Something about Arcane Steadfast (and to lesser extent double back) is how early they're available to new players: Mirror Defense opens just after Heart of Deimos on Mars Junction - that's probably considerably earlier than they can farm Energize (or Guardian) efficiently, while Mirror Defense is has a lower barrier of entry and rewards its arcanes quicker, I think. As such, they might serve as entry-level arcanes to encourage to work for the stronger ones.

I returned to WF about 3 months ago after a nearly 3 year break and I must thank you for these guides. You present everything so clearly and in detail. As someone who felt totally lost coming back after so long, your channel has been so helpful! Liked and subbed

The one thing that came to my mind with plated rounds is Gauss. Sure, with Tenora 90% fire rate it was hard to keep up. But what about 300% fire rate?

For arcane double back I'd like to add: My most used movement option to get through exterminate, capture and similar missions (even to move around during mobile defense, defense and excavation to get to targets) is bulletjump->doublejump as soon as you can->instant roll so you don't even see the doublejump come out. This is, from what I know, the fastest way to move with a non-movement-ability warframe, as long as there isn't a celing in the way (as you jump quite high even when going as low to the ground as possible due to the movement boost from the roll). This would trigger all 3 damage resistance timers within only 1 second until you can act again. Especially when implementing rolls after pretty much any jump, which avoid staggering after falling from heights just as well as sliding (or better imo), I think it can be active for quite a long time during lots of mission types - ofc, depending on playstyle and warframe.

Plated rounds is pretty good on ambassador and tenet tetra, very consistent with those two weapons.

This is the video I've been waiting for from The Kengineer since the new arcane release, and I agree, despite of the pity system where you can buy those arcanes from a shop, grinding can be exhausting at certain point. Always love your videos, great content

The damage reduction arcane pairs really well with exodia contagion, if you need more survivability

I've been really interested in secondary encumbered since it was first revealed. Still don't have a full set yet, but when I do, I'm gonna mess around with it a lot. Of course the regular primer builds, using it with lavos etc. But I actually am also really interested in testing it with Yareli. Her new augment is no joke, giving an extra 200% fire rate and reload speed on secondaries. I'm thinking there's a bunch of weapons that will become status monsters with that crazy fire rate

Encumber also works better for primers with fewer innate statuses since it provides access to every status element. This may allow some non kuva-nukor single-target primers to compete as you can very quickly apply the majority of all status types using a bullet hose.

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I realize that one of the main kind of...things? Catches? Schticks? Oh I dunno, point is, I realize alot of your content deals in analyzation through the use of mathematics. That being said, you are also a hell of a player, and honestly, my go to on everything since returning. It's your delivery. No unnecessary fluff, nothing over dramatic. Nice thumbnails, but still no click bait. What y see, is what you get, both visually and audibly, and believe me, that's a rarity in all topics. So...to get to the point, I would love to see you go through the frames n do a blurb on best ways to mod, and to run em. Being that there SO many frames now, I realize that could be ....well...lengthy. maybe do 3 frames a video? No need to do one on both a regular and prime versions, holy moly, now that is lengthy, still, I realize this request will prolly not see reality, and that it has many problematic issues..BUT...you are the Kengineer, so..lets solve a practical problem! Ha!!! Sorry..couldn't help myself. Anyway..I do love the content. So thanks.

I need secondary encumber on my kuva nukor, wow. Great video as always!

Does secondary kinship work if you buff summoned Allie’s, like Kahls friends, crew mates, or Specters? This could grant even more Crit buffs or help it work better while solo

The nice thing about these arcanes is that they can be acquired long before you have access to the Steel Path.

Isn't it crazy how secondary weapons have all the strongest mods and arcanes

Im using plated rounds on my vectis prime alongside arcane acceleration and momentum in eidolon hunts. And it synergies pretty well. Granted im only getting 33% more damage but i can proc it reliably.

