Great timing, I came back to Warframe recently and the concept of priming is still new to me. I come from a time where you only used Carrier and unequipped your sentinel weapon so it wouldn't get itself killed.
An extra note for Sahasa Kubrow users (seeing I use him a lot with my Mirage Sleight of Hand build to nuke Defenses): He does dig quite a lot, but there is a caveat: only if there are no enemies around. Or else he goes attack them and ignores the digging part. And the obvious: your dog simply WON'T get to digging if you are moving around. Stand your grown and wait so he can start digging. Also, for those of you who still do not own "Elusive Posture" (Claw's stance mod), be warned your Kubrow can AND WILL prioritize attacking enemies if they are nearby instead of digging. If you are lacking energy and need orbs, then fall back and hide in a corner (really) to wait for him to dig. He won't do it in the presence of enemies.
What I expected to learn from this video: here's all of these other companions you aren't using that you should be using What I mostly learned: Panzer gang stays winning What I didnt expect to learn: Nautilus is a better weapons platform than Koumei
Good overview! Wanted to add a couple notes: 1: Because Robotic companions can use Sentinel mods, Hounds can use Guardian. They are one of the best companions for it due to their unique precepts' insane status spreading. 2: Cat's Eye only goes on cooldown after its duration expires, so it only has about 40% uptime (or only 33% without Tek Enhance). Personally having to wait 20 seconds between each crit buff is enough to keep Adarza off my list. Manifold Bond for cats when? 3: To get maximum energy from Dethcube you should give him a weapon with Gas and status duration, as he also gets assists on enemies that walk through the clouds. 4a: Momentous Bond doesn't do much for Panzer, Devolution can't be sped up and Viral Quills ignores the extra elements (according to the wiki, maybe they were talking about the spores though). 4b-z: Viral Quills is really good at tagging enemies for Synth Deconstruct and also gives respectable healing with Hunter Adrenaline. Martyr Symbiosis is fantastic "dumbass insurance" for content where revives are penalized or not permitted, and Tek Assault can keep Panzer alive through its self-sacrifice to do it again right away. It's insane that Panzer can do so many things well that half of them didn't get mentioned!
Ok gonna respond to these in order since there is a lot 1 guardian absolutely an option on the hounds I dropped it in favor of all-in on damage output but splitting it is totally reasonable 2 I tested adarza early in the patch and it’s possible this has changed somewhere in hotfixes? Will retest it soon 3 Gas is an excellent option though I value the normal tazicor build on him especially for hvts 4 agree with all of this I should have mentioned more specifically that momentous is for martyr and dropping devolution out of the build. panzer really does do everything and adding synth for equilibrium builds is another great option and those two middle mods shift around a lot
Hopefully we get a companion rework part 3 for modular robotics. Hound is already really good and just needs polish, while MOA needs an overhaul badly.
@@zavos5659 MOAs definitely need a rework, but in current state you can use them for very quick spy missions if you give them the hack mod and use the helminth ability to summon companions (spoiler: this way you can spawn your MOA on the other side of walls/windows where they'll hack the console)
I actually got a chesa for the first time a couple days after the rework and I immediately named it “more loot pls” so that funny that you said those exact words when talking about it😂
Think a lot of you guys in the comments need to chill, his builds are not the law for what everyone should be using, he's just giving people suggestions. You can run whatever you want, just cause he puts elusive/bite or whatever else on everyone and says other mods are bad doesn't mean you can't try out the stuff he doesn't suggest out. His words aren't gospel, stop taking a helpful guide for people that don't wanna test stuff so seriously.
I quite like Coolant leak for sentinels that can't proc Manifold bond on their own, it's basically arc coil with a 10s cd, that still gets lowered by manifold. Also contagious bond procs off mecha set kills, which is pretty good even when your kubrow doesn't do dmg.
This was super helpful. Ive been trying out different pets trying to see what I liked and what I needed. Nothing had really been what I wanted. My biggest hurdle was not really knowing what my options were and after watching, was able to go out and get the right companion.
I'm a returning player after a couple of years and always loved the companions - but can't really make use of then. So much love spent in Kubrows breed or new companions farm for nothing. Now I'm really happy with this rework and having so much fun. Great video.
I love Huras Kubrow (or really any kubrow, but Huras has the strongest claw stats), for doing the basically same thing verglas prime does, which is burning enemies to death in an 9m radius with contagious bond. But kubrows can use resourceful retriever for more loot, so theyre even more useful. Even tho kubrows attack slower then the verglas on a sentinel, that mod alone makes it worth more imo. Mod claws for full heat with the burning claws mod, use an attacking posture mod, and without much setup, watch one enemy die and then all others around it even in SP. If you have nourish or better yet roar, it buffs that like crazy. And you can make this setup go SO crazy, that it can solo level cap. If you use the full mecha set, it seems that when even if one of the enemies dying in the original 9m radius was marked, it will spread those heat procs to another 30m radius, which is as ridiculous as it sounds. The main negative point about the mecha set is, that you have to search for the one guy with the mark, and dont accidently kill him before loading him up with dot statuses. This is completely removed by your pet just not caring, killing anything around it no matter who he attacks, and then automatically spreading it even further. Furthermore, if you wanna get the ABSOLUTE overkill out of just seeing your pet obliterate even level cap missions (and im not exaggerating), use Dante with roar over his 1 and Kuva Kohm. Thats it. He will first of all make sure your pet will always survive with overguard, and his birds spread status chance vulnerability AND status damage vulnerability. With the 300% strength i get when molt augmented is stacked, thats +150% for both stats, meaning every heat proc the pet dealt, will now at least be 2 procs, and they will do 150% more dmg, which is so much that its ridiculous. However, that isnt all. Why did i mention Kuva Kohm? Because it can get the most status chance of any primary weapon, without a riven i can build it for 378% status chance, which is easy since you will never fire the weapon and can just use all those mods. Now, why does this matter? Because the claw mod mecha overdrive will give your pet 60% of the status chance of your primary weapon... which gets my kubrow to 254,3% status chance. Ye, thats to give an exact number, a FUCKTON of heat stat procs per attack. And THAT will then get buffed by enemies touched by dantes birds, and as you can imagine this interaction is so broken, that you can do level cap without attacking once with your warframe. And since youre not attacking and just casting, that will not remove the invisibility from the stalk mod from you. So you and your companion will stay invisible almost constantly. And thats just on top of dantes overguard. There is a whole other layer if you DO wanna attack with your warframe... because you could use the mod burning hate, on... your hate, making all enemies that were burning before, take 120% ADDITIONAL status damage. And with melee influence, every enemy that was proced with heat from the pet, and electric from the hate itself, will get that debuff. But this is SO much unnecessary overkill, its not even funny, and even in literal level cap, i doubt you would see much diffrence. This is truly the most broken build in the game imo right now... and its not directly from a warframe OR weapon. Its your goddamn pet!
