Protea Prime is Infinitely Versatile | Warframe Build Refresh 

It is important to note - Protea's dispensary drops an EMPOWERED health orb, which restores 100 HP with the empowered value factoring into Equilibrium's calculation. This means that with Equilibrium on Protea, dispensary's health orb alone restores more energy than it takes to cast the ability, without factoring in the energy orb that it also drops. Equilibrium on Protea is amazing for her energy economy. Drop a dispensary at the start of a mission and just keep dropping it occasionally throughout the mission. You may not even need to run Zenurik.

Something to note about Protea is if the set bonus from the augur mods or brief respite gives you shields, the new shield gating duration will override your shield satellite's duration. It usually isn't an issue but if you ever find yourself dying as protea it is likely either a toxin proc or your shield gate duration suddenly went from 3 1/2 seconds to 1/2 a second due to those mods.

Augur mods and Respite prevent her shield grenades from giving full shield gate

the prime visuals do a good job on improving upon her base model however, it was very very clear from the beginning that whatever the prime would be, won't be better than the outstanding deluxe genuinely the best deluxe there is, it looks just so good

Just in case anyone in the comments is lacking in Tauforged Crimson Archon Shards, did some quick maths and found out you can remove one and still reach the Gloom Cap with the remaining two. (Gloom reaches 95% slow at 272% Power Strength, and this build comes with 289% Power Strength with everything factored in. 289% - 15% = 274%. You can almost entirely skimp out on all shards by running Growing Power in your aura as well).

I know you kinda said she could run "any companion" but i don't think you mentioned the best (especially for her), Nautilus. Passive tight enemy grouping with Cordon + Manifold Bond goes a long way in increasing the effectiveness of your Blaze Artillery, and your general killrate. Though, specifically with the Gloom build, there is a negative synergy due to the slowdown effect applying to how fast the Cordon grouping can actually move enemies. But i have a feeling a lot of people will be running Roar instead anyway due to faction damage double dipping on DOTs and Protea being a DOT enjoyer between her shrapnel grenades and her Blaze Artillery.

❌ Augur Mods ✅ Equilibrium for Empowered Health Orbs from Dispensary

There's a bug where Auger mods fuck up her first abilty shield satellites.should not use them on her or your weapons.

Arcane eruption is amazing on this build protea takes full advantage of using energy orbs as CC

Replacing the 2 auger mods with blind rage and equilibrium with 3-4 tau duration shards is optimal for 3.5 sec shield gate Transient is also worth considering for lower gloom drain

Protea is like Octavia... In the sense that whether or not she gets "adjusted" depends entirely on if people start using her or not. Anyway guys she's really boring you're just pressing 2 in-between managing 3 different timers and nobody should play her. (Is it working?)

The amount of visual shrugs and "it depends on choice"s given in this video shows just *how* versatile Protea is. Fantastic frame.

One thing I would love to mention, is the way her heat DoT turrets work. Each enemy they hit, it 2x’s their damage, THIS IS AN INFINITE MULTIPLIER, and is capable of hitting multiple enemies at once. In turn, sky rocketing her multiplayer. This also works with weapons, meaning the heat on your weapons is also doubled. Using a heat Probosc Cernos is two birds with one stone territory, as it groups, and can spread heat.

This video missed a massive point which is using viral tempest on Protea. A full armor strip and viral stack without any weapons is possible within a couple seconds with viral tempest and 2 green shards, the armor strip alone is a bigger DPS boost to hard target enemies like steel path eximus units than you could ever hope to achieve with abilities like roar and eclipse. You also get viral stacks on everything so you don't have to build it on your weapons. Also, Brozime showed a max range build but there is a solid argument to be made for max duration builds on Protea. I run 265% duration (before molt efficiency), 100% efficiency, 199% range, and 85% strength (before molt augmented, growing power, and zenurik strength boosts), once I get the molt efficiency boost then blaze artillery lasts for over 8 seconds compared to the build in this video with 5 seconds. The extra 60% increase in blaze artillery duration allows the burn stacks to tick massively higher at the end of blaze artillery and the multiplier on blaze artillery hits much larger numbers with the extra 3 seconds of duration. Once you compensate for the lower starting DPS and the exponential damage scaling dependent on duration, your overall DPS on blaze artillery is significantly higher with a max duration Protea build than other build options. It is really the way to go if you want to do hard or longer missions, plus there is significantly less recasting of shield satellites, shrapnel nades, and dispensary.