I love hot your Volt looks like a walking Arcane Adapter

With my use of Trumna and Gauss or Wisp, Primary plated round sounds very useable. They should buff the timer so you aren't mag dumping on nothing to keep your maximum buff

ive been having fun playing citrine and using seconday encumber. i love just spewing out status and bonking grineer with my fragor xD

I use kuva nukor on my wukong, letting my twin be the one who spread status while i melee and benefit from CO. unfortunately, because of the way many triggered buffs work, most arcanes and galvanized mods are worthless on the weapon if the twin is using it. For example, the way Galvanized Diffusion works is that when a kill is gotten with the weapon, the buff is applied to the Warframe itself, however, the twin is considered an ability kill, so no buff is applied at all, and if i build the buff first then switch to melee and let the twin shoot, it doesn't get any benefit because i'm the one with the buff. What this largely means is that My wukong has a different weapon build to account for the fact that my twin will be doing most of the shooting. And most of the arcanes have little to no value. I usually use Secondary Dexterity purely for the Combo Duration bonus, and because whenever I do need to shoot something i'll usually have already built up a maxed out bonus anyways. Cascadia Empowered was the only Arcane my twin could take advantage of, but the damage bonus wasn't really that noticeable, certainly not as much as loosing 7 seconds of combo duration, however, i used my rank 1 Encumber and saw my twin doing additional procs every few seconds. I'm stoked to do another 3 hours of mirror defense and earn up enough to get the maxed out Encumber to see if that'll be worth it.

Having some good results with Secondary encumber on Twin Grakatas, Prisma Twin Gremlins and Cyanex alt fire Edit: Tested the Kompressa. 13 statuses on a target after a mag. Not as fast as a Twin grakata, but fast enough. But the bonus is that you get some aoe coverage.

You mentioned it being good for Nukor (I'm glad I made the decision to get a Magnetic Kuva Nukor when I did, even before your video on the best element for all of the Kuva weapons), but what about Epitaph?

Tenora Prime and Kuva Kohm I run with 200 magazine and Ammo Mod so 1000 - 1200 ammo capacity would the Arcane plating Im assuming be beneficial on either of these 2 weapons?

You forgot to mention that for aoe weapons like laetum and epitaph, they get to hit everything at once with the proc forced by encumber. Including yourself.

i was getting the last arcane u talked about for the epitaph is it still good? like still worth it? i didnt know it doesnt work with Aoe TT

Wait, so theoretically speaking you can make any weapon a beefed up version of the kuva nukor?

Secondary encumber opens so many more weapons up to be status primers. Instead of just the nukor, epitaph, or sporelacer, now any secondary with a decent static chance can be used. So basically all the kitguns sans catchmoon, any bullet hose, hell, even the dex furis, can be effective at setting yourself up.

we need a vid on Encumber vs Flare vs Empowered for status-dump secondaries like the Nukor/Cycron/Gammacor. It's really hard to tell just by eyeballing it in the simulacrum.

Hello does "secondary kinship" works with the build you showed us last year on nekros with 2kitguns and deimos arcanes, where tou sumon 7guys with 4th abilities, then sumon, craftable allies + 3normal players + pets and use grendel abilitie?

(Prisma) Grakata + Wild Frenzy + Plated Rounds has been my go-to for steel path. Combined with Arcane Rise as well, and the damage gets quite nutty

I really like Primary Plated Round because its encourage you to build more mag cap and fire rate but the problem is that I need to re-forma and change most of my riven which is too much for me to do.

How would you rate Secondary Encumber vs Cascadia Empowered on the Kuva Nukor for overall use? Primers are awesome, but I often find it's more effort than I need to kill large amounts of enemies, especially when I can use my Nukor to not only soften enemies up with Heat and Viral procs, but also do a bunch of direct damage with Cascadia Empowered. That pretty much melts anything in my way, and if an enemy is too powerful to take down easily with it, my Felarx and Melee do the job just fine without specifically needing to build for condition overload and a pure primer weapon.

What’s the build and parts of your kithun?

I was planning on potentially getting secondary encumber, but primarily because I have a build that already deals around 10 procs per shot, so the knowledge that my self-priming Kuva Seer is nearly the worst possible status weapon to put it on is quite helpful

Wonder how good primary plated rounds are on supra vandal in the circuit when the decree lets you spit out all that ammo so ridiculously fast 😂

What is the best primer now ? For secondary encumber ?

New to the channel, first time being this early to the party

Secondary Encumber can change few weapons that you wouldnt think as a primer into primer, like Afuris Prime or Kuva dubba stubba while still retaining their crit potential. Primary Plate Rounds is probably only good on Quellor, Trumna and Kohm.