Paris Prime incarnon is actually the best primary stat stick for kubrows, I got a sc/cc -neg riven for my kubrow and he's sitting at 379.6% status chance and 162.1% crit chance.
@@xezberzs96 With riven or without? Cause i have none for either, but i can try later how high i can come without, i forgot about its special mod with i think 90% status chance?
@@avraelasgard You don't need a riven, it's really overkill. Paris Prime Incarnon is still better than Kuva Kohm and yeah that unique mod for Paris also makes it even better.
Worst thing about kubrows is that huras have the most sheilds for reinforced bond while you shouldnt be firing weapons with it to stay invisible Would have been much better if chesa had the more shield
Few things worth mentioning from a person who only uses beast companions for many years now: 1) Oxylus: do NOT use it for mining/fishing if you have any beast companion. Why? Bc beast companions have resourceful retriver and it does work on stones and fish and the luminescent thing for fish is quite cheap to craft if you need 2)Smeeta is still good if you wanna farm the rare resource of the area (like argon or orokin cells) bc they have a pretty good chance of simply giving them to you and it makes farming so much easier -(just dont install any mods that make smeeta's abilities last longer)- 3) All the claws builds in the video are honestly just a big waste of potential (mostly bc of the stance to be specific) that I'd only use if you're a new player and simply don't have the mods to build properly for your companion's survivability.. If you build for high status + use contagious bond + pack leader then any companion becomes a _really_ good help in battle 4) Sunika kubrow: shame on the author for not even mentioning them, bc they are currently _the best_ beasts if you want a companion who simply kiils. I'm not kidding, they do better than the famous panzer (better than any beast, really) 5) Vascas have a cool ability to resurrect you 6)Predasites also not even mentioned? They are also quite cool, check them out -7) Sahasa (this one I'm not sure about this one, would be glad if someone confirms or not) , but can't they use their ability only out of battle?.. Which makes them not so useful btw- _____ I think that's all I wanted to say, feel free to ask about builds and correct things if I was wrong somewhere
I also have an affinity for beast companions. Some users and myself were making feedback posts about the Sahasa and they finally allowed it to dig during combat a few weeks ago. One issue is that it currently bugged? doesn't wait until you are missing resources anymore and stops to dig every 15 seconds no matter what's going on.
19:00 there is a tek mod that gives even more survivability (mainly needed for higher end levels) making them have 60% chance to not die and immunity for 4s (effected by 30% giving more then 5s) its quite nice :D and works on vulpa for there revives to let them revive without dying for it
7 companion full overhauls later the thing you do with all animal companions still is try your hardest to prevent them from attacking, causing all mods *except* ones that give buffs to your actual character you're playing to be largely or wholly irrelevant big hype i'm glad the dethcube does damage now as opposed to when i started warframe where i went "well, it has less HP than carrier prime, so why would i wanna use it? it's gonna hit single digits anyway"
As someone who returned to play again this year, I wasn't aware of over half of this stuff. Like, where do you get all the bond mods? How do you get a Panzer Vulpa? Where do you get the elusive stance mod for claws? Etc. Etc.
11:34 this definitely would be nice to see Oxy available earlier in Fortuna Ranking rep. Say Rank 2 or 1 accesible earlier. Due to early game rep fishing & farming on Cetus & Fortuna, would be far more useful for the rep grind. Especially for newbies 😊 Awesome info as always Brozime 😊
Yeah, needs a faster update so it pulls to where you'll be instead of where you were. Charging Incarnons gets tricky when the targets shift right behind you.
Oh yea if DE still hasn’t changed this weird feature but companions might still have priority slots. They use abilities from left to right first. I’ve tested and it’s really only a 0.1 latency difference at times but this is warframe. Sometimes and rarely the companions would fuck up and I’d die. This is tested using survivability mods before the current companion update. But I’m sure some of you may want it to proc other things first as well.
Unlike shade which stops firing its weapons, the Huras dog gets to attack even while its invisibility precept is active, and it doesn't even break the stealth. It still won't get targetted if it attacks even without elusive posture since it will be invisible. Definitely slot Contagious Bond on it and do a Burning Claws/Precision Conditioning damage setup.
For anyone who is as confused as I was, the Swift Deth mod he has on Dethcube is just the Assault mod before it got unified alongside others into the latter.
I'm a little surprised Carrier Prime didn't make the Honorable Mentions list. It's both a good box breaker for looting on the run and also a must have in my opinion when running ammo hungry weapons like explosive primaries - It's very useful when running Nightwatch Napalm Kuva Ogris for Arbitration missions, for example. It's niche, but does that specific job well.
helios should be mentioned for armor strips on frames like sevagoth and gloom users or frames that use mass AoE ability auras like equinox has its the only sentinel to armor strip and it does it well and its weak point detection is nice for getting on kill arcanes active like its nice not like kind of companions just felt it needed mention
While just not having pets attack is great i think you are really underselling the damage output pets can do now, they don't beat hounds but its certainly not nothing. with built out claws most kubros can nuke areas with contagious bond and Vanari is honestly nearly matching what my whipclaw on khora can do kill wise.
This top is pretty shitty tbh. No duplex bond for energy generator, using mystic bond instead lol, dethcube in top ten just for the energy generator when we have duplex bond, no contagious bond on any of the beasts, saying that sunika bad when it can literally strip all the overguard on an eximus in one hit lol, no pharaoh predasite when it's literally a walking nuke. I don't know what tf this guy tried to do. To think that I used to love most of brozime videos.
