How to ONE SHOT an Archon! (2022) | Warframe 

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On the Upside: Dagath with any high-DPS crit gun will shred any Archon in less than a minute. I just soloed Amar with Incarnon Telos Boltor. It took like half the effort I usually put in following this Ivara guide

ah that sucks

I understood that reference!

with Kuva Catalyst

I got div!!!

Good man.

NICE

You, yes you, I hope you have a wonderful day

@@SgtNoob-vv8un Sounds like someone found that tip useful lol

@@shaderunner7.0 you're God damn right

Huh, neat. Information acquired.

W comment

Hek supremacy

What the hek

and the SSJ3 Hek is to go EVEN FURTHER BEYOND

@@christophermarsh1580 ssg hek will go beyond

@@shineonnent.7951 *ULTRA INSTINCT HEK*

yeah stropha do wonders on them

Mam, I miss scarlet spear

@@haneefy8700 same, but it seems to be an unpopular opinion. Maybe de makes it like orphix venom, being a node in railjack, but maybe you dont need other people for the kill codes to avoid it becoming dead and unplayable?

stopha will break ivara's invisibility tho

@@bumboclat no it will not; whoever told you that is lying, or performed a slide attack (Sliding cancels her cloak)

Thank you for the thorough explanation

how did you figure this out?

Do you think DE will think if this is a bug and will fix it later or they will keep it remain that way

I read the definition of "aggregate" and still don't understand lol

@@clgr1323 probably math and the wiki lol

That's an awesome trick!

I do agree I did enjoy the fight with the Phenmor, it just sucks to be forced to take weapons from a pool of less than 10 weapons to make the fight anything but tedious. They had / still have so much potential to add meaningful & mechanically challenging phases and instead went for the laziest possible option of making him immune to virtually all abilities and weapons.

Phenmor for boss and laetum for mobs. I make sure before going to the objective, both weapons are full of incarnon charges. Then switch to incarnon mode on the boss. When it flies, just switch to laetum to deal with trash mobs. I managed not to deplete all phenmor incarnon charge when doing the hunt.

​@@zeffmalchazeen3429 Everything in this game is a "trash mob" though giving how easy this preschool game is.

@@davidporter28 bruh why are you so mad.

@@RapTapTap69 I'm real kid, learn the difference. What the fuck is a "bruh"? I left my idiot translator at home.

I disagree with the second paragraph, common, non minmaxed squads are able to take the archons in 10-15 minutes. It is not IMPOSSIBLE and there's no need to CRY and LIE to provide valid arguments for an unfun mechanic to be removed.

@@just_one23 I did exhaduarate (can never work out the correct spelling of the word, sorry) but I was very mad due to wasting 30 minutes+ on a fight I was very bored on. I am sorry to be petty but what was your squad bringing that managed to take it down in 10-15 minutes?

@@Dracosian4802 you're not petty for asking. I've done the Archon fights a few times each, and people mostly seem to bring unoptimized frames, styanax or tanky frames are often used. Incarnon weapons and huge burst shotguns are increasingly common as the news of archons getting oneshoted become widespread, but no even on the earliest days a mission would last more than 20 mins. You probably were unlucky on your attempt.

@@just_one23 Think about how many guns there are in the game, (going to ignore melee, since DE sees to have). Out of all the hundreds of guns only let us say 20 (a bit of a generous guess) are even slightly viable and only due to Errors. This is what I mean by Min-Max, most players won't be rocking riven-60% kuva hekk with every single buff on at once. They will probably bring some random prime modded fairly well. If they do this they will have an unfun experience.

@@Dracosian4802 then they should move over to something like the Phenmor and/or Laetum which are without a riven already very strong. A frame like Chroma with a solid built or hell even a Rhino can do a lot as well, though a Revenant is also a solid, safe and easy choice. And all three of them are Frames that can be obtained fairly easily if one has played to the point of having unlocked the Archon Hunt and should have a sufficient arsenal of mods. It will take a while, yeah, but lets be honest: those who one-shot bosses like the Archons have put in quite some time into creating individual builds to make such a mission a matter of seconds and not minutes.

Every time i used this power i was having no effect. Slow or headshot bonus

Zenurik's Temporal Drag (the slow) IS an ability, therefore it cannot directly affect any of the Archons. Same logic applies to Unairu's Armor strip, since it is an ability it does not apply to the Archon.

@@Do_High_Go It was visibly working when I tried it. They probably patched it.

new new update 3rd attenuation type for head shot multipliers cause yes

Ice procs can too.