Primary Plated Round was activating when I was reloading my secondary. Not sure if it was a bug or intended but was using the Afuris Prime and was getting an appropriate bonus on my primary. 300% on full reload of 80 rounds. which if you were using something like the Corinth Prime, bonus of 150% on full reload, woulkd double your output.

Primary plated round might be useful in zenith. That weapon has high magazine plus you shoot 3 bullets per shoot in alt mode.

Have you noticed anything weird with the encumber arcane? I've been trying to use encumber, particularily on the furis incarnon, and it seems pretty funky. The normal mode is getting more unique procs than the incarnon form despite: 1. Having more status effects that the encumber procs can overlap 2. Having a lower status chance After a 30 shots (measured by ammo) with the incarnon form I'm often only getting 3-4 encumber procs that don't overlap, even on a build for max status chance + fire rate In comparison I'm getting around double that with the normal mode even when accounting for it having innate physical damage types.

Arcane Plated Rounds might be ammo-hungry to be sure, but it isn't as if there aren't ways to support that. In terms of weapons that can get equivalent bonuses to Steel Path arcanes, there's quite a few, but there's also quite a few that can achieve stronger bonuses. My personal favourite right now is Prisma Grakata, with a riven granting Magazine Capacity, and using the Wild Frenzy augment. Magazine Capacity in this instance is pulling _triple duty_ as ammo economy, Frenzy duration length ensuring more kills, and damage booster. You can empty out the whole clip easily within the arcane's buff duration, and Wild Frenzy will recover all ammo spent. I find it more reliable and usable in more builds than Secondary Kinship, at the very least. I would've put Plated Rounds at B-. ----- Arcane Double Back I'd consider B+ arcane for anyone who uses melee regularly and has mastered the bullet-double-roll jump manoeuvre. For the right type of player who uses movement often, this could actually be more reliable than Adaptation, and may result in opening a core mod slot on a warframe as such. ----- "Interestingly enough, this is the first Warframe Arcane to act as a means of efficiency." Molt Efficiency is sitting in the corner crying while it continues to cut down the energy drain cost of every drain-over-time ability in the game. ----- I find it curious that for Secondary Encumber, you glossed over Galvanized Shot for Secondaries having +120% per status compared to every other mod's 80%. At 13 elements, that's 1560% direct damage.

6:50 While talking about armor arcanes you forgot about Arcane Ultimatum that gives 1200 armor for 45s on a finisher (ground finishers not included). I still find all this new arcanes either very niche or just way OP. It's warframe after all so balance is not a thing, that's why we love it

Arcane double-back is usually at 50% DR for me since I spam bullet jumps and double jumps during combat. It necessitates a specific play-style but it’s very good for squishy frames, especially if you don’t use heavy weapons :>

If you have a secondary weapon with Encumber on it, will it proc off of shots from Dex Pixia?

Can you make a video about How long to max out Arcane Energize from capture Eidolons pls

Question: What does Steadfast do with Mesa's 4? It's a channel, sort of, but it costs on each shot... Would this trigger and give you some free shots?

when i get primed plated rounds i might try it on my quellor

does primary plated rounds + Tenet Tetra(Grenade Round) work ?

I like steadfast for energy reduction sorties

12:38 This would work well with _the book,_ especially if you're using the standard 'spread status, then kill' priming technique for Steel Path but _not_ using frame powers for it. 13:08 Never mind. Maybe it'll be useful.

Wish I saw this and knew about those restrictions to Arcane Double Back before buying a maxed version. T_T

enchumber is strong, but flare was easier to get (since doing so much zariman stuff anyways to get max rank syndicate)

Primary Plated Round works best on Tenet Tetra due to its ability to instantly empty its mag with the alt fire.

For Arcane Steadfast, how does it affect abilities that drain your energy over time? Could I trigger steadfast then use it to make an infinite mirage disco ball?

I was looking at arcane double back for xaku because of xakus 75% evasion. Adding DR on top of that evasion means if and when xaku gets hit the hit won’t be as bad as it would be without the DR. My other option would be to subsume Eclipse on xaku after the eclipse change.

Plated Rounds works well with Soma Prime incarnon, as incarnon mode helps with ammo efficiency, and Hata-Satya encourages you to empty your mag anyway.

Arcane Steadfast is really good on frames which spam skills as you get the full value out of them, Protea being a great example of this.

hey i have some questions regarding the armor calculations at @7:00 . I used the DR formula on the warframe wiki to check if i get the same results. and the formula goes: DR=Armor/(Armor+300), which means at 100 Armor the DR= 100/400= 25%. With Arcane Tanker equipped: 1300/1600= 81% DR. Which means i have an absolute DR gain of 56% and a relative DR gain of 325%. I really cannot comprehend how you have a DR gain of 75%, are you using a different formula? Please elaborate :) PS: I really enjoy your content :)

with arcane steadfast I fell like its usually pretty decant until the thing decides not to activate for the next 20 to 25 abilities, the probability of this happening should be so low yet it seems to happen every mission at least once so if your trying to use this to set something up that will instantly ruin that making this arcane kind of Garbo. If they added some sort of pity to it or increased the chance I think it could be good. Edit to this, it is pretty easy to acquire this compared to energize so I'm perfectly fine with it being weaker but the rng makes it not fun when you can go for example and entire exterminate mission without it activating once making it useless.

The incarnon furis might be a decent contender for Seconday Encumber, the fire rate for the flamethrower effect is has is pretty insane.

so what weapons have the highest ammounts of new statuses with Encumber ? even with full status/speed kuva nukor i have problems getting all status types in any reasonable time

I could see myself using steadfast on a Revenant build in Sorities with energy reduction. It would make sure I can cast Mesmer skin on my allies even when I don't have the energy for it

Ocucor + secondary encumber + galvanized shot. For what i tested since each ray procs status and crits independently of each other encumber just procs way more often just by sheer chance. And well max stacks of galv shot is 120% damage per status which i think its the same as one secondary deadhead stack.

Soma prime with max fire rate is gonna go crazy with this

Secondary kinship having an additive crit makes running kuva Nukor on my Oberon sound pretty good

For Primary Plated Rounds : i'm probably going to go grind for this one at some point, but it's looking like a very solid replacement for Fractalized Reset on my Soma prime. which, with a 200 magazine, still empties in well under 10 seconds. but the ammo consumption makes it difficult to fuel long term, so it needs to be backed by either a strong secondary/melee, or a good exalted weapon. my approach will probably be empty the magazine early, then force it to wait on reloading until i want the gun's damage, and swap back. I just haven't really used soma since phenmor came out, so i probably won't use it much. i can't really say i've done much with secondary arcanes. only one i've leveled is Cascadia Empowered for my Kuva Nukor. I'm not sure i'd actually really go for secondary encumber, but i generally don't use primer effects. if an enemy is a problem, i throw damage numbers. if that doesn't work, i throw bigger numbers. that approach hasn't failed me yet. i don't oneshot some of the heavier steel path grineer, but punching them a second time isn't really a problem for me.

What are all the orbs around Carrier Prime in the Encumber video?

What's your "observe" build ö

Steadfast on hildryn is mainly because hildryn skill do cost energy and its her passive converting energy cost to shield cost i believe. since subsumed pillage stilll cost energy to other frames.

Are condition overload and it's galvanized counterparts multiplicative with base damage mods like serration?

Steadfast got me thinking, maybe having it on Atlas with the landslide augment ? Allowing you to either remove path of statues or being able to have 3 helminth abilities of choice for free.

Funnily secondary kinship doesn't work on Chroma's vex armor when allies are nearby. Only his Elemental ward gives the benefit from the arcane.

Would Arcane Steadfast work on abilities that have a continuous energy drain? Ex: Titania's 4 Razorwing

I could see Primary Plated Rounds being great for the Quelor. It's secondary fire could easily dump 300 rounds in under 10 seconds.

"poor man arcane energize" I just had flashbacks from my early days in WF. As LMR2, I almost have every resource the game could offer.

I like that they add more unique arcanes to all slots, that are not just damage on another condition, but there is one big thing that realy annoys me about them is... The arcane adapters are still steelpath locked, like you can get arcanes now that could be grinded by newer players that then again are not allowed to equip them. Vorunas arcanes were the first thing I joked about to my friend (new war not yet completed) that he could grind with me, but not acces the pity shop. with Citrine shop accesable he bought a full set of primary plated rounds for his Kohm, but he can't yet visit teshin to get the adapter, which made him very very upset.

one thing to add bout the double back one is that ya also get 75% damage reduction when ya dodge roll anyways

How effective would twin kohmak be with secondary encumber?

