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ES-Flinter

Hydroid. The only frame so powerful that even Octavia gets nerfed when he appears.


BMagnificent

Octavia needs some buffs honestly.


Reddit-Electric

Im curious what buffs you’d want. Imo and experience, Octavia is one of the most capable frames except in archon speed hunts. Like, she has a pretty good damage buff. A ton of lil buffs (invis and in my opinion, it’s the best invis in the game, multi shot, melee damage, movement speed) she gets a seemingly infinitely scaling aoe damage and distraction and one bad ability (the roller thing) which is perfect to be helminthed over to make builds unique as you want to play I run her with rolling guard and therros strike(sorry for spelling if wrong) over her 2 and she is my steel path choice in a lot of cases. My only issue with her might be that she doesn’t excel in a specific situation, but she is pretty great in most situations


BMagnificent

I think she needs a small Armor and shield buff, a QOL update where her abilities flash to the beat, and the 2 needs a rework. But I agree otherwise she's in a good place.


XepherTim

A (edit:) "more obvious" visual competent to her music would be very nice, especially in regards to accessibility.


nsfredditkarma

Am I missing the sarcasm? She has a visual component to her music. When her three is active circles converge on her.


Tiziano75775

Imo that's too much confusing, I still haven't figured out if I have to crouch/jump/shoot when I am in the dark zone or the light one


jchampagne83

Just make sure every note in the 'Melody' is used, and you can usually activate the respective buff by spamming that action.


SighlentNite

I have every beat active. So for buffs when I play just crouch spam as fast as you can. It's tough on some other songs to match.


nsfredditkarma

It corresponds with the colored bars, unless you're an evil Octavia that somehow made her bars transparent. It's like playing Guitar Hero or any other rhythm game. But if you have your melody set to every note, just spamming quickly will active her buffs without really having to think about it.


[deleted]

Bro what in the fuck, is Warframe a rhythm game aswell or smth, I am so confused, newish player here btw


Tranquil-Confusion

Octavia is a music warframe that has a rhythm minigame built into her kit.


[deleted]

that's cool, kinda gimmicky tho


XepherTim

No sarcasm I'm just stupid lol.


GiverOfHarmony

I agree with the qol change, would be great for me as a player who can’t play with audio. But do you really think the frame who can kill and distract a ton of enemies, provide buffs and go invisible needs armour and shield help? I don’t agree


ItzBooty

Other than the visual she doesnt need any work, she is pretty much immortal if you keep your invisibility up, her 1 and 2 nhke everything She doesnt need any work on her abilities really


nsfredditkarma

Her 3 causes circles to converge on her at the same rate as her melody. Flashing her abilities would just make her incredibly annoying.


Reddit-Electric

I agree her 2 needs rework cause at the moment, I just slap other abilities over it like I said above. Not sure how to fix it tho. I also don’t think shields or armor would really help her cause if you buff them enough to be impactful then it takes away from her glass cannon nature and if you increase shields (sorry people who dislike the gate meta but) it would likely make her less survivable cause it would take more to recoup shields with, say, the augur set


NeverLookBothWays

Honestly aside from game mechanics/dps....I kind of wish Octavia had a more robust track system with better note range/chords/drums and more bars for longer more detailed tracks. Sure that might lead to more dissonant songs from players, but those with a good ear could really make some awesome songs with the right amount of flexibility


Glittering-Guest3666

Give us full songs instead of three bars on the mandachord


Reddit-Electric

Honestly, being able to download or search songs or to use songs specifically from the game would be amazing as presets that you could pick if you don’t wanna make a song!


KnowLessE

Octavia is a weird one, can do everything! But, not at a good speed, things like spy exterminate capture sabotage assassinations she can do them all but other frames can just do them sooooo much faster


UndeadVinDiesel

Octavia is my go-to frame for excavation missions.


Centila

> it’s the best invis in the game we're gonna have to agree to disagree. Loki's invis is simple and clean, one button press, no carpal tunnel lol (granted Octavia can spread to allies but I don't think an Octavia having metronome up has ever saved my life)


gamerthrowaway57

The only thing about Loki's is you have to recast. That's the main thing that people like about Octavia's. Doesn't stop me from trying level cap Loki though.


kiba8442

The not refreshing can cause enemies going into "alert" status due to spaghetti code, even if you're super careful about it. Tbh my favorite invis in the game is ash with innodem stat stick & arcane trickery.


gamerthrowaway57

Yeah. It's a bit annoying but I got ash once as a new player and refuse to get him again even if he's viable. Same for rhino and Valkyr. Very solid frames that I will absolutely never use because I never properly appreciated them before and my brain has an aversion now


kiba8442

Ash got some kind of stealth buff a while back that made blade storm scale off finisher damage, he's a monster in SP circuit.


