No joke. Zephyr is so good that she kind of killed the game for me for a while because I would try and play other frames and the only thing that came to my mind is I could be playing zephyr instead
I played OG Zephyr for so long, she's one of my top played Warframes. I remember on release I criticized she needed to have a hover mode. Took DE forever but they finally added the feature while fixing the Tornado's issues of randomly moving and ragdolling everything. Good to see her finally in a great place.
I use the trumna with zephyr, if the alt fire kills enemies through tornado damage it'll give you charges like a regular kill would so you can just spam alt fire.
Zephyr is great. Highly underrated. Fun fact, with Trumna and her tornadoes you can instantly refresh trumna's alt fire, also I find that phenomor's incanron form + her tornadoes MELT liches but idk if the phenmor is fine on its own tbh. But from my experience, they absolutely make mincemeat of any lich it's hilarious
@@alamzuhri8781 Tried it while derping around in Sanctuary Onslaught with a rando friend I made playing the game. Didn't always get it fully charged up again because SO, but I definitely got pips back from kills on enemies in the Tornadoes.
@@DragonKnightJin i always check first with primary fire b4 going alt fire on tornadoes just to make sure, cuz the alt aoe is so big that they died with direct hit
Note about the budget build for anyone planning to use it, Broz has an aura forma on his Zephyr. By default she has a D (Vazarin) polarity BUT as I'm sure he did on purpose but just didn't mention any aura will fit in that build still with 0 forma so don't force yourself to use Physique or something.
Quick note on the budget build: if you use a rank 4 fleeting and streamline you still max out the efficiency but lose less duration, its just a few percent but its worth it, and it costs less endo to max them out that way, which is good for a new player
I farmed another Fleeting Expertise for the sole purpose of maxing it out so I could try a minimum duration Trinity build. That wasn't great, but the mod was simple enough to get. Been using a Rank 4 Fleeting for ages because, as you said, it maxes out Efficiency while using Streamline without losing more Duration for no good reason.
For a new player, the Nataruk is easier to get than the Tenet Arca Plasmor, since the main story has less gear requirements than the Tenet sisters. As such, I would recommend upgrading to the Nataruk from the Fulmin for a new player.
@@doodledibob really? I find necromecks to be more annoying at this point. Still it's an extra step. With reasonable weapons litches/sisters are doable though the necromeck grind is dreadfully slow without a necromeck.
Zephyr went from one of the most clunky frames in terms of gameplay to becoming the best birb gurl that can get the job done no matter the mission. Of all of the frames, Zephyr had the best anime arc in terms of development.
FINALLY, the zephyr mains can be validated for once, she got so good over the years it's genuinely frightening, but like Protea I quite like having this gem to myself
Zephyr is definitely in my "Top 5" frames, along with Octavia, Ember, Nezha, and Protea (honorable mention of Nova, Mesa, and Saryn, who are still walking war crimes, just slightly less-fun for me). The dude-frames really need to step up their game.
@@seven9 yes, I know Nezha is a guy. He's still one of about 9 on my top list. Most of the worst or least-interesting frames are male: Frost, Hydroid, Oberon, Vauban, Chroma, Inaros, Loki, Caliban... Even Excal is showing his age, Nezha makes Rhino redundant, and Volt is really only preferable for Eidolons. DE has work to do on a lot of the male frames. And I just don't like Wukong. Not a fan of turning my brain off and letting the game play itself.
Another fun interaction with both Zephyr and Wisp is the Aero mod set. By applying them, you have some DR while airborne and can hover for several seconds when aim gliding. Skywalker Zephyr gets more time to apply tornadoes and recast Turbulence and Skywalker Wisp can remain invisible between shots.
I had Zephyr Prime in my inventory, took her out to try when she was reworked and when you initially did the Breach build. Then that worked so well I got bored and switched to a Dispensery + Kuva Orgis build where on any low level farm I will never touch the ground and I'll end the level with at leave 50% damage and 0% damage taken. No enemies can touch me until the recent eximus rework. Zephyr being underrated is a understatement.
i personally subsumed spectrorage onto my zephyr with the augment just for energy since i enjoy hovering in her 1 and i cannot say i have ever seen enemies who aren't eximus do anything but run straight into my tornadoes
I remember masterring Zephyr Prime and leaving her to collect dust prior to her rework. Then recently I decided to check her out to see what I have been missing and, oh man, I’ve never had so much fun with a frame since forever
These Build Refresh videos have shown me that some of the frames I'd found boring in the past could actually be quite fun. It hasn't changed my outlook on Nezha (I don't like his kit or his passive, just not fun for me. Sorry, not sorry), but I've gotten to enjoy frames like Ash and Zephyr a lot more.
Zephyr has been and always will be my most played warframe. Even back during the dark days before her rework, she was still usable for pretty much all of the content in the game if you knew what you were doing, and she was one of the best frames for rescuing a squad from doom. Her tornadoes, while far less effective back then, still provided enough large scale crowd control that they could be used in a pinch if your squad went down and you needed some breathing room to safely revive them. Tailwind also made it possible to rescue someone who went down 5+ tiles away. Now, she's one of the best picks in the game and I couldn't be happier.
