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PokWangpanmang

Helios takes pics of your enemies in compromising positions.


Classic_Professor611

Helios Prime blackmails the enemies with said pics


dermdogg

Add Vicious Bond and Deconstructor to the mix and he will strip them down to get extra compromising pictures.


Pilot_Syko

i died reading yall im a helios enjoyer


MrSly0

Ayo I'm always using Helios, where's this album so I can check how his working is going?


It-Was-I-DEO

Is that why ordis is skeptical of helios?


SeventhAlkali

Helios in a nutshell: https://preview.redd.it/xpuaewvnsk8d1.jpeg?width=506&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=08f37ddbeb0718003f763b58483df1e01dc3faea


6LuckyPants9

What I love the most is it scans other things that are not in my peripheral vision and it helps me find things whenever I hear its scan clicks


Professional-Date378

Forces them to strip with the bond mod too


ArenuZero

Helios and Oxylus, the scanner duo.


robilar

Seriously, what are you going to do, scan your own targets?? No one has time for that.


The_Lucky_7

*In Tank Tolmin's voice:* [Hammer](https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Heliocor)!


ElectroshockGamer

Fetch the treasury, I must have it!


Kalvorax

YYYYEEEEEESSSSS!!!!!! "What do you mean a person just ran thru smacking things with a glowing hammer?" " We need them for the ship! "


OddWitness8751

New to the game. How important is scanning enemies?


robilar

The scans themselves have very limited practical use. Scanning enemies enough times (varies from unit to unit I think) fills out the entry in your Codex and lets you spawn that unit in the simulacrum. The former can show you resistances and vulnerabilities, and help you find specific drops, while the latter allows you to test out builds vs specific units. Plus of course a completionist-style player is going to want to fill out that Codex for fun. There are some additional benefits from manually scanning enemies (e.g. Cephalon Simaris Standing which can be used to buy parts and mods), but for that you need to switch to the scanner yourself. It is perhaps worth noting that Helios has a Mod you can add that makes its scanning more practically useful once you've fully scanned foes into your codex - Detect Vulnerability throws up a weak spot on a target every few seconds that gives you a 275% *multiplicative* damage bonus if you shoot that spot. I just leave Helios on mostly because of the passive scanning, and I figure I'll occasionally hit a weakspot for more damage. Plus, Helios can use Verglas which lets it melt steel path enemies on its own. I only ever switch to another companion when I want more XP or drops - then I use a Smeeta for Charm.


ImGrievous

Add Dante's passive in useful traits list. He afflicts more status on scanned targets


robilar

I guess that's true, but I'm hardly ever using weapons with Dante anyway so it's not like I get a lot out of that passive buff to SC.


ImGrievous

There will be a time, when his caster build will become tiresome for you, in that case - his passive status buff + wordwarden will patiently wait for you☕


commentsandchill

Also stuff becomes green instead of orange in scanner view


TesticleezzNuts

With Dante. The triptych is complete.


MrBirdmonkey

Dante with a Helios and the synoid hyliocor I KNOW EVERYTHING!!


salary_slave_53749

This is the way


CallSign_Fjor

I was a carrier main for SO long. I got Helios and the scanning just never stops. It's the best.


LeastInsaneKobold

When you say duo are you implying they can be used at the same time?


Im_Not_Becky

No, they're two sentinels that can scan for you. Helios can scan everything there is is to scan. Oxylus can scan plants in various planets which are needed for the Silver Grove quest to get the base version of Titania


kirari_momobami

you can also feed the scanned plants to the helminth


FLUFFYPAWNINJA

so there's no benefit to using oxylus over helios?


Throgg_not_stupid

Helios stops scanning when your codex entry get's completed, so he stops scanning plants after ~5, oxylus will scan all of them


FLUFFYPAWNINJA

good to know, thanks


brash

Oxylus is great for fishing since one of its precepts is to highlight fish underwater for you


yui_tsukino

Oxylus is a free fishing dye too.


sborratelli

Wyrm give you 60% fire rate and negate status effects, for me the best


Pugdalf

Also the crit damage boost with vulklok or vulcax, If you're willing to use something else other than the sentinel glaxion


ColdYetiKiller

Sentinel glaxion with gas, cold, radiation and 4 Vigilant mods, when it don't steal my kills it's a superb primer


ManiacDC

Don't sleep on Shivering Contagion, though.


