its basically impossible to die or fail a defense with frost - and then they gave him his own arcane lol. and by defense I mean any mission where the enemies come toward you which is most.
Very neat build with the new arcane. For players without arcane energize a few yellow shards might even do the trick to replace it. Fleeting really helps here.
@@Malurth for sure. I run a hybrid day and night equinox with full terrify armor strip. 250 energy pool and with one tauforged equilibrium shard and one tauforged yellow shard, I can spam enemies to sleep all while my drain is active on my 4th. and I never run out of energy. This is still my favorite build. For rounds 1-30 I stay in day form and just nuke everything. After things get sketchy I'll switch to night form and sleep everything. I can still nuke as well you just have to do it a bit slower.
should be noted that currently, Shivering Contagion on your companion is a Frost buff too. Also, I would figure that Tenet Glaxion's energy mod could pad out Frost's energy economy
I found that you shouldn't let your companions proc cold, otherwise they will steal Arcane Ice Storm stacks and make it much harder to maintain the buff. and yea the glaxion can help ease energy concerns, but he's a weapons platform so imo you're kind of better off just bringing the big guns that can really capitalize off his freeze
Frost was my OG prime frame back in like 2017? When I started playing so I think it's awesome that he's been brought up in the ranks. I wasn't aware of the buffs he got until the last week (I jump in and out of the game for like a year sometimes) and I was just bored looking for a different play style. Frost's been fighting for the number 1 spot with Gauss and Wukong for me now but taking that spot easy in most objective missions.
Honestly Excal's only really good ability is his 1st. Javelin is good with the augment, but doesn't have high enough duration. And there are so many better melee frames to play with.
great info, i have base frost(not prime) and ngl i dont agree with your take on needing max efficiency, but i like this build and it seems less stressful. on another note.. lemme get that envoy build(i need it)
thx homie. max efficiency is arguably kind of overkill yea, but better safe than sorry. anyway, envoy build: i.imgur.com/SVRGXWn.png riven: i.imgur.com/Yen77vn.png replace riven with Serration if you don't have one imo
companions can proc the buff with their abilities, and it's a strict upgrade to Stretch if you have enough capacity, which I do. it's not a big deal tho, you can replace with normal Stretch without issue.
yup. you can see at 18:08 I do just that; look at his name when he spawns, to the right of it an armor icon briefly flashes, indicating I stripped his armor (also they all spawn with armor, so if they have a red health bar they must be full stripped)
I'm just an Envoy enjoyer. it's my favorite fodder-killing weapon, for the most part. feel free to replace with any weapon you would prefer, works the same overall edit: oh I guess it's also multiplicative to Biting Frost instead of additive. had no idea tbh. thx @felix_patriot :p
just cuz they should be buffing underpowered things, not already overpowered things, lol. like I've long held that augments just need a rebalance, not their own unique slot or anything; meanwhile Pablo goes and buffs Icy Avalanche, a mod that was already an auto-include on an already busted frame. sigh
The following weapons benefit from Biting Frost *Multiplicatively* instead of additively:
Acceltra
Acceltra Prime
Basmu (primary)
Bubonico
Gorgon (incarnon)
Gorgon Wraith (incarnon)
Phenmor
Sporothrix
Tenet Envoy
Tenet Tetra
Stahlta
Strun (incarnon)
Strun Wraith (incarnon)
Strun Prime (incarnon)
Kuva Ogris
Kuva Drakgoon (uncharged)
Prisma Gorgon (incarnon)
MK1-Strun (incarnon)
Angstrum (incarnon)
Prisma Angstrum (incarnon)
Epitaph
Gammacor (incarnon)
Synoid Gammacor (incarnon)
Grimoire
Kompressa
Laetum (incarnon)
Onos (primary fire)
Tenet Diplos
Tenet Plinx (alt fire)
Seeing 4 red exclamation marks after firing your Strun Prime incarnon is really something to behold.
@@felix_patriot Dude you a G for this.
Do you know if the tenet tetra works for alt fire explosions also?
damn, ngl, I had no idea. guess my loadout of envoy/laetum was correct, lol. big ups my dude, thanks!
he phenmor on the list
that feeling when DE puts a x instead of +
@@Malurth but actually laetum cant work well with frost even crit build
its basically impossible to die or fail a defense with frost - and then they gave him his own arcane lol. and by defense I mean any mission where the enemies come toward you which is most.
Great builds once again! Frost has been a blast. And never knew about the cast animation for breach surge!