Yes! I love using Empowered quiver on my Ivara, the buffs apply to Allie’s too, and even just having a status cleanse on her is useful in a pinch. Too many people sleep on quiver

you and me both brother

bro I have a limbo that just cannot be used for 90% of content by now cause it'll just die

@@redeyes-ed7mf oh yeah, such a great eximus rework, right?

@@lifin6647 bruhhhh I just wanna have cc again

@@lifin6647 Oh yea but when I say it the community cries about it. "Best community ever, so understanding and not hypocrites at all"

The game is a sandbox, experiment yourself

@@loafofbread9400 that still doesn't give DE an excuse to not explain its systems. Can't experiment with it if you don't know it exists.

@@loafofbread9400 Except it's completely nonsensical. The game's entire gearing and modding system is you stacking up higher and higher numbers and bonuses. But now there's a boss that....actively punishes you for hitting it as hard as you can to make the fight artificially longer? Status effects and abilities that we have been trained to use to armor/shield strip are now useless? Like this is the same bs from when Arbitrations were first introduced. This isn't difficulty. This is artificial inflation to force the fight to last longer and longer, and to make the no-self-revives rule matter at all. They continually hamper personal player choice despite giving us systems that should be *encouraging* it. Helminth is nothing more than a "Insert Roar/meta ability" gimmick, weapons that aren't meta top tier continue to lag behind and require more and more work and grinding just to make halfway viable so you can kill light enemies on the average late game mission. Yeah, you shouldn't be able to take a base rank 30 Lato into an Archon Hunt and one-shot the boss, but it's increasingly frustrating to take a weapon, forma it several times, mod it to the best of your ability, and then see it do jack shit because DE abandoned it on release and chose to suck off Kuva/Tenet weapons some more. And worse, because it's a sandbox game, there is absolutely no in-game help for the new/returning player to seek out how to catch up and understand current meta, and so they have to rely on youtubers and fellow players to have even the vaguest understanding of wtf is going on or what delusional mechanic the newest tileset/missions have introduced...which usually involves enemies with hyper-inflated armor/shield ratings that continue to make corrosion/magnetic feel less and less useful. You can't even have faith in them to QA their new frames, so even on release you end up having to wait and see if the new warframe is meta or dogshit, and even then the community spends two months arguing about whether or not said frame even *is* dogshit before they forget what they were arguing about. RU-vidrs spend the first month of release absolutely beating off to the new frame every chance they get, because it gets them clicks, and then like a week after they're talking about how it's an "average" frame that's no better than Helminth fodder. There hasn't been one point throughout the Archon Hunt series that I've felt was rewarding or fun in the slightest. It was a numbers crunch with a boss that can instantly kill you or summon friends that can instantly kill you.

@@Can_O_Crayola im not reading all that

@@loafofbread9400 I know, it's difficult to read. Dropping out of the third grade had to really hurt your comprehension abilities, so it's okay, sweetie. We'll make it real simple for you to comprehend in just a few easy-to-understand words: You. Are. Fucking. Stupid. Now remember, read slow and repeat to yourself if necessary! I know, reading without pronouncing the words out loud is difficult...but I believe in you.

it's not so much that they can't it's the fact that they never will they pander to the new/casual players more often than not with everything plus even if the content is "challenging" even the veterans complain with Railjack's initial launch in 2020 being case and point

@@theunhingedgamer3762 Okay, so what would a challenging content in Warframe look like to you?

@@theunhingedgamer3762 people wanted challenging content tho, not a whole new game mode.

@@theunhingedgamer3762 To be honest, I don't think they can regardless to who they pander to due to how much you can abuse the game, coupled with spaghetti code that this game has. The power fantasy is just way too much that they rely on shitty game mechanics like health gating bosses and damage attenuation.

If you dont have a plan for balancing besides waiting until the problems are big enough to need nerfs or attenuation, of course theres no consistency in damage output

I just tried it last night as well, and can't get anything near a oneshot, I'm assuming there's some more attenuation since this video was released

I was probably capping, I tried again today and managed the one shot I guess I wasn't properly stacking buffs ended up subsuming smite infusion instead of roar so that I don't waste mods for rad modding, silent battery to help stacking was essential if not it makes it super hard to survive with squishy power strength build, maybe a cloak arrow to stack might work but I'd recommend silent battery. Thanks for the vid

You probably didn’t build up deadhead stacks and utilize ivara

thanks to such videos, it will soon no longer be!

