Keegen
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.
Adaptation needs to be stacked (which is very bad when an Eximus nukes you with electricity or heat at 0 stacks) and against most enemies will never actually provide 90% DR, but usually closer to 50-70%. Most enemy attacks will do a mix of all 3 of the base physical damage types and Adaptation will only adapt to the highest one, leaving the other two completely uncovered.
I just run the standard "every normal secondary in the game build" with multishot, crit mods and the 60/60 toxic/cold mods + primed heat mod. The only change is Hornet Strike is replaced with Anemic Agility, her 2 already gives you the same additive damage increase that mod does and Glory doesn't use ammo so fire rate is just a pure DPS increase on her.
The base resistance from the ability does, but add to that Aviator, Boreal's Hatred and the Aerodynamic aura and you are approaching 90% damage reduction while airborne, which you are most of the time as Jade.
Kaguya-sama: Love is War. The manga itself is great but reading it live and discussing it on the old site elevated the experience even more. While I wasn't the biggest fan of the ending, everything else was just so good it's hard for me to give it anything but a 10.
While her quest has some... questionable implications, Jade herself is nothing but a stellar frame! Float around blasting enemies while having around 90% damage reduction, slow and armor strip anything you look at and give your allies and yourself some power strength or weapon damage. All around good stuff! Her flight is also way more controllable and comfortable than Titania, so if you don't want wall-clipping levels of speed this frame can be your "need to gather stuff from the air" frame instead!
Seasonal death counter: 3 (+0, no deaths this episode - good job Subaru!)
Four witch cultists at once! And all the Royal Selection candidates just happened to be invited at the same time, huh? No conspiracy present here, no sir! Poor Garf is dealing with some serious trauma, man was still working through his defeat by Elsa and now he finally found his mother only for her to completely forget him! At least he has an emotional support chibi catgirl for moral support.
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.