*IMPORTANT* I messed up on the Nikana Segment The build is as follows: Blind justice for stance, Bane of choice , Glad might, Blood rush, weeping wounds, Organ shatter, Condition overload, Berserker fury and then you can go sac steel or Primed reach
Why use berserker fury instead of primed fury? They give pretty much the same bonus, except you don't need kills with primed fury to sustain the speed. Also, incarnon tonfas are almost as good as Krinen Prime, and they're way easier to get. The only real downside is the stance polarity. For glaives, there is a mod that adds 100% damage on consecutive throws up to +300% damage. It's less consistent than regular damage mods, but if you're running glaive only, it's better, cause you will be throwing your glaive non-stop anyway.
@@FerunaLutelou A very small percentage of the warframe community has primed fury because its a login reward primed mod Praedos are very good yes but the kronen is still very good That mod for glaives is called power throw and its not very good because you have to be on the floor and throw your glaive to gain the stacks so you cannot move around while throwing your glaive you are stuck running on the floor so thats why i dont suggest it
@@WarframeFlo fine argument against including primed fury, tho I think it still deserved to be mentioned. Also, there are plenty of players that have it for one reason or another, cause all you have to do to get it is to play for 250 days. You made 3 glaives share the same place later on in the video, so I would argue that Praedos should've shared the place with Kronen Prime as well, cause they are fairly similar when it comes to stats and TTK, the main difference being that Praedos is way easier to get and way more user friendly cuz of it's incarnon perks. Didn't know power throw had such a drawback when it comes to mobility. Still, I would argue for Power Throw cuz there are plenty of warframes who don't need to move around much to survive, so it's not much of a drawback for those frames anyway. The bonus damage is too good to pass by.
@WarframeFlo you dont actually have to be on the floor, Hold (Melee)throughout the whole animation while airborne and throw again when it returnsfor it to proc i do it every mission
Zaw Nikana is great but for the love of god i cannot stand they way it bugs while holstered, it literally clips out of its scabbard and that kills me every time.
I’ve just started playing the game a few days ago and I’m absolutely in love with melee. Some info can be so freaking hard to find online… I really appreciate how thorough you explain things and show the builds. Keep rocking ❤
Corufell is amazing with ivara and her navigation ability. It's quiet and you can make the range however long your energy is at. Controlling the mini nuke for a capture or survival mission is insanely good.
I love Praedos and I use it all the time, not just for the fact that makes you move faster and looks cool on the back of my fashion-frames but its potential in combat is incredible, their attack speed also make it more insane.
You almost forgot to mention Fragor Prime; once you Reached x12 Combos, there you got your own personal "Ban Hammer". With the proper build all you need to do is Just click the heavy attack button to perform "Instant Ban" towards Acos and Demos. *It's super effective!*
So for people who might not like his playstyle some recommendations that also fit early game: The katana you get from playing the story later on is very good. The greatsword you get very late from the story is also very good. Duviri's polearm is very good. Polearms like orthos, gundao and their prime versions are very good and you can get them early although the skana is a great option and you might need skana later. If you like greatswords, broke war/war are good but I suggest upgrading to the Gram Prime if you like GS(i personally do, i use spin to win stance). Shields your options are the silver and aegis prime pretty much, maybe cobra and crane but shields are not very good. Use only if you truly like that gameplay. Zaw are in general better, specially if you have access to the Plague parts from the even. Zaw nikana is a tradeoff and possibly upgrade to nikana prime. Polearm zaw with plague, or staff plague zaw are very very good. GS zaw, even without plague, is comparable to Gram Prime but looks like a scythe(its my favourite) Finally the creme dela creme, gunblades. Dont brother slashing with gunblades, you want to shoot them like shotguns. Redeemer prime or stropha, whichever you like most.
Mirage plus your glaive of choice is a friggin' hoot. Pop Mirage's 1, throw the glaive, and watch it bounce around and slaughter everything. Turns out that each thrown glaive _has its own flight path and physics,_ so if you put something like Volatile Quick Return on it, you can fill the screen with explosions and blood and guts and vertebrae and other assorted internal organs from your enemies (if they weren't disintegrated first). Good times.