As a secondary account player i use to spam cheap abilities to resist status effects and didn't know why it sometimes didn't work. Seems like i've cripples myself with Steadfast.

I used to only watch Brozime until i looked yp an archon how to that consisted of watching him run in and one shot with not 1 word said to explain the fight etc.....unsubbed then found tour videos which are perfect. Cover all aspects of everything. True instructional video. Thanks !!!!

Would love a video about limbo

Arcane steadfast is great on protea with proper usage of her 4, it allows for inf energy if done right

I'm not actively playing the game anymore, but Arcane Steadfast sounds quite interesting for Atlas, you could run Rubble Heap making Landslide cost 0 energy when you're above 1400 rubble, which could then trigger Arcane Steadfast consistently, while not consuming charges as it's free at that point. The charges could then be used for casting Petrify, basically making your core skills cost 0 energy, allowing you to disregard energy completely. But for that to work Landslide under Rubble Heap would have to actually not consume the charges. (And I'm aware that you could achieve the same with Path of Statues, but that one was inconsistent at best when I was still actively playing)

What is that secondary weapon your using, "Observe"????

Encumber and a well modded Tysis will prime God himself.

arcane steadfast and double back are both quite good on volt, his 2 and relying on a nuking ability makes doing that much parkour feel alot more comfortable, and capacitance both provides a solid chunk of shield tanking that would benefit alot from non-armor resistances, and forgoes the need for brief respite/augur mods. he also actually needs it since he is very mod slot starved needing to build for high range strength and duration especially (which conflicts with your biggest efficiency increase mod and is limited if you want max range), usually doesnt have a helminth open for more energy, and because of the cost and duration of his 4 the reduction from the cost goes a much longer way in your energy economy compared to most other frames. its somewhat a shame you can only have two (not really build diversity is fun) because it feels hard to give up molt efficiency/augmented to fit those on instead. personally i have fully maxed out archon shards on him so i dont use steadfast on him and use efficiency or augmented depending on the helminth secondary encumber is cool but im annoyed that it procs gas so it's bad with sickening pulse lavos

The Secondary Encumber is so dang nice i am praying so hard we get a primary version in future.

Did we forget about ultimatum as a DR arcane? 1200 armor on finisher

Laetum with Encumber could be really good since the gun scales multiplicatively with gun CO

This might be a bit late ofr this, but i think the plated round arcane would be good on a tenet tetra. as long as you keep using the grenade mode....... It's not recharging weapon or only shots one round. And the magazine size is huge!!!!! Maybe this would work?

Secondary Encumber is a godsend for giving SO MANY other secondaries the chance to be primers as well.

So the last arcane for priming combined with a purposely low mag capacity fast fire rate cycron ( no need for ammo ) it is literally op since you'll empty and reload fast and prime like crazy!!

I would also say for arcane steadfast... MANY warframes are going to be modded for some amount of ability efficiency anyways for all the times it DOESN'T trigger. So when steadfast triggers... It isn't saving you the full 100 or 75 or 50 energy. It's saving you far less due to things like streamline or similar. Doesn't make sense to spend an arcane slot just to try to wring energy put if the cup when other asrcanes can refil it completely

Ngl, seeing the encumber section of you using the praedos on valkyr instead of her talons which could just 1 shot enemies kinda hurts my soul

tbh the only use i ever found for primary plated is for eidolons on a rubico, and even then it pretty much barely makes a difference

I've been using arcane steadfast on my nezha and rhino as I use it to get free cc effects

Steadfast on volt and xaku could be useful. My setup with energise on xaku makes it impossible to use the laser. This would allow it every now and then with energise

Try this: Plated rounds + Kuva Hek (with mag size riven + mod) + Instant reload Garuda build (gloom + aument that reloads 100% when you sacrifice health for energy). Well... plating rounds and garuda seem to be a perfect match. Just build around mag size and fire rate (on weapons that dont instantly deplete all mag).

plated rounds can be amazing for duviri!