'Ello again lads; took awhile but here's Calibornia's video. After a long stretch of writers block and extensive editing, it be here. As always, cheers for your patience folks; I love the lot of you

I still have no idea why Caliban has high shields and no health when the usual Sentients don't even have shields in the first place

12:34 remember how long Nekros' desecrate was something you had to press constantly whenever you wanted to farm fallen foes? I remember.

Best quote ever: "Warframe AI have the aim of an E-Sports player injected with 500 grams of Red Bull mixed with fentanyl, so they dont feel their spine snapping when they twitch shot."

I already see his ability augment replaces the melee senients with laser sentients

i like how he has the funny amogus head, Erra must have been a sussy imposter. i physically recoiled while typing that.

Caliban needs some fixes, but they're not huge and he already has a great foundation for these ideas. One thing I'd throw in is more variety to his Sentient summons, like throw in Brachiolysts, Battalysts, and Aerolysts. So he has a Melee spin shield heal unit, a long range unit, an attack AOE unit, and a team health regen unit. Oh and get rid of the enemy cap on Sentient Wrath because it's dumb.

When the world needed him most, he returned.

Caliban is literally a spinjitzu master with a beyblade collection and a fondness for lasers and I love him for it.

His passive could also reduce proc duration by 50%.

Having played Oberon for... YEARS as my go to comfort frame? Caliban ... surprisingly? Has taken that spot. Flawed? Yes. His 1 is garbage and immediately gets replaced. His 2 is solid, though i would love it to be uncapped. His 3. I wish it was less clunky. His 4: 'everyone in that direction has no armor Ever.'

To make his 3 better, I have an idea ( your idea about the Crew buffing the Gyre is great as well). Hold cast to summon a Battalyst instead, to give the Crew some ranged potential. Even better might be to summon a single Summulyst (the nether portal lookin ass sentients) , so you have both ranged coverage and a flow of new minions, assuming the Summulyst stays alive. Great vid as usual

It's actually great that Caliban can heal himself, provide himself shields, strip armor, increase enemy damage, and can summon potential cannon fodder.

I've missed you. I like our spinning boi he's alright but I don't like him as much as the MIGHTY SEER by any means. With all new frames he will find his footing in a couple months. His passive is a step in the right direction for the game but you're 100% right about it

Haven't played Warframe in two years now. I rely on you and Shy (mostly just you now) to keep me up to date on all the stuff that I'm glad I don't have to farm and level.

I think the lesson we can all learn here is that Sentients make kinda iffy Warframes and we should just stick to weaponry until the Archons end up being another lich type bosS- I always enjoy seeing you upload, always wonder what you have to say when another frame comes out

Your point on bringing "the crew" into your spin, alongside what another commenter (Lucas Fraczek) suggestion of different/more types of buddies to cycle through would be perfect. Each sentient has a bonus thing it adds when paired with the spin. You are encouraged to use all of them, and more abilities, therefore, more synergy within his kit. Players could still choose to spam out one type of sentient for one reason or another, maybe they each provide a different passive for what ones out. So as is, our melee buddies give shield regen+over shield. The other types could be a higher stack on "Great Value" Adaption, so you arent making players choose between shite off-brand adaption or the real deal. Maybe one gives a damage boost to weapons, or a minor health regen one, etc etc. Have them tie back into his passive, so they also give boosts to the allies within affinity range. It would make caliban a decent team support, being able to throw out a crew that could provide additional adaptation or shield/health regen for allies. Hes a second oberon basically, jack of all trades, master of none. Nothing he could put out would ever outshine the ACTUAL support frames, but hes a decent middle ground for a bunch of roles.

My largest complaint is the duration of the summon, personally I would prefer only summoning one with a longer duration.

Trib I love your videos and your upload schedule is absolutely fine to me. You do what you want. You’re in this because it’s fun and we can always feel your passion.

I’m just getting into Warframe and found your channel, and I think I found absolute gold. Keep it up my guy

I love the videos of you and Cherria. Always makes me laugh! You guys are amazing, thank you for the content!!

Im always happy to see another trib video! Also, always take as much time as you need between vids 👍 nothin bad ab it

So they gave caliban a pegleg but not sevagoth?

I love the new outro that includes the drifter now

I dont care how long it takes for you to make new videos, I will watch them all, few times. World at its current geopolitical state, needs you and your videos. Dont stay in the coffin too long.

