Warframe | "Their Own Tier Of Trash" | Castanas 

I'm convinced most people who leaves comments like that are mr12s who only plays mesa

Warframe: A game where the meta is your dogged determination to be right about a build.

5:15 We already have boom booms that boom on impact. The point of Castanas is to be satchel charges, C4. A more tactical tool for a less powercrept age. If they exploded on impact, you wouldn't be able to, say: Booby trap an Interception Node, go somewhere else, keep an eye on your hud, see Node getting captured, swap to Castanas and detonate. Node no longer being capped, or at least safe for 3 more seconds, all done from anywhere on the map. Despite what Battlefield C4 montages from ye olde days might try to tell you, these are not meant to be a primary weapon.

when shieldgate was not a thing, I remembered we used this to kill teammate with radiation proc from void lasers.

I like how your Qorvex looks like it's already prime

I recommend using the Castanas with Gyre for BIG dips

I just wanna say, I remember when you posted a video a good while ago saying how you felt like you needed to work on your "identity" as a content creator, something that sets you apart from the rest. This kind of funny, pseudo-play as you go style is really great, and easily one of the most entertaining styles I've seen from a Warframe content creator in a good while. Please, keep up the great work, and really keep at it with the comedy side of things. Also, give Harold a headpat for me, because he's a good boy.

The quadic scaling is strong in this one. Moar enemies = more electricity proc chaining = MOAR CARNAGE

Back in ye olden days, the sancti variant of these used to be a favorite of mine. Especially when combined with Trinity for link shenanigans when you could use that to redirect self damage and nuke enemies that way. At this point, they really just need a removal of the projectile cap and a better ammo economy to feel good again as a funny little thing to set up somewhere like say an interception console, or a choke point. Not the best, but definitely not worthless.

This. I need more videos like this. I love seeing you take a weapon no one considers good into high end content for the purpose of making them eat their words xD

I apreciate the efforts of you building up this weapon and to show how to mod with purpose instead of brains off cookie cutter approach. Espescialy many old or low MR weapons just have a bad rep, since most tenno when they are at the appropriate Mastery to use them, lack the mod capasity or even the mods in the firstplace and blast past them in the, sadly often encouraged, Mastery fodder mentality.

Gotta be one of my favorite videos you’ve done this year

Absolutely adore these types of weapons, the big problem I have is that they're clearly stated to be meant to stick to enemies and are also made for stealth, and yet do damage on impact. Imagine if you will, running around invis as loki, sticking one of these or the talons on a group of unsuspecting corpus all chilling together on their coffee break and then with a push of a button they all explode together. Is this meta? No. Is it fun? Fuck yeah it is!

The Electric Proc comes from the Explosion, so it shouldn't be affected by Galvanized Shot. Beats me if it does or doesn't. With the Castanas being a Weapon that procs Electric all of the time and its tiny Magazine of 2, Conjunction Voltage might be a good Arcane for it.

I like these kind of videos to be honest, entertaining and interesting to see a weapon I would pretty much never use until I need it for MR points

Loving your recent more playful content 🎉

This was a good fun video, thanks for the pleasant vibes!

Stupendous work as always, Good Sir!

Top video fella, this is more like it!!!

Even tho I am low mr I still find it fascinating that people like you can make a weapon good.

I like these excursions outside of the meta. One of the most fun things is when weapons grow with investment. For me the weapon that really shone like that was the Atomos back in the day before the incarnon. It felt weak at first but then it became better and better with every forma added. Until it became a fave and the whole linking beam style of weapon is now a mainstay for me and I barely go anywhere without my Tenet Cycron, my vermisplicer primary or my Atomos Incarnon.

Playing Frost (Biting Frost) with Nautilus and Sancti Castanas is great fun. After stripping armor and clumping the enemies, they will just dissapear. No corpses, nothing.

This is the rrrrridiculousness I come here for, thanks!

Such a good video. You are a gem sir

While picking up MR points last month I had a go with both the Talons and the Castanas, and I enjoyed both enough to keep them.

Great video, thank you. The Sanctii version is one of my favorites. Btw, Galvanized Shot's damage bonus doesn't work on either the explosion or the forced proc. The status chance is also much lower than shown on contact detonations, so the status bonus may not have been doing much either. (It is accurate for in-flight detonations, but then you don't get the forced proc.) So "next time" put on Hornet Strike and...Acolytes beware! :P

I dont have a whole lot of built weapons nor the resources to do so, but my favorite use of these is in some sabotage mussions (i belive juipter) where you insert the fuel cell, go into a seperate room to hack, then go back and break the reactor. Doesnt save much time but its a nice little convenience to have

Really what makes these even usable is the galvanized and primed mods and the arcane its crazy how much mods can make a shit tier weapon work

The sonicor is like the corpus bastard twin brother of the stug that people hate slightly less, would be interesting to see what you can do with that.