Panzer also triggers mystic bond quite fast with the quills and with duplex, synth it makes for a complete package. That i use nautilus, wyrm, a hound, huras and chesa and still smeeta and adarza all on diffrent frames and setups speaks for the good pet update.
So for the Sahasa Kubrow and any other companion with low crit chance, don't bother with Tenacious Bond because Hunter Synergy's added crit seems to not count towards Tenacious Bond's trigger whatsoever so even with Bite equipped, it will not activate at all.
If i could play warframe at the moment, i would be reviewing my companions at this very moment. Honestly I've never really thought much about the companions, and sorta just ran smeeta and didn't think much about it.
this is entirely personal preference, but on nautilus verglass prime i prefer radiated reload over vital sense bc it allows it to just repeatedly cordon self sufficfiently
I use Nautilus with Cold/gas and Shivering Contagion it freezes everything that has no overguard and groups them together. Pazna can definitely do the damage if you use Assassin Posture
I have found the Hound is just really nice when I gotta do some normal path stuff with weird builds. Like one time I had to relevel my Nekros and do the initial level on the Rauta. Hound was great for having some actual kill powers without going through all the effort of putting like Thermal Sunder on the Nekros.
Not having animal instinct in every build is insane to me, unless you run other radar sources. The built in enemy radar is in no way enough to see where the enemy density is or to not frequently have to guess which way to go next. I'd rather drop primed regen than animal instinct. 'preciate the vid nonetheless, it's just crazy to me xD
kinda feel some companions where left out mainly sly and medjey sly with its rework gives some really nice survivability with its bullet jump to remove all agro for a time while being good for dps due to its claws innate combo element the medjey however is like having 4 "mecha" procs 1 from the predisite mod and 2 from its own precepts and another from mecha it can build things like viral gas elec with 100% status giving great status to spread with bond or its abilities tandom bond being a great buff i have it built to kill even in level cap be it cascade or survival and a few others and it drops lots of health orbs due to this too it has been used for armor strip with a few setups too its just stupid :D
Ran EDA this week with a Dethcube Prime with no added EHP mods and it only died once. Personally I find modding for EHP is just wasting mod slots. You can get so much power from adding more bond mods. (Obviously besides shields for that specific bond). And even if they do go down I’ve been able to get them back in less than 10 seconds most of the time. Also worth noting when your companion goes down your duplex bond clones stay up.
@ Coolant Leak , Energy Generator, Assault Mode, Duplex Bond, Contagious Bond, Tenacious bond, Momentous bond, Vacuum, Primed Animal Instinct, Primed Regen, Using a Verglas Prime with a crit chance riven to get over 50% crit for tenacious bond
@@ryukomatoi69420 why should hunter synergy be used on an over 90% CRIT chance claws? You can use one of the base damage type mods in that case and get more consistent damage. The use of ANY mod depends on the pet and what you want to use it for. The only mandatory mods are fetch and some kind of survival mod.
@@ryukomatoi69420 and elusive posture limit your pet capabilities a lot. You stop it from spreading statuses, from triggering mods like contagious bond or duplex bond, which gives pretty huge advantages, like an aoe primer/nuke with contagious, and a consistent energy generator with duplex bond. This guide/top feels hella rushed, and lacks investigation on the topic.
You are really underestimating what Duplex Bond and a non-Elusive stance mod can do on various animal companions. There are videos of the vulpa nuking entire groups of steel path eximus heavy gunners. The Predasites/Kubrows have builds that can do this too, all of them can do quite a lot of damage. They are capable of being more durable than you think, as well. If you're playing a tanky frame with link mods, they will sometimes not go down at all, and if you're running a support-y frame with a lot of crowd control, it's a no brainer to set them up for damage, same as the hounds.
Frenzied posture also keeps companions moving and there is a mod that knocks down everyone they move next to. Combine with rad and cold and there is pretty heavy CC going on also at the same time to increase survivability.
In actual gameplay and not just clip farming the beast companions just die all the time if you let them loose in content of any threat. Duplex bond is fine but has limited use as many frames have no reason to spam out the clones and the ones that do also normally kill everyone when they do it making the clones kinda obsolete
@@Brozime I'm using them in actual gameplay, and you are factually wrong. They do die, but A: At normal steel path levels, not enough to matter, and B: So do the drones if you don't unequip their weapons. Drones are even squishier. And in the case of the Vulpa, it really doesn't matter if they do die. They will keep spreading spores regardless, and keep providing various passive benefits like Fetch. The reality is that the vast majority of people aren't running 5 hour long games and fighting level 9999 enemies, and no content rewards that. The pets stay alive more than not in normal gameplay, especially if you're actively using the many, many abilities that debuff and provide crowd control. Realistically, I have to wonder what you're doing that your pet dies so much, when you're the guy that constantly plugs Zephyr. If you're playing a frame like that, the whole room should be locked down and in the process of dying at all times (though that'll also mess with melee pets, but it's not like having them attack in that scenario is hurting anything is the point). "Many frames" doesn't mean anything, and those types of words go both ways. "Most frames" can at least be set up to spam abilities, and benefit from doing so. The only frames I'm not triggering duplex bond on consistently are ones like Lavos who don't use energy, and lavos is a giant sack of HP and status procs, meaning pets survive just fine with him. You of all people should know better, since you run negative energy meta, and you've been doing so since before it was sustainable for most people (E. G back when you needed a pocket trin to do it, and DE wasn't handing out energy arcanes like Halloween candy). Brozime, you're living in a bubble, and you have been for a couple years now. Warframe is not the game you think it is. You need to get out of the RUclips meta badly. I know I'm wasting my breath and you're not going to change, but it's a simple fact that the game you think you're playing just doesn't exist anymore.
personally i still like helstrum as a primer mainly cause of the dmg type differences, i lke having viral and heat on my companions and tazicor simply doesnt allow that
Oxylus is not that hard to unlock. Tranquilize and capture wild animals in orb valis. Oxylus can detect the tokens for syndicates during the syndicate missions. It also saves you from spending ostron standing on the blue dye for fishing. Syndicate missions should be done after daily standing limit has been reached. New players should buy Vosfor packs when able and exchange for arcanes in sanctum anotomica.