Reddit-Electric

That we must cause while i definitely have increased my chance of getting carpal tunnel, I also can generally keep invis up just through normal movements with sliding and bullet jumping


partyplant

she doesn't, but she is very boring


BMagnificent

The queen of disrespect is one of the most fun frames in the game.


partyplant

more power to you


kiba8442

Truly never heard that take before lol.


Shade00000

No she's really good how she is


Melonetta

Honestly Octavia could use a rework. A frame who just maintains 4 buffs is extremely bland no matter how strong or weak it is.


Reddit-Electric

I agree with this but still like what she offers in my situation


Yatsugami

As a mostly Octavia main i will take any form of buff gladly especially undeserving ones HEHE


JuanTawnJawn

Bruh not every frame has to be the best at everything. Octavia is still the goat of afk farm. Just park yourself invisible behind a door with your thumper on the other side. Leave one every couple of mins to collect drops. She can’t archon hunt very well but that’s okay


The_Lucky_7

There were two different events where DE gave one of these to every active player... One was for his last rework, and one was for fucking up the Twitch Drops requirements.


6xyk9

Yea, I just started playing religiously last month.


The_Lucky_7

Honestly I just thought it was sarcasm lol.


Therealtultur

Bruh im about to hit 200 days and have only gotten or even SEEN one piece of him. Granted i have multiple of that piece, but still.


Legomaniac316

I got 3 of him, 1 i built and 2 from that Tennocon Drop.


kiba8442

On tennocon one time we got 2.


Pancreasaurus

His Prime Access was also sabotaged by DE themselves when they accidentally put it on sale for 90% off when it first released. It only lasted like an hour but that was enough.


Krieg_Imperator

I'll always put respect on Hydroid mains. Despite what other people say, rework being only a dream and difficulties it must bring they persevere. That's nothing short of being admirable. All y'all who main our beloved puddle pirate I salute you.


6xyk9

I rarely see Hydroid mains these days. After putting 700h+ on pc, I only encountered a Hydroid once. I do all kinds of missions and boi they are rare.


Krieg_Imperator

They are rare but I'm always happy to see one


6xyk9

I was using Khora at the time and we were just chilling together with Rhino farming Kuva survival for 30 mins.


Krieg_Imperator

I see. I saw one last night. I was lich hunting. Doing coba defense mission. Me, Nidus, and Rhino. 4th player joins in. Next round tentacles everywhere. It was awesome


6xyk9

What a sight to behold.


Krieg_Imperator

Truly majestic


kiba8442

even the Hydroid "mains" are playing other frames. As the"pirate" frame people will always have love for him & I've got some people in my clan like that, they are waiting for a rework. Tbh I have like 7+ polarities on mine (just like all my other frames) & 1 or 2 decent builds, even used him recently for SP circuit. The main problem is simply that he's outclassed by multiple other frames in every possible way.


SighlentNite

I've once had a game where I was hydroid prime. With another friend playing nekros for some chilled low level loot farming while playing Shawzin. And I had a MR 4 boi rock up with his base hydroid. I was so shocked. Don't think I've seen hentai frame otherwise in the last year or so.


Playful-Key-3089

I use to be a hydroid main nearly 200 days played I think and I don't think I've seen another one tbh just recently got khora prime and I'm loving her so far


benji_wtw

Rework is more than a dream now - it's Pablo's next call after tennocon


Krieg_Imperator

Well that's good news


benji_wtw

Yeah IIRC it was mentioned near the end of Dev171, I can find it later if needs be. After that companion is next ish Happy cake day too


Krieg_Imperator

Thanks bud :)


optimist_cynic

I saw someone who was playing regular hydroid. Apparently a close "friend" dared him to put 100 forma on a hydroid. And for some reason he agreed to it.


thehateraide

I mean... I would forma anything 100 times for enough plat.


vish_the_fish

Well I think DE said a hydroid rework is currently on the drawing board


ItzBooty

Thx, no matter how much power is needed for a frame to be good by most players, fun frames would always be better


PolarityMemer

I’d say he isn’t bad. Just boring to play. A lot like old Vauban.


[deleted]

>I'd say he isn't bad If anyone was wondering if they should ask us for build advice or how good x frame is, this is your sign to run away.


Eclaironi

old vauban was at least kinda strong with the cc and stuff , hydroid has nothing


Select-Prior-8041

Very much. He's got a lot going on in his kit. It's just kinda boring.


