Choosing the Right Warframe
Selecting Your Warframe
The foundation of any successful build lies in selecting the right Warframe. Your choice dictates your playstyle, your survivability, and the synergies you can exploit. While many Warframes can wield pistols, some excel at amplifying elemental damage and utilizing these builds.
Benefits of Choosing Warframes
Consider Warframes whose abilities directly enhance your damage output. Consider, for instance, Warframes with damage buffs or those that can significantly boost weapon damage. Think of Warframes that offer an inherent advantage to firearms in general.
Warframes with Elemental Effects
On the other hand, some Warframes gain their power from the application of elemental effects, either through their abilities or from their weapon’s effects. These Warframes gain a bonus when they synergize with elemental damage from their pistol.
Choosing Your Playstyle
Consider the playstyle you desire. Do you prefer an aggressive, head-on approach, or a more supportive, tactical role? This will influence your choice. Are you looking for maximum damage output, or a balance of damage and survivability? The answers to these questions will help you narrow down your selection.
Final Recommendations
The best Warframe for this build will vary, and is really a matter of taste. The most effective choices are going to depend on your preferences. Ultimately, the goal is to choose a Warframe that complements your playstyle and synergizes with your chosen pistol.
Pistol Selection and Modding
Choosing a Pistol
Once you’ve chosen your Warframe, the next step is selecting and modding your pistol. Your weapon is your primary tool for applying elemental damage, so your choices here are paramount.
What to Look For
For an Elemental Warframe build, you should focus on pistols with good base stats, high status chance, and the ability to apply elemental damage efficiently. Several pistols stand out as excellent choices.
The Most Important Stats
The most important factor is status chance, the probability that your shot will inflict a status effect, and damage output.
Modding Your Pistol
When it comes to modding, you have to follow certain rules and principles.
Boost Your Damage
First, you need to boost your base damage with mods. The Serration mod will increase your base damage. Then you must add in mods that add in elemental damage, such as Heat, Cold, Toxin, and Electric.
Status Chance is Key
You must also consider status chance mods to further enhance the likelihood of elemental procs. Higher status chance means more status effects applied, leading to greater control and damage over time.
Critical Considerations
Crit mods, if applicable to the specific pistol, can add a layer of burst damage potential to your build. But elemental effects will be your primary damage dealer.
The Rate of Fire
Another important factor that you have to consider is your weapons rate of fire, this determines how many status effects you apply. A quicker rate of fire allows you to stack elemental effects quickly, increasing your overall damage output and controlling the battlefield.
How to Build the Perfect Pistol
Modding is an art, but with these tips, you can build a great pistol.
Elemental Combinations and Status Effects
Understanding Elements
The true power of an Elemental Warframe lies in understanding and exploiting elemental combinations. These combinations create a diverse range of status effects, each with unique applications and strategic value.
Basic Elements
You can use various elements to create your status effects. Heat, Cold, Electricity, and Toxin are the basic elements.
How to Use Them
Understanding these elements is key to building and understanding the elemental status effects you can create.
Viral, Corrosive, and More
Viral is excellent against flesh, and corrosive is great for breaking armor. Each has unique applications, such as electricity for stunning enemies.
Enemy Weaknesses
Knowing your enemy’s strengths and weaknesses is critical to your build.
Examples of Usage
For example, you can use heat against the various enemies that do not have resistance to it.
Warframe Ability Synergies
How to Use Abilities
Your Warframe’s abilities are the second pillar of your build. They can amplify your pistol’s elemental damage, create opportunities for status effects, and provide essential survivability.
Enhance Your Damage
Some Warframes, like Wisp, can significantly amplify your damage. Other Warframes, like Volt, have abilities that will boost electrical effects.
Making Your Choices
Consider which abilities best complement your build.
Final Recommendations
Using your Warframe’s abilities in conjunction with your pistol is what will give you the advantage in Warframe.
Gameplay Strategies and Tactics
Tactical Awareness
Effective gameplay requires more than just a good build; it demands tactical awareness, positioning, and adaptability.
Your Primary Goal
Your primary objective is to inflict status effects and maximize your damage over time.
Enemy Types
Different enemy types require different approaches.
Examples
For example, enemies with armor require corrosive, which reduces their armor. Enemies with a high amount of health, require viral, to reduce their health.
Be Aware of Your Surroundings
Always be aware of your surroundings, and never forget that you will be the most effective if you use your elements to your advantage.
Advanced Tips and Tricks
Optimizing Damage
To truly master the Elemental Warframe, you need to understand the nuances of damage mitigation, enemy weaknesses, and optimizing your damage output.
Evaluate Your Build
You should constantly evaluate your build and adjust it accordingly.
Conclusion
Final Thoughts
The pistol-wielding Elemental Warframe is a versatile and rewarding playstyle. By combining strategic Warframe choice, weapon modding, and elemental mastery, you can become a force to be reckoned with on the battlefield.
Warframe is About Experimentation
Remember, Warframe is a game about adaptation and experimentation. Do not be afraid to try new things. Experiment with different Warframes and weapons, and find a build that matches your style.
Conquer the Galaxy
Embrace the elements, perfect your aim, and conquer the galaxy.