Very neat build with the new arcane. For players without arcane energize a few yellow shards might even do the trick to replace it. Fleeting really helps here.
yeh in my experience 2x tau (or 3x normal) yellow shards for energy orb efficiency are about as good as an Energize in the average case
@@Malurth for sure. I run a hybrid day and night equinox with full terrify armor strip. 250 energy pool and with one tauforged equilibrium shard and one tauforged yellow shard, I can spam enemies to sleep all while my drain is active on my 4th. and I never run out of energy. This is still my favorite build. For rounds 1-30 I stay in day form and just nuke everything. After things get sketchy I'll switch to night form and sleep everything. I can still nuke as well you just have to do it a bit slower.
should be noted that currently, Shivering Contagion on your companion is a Frost buff too. Also, I would figure that Tenet Glaxion's energy mod could pad out Frost's energy economy
I found that you shouldn't let your companions proc cold, otherwise they will steal Arcane Ice Storm stacks and make it much harder to maintain the buff. and yea the glaxion can help ease energy concerns, but he's a weapons platform so imo you're kind of better off just bringing the big guns that can really capitalize off his freeze
Frost was my OG prime frame back in like 2017? When I started playing so I think it's awesome that he's been brought up in the ranks. I wasn't aware of the buffs he got until the last week (I jump in and out of the game for like a year sometimes) and I was just bored looking for a different play style. Frost's been fighting for the number 1 spot with Gauss and Wukong for me now but taking that spot easy in most objective missions.
Great video and as a frost andd tenet envoy enjoyer this was dope to see! Cheers to the red crits!
We're so back, frostbros.
Meanwhile Nyx...
Who?
@@sorsrusdavid353Absolutely FOUL
nyx and trinity are getting a light rework this winter
Oberon
Give Nyx her 4 aug and Falcor + Melee Influence and the room dies constantly.
Nooo, my frost had 2 umbra forms cause i liked him, now i guess i has to forma him again, and waste umbra slot
Nice build, how about a build on Excalibur? I am sure you have lots of things to say about him, no?
hehe...alas, Excal is not a frame I play regularly, so I don't have much to say about him at the moment :p
perhaps this will change in time tho
Honestly Excal's only really good ability is his 1st. Javelin is good with the augment, but doesn't have high enough duration. And there are so many better melee frames to play with.
@@ab_c4429 ...yeah that's kind of more or less what I concluded, hence why I barely play him, lol. but I could just be missing something, idk.
great info, i have base frost(not prime) and ngl i dont agree with your take on needing max efficiency, but i like this build and it seems less stressful. on another note.. lemme get that envoy build(i need it)
thx homie. max efficiency is arguably kind of overkill yea, but better safe than sorry. anyway,
envoy build: i.imgur.com/SVRGXWn.png
riven: i.imgur.com/Yen77vn.png
replace riven with Serration if you don't have one imo
why primary merciless over primary frostbite?
might finally get frost now, especially since i have his heirloom skin
4 months later i got him and he's pretty fun to play
How do you proc archon flow in this build?
you kinda don't. mostly just praying the 4 freeze damage somehow scores a KO (it can on really weak or low HP enemies).
why is archon stretch in the build? why not regular stretch
companions can proc the buff with their abilities, and it's a strict upgrade to Stretch if you have enough capacity, which I do. it's not a big deal tho, you can replace with normal Stretch without issue.
@@Malurth may i know is there any specific companion that does help with the mod? is it diriga?
Can you please share the Tenet Envoy build?
envoy build: i.imgur.com/SVRGXWn.png
riven: i.imgur.com/Yen77vn.png
replace riven with Serration if you don't have one imo
Does frost strip all enemy armor even acolyte?
yup. you can see at 18:08 I do just that; look at his name when he spawns, to the right of it an armor icon briefly flashes, indicating I stripped his armor (also they all spawn with armor, so if they have a red health bar they must be full stripped)
Is it ever worth buffing the armor value to help the overguard value?
in my experience, no, tbh. all you need is a good energy economy and cast speed so you can freely spam 4.
Why the envoy? I’ve seen you meantion/use it often
it benefits from biting frost multiplicatively
I'm just an Envoy enjoyer. it's my favorite fodder-killing weapon, for the most part. feel free to replace with any weapon you would prefer, works the same overall
edit: oh I guess it's also multiplicative to Biting Frost instead of additive. had no idea tbh. thx @felix_patriot :p
What's with the Archon Stretch?
Companion abilities can trigger archon stretch. Neat trick with the bond mod that applies status from the companion weapon.
what simulacrum is this?
Moonlit Courtyard simulacrum, purchased for 100k standing from New Loka. or you can trade for it, like I did :3
Did you use an aura forma just to get enemy radar? Pets can do that and loot radar with one mod.
I use an aura forma on like every frame I use.
and obviously I run PAI too. it's just not enough radar for my tastes
the more radar the better
Gyre build when papi
Im doing something wrong or its nerfed? i barely do damage with wisp helminth :/
Tenet envoy primary weapon
could i get your build on the envoy?
envoy build: i.imgur.com/SVRGXWn.png
riven: i.imgur.com/Yen77vn.png
replace riven with Serration if you don't have one imo
Literally begging DE to please uncap the casting speed. Makes Frost feel so much worse :(
why the hell are you not happy with those buffs lol
just cuz they should be buffing underpowered things, not already overpowered things, lol. like I've long held that augments just need a rebalance, not their own unique slot or anything; meanwhile Pablo goes and buffs Icy Avalanche, a mod that was already an auto-include on an already busted frame. sigh
He wasn't lying. His build needs alil tuning 💀 I thought he was joking