Okay so this is a very basic build run for me! I tried to use easier to get weapons and a frame while still maintaining speed!
Volt is a GREAT choice for the Perita rebellion. Not only is he pretty tanky with his augment, but he can speed up the escort target and get you to the next stage of bounties easier. Use his shield for bonus damage and you’ll be nuking easily.
Nataruk is something that everyone has so I chose it as my primary! Plus it is CRACKED, especially if you hit the perfect shot. Just ensure to build up primary merciless for extra damage!
Akarius Prime is more for destroying crates and general ad clearing, since they have a large area of effect rather than single target damage. But they nuke drop ships too!
My melee doesn’t really matter since I never use it in it but it’s a Tonbo if you’re curious and I figured I’d show everything.
My kavat is very helpful during these because not only does she basically never go down, she will armor strip bosses (a huge time saver). Remember that sharpened claws should go in the first slot of the build to prioritize it being used. (I just don’t need it as much so it’s later in it)
Her claws honestly don’t matter too much as she isn’t doing the bulk of the damage, but I figured I’m showing everything else lol. Any questions let me know and I can always help you farm for mods/arcanes/etc! :)
Dear tennos, I think I just made a braindead build for the H-09 apex tank. (Credits to Karmana who inspired me with the concept!)
I just completed the rest of the hex members 1st try in less than an hour , like it's so brain dead i thought i was getting a bug. Asked 5 of my friends to tested it out and they killed the apex either 1st or 2nd time with this build, which they were struggling to get their 1st solo completetion before this build. I'll show it here as well, hope that helps anyone who wanted to give it a go.
Please keep in mind that the builds I'm showing below are just my preference, you don't have to 100% follow them. This build will focus on mainly surviability which I did struggle a bit on my 1st completetion, and this build is certainly Not for Early Game!!!! Please don't get angry at me for showing a build that you can't achieved in a very short pierod of time. The apex tank content was designed to be challenging and it requires a good understanding of the mods and gameplay. The main goal here is to help as much as possible for the completetion and if that works for you it will absolutely made my day ><!
There are things you want to focus and it will MAKE YOUR LIFE EASIER !!!!!!
Frame shown : No Forma Nyx Prime (my Cyte09 Mag Trin Volt Excalibur has at least 2-4 formas, my Nyx is the weakest which is perfect to show how shit I am hell yea)
Archon Shard: Tao Azure shard x3 : health x2 ,Armor x1
Subsumed Ability: Dispensary (Protea)
Focus: Madurai (Vazirin works too if u prefer the protective sling)
Aura: Corrosive Projection (I prefer Brief Despite, Energy Siphon /Physique/Steel Charge are also best for Auras! )
Companian: Wyrm Prime
HEALTH ,AMOR, DAMAGE REDUCTION : You want DAMAGE REDUCTION to move around if you lose all your sheild and during rolling guard cool down! More health and amor = more dmg reduction! ( Thank you Karmana giving me a heads-up with inaros health build, the apex is joke to Inaros) YES I AM VERY AWARE SHEILD GATING IS A THING (love it and use it in almost all my builds) I DID MY FIRST COMPLETETION WITH CYTE-09 PURE FULL SHEILD GATE BUILD , WITH NO HEALTH NO ARMOR NO DAMAGE REDUCTION NO MAX ARMOR STRIP AND I WANT AN ALTERNATIVE BUILD WHICH WORKS ON MY OTHER FRAME. Arcane Blessing will give you more max health, and with Protea's Dispensary will max it out very quickly.
The Important Mods Quick Thinking + Hunter Adernaline + Rolling Guard: Quick thinking will drain energy when u take leathal damage, with high max health you can take advantage of Hunter Adernaline (or Rage) for energy in return. Quick Thinking is such a life saver lets you get away with apex's BS macanics 90% of the time. Rolling Guard to let you get immune to all dmg type. ( I also added Adaptation and Aviator to get extra damage reduction to not get 1 shot to death. Energy Nexus in case you ran out of energy to cast Dispensary or your other abilities. Better be safe than Sorry) Flow/ Equalibrium is optional if you don't want to use Energy Nexus . You could use Acane Energize for energy regen but it's just not that good for the apex even with Dispensary.
