being able to stack up like that though.

Love it when people find ways to give this guy some love with unique builds. Going to have to use this. Though definitely using nourish for the multiplicative returns on energy as well as going to experiment with swapping primed flow with rage so we get a ton of energy back when we get damaged. I would probably end up putting duration shards on him so there is less recasting needed since I have other builds I’d use and that is a pretty good stat for him across the board and I prefer secondary fortify for free overguard and therefore status immunity.

always love seeing a unique approach and playstyle to a frame, great video!

I was not aware that they finally fixed Guardian Armor and Archon Intensify. I'll be redoing my builds pronto.

Very awesome looking! Can't wait to try it out. I haven't touched Chroma in forever!

Actually goated build concept and execution, I'm really looking forward to your future builds

Just this chroma build alone, carried me through elite deep archemedia. Amazing work.

As soon as I saw the title I know what bro was going for, that is so sick I haven't thought about this, thanks for sharing :)

Well built sir. Sub earned. Keep it up!

Amazing build! I was looking to upgrade my chroma build. Thanks a lot, bro.

Ah quick thinking my beloved. Haven't seen that in a build in so long

Cool build. Always fun to see non meta builds with new arcanes/abilities/mods added in.

very well deserved sub and like. GG bro.

bring me back to max EHP rhino era 10 years ago.. good stuff codex

This is the best use ive seen so far of the new arcanes and glaxion mod great job

Thanks for the setup and the idea for the build. I may not follow it the exact same way as you did (no secondary surge, no Pflow, no 4 tau blue set to health given that his augment exists) but i would still give it a try AND you also inpired me to make a companion DPS build with either heat inherit or corrosive blast given that base damage is not an issue for them. Btw, i did some math. 3641% armor bonus is equivilant of 16'834.5 armor on chroma prime which is 98.24% DR to your health (and energy)

I was thinking about building chroma with arcane battery, thx for showing this build now I'll have a way to start it XD

Yea this gets a sub and Bell on because it’s exactly what I need in my life some diversity in the Warframe Hivemind is nice

Very interesting take on Chroma, I usually just use a max duration/strength build with the amalgam daikyu mod and a nikana zaw with exodia contagion but I might have to try this.

this is amazing!! ty for share

Octavia also buffs the xoris quite wonky, very good damage (on groups). The reinforce bond mod works on hounds also and with dupex and mystic bond you habe a very potent energy battery that primes with electric (works with archon stretch) i got mine modded for cold gas (or viral heat) and this thing can clear hallways. Glad to see chroma got some love, played him recently, he is still a beast.

Really cool and interesting vid you earned my sub

I was skeptical at the first glance of the build but god damn it looks fun, gonna try it out!

this is such an innovative build!

Great minds think alike! A friend of mine came up with a build very close to this. He streams on Twitch; I was watching as the build came together. Though I think he uses Energy Conversion instead of Transient Fortitude and subsumes Nourish over the '1' ability. I think he also does Arcane Rage instead of Arcane Avenger. I forget what he did for weapons and companion though.

and you said yesterday you gonna upload it and here we are!!!!!!!!!!!

I tried something similar before I saw the video but I went back to straight hp tanking, no battery, no surge. While this is 'cool' it just adds more layers to juggle instead of just keeping vex up, and forced you to use 4(!) tau blue shards for health regen. You would also have more hp regen if you just put them in as flat hp: +900hp, assuming you have 15% regen over 3 seconds from vex augment with your ability strength, works out to be 45hp a second, almost double the same shard used as hp regen, while giving you a drastically bigger buffer before your energy gets touched. I like the idea of battery + surge, and I hope we see more scaling with energy, but there is just not enough support right now. Surge is the only thing AFAIK, and there is an incarnon upgrade or two that just have a threshold for max energy. With a with 73% duration and 45% efficiency, this build can struggle to 'get going' if you aren't playing solo or are not facing a lot of enemies. Depending on the mission or what you are fighting, you are likely going to hit a wall trying to sustain buffs and energy if you aren't presented with hordes of fodder, especially if you are using it as hp. This is very true for lich hunts and similar 'bossing' content. It's cool to boost your vex with a subsumed ability, but you would be much better off with Oraphim Eyes or some other strip that will drastically improve your DPS vs a small amount of extra added damage, when you are faced with ever diminishing returns for additive damage as you easily pass 1000%. Or just something else to make Chroma a more active ability frame. I understand you are doing the corrosive shard thing but you could just put 5 basic red shards in and hp tank for an much less 'breakable', more streamlined build, that isn't primary locked to the glaxion, which also pushes you away from meleeing since that's the only way you are reliably filling up your energy pool. Chroma doesn't need more tank, he needs a new 1 and 4. I say that as someone who has recently started enjoying double bullet jumping everywhere with yellow shards with arguably the best singular buff in the game in vex armor. I think this build might shine very well on another warframe, but this isn't really solving anything for Chroma.

i have been running a very similar build for a while now after the update too but with nourished as you mentioned in the commnets, noticed the same case with the jade eximus just seemingly not caring, same was the case before with similar energy tank builds on gara or oberon, with the blitz eximus units that spawn the directional shockwaves that do massive damage. they seem to do so much damage in a single tick that you are both left with max energy and go down at the same time for some odd reason

Builds like these are awesome

Nice one !

ive been maining this setup of quick thinking and etc on my ember, im surprised that people are unaware of it, good idea of putting it on a chroma.