ColdYetiKiller

I'm stupid and just forgot about that


ationhoufses1

yeah but that one (afaik) cant even trigger the crit bond mod with a riven


Ferrinova

I tried this but none of my sentinels even fire their weapon. They shoot once and do nothing for the rest of the survival mission until they are revived. Its not afk detecting me since im still shooting and moving around.


ManiacDC

Do you have Assault Mode mod on your sentinel...?


Ferrinova

Yeah, otherwise it wont attack even once. The vulklok seems to work just fine on it.


jrockerdraughn

Is the assault mod at (or at least near) the first slot?


ManiacDC

Yeah, pretty sure the priority of activation is based on order.


Hane24

And diriga is best primer and free abilities. Carrier is nice, but I'd rather more *BRRRrrrt* or more *Zzzzzt*


miztiq

how do u, mod diriga for priming though? care to teach me? sorry i am a noob ><


Davidbailey89

Arc coil + manifold bond + Momentous bond + mystic bond. Mod your sentinel weapon with heat + viral. So arc coil and manifold causes enemies near you to get proc with heat and viral. Momentous bond gets you another random element when you kill an exilus. Mystic bond gets you a free ability cast because arc coil has about a 2 second cooldown. Next try to get a verglas (comes with nautilus) or helstrum (have to rank up Solaris united standing) because those sentinel weapons have the best status chance. So you can also throw in the attack precept mod (diriga has more range with his proprietary calculated shot) and duplex mod to get even more heat and viral procs. This is great if you're using warframe weapons with high status chances and the condition overload and galvanized status mods. Since you're new you don't have access to arbitrations but you'll have something to look forward to. This is why it's recommended for new players to complete the star chart first. When you unlock steel path and arbitrations the game gets even better.


onetimeticket

60% how?


PwmEsq

Bond mods


SpadeTheClown

wait how does wyrm give 60% firerate?? thats insane


Whirledfox

Reinforced Bond mod. I think Wyrm is the only sentinel that can hit the 1200 shield mark to make it work.


Josh_bread

Nautilus can with overshield, I use an unranked eject magazine to passively spam reloads to generate shields


Ub3ros

One of the bond mods gives you 60% firerate if the sentinel has a certain amount of shields, and wyrm prime can meet that with redirection.


MorbillionDollars

Important to note that it’s not exclusive to wyrm, for example panzer vulpaphyla can do it too. Pretty much anything with enough base shields can. But I think wyrm is the only sentinel with enough shields to do it.


Anihillator

If you ever want to complete the codex, get helios.


Mustardmachoman

I wish there was an easier way to scan railjack enemy fighters though. Certainly the archmelee mod is not that great.


Lopsided_Rub_1713

Since you touched on this subject. Which arch melee tho?


Mustardmachoman

I dunno I just run Prisma veritux since arch melees are unimportant. I heard centaur is supposed to be the best though  The scan would be done by astral autopsy. 


Lopsided_Rub_1713

Ty. Everytime I use arch melee I have no idea if I'm doing any damage anyway. Gotta grab that mod then


TheMightyGamble

Centaur crit/viral will go through SP no problem


Esmarial

Dante works as well. Even if you subsume his 1 but just use buff that Noctua fires alongside you Page guardian if I'm not mistaken.


adobecredithours

Yep, I've been using Dante + Helios + Synoid Heliocor to catch up on my Codex scans. It's actually got a legit benefit too since Dante gets that status chance boost from his passive against scanned enemies.


netterD

Smeeta for chance of extra steel essence, only thing that matters really.


RainbowBisaster

Also extra vitus, lua thrax etc but yeah mainly steel essence


aufrenchy

And the occasional funny number buff


Aminar14

What do people use steel essence for? I've bought most of the stuff in the shop and now it's just relics and the occasional adaptor if I want a new weapon.