The Helminth Ability Dispensary : This will synergize with all the mods and arcane for the build. To let you always have energy to proc Quick Thinking. When you take leathal damage you lose both health and energy , you can replenish both quickly with Dispensary. Make sure you spam it in apex phase 1 and 2 to keep orb flow sufficient. Arcane Energize is optional for energy regen , however it's just not as efficent as Dispensary plus it wasted a slot. I invest heavily on energy flow to stay alive because I hate being send to the backroom when i die and Steven point at me with a flipflop saying 'Failure'
Good quality of life: Arcane Nullifier to negate most of the magnetic proc from the apex tank, Arcane Fortifier on your pistol will give you overguard when u use pistol on eximus, phase 1 and 2 with all the eximus spawning should give the overguard you need to deal with the apex tank. Nira's Hatrated not only gives you health, the set bonus for extra 100% slam damage is amazing because we are going to using heavy slam a lot. Aviator to let you take less damage when you are shooting the weakspot on top of the apex. Madurai Focus School to give you Void Strike, you can deal even more slam damage in 8 seconds. The shorter it takes to kill apex the less risk you take. Wyrm Prime's Negate and all the shield regen mods will increase your surviability.
Melee Weapon choice: Magistar Incarnon or Sampotes, they are just too godly for this apex fight. Sampotes will need to keep a short distance for the waves to damage the tank, direct hit on apex tank has No damage >[]< !
This is my Latron Prime with Incarnon above, you can also use weapons you prefer (suggestions from feedback: kuva hek/ Torid Incarnon)
The epitaph to get overguard and slow + prime the enemies. Melee choice I pick Sampotes, I took both rivens off so my friends use the build with no rivens.
Here's my drifter loadout in case you would like to know ;)
Thesse are my build for Trinity, Mag and Excalibur. Trinity is so easy she does not need Dispensary, once you remove the overguard you can cast ablilities for energy + life pulse. Excalibur Umbra by far the easiest for no reason I even took off rolling guard. Mag can abuse all shield regen just remember to maintain your energy flow and you are all set!
If you have any good suggestion and builds that works very well please show some love and share to other tennos too. I know many MANY player actually hated this content and even with end game gears and loadouts can't complete the H-09 Apex fight. That is also why I make this build to help my friends out so they can have their fav hex memeber glyphs >w< !!!
Thank you so much for your time if you read all of these. Either this helps or not please kindly give me some feedbacks so it can be further improved to help even more players!! I appreciate it!!! Lastly I wish you All The Good Lucks Tennos !!
Valkyr Prime No Forma Queen Steel Path Circuit Armor Strip Deluxe Build AKA Can We Get Much Higher
There's room for improvement (like adding forma and maxxing out the other arcane), but I don't feel like it right now.
Here's the Valkyr Prime mods & arcanes setup. Use Terrify (Nekros helminth) over ability 3 for armor strip ability. Use these archon shards to get the 100% armor strip too and good energy economy. Feel free to ask about any of these mod or build choices, this build is from like 2 years ago that one of my partners helped me set up and still going strong. Delusion helmet and Gersemi skin for appearance.
Prime Talons mod setup. Blast damage is the current meta as of December 2024 so you can see the original before Damage whatever number update point 0 we're at now compared to the original build.
Equip Naramon, it's extremely important for power scaling and end-game level damage.
Fully ranked up Power Spike is the only focus school stuff you need, but having the waybounds unbound is always good for operator/drifter survival, combat, and movement.
Manage your energy economy by getting parazon finisher kills on eximus units if you start running low, just edge the health bars until you see the prompt and your energy will shoot up to almost max if not max. More than half the time arcane energize should kick in and give you a boost on top of the archon shard energy boost (not sure if the effects of the shards and energize multiply/stack or not as I'm not a build math gal but it feels like it does).
Here you go @issilya and anyone else wanting a no forma Valkyr Prime that scales well into higher levels.
now, i'm not gonna put this tenno on blast because they were nice and we had a nice chat helping them out with their build and i got paid but motherfucker come ON
i'm begging y'all to just ask the chat or something instead. post on the subreddit. hell, my asks are open and i will gladly help you with your build. ANYTHING but this.
Before saying anything, I must make it clear that this is only my opinion.
I rarely use casting speeds because i don't think is necessary unless the cast is slow as mirage's 4
her 1 gives invul, damage and etc yea now a tip: if you hold you can visually see where you teleport and you can spam and melt the armor so i think is basically armor strip.
her 2 i can very agree with the hotkeys and organizing ideas people have
her 3 i am not sure if casting on opponents it increase the duration (it should, it would be way easier in a crowd and yeah, another corrosive skill), each kill increase 3 seconds and i don't think any specific weapon is necessary for her also another tip: if the duration is almost over, recast before is over and you keep the DR
her 4 it feels weird sometimes, i have the impression is not affecting the range it should but i think is just the scenarios i get in also is another armor strip ofc, to explode the ballons you would need shoot them which rpg, amphor and barrils (i think) should help too
Fun fact:
- She is a clown so every skill is kinda cartoonish like:
1- in and out portal
2- spawn out of thin air
3- laugh and jokes statue
4- circus baloons
Final take:
No subsumes are really needed, Archon Shards are your preference and strength only at 180% for max DR or get it with molt and
Hands down Ax-52 is my new favourite weapon in this game, got this bad boy built full weak point crit and it hasn't let me down yet. Sure you can't shoot everywhere, and sure the dmg doesn't go into the milions but hey! if it shreds through a Scaldra with armor on 120 lvl like butter? Then I'm happy.