I love the frame content and jokes u make in your warframe videos

Oh man seeing triv's video in my feed made me immediately smile... and also immediately crack my lips since it's been hours since my last lip movement

"THE SQUAD" leading to "THE CREW" made my day

Always good to hear a Wayne audio clip in my favorite warframe creators' videos. It's happened, like, twice. My test for warframes is taking them to saturn proxima, solo, NOT BUILDING FOR INSANE EFFICIENCY, arming them with basic, non-aoe weaponry, and trying to raid a single crewship. If the normal weaponry is regularly functioning better than most of the frames' abilities designed specifically to synergize into dealing damage without sucking the energy dry, then there's a problem. It's a basic test of "can you clear out this narrow, AI-pathfinding-bottlenecked area with a small number of tough and scary dudes flowing through it, using the tools your frame gives you to handle for dealing with this exact situation? And if not, which thing was causing issues?" In Caliban's case, his Razor Gyre and its stupid "hold click to power up, but it also chews through your energy at a growing rate, but ALSO if you use that same button while an enemy's toe was in your reticule, you teleport to them and lose all that damage, but ALSO the conceit of health regen to offset vulnerability is shattered by healing slower and even more costly than Oberon's 3 when Nekros is in town, but ALSO you can cast sentient wrath while spinning, but you aren't rewarded for this energy-draining maneuver during this vulnerable state by any extra Gyre damage output beyond Wrath's normal enemy debuff" is what takes him from an interesting concept to absolute garbage. He's way too energy hungry for too little payoff and, just like your verdict, I genuinely could not figure out what DE wanted him to be, despite there CLEARLY being a recipe for something decent.

Yo the editing is so cool the drone is so cute

I missed your memes so much Ty for posting it makes my day

When you looked at them grenade my phone cut to an ad I thought you screamed because of it.I started dying 💀

It's nice hearing you enjoyed your vacation, and this editing is incredible Edit: This might be me being too cynical, but i have the feeling DE purposefully restricted the summoning number, so they could turn it into a future "band-aid" augment

My biggest gripe with Caliban is his 3. Having to cast it 3 times spending 75+ energy cause of course I’m running blind rage for that max strip is a pretty big problem. But it’s Caliban’s source of survivability too and half the time they don’t shield me and I can’t recast my 3 either to maybe pray to their Ai to actually shield me. I always die when my sentiments refuse to shield.

It's... It's perfect!! Also, love the return of "THE SQUAD!"

His 2-3-4 rotation is quite nice! Only his Gyro feels very off. Debuff enemies with 2-4 and you can use his 3 as a shield gate button when your shields break.

I remember thinking of a Sentient frame with an tau energy minigun/cannon hybrid arm as an exalted weapon and would be a pure dmg dealer Oh boy, if only we got that instead, Caliban is okay but I think the idea of going around, ripping hordes of infested to pieces with the minigun and demolishing squads of grinneer with the cannon would be absolutely badass

I think of him as a tanky debuff-support like Garuda. His 2 and 4 make enemies die to the slightest touch, and his 3 is decent survivability via shields and distracting enemies. I like to subsume Shock/Smite/Nourish over his 1 and use it to buff up his summons and teammates for even more damage amplification, the progeny can actually kill stuff pretty well when all your buffs/debuffs are up.

Don’t even play warframe anymore but his commentary makes every video worth watching

OMG Dad finally uploaded! I thought you got lost in the Void for a minute there.

WHOOO CALIBAN VID WAS WAITING FOR THISSS

Good to see you again!

HE'S ALIVE!

Caliban gives me the vibes of he saw Revenant use Danse Macabre, thought 'I can do that too!', but instead got himself into a situation where he's spinning leagues faster and can't slow down.

" The crew! " Rlly made me laugh, and I have a rlly bad headache today, good job and thank you xD

Definitely agree with your changes. Razor Gyre just really needs to be stronger. There is a use in not immediately casting the minions for shieldgating. I caught that Bad Apple outro.

OK hear me out and it might be heretical but I replaced his one with Revenant’s reave. It’s thematically accurate and provides more healing and survivability ability then his original one did

only warframe content creator I still watch. Nice work

I love that shot of caliban cutting your head! Very clean 👌

I do like the added 3d stuff. Keep up the good work.

Hey Trib, THE SQUAD cameo almost made me piss myself, I love it. I'm also glad I'm not the only one having a difficult time with Caliban. That Kirkland brand adaptation is a rough decision no one should have to be making lol. Question is do the passives overlap? Can two Caliban gain 100% DR?

Caliban is like a "greatest hits" album, but with sentient abilities. DE made a top 4 of their favorite sentient abilities and mashed them together in a sus package.