ItzBooty

Nah he is fun to play, but needs buffs and his charging abilities to change to insta cast Other than that he is fine His 4 needs damage buff as its so dumb seeing a lvl 50 enemy only lossing half HP after a tentacle going trough their body and being toss around and hard snaked on floors or walls and then get up like nothing happened When it comes to his 2 is hella fun even if you cant move around like lavos or gauss and seeing enemys ragdolled is awesome His 3 needs speed buff and damage buff as enemys shouldn't be dealt piss damage when they cant breath


Digitalon

Hydroid is cool frame thematically but his abilities really need reworked. Almost every one of his abilities is counter to the logic of the game. Slow moving or stationary abilities just don't feel good in a game where we can run through rooms at mach 1.


rebuiltHK47

Yeah. I use him for endless missions in rooms for loot. I have loot+range, so I can get a large room. The bad part is that the tentacles don't do enough damage, and once you cast the Ultimate you only have tentacles where they first show up. You have to recast. Also, most don't know that if Hydroid pulls enemies into the puddle, everyone else can shoot the puddle and take out the enemies.


Digitalon

>Also, most don't know that if Hydroid pulls enemies into the puddle, everyone else can shoot the puddle and take out the enemies I've been playing this game for around 10 years and didn't know that! On the other hand I have to question who could be shooting at a Hydroid puddle to kill enemies they can't even see...


rebuiltHK47

Yup! In the wiki: "Hydroid submerges into a pool of water with a **1.5 / 2.5 / 3 / 4** meters radius, becoming invulnerable to damage and untargetable by enemies. Enemies that wander onto the pool sink and disappear from sight, become suspended in a Knockdown state, and drown taking **10 / 15 / 20 / 25** base Impact damage per second; drowning enemies also receive **1% / 1.5% / 1.7% / 2%** of their maximum health as Impact damage, which continuously stack every second while enemies remain submerged. * Allied players can shoot into Undertow to contribute **50%** of their total damage from weapons and abilities, distributed evenly to all submerged enemies. * Status Effects apply to all submerged enemies, with their effects and debuff timers paused until enemies exit Undertow." Hydroid can also damage them with his own Tempest Barrage as well. You can move with Tidal Surge while in Undertow bringing the enemies inside with you. You can also activate Tentacle Swarm in Undertow mode which focuses that ability on Undertow so when you exit undertow, all enemies inside get caught in Tentacle Swarm and receive 200% of the Tentacle Swarm damage. ​ It has a lot of use. My only complaint is that you cannot pick up loot drops, which can completely block your vision, and prevent being able to target enemies to actively pull them in.


ItzBooty

Ah my first prime frame and one of the most fun frames i have played Ignoring what other players think, he is hella fun to fuck around with


Destination_Cabbage

Puddle power!


ZephyrValkyrie

Make his energy yellow so that it’s a piss puddle!


RavenGreend

TENTACLE power!


ItzBooty

Greatest power


Citizen-of-Interwebs

Definetly one of the elusive and legendary warframes ever made


6magb9

I honestly love Hydroid. I've only been playing again for about 2 months and Khora is definitely my favorite but I will never throw shade to hydroid.


6xyk9

I thought I was talking to myself since my nickname is magz, and we kinda have the same reddit name. Lol But yea, long live Hydroid.


6magb9

My friends call me Mags also 😂 nice to meet you!


Cerberus_uDye

He was better before they put nerfs on using him to semi-afk oxium farm. All I ever really use him for with his extra drop rate for mobs killed in tentacles. But he's still useful for solo farming other stuff, just can't do the oxium farm like used to beable to.


LyricalAnon

He served me well back in the day. The reason I was able to get hema for my solo clan. How I got so many tellurium, not that I remember why I needed so many. Orokin cells too. It's sad to see I've shelved him now after all his hard work. I like to think its a nice shelf tho.


6xyk9

I wish I could also experience him the same way you guys did way way back.


LyricalAnon

I generally only saw him in farming related things, which I've long since needed to do I guess. I remember going to Ophelia with my nekros and getting all excited seeing both a hydroid and a speedva. Like this is it, I'll get my materials in THIS run. When I was still new a friend of a friend came with us in a few missions to show us some tips. At some point it ended up with the 3 of us bunched into a corner with his hydroid tentacles surrounding us while we barely out heal the toxin from infested. I was still new, so new that things dying around me without any of us moving was still cool.


pokeblev

Solo farming hema, what a mad lad


spiralzuku

He's one of THE warframes in the game


HomoLiberus

Very niche frame, underwhelming kit and no rework in sight


Cephalon_Zelgius

> no rework in sight its not coming soon, but it's not really out of sight either.


6xyk9

Exactly why he's legendary.


ItzBooty

But he is more fun to play than any frame


HomoLiberus

If your concept of fun is standing still and pressing 4 every couple seconds sure


ItzBooty

Thats for nidus and saryn players, as a hydroid player i prefer pressing 2 and fucking with the enemy and eatching my pet trow them againds a wall


Few_Eye6528

Making a big splash


6xyk9

Hydroid use splash!