Tesla nervos (with augment) over dispensary. Archon stretch for energy sustain. Temporal erosion, build for range and duration. Nautilus for grouping. Portable electric nuke protea with large aoe armor strip. P.S. Violet shards increase the explosion damage of tesla bank. Tesla nervos is an underrated subsume.

I actually prefer running her Temporal Anchor with the augment. Using her 1 to cover the map in long lasting shrapnel fields that shred armor of any eximus that don’t just get stunlocked by the grenades is fantastic. Her 4 refills her energy and shields back to whatever it was before using it so you can activate it again and go back to spamming more grenades. She can lock down entire interception maps on steel path by herself and clean up and armorless eximus or acolytes with her turrets.

My only gripe….why extra armor for prime and not extra shield max or something. Or extra energy….rude.

nawhhh he relapsing back into gloommaxxing

The Equilibrium effect, from the mod or shard, is really huge for Protea to grab the health orbs from Dispensary so it will continue to spit them out. Also, there's a bug that kills her normally extremely long shield gate if you get any energy return from the Auger mods or if anyone is running the BR aura, so watch out.

i’m so excited for the yareli build, hopefully mr brozime has nice things to say

She really can be build in many different ways, I personally focused more on duration and strength using purp equili shard and 4 red strngth and keeping range neutral or slightly above... tho I personally prefer running a rank 0 archon vit as you don't really need the hp if ur shield gating / using roll guard for toxin for example

I've been enjoying Gaz's setup with mecha set to spread the heat statuses around more a great deal

I heard auger mod shield gate time takes priority over grenade fan shield gating thus lowering the total shield gate break invulnerability timer.

Sad part for me ( LR 4 ) is that Now that Protea Prime exists I could stop playing now. She is everything I wanted and waited for.

I am one of the few that likes her 4 and the augment, it’s just micro managing to toggle it off before it goes off

i was waiting for this one!

I hope DE doesn't nerf her now that she is accessible.

I was so excited for your video on Wednesday but I’m glad you’re feeling better and we got this video now! ALSO tier list when?

I prefer to have my blade nades on hold and shield on tap, seeing as it turns my one into a very effective panic button in the rare occasion I start dying. but to be fair that doesn't happen too often

Two green shards with viral tempest barrage goes crazy Edit: turns out I prefer roar with precision intensify. I keep the green shards in case I want to strip with phantasma though this will probably change come the armor rework.

I find Protea's 4 more useful than some might think, and that's mainly due to the augment Temporal Erosion providing her 1 and 2 armor strip when it's active.

ive read that running augur mods on protea actually lowers her shield gating that comes from her 1

I like to have three green shards on her, two + corrisove and one tau +dmg on corrosive targets, then put Tempest Barrage with Viral tempest to get some AOE armor strip and more damage. There are better armor strips, but Barrage plays into her area control. Throw grenades in a spot, put down a barrage, then aim a blaze artillery that way and now you have that spot locked down and you are free to do something else, like putting up an other spot to lock down.

I have been enjoying a Diriga + Equilibrium Shard setup on my normal protea so far, and plan to run it on Prime as well once I get that gods forsaken Chassis Blueprint. I basically never have to drop a dispensary, the amount of Energy you get is insane. I usually run Zenurik, plop down a dispensary at the start of the mission, grab the first health orb and then just enter godmode.

Something else to note, heat inherit works on her blaze artillery, you don't need to use it, but its hilarious damage and scales ridiculously well. I use it with ensnare subsumed, it can easily kill most enemies on conjunction survival in 3 - 4 shots and still have plenty of time left on the turret.

As someone who doesn't really have acess to archon shards yet or arcanes like energize, would subsuming nourish onto her 4 be a smart way to boost the energy economy(and slide in some additional viral)? Or would it be better to just put on equilibrium lol?

Unrelated to the video are we still getting the tierlist brozime? Cheers.