Zephyr moves the way I do in dreams, low gravity, gliding around. I love playing as her, thank you for revealing a way to allow me to finally break through the steel path.
I pulled Zephyr out of my toy box the other day, because I was looking to try a new frame. Haven't touched her since getting her, over a year ago. I'm in love with her kit. Can't wait to take her out into Steel Path
Arca Plasmor is cool and all, but another neat little trick that I don’t think many people are aware of is that weapons with alt-fires that require kills to charge (e.g. the Trumna, Battacor, etc.) will actually charge themselves when hitting enemies inside her Tornadoes. So essentially as long as you have enough enemies affected by her 4, you can keep spamming Trumna’s grenade launcher for massive damage Don’t know if its a bug or not but I hope it never gets patched. Makes her so fun to play when farming survival missions
Zephyr’s crazy good. She’s been a favorite of mine since the Wukong rework. Great defenses, great cc, great damage boosts. I don’t even like to give her any helminth abilities, most of the time. She’s awesome for almost anything. And that deluxe skin is the coolest shit in the whole game. Absolutely spectacular frame.
Worth noting that Tail Wind also has the midair hover on hold, which is nice for taking advantage of Zephyr's passive (150% crit chance in midair) without having to spam jump, gives you a bit of height, and also is a pretty good melee enemy (e.g. Acolyte) cheese
I'm just coming back to Warframe after several years of hiatus (for a number of reasons. burnt out on grind, the game was getting too intensive for my dinky laptop), the last time i really played was like 2019. I was checking out the weapons Father had for sale on Deimos and saw the Trumna, and thought "this sounds good, i wonder what better players think about it" and actually found your video covering the weapon. In that video you ran Zephyr, and Immediately I was like "wait, her tornadoes do WHAT?" So i ran over to the Simulacrum and. Oh my god this warframe. I don't know how long her tornadoes were basically just "shoot this and hurt everyone in the tornado", but it feels new. That change (i think) and her reworked 2 have really just blown my mind.
I have a Boar Prime + a Riven (+161.6 multishot, +222% damage, +115% crit damage, -130% impact damage) and they synergize REALLY well. Just shreds max level Bombards (i know Simulacrum isn't exactly representative of what goes on in real games though lmao). After your two videos i'm definitely gonna be giving her way more love
A thought on Subsumes for Zephyr: Molt (from Saryn) I've been using it for a while, and it's fantastic. It doesn't give you the hilarious damage number of Breach Surge, but it has a few other benefits. First: it cleanses status. If an Eximus sneaks up on you, and you catch a Heat Proc, you're gonna have a bad time. Or, if you spawn a Sister of Parvos whose Hound keeps procing heat on you ... also bad. Molt will clean take care of that. You can also run the augment for a little bit of healing. Not much, as it's based on Str and Zephyr is kinda low there, but it's not nothing. Secondly: Molt can hold open doors, rag-doll'ed enemies don't. Have you ever thrown down an airburst to try and pull enemies through a door? Sucks, right? Molt can fix that. Third: it's intended use, as a distraction. If your molt is near your Tornadoes, melee enemies will beeline for the molt, and get zoop'ed up. You can also get creative with Line of Sight to pull in ranged enemies, but that's already kind of a non-issue. But most importantly, it's thematic: birds molt. So the Bird Girl gets Molt.
A niche use for Zephyr is operator synergy. Amp kills on enemies in her 4 are not only counted as operator kills even on the damage over time portion, but the damage itself is multiplied. This makes for a really effective focus farming technique. It was trivial to level my Vasero Sekhara to rank three by killing Steel Path Mot enemies using nothing but tornado and my amp.
After recently coming back to the game. That budget build for Zephyr has been a godsend for me. Literally my favorite frame next to Ash Prime and Saryn Prime.
I love Zepher! I used to play them before the changes too. I use Power Donation (10% power strength lol) Spectrorage to generate energy. Preparation so I start and revive with enough energy to get the combo going.
been a while since ive played but I used to use zeph all the time because I loved the orphaned frames and weapons in WF. she looks way more viable now especially the flying and tornadoes.
Instead of breach surge and intensify, use spectrorage with the aug. Put it under a stationary tornado. The vertical effectived area is indefinite, so triggers the aug. You can hover in place indefinitely. You don't even need streamline.
I made a meme build for just efficiency and duration using her one to always be in the air, because of her passive, this gives my naturuk permanent red crits (:
LOL when I first built zephyr back in 2017 I put 5 forma on her and 6 on my tonkor, mained her for almost 2 years and even back then, she was soooooo goooodddd [yes I know 5 forma is excessive] but I also was only a year or so into the game and had a bunch of formas made that I didn't know how they worked, once I figured it out, I went all in on Z
@@ifeawosika966 thats awesome because nobody recognizes how good she is, even now people will still use "tank" frames over her, not realizing she doesn't have to "tank" at all, she just doesn't get shot in the first place lol not to mention a crit passive when in mid-air. She's kinda bonkers honestly. She is my 3rd most used as of now behind khora and trinity and I haven't really used her in like a year so yea I used the Z quite a lot. Keep at at it 💪 (oh and for people realizing my first 2 most used frames are support, you try switching consoles and playing arbitration defense, and have these randoms only bring low level gear, and usually single target guns equipped, and then wonder why I use Khora almost anytime im playing public, not insulting them, just saying)
Been waiting for this one of my favorite frame, seen a vid before with Zephyr using a Judgement Cut build, by MrWarframeGuy, which is what got me into Zephyr, that and Bury the Light is a good motivation song
Finally I understand what I’ve been doing wrong with Zephyr. Holding 4. That was it, that was the sauce. Like using a Kuva Kraken and accidentally hitting alt fire.
