THIS is the DUMBEST Tactic in Warframe... 

Fun Quiz: How often did I say "Damage Reduction" in this video?

Energy Tanks are all gangsta until Ancient Disruptor shows up

infested disruptors who can reduce your energy to 0 from multiple hundred in one hit would REALLY like to discuss the efficacy of this strategy with you

Harrow works really well with this kind of setup, because Harrow's 3 can generate energy so much faster than enemies can deplete it.

Gauss with his [2] ability is amazing for this strat. It's a form of damage reduction that replenishes energy, meaning the enemy bullets will just heal you.

Ah yes, another reason energy draining eximus enemies are the bane of every player.

yOU CaNT kILL Me, iM THiNking VErY FasT

Lavos and Hildryn mains be like: Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power.

They also recently added that arcane that increases your energy based on how much armor you have

Ancient Disruptor has entered the chat. "Nothing personal kid" Also you might really want an Arcane Nullifier (or other status immunity) before you try this in Murmur or Coprus Railjack/Juno where regular enemies do magnet stuff to you.

I thought people was using this method for ages and I discovered it about a month ago. All I got off other people is "how did you manage to cheat?". I tried to tell them how it works but they just could not get it. This video helps loads. Maybe it's a visual thing that's needed to help. Great job.

just never go against infected with this, they have units that can insta drain your energy with one hit

All nice and good, untill Corrupted Bombard one shoots your whole energy with one shot and you didn't even manage to generate enough stacks for adaptation, also any deep archimedia or any in game energy debuffs just make this useless

"Energy, son! It hardens in response to fatal damage!"

Man i remember back then when there was way less mods and no shield gate, Quick Thinking was THE KING for survivability, pair that to any energize that had no cooldown, grace and rage, and you were set

Vazurin users running around with a grey healthbar:

try to put rage mod to it where if you take damage to your health it will turn into energy i bet that would be great

This video is basically 'How many ways can Blacky break Warframe'

Three problems with this strategy: Ancient Disruptors exist Energy Leech Eximus exists Magnetic damage as a whole exists

energy tank nidus is the funniest thing in the game. massive health added with grace and rage means that even if they somehow beat everything else they now have to beat the energy bar that regens to full on every hit and has more effective health then the health bar ever did.

Its a good way to tank but remember 1 thing, it has a limit. when the monsters start getting insane lvl and dmg the every single hit is going to be a hit kill so ur energy is gonna drop instantly then u die. to be able to tank lvl cap enemies u must use cheese strategies like invulnerability, shield gate or even shield recharge... keep that in mind

Garuda with Gloom (replace 2) is so good with this, since her 3 lets her sacrifice health for energy. It's such a fun build on her, you don't even need to use operator at all with how good her self-sustain is

as an old school trinity main (and no longer a trinity player because of how badly they screwed her in every possible way) i knew the instant i saw the 2 HP that it was gonna just be a QT build, but its def more viable these days than it used to be, due to all the ways we can get energy

Probably worth noting that nobody should ever attempt energy tanking without arcane nullifier, or general status protection.

See, Nyx has been doing this for years, and I can tell you two things about energy tanking. 1, a very high level enemy will one shot you. 2, Ancient Disruptor.

I remember our guild's core tactician would make builds for us, he put me onto the invulnerability Trinity build before they completely removed it. Energy tanking was one of his core designs. Quick Thinking has carried me for years. If you have a way to quick cycle energy, you are quite literally invulnerable.

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Ah yes. Harrow's invulnerability now has invulnerability on top of it

"Look what they need to mimic a *fraction* of our power." -nezha mains

Son basically they removed the stagger from quick thinking. That used to stagger you.

Everything new is well forgotten old, eh? In my times we used to pair it with Rage and later Hunter's Adrenaline, together with Rejuvenation (the only consistent widely available health regen option back then) to literally afk timed missions. Also, gotta call you out for a clickbait on that thumb, dude. QT still leaves you with two hps. The only frame that actually survives with zero health and shields, to my knowledge at least, is Couch Potato Oberon.