So Panzer still comes out on top but there's a plethora of viable alternatives to it now Probably the best-case result for the companion rework I will say: you didn't mention how Coolant Leak works with Manifold Bond now, effectively allowing every sentinel to proc archon stretch and elemental arcanes (obviously not as well as diriga, but it's a thing)
I don't understand how to get half the companions but by god you know I gotta stick with the Kavat and Nautilus. Kavat for farming for tellurium and such and Nautilus because I honestly didn't think his verglas weapon was kinda broken
No Helminth Charger? Mine was legit not letting me kill anything on steel path missions. The status combined with their trample ability leads to a crazier version of the Hounds contagious bond shenanigans.
I'm missing something on the manifold bond and Nautilus interaction, I see the veriglass only procing heat and viral unless you are also shooting and procing something different would it not be better to just put radiated reload on the veriglass to make sure it procs three?
Did they also fix the issue where the Sahasa won't use dig unless you stand still for a few seconds? Before Dig would just never activate because you were moving around so much.
Maybe I missed something, but I don't think I understood why elusive posture matters for the panzer specifically, if it still does all its stuff if it's down...(?) Why not go with literally any other posture to have it do a bit more while it isn't down? Can someone explain?
the posture makes it so the panzer doesn't attack, hence he uses his viral quills more, because if he's attacking he can't use the quills, so there isn't gonna be any delay for him between ability usage
@nilocaskk Ok, so higher uptime on quills only, meaning if I feel like I don't need that much viral spreading from my panzer, I can utilize a different posture, depending on my loadout and the content. Thanks!
@nilocaskk I mean, since most AoE weapons are build for viral, I'm thinking I really don't need it for many forms of content, but having all the other buffs constantly is nice to have. And I'd be pissed if I meta-max my fun away by missing out on the cool new postures and pet improved pet AI. 😅
the posture makes it so the panzer doesn't attack, hence he uses his viral quills more, because if he's attacking he can't use the quills, so there isn't gonna be any delay for him between ability usage
Soooo... thanks for making this for a few reasons. Firstly, with the companion rework, I felt lost on what's going on with them and I was waiting for you to update them. I merely used them for their vacuum utility. Secondly, this comes at a time where, in the United States at least, our future isn't looking that hot. I'm fully diving into all my companions tweaking them to your specs trying to regain some composure to carry on with my life. I didn't think a Brozime companion video was going to be the provisional crutch I leaned onto today but life is stranger than fiction. Thank you and good luck to all of us.
Rhino with the Stomp augment that replenishes his Iron Skin is also a good shout as he has the big Roar, but you need to be comfortable in your energy economy.
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4 years ago I’d have been like “we have more than 10 companions?”
Great timing, I came back to Warframe recently and the concept of priming is still new to me. I come from a time where you only used Carrier and unequipped your sentinel weapon so it wouldn't get itself killed.
Im also in this exact situation.
Same
Unironically, Nautilus is every solo player's Player 2.
Nautilus is our Loid for solo DRG
And player 3 and 4.. Doublex Bond
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@@shakeemsymonds7362 ROCK AND STONE
An extra note for Sahasa Kubrow users (seeing I use him a lot with my Mirage Sleight of Hand build to nuke Defenses):
He does dig quite a lot, but there is a caveat: only if there are no enemies around. Or else he goes attack them and ignores the digging part. And the obvious: your dog simply WON'T get to digging if you are moving around. Stand your grown and wait so he can start digging.
Also, for those of you who still do not own "Elusive Posture" (Claw's stance mod), be warned your Kubrow can AND WILL prioritize attacking enemies if they are nearby instead of digging. If you are lacking energy and need orbs, then fall back and hide in a corner (really) to wait for him to dig. He won't do it in the presence of enemies.
What I expected to learn from this video: here's all of these other companions you aren't using that you should be using
What I mostly learned: Panzer gang stays winning
What I didnt expect to learn: Nautilus is a better weapons platform than Koumei
Everyone is better than Koumei LOL
@@vost2916 Hey man that isn't... _rolls dice_
_Sharts and trips over my shoelaces_
Nevermind I gotta go.
Good overview! Wanted to add a couple notes:
1: Because Robotic companions can use Sentinel mods, Hounds can use Guardian. They are one of the best companions for it due to their unique precepts' insane status spreading.
2: Cat's Eye only goes on cooldown after its duration expires, so it only has about 40% uptime (or only 33% without Tek Enhance). Personally having to wait 20 seconds between each crit buff is enough to keep Adarza off my list. Manifold Bond for cats when?
3: To get maximum energy from Dethcube you should give him a weapon with Gas and status duration, as he also gets assists on enemies that walk through the clouds.
4a: Momentous Bond doesn't do much for Panzer, Devolution can't be sped up and Viral Quills ignores the extra elements (according to the wiki, maybe they were talking about the spores though).
4b-z: Viral Quills is really good at tagging enemies for Synth Deconstruct and also gives respectable healing with Hunter Adrenaline. Martyr Symbiosis is fantastic "dumbass insurance" for content where revives are penalized or not permitted, and Tek Assault can keep Panzer alive through its self-sacrifice to do it again right away. It's insane that Panzer can do so many things well that half of them didn't get mentioned!
Ok gonna respond to these in order since there is a lot
1 guardian absolutely an option on the hounds I dropped it in favor of all-in on damage output but splitting it is totally reasonable
2 I tested adarza early in the patch and it’s possible this has changed somewhere in hotfixes? Will retest it soon
3 Gas is an excellent option though I value the normal tazicor build on him especially for hvts
4 agree with all of this I should have mentioned more specifically that momentous is for martyr and dropping devolution out of the build. panzer really does do everything and adding synth for equilibrium builds is another great option and those two middle mods shift around a lot
@@Brozime thanks for the response
Hopefully we get a companion rework part 3 for modular robotics. Hound is already really good and just needs polish, while MOA needs an overhaul badly.