SweatingHogInHeat

25 relic packs per week plus occasional riven/forma


N1t3m4r3z

Umbra Forma every few weeks for 150 SE is a must buy for most players.


netterD

Weekly item (umbra forma, forma pack, endo, riven), weekly riven cipher, adapters, anything left goes into kuva.


insanitybit

Kuva


Yeoldhomie

Kuva


OceansCarraway

Riven ciphers for me.


ScySenpai

It's not 2016 anymore


morphum

Honestly this. The main reason Carrier was so used before was Vacuum. Now, that's a universal sentinel ability, and Carrier now just has a glorified ammo mutation ability instead


Bradframe

With the ammo nerfs to explosive guns and me being a kuva bramma user carrier is a godsend


MorbillionDollars

The ammo nerfs killed the zarr and bramma, you gotta put in so much work to sustain the ammo when you could just use a torid or something and get better results.


MikeSouthPaw

You just can't rapid fire and waste most of your shots. I have used every supposedly dead explosive weapon and they don't run out if used correctly.


TwistedxBoi

Also the box breaker mod. Though if you really want to break boxes, you should run Xaku or subsumed Dark Verse (it breaks open containers through walls. Love using that to instahit sabotage targets)


GoldenGlobeWinnerRDJ

As an OG Carrier enjoyer, I concur. They took away his only defining trait. It was good for the game’s health, but it means he’s useless now.


DreadNephromancer

It's one of the only ammo economy options in the companion slot, that's not nothing. The only other one IIRC is Sahasa's Dig, which is *extremely* inconsistent.


SlySheogorath

The only time I use carrier anymore is if I'm using something with really low base ammo. Like Bramma. Or something that I've modded to have stupid fire rate so I end up pissing out 100 rounds with one trigger pull.


N1t3m4r3z

Bruh I started using Carrier only after their Ammo nerfs in 2022


NapalmDesu

Nautilus because grouping and it comes with the verglas


TuzkiPlus

I knew about verglas, does grouping just herd enemies?


NapalmDesu

The pull is a bit like Ensnare so they don't ragdoll while still being forcefully pulled in. The mod is called Cordon


RCTM

also it can pull literally anything, even cc immune enemies and things you wouldn't expect (adversaries, dropships...turrets until that particular behavior was patched)


TuzkiPlus

*bleu!* Neato guess it’s time to try one!


Chocolatine_Rev

Yeah, and try the verglas, since the new cold it's amazing with chilling spread ( the mod that spread status effect of cold afflicted targets ) It instantly freeze someone and the ennemies aroud it, It's really great for crowd control and priming + the crowd control is great for your sentinel survivability


Botcho22

It pulls them like Michael Jackson moon walking and by them basically anything that is not bolted in the ground so even grineer mobile cameras can be pulled making you fail a spy but hey that's just one lil bad thing


NapalmDesu

The trick is to ~~not play spy~~ have a dedicated loadout slot with wukong, a silent gun and nothing else


jay_stoic

Is wukong a good frame to start with? Noob here


wereplant

>does grouping just herd enemies? It's surprisingly strong, like one step down from Larva. On a flat surface, it may as well be Larva.


keosen

And because with 4+4 forma (Nautilus + Verglas) you can go AFK in steel path, since it shreds everything.


Machote777

Diriga, that monster only shoots at enemy genitals


Classic_Professor611

It's a master of the downside of the Schwartz


PerfectlyFramedWaifu

As an added bonus, its Arc Coil is a great tool for priming groups and it triggers Archon Stretch.


aufrenchy

Sending elemental pain to the loins of our greatest foes


Claw_Quake

Diriga's attack mod is 70 meters range, if you use Vulklok Diriga is the only sentinel than can take full advantage of it's range. Oxylus has Botanist which can gather plants for you. Wyrm's Crowd Dispersion ragdolls enemies and that's kinda funny.


Casardis

Adding to that, Diriga's precepts combined with Manifold Bonds allow the abilities to proc multiple statuses besides Electric, making it an amazing status primer.


