#archon mods

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Archon Mods (Warframe)

Getting some early theory crafting in before the "official" release of Archon mods that are slated to come with Kahl's weekly quests.

Archon Vitality - Vitality plus Heat status effects from abilities get applied twice. Ember, Chroma, Nezha, Protea, Blazing Pillage Hildryn or any frame with Fire Blast or Thermal Sunder.

Archon Continuity - Continuity plus abilities that apply a Toxin status effect will also apply a Corrosive status effect. Grendel, Saryn and Lavos will get the most mileage here. I just wonder if it'll carry over to the weapon buffs...

Archon Intensify - Intensify plus restoring health with abilities grants +30% ability strength for 10s. Curious to see how this one is going to work. So many frames with either straight up heals and/or health regen abilities (baked in or through augments); then there's Molt Reconstruct.

Archon Flow - Primed Flow plus enemies killed by Cold abilities have a 10% chance to drop an energy orb (this is the only one with a cool down so far). Frost, Yareli, Gauss or any frame with Thermal Sunder infused may want to consider this but the low percentage plus the cool down on a mod that I don't normally use makes it personally unappealing to me.

Archon Stretch - Stretch plus abilities dealing Electric damage restore +2/s for 5 sec. Sounds great for Volt, Gyre, Vauban and Wisp (or any frame infused with Shock or Tesla Nervos)

There may even be some combos to come of this, like Healing Flame granting both +30% ability strength and extra heat stacks when using Archon Intensify and Vitality. Or Thermal Sunder being able to take advantage of both Archon Flow and Vitality.

Chroma and Lavos both become more flexible frames as either can use all four basic elements.

Wondering if ability buffed Sentinel weapons will activate these new effects?

A lot of doors opening up here.

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Archon Frames?

If I were to ask what made a frame as having an umbral build; many would more than likely say that it would need two or more of the Umbral mods...

...but can the same be said about "Archon frames"?

What would it rake to make Sevagoth into an "Archon Sevagoth"; a couple of Archon mods, one or more Archon shards or a combination of mods and shards? Would the Boreal or other named archon mod sets even qualify in affording that distinction to a given frame?

Just some crumbs for thought.

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A quick note... the Hound mod, Synergized Prospectus, activates Archon Stretch's energy regen effect.

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The aoe fields created by Residual Arcanes will activate Archon mods. (So now, with a little planning, my kit gun can be a source of energy regen)

Haven't been able to pin down if Theorem Arcane buffs activate them as well.

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Archon Limbo (Memeframe)

I really wanted to do something with Archon Stretch and Limbo; just so I could get 4 energy/sec regen while smacking mobs around from the rift plane for the bonus 10 energyper kill.

I thought of infusing Shock; with an efficiency build, I could spam this till my fingers hurt... but I didn't like the low damage.

Then I thought maybe Nervos; better damage but it's not something you spam.

Then I found it... Coil Horizon (from subsuming Gyre); not as spammable as Shock but it's semi-spammable (plus it groups, does cc and some damage). Normally, I feel it's a bit clunky to use but Limbo's Rift allows you the time to get it right (null perspiration chummer).

This means I can use Archon Stretch (with some Augur Reach) to get decent range (I'm avoiding Overextended for now because of the ability strength penalty).

Streamline and Boreal's Hatred for efficiency.

Growing Power, Augur Secrets, Power Drift, Molt Augmented and Archon Intensify to boost Coil's damage and Molt Reconstruct for spam heals and activating Archon Intensify's bonus ability strength.

Limbo is Riftwalking most of the time, so I didn't really put in survivability but I did go with Quick Thinking to compliment the constant energy regen.

When it comes to Limbo, I'm just a basic bro and this is just a basic strat but the pros that know how to use his kit can, perhaps, take it to the next level?

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Archon Zephyr

When discussing frames that could benefit most from the new Archon mods; I missed one that not only could use abilities to trigger the archon effects but weapons as well.

Yes, WEAPONS!

Enter Zephyr and Tornadoes. Tornadoes can absorb any element from your ranged or melee attacks and now your weapon damage has become ability damage; which, in turn, activates archon mod abilities.

To make this even more niche, pair Zephyr with a Hystrix or Hystrix Prime and multiple archon mods.

Use electric quills to gain energy from the safety of your turbulence, fire quills to rapidly ramp up heat procs, poison quills to apply both toxic and corrosive for CO builds, cold quills for aoe slow and energy orbs.

Infuse Gloom and your 'nadoes can rapidly heal you while bumping your ability strength...

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The Wrath of Kahl (Warframe)

Kahl's second weekly has dropped (Junk Run) and I like it more than the first. This plays more like a rescue/assassination mission than the first's spy/sabotage (two modes that I avoid in normal play).

Completing this one will give you access to the next faction rank and the archon mods in Chipper's shop.

If only I has that rocket pack in the first weekly...

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A Quick Musing... (Warframe)

If I'm remembering correctly, exalted weapons are considered abilities; correct? Which means they should be able to trigger equipped archon mods as long as they match the element prerequisite.

Titania, Excalibur, Ivara, Mesa, Wu Kong, Valkyr, Baruuk, Hildryn, Sevagoth, etc. can get some serious oomph if this is the case. Just imagine a Titania with fire spewing Dex Pixia...