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Shade Prime

Cloaking Buffer Shade

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Shade Prime specializes in stealth and comes locked and loaded with the Burst Laser Prime. Together, you can dominate the shadows.

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30

60 / 60

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ARMOR
100
HEALTH
700
SHIELD
300
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Shade Prime builds
Builds by Arvenyte

Cloaking Buffer Shade

INTRODUCTION

The main focus of this build is to have easy invisibily and buffing. Its best use is for long setups in case you want to 1-shot bosses like Liches/Sisters and Archons, but it's also great for running around areas with high enemy density without having to worry about getting hit.

BUILD SPECIFICS

SURVIVABILITY

  • HEALTH: We use [Enhanced Vitality] and [Repair Kit]. While it won't be THAT useful at higher levels, having a higher health pool will make it so that our sentinel can take a hit or two before dying. Sentinels usually don't draw aggro, but AoE damage still affects them, so this is our safest bet.
    Repair kit helps as well since by default sentinels don't regenerate health, and there's no Pack Leader equivalent for them.
  • SHIELD: We use [Accelerated Deflection]. We sadly can't abuse ability spamming like we do with warframes to shield gate, so the next best thing is increasing energy regeneration so that our sentinel can get to full shields asap.
    The reason why we want max shields is because of how shield gating works. when your shields are depleted you gain 1.3 seconds of invulnerability. If your shield starts regenerating and goes down again before it can fill up fully, however, the invulnerability will only last 0.3 seconds. With this mod we make it so that it takes less time for our sentinel to get to max shields.
  • RESURRECTION: We use [Primed Regen]. This is the only mod that we can equip on all sentinels that doesn't have convoluted requirements. 4 total lives might seem like a lot, but sadly they're not considering how squishy sentinels are, so make sure to still try to avoid AoE damage if possible.

SUPPORT

  • DAMAGE: We use [Ambush]. Most of the time your invisibility will stop because you fired your main weapon. This mod gives an additive +240% damage bonus for a few seconds. This is specially useful when you're first stacking galvanised and arcane bonuses, while also being beneficial against Liches/Sisters and Archons.
  • HEALTH/SHIELD: We use Guardian and Medi-Ray. The former is a really good bonus for all warframes with shields, acting as a 1-time shield gate every 30 seconds, while the latter provides a bit of health regeneration. Medi-Ray is only really useful on warframes with massive health pools like Inaros Prime. You could replace Medi-Ray with Synth Fiber if you use Equilibrium, but it'd cost you an extra forma.
  • SURVIVABILITY: We use [Ghost]. with a short 8 second cooldown this mod makes sure we're always invisible when we need it most. Invisibility is one of the hardest effects to attain for warframes that don't already have it, so this is perfect for when you want to run around without being detected or buff yourself without worries. Warframe abilities don't decloak you either, so you can nuke enemies with abilities to your heart's content.
  • LOOT: We use [Primed Animal Instinct] and [Vacuum]. They're pretty self explanatory, and basically the mods everyone wants on their companion. Being able to see more loot, more enemies, and collect the drops around you instantly you are the most important things when playing a fast game like warframe.