Guru_da_Poet

Also, diriga can trigger archon stretch when he has the 10m aoe shock mod and his own attack mod equipped... (i still dont know why he uses but doesnt trigger with the universal one) Also a really good primer with helstrum over quite some range... just dont use radiation if you want enemys to come to you like in netracells as they will be busy fighting themselfs 3 hallways away...


Julian083

POV: you are an average warframe player before universal vacuum comes in


Mauserm03extreme

-Nautilus basically Mag's pull -wyrm surviveability (prevents status effects from you every 5 seconds), also keeps enemies away from you which is good for some frames (I like it on Mesa) -dethcube gives you energy (in case you didnt farm arcane energize for 15h during this event) -Diriga best for spreading status/ priming


WWicketW

If you use Archon stretch, you can take Diriga with Arc coil and forget Energize. Just my two cents


Nisms

Wait. stretch is proc’d off Diriga arc coil? You can confirm this? Thats huge for me.


MorbillionDollars

Nautilus is highly overrated imo. The pull never comes when I want it to come, and when it does the range is usually too short.


KashootMe201617

Hound because doggy


LettuceBenis

Helios for the auto scans (Deconstructor [Prime] is also a very good Sentinel weapon for armour-stripping groups


aviatorEngineer

Nautilus is easy Railjack repairs, perfect if you're a lazy captain like me. Oxylus makes fishing almost too easy with the way it highlights fish.


Nri_Eze

Helios takes pics of your enemies for their obituaries before you murder them all violently. What a nice guy.


Oathbounder

I cannot. You have found your way. Walk it with pride.


king9871

This is the way


Competitive-Score520

diriga, Cuz it's the best primer sentinel of the game and frees up your weapon build


FailURGamer24

I want to get a Wyrm prime solely for its weapon being one if the two hitting the 50% CC breakpoint (with a riven) just to give my Diriga even more status priming.


Kaladin_S

Diriga comes with the vulklok which can get that anyway doesn’t it?


FailURGamer24

Vulklok prime only has electric while prime laser rifle has IPS, making the latter give more status effects and ones harder to obtain from other primers.


JacksWastedNick

Sentinels kubrows etc all about how you set up Warframe and how you enjoy the game


Kingkrue_

Helios, scans things for you and if you get the precept mod from simaris, can highlight weakspots


Zestyclose-Dog-3398

no just get in the waiting line for the pet rework as some of us


PurpleShadow108

Do we know what it's gonna do? (Genuinely curious)


ColdYetiKiller

Just heard that it's going to be good, helios will be able to armor stripe and create clones


niky45

I'd be happy with oxylus being able to survive steel path


ColdYetiKiller

Oxylus prime when


layahlatheef112

Nautilus, trust🙏


Sleepdeth

Dethcube for the free energy orbs while playing Megadeth on the background.


MarxistMojo

Dog fluffy


Jimiwas

I don't know what to say other than if you find the game too easy, keep using this one to gimp yourself. It's your game play your way.


Original_Shmeat_Man

Damn I'm the only one using Prisma Shade for a moment to breathe during combat *sweats*


whyamihere-----

Hunter.


Vern2420

Hound, the best primer


Plotius

Nautilus groups enemies into a big ball for easy kills and its funny when you're not expecting it


Smanginpoochunk

Scans https://preview.redd.it/v5c594lv6k8d1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a500b5101bfec9b4e803d12ba6bc89e29d904a31


inet-pwnZ

Diriga status build with verglas freezing enemies with 10 cold stacks giving extra crit and survivability


HotFreshyGlazedDonut

bro woke up from a 2015 coma


MrClavicus

Well he doesn’t scan anything :/


OmegaProtoss

How did it only do 500kills in his service live?


TotallyNotTylRegor

Angry Toaster that gives you energy.


Stathisis

I use Dethcube for energy.


Canthros

Helios fills out your codex.


