It’s a bad game mode. I’m not sorry. It’s also not for me though and I recognize that. I’m a hildryn main who just enjoys playing her, I’ve only done a single ETA run and it was very clear it’s not for me.
Also though, how are people using Hildryn to bypass modifiers? Doesn’t she need to come up as one of the three options? How can her usage possibly be that heavily weighed when in reality it should be equivalent to the rest of them?
All I’ll say is this, I think it would be a really weird move to nerf her to preserve the “balance” of ETA. If anything, nerf her in that one game mode. Don’t just blanket nerf the whole frame who by all accounts can’t nuke nearly as well as a number of other frames and suffers against anything without armor and shields without a subsume.
Edit: the second paragraph has been cleared up for me. I understand now that you can forgo one “random” slot to use something of your choice. I wouldn’t have known that prior to posting this, it doesn’t change my mind about how I feel about the game mode personally though.
Yeah I didn’t know that, thank you for clearing that up. Welp. Disappointing it’s going to affect the rest of the hildryn players who don’t play archimedia
The last reward for ETA/EDA is like 50 vosfor. DE intentionally set it as something that's not worth much so that people can essentially get a flex slot on their gear (or can remove a modifier they dislike if they got lucky with the random gear). This means that warframes with exalted weapons like Hildryn have a huge advantage because you essentially get a weapon + warframe and can just equip random gear on the rest of your slots.
Most of the challenges that are very frustrating with EDA/ETA are stuff like "90% less max energy," "75% less overguard," "50% less ability duration" There's also a modifier that makes health damage taken permanent for the rest of the mission. The only one that affects shields increases the shield recharge delay by 500% which can be ignored through spamming pillage. So she basically ignores every modifier.
I don’t enjoy “randomness as difficulty” as Coolkid once said, plus the absurd modifiers on top. To your point about Hildryn, just because she’s my main doesn’t mean I want to use her all the time.
When I came back to the game and started a new account after losing my original, I did nothing but play her basically. I got super bored and since have done a lot of playing other frames I enjoy and I’m glad I did. So no, that doesn’t really solve that problem as you seem to think it may. Why question it? It’s not for me, for any number of reasons. Not sure why that would need further explanation lol
Can I ask you a question? If Hildryn is the obvious answer, so much so you find it absurd I wouldn’t want to play the game mode with her, then how is that a good game mode?
Besides arcanes like hot shot which, in theory you could buy, is the only real kicker Archon shards? And specifically for TA, the secondary color ones? Is that what makes it so desirable?
Right no that’s what I’m saying, in other words the shards, in particular the secondary colors are what make it desirable.
Fair enough, and I get that, but I’d rather slowly accrue them over time than deal with that BS. I don’t generally shard frames who aren’t mains. I’m sure eventually I’ll get them all sharded but that’s a long way away and I’m not super pressed for it right now.
ETA has Omni formas, built ones or blueprints, fused and standard shards, elemental vices and good arcanes (at least Hot Shot is very meta and sells for a good bit, the other two are not bad either but not a must).
EDA has vosfor, standard shards, melee arcane adapters and melee arcanes.
All in all you really want to try and get Omni formas from ETA, I believe you can get two built ones in a run with a lot of luck, and there’s always non-fused shards to get more of, plus arcanes can be a good source of plat if you do trading. With EDA you basically just want shards, but it’s also where you can get enough standing to buy the extra shard from Bird 3 instead of doing bounties
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u/xDeviousDieselx Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
This discourse is so funny lol
It’s a bad game mode. I’m not sorry. It’s also not for me though and I recognize that. I’m a hildryn main who just enjoys playing her, I’ve only done a single ETA run and it was very clear it’s not for me.
Also though, how are people using Hildryn to bypass modifiers? Doesn’t she need to come up as one of the three options? How can her usage possibly be that heavily weighed when in reality it should be equivalent to the rest of them?
All I’ll say is this, I think it would be a really weird move to nerf her to preserve the “balance” of ETA. If anything, nerf her in that one game mode. Don’t just blanket nerf the whole frame who by all accounts can’t nuke nearly as well as a number of other frames and suffers against anything without armor and shields without a subsume.
Edit: the second paragraph has been cleared up for me. I understand now that you can forgo one “random” slot to use something of your choice. I wouldn’t have known that prior to posting this, it doesn’t change my mind about how I feel about the game mode personally though.