While my Loki can handle a lot of the steel path now thanks to the Xoris and the Nataruk bow (both quest rewards you can't miss), defense style missions are challenging enough that I rebuild a Frost to handle them as well defense specters (2 Star Vauban for infested, 1 Star Frost for the rest) armed with Proboscis Cernos bows, which actually starts out as a Cernos that you buy from the market. You then use upgrade it into a Mutalist Cernos and again into the Proboscis form (note: each form gives mastery!).
As a main weapon it has a very low ammo count and each arrow takes time to fire as you need a full draw. Whatever the arrow strikes, be it terrain or an enemy, becomes the spawn point for tentacles that grabs every enemy nearby with a short immobilize and stun then pulls them close before exploding with viral damage (meaning survivors will take extra damage to health from subsequent attacks). It's pretty neat, but there are better things for you to carry.
Specters on the other hand, don't care about ammo count or mods since they and their weapons level up based on when you summon them. The whole tentacle thing is another awesome form of crowd control which works nicely with my AoE weapons. Now to work out how to handle interceptions, which are "capture the point" scenarios.
Obviously the easy answer is to bring more players but until my crew is ready I'm going to try be soloing these. So far I've only completed Steel Path Phobos. Lots more places to go! :)
Wednesday 24 August 2022
Warframe: Specters and the Proboscis Cernos
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Generally the best way to solo Interception missions is with Ivara and her noise-making arrow. Interception missions only spawn so many enemies, and the noise arrow draw in any within its range, so you just have to go invisible with her in a max-range and duration mod setup and toss a few of those at the spawn points, then walk them in toward the center away from the capture points, then go stand in them yourself to control them while the enemies all stand around like chumps looking at your noise arrow in the middle of the map. Refresh the arrow as needed until mission completion.
ReplyDeleteIt's a little slow, but completely safe.
Ooh nice, I'll definitely try that once I get an Ivara. Thank you! :)
DeleteI quite like using Octavia. I can usually keep three points under control by myself (also, invisibility if needed), at the fourth - the one that’s hardest to reach - I drop her 1 and 4 once every minute. Nothing touches that objective.
ReplyDeleteThat's another alternative I'm working on but her neuroptics are being stubborn and not dropping for me. :P
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