Hey I just wanted to say, I have used a similar build to this on Valkyr for years and wanted to point out the biggest weakness of the build since it wasn't mentioned. Ancient Disruptors, especially on steel path difficulty can nuke over 700 energy in one hit ignoring all forms of damage resist, and they magnetic proc you if you don't have the arcane for immunity to it. I would not highly recommend using these builds in say a steel path dark sector survival for resource farming. I love the video and I love these kinds of builds in general, but as with most things, they have their limits.

so what you're saying is my 99% DR Rage Hirudo Nidus can become even more unkillable?

You forgot to talk about energy nexus and energy syphon.

Imagine gauss with this build, with kinetic plating which on itself gives pretty good damage reduction WHILE supplying you with energy so the more damage you take the more energy you gain and the more energy you have the longer you can survive using this with adaptation to gain even more reduction from same type damage which would be good while fighting big hordes of enemies in steelpath it could also be pushed even further with redline to increase damage reduction

This is why I run this on my Oberon. His health regen is absolutely absurd under all that damage mitigation. Rage to regain energy on lost health just creates a feedback loop where they have to do an absurd amount of damage to overcome the healing AND the energy that dealing with that healing provides. Oberon can give armor and health regen to his entire team. Combine this with Rage and energy tanking and even a Loki becomes so tanky that they can stand in front of a level 100 corrupted heavy gunner and they won't do enough sustained DPS to kill them.

I'm not gonna lie, after years of staying away, this video makes me wanna install Warframe again and try this method on my beloved Mag. Great job!!

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Okay... I'm a couple of heavily over engineered margaritas in while watching this. But, I'm 100% on board with this. I took a 6 year hiatus from the game, and apparently, my new way of thinking upon returning fits very well with your video. You've given me a shortcut. And, well, thank you. This video earned my subscription. Great job. P.S. I really hope this makes sense. The alcohol is definitely hard to work through.

I remember when Rage/Quick Thinking was one of the most popular survivability methods in the game, before self-healing and shield gating were all that widespread. I honestly thought it had dropped off in relevance, but seeing these experiments is giving me a lot of thought for my own builds. Nice work!

i'm really happy others think shield gating is terrifiedly stressful

i remember abusing the rage/quick thinking interaction back in the day before they fixed it. good times

Seems very viable on Nezha; since they have a damage reduction skill that also negates status effects that would reduce energy

dead from magnet status effect... again

There was an oberon build that basically took his concept and made you immortal as long as you had energy or didnt step into a nullifier bubble, basically his 3 gives you a constant health regen so you take rage or adrenaline to sustain your energy and the rest was just max strength, it was funny but quite weak because you did nothing but tank

Seeing quick thinking on youtube builds its like being back in 2018

Hmm mayhap a equilibrium Atlas would work well with this. Without health and shield mods you could maybe squeeze in path of statues, ore gaze and rubble heap. So build up to over 1400 rubble, then go to town punching. Each punch is free if over 1400 rubble, the punches are making petrify paths, and smashing petrified enemies drops more hp and energy orbs.

I'm curious, how does this whole system works with mods like Rage or hunter's adrenaline? If you keep eternally taking damage, won't that mean you'll also regenerate all your energy, meaning you literally can't die (Unless level cap or something) ?

Who would've thought that using your energy bar as your health bar would result in you having billions of health?

coming from an other mmo where you only live on health and reduction and just getting deeper into warframe this video was a real game changer in survivability, love the option of a third resource for tanking. also thanks for the in depth explanation

Be sure to keep on your toes guys, if you take a big enough hit it will instantly down you to conserve remaining energy. Those blitz eximus can be deadly

Gauss seems op with that build because of his 2nd skill, damage reduction that also gives you energy... when you take damage

Level 9999: im gonna end this mans career

Shield Gating hardly requires mod investment outside of Brief Respite and slightly weaker generalist Augur mods. You might need Catalyzing Shields but that's not an harsh requirement. Energy Tanking is basically an evolution of Health tanking and it requires more hard mod taxes and opportunity costs, so this is completely fine

Shouldn't Rage and Hunter:Adrenaline work pretty good with this? I haven't used energy tanking in quite a while, so I'm not sure 100% sure. But if it works, it's a no brainer.

