As always, I’d love to hear what people think about the incarnons this week!
I think the theme of this week is “Yup, these weapons sure do kill things”.
The offerings:
- Ack & Brunt
- Soma
- Vasto
- Nami Solo
- Burston
Some thoughts:
- Ack & Brunt is the one here with a neat passive. Elemental damage you take is banked into the weapon as a modded element, as well as supplying an elemental damage mod to the next attack. Can be really good on factions that have good elements. Can functionally apply DR and status immunity to the team with its augment, but the 12m link radius is pretty restrictive. It also stands out as one of the strongest SnS weapons in a weapon type that is already honestly ridiculously good. Try Afflictions with the Final Harbinger stance for the funny slash spam.
- Soma is interesting as a counter to certain types of damage attenuation since, like its direct comparison the Boltor, it just spits out a wall of bullets. The Entrati augment, Hata-Satya, pushes this just a hair past 100% CC if using Avenger, which is fantastic, because this bad boy has an impressive 4x CD if you take Zeroed In as an evolution.
- Vasto is, in my opinion, the undefeated champion this week. Outburst and Accuracy give this burst damage totally unconditional on kills, which makes it great as an Acolyte killer, Demolisher destroyer, and Archon annihilator. Try it with Deathtrap Trigger specifically.
- Nami Solo, I don’t have many thoughts on. If you like Machetes, it’s a strong one. You can build it for high followthrough which makes it great as a hybrid Influence nuker.
- Brrrrrston is one of a very rare type of weapon that is both a hitscan and an AoE, so it can do all sorts of broken things with enemies susceptible to ragdolls. Otherwise, it’s a weapon! It has high crit stats and high status, and one-mod Blast if you’re into that.
Vasto is my personal pick this week. If you have no other preferences, Ack & Brunt can be evolved for combo storage so you can pick up your combo somewhere and dump it on an enemy elsewhere if you’re running an Outburst build. Great for Disruptions. Obviously less useful if you have other combo storage weapons like the Furax, Grigori, Livia, Xoris etc. Beyond that, this week is just picking outstandingly powerful weapons of a flavour you enjoy.
Probably worth adding that Ivara, Inaros and Titania are the possible warframe choices for the non steel path version of the circuit this week.
Ivara’s not a bad choice if you need warframe for spy missions, just remember to also pick up her Infiltrate augment so that you can walk through lasers undetected. Normally requires you to run spy vaults to collect her parts.
Inaros did get a rework recently but his usage seems to have tapered off since then, at least from what I’ve noticed in public match making. Normally requires Simaris Standing if you don’t have the base version anymore.
Titania is a pretty good warframe for various missions, lantern is usually pretty strong for defending excavators/defense objectives. Requires Normally requires Simaris Standing to acquire her parts if you’ve already completed her quest.