Gamble made a similar video showing off potential of the least used stuff. It's crazy to me, because one of my fav things as an lr is to be able to use non meta things and realize how fun nonmeta equipment is.

“Finish a level 30 mission” Survives STEEL PATH ACOLYTE.

While I'm nowhere near a top tier player, I absolutely love that, with the right knowledge and determination, Warframe allows for darn near anything to be successful. Personally, I love using a Quellor with multishot and punch through alongside a Valk who I stuck Xata's Whisper on cause it seems like anything with punch through will hit a target with a void proc multiple times.

I'm loving this style of video where you simply review older/poorly viewed weapons and see what you can do with them. More please!

I remember these things.... I hate them. And oh no it'd be horrible if someone did the entire star chart with just the MIGHTY SEER

I’ve taken Basmu into SP and the only enemies I expected pain like no other were heavily shielded enemies and murmur on account that Basmu (while sporting pretty good status) does not sport enough physical damage to power through

y’know, as an MR 12.8 goober, i didn’t know blessings were relay-wide and not targeted. Very informative video

I remember having fun with these with Ivara back in the day. Maybe I'll have to check the Sancti version again...I'm sure I still have them, because I don't delete "special" versions of weapons usually. I don't have Primed Fulmination, though; I'm sure that helps.

Navigator Sancti Castanas with a crit riven was my jam with Eidolon hunter Ivara back then

Reminds me of people trash talking the Cernos Prime whenever I use it, it pairs fantastically with Ivara

While i have never used them regurarly... they where one of the fun ones to level... tho my favorite weapon is the Lenz... so it may be i enjoy the boomies

Uncle MC woke up and chose violence

I'm trying to think of a challenge, but the only thing I can think of is the akzanni (if i spelled that right) the original main weapons of Mirage. They have a base damage of 15, not impossible, but it will be fun to see how you figure it out.

Theres surerly 1 weapon beyoned saving - Zenistar (disc build ofc) RIP my old friend While i saw some shenanigans to make it work, it pretty much requires you to make entire setup (frame, pet, weapons, arcanes) centered around Zenistar

Heyya man, just wondering if you could make a video on how to play certain warframes and weapons I mean mechanics wise. Could be a "But How?" series. Like for example im playing after a 4 year break and I completely forgot how to play Equinox or even how to do simple Tridolons etc. would be a cool series for newer players and returning players.

Dude, you have to try this Sancti Castanas build with the new mod from the Jade update: Arcane: Conjunction Voltage. Exilus: Pistol Ammo Mutation. 1st row: Pistol Elementalist, Pistol Pestilence, Scorch, Primed Convulsion. 2nd row: Faction Mod, Primed Pistol Gambit, Primed Target Cracker, Primed Fulmination. You need something to group enemies and something to apply Viral procs (I use a sentinel w/Helstrum), 2-3 shots and it can I clear SP corrupted heavy gunners without damage buffs like Roar or Eclipse.

another weapon i feel is gravely underestimated is the plasma sword, just because of how *sloooow* it is, it has actually decent crit stats from what i remember

If this is normal castanas, I actually would love to see an episode two of this but with sancti instead. Almost double the base damage, crit capable and more!

I remember using these long long time ago on Trinity when self damage was a thing

Sancti castanas are unironically solid woth some specific micro

Funny enough, I just finally built mine two days ago. Somehow missed them entirely.

hey man, ive had the idea of building the kuva kraken like a portable machine gun, since it can empty the whole mag on secondary shot. no idea what to add more than mag size tho, but could be funny

i actually remember the Castanas being very strong even back when I was a much lower MR. Most of the detonating throwing secondaries are pretty strong up to arbitrations from what I remember. Very surprising

i love this video nice... can you do something about silva & aegis normal one not prime version i love this weapon it looks cool asf but when it comes to damage i try all stuff i give up if you do something about this weapon ill be greatful to you

You should make a series of scaling the 'worst' weapons in the game to steel path

Damn now i wanna make a yareli build with this weapon

They should add a secondary switch fire mode where they splod on impact for these kunai bomb things

I wonder how far you could push them, since it force procs electric and electric does funny scaling with enemies hit you could try grouping

Here is a fun one. I made a meme build. I have a normal excaliber starter weapons mk1 braton/kunai/bo. a taxon sentinal with its freeze ray weapon. But i made them all incarnon. Added adapters, Gave them all potato's, Invested about 35 forma in all of it and modded it all out. I didnt give them any form of cosmatics or color custom so it looks like im just a low lvl starter player with its first frame/weapon/sentinal. Aaaand then i enter steel path and actualy keep up with people. I have actualy conviced some people that my L3 mastery rank is a prestige im that im actualy mr 3 now again. I also hope im pissing a lot of people off when they realise that a full started kit that looks like vanilla as can be is slightly keeping up a bit with there badly modded meta weapons

It's nice to see these performing well as when I tried they felt quite poor

Last I checked, the actual worst secondaries are the Stugg, base Brakk, and the Talon throwing knives.