Zephyr is fine, it's just a shame that the game is so unstable with ragdolled enemies, using her tornadoes to group up enemies then deal gas or electric damage makes the game stutter like mad. Coil horizon is an easy replace for her 2, as the range on coil horizon is larger and primes enemies with electric for gundition overload effects.
"Don't forma Fulmin, just use Tenet Arca Plasmor" I haven't looked at the process behind killing a Sister of Parvos, but if its anything like killing a Lich then I'm gonna stick with the Fulmin because I'd rather not spend the next 3 days of my life just getting the stuff needed to kill it (not even accounting for the time needed to get the weapon I want)
When you say one-day endeavour, is that one-day day for people who already have the stuff necessary to take one down? Or one-day for someone with maybe 20% of what you need? Because I started collecting the things to take down liches, got about 2 hours through it, looked at the road ahead and decided it wasn't worth it and went to do something else.
@@miss_bec one day for people who mostly have everything or have everything. If you've got a handful then I'd break it down into steps and you'd have it done in record time still. Spend time grabbing the relics, take a break, touch grass. Then later pop relics and hunt down the sister. Having the lich sister beacons you can get from nightwave helps shorten time in between encounters since they force the encounter.
@@miss_bec I forgot to mention that the sisters have a chance of dropping a wildcard requiem mod making your subsequent sister/lich hunt that much easier should you continue
I am so glad I understand Warframe in terms of what kinds of abilities are good instead of what specific items are good. When I came back to the game I looked at Zephyr and thought she was pretty good, and like 15 minutes of SP survival proved me right immediately. Grouping that spreads damage, good defensive power, she can do an infinite damage loop with Breach Surge, and she has a second grouping power that's good for getting enemies unstuck from around corners and such, and helps when you maybe don't need a big point lockdown. Fantastic frame.
I'd recommend you to use the Trumna. Because it's secondary fire mode refreshes instantly after killing enemies with the Tornado, which means u can nuke millions of damage in seconds..
As someone that hard-simps for Zephyr, I'm surprised I didn't see this video earlier, nice build dude. I like that you emphasized on her tornado's punch-through combination. I tend to tell people it works kinda like 3 mirrors, shooting one tornado will reflect it once, and clumping the tornadoes together essentially means 4x initial damage with one shot. Really good with aoe weapons since the tornadoes reflect both the initial damage and aoe damage so I'd argue using an aoe weapon over punchthrough, but that's just my opinion. But that's why I like zephyr so much. Each ability has some kind of unique build to it and all of them are viable and cover a new way to play the same frame, all of that and you are still an aerial cc-focussed warframe.
It must be said that both of the new arcanes are good on zypher the added power strength can be nice for a bit more damage from the tornadoes and the duration is nice so you don't need to cast your abilities as often, I personally run energise and the duration arcane
hey nice video, I got a question though, I'm a beginner that has rhino and Excalibur, just wonder if I get zephyr should I sell one of the frame I had or buy a new slot, I have never spend any Plat yet
Ummm 🤔 this warframe right here, she is federal. Understand me her nuclear ☢️ tornados. Unstoppable. I recommend this warframe to anyone. She can jump really high as well. Some players don’t like that but when you get use to her. She slaughters a whole room.. She can deflect bullets by air. Hands down the wind bending warframe is fire. Love this warframe…
i lvoe zerphyr, im trying to build her to stay up without using much energy, i use aero vantage and im planing on putting some boreals anguish to further up the hover, that plus the antigrav ray in the sentinel for extra hovering. the build is usper cool too tx!
My friend recommend me buy the prime vault for zephyr (I was mr 8-10 at that time & still trying random wf to suit my playstyle) and she carries me all the way into steel path & arbitration. And she's still my go to wf whenever I feel the mission looks too difficult.
Another thing in open areas is the Aim Glide fall speed mods, so you can just stay airborne and snipe people. Optimized? Probably not. But it IS funny.
I put Spectrorage over her 1. It makes her immune to the things that can hit through her 3, except for Stalker and Zanuka. Also, Spectosiphon lets me be lazy about energy.
Honestly Zephyr's tornadoes are absolutely broken and the weapon doesn't really matter so you could most likely do steel path effortlessly with the MIGHTY SEER
Dude this is unreal. Last time I played Zephyr is when they FIRST gave her Airburst. I took her to PoE, was very underwhelmed, and haven't played her in years. This sh!t right here though? God damn. The Airburst has serious range when all modded up. Would this be better than Larva on Protea? Thanks for the vid!! :)
How did you get rad + mag+ heat on your arca plasmor while only modding for viral + heat? Is it a radiation progenitor, and if so how does the magnetic get into the mix?
Both variations of the Arca Plasmor have innate radiation (just like the Fulmin has innate electricity) so if you make the Tenet progenitor magnetic, then you get both radiation & magnetic on it right from the get go i.e before modding.
i personally like her 1 just being able to fly is fun so i got rid of the 2 since i dont see any reason to have it the 4 does that for me so i dont see a reason for me to do it when i can leave it to my 4 so i replaced my 2 with gara for infinte energy just replaced streamline (i dont have maxed out energize probably wont ever have maxed out energize so this makes it so i dont have to just hope enemies drop orbs which they wont)
Somebody help me, why SOOOO much range in the budget build? It only affects air bust and turbulence. It doesn't affect how the range of pull in for tornadoes. Only how far they can be cast. Seems absolutely useless, until you see the tornado breach build which uses breach. But the budget build has no need for such ridiculous range.
No joke. Zephyr is so good that she kind of killed the game for me for a while because I would try and play other frames and the only thing that came to my mind is I could be playing zephyr instead
You found your main then
Godspeed to you because I personally cannot stand playing her
It’s ridiculous how good Zephyr is, but I still like Revenant better. But damn can Zephyr easily solo anything.
I got through the whole entire game with her, even steel path.
Zephyr, Wukong, and Xaku all do that for me.
Oh, and Inaros, especially Inaros.
The great thing about Zephyr is all 4 ability augments show you more fun ways to play the game with more emphasis on mass murder
Kill everything you encounter, do not relent. The integrity of this experiment relies on your efficiency.
I played OG Zephyr for so long, she's one of my top played Warframes. I remember on release I criticized she needed to have a hover mode. Took DE forever but they finally added the feature while fixing the Tornado's issues of randomly moving and ragdolling everything. Good to see her finally in a great place.
Now imagine if they made her 3 refreshable.
@@Kuk0san they need to just do that to all old-school Warframes
Zephyr went from zero to hero with just a few changes and shows how much potential a warframe's kit can have
I use the trumna with zephyr, if the alt fire kills enemies through tornado damage it'll give you charges like a regular kill would so you can just spam alt fire.
Zephyr is great. Highly underrated. Fun fact, with Trumna and her tornadoes you can instantly refresh trumna's alt fire, also I find that phenomor's incanron form + her tornadoes MELT liches but idk if the phenmor is fine on its own tbh. But from my experience, they absolutely make mincemeat of any lich it's hilarious
Phenmor is really good on its own. But having the damage of 2 or 3 is obviously even better!
you can get infinite mausolon altfires with the right conditions
tried with trumna alt fire and still work, its stupidly strong lol
@@alamzuhri8781 Tried it while derping around in Sanctuary Onslaught with a rando friend I made playing the game. Didn't always get it fully charged up again because SO, but I definitely got pips back from kills on enemies in the Tornadoes.
@@DragonKnightJin i always check first with primary fire b4 going alt fire on tornadoes just to make sure, cuz the alt aoe is so big that they died with direct hit
Note about the budget build for anyone planning to use it, Broz has an aura forma on his Zephyr. By default she has a D (Vazarin) polarity BUT as I'm sure he did on purpose but just didn't mention any aura will fit in that build still with 0 forma so don't force yourself to use Physique or something.
Also a fun fact that wasn't mentioned here is that Zephyr's tornadoes redirected damage can hit arbitration drones 👍
WHAT
WHAT!?
Nani?!
Finally a frame that can do it.
WHAT ( I got out of arbitration w/ Veilbreaker update XD )
Quick note on the budget build: if you use a rank 4 fleeting and streamline you still max out the efficiency but lose less duration, its just a few percent but its worth it, and it costs less endo to max them out that way, which is good for a new player
I farmed another Fleeting Expertise for the sole purpose of maxing it out so I could try a minimum duration Trinity build.
That wasn't great, but the mod was simple enough to get. Been using a Rank 4 Fleeting for ages because, as you said, it maxes out Efficiency while using Streamline without losing more Duration for no good reason.
For a new player, the Nataruk is easier to get than the Tenet Arca Plasmor, since the main story has less gear requirements than the Tenet sisters. As such, I would recommend upgrading to the Nataruk from the Fulmin for a new player.
Plasmor requires railjack and fairly decent kit nataruk requires necromec and several other things including a railjack. I think plasmor is easier.
@@myramedchan4775 The Necramech fights are far easier than the Sisters of Parvos.
@@doodledibob really? I find necromecks to be more annoying at this point. Still it's an extra step. With reasonable weapons litches/sisters are doable though the necromeck grind is dreadfully slow without a necromeck.
@@myramedchan4775 You can solo Necramechs with an unmodded Octavia.
You can't do that with Liches or Sisters.
@@doodledibob they removed that. And several other outs to soloing necromechs.