Yeah, I never bothered to even get MOAs
@@zavos5659 MOAs definitely need a rework, but in current state you can use them for very quick spy missions if you give them the hack mod and use the helminth ability to summon companions (spoiler: this way you can spawn your MOA on the other side of walls/windows where they'll hack the console)
I still use MOAs despite how outclassed they are because I love birds, at least they have decent survivability
I actually got a chesa for the first time a couple days after the rework and I immediately named it “more loot pls” so that funny that you said those exact words when talking about it😂
What could be worth mentioning is that Chesa Kubrow has a unique ability to "desecrate" containers, potentially yielding extra ayatan stars
I haven’t seen this happen before, interesting lol
@@thethumblessn00b19 It's a bit weird, I can't tell if it works with Corpus lockers but it definitely works with Grineer's breakable containers
Think a lot of you guys in the comments need to chill, his builds are not the law for what everyone should be using, he's just giving people suggestions. You can run whatever you want, just cause he puts elusive/bite or whatever else on everyone and says other mods are bad doesn't mean you can't try out the stuff he doesn't suggest out. His words aren't gospel, stop taking a helpful guide for people that don't wanna test stuff so seriously.
Kinda glad he didn’t mention predasites and frenzied behavior lol they’re NASTY rn
For the Huras, even with elusive, I would consider Duplex Bond since the clones can then go attack while your main Huras stays passive.
I quite like Coolant leak for sentinels that can't proc Manifold bond on their own, it's basically arc coil with a 10s cd, that still gets lowered by manifold. Also contagious bond procs off mecha set kills, which is pretty good even when your kubrow doesn't do dmg.
This was super helpful. Ive been trying out different pets trying to see what I liked and what I needed. Nothing had really been what I wanted. My biggest hurdle was not really knowing what my options were and after watching, was able to go out and get the right companion.
I'm a returning player after a couple of years and always loved the companions - but can't really make use of then. So much love spent in Kubrows breed or new companions farm for nothing. Now I'm really happy with this rework and having so much fun. Great video.
I love Huras Kubrow (or really any kubrow, but Huras has the strongest claw stats), for doing the basically same thing verglas prime does, which is burning enemies to death in an 9m radius with contagious bond. But kubrows can use resourceful retriever for more loot, so theyre even more useful. Even tho kubrows attack slower then the verglas on a sentinel, that mod alone makes it worth more imo. Mod claws for full heat with the burning claws mod, use an attacking posture mod, and without much setup, watch one enemy die and then all others around it even in SP. If you have nourish or better yet roar, it buffs that like crazy. And you can make this setup go SO crazy, that it can solo level cap.
If you use the full mecha set, it seems that when even if one of the enemies dying in the original 9m radius was marked, it will spread those heat procs to another 30m radius, which is as ridiculous as it sounds. The main negative point about the mecha set is, that you have to search for the one guy with the mark, and dont accidently kill him before loading him up with dot statuses. This is completely removed by your pet just not caring, killing anything around it no matter who he attacks, and then automatically spreading it even further.
Furthermore, if you wanna get the ABSOLUTE overkill out of just seeing your pet obliterate even level cap missions (and im not exaggerating), use Dante with roar over his 1 and Kuva Kohm. Thats it. He will first of all make sure your pet will always survive with overguard, and his birds spread status chance vulnerability AND status damage vulnerability. With the 300% strength i get when molt augmented is stacked, thats +150% for both stats, meaning every heat proc the pet dealt, will now at least be 2 procs, and they will do 150% more dmg, which is so much that its ridiculous.
However, that isnt all. Why did i mention Kuva Kohm? Because it can get the most status chance of any primary weapon, without a riven i can build it for 378% status chance, which is easy since you will never fire the weapon and can just use all those mods. Now, why does this matter? Because the claw mod mecha overdrive will give your pet 60% of the status chance of your primary weapon... which gets my kubrow to 254,3% status chance. Ye, thats to give an exact number, a FUCKTON of heat stat procs per attack. And THAT will then get buffed by enemies touched by dantes birds, and as you can imagine this interaction is so broken, that you can do level cap without attacking once with your warframe. And since youre not attacking and just casting, that will not remove the invisibility from the stalk mod from you. So you and your companion will stay invisible almost constantly. And thats just on top of dantes overguard.
There is a whole other layer if you DO wanna attack with your warframe... because you could use the mod burning hate, on... your hate, making all enemies that were burning before, take 120% ADDITIONAL status damage. And with melee influence, every enemy that was proced with heat from the pet, and electric from the hate itself, will get that debuff. But this is SO much unnecessary overkill, its not even funny, and even in literal level cap, i doubt you would see much diffrence. This is truly the most broken build in the game imo right now... and its not directly from a warframe OR weapon. Its your goddamn pet!
Paris Prime incarnon is actually the best primary stat stick for kubrows, I got a sc/cc -neg riven for my kubrow and he's sitting at 379.6% status chance and 162.1% crit chance.
@@xezberzs96 With riven or without? Cause i have none for either, but i can try later how high i can come without, i forgot about its special mod with i think 90% status chance?
@@avraelasgard You don't need a riven, it's really overkill. Paris Prime Incarnon is still better than Kuva Kohm and yeah that unique mod for Paris also makes it even better.
Worst thing about kubrows is that huras have the most sheilds for reinforced bond while you shouldnt be firing weapons with it to stay invisible
Would have been much better if chesa had the more shield
Few things worth mentioning from a person who only uses beast companions for many years now:
1) Oxylus: do NOT use it for mining/fishing if you have any beast companion. Why? Bc beast companions have resourceful retriver and it does work on stones and fish and the luminescent thing for fish is quite cheap to craft if you need
2)Smeeta is still good if you wanna farm the rare resource of the area (like argon or orokin cells) bc they have a pretty good chance of simply giving them to you and it makes farming so much easier -(just dont install any mods that make smeeta's abilities last longer)-
3) All the claws builds in the video are honestly just a big waste of potential (mostly bc of the stance to be specific) that I'd only use if you're a new player and simply don't have the mods to build properly for your companion's survivability.. If you build for high status + use contagious bond + pack leader then any companion becomes a _really_ good help in battle
4) Sunika kubrow: shame on the author for not even mentioning them, bc they are currently _the best_ beasts if you want a companion who simply kiils. I'm not kidding, they do better than the famous panzer (better than any beast, really)
5) Vascas have a cool ability to resurrect you
6)Predasites also not even mentioned? They are also quite cool, check them out
-7) Sahasa (this one I'm not sure about this one, would be glad if someone confirms or not) , but can't they use their ability only out of battle?.. Which makes them not so useful btw-
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I think that's all I wanted to say, feel free to ask about builds and correct things if I was wrong somewhere
I also have an affinity for beast companions. Some users and myself were making feedback posts about the Sahasa and they finally allowed it to dig during combat a few weeks ago.