To add onto some of his issues, the tick rate of the summon's spin damage does not match its animation and it even whiffs its normal attacks at point blank range, somehow. The summons also end Sentient Wrath prematurely if they hit an affected enemy. Regarding Razor Gyre, as if it wasn't bad enough, its energy channeling gets worse both the more it is charged AND the longer it is active, just like Grendel's 1. It genuinely is awful to maintain. Great video as always, enjoy your hiatus, can't wait for Elden Ring shenanigans if you decide to record them. I've posted on the megathread for him regarding my own feedback, but to compound your own suggestions: Razor Gyre: Remove that godawful energy drain scaling increase. In addition to the dash not consuming charge, allow Cali to deactivate Razor Gyre w/o losing charge immediately. Make it decrease by a small percentage per second after a duration while out of Razor Gyre, but if you use his other abilities the decay stops and the duration resets. Fix the synergies not working and make the energy drain when boosting damage a small, flat value instead of getting more expensive with higher values. Lastly, either innately or via augment, allow kills to add enemy HP onto the damage charge. Ya know, make it like Splinter Storm/Maim. DE could even go as far as give Cali additional benefits to a higher Gyre charge, such as better efficiency and other abilities inheriting some or all of Gyre's charge for their damage, but I won't count on it. Sentient Wrath, personally I don't like the ragdolls going wherever they want. Just tether them to their current location on hit or make it exactly like Rhino's Stomp w/ a debuff attached, idc. Lethal Progeny, fix the attacks whiffing, increase the damage tick rate for its spin attack, and, if Sentient Wrath is unchanged, fix the Progeny ending Sentient Wrath prematurely on hit.

Calibans kit is based off of the archons , the stomp is from the wolf, the triple beam is the owl, and the spin also the owl huh well 2 out of 3 close enough. the crew is their ability to raise the dead when they get hurt enough.

Thanks KZfaq recommendations for reminding be about this warframe. I honestly forgot about it

The king is back

16:32 they will turn that idea into an augment, they won't put that in the base frame. If they see this at least.

What Trib would like: Please let him move more freely without losing his damage build up and summon the crew all at once. What DE will probably do: releases a bandaid mod that lets him move more freely and keep the damage build up for double the energy cost.

the changes u suggest sounds realy good !

Ive been waiting this video from you

Thanks for the hard work! It was a great vid personally I haven’t played caliban yet but I think he’s good as long as you subsume his 1 out then xD

Very Good Video! I have an idea to buff Lethal Progeny: Caliban can summon one of *3* Sentients, either a Conculyst, a Battalyst or a Mimic. The Conculyst is full Melee Unga Bunga, the Battalyst is in the middle and the Mimic is ranged thanks to his traffic director lasers. He can have *3* Sentients on the field at any given time in any given combination (ex. 2 Mimics and 1 Battalyst, 1 Battalyst, 1 Mimic and 1 Conculyst, etc.) and each of these types has a Synergy with one of his other abilities: 1) The Conculyst has Synergy with Razor Gyre, joining the Spinning so as to give Caliban Adaptive Damage and increase his speed 2) The Battalyst has Synergy with Sentient Wrath, using his Prism Laser to boost the damage of the attack and increase the Damage Weakness debuff 3) The Mimic has Synergy with the S U C C Beam- I mean, Fusion Strike, Increasing both the laser's AND the Armor Stripping Field's maximum range

My thoughts exactly see you in 4 months!

Caliban's 2 is a damage buff + lifted, CC zone (Saxum Mod set work as well). His 4 is a great Armor strip, pulls enemies in and c auses a large blast damage x3.

Yay our favorite Florida man is back :D Also I wanted to congratulate you for getting to be VineSauce's editor. Managing that and managing your videos may seem tough, but you got this. If it becomes too much, do what you think is best for your mental health. Take everything slowly ok? Dont kill yourself from burnout please

The sentients are what happens when an entire race's civilization is based around light shows and beyblades.

wooooo keep up the good work trib

Yes, a new video! I'd get a cup of tea but I'm worried it'd end up on my screen at some point!

Wait adaptation is a mod? These videos are slowly teaching me how few mods I actually have.

Yeah new video baby!!

12:23 There is the possibility that they have something planned for this ability regarding the Sentient type you summon so you can mix and match them, but thats just a theory. Also Lethal Progeny does have increased threat level as well as normal Sentient's damage adaptation and health gates, so you can worry less about enemies targeting players. But I agree, It is a little tedious until either this is changed, or an augment is added for this ability

I'm just happy we have a frame with a proper peg-leg

I honestly agree with you when it comes to Caliban's gyro move, and it should get faster as you use it, even though I couldn't really hear the speed up sound cue.

Caliban wasn’t bad, but I fell in love with Garudas ability set, first warframe where I can seamlessly dance through every ability, regenerating both my health and energy in the process. She’s perfecting designs, imo.

The one thing I want with both frames with the spin abilities (excluding dance macabra because Im fine with how it is) I wish it was just the bottom half of the frame that spun so the top half could use weapons, would be MUCH nicer and I wouldn't mind the slow movement then, like inaros can just turn his bottom half into the sand storm spinner and caliban is sentient no one would question if his bottom half spun independent of him (with a model change, don't break the chop sticks in half)

That vortex idea with the progeny would make for a cool augment mod.