"Chroma is a bad frame" lmao. Good video dude Steel Path Fissure Conjunction Survival is also my absolute favourite mode. Great for farming and stress-testing builds

I came up with a similar build, I also found this works pretty well with valkyrie. Its also very strange but it works.

That is a very interesting build lmao. I don't know if I will ever build it mainly cause I shift between stuff too much but it seems really solid nonetheless. In regards to what you said about jade light the whole beam, assuming you are standing still for it, does 85 million damage no amount of health tanking can stop that.

I'm doing arcane battery and energy tanking things on nidus as well, mostly to combat the stationariness of nidus and doing ye olde "crit machine" augment shenanigans lazily. Funny to see the use of the nidus spectre on your showcase for that link bonus.

Oh yea I’m working for this build. Have pretty much everything

This reminds me of some mind over matter synergy from path of exile. So the enegy gived you over 5k "effective" health before armor is applied and you recover energy/health from taking damage

this is so good

I run a very similar build fo QT rn but with a few differences: I run archon stretch and continuity instead of flow and transient fortitude. Avenger is replaced by arcane vigor for the missing strength. I usually wont use a surge pistol, so its odd to invest a modslot for one build. I also run diriga instead, but with the same verglas build. I both prime more enemies with viral, and get archon stretch triggered for lower level content energy deficiency when you arent gettig hp damage. Also cunning drift in the aura for more range to give support with vex armor never hurts, as you usually wont die yourself. Another option for combat disciplinr if you dont use avenger is growing power, but you need a fast killing gun to stack the damage(or just a pocket kuva grattler). Overall i love these wacky chroma builds, they have such a delicate balance of bullshit since you use so many mechanics at once.

The new energy arcane looks interesting, like its primed flow but as an arcane for high armor tanks

This looks really interesting build full of synergies.

I think I’ll stick to my more traditional brute force Umbral Chroma, but this is an awesome way to use the new Arcane Battery and crate a new way to tank. Awesome build, great concept, and if I invest into a second Chroma prime without the umbral forma, I’ll give it a shot!

i love this

This build 💯🎯

Any chance you can dive into how damage instances work on the synod simulor? (Specifically the status procs on detonation vs letting the orbs persist)? I've been trying to figure it out and had no luck, the wiki isn't helping me either.

Oh wow, that's actually insane! Btw could you make some build for Volt, please?

"Would you lose?" "Nah, I'd adapt."

This is really cool and great if your gonna play solo but in a group guardian armor will get you killed due to not using your own stats like armor and dr to tank it, unless they changed it recently you will take too much damage from your team to survive comfortably

Arcan battery is the best btw jus subbed

Nice one. 4 formae from scratch with r3 Adaptation, maxing everything is 5.

This build makes me think of a socket extender plugged to itself

with some tweeks , this build combo is pretty usable with frost, within this update he is now much better

I've been playing Chroma for last 8yrs and I've yet to get bored with Chroma . There's so many ways to play Chroma. 🥰😍

Finally a use for all these blue shards I have and don’t use.

Man this is the second time I've came across a build and someone was thinking the exact same thing as me xD It happened with nezha divine retribution + dark verse And now with this- I originally found this synergy when I was trying to max out my energy pool and tried it on valkyr then realized it's super effective on health tanking

I think it would be interesting to try this with Molt as your helminth as it will allow you spam an ability to build surge, as molt has no real animation and is basically instant cast. Not that such a rapid output of damage would ever be realistically required

Actually loled at the amount of damage lex shat out. Holy shit.

Does heat status still half player armor? That could be having a huge effect on your energy-health loop by hitting the armor-battery synergy.

Im definitely gonna try this with nidus

this is funny. I love this.

I will build another chroma to try this... I just put two umbra forma on my chroma lol. I was also testing arcane barrier and the surge. But energy tanking was not on my mind. Also I had no idea chroma had this new augment. It would make my life easier. Since I relied on arcane grace to be alive and had to ditch arcane avenger for that

this is cool

Synergy + synergy + Another one + Another one + Another one. ☝️

I took the build for a spin and also did some calculations: for non-survival content you really don't need adaptation, since vex armor puts you to basically cap resist at 96.75%. Instead I liked duration in this slot. I also underestimated the value of blue shards, they help with chip damage so very much - even at 3 (I replaced 1 of them with yellow shard for parkour velocity). Like the build, but it's still chroma, he only has 1 ability.