One issue is that it currently bugged? doesn't wait until you are missing resources anymore and stops to dig every 15 seconds no matter what's going on.
I’m pretty sure the mods that increase smeeta ability duration don’t decrease how often they are casted
@@Vaxtin oh that's good to hear, hopefully they'll fix the bug too
Dye blueprint is a legacy item, you can’t get it anymore, dumb change but whatever. Have to burn rep for it now, same for baits.
19:00 there is a tek mod that gives even more survivability (mainly needed for higher end levels) making them have 60% chance to not die and immunity for 4s (effected by 30% giving more then 5s) its quite nice :D and works on vulpa for there revives to let them revive without dying for it
7 companion full overhauls later
the thing you do with all animal companions still is try your hardest to prevent them from attacking, causing all mods *except* ones that give buffs to your actual character you're playing to be largely or wholly irrelevant
big hype
i'm glad the dethcube does damage now as opposed to when i started warframe where i went "well, it has less HP than carrier prime, so why would i wanna use it? it's gonna hit single digits anyway"
As someone who returned to play again this year, I wasn't aware of over half of this stuff. Like, where do you get all the bond mods? How do you get a Panzer Vulpa? Where do you get the elusive stance mod for claws? Etc. Etc.
11:34 this definitely would be nice to see Oxy available earlier in Fortuna Ranking rep.
Say Rank 2 or 1 accesible earlier. Due to early game rep fishing & farming on Cetus & Fortuna, would be far more useful for the rep grind. Especially for newbies 😊
Awesome info as always Brozime 😊
Cordon on nautilus always pulls the enemies past me, like i run past them as he pulls them together
Yeah, needs a faster update so it pulls to where you'll be instead of where you were.
Charging Incarnons gets tricky when the targets shift right behind you.
This is why I prefer hounds over Nautilus
Oh yea if DE still hasn’t changed this weird feature but companions might still have priority slots. They use abilities from left to right first. I’ve tested and it’s really only a 0.1 latency difference at times but this is warframe. Sometimes and rarely the companions would fuck up and I’d die. This is tested using survivability mods before the current companion update. But I’m sure some of you may want it to proc other things first as well.
Thank you! i have been looking everywhere for a video going over all the sentinel weapons, especially from a WF Vet. :)
Unlike shade which stops firing its weapons, the Huras dog gets to attack even while its invisibility precept is active, and it doesn't even break the stealth. It still won't get targetted if it attacks even without elusive posture since it will be invisible. Definitely slot Contagious Bond on it and do a Burning Claws/Precision Conditioning damage setup.
"One place where you can find what you're looking for" Then why can't I find any fries in here :I
I like building Verglas prime for Corrosive + cold while using a riven to boost the crit to get that Tenacious bond buff
Now I feel like I never knew how to build my companions before. Thank you for this list!
For anyone who is as confused as I was, the Swift Deth mod he has on Dethcube is just the Assault mod before it got unified alongside others into the latter.
I'm a little surprised Carrier Prime didn't make the Honorable Mentions list. It's both a good box breaker for looting on the run and also a must have in my opinion when running ammo hungry weapons like explosive primaries - It's very useful when running Nightwatch Napalm Kuva Ogris for Arbitration missions, for example. It's niche, but does that specific job well.
helios should be mentioned for armor strips on frames like sevagoth and gloom users or frames that use mass AoE ability auras like equinox has its the only sentinel to armor strip and it does it well and its weak point detection is nice for getting on kill arcanes active
like its nice not like kind of companions just felt it needed mention
I've been waiting for this. Thank you.
While just not having pets attack is great i think you are really underselling the damage output pets can do now, they don't beat hounds but its certainly not nothing. with built out claws most kubros can nuke areas with contagious bond and Vanari is honestly nearly matching what my whipclaw on khora can do kill wise.
The issue is less damage output and more pets will just fucking die if they try utilizing it.
Duplex draws aggro , also pack leader existing for barely any input
@@StarfieldDisarrayyou kill some enemies and your pet is back again with the bond mods.
This top is pretty shitty tbh. No duplex bond for energy generator, using mystic bond instead lol, dethcube in top ten just for the energy generator when we have duplex bond, no contagious bond on any of the beasts, saying that sunika bad when it can literally strip all the overguard on an eximus in one hit lol, no pharaoh predasite when it's literally a walking nuke. I don't know what tf this guy tried to do.
To think that I used to love most of brozime videos.
@@Capitan_Captain having tested all of those builds they are funny but not actually useful and all come highly limited compared to the top 10
Panzer also triggers mystic bond quite fast with the quills and with duplex, synth it makes for a complete package. That i use nautilus, wyrm, a hound, huras and chesa and still smeeta and adarza all on diffrent frames and setups speaks for the good pet update.
So for the Sahasa Kubrow and any other companion with low crit chance, don't bother with Tenacious Bond because Hunter Synergy's added crit seems to not count towards Tenacious Bond's trigger whatsoever so even with Bite equipped, it will not activate at all.
Amazing vid, thank you for putting this together
I was actually going to ask for this video and boom. Thank you.
If i could play warframe at the moment, i would be reviewing my companions at this very moment. Honestly I've never really thought much about the companions, and sorta just ran smeeta and didn't think much about it.
this is entirely personal preference, but on nautilus verglass prime i prefer radiated reload over vital sense bc it allows it to just repeatedly cordon self sufficfiently
I can't believe Viral Quills procs Archon Stretch
Hounds are my favourite, the status they spread are incredible.
Oxylus not being for your intro to fishing makes sense with what already exists.