"Next up is sentient" *reverb fart* damnit trib you made me choke on my drink XD

He returns!

I kinda want his 1 to have melee/combo counter interactions. I also feel like his 3 was meant to have options and that's why it's 1 at a time (one of your favourite hold-to-swap-type abilities).

new upload pog

welcome back dad

Folks be adding their two cents about caliban, mean while I'm appreciating the edit to trib's outro

MISSED YOU trib U are SUPERB

@triburos After watching your video I have a few more ideas that I think could work for buffing spin to win boi. I think the razor gyre damage should be changed to be more like saryn's spores, as you use the ability you build up damage, using the boost should take a percentage of damage that scales down with something like efficiency. This would also invoke a damage decay when you exit the ability, giving you time to recast fusion strike and the sentient bros. This would give razor gyre more use and synergy with the rest of his kit and make the ability more viable, provided DE lowers the energy drain as well. If DE is trying to make it that your focus is to use razor gyre to put high DPS into enemies who have had their armors stripped, making so the damage doesn't constantly disappear would make the ability MUCH more usable. And I agree that THE CREW should have all three sentients summoned at the same time. This would save you time in the downtime when you're not using razor gyre. Additionally, I think that the razor gyre dash is a good concept, it just needs to have less of a cost. Overall I think DE has the potential of making Caliban a very good frame, he just needs some tweaks that would synergize his kit better. THE CREW's shield buffing in combination with razor gyre's healing can make Caliban VERY difficult to kill. So I have no major gripes with that ability, just the fact that it takes so long to get the ability to its best state. I feel that DE intended to make razor gyre and fusion strike his bread and butter, with his other two abilities supplementing those abilities. Let me know what you think about my idea. I want to know if I have actually suggested a good change or I'm just being brainless.

What's REALLY funny about the rhino example for "independent functionality" kits, is rhino actually has a LOT of synergy feeding into his iron skin...locked behind augments. If they just gave him brand new augments and turned his current ones into innate buffs in his kit, he'd be a GREAT support tank of synergistic design(or maybe singular power centralistic design like the examples of Mesa and grendal?)

Yay a new upload

Yeah you could probably tweak Caliban's numbers and call it a day and most people would be happy with that. Personally I think some reworks would be nice, like for Razor Gyre just, throwing enemies out of it, or taking damage increases the damage of the gyre, or adds elemental effects to it would be real nice, feel in flavor and really soup him up. Two is fine, but the cap could go, summoning all three for three would be nice, I think unique models would also be pretty good, and maybe have each do a different thing? Have one be the spinning melee thing, one be the shield booster that hurls electricity and maybe a sniper one, I do like the idea that they all contribute to gyre. About the only thing I can think of for 4 is either add in a damage reduction or make it move faster. I do like adaptability but it overriding a passive is a bad idea. Maybe if you slot in adaptability or your team mates have it, a separate counter goes up so instead of adapting you deal more damage based on your 'over-adaptation'?

Last I checked, adaptation DOES stack with his passive. I checked by using a monotype damage source (Hyekka Master fire bomb), and it completely negated the damage.

FINALLY, he who brings me joy has returned. And the only thought I've got for Caliban is "now twirl honey twirl, twirl honey twurl." Those who know this phrase will understand.

I agree with you, the 1 energy drain and dmg loss when teleported is stupid, that has to go, and maybe you can solve the squad... i mean, crew clunkyness by making them teleport along with you. Its kinda sad that DE forgets that for an ability to be useful it has to be better than just shooting with a Brahma

Trib!!! Our lord has returned. Good to have you back pal, i keep warframe handy cause of you. Btw, his 2 and 4, excellent. 3, kinda meh besides the shield regen. And 1?.......completly useless unless you need health at which point you're probably gone anyways. Wholeheartedly agree with this video. Love the jokes as always.

I feel like the reason his kit feels that way is that DE didn't have a plan for his abilities in terms of combat applications to begin with. I feel like they had a thematic setup of Shit What Sentients Doo and backfilled secondary attributes onto those abilities as the ideas came to them

love to see it

12:29 funny enough, you can. Tagging enemies with Soul Punch and then killing them while the effect lasts, spawns a single shadow without touching 4.

When I heard his second is his helminth….I got very excited. I have a few warframes who would like to meet this ability

Father has come back with the milk this time. He really meant what he said🥲 father Trib is back😭

THE BOI IS HERE!

WOOO NEW TRIB VID

Fleeting expertise, spam 3 and 4, natural talent works on his 4th for sure. Zap fast. Oh and you can totally zip his 4th around directionally

10:00 I think the max enemy spawn number, even in Steel Path, is 20. So 16 is not a bad number.