Previous thread: https://dormi.zone/post/3155025
I finally have all my Week 8 Incarnons, so I can personally review them! Warframe dedicates should also have everything or all but one Incarnon too, so let's see what the people think!
What have we got this week? Well, some real goodies in my opinion:
- Sybaris
- Sicarus
- Okina
- Dera
- Cestra
Sybaris
I have a soft spot for incarnons with unique skins, and Sybaris gives us the very cool Dex Sybaris skin. Nice well-rounded weapon, the forced Blast procs give it a bit of crowd clear if you build it for punch-through or use grouping abilities. Blast also easily keeps Galvanized Scope charged with high enough enemy densities, even on factions with tricky weak spots like Infested. Forced Blast also lets you build Cold for utility, so guess what I did!
If you're one of the Zephyr players in this community, sadly forced procs do not transfer through tornadoes, so you'll have to shoot things directly. Still, a very funny priority killer for the birb.
Dera
It took me a while to come around on this one. Incarnon form has innate Magnetic, but is burdened by a painfully low rate of fire and middling status chance of 22%. It won't proc status effects often, and the innate Magnetic gets washed out by modded elements. But that's not how you use this gun!
Has a (currently) unique incarnon perk that scales base crit off current effective status chance, so the weapon can achieve, simultaneously, very high crit, status (with Crux and 60/60 stacking), and Galvanized Aptitude self-scaling. The weapon hits like a truck!
Current favourite build is ol' reliable corrosive-cold, which gives this weapon universal coverage with the innate mag. I've also tried viral-electric, it's much of a muchness. Blast Elementalist builds are also an option.
Definitely a fan now. And it has a cool Vandal variant!
Sicarus
In a word: exciting. Extremely high crit chance due its perk options. Has a funny glitch interaction where it can infinitely stack Enervate due to being unable to crit on non-weakpoint hits. Probably going to be patched in Echoes of 1999!
Cestra
Has absolutely ludicrously heavy crit scaling due to the highest critical damage multiplier in the game in addition to excellent critical chance. I still haven't figured out how to get exciting damage numbers out of it yet though. The optional build path of crit chance -> status chance gives it a high performance Shiver build, however, so that's an option. Excellent on Harrow, Empowered Blades users, and shield recharge Grendel and Nezha builds as even self-inflicted shield drain will trigger Steadfast Grit.
Okina
Frost simulator. One of my top 3 incarnon melees. Not only do they shred whatever you're directly attacking, they spread Cold far and wide. Running Shivering Contagion on your primary lets the freeze from the daggers splash a little further. Also great for keeping Ice Storm going, keeping Primary Frostbite going, and triggering the condition for Secondary Shiver.
Influence builds will heavily CC everything coming at you while nuking in a wide radius.
Briefly enjoyed glaive maths on the spectral daggers, although that seems to have been fixed. Limbo and Chroma just can't catch a break! Stealth frames still enjoy stealth multi on the projectiles though, so Blastfluence builds are very funny on stealth users.
Also excellent Melee Doughty candidates if you use the base model, and the Prime variant is quite effective too.
Sancti Magistar for turning every frame into a nuke frame, and Sibear for a variety of reasons, lol. Honourable mentions to the Praedos and Furax. Praedos for being my default "I wanna go fast" pick, although I've started actively building mobility onto my frames. Furax is for exalted pistol users and Yareli, and just numerically being one of the strongest incarnon melees. I guess that's my top 5, actually!
Furax is nice for its ability to retain combo while holstered, especially if you're running it with a companion using Tandem Bond. That incarnon perk still has issues with pseudo exalteds though, I wish they would just disable the preserving combo passive instead of wiping it instantly any time someone uses an ability like whip claw/blade storm.
It also has a fun bug which lets you quickly cover a large gap for anyone into movement shenanigans.
https://imgur.com/a/ZuHqj8H