Omg thank you for the idea. I've been having a ton of fun with the orvius after getting a godly riven for it a week or so ago, and have been looking for more ways to make it crazy. I also happen to love using Mirage Prime (explosive Legerdemain go brrrr). Behind Ivara, Khora, and Garuda, Mirage is one of my favorite frames, so I love having any excuse possible to use her for shenanigans.
@@kellylewis3361 hahaha. No worries, I get the helminth abilities mixed up all the time. Eclipse is my go to for pretty much any frame I'm lacking damage from. I've made some frames that were already capable of absolutely stupid damage output do even more damage. Replacing Ivara's navigator with Eclipse has allowed me to do over 20 million damage per hit to some enemies on Steel Path thanks to the bonus damage she gets on headshots, which applies to glaives such as the Orvius too btw. My biggest hit with the Orvius in particular was 17 million on a corrupted lancer
Been having a lot of fun recently using the innodem with a heavy attack build and loki prime for steel path solo. With corrupt charge and covert lethality, you can have 3X combo multiplier all the time to use the incarnon form whenever you want. I have safeguard switch on Loki which just acts like a spammable rolling guard with its invul time scaling with ability duration. If an acolyte shows up, I just use switch teleport to get the invul, do one or two heavy attacks and then just watch the bleed ticks shred it.
pro tip for any newer players struggling with MR tests: The Corufel (first weapon in the vid) is an absolute godsend for most of the challenge as it is a melee weapon that can shoot making it extremely useful for the melee only challenges and the punch through makes it really helpful in a lot of the other challenges as well as it'll kill anything in the general area of the target. and since it's a melee weapon it doesn't alert anyone in the stealth challenges. I've used it for MR7-15 so far with no issues. side not another tip for MR challenges, use mods on your warframe that increase your airtime and jump height. they will definitely come in handy. having volt for his skills is also a plus but not a requirement.
you can kinda make an all in one glaive by replacing the bane mod with primed fever strike to add pure toxin, it's not ideal but it's a decent middle grould if you don't want to change wapons and configs all the time
Feel like the xoris is getting downplayed hard in this video keep in mind it has infinite combo duration so bloodrush weeping wounds and even corrupt charge can help make it more than just a throwing bomb
Kornen Prime is the best melee weapon for me. Helps me get through almost all Steel Path missions as i cut all enemies like a hot knife cutting through butter.
Well, I wouldn't say there, my top 5 as I use the Quassus the most as I made it to where its just instant redcrits just with the mods alone, and vastilok is my go to weapon for gara
If you wanna play melle, i also recomend excal, put prime reach on exalted and arcane dexterity on both weapons. Then use naramon skill tree, i hit 35mil dmg on lv 165 eximus lmao. 5mil on regular hits.
I love my Orthos Prime. Running Shimmering Blight in the stance. With Buzz Kill, Virulent Scourge, Vicious Frost, Weeping Wounds, Condition Overload, Blood Rush, Organ Shatter, and Sacrificial Steel. Been a huge help in Steel Path.
There is NO WAY after like 7 years + the glaive prime is still the top dog! I remember when melee buffs and stances came and you just could throw it around… crazy.
You gotta try quassus heavy attack build. Been my favorite melee. Have everything and tried everything, at lr2 and still love this over all you mentioned.
I never thought I would enjoy using a thrown melee one day until I put my hands on Xoris. Yeah, it became my favorite melee weapon & I'll try the other two when I have a chance :))
For anyone with wisp, you can change innodem evolution for x3 combo for attack buff instead. on wisp you put aerodynamic and aero vantage, and with her baffs you basically becoming attack helicopter for 90 seconds after activation. pretty fun, but for steel path you might need helminth ability from rhino for damage boost. the key thing here, is wisp passive: she is basically invisible while airborne. if you have nothing to do, try it, i managed to outdamage wisp on this build, although i tried to max out strength without killing range and duration, so strength was around 400% with full madurai and molt vigor.
