Keegen

The whole point of having Aegis Gale is to free yourself from the Blazing Pillage spam. That and it's genuinely hard to fit in two augments at the same time without making serious sacrifices to the build.

My solution to the "running out of shields" problem, which is especially prevalent against the Infested, was subsuming Rebuild Shields (Condemn is a solid option too) over her 3 which you don't really use now with no need for it for Blazing Pillage anyway. Pay 500 shields (or much less if you run efficiency) to get almost 7k back every 12sec, pretty good deal!

Edit: Forgot to mention Sentinels are also very good with the Guardian mod, couple it with the Bond mod that I forgot the name of that reduces all companion ability CDs when killing enemies with 3 or more statuses and a Tazicor or Helstrum on your sentinel to prime for you and you can lower the 30sec CD by a lot.

I wanted to revisit Hildryn first cause she's gotten a massive glow-up since her original post in the form of her new augment, Aegis Gale. No longer is she forced into the incredibly boring Blazing Pillage spam gameplay, she can now take to the skies and rain down death like she was intended to! She went from a frame I farmed purely so I can subsume her for Pillage to one of my absolute favorites all thanks to this augment. The augment allows you to turn your Balefire while in Aegis Storm into a burst fire cannon, firing out 4 projectiles with a single button press and adding extra damage to it scaling with your maximum shield capacity (which given that you are Hildryn, should be pretty impressive). Changing it from the clunky charge-up into a burst fire alone is a huge QoL improvement already (especially with the accessibility settings letting you turn it into a proper full auto), but the extra scaling damage is what really pushes your Balefire into a proper endgame capable weapon. My one complaint is that I really wish this would just replace your actual primary fire, having to hold down M3 is pretty awkward. I know there is the augment for her 1 that you could run with this one, but no one is gonna be doing that given how much stronger the alternate fire is compared to the charged primary.

For all of Subaru's faults, man has a determination that I don't think Kazuma would have. One particularly gruesome death would likely be all it took for him to fuck off to a far away place and turn this show into a slice of life (at least until the now unchecked witch cult ran rampart and caught up to him). Subaru might not be the cleverest, but despite some truly sanity-shattering things happening to him he just keeps going.

Yeah, I've wondered that too. He doesn't even really need a weapon either, just spill his secret and he gets an instant heart attack anyways. Unless I forgot some detail from Season 1 (I very well could, it has been a long while) there is no penalty for suicide over getting killed and with how gruesome most of his deaths are he really could use an easy way out.

Extremely rare SFW Oglaf!

Seasonal death counter: 3 (+0, This really is a good time to add to this counter, Subaru. Things are already looking pretty grim as they are, you don't want that save point moving now!)

So the archbishop wasn't actually a dragon (even though they have the blood of one), they were a damned shapeshifter! Anyone who had to deal with Orin and her gang of shape-changing murderers in BG3 knows how annoying those things can get.

Capella really asking the "Would you still love me if I was a worm?" question except literally. Regulus is pretty interesting, he's relatively "sane" compared to the rest of the bunch, he's just an absolutely awful egoistical asshole who was given demigod level of power so no one can say "no" to him. It really makes his just so very hateable even when compared to the rest of his already hard to like comrades.

As a huge Nezha enjoyer, the Strun Incarnon is an absolute BEAST for his new augment, Divine Retribution. Insane status chance with base 50% Slash weighting on the Incarnon form explosion, which you can (and should) push even further with Sweeping Serration, and "low" enough direct damage to not vaporize whatever you're shooting at (in Steel Path at least) on impact, allowing the procs to spread to every speared enemy. Usually a single shot is enough to wipe out everyone unfortunate enough to get caught in the AoE (which has no LoS restrictions BTW!). If you want a weapon that feels like the old Tigris with Slash procs everywhere, pick the Strun up!

We've done it! All the currently released frames are covered! I didn't really plan for what to actually do at this point... I'm open to suggestions! My current ideas are: I continue the threads only when a new frame or Prime releases (would probably need a new name as they definitely won't be weekly anymore) or I make a poll with some select warframes on every new thread and let the community vote on what frame they want to revisit next week? But enough about this, this is Koumei's thread after all!

I feel like this warframe is very polarizing. Depending whether you enjoy the chaos or randomness or prefer a more reliable and consistent playstyle, you'll either love her or hate her. I'm definitely the latter. Her 1st ability looks really cool with the thread spun up across the level geometry, but in gameplay is objectively useless. Not only will you struggle to get enemies to walk through the damned things on anything but the most cramped tilesets, because of how they are placed a lot of enemies will just walk right under the threads completely ignoring the ability. Each thread also only inflicts a single stack of whatever stats they rolled, absolutely useless. This is your subsume slot. Her 2nd ability takes the Duviri Decree mechanic and removes the two things that made it good. The passive 10% dmg and HP buff each decree gives and the ability to select from multiple ones. 90% of Decrees you get are going to be absolutely worthless to you, and good luck actually getting the challenges themselves done in a squad with a single competent damage frame. Rolled a Decree challenge you can't complete? Enjoy your 150s wait time! Her 3rd is a Revenant's 2 except entirely random. Depending on how the RNG gods feel, you can be an unkillable juggernaut or a paper mache frame that dies when an enemy looks at her. This is Xaku's 4 all over again, I don't like leaving my survivability up to chance. Her 4 is her best ability, but yet again you are entirely on the whims of RNG on whether you roll good statuses or not. Roll all 6? Congrats, you have an AoE nuke capable of dispatching lvl 200 Steel Path enemies with ease. Rolled anything but that? It's a cone-shaped Rhino's Stomp except the enemies move in an annoying matter making them more difficult to shoot. There is one good thing I can say about Koumei! She's available very early and thanks to that, teaches all new players a very valuable lesson - when you gamble, you never win.

Seasonal death counter: 3 (+0, Subaru is on a roll!)

Poor Garfiel just can't stop losing! Subaru had some pretty gruesome deaths but Garfiel is the one who is constantly getting the despair this season. It wasn't enough that all the archbishops decided to show up, one of them happens to be a fucking dragon! One with ultra-speed regeneration, no less. Even the basic faceless cultists are no joke!

The teacher explained it in this panel:

Being able to call lightning requires the power to manipulate clouds to make lightning, which happens to also let you manipulate the weather somewhat. She's been slowly drawing in the clouds and the typhoon so it arrived earlier than expected and thus goes away before the festival.