Shaft, nads, and tip?

My protea build has been max duration + pillage for years at this point. 5 duration shards gets up to %400 duration because blaze artillery scales with duration. Then Pillage + corrosive projection + molt augmented can %100 aoe armor strip. Also equilibrium + synth fiber on protea is god tier. Health orbs count as energy, and proteas health orbs are real big.

i tend to use a hound so i use her 4 and augment for armor strip and using her 1 with contagion bond i can see massive groups go pop with a insane number of slash procs and heat procs with viral and so on and its quite funny to see :D

Great build thanks again! I take it you’re not a fan of her signature weapons?

Augment: temporal distortion, removes the rewind effect and instead turns the ability into a toggle that will teleport you to the activation point when you would die or de activate the ability, with a few seconds invincibility and a 30 second cooldown. Lol, not likely but her 4th really needed more than a tact on armor strip for a 10 second window. One other thing protea prime doesn't do is have helmets that fit well with her prime skin.

I wonder how well protea prime will be against the murmur in SP survival considering that some of the murmur faction can drain your energy without the exmius arua (the hollow veins are a good example) also in the murmur faction on SP you're not just going against 2 types of units but rather 4 the acylotes, necramechs, the fragmented and the cavia (if I have spelt that correctly) and not counting that warden from the fragmented part of the murmur faction (the one with 3 arms flys around and tries to protect his arms with his body immune to damage forcing to shoot the arms to kill it) which can be pain a lot of the time same with the necramechs (if you let them come)

It's finally here!

I heard from another youtuber that augur set works wierd with her 1 and you get less shieldgate.

Did larva get changed to be not as good or is gloom just that beefy in the current meta? (newly returning player)

I personally use nezha’s firewalker in place of her 4, because the movement speed and aoe is nice, but also the status immunity it gives when standing on the flame trail.

I just wanted to say that i ran Auger Message after seeing this vid and shredded SP today with no problem at all.

One of the coolest frames finally gets their prime, if I could afford it I totally would've gotten the Prime Access!

Huh, my archon shard choices were an equilibrium, two duration, shields and energy all tauforged. Admittedly the blue ones are the two I'm not totally sure on.

We keeping Heat Inherit on Proteas turrets quiet?

agree %100 about the base prime skin, the deluxe is sooo beautiful 😊

Does roar boost the damage of her turrents?

I really don't get the gloom subsume, she has everything to survive and you might be better off with anything else. also her 4 with the augment is great but that's more of a playstyle preference, i understand people don't like the loopy thing. Also finally maybe it needs some math but wouldn't duration shards be better ? Blaze artillery scale with each shots so having them last longer might be better ?

Thermal Sunder Protea atm maxing on archon vitality, with the blast armor strip. her arm cloth attachments should be auxiliary

throw vauban's helminth ability on there for maximum combat engineer. Paired with Archon Stretch and you can probably drop Arcane Energize for another utility. Perhaps Molt Efficiency for the Duration

We almost have the same fashion and colours, now I'll have to find something else XD

Your only complaint about the fashion on your favorite frame is some arm sleeves? You got off lucky. Try having an enlarged bottom you can't get rid of. With how much I am using dispensary in helminth the opposite is true that you can turn Protea into a helminth ability frame with using her passive and dispensary to upkeep it. Used this to maximum effect with Null Star during its heyday, still very usable today as well, to reach high KPS numbers in ESO with minimal effort.

8:15 what event? Also when was it?

Can you show me that Wyrm build?

I really wish they would make her 4 better. It's such a cool concept, and is thematically the core of her kit, but...no one ever uses it. You can tell they didn't quite know what to do with it too. Since healing and resetting cooldowns is just not much of a thing in Warframe, they tried to make it into some kind of explosion nuke thing that has nothing to do with time travel? Wish it worked more like Tracer rewind or, barring that, I wish they purposefully gave her long CDs or something for it to interact with.

So apparently there is an oversight that makes augur mods actively make protea worse whenever enemies can one shot her shields as the augur shield gait overrides the shield nade shield gate leaving her very vulnerable...

