[Warframe] The Grammaton Cleric - a versatile mesa build with void gating

Builds at 4:05 (adjust elements for the reworked faction weaknesses)

Full shield gate with Catalyzing Shields is 1.33 seconds which you can roughly get used to by setting up a metronome with 45 bpm. Replenish full shields with 2 Augur mods and Brief Respite when casting Peacekeeper, Nourish or Ballistic Battery. You also gain shields by going into Void Mode and letting Fast Deflection and Vigilante Vigor activate shield recharge after 1 second, since the frame is invulnerable while we're in void mode. I refer to this method as "void gating", which works even if your frame has dots on it. When Peacekeeper is active, double tap Ballistic Battery. It's important not to leave it on, and not to cast Shooting Gallery, because both of these will leave your frame vulnerable when transferring out. If the operator goes down, instantly cast Nourish or Peacekeeper.

Keep Nourish active, even when traversing rooms, since it boosts energy nexus. If you run out of energy, don't panic. Use Void Mode, wait for void gates and keep popping out for heavy throws. Activate Nourish when you regen enough with Equilibrium and Energy Nexus. If you make a mistake and go to Last Gasp, quickly target a clump of enemies or already stripped ones, use Contamination Wave then Void Strike with Phahd. Its glaives have 5m detonation range and they bounce, so be careful not to stagger yourself. Get energy with Void Sling assisted by Magus Cloud and keep hiding in the void/use cover and ricochet the glaives off walls. If there is a Thrax ghost out, killing it will revive you as well. You can leave a couple alive, they'll slowly follow you around like a pet. It's best to headshot them with Cantic, but Phahd spam will eventually kill them.

Glaive Prime(vs armored) or Cerata(vs shields) are for Secondary Outburst stacks, mob clear and Mark of the Beast. Get Melee Crescendo stacks by sleeping mobs with your secondary using Aero Periphery. Mobs won't attack you during standing finishers, and your shields will regenerate. If you go down at very high levels, it can be hard to restack crescendo depending on the mission type, so be careful. For lower levels, you can use an initial combo Ceramic Dagger, since you can just use Peacekeeper to mob clear. Twin Stubbas prime and slow VIPs and strip their armor with corrosive Emerald Archon Shards. They also do decent damage. Clear crowds with Void Sling, heavy glaive throw and Peacekeeper. Magus Anomaly helps with grouping. Kill VIPs with Twin Stubbas(shoot until you see their armor pop) and Peacekeeper. Pop Void Strike on acolytes, thraxes and risky demolishers.

Wyrm Prime doesn't have attack precepts on so it pulls less aggro. Keep it alive with Reinforced Bond by shooting Stubbas and meleeing/activating peacekeeper. If it goes down, focus eximus units for quick revive. It's recommended to keep it alive, as it provides Negate, Vacuum, radar, critical damage(Tenacious Bond), fire rate(Reinforced Bond) and clones that draw aggro.(Duplex Bond)

Primary is a flex slot. I recommend Afentis for buffing or Miter for clearing nullifier bubbles with Neutralizing Justice. If you're not running heat Regulators, then you have to charge Topaz Archon Shards with heat from your primary or a spectre. You can also swap cold to heat on secondary, but I wouldn't give up the slow. Alternatively, you can use Virtuos Forge on a status chance amp on non-cascade missions. If you don't wanna bother with any of that, swap topaz shards to crimson ones.

The main amp I'm using is Cantic-Phahd-Certus(547) as it's the best for Void Cascade. (made an editing error, so it's not shown in loadout) If you want to run an easy mode version for non-cascade missions, use Vazarin instead of Madurai. Take off shield recharge mods for Natural Talent and Vigorous Swap.

Have fun!


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