Zephyr went from one of the most clunky frames in terms of gameplay to becoming the best birb gurl that can get the job done no matter the mission. Of all of the frames, Zephyr had the best anime arc in terms of development.
she even got a mech out of it
She BECAME mech.
If titanfall 3 won't look like her deluxe - im not interested.
Isn't zephyr referred to as a dude
@@skittles664 her original concept was a male
greatly improved with just some tweaks, and we only waited 5+ years
8:48 That tornado just stole the Plasmor's magazine
holy shit
FINALLY, the zephyr mains can be validated for once, she got so good over the years it's genuinely frightening, but like Protea I quite like having this gem to myself
Zephyr is definitely in my "Top 5" frames, along with Octavia, Ember, Nezha, and Protea (honorable mention of Nova, Mesa, and Saryn, who are still walking war crimes, just slightly less-fun for me). The dude-frames really need to step up their game.
It's a crime that Gauss isn't on this list anywhere
@@moonstruck6591 I'm still working on grinding Gauss. Late rotation disruption makes it take a while.
nezha is a boi.....
Nezha is a guy.
Wukong wants you to hold his beer.
@@seven9 yes, I know Nezha is a guy. He's still one of about 9 on my top list. Most of the worst or least-interesting frames are male: Frost, Hydroid, Oberon, Vauban, Chroma, Inaros, Loki, Caliban... Even Excal is showing his age, Nezha makes Rhino redundant, and Volt is really only preferable for Eidolons. DE has work to do on a lot of the male frames.
And I just don't like Wukong. Not a fan of turning my brain off and letting the game play itself.
I've been playing some Zephyr to do Zariman rifts, and started feeling like she's a good all-rounder on par with Volt. Good to see your perspective.
Another fun interaction with both Zephyr and Wisp is the Aero mod set. By applying them, you have some DR while airborne and can hover for several seconds when aim gliding. Skywalker Zephyr gets more time to apply tornadoes and recast Turbulence and Skywalker Wisp can remain invisible between shots.
Fulmin budget: "all these mods are very easy to get!"
Me at 900 hours, MR 20, still have never seen a Rime Rounds in my life:
I had Zephyr Prime in my inventory, took her out to try when she was reworked and when you initially did the Breach build. Then that worked so well I got bored and switched to a Dispensery + Kuva Orgis build where on any low level farm I will never touch the ground and I'll end the level with at leave 50% damage and 0% damage taken. No enemies can touch me until the recent eximus rework. Zephyr being underrated is a understatement.
i personally subsumed spectrorage onto my zephyr with the augment just for energy since i enjoy hovering in her 1 and i cannot say i have ever seen enemies who aren't eximus do anything but run straight into my tornadoes
Did the same. Everyone in steelpath always asking me how i keep instakilling and dropping so much energy
@@TheIronMask1954 which ability should I subsume?
@@lovej8359 most likely her 2
@@lovej8359 I chose her 1 because I don't mind actively jumping and her passive helps with staying airborne already.
@@Rakaan238 Most people choose her 2 but I personally rely on it even outside of its combo with Tornadoes
I remember masterring Zephyr Prime and leaving her to collect dust prior to her rework. Then recently I decided to check her out to see what I have been missing and, oh man, I’ve never had so much fun with a frame since forever
These Build Refresh videos have shown me that some of the frames I'd found boring in the past could actually be quite fun.
It hasn't changed my outlook on Nezha (I don't like his kit or his passive, just not fun for me. Sorry, not sorry), but I've gotten to enjoy frames like Ash and Zephyr a lot more.
Zephyr has been and always will be my most played warframe. Even back during the dark days before her rework, she was still usable for pretty much all of the content in the game if you knew what you were doing, and she was one of the best frames for rescuing a squad from doom. Her tornadoes, while far less effective back then, still provided enough large scale crowd control that they could be used in a pinch if your squad went down and you needed some breathing room to safely revive them. Tailwind also made it possible to rescue someone who went down 5+ tiles away.
Now, she's one of the best picks in the game and I couldn't be happier.
Zephyr moves the way I do in dreams, low gravity, gliding around. I love playing as her, thank you for revealing a way to allow me to finally break through the steel path.
Enemies walking on the ground:
Zephyr: “And I took that personally”
Breach surge on Zephyr is so completely unnecessary, but I love it.
I pulled Zephyr out of my toy box the other day, because I was looking to try a new frame. Haven't touched her since getting her, over a year ago. I'm in love with her kit. Can't wait to take her out into Steel Path
Funny enough I just got my Zephyr Prime yesterday! Perfect timing!
Arca Plasmor is cool and all, but another neat little trick that I don’t think many people are aware of is that weapons with alt-fires that require kills to charge (e.g. the Trumna, Battacor, etc.) will actually charge themselves when hitting enemies inside her Tornadoes. So essentially as long as you have enough enemies affected by her 4, you can keep spamming Trumna’s grenade launcher for massive damage
Don’t know if its a bug or not but I hope it never gets patched. Makes her so fun to play when farming survival missions
Zephyr’s crazy good. She’s been a favorite of mine since the Wukong rework. Great defenses, great cc, great damage boosts. I don’t even like to give her any helminth abilities, most of the time. She’s awesome for almost anything. And that deluxe skin is the coolest shit in the whole game. Absolutely spectacular frame.