This is the build I've got, been tweaking it here and there but if everyone's got any recomendations for mods or changes let me know!
So I’m pretty sure this is an interaction between Melee Careen and Contagious Bond and *something* but it still seems ridiculous
You only get the delete after a certain combo level, so maybe weeping wounds/blood rush? But once you hit that combo you don’t even need to use your melee, just dash back and forth
So my buddy - @well-seasoned - found their Titania struggling a bit so we sat down and refreshed the build. The idea emerged to start sharing the loadout advice.
So let's start off:
Titania
High mobility, great damage, and a very unique playstyle. The Cons, she's not the toughest, needs sustain, and lacks an inherent armour solution.
I've taken two Green shards for extra Corrosive Stacks, two Tauforged Blues for Armour to hit the armour sweet spot between 500 to 600 armour, and a Red Tauforged for Strength.
I've tried making Crit work, just doesn't feel worth it for me.
I've stacked Shields and Aviator (plus Boreal's and Aerodynamic) for overall survivability, but a Shield Gating build would probably work better (not my thing), and you can tweak it for more health/armour tanking if that's more your jam.
Arcane Pistoleer's a great pick for Titania since it'll give her Dex Pixia infinite ammo when it procs which synergizes nice with Razorwing Blitz.
Arcane Energize is the gold standard for Energy, so if you don't have one, drop Streamline for Fleeting Expertise, and Augur Secrets for Augur Message.
I've Helminth'd in Ophanim for CC & Armour Strip, over Lantern since it feels like a very weak ability, but I also think Terrify & Pillage are solid picks.
Could quite happily swap the aura out for Corrosive Projection for easier armour stripping, Brief Respite for Shield Gating, Combat Discipline for proc'ing Arcane Avenger, or Growing Power.
Dex Pixia
For the Dex Pixia, because they lack access to Arcanes, the build has to be pretty basic, so the principle here is to stack multipliers.
Base Damage (Galvanized Shot)
Elemental (3 Elementals, adjust per faction)
Multishot (Lethal Torrent & Galvanized Diffusion)
Faction Mod (Expel)
Pistol Elementalist
The logic is that stacking just say, more raw damage or more elemental is additive, but adding these other mods is multiplicative.
Diwata
The Diwata is kind of garbage but I have found use for it by stacking corrosive, status, Shattering Impact, Healing Return, and attack speed to make a nice utility item
Weapons
Titania wants to spend most of her time in the Razorwing mode, so the weapons she uses doesn't matter as much but there are some nice options:
Kitguns, either in the Primary or Secondary, add a means of getting extra power strength and efficiency from Pax Bolt
The Grimoire, with most of the Invocations for more Strength (Vome Invocation), Duration (Ris) or Efficiency (Netra) but skip Xata / Energy Regen since it will be turned off during Razorwing.
Explosive Weapons of all kinds are a nice synergy for Titania - her 1st ability when alt-cast gives status immunity, making her immune to the knockdown.
Rakta, Synoid, or any weapons that can use the Blight or Entropy mods, can be a nice extra source of energy.
Pistols that synergise nicely with Pistoleer - most of them - are also a nice pick, but special mention for the Pyrana Prime.
I've gone with the Kuva Tonkor for a nice explosive option, nice to deal with little crowds or loot rooms and the aforementioned Knockback Immunity.
For the secondary, I had the Atomos there for trying it against the H-01, but I think I would actually take the Kitgun for Pax Bolt.
Now the Prisma Dual Cleavers are very specifically there because this is Salt's build, and those are their favourite melee weapons.
Companions
When Titania is in her Razorwing, a pet will disappear into some grey area, as will their Sentinel. This makes pets less overall useful to Titania, but I recommend a Vasca Kavat as they make for an excellent 'extra life' if you get taken out.
Focus
I would say Vazarin, Unairu, and Madurai are all solid choices, mainly because Zenurik and Naramon are not. Zenurik's energy regent will get shut off during Razorwing, and the Power Strength is only 20%. Naramon is too melee and finisher focused, and the Diwata is hot garbage.