I wish i was this creative on modding and stuff

I ran energy tank Kullervo, but just didn't like missing overguard and got overwhelmed in my experience with 2 replaced by nourish. This seems to make much more sense, as Chroma's tanky and didn't really rely on overguard. I think I'll need to work out how to use loadouts, given Chroma's weapons needing to be specially built. I think the one thing that energy tankers hate is status damage, and getting one shot.

I remember when the most complex thing you could do was Speed Nova or Energy Vamp Trinity, this is absurd haha

If codex has no fans then I’m dead

you can do a little bit more damage with the 1º hability form madurai but it doesnt last very long. I was able to nearly 1 shot an acolite with the lex incarnon with and without the shield

I was just so happy today when I finally got my Corinth to deal like 8x crit damage and a ton of crit change with Daggath, feeling all powerful and badass 2 shotting orokin heavy gunners on SP. But now I see I am not even close to being strong in this game lol

Great vid! If you really wanted to remove "all" base damage mods on Xoris, you could replace Killing Blow with Melee Elementalist. Also Falcor can edge out Xoris imo, especially with the riven dispo- plus the throw tracks enemies!

test this build out on sp circuit. It feel pretty comfy and I went all the way to lv 2000. Died only once due to energy ran out.

I love to see this work on netracells or archimediam

Not sure if you are aware @Unified_Codex but you should most likely be using Cold guardian armor so you can get even more armor or Electric so you can get the full scorn bonus without regenerating shields? It only requires 100 health lost to reach the max fury bonus so the health bonus from fire shouldn't be necessary with your setup. Overguard from secondary fortifier can also be used instead of the electric choice for the scorn bonus since overguard counts towards the "shields" lost. Small thing but it's worth considering yes? And I didn't do the math but is roar a higher power strength bonus than empower here? As many others have mentioned thanks for showcasing these builds, I knew that arcane battery was going to be a huge meta shift I just didn't know how yet!

normal 2014 build. quick thinking rage used to be meta till they added the stagger to quick thinking then people started dropping it, then shield gating came around now overguard gating has arrived

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="158">2:38</a> or alternatively, if youre like me and dont use PSF because you dont have that much trouble dodging knockdowns, use Power Drift so youre only losing 1% from using Umbral Intensify rather than Archon. Also really appreciate a different and interesting yet effective build for Chroma that doesnt just default into using all 3 Umbral mods like 80% of builds out there. Also also, <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="572">9:32</a> perfect thing to replace the riven with that also just got added? Semi-Pistol Cannonade. +300% base damage and +1.5 Punch through in exchange for not being able to mod fire rate, which if youre going to be firing this in between ability casts, isnt really going to matter.

Does quick thinking activate duplex bond? Funny little synergy if so

I wonder how Guardian armor would work instead of combat discipline or would hour teammates keep your energy on empty.

Ascaris-pilled! 🪱

i've been running that same build without arcane battery, mainly for the dmg and i use arcane grace instead

cool idea. does the damage reduction apply to companions? also i think well of life with augment would be great here

*Hush Hush Hush*

I tried a similar build as Nidus. I used elemental ward with cold as the helminth for extra armor. The problem I found is that nidus undying passive triggers before quick thinking procs. I essentially become immortal but as soon as you hit 15 stacks it instantly triggers.

Ima build him soon just missing one part for him which is his neuroptics

This is an insanely fun build from a theory standpoint, bravo!

This build seems crazy fun, I wonder if I'm able to make it with what I have.

I have done energy/health/shield tanking builds with Qorvex, Grendel, Atlas, and Harrow so far. Couldn’t quite figure out what to do with Chroma. This just gave me so much inspiration. Thank you! If you swap archon intensify and transient for umbral fiber and intensify you probably wouldn’t even need flow. It would just be overkill of energy. Then you can flex that for augur secrets and achieve the same strength you already have. Or in my case i’m going to try energy nexus as an additional health/energy regen with two blue shards and possibly two red strength shards. That’ll give 100%duration which will let you keep your 2nd ability up longer and be a little less to manage while still tanking

Keep in mind that quick thinking sometimes bugs out and you can actually die even when energy is full.

Nourish amplifies the amoint of energy generated.... Equip mods that regenerate and u ll have energy healing tanking

So would glaive prime be better or same as the Xoris? Because this seems a pretty fun build. Because you said something about xoris being better for chroma but i couln't understand if you were saying that it was better then other glaives in general or if i didn't understand

damn, you didnt one shot the acolyte because he dispelled your vex armor right before the shot. but the fact that you almost one shot it anyway is crazy

what’s the ephemera behind chroma it looks fire 🔥 im building him right now