First I bought her Prime because of Fancy Looking deluxe, that I liked like a lot.
Then she appeared to be quite good as well.
Worth noting that Tail Wind also has the midair hover on hold, which is nice for taking advantage of Zephyr's passive (150% crit chance in midair) without having to spam jump, gives you a bit of height, and also is a pretty good melee enemy (e.g. Acolyte) cheese
Aero vantage + aerodynamics are also a good option, just not so budget I think
Do it during a bullet jump for easy riven headshot challenges.
I'm just coming back to Warframe after several years of hiatus (for a number of reasons. burnt out on grind, the game was getting too intensive for my dinky laptop), the last time i really played was like 2019. I was checking out the weapons Father had for sale on Deimos and saw the Trumna, and thought "this sounds good, i wonder what better players think about it" and actually found your video covering the weapon. In that video you ran Zephyr, and Immediately I was like "wait, her tornadoes do WHAT?" So i ran over to the Simulacrum and. Oh my god this warframe. I don't know how long her tornadoes were basically just "shoot this and hurt everyone in the tornado", but it feels new. That change (i think) and her reworked 2 have really just blown my mind.
I have a Boar Prime + a Riven (+161.6 multishot, +222% damage, +115% crit damage, -130% impact damage) and they synergize REALLY well. Just shreds max level Bombards (i know Simulacrum isn't exactly representative of what goes on in real games though lmao). After your two videos i'm definitely gonna be giving her way more love
the amprex is also really fun to use with the tornados
A thought on Subsumes for Zephyr: Molt (from Saryn)
I've been using it for a while, and it's fantastic. It doesn't give you the hilarious damage number of Breach Surge, but it has a few other benefits.
First: it cleanses status. If an Eximus sneaks up on you, and you catch a Heat Proc, you're gonna have a bad time. Or, if you spawn a Sister of Parvos whose Hound keeps procing heat on you ... also bad. Molt will clean take care of that. You can also run the augment for a little bit of healing. Not much, as it's based on Str and Zephyr is kinda low there, but it's not nothing.
Secondly: Molt can hold open doors, rag-doll'ed enemies don't. Have you ever thrown down an airburst to try and pull enemies through a door? Sucks, right? Molt can fix that.
Third: it's intended use, as a distraction. If your molt is near your Tornadoes, melee enemies will beeline for the molt, and get zoop'ed up. You can also get creative with Line of Sight to pull in ranged enemies, but that's already kind of a non-issue.
But most importantly, it's thematic: birds molt. So the Bird Girl gets Molt.
A niche use for Zephyr is operator synergy. Amp kills on enemies in her 4 are not only counted as operator kills even on the damage over time portion, but the damage itself is multiplied. This makes for a really effective focus farming technique. It was trivial to level my Vasero Sekhara to rank three by killing Steel Path Mot enemies using nothing but tornado and my amp.
After recently coming back to the game. That budget build for Zephyr has been a godsend for me. Literally my favorite frame next to Ash Prime and Saryn Prime.
I only came back to the game about a week ago after last playing in 2020, was not aware Zephyr got a second rework. This is a very pleasant surprise.
Lmao at the Arca Plasmor magazine getting sucked into the tornado at 8:48
I just killed my first kuva lich yesterday with my GF after watching your guide your vids are so dope and informative
I love Zepher! I used to play them before the changes too. I use Power Donation (10% power strength lol) Spectrorage to generate energy. Preparation so I start and revive with enough energy to get the combo going.
been a while since ive played but I used to use zeph all the time because I loved the orphaned frames and weapons in WF. she looks way more viable now especially the flying and tornadoes.
Yea man her tornadoes shred
Zephyr main here. Currently watching and interested in your overkill build. Wonder what it is lol
Edit: ok I'm changing my gun
Trumna is absolutely silly on her, recharges the alt-fire instantly
@@chriscooper1449 I know but I'm pretty sure that isn't intended lol. I'ma stick with the arca haha.
Instead of breach surge and intensify, use spectrorage with the aug. Put it under a stationary tornado. The vertical effectived area is indefinite, so triggers the aug. You can hover in place indefinitely. You don't even need streamline.
I made a meme build for just efficiency and duration using her one to always be in the air, because of her passive, this gives my naturuk permanent red crits (:
LOL when I first built zephyr back in 2017 I put 5 forma on her and 6 on my tonkor, mained her for almost 2 years and even back then, she was soooooo goooodddd [yes I know 5 forma is excessive] but I also was only a year or so into the game and had a bunch of formas made that I didn't know how they worked, once I figured it out, I went all in on Z
Original zephyr is still my most used warframe till this day lol. Weird because I've been using the prime for a while too
@@ifeawosika966 thats awesome because nobody recognizes how good she is, even now people will still use "tank" frames over her, not realizing she doesn't have to "tank" at all, she just doesn't get shot in the first place lol not to mention a crit passive when in mid-air. She's kinda bonkers honestly. She is my 3rd most used as of now behind khora and trinity and I haven't really used her in like a year so yea I used the Z quite a lot. Keep at at it 💪 (oh and for people realizing my first 2 most used frames are support, you try switching consoles and playing arbitration defense, and have these randoms only bring low level gear, and usually single target guns equipped, and then wonder why I use Khora almost anytime im playing public, not insulting them, just saying)
Been waiting for this one of my favorite frame, seen a vid before with Zephyr using a Judgement Cut build, by MrWarframeGuy, which is what got me into Zephyr, that and Bury the Light is a good motivation song
Finally I understand what I’ve been doing wrong with Zephyr. Holding 4. That was it, that was the sauce.