Archon vitality is only worth using if you are not armor stripping (ie the gloom build) or if you are doing very high levels. Otherwise, its entirely unnecessary. With her new augment her slash grenades and artillery strips armor in a couple seconds or less, letting her turrets especially three shot base level steel path where the gloom build requires longer to kill due to enemy armor and waiting for heat procs to tick. Augur mods is a no no, augur mod shield gain will override her shield satellite shield gate boost duration, which is at maximum 5 seconds with some shield mods, longer than any other warframe on their own with redirection equipped. So every time you cast an ability to shield gate, you're gonna immediately reset those i frames in favor of minimal i frame duration which is 0.3 seconds. You sadly can't force pubs to not have brief respite though, that will always kill your 5 second i frames against your will lol.

I imagine an augment for protea an augment for her dispensary to be mobile

Im confused now, are augur mods good or not? i heard they have problems or its a lie?

I like her 4th ability

Idk what they was thinking when they designed her prime

Take out the overextended, unless your only doing open world things with her. Blind range instead of overextended and get a Equilibrium in there. Then you'd have enough power strength for pillage.

I personaly dont like gloom protea, idk, she has so much survivability on her own with her 1 and i dont think its needed. I would also use equilibrium, her energy income is much better and It feels good to efficiently use her whole 3rd. Really good video shiwcasing her :)

Range is a trap if you want to kill faster, for example on survival. Its good for defense but still not needed. its much better to drop some 1 or even 2 range mods to make room for equilibrium, which REALLY is a game changer, and maybe something else like mecha setup or more damage. the reason range is bad is because enemies just wont get to you with gloom up at max range or even just grenades, it is just TOO good. I often even just use gloom without the 100% bonus strength, just so enemies come in faster.

You should not run Augur mods on Protea, because it bypasses the shield gate timer from satellites. You can also run a base Archon Vitality if you don't want to spend to max it out, just as effective for damage... but it means you have to be a little more focused with your shield gating. I've done level 10000 cap Steel Path Circuit with almost this exact build (minus Augur mods)

I use pillage so I can run her as a archgun weapon platform its really fun!

Nice builds for solo play BUT in a group, Blaze artillery is useless in its current form. That's the one I Helminthed and she does just fine in SP content without it. Her Temporal Anchor is (for me) a free revive as I throw that down when I screw up and know I'm gonna die 😂 I've only played her for a day and she's fine for SP, Archon hunt & new deimos maps. This is without maxed out mods & zero forma build but then I still want a challenge when I play 👍 And as always, big thanks for the vids you upload - they definitely helped me out when I first started to play 👍😎

Why all that range? hmmm i dont know

Unpopular opinion: arcane energize is kinda useless because of protea's dispensary + equilibrium. Also, I use huras kubrow with protea. It increases survivability a lot.

You just blew my mind with this, good job bro.

Oh no another investment build I'll never financially recover from this lol.

Aaand here comes the nerf bat

Cast spd doesn't make her abilities do their stuff faster, right?

Eating and youtube certified video ✅

Protea's 4 augment needs to buff the duration of the ability since its far too low for it to not be annoying to upkeep.

Yessssss

somehow forgets nautilus

I guess it tells how much warframe has powercrept in the recent year that I do not consider this good anymore? Any semi-aoe with green shards would be better. Any melee influence would be better.

No way u clapped tyat acolyte with the miter like that

CASCADIA FLAIRE ON YOUR SECONDARY

Tbh I like prime protea body 😢I just changed the head to her skin because it’s better

She needs a 20% buff all around I have tried three build she keeps dying on steel path!

Please for the love of the void please do not nerf her DE

Protea 4th ability is good change my mind

Protea build 1:22

Gloom? Wtf. Do you play this game?

Reveal Bubonico secrets to us!......

Yet again I find myself disagreeing, her 4 is a great part of her hit even without the augment. Those who have used and understand it will know why.

Bro DE better never nerf gloom otherwise Brozime would never make another build again

I just want her 4 to be good so bad though 😭

She's even better with the MIGHTY SEER

I dunno what they were thinking with Protea Prime's design. She has these weird jiggly pigtails. It's disgusting

molt efficiency is very consistent. you generate max overshields by pressing 1...

I much prefer the roar build on her gloom is kinda boring.