Awesome vid, much appreciated 👍
I use Nautilus with Cold/gas and Shivering Contagion it freezes everything that has no overguard and groups them together. Pazna can definitely do the damage if you use Assassin Posture
I have found the Hound is just really nice when I gotta do some normal path stuff with weird builds. Like one time I had to relevel my Nekros and do the initial level on the Rauta. Hound was great for having some actual kill powers without going through all the effort of putting like Thermal Sunder on the Nekros.
Not having animal instinct in every build is insane to me, unless you run other radar sources. The built in enemy radar is in no way enough to see where the enemy density is or to not frequently have to guess which way to go next. I'd rather drop primed regen than animal instinct. 'preciate the vid nonetheless, it's just crazy to me xD
kinda feel some companions where left out mainly sly and medjey sly with its rework gives some really nice survivability with its bullet jump to remove all agro for a time while being good for dps due to its claws innate combo element
the medjey however is like having 4 "mecha" procs 1 from the predisite mod and 2 from its own precepts and another from mecha it can build things like viral gas elec with 100% status giving great status to spread with bond or its abilities tandom bond being a great buff i have it built to kill even in level cap be it cascade or survival and a few others and it drops lots of health orbs due to this too it has been used for armor strip with a few setups too its just stupid :D
so you need the galvinised mod on your main weapon and the sentinel then you proc it and the effect applies to both?
Ran EDA this week with a Dethcube Prime with no added EHP mods and it only died once. Personally I find modding for EHP is just wasting mod slots. You can get so much power from adding more bond mods. (Obviously besides shields for that specific bond). And even if they do go down I’ve been able to get them back in less than 10 seconds most of the time. Also worth noting when your companion goes down your duplex bond clones stay up.
Could you give us your build?
@ Coolant Leak , Energy Generator, Assault Mode, Duplex Bond, Contagious Bond, Tenacious bond, Momentous bond, Vacuum, Primed Animal Instinct, Primed Regen, Using a Verglas Prime with a crit chance riven to get over 50% crit for tenacious bond
I'm sorry, how is radiated reload part of a new players build ? That mod is behind at least 100 hours of playtime
Nice, this is the video I wanted!
Personally, I love Adarza Kavat w/ shield link + Harrow (or mesa) to Have a fire rate + crit buff while i fire rate + crit buff
The return of Chonk
Al last... Thank you so much, greetings.
1:24 brozime. Radiated Reload drops from rogue necramechs. It's a plat purchase for new players.
Did you see the full video? The guy thinks that dethcube is a better energy generator than duplex bond.
He also says bite, hunter synergy, and elusive posture should be run on every kubrow lol
@@Envy-NVbecause they are?
@@ryukomatoi69420 why should hunter synergy be used on an over 90% CRIT chance claws? You can use one of the base damage type mods in that case and get more consistent damage. The use of ANY mod depends on the pet and what you want to use it for. The only mandatory mods are fetch and some kind of survival mod.
@@ryukomatoi69420 and elusive posture limit your pet capabilities a lot. You stop it from spreading statuses, from triggering mods like contagious bond or duplex bond, which gives pretty huge advantages, like an aoe primer/nuke with contagious, and a consistent energy generator with duplex bond. This guide/top feels hella rushed, and lacks investigation on the topic.
You are really underestimating what Duplex Bond and a non-Elusive stance mod can do on various animal companions. There are videos of the vulpa nuking entire groups of steel path eximus heavy gunners. The Predasites/Kubrows have builds that can do this too, all of them can do quite a lot of damage.
They are capable of being more durable than you think, as well. If you're playing a tanky frame with link mods, they will sometimes not go down at all, and if you're running a support-y frame with a lot of crowd control, it's a no brainer to set them up for damage, same as the hounds.
Frenzied posture also keeps companions moving and there is a mod that knocks down everyone they move next to. Combine with rad and cold and there is pretty heavy CC going on also at the same time to increase survivability.
Also can just run pack leader and just forgo all defensive mods with one slot
Not only that, but Synth Deconstruct for a 25% chance for health orbs to drop on injured enemies is insane for frames that use equilibrium.
In actual gameplay and not just clip farming the beast companions just die all the time if you let them loose in content of any threat. Duplex bond is fine but has limited use as many frames have no reason to spam out the clones and the ones that do also normally kill everyone when they do it making the clones kinda obsolete
@@Brozime
I'm using them in actual gameplay, and you are factually wrong.
They do die, but A: At normal steel path levels, not enough to matter, and B: So do the drones if you don't unequip their weapons. Drones are even squishier.
And in the case of the Vulpa, it really doesn't matter if they do die. They will keep spreading spores regardless, and keep providing various passive benefits like Fetch.
The reality is that the vast majority of people aren't running 5 hour long games and fighting level 9999 enemies, and no content rewards that. The pets stay alive more than not in normal gameplay, especially if you're actively using the many, many abilities that debuff and provide crowd control.
Realistically, I have to wonder what you're doing that your pet dies so much, when you're the guy that constantly plugs Zephyr. If you're playing a frame like that, the whole room should be locked down and in the process of dying at all times (though that'll also mess with melee pets, but it's not like having them attack in that scenario is hurting anything is the point).
"Many frames" doesn't mean anything, and those types of words go both ways. "Most frames" can at least be set up to spam abilities, and benefit from doing so. The only frames I'm not triggering duplex bond on consistently are ones like Lavos who don't use energy, and lavos is a giant sack of HP and status procs, meaning pets survive just fine with him.
You of all people should know better, since you run negative energy meta, and you've been doing so since before it was sustainable for most people (E. G back when you needed a pocket trin to do it, and DE wasn't handing out energy arcanes like Halloween candy).
Brozime, you're living in a bubble, and you have been for a couple years now. Warframe is not the game you think it is. You need to get out of the RUclips meta badly.
