Small Rant

Is it just me or are 99% of the popular warframe builds on YouTube feel utterly useless? Whenever I watch one and analyze what’s going on, I realize that they come down to one of two options, all the time.

  1. It’s not a warframe build. It’s a torid/occucor/innodem showcase with a warframe’s name stuck on top of it.
  2. It’s completely and utterly redundant and useless, with 0 knowledge on the actual frame (I’ll dive into this later and you’ll understand what I mean)

Every video I watch, it’s one of these two. I think one day, “hmm idk how to really build this niche warframe, so I’m going to look up a guide for a quick suggestion!” And my experience is basically the “let’s go gambling!” Meme. Trinity? Nah, occucor show case, or innodem, pick your poison. Zephyr? Yeah, innodem, you guessed it. Rhino? Torid! Of course! And etc.. It’s never about the warframe. It’s always, purely about their weapons.

What’s worse is the redundant ones, and the lack of knowledge. For example (and you might recognize this) Ember build: “yeah subsume her 2 for terrify for the armor strip and cc!” …what? You mean… the exact thing her 3 does?? And has great synergy with her 2, which you just got rid of??? What the hell? OR The zephyr/banshee syndrome, which is that most builds I’ve seen focus purely on the fact that their skill descriptions say “projectiles,” but they completely fail to realize, that it’s not limited to “projectiles.” If you go into the wiki, you learn that banshee’s sonar and zephyr’s tornadoes are affected by everything. Yet the videos I seem to find don’t talk about that.

Now, to be fair. Maybe I’m being harsh. Warframe is 11 years old. Everyone has probably done a “omg the greatest build ever!” For like the trillionth time, so they’re being experimental with it, being unique. However, they never seem to state that at all. It’s always “DPS TRINITY OMG!” “I BROUGHT WORLD ON FIRE EMBER BACK” “NUKING LIMBO!” And so on.

The only videos I found useful, ever, was a Baruuk build video that had proper research, and extremely low quality, straight to the point, 43 second long “I got a neat build :)” vids that have the most jaw dropping, brain scratching, easy to comprehend and viable builds in existence. …or random Mr 17s that just have the craziest, balls to the walls, build ever and they just say “yeah it’s alright”

Is this just me? Or do other people feel the same way?