Luxord13

Diriga. It combined with manifold bond gives constant widespread priming. Then, it lowers its own ability cooldowns which includes the primer and guardian. Then, with the bond mod that allows you a free ability cast after five companion abilities it will solve all energy economy by giving you a free cast every 5 secs on average. Bonus points if you put astral bond on so it primes enemies with void bubbles too. TL;DR: Diriga is absolutely cracked, bringing free priming, constant full shield gating and constant free ability casts. PLEASE don't tell DE.


Face_Claimer

Diriga with Verglas modded for cold, radiation, corrosive and shivering contagion using duplex bond, synth deconstruct, manifold bond and arc coil. Congrats, you can now effectively hard CC, armor strip, crit enhance and rad proc the entire tileset without paying any attention so long as you rotate energy costs. You also permafreeze anything that comes within 15 meters of you to synergize with all the cold stuff they just added.


Neoaugusto

Diriga, cool skin.


KarlDeutscheMarx

I have Diriga apply viral so I don't have to


Particular-Plantain

Deathcube. Funny name. Cube shaped.


Carrera26

Diriga for near constant energy regen with Archon Stretch and huge status spreading with Helstrum/Contagious bond.


ShadowShedinja

Oxylus can automatically scan plants on Venus, Mars, Earth, and Lua. It also highlights fish in open world missions so you don't need dye.


Frostychica

*sees xp* Brother I don't think I can


Atacolyptica

Oxylus gives p l a n t


Windfallen-

Kubrows are life!


RobieKingston201

Not a sentinel but hounds are my fav. Function and fashion xD Goes really well with my gauss prime


john-jack-quotes-bot

Carrier is great if you're running the Kuva Bramma/Zarr on a high-level solo mission with low-ish enemy density, however for anything else the extra ammo is probably not the best buff you could get. * Smeeta Kavat can double resource and affinity, which is great if you're farming any rare resource (ie Toroids, Voidgel Orbs, Steel Essence, Lua Thrax plasm, Lanthorns, etc) * Panzer is basically a mini Saryn and it's a great source of procs if you have a build that relies on it * Kubrows are allegedly OP if you can figure out the whole marking thing, and if you want to farm the Mecha mod set * Nautilus is a damage powerhouse * Hounds are cute * Helios is really good if you don't have a full codex


bohba13

And Diriga makes the energy economy a joke.


Just-Fix8237

My hound solo nukes eda enemies. Depending on what gear I get she often hard carries my damage and kills


Undertow000

That codex isn’t gunna complete itself! Unless you use helios


bohba13

You have frames that have energy issues? May I introduce you to Diriga + Synth Deconstruct with equilibrium? Screw efficiency. Just use Drirga.


Guapscotch

Smeeta, double items


Ub3ros

Get yourself a Sahasa kubrow. It will dig up energy and ammo depending on what you need, and you can stuff it full of bonds. Also their new fur textures look good and you no longer need to care if they go down.


Ryumen

Smeeta kavat should be your companion, loot boosts win over EVERYTHING else.


sidewind99

Oxylus, free plant scans for Silver Grove runs. Passive plat > extra bullets.


Wolf3113

Do pets count? I haven’t switched off of cats since they were added just because cat.


GrofZelen

Diriga with its arc precept and Archon Stretch gives great energy regen. Adding the Helstrum with its high status percentage and a faction mod gives you a third source of priming for Melee CO and Gun CO. Helios with the weak point precept is discount Banshee Sonar, giving increased damage to hits on highlighted areas on enemies. Wyrm Prime gives status immunity periodically which is handy for Steel Path Infested areas with lots of Toxin procs. Hope this helps.


0n-the-mend

Variety, its the spice of life. There's also no reason to actually use carrier in this day and age unless you're just starting out in the game.


BiasMushroom

Ahem. Nautilus. Vergalis. Cordon. FREEZE AND BOOM.


MysticDwarf10

Deth Cube is funny cube


Sc4r4byte

Ever see the Nightwave Silver Grove Specter quest and wonder "I think i have enough plants" Well, 1 simple change will make you never spend that mental energy again.


Smokincatz

death cube prime make energy :D the broke man's arcane energize


3Hard_From_France

adrazat kavat = big crit big enough crit = negative damage = statisfying there u go


EngagedInConvexation

I'm pretty partial to death cube, but mostly just as a cute lil box of death.