Like using a Kuva Kraken and accidentally hitting alt fire.
I don't know why I love the fact that the Arca Plasmor's magazine just gets yoinked into the tornadoes whenever Zephyr reloads lmaoo
Zephyr is fine, it's just a shame that the game is so unstable with ragdolled enemies, using her tornadoes to group up enemies then deal gas or electric damage makes the game stutter like mad.
Coil horizon is an easy replace for her 2, as the range on coil horizon is larger and primes enemies with electric for gundition overload effects.
tbh her 2 is actual good, i would replace her one so u can clumb up enemies from farther away
Coil horizon is slow and clunky. Air burst is very fast and just slightly less range.
I only remember Zephyr being the frame that makes projectile weapons basically hitscan, I like when frames kinda just quietly become really good
Zephyr after the rework quickly became one of my favorite frames. Another fun weapon with her for later is the Kuva Chakurr. Funny crit AoE
"Don't forma Fulmin, just use Tenet Arca Plasmor"
I haven't looked at the process behind killing a Sister of Parvos, but if its anything like killing a Lich then I'm gonna stick with the Fulmin because I'd rather not spend the next 3 days of my life just getting the stuff needed to kill it (not even accounting for the time needed to get the weapon I want)
When you say one-day endeavour, is that one-day day for people who already have the stuff necessary to take one down? Or one-day for someone with maybe 20% of what you need? Because I started collecting the things to take down liches, got about 2 hours through it, looked at the road ahead and decided it wasn't worth it and went to do something else.
@@miss_bec one day for people who mostly have everything or have everything. If you've got a handful then I'd break it down into steps and you'd have it done in record time still. Spend time grabbing the relics, take a break, touch grass. Then later pop relics and hunt down the sister. Having the lich sister beacons you can get from nightwave helps shorten time in between encounters since they force the encounter.
@@miss_bec I forgot to mention that the sisters have a chance of dropping a wildcard requiem mod making your subsequent sister/lich hunt that much easier should you continue
Use the Nataruk instead of Fulmin, I've been using it with Zephyr and sp enemies just melt when you land a perfect or charged shot.
Zephyr is insane for new players. Easy easy dps with her crit bonuses. Easy easy survivability with turbulence.
now she is my go to for SP survival run, I also use Plasmor but I use stropha instead of glaive, 1 shot the acolytes is super fun
I am so glad I understand Warframe in terms of what kinds of abilities are good instead of what specific items are good. When I came back to the game I looked at Zephyr and thought she was pretty good, and like 15 minutes of SP survival proved me right immediately. Grouping that spreads damage, good defensive power, she can do an infinite damage loop with Breach Surge, and she has a second grouping power that's good for getting enemies unstuck from around corners and such, and helps when you maybe don't need a big point lockdown. Fantastic frame.
Bird girl became my default frame a few months ago when I realised how versatile she was.
the soma augment w zephyrs tornados is lowkey fun asf
I'd recommend you to use the Trumna. Because it's secondary fire mode refreshes instantly after killing enemies with the Tornado, which means u can nuke millions of damage in seconds..
Zephyr main since day 1 baby
I subsumed spectrorage and use spectrosiphon and see it working effectively.
As someone that hard-simps for Zephyr, I'm surprised I didn't see this video earlier, nice build dude.
I like that you emphasized on her tornado's punch-through combination. I tend to tell people it works kinda like 3 mirrors, shooting one tornado will reflect it once, and clumping the tornadoes together essentially means 4x initial damage with one shot. Really good with aoe weapons since the tornadoes reflect both the initial damage and aoe damage so I'd argue using an aoe weapon over punchthrough, but that's just my opinion.
But that's why I like zephyr so much. Each ability has some kind of unique build to it and all of them are viable and cover a new way to play the same frame, all of that and you are still an aerial cc-focussed warframe.