@@35reich Gonna be honest with ya mate, this doesn't exactly feel intended lmao. Plus, this kind of cheese was already being used vs Liches and Sisters, do we really need more cheese?

I still wish scattered justice worked on it

I found it useful against Demolysts too.

I’d love to check out those RU-vidrs! I’ve been trying to find sources for deep math endgame play, but most of my go-to’s from back in the day have stopped playing the game

@@TheStanishStudios Dystopia runs levelcap disruption and does the math on his less recent videos

So bottom line, what's the best buff for a weapon? Roar, Eclipse or Xatas whisper? Which of these will give me the most damage possible?

@@davidporter28 it entirely depends. For example, for sentient enemies, because faction damage can't be modded for (outside the sacrificial mods) the faction bonus from roar is a strong contender, even though the damage from xata's being void damage deals extra to sentients, raw faction damage should on average deal more after a certain damage threshold when talking raw Damage, let alone the DOT effects. However if you're dealing stealth damage on say a melee+invis build, then xata's 100% cakes the take. Eclipse as a buff should be considered like an elemental bonus without the element attached, as that's pretty much how its calculated (unless I'm wrong and its additive and I'm dumb, in which case ignore me.) As for archons specifically? Roar. Roar wins no question, but in general it entirely depends. The More you mod for a specific stat, the more diminishing your returns will be on the bonus as a general rule, so each build for each weapon will be uniquely specializing in the bonuses you can get the most out of, be it crit, DOT's, conditional multipliers, Stealth, or a combination of many

@@nevintilch4962 If you say roar is best for archons then why use xatas whisper?

yup you should be able to, unless evade doesnt work on knockdowns or archon abilities

@@ovencake523 evade only negates bullets but not AoE attacks, i'm not sure about archon abilities

why djinn when you have those deimos cats can revive themselves faster than it?

Not to mention the archon and other enemies get health bonuses for each additional player in your squad!

Anyone with at least half a brain should know that in any game in general is that solo is the best way to play because the enemies health, armor, etc. is going to be at it's lowest because the games code "scales" with the amount of players in a session.

It's good to be 2 so someone can reanimate you and it's faster to open the gate.

Like every other weapon in the past, welcome to warframe.

@@davidporter28 It's funny cause for every weapon that gets nerfed, a newer weapon is released that is stronger than the older pre-nerfed weapons.

@@hallowieners Keep thinking that kid. There are only a handful of weapons that are top tier and outperform every other one in the game. Lots of MR fodder to say the least.

You're doing it all wrong

@@davidporter28 lmao care to expand on that?

...does it work?

@@0netwoguy54 I don’t think it did. I’ll have to retry.

@@0netwoguy54 Ok, I tested it again with a 180% strength-ish Ivara and a crappy Cernos Prime using the 60 status radiation mods with a decent riven. It took a good chunk of the health but not oneshot territory. I didn’t try with Ivara’s Quiver augment that would give extra crit damage either because of polarity problems.

Ah a fellow kuva chakurr enjoyer

Yes there is. If u use big ability str, rope augment and mirage helminth u get milions of crit. ;)

No skill work on the archon, so Nezha's chackram pretty much did nothing, shame on (this) DE boss design IMO...

@@tonyoliver2684 Oh wow, so I guess the chakram was just a placebo? That's too bad :( on well. I am actually concerned about the possibility where DE would just simply remove headshot spots on archons. Hope that never happens.

We should probably get in the habit of keeping secrets from DE since they like to ruin anything fun

Nerfed??

The 2 problems I'd see with eclipse is the inconsistency due to light levels always showing the max damage buff but usually not giving the max amount and I'm not sure if it'd calculated the same way as roar is where it's done after modding and acts as a faction modifier

@@uncoveredkhan09gaming38 eclipse is completely multiplicative with mods, meanwhile roar is additive with faction damage mods. I don’t know if eclipse buffs damage before or after damage attenuation like faction damage does (if my memory from the video serves me correct)

Toxin (any % works)

I think this boss coupled with aoe nerfs shows the new biggest flaw with the damage system, however it doesnt have too wide of a range so it isnt that bad

Xata's Whisper has been widely documented to work this way. I'm surprised Ken doesn't know.

The silencing mods Hush, Silent Battery, and Suppress turn alarming weapons silent, allowing Ivara to stay invisible.

@@TheKengineer oh that's great ... didn't know that keep Ivara invisible :) thank ❤

Second phase is unavoidable yes. You can then one-tap that stage too.