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This gonna get nerfed TOMORROW ☠️

Bro really unlocked blood magic in warframe.

This is fun for the memes, but limited mod slots and potentially using up your Helminth slot just to do it usually means your build suffers elsewhere, usually in damage output. With Steel Path content becoming more and more prevalent, I wouldn't really recommend going all-in on a QT build seriously.

I’ve finally got to my first incarnon. To me it’s amazing lol. Love ur content it’s helped me A LOT.

Well considering using operator... Isnt there straight up invul on jump throw from one of schools? I usually used it on nidus for quicker kills on steel survive, but wouldn't it be best?

welp. time to upgrade my wisp.

4:30 the video starts

The tricks you show on this channel always blow my mind. Keep it coming my friend!

This can be further amplified with an arcane grace and hunters adrenaline/ rage. Quick thinking keeps you at 2 health while its triggered but any frame could get around this when procing arcane grace for that sweet health regen which gets turned into energy straight away for hunter adreanaline since your shields are depleted most of the time. For the hardcore all in players you can subsume parasitic armor to not have shields at all and just be like an inaros on any frame you don't really intend to properly forma just for EDA.

How do you "free up a mod slot" by using a different mod? I don't use Quick Thinking on any builds but Nekros Despoil. In fact, on something like my Trinity EV build (max range and strength, min duration) where I have 0 survivability mods at all, slotting in quick thinking would hurt the build. It's also not at all useful on frames like Revenant or Rhino that are innately tanky. This only seems useful on a frame that wants or has great energy economy, has great abilities at ~100% dur, rng, str & eff, has room for a helminth slot in those abilities, and is really squishy. I'm having a hard time thinking of frames where that's the case (Nekros kind of, Limbo, maybe Xaku). It's a super cool mechanic, and I appreciate all the effort you put into making the video! Keep up the good work!

Stynax would be great for this. And maybe Oberon too. I wonder how well hunter adrenaline works for this???

og chroma quick thinking rage grace tanking 4 digit level enemies and having a multiplicative damage buff i loved it

Inaros, low health, maximum energy, hunters discipline, health regen + equilbirium = good luck. Heck since now the purple energy drain and magnetic is off the table.. you can keep using scarab armor to just ignore that too. So immune to statuses, immune to dieing and it can spread armor strip now... yea it just lacks damage.

Congrats mate, that's a really different and efficient way to be immortal in warframe, never seen any RU-vidr using this Idea before, incredible video

I'm assuming running Hunter Adrenaline or Rage wont work here since you aren't actually taking HP damage just sitting at 2HP? How does that work? I don't use those mods often.

It is also good to use this on a frame that doesn’t need energy to sustain their abilities. for example, Gyre with her Cathode Current augment could make her even stronger with energy tanking, as all you need to do is cast her 3 and 4 and then get a ton of kills. the electricity procs will make it harder for enemies to hit her, which makes her take less damage. slap PSF on her so she doesn’t stagger and you’ve got yourself an invincible Gyre.

I haven’t seen a quick thinking build in ages. Nice

You could use Voruna to get 100% Heavy Attack Efficiency, then using Life Strike to max your HP, and top it off with Hunter Adrenaline + optional Rage

Enemy factions: WHY WONT YOU DIE!? Me: Nano machines son 😏

i have this build last year when i got the free sevagoth energy tanking via parasitic armor, adaptation, max armor mod, archon shards for armor/energy turning on gloom and let me regen energy via enemy's damage, and i heal back the health cia lifesteal i use parasitic armor to get rid of the shield entirely so i can start taking damage directly from health (would be great if combat discipline works with hunter adrenaline/rage)

I use energy tanking with Hubter Adrenaline on my Eclipse Oberon with 5 Blue Tauforged Shards and Prime Flow and adaptation so I can simply ignore most damage while doing cracking relics in survival

There! He said it! HE SAID IT! I knew it was good. I use it to turn Warframes which have no business being tanky into tanky powerhouses with just 2 mod slots.. But nobody else was saying it until now.

Hmmmm, i might be able to revive my chroma with this info

So glad to see this method got a buff since I last tried it. It used to stagger you when it hit your energy, so the moment you lost your health you would basically just be frozen in place until you ran out of energy.

Fun fact; years ago this was meta.

Fun fact: Styanax can effectively utilize all forms of tanking, however the build will be janky, with a total of 2 required mods and a required subsume: Quick Thinking for energy tanking, Intrepid Stand for Overguard Tanking, and Parasitic Armor for Health Tanking, which obviously means part of the build has to focus to some degree on shields, thus Shield Tanking. Dante CAN do it too, technically, but no way near as effective, since Styanax can get super high shields, giving a better lean for Parasitic Armor. And yes, I will ALWAYS find ways to make atleast 1 build on ANY decently high shield capable frame. So far I have a Chroma, Rhino, Protea, and Hildryn PA build, and will get to Styanax soon. And yes, the PA Hildryn is as weird and janky to play as you can imagine, but 30k armor is nice when you just wanna daka daka for a bit.

Nooooo! Someone discovered my little trick and exposed it to the world.

I was using it in the past, but now there are energy leeches and ancient distruptor on steal path can drain all your energy with one hit. With good energy maintaining it's fine defense option, but it's really hold you back from using skills. For normal missions it's really cool, but for steel path it's dont work too well, especially against infested

No Yareli? She has 90 percent just from Merulina, 90 from Adaptation, 75 from eclipse, add Archon Shards for energy regen and she's basically unkillable.

I've tried making this build before, I didn't realize the DR effected it. That's awesome

Oh, I remember this build from few years ago. Did they fix Ballistas oneshotting you through QT after 2 hours into kuva survival?

I know its not quite the same, but I have something similar to this on my Wisp. Quick thinking, Adaptation, Umbral Power and Armor, Carnis Carapace, Hunter Adrenaline, Archon Intensify, and Flow Prime, if I remember my build correctly. Use the healthy flower to get great hp and regen, let everyone bang on your health to give tons of energy, let the resistances of adaptation and the armor stack, regen keeps you topped, and if anything hits you hard enough you just don't die.

Doing this with a basic trinity was how we got her 4 nurfed back in the day.

Sometimes I look at my quick thinking and mods and think, "man, remember when everyone used that," really think it's been forgotten in lieu of some decent build potential

as a lavos main. i think i have to dislike this.

So energy tanking +Nourish = immortality . I completely forgot about this, thanks for the reminder! I remember they added a stagger to [Quick thinking], so I stopped using it, but now I might have to check it out again. 🧐

Oh man i used to do this in all my builds. Good times. Forgotten older sister to health tanking

Such a big help in understanding the game. I hope other Tenno find this video early in their journey.

It didn’t take long for a new death gate to surface

Two questions: 1) How would the Rage mod affect this? 2) What build is he using on Xcal that lets him hit a million dmg?

not sure how effective it is, but hunter adrenaline/rage with quick thinking is funny because you gain EHP by losing EHP

I have been using this with Yareli for a long time, I'm an absolute unkillable jellyfish and carry a lot of people on Elite Archimedea with it. Now hoping this doesn't get nerfed cuz Merulina DR plus energy tanking is insane

What about Wukong? you won't be able to use his passive anymore.

I remember the Nova + Quick Thinking days.. good times