Feels bad when fulmin prime came out and there goes forma and cata :)
It must be said that both of the new arcanes are good on zypher the added power strength can be nice for a bit more damage from the tornadoes and the duration is nice so you don't need to cast your abilities as often, I personally run energise and the duration arcane
People are underestimating zephyr's true power, this build shows how good of a Warframe Zephyr is
If you ever want to throw bullets use verdilac with Jetstream and mid strength super fun and works with tornados still
In the words of terminal montage "BIRD UP"
hey nice video, I got a question though, I'm a beginner that has rhino and Excalibur, just wonder if I get zephyr should I sell one of the frame I had or buy a new slot, I have never spend any Plat yet
thanks for this, i now have a reason to return to her.
steel path is actually chill path when your name happens to be in the last letters of the alphabet
It's only to tooltips that make zephyr seem unappealing imo. But she's been 1 of my favs since i tried her years ago
They made such amazing changes to Zephyr and I’m like…what about Hydroid? Valkyr? Frost? Regardless, thanks for the builds
I'm new to the game been playing in about a month Zephyr was my second frame I picked volt first and I feel like I don't need any other warframes
Ummm 🤔 this warframe right here, she is federal. Understand me her nuclear ☢️ tornados. Unstoppable. I recommend this warframe to anyone. She can jump really high as well. Some players don’t like that but when you get use to her. She slaughters a whole room.. She can deflect bullets by air. Hands down the wind bending warframe is fire. Love this warframe…
silence is fckin great on her, so she nullifies eximus (and acolytes and etc.) abilities, making her even more invulnerable and chill
My pick for steel path is too slap on spellbind so zephyr doesn't die to random electric procs.
I always loved Zephyr Prime design for all the years she was not good, it’s time to be a predator bird!
Zephyr is my steel essence survival farm frame with spectrorage
Also don't forma fulmin because fulmin prime isn't to far out.
i lvoe zerphyr, im trying to build her to stay up without using much energy, i use aero vantage and im planing on putting some boreals anguish to further up the hover, that plus the antigrav ray in the sentinel for extra hovering. the build is usper cool too tx!
My friend recommend me buy the prime vault for zephyr (I was mr 8-10 at that time & still trying random wf to suit my playstyle) and she carries me all the way into steel path & arbitration. And she's still my go to wf whenever I feel the mission looks too difficult.
Another thing in open areas is the Aim Glide fall speed mods, so you can just stay airborne and snipe people. Optimized? Probably not. But it IS funny.
So I’ve been playing this frame completely wrong. Nice 😂😂
Zephyr is the most underrated frame in the game she is crazy strong
I was so thrown off when I saw your warframe tierlist last year and you threw her in C tier
I put Spectrorage over her 1. It makes her immune to the things that can hit through her 3, except for Stalker and Zanuka. Also, Spectosiphon lets me be lazy about energy.
It's funny how good she is compared to what she was. She's a monster with the MIGHTY SEER
Honestly Zephyr's tornadoes are absolutely broken and the weapon doesn't really matter so you could most likely do steel path effortlessly with the MIGHTY SEER
Most underrated zephyr is funnel clouds zephyr :)
Dude this is unreal. Last time I played Zephyr is when they FIRST gave her Airburst. I took her to PoE, was very underwhelmed, and haven't played her in years. This sh!t right here though? God damn. The Airburst has serious range when all modded up. Would this be better than Larva on Protea? Thanks for the vid!! :)
Airburst has 8m pull radius and 2 sec duration at base. Larva has 12m pull and 7 sec base. Larva still better .
@@Zelsius00 larva is slower and is clunky
Think calibans sphere has longest range
The airburst is kinda meh honestly, it's one of the worst ensnare abilities and cc from the tornadoes is enough
Whats the progenitor u used for the Tenet Arca Plasmor?
Bromine really skipped yareli in the build refresh lmao
Cuz he made her cut the queue and got her turn super early. Not that it mattered much.
He uploaded Yareli like 5 months ago
I hate to be that guy, but 'underrated' has two r's.
It doesn't have a bearing on video quality of course, but I figured it was worth pointing out
You're gone from warframe for 2 years and all of a sudden zephyr is somehow meta
There was a sister named Padia fufunek...
Here I thought the weaker version of the tenet arca plasmor was the arca plasmor...
How did you get rad + mag+ heat on your arca plasmor while only modding for viral + heat? Is it a radiation progenitor, and if so how does the magnetic get into the mix?
Both variations of the Arca Plasmor have innate radiation (just like the Fulmin has innate electricity) so if you make the Tenet progenitor magnetic, then you get both radiation & magnetic on it right from the get go i.e before modding.
savvy with arca plasmor gets eclips scaling and its def better to use it than even prime point blank.
i personally like her 1 just being able to fly is fun so i got rid of the 2 since i dont see any reason to have it the 4 does that for me so i dont see a reason for me to do it when i can leave it to my 4 so i replaced my 2 with gara for infinte energy just replaced streamline (i dont have maxed out energize probably wont ever have maxed out energize so this makes it so i dont have to just hope enemies drop orbs which they wont)
Remember jumping gives hella crit as well
I subsumed Tharros Strike on mine and let me tell ya I have TONS of fun .....
Try nourish on her
Somebody help me, why SOOOO much range in the budget build? It only affects air bust and turbulence. It doesn't affect how the range of pull in for tornadoes. Only how far they can be cast. Seems absolutely useless, until you see the tornado breach build which uses breach. But the budget build has no need for such ridiculous range.
Because range for your 2 becomes range for your 4.
@@HollowG_ Where did you find that info?
@@NobuTea he means that you can use your 2 to pull enemies near your 4 and basically extend it's range...