I know I'm wasting my breath and you're not going to change, but it's a simple fact that the game you think you're playing just doesn't exist anymore.
really sad that hounds are currently having issues, they don't use synergized prospectus once they enter melee until they get out of melee range
I prefer the MIGHTY SEER
Hahahaha hello mighty seer community
The MIGHTY SEER
I prefer the MIGHTY BEER if you get what I’m saying
@Camothor10 as an aussie, I approve
I approve the mighty Kuva seer 😊
In the video you said to build Nautilus's Verglas with status. What Status do you recommend?
personally i still like helstrum as a primer mainly cause of the dmg type differences, i lke having viral and heat on my companions and tazicor simply doesnt allow that
Oxylus is not that hard to unlock. Tranquilize and capture wild animals in orb valis. Oxylus can detect the tokens for syndicates during the syndicate missions. It also saves you from spending ostron standing on the blue dye for fishing. Syndicate missions should be done after daily standing limit has been reached. New players should buy Vosfor packs when able and exchange for arcanes in sanctum anotomica.
moa apreciation squad rise up
they kinda have a grouping ability and kinda have a survivability shield for the whole team
I always loved the cats and dogs but it was just so hard to make them work. Now I need more slots to get all of them lmao.
So Panzer still comes out on top but there's a plethora of viable alternatives to it now
Probably the best-case result for the companion rework
I will say: you didn't mention how Coolant Leak works with Manifold Bond now, effectively allowing every sentinel to proc archon stretch and elemental arcanes (obviously not as well as diriga, but it's a thing)
I don't understand how to get half the companions but by god you know I gotta stick with the Kavat and Nautilus. Kavat for farming for tellurium and such and Nautilus because I honestly didn't think his verglas weapon was kinda broken
As a direct result of this video, I went out and got all the nautilus prime pieces before realizing I’d already built nautilus prime.
It's unfortunate, because while I'm happy I don't need smeeta for double loot anymore, there's also no reason to use anything other than panzer.
No Helminth Charger? Mine was legit not letting me kill anything on steel path missions. The status combined with their trample ability leads to a crazier version of the Hounds contagious bond shenanigans.
I'm missing something on the manifold bond and Nautilus interaction, I see the veriglass only procing heat and viral unless you are also shooting and procing something different would it not be better to just put radiated reload on the veriglass to make sure it procs three?
Did they also fix the issue where the Sahasa won't use dig unless you stand still for a few seconds? Before Dig would just never activate because you were moving around so much.
It will dig unless it’s so far away it’s teleporting in my experience
what skin did you have on your laetum?
Basically if the panzer and Nautilus could walk around together they would duo the game as the best team.
How do I make the Tazicor proc cold first? It's always last on order and never procs
Did he show the build for Verglas Prime?
I was mostly listening
Out of curiosity, what sydana was your Mesa Prime using during the video?
It's called the Valesti Syandana :)
Dang the verglas build wasn't shown lol great vid though my man
Putting Nautilus above some frames is hilarious and sad
Doesn't Vulpaphyla spores conflict with Saryn's? Like, if an enemy is capped on Saryn spores, it won't take the pet's.
That is the case but Saryn will normally run Nautilus imo so the conflict shouldn’t usually come up
"if they are even remotely vulnerable to status"
So
Nautilus Prime
Dante's Paragrims
Caliban's Tau
Build a companion warframe for nautilus?
Is Hunter synergy now unbugged? Previously it was not actually contributing to tenacious bind due to a bug
Maybe I missed something, but I don't think I understood why elusive posture matters for the panzer specifically, if it still does all its stuff if it's down...(?)
Why not go with literally any other posture to have it do a bit more while it isn't down?
Can someone explain?
the posture makes it so the panzer doesn't attack, hence he uses his viral quills more, because if he's attacking he can't use the quills, so there isn't gonna be any delay for him between ability usage
@nilocaskk Ok, so higher uptime on quills only, meaning if I feel like I don't need that much viral spreading from my panzer, I can utilize a different posture, depending on my loadout and the content.
Thanks!
@@se7enhaender yep, most people just use it for the viral, since you get that sweet damage bonus to hp, but you can use it however you want it
@nilocaskk I mean, since most AoE weapons are build for viral, I'm thinking I really don't need it for many forms of content, but having all the other buffs constantly is nice to have.
And I'd be pissed if I meta-max my fun away by missing out on the cool new postures and pet improved pet AI. 😅
which companion would be best strictly for Priming for Condition overload, the hound?
pepeHands the disrespect to the poor One-Shot Assassin Sunikka pupper!
Hounds are the best primers even more so then Panzers
Panzers not really priming so much as spreading viral being good
Thank you so much I can finally use my huras kubrow again I don't even care about the abilities I just want my dog back 💯😭💯
So, how would a Venari be modded these days?
Where can/do you get the mods for sentinels and the panzer?
Good video
My Carrier is maxed out at 999,999,999 xp. I guess I could consider investing in other companions... Maybe.
Thanks
What training room is that?
Why use elusive posture on Panzer instead of frenzied?
the posture makes it so the panzer doesn't attack, hence he uses his viral quills more, because if he's attacking he can't use the quills, so there isn't gonna be any delay for him between ability usage
I just wish you could use skins on Deimos companions
Soooo... thanks for making this for a few reasons. Firstly, with the companion rework, I felt lost on what's going on with them and I was waiting for you to update them. I merely used them for their vacuum utility. Secondly, this comes at a time where, in the United States at least, our future isn't looking that hot. I'm fully diving into all my companions tweaking them to your specs trying to regain some composure to carry on with my life. I didn't think a Brozime companion video was going to be the provisional crutch I leaned onto today but life is stranger than fiction. Thank you and good luck to all of us.
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@@chaosgyro how tf did bro makea comment on a WF video into a political therapy session wtf 😂😂😂😂
what would you suggest for max difficulty elite deep archimidea assassination? not just companionwise, like in general.
Styanax/Dante both easily handle the boss
@@Brozime guess who just discovered intrepid stand is a thing that exists.
thanks!
Rhino with the Stomp augment that replenishes his Iron Skin is also a good shout as he has the big Roar, but you need to be comfortable in your energy economy.
@@Joe90h that's why nourish rhino is one of the strongest setups in the game
I have to go and get the newer mods to make these builds
Is the vulpaphyla the best companion primer?
Its tied with hounds imo
So by comparison, beast companions are just for buffs and nothing else. Hooray.
Surprised there is no Cryotra listed thing is a boss at mass CC
So many mods I have no idea where to get...