I liked Ortos Prime for a long time. It's not best for it's high damage but for it's range. It's like truning on whindshield wipers and slashing evrything out of your way. It's also good for slam attacks to throw higher level enemies on the ground. Than I have upgraded to Galantine Prime and it is great in the same way. Nice range and even higher damage. I don't enjoy the throwing weapons so much. I am rank 19 I have still planty weapons to uncover.
my go to and sleeper op is quassus, i use it to oneshot levelcap demolysts with some disgusting 300k+ bleed tics at 12x multiplier with a heavy att efficiency build. Massively underrated and a great riven dispo
well, since i'm a destitute mud farmer from plebistan - i'm running just a regular nikana on an excal umbra, it's ridiculous the xoris is gonna be crazy for that dark sector vibe alone
Love the video man, however for the glaives I like to run a similar build but swap; volatile quick return ->volatile rebound, sacrificial pressure -> primed pressure, killing blow->blood rush and corrupt charge->power throw. It's not a one hit kill weapon, but with the xoris I seem to be getting a weird bug where the innate element does not combine with modded element at certain blast radiuses (very close to the center or at the very edge of the blast radius, it's weird) when heavy attacking. The above changes to the mod-config removes the need for heavy attacking.
i just love the venka, my fav weap for sure. other than that i'm a big advocate for the gram (big pp sword= big pp dmg), lesion, dual keres andguandao. i also got a god riven for the machete which makes it shred so hard, harder than my kronen even
I know it’s not near the best, but my personal favorite melee weapon to use is the mios. Good range, decent damage, great stance. And it’s fun. I luckily also got an insane riven mod for it. But it was my favorite before I got that.
im still on first story playthrough, my favorite meele weapons are broken war and on speedy volt i like the sarofang bc its really fun to use that slow axe so fast
Uhm, I would HIGHLY recommend going Swooping Lounge as the 4th Evolution for the Innodem. I'm not 100% about Pointed Wind stance yet, but when I use Stinging Thorn, I pretty much have 95% uptime for th +150% damage buff (and it is multiplicative, and decreases 1 stack at a time), without doing ANY actual airborne melee kills, either it's the stance that just makes it trigger, or I don't know how. But it is incredible. My favorite melee weapon since it's release. :)
argument doesn't even make sense, why include niche mods that aren't needed anyway when any melee in the game is viable lmfao, also comparing a rivenless glaive to a melee with a riven is just dumb
ETHER REAPER FTW, in all honesty the ether reaper is a weirdly great weapon. If you build it specifically for heavy attacking you can get really good results in high level content. Due to most scythes heavy attacks being pure slash, you can get alot of damage out for how early you can get the weapon. I built mine for heavy attacks and range (With a riven my ether reapers range is about 12.5m per swing).
Isnot it better to go for combo with Xoris and use the mod that lets the Xoris explode on contact with enemys and never explode it manuely to keep ur combo forever at max?
Praedos > Kronen Prime Balla Zaw > Innodem (Balla, Peye, Vargeet II Jai) Sepfahn Zaw > Nikana Prime (Sepfahn, Peye, Vargeet II Jai) Just my personal preference
Honest to god, the bow you get from completing the New War is probably the best weapon the game has ever just handed to you, fully built and with a catalyst Im pretty sure.
There is a zo weapon called balla, so here it is with exodia contagion, and with a critical attack chance above 100%, it's just an annihilator of everything and that's it
just a comment about weapons 1 week ago I could not finish a SP mission solo then I got to level 14. Using these 3 weapons, Phantasma Laetum and Preados in 3 days I solo'd 95% of all SP missions and completed the SP star chart . 3 weapons 3 warframes Revenant Khora and Ivara... and the SP is finished in 3 days.... Biggest addition was Praedos if an enemy got close enough for me to melee within a second they were gone... So give Praedos a try mod for crit and speed and you may think it is a top 5 weapon.
Ive legit had the cerata with a riven for ages never knew it was broken to the point of being worthy of a mention in a video max ive hit with it is around 100 mil defoo worth it especially with buff frames
Glaive prime is the one and only best melee no doubt but i also really enjoy using the gram prime with gauss. It also shredds steelpath but without attack speed buffs the gram prime is not all that enjoyable
1. Praedos because its a good melee when you don't care about melee attacking (utility). Melee is just kinda samey. You swing it, you throw it, or you shoot it. You do that for the whole mission. Its super strong, but for me its kinda mind-numbing before too long.
as a non-meta enjoyer, here are my suggestions: karyst prime dakra prime (hoooooly fuck it's good) sepfahn nikana/zaw balla zaw (but not with contagion)
2 prime melee weapons in steel path For Horde sweeper: Kronen Prime -> Nikana Prime For miniboss, uncommon enemies, and acolytes: Nikana Prime -> Kronen Prime