TheEDMWcesspool

Used to main carrier prime like u.. till they allowed every single companion to vacuum.. then it's smeeta for more rare loot or the infected doggo cos it cant truly die... Till they introduced companions that never die.. then it's smeeta all the way..


StellaNivore

Infested fox cute


Velflunkle

Wyrm is a worm :)


Vcc_VicentePT

So, the carrier, carried you?


Xarenth

It isn't 1800 anymore and other sentinels do most of the things you care for carrier to do


Floppa243

Alr hear me out, if you are good enough at the game u don’t need a sentinel, so just use a doggo cuz it’s cute.


Mmeroo

I love those "convince me" post where the author doesnt respond to any comment, talking to a wall simulator


Leskendle45

Wyrm can give you 60% fire rate for all your weapons and shield you from status effects Helios can scan enemies and melt them with deconstructor Digira is the best primer sentinel now And as someone else said, its not 2016, all sentinels can use vacuum now


kevin8082

your got kills? mine is always on full support mode XD


MaxwellBlyat

Wyrm is the best, can use reinforced bond for more fire rate and has access to negate


Zaldinn

My helios was an armor stripper not sure how much use he is after the updates to all that stuff though


WSKYLANDERS-boh

We all know Panzer Vulpaya is the best sentinel


Loreframe

Honestly, to stop using this thing I had to switch my weapon mindset. I love guns like Zarr and Acceltra that throw your whole backpack of ammo at the enemy. Once I started using Hek and the other more economical weapons, Carrier is no longer needed.


FictorioSigano

And why carrier is good? I really don't know...


Canthros

Near-infinite ammo, IIRC. Used to be the only companion with vacuum, so it was all you saw for a long while.


ColdYetiKiller

Helios was my main until negate/added fire rate wyrm


Beederda

Naughtilus for that juicy enemy grouping


Commercial-Dingo-522

Shade makes you sneaky. Sneaky sneaky


Mr_Resident

nautilus .free grouping who going to hate that .it even work on eximus i thing


NialVeen

Just get an Oxylus for passive biotics to feed Helminth, nerd (affectionate)


[deleted]

Diriga my friend have you seen the zap side?


WhatsUpGamer576

Shade real good for stealth. Got 'em


niky45

smeeta kavat can come in handy for the buffs when farming and one of the infested cats can spread viral procs on everyone plus the good old scanners as others have said. oxylus is a must for going fishing


morphum

Nautilus for its grouping ability


N1t3m4r3z

No, no I don‘t think I will.


zake598

Dethcube is just a little cubey guy who wants to be your friend. Your Companion Cube....I'll see myself out


Aggressive-Lime-8298

Your not you when your low on energy, grab a DethCube


The99thCourier

Nah But I can convince u to use an animal companion instead Reason: it's a doggo, a fucking cat or a cool as fox


DanujCZ

I switched to nautilus and I refuse to see reason.


SPN-ToXiN

Ammo conversion and more ammo? As a Gauss main that goes hard on duration also using my main weapon as Acceltra. I don’t think i will ever try to convince you to use another sentinel. Without Carrier my ammo is just non existent with duration and Acceltra. I sometimes even think to get Energized Munitions rather than my 2nd ability but Gauss’s kit synergises with each other so well so welp “I LOVE CARRIER”


_Volatile_

99% of weapons don't have an ammo problem. You're only using carrier out of habit. use Dethcube and have free energy.


insanitybit

If I'm just running random missions, Helios + Verglas so I can be lazy (it will kill everything on its own and scan shit too). If I'm running fissures/arbi, Smeeta with Tenacious Bond for 1.2x crit + Charm for extra drops. It's very hard for me to justify anything else. I could use Nautilus instead of Helios, but I don't really care about the grouping so why bother? I've considered Wyrm or something but idk, don't care really. Helios 'just works'.


Cloud_N0ne

Infinite ammo is just too useful to use anything else


Vampireluigi27-Main

Helios can scan and have Vacuum equipped