DE Just needs to make them like demo stickies in tf2. More than 5 the last just explodes. Also it made me feel great sticking them to terealyst nodes and detonating right as they came out of shielding, but they need to fix the part where it would bug out on bigger ones and deal 0 damage. It’s not even particularly meta in the current way you kill eidelons but it’s a shame I can’t use them

Well done. Now are you prepared for the next challenge? Do the same but with the ...Stug.🤣

i would love to see you make inaros' abilities do damage without spending hours devouring a level 30 infested charger

My favourite secondary for ivara (sancti version). Feels like an explosive kunai. I got a decent riven for it with 370% damage and 160% electricity. I use it against eidolons and can oneshot most limbs if it crits. Never tried to destroy several limbs at once though...

Tbh if a weapon is bad it should have good riven disposition, and rivens were created to make bad weapons good, they made the issue worse but atleast they work (kind of [maybe])

if you want a truly trash weapon. try the max evolved 5 forma'd laetum. (i forgot to bind my shoot button)

Remember the Nuke Trinity build with the castanas? Broken

if you can win any mission over lvl 30 with these...-runs spy "where is muh money?"

I will take these and, heck, even the Stug over using the Angstrum again. If you can show a good build with that atrocity, I will tip my imaginary hat to you good sir!

Aklato is my guilty pleasure and I'm sure it's worse than this.. xD But as far as throwing weapons go, I absolutely love aegrit. Same concept, you can only have a few of them active at once and it's manual detonation. But that thing has great crits and way more base damage than castanas. It is super fun weapon to use but it struggles against armor in SP unless you can support it somehow. Against corpus just run full toxic build and ignore shields is the best

3:45 oh yeah I forgot about that... The *Torrent Acolyte* also benefit from *Hydroid's Rework* ... So his Abilities now deal Corrosive Damage and cleanses Status Effects... Fun... 😐

My clan leader hunts eidolons with Sancti Castanas.

I miss the trinity link sancti castana nuke build

The ammo 💀

these dumb things have been on my mind lately, thank you for reading my mind!

I’d love to see if you could figure out how Desecrate REALLY works, especially with the Ripkas. I have searched every forum and Reddit post and I still cannot get a concrete answer on what triggers the gore effect from the amalgam mod..

KEK that comment clearly didnt build castanas at all also galv shot no effect aoe so also i completly forgot castanas were tenno weapon which means they can be a prime would def like to see the manual detonet to be gone

Dear MC, can we get a "Their Own Tier of Trash" series? With this i propouse the next contender, the Dera (not vandal). It suffers from the same forma problem, and even if now its not that bad, back in the day i called it "The Nerf Gun" (i painted it orange and blue), since i used it when arcanes and galvanized mods werent a thing. I just want to see that beatiful thing shine in the same way it did for me

Sancti castanas is pretty good.

I know you guys still remember that one Castanas Trinity suicide build

Now do a Stug with a negative projectile velocity riven. For reasons.

heres a challenge: can you beat a sedna steel path mission with a loadout with no formas *AND* no potatoes on anything. frame, weapons, pet.. the whole entire loadout all potatoless

Hello Harold! Who's a good demon spawn? You are!

My problem with them has always been the cap. Just let me spawn a bunch more

Wonder if melee influence works with them?

If you ever want to redo this "challenge", I have an unranked, unrolled Castanas riven.

Then there's the Talons which is basically the same but with Blast. If you want exploding on contact you have Pox. The main reason these all kind of suck is ammo economy and their goofiness with multishot as you covered. Also it's cheating going against Corpus with electricity procs lol

The Castanas aren‘t really a challenge as much as they could be. The Talons are far worse; they deal Blast damage with a forced Puncture proc! Though in all seriousness , the only thing that makes these thrown bombs shit is that you constantly need to detonate them manually. They should just explode when you shoot while at the max number.

The Galvanized mods only work on the first enemy hit in any AOE scenario.

Yes, Harold is good and you are helping a little bit. But don't call me Shirley.

Plasma sword next?

I present you a challange, finish any steel path mission with unmodded weapons and warframe (Of your choice)

These things would be genuinely fun if you could actually put out more than a handful at a time

All politicians should have to live in poverty for there first term to remember the little guy they're fighting for.

I'm trying to think, of the absolute worst melee weapon, but melee has been so strong in warframe that I don't even think any of traditionally "bad" melee weapons would be a challenge (not even the infamous heated sword is *that* bad, sure it's bad if you don't have any mods at all, but since it does heat damage I'm almost sure you can scale it)

I guess you can complete any mission if your frame is an unkillable meta goblin...

And also unlike the stug, the castanas have an upgraded variant...

So, i lack mods basically, this showed me alot. As a returning player im still very lost

Can we get a bubonico build? Idk how do you build it

What is your Qorvex build? He doesn't took amlost any dmg to health in acolyte fight and i don't see you press abilities to shieldgate. Just wondering