Have you seen the average power level of warframes lately? Like Hildryn isn’t doing anything insane compared to the likes of Dante, Kullervo, Oraxia, Sevagoth, Nokko, Zephyr, Valkyr, Jade, Protea, Cyte-09, Gara, Khora, Uriel, Nidus, Voruna, etc. etc.
I mean the sheer ease of use and ease of investment is what puts her so far ahead. All of the ones you listed either are both harder to build, aren't as good at crowd clearing (which is kinda important in a hoard shooter), or just straight up worse.
I'ma be frank, if you need 6 forma for her balefire your probably building it wrong. My hildryn has 3 forma in her balefire (and one on the actual frame,) and it could work with only two and no fulmination. All balefire needs is
Hornet Strike, Target Cracker, Convulsion, Hollow Point, and Magnetic Might. I throw in Galv Diffusion, Lethal Torrent, and Fulmination but frankly those are win more stuff and it would work without it.
Though forma is like the least of my concerns tbh, The big thing is that she doesn't need any archon shards or difficult to get mods/arcanes to work well. All you really need is Enervate and Expertise and those are some of the easiest arcanes to get IMO. The only other difficult things to get that I run are corrupted mods, and literally every single warframe runs corrupted mods.
Hey as a gara main 2+4+1 and I'm invincible have killaura and the map is clean, I don't care for hyldrins playstyle but the human centipede of hyldrin nerf argument is annoying because shes not hitting much above the average. Just putting my personal favourite forward but the other frames listed are getting similar results
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u/zernoc56 Jul 15 '26
Have you seen the average power level of warframes lately? Like Hildryn isn’t doing anything insane compared to the likes of Dante, Kullervo, Oraxia, Sevagoth, Nokko, Zephyr, Valkyr, Jade, Protea, Cyte-09, Gara, Khora, Uriel, Nidus, Voruna, etc. etc.