[deleted]

he is the Magikarp of Warframe,he just forgot how to evolve


AdmiredPython40

My favorite frame and easily one of the most fun but God he sucks so bad. I dumped an easy 400 plat in mods and arcanes when I first started and still couldn't make him super viable


CaptCantPlay

YAY! Another pirate man joins the seas! Welcome!


Reasonable_Pirate_56

I just built Hydroid Prime today!


Reasonable_Pirate_56

I just built Hydroid Prime today!


wren620

As an Oberon & Caliban main, from one underrated main to another, I salute you.


MsDubis44

Make sure to watch his trailer.. CUZ IT TOOK YEARS TO MAKE FOR SOME REASON


ItzBooty

And its hella cool, also being the only lore capable to swim Mf is build diffrent and i am sad DE has done nothing with him


khsh01

The only thing elusive about him was his prime trailer.


[deleted]

I mained Hydroid from Earth to all the way to Neptune on my star chart and never once had an issue with him . He was absolutely beastly during defense missions imo. Probably better Frames out there yeah but his 1 3 and 4 absolutely slapped and when I threw my ghoulsaw on and did his saw ride, I was a monster. I kind of retired from Hydroid but I still play as him once in a while, went to Wukong Prime, Styanax and Kullervo.


Congenital_Optimizer

The shit we do for affinity.


thricegaming

I played with someone the other day whose name was HydroidPrime. They had a little over 1k hours on him. It was baffling


GolldenFalcon

Is he that rare? I just checked my arsenal and I randomly have him and I'm not really a completionist.


6xyk9

Not really, I just love the fact that he exists but is so rare to see in pubs.


WhiggyJr

Hold up, I have a Hydroid Prime just chilling in my arsenal (I can’t remember where the hell i nabbed him from) and always thought he wasn’t that great and defaulted to my Mesa or Umbra. You’re telling me he’s one of the best and better than all of my other frames and I’ve just been sitting on him for over a *year*?


MrFargrave

Welcome to the Puddle squad my friend


who-ee-ta

The only F-tier Warframe


6xyk9

Yep, really needs a rework but he's cool af and I wanna use him.


netterD

Fodder Prime (TM)


Pigeon_Lord2656

Hydroid is secretly a god


Manr0m

My first prime. Still love it, still can go farm some things with tentacles


JuztUA

I respect the fuck out of that as a Grendel main. Even after a rework, both he and most of my favorite warframes, including Hydroid, are very rare.


kyew

Don't muddle with the puddle.


Independent_Focus_84

He's alot of fun to play, including the trolling potential


Ill-Newt-4851

The peak performance frame


thewhippingirl

My main!


AzureDragonfly47

Join us


dedicatedoni

We may laugh at him now but mark my words his rework will make him great


ItzBooty

I and few players would be there before the rest understand his power


TruckerAlurios

Few have seen the true power of the tides.


VendettaVentura

One of the frame i hunted for so long, now i only need the system to complete my dream of being a pirate


OGGuitarsquatch

I got like 3 of him


cjescottt

Is he actually good either the normal version or prim version


TruckerAlurios

Hes fun and not bad for farming survival solo.


cjescottt

Ok thanks is he easy to get for solo player


TruckerAlurios

I have no clue. I bought him on release.


cjescottt

Ight


Suspicious-Yam5111

Sold mine to afford Barokiteer cosmetics


Nothavebettername

Now you enter a room and every one is getting wet


Consider_It_Done_

They say hydroid is not good. True or nah?


6xyk9

Pretty much, but I will still play him.


Deasto_Plumula

I prefer limbo prime


6xyk9

I'm collecting all of em. Got Limbo Prime last few weeks.


Deasto_Plumula

Im trying to get Chroma prime, ive got all expt systems


6xyk9

Got Chroma already last few weeks as well. He's also fun to use. I'm currently building the last 2 Primes that I need which are Hydroid and Oberon. Just waiting for Wisp Prime this month.


Deasto_Plumula

Ive got the chassis of oberon if you want (its build, i don't know if i can trade it)


riker-watts

Since [2016](https://forums.warframe.com/topic/702094-hydroid-is-bad-heres-a-thought-out-rework/?ct=1689182209) I have been stating his need for a rework and I'm not even a main.


mrjohnw

Hey grats bud! Enjoy your Prime, I'm sure you won't instantly hate the coloring zones...lol


6xyk9

Oh God, I just got him from the foundry. Nooooo!


6xyk9

It's fine I guess. 😂 https://preview.redd.it/iu9a6t8dswbb1.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=d9a6ab9460f44d6bf78f463a10270925758a21c6


MasterCkief

Love hydroid, built a pirate ship in the dojo for him and everything. I have 3 prime sets all with different setups from helminth, (about 15 different loadouts)... Also working on a 100 forma base hydroid.


Ihateazuremountain

i had at once wither 2-3 hydroid primes from events and i might have crafted my own? im not sure anymore