The Warframe Universe has given players many unique and original characters. One of them is the Hydroid warframe. This master of the water element is able to drown and flush many opponents with water. But these are far from all the useful properties of this character. This short review will tell you how to get a Hydroid, as well as all its talents and abilities.
Character summary
Warframe Hydroid does not have particularly impressive indicators of health, shields or armor, which is especially noticeable at the initial stage of the game. At the first level, your life indicators reach 100 units, shields do not exceed 115 points, and armor - 65. But after pumping the suit to the maximum rank, the HP level will rise to 300, and shields to 354 units, which does not slightly enhance your warframe. The defense build with the maximum redirected mods “Redirection”, as well as “Bioenergy” gives the Hydroid 989 units of shields, and this is the highest indicator among all other warframes. In addition, this character has two polarities, which significantly increases the capacity for mods.
Warframe Hydroid: where the character breaks out
You can buy this costume in the game store, and such a purchase will cost you 300 platinum. But if you do not want to spend real money on the game, you can purchase a character drawing for 50,000 credits, and knock out the missing parts from Advisor Wei Hyuk, the boss of the Earth. Keep in mind that a kill mission will only open when you reach rank five. In addition, many rare resources, such as the Argon Crystal and the Orokin Battery, will be needed to create this costume. In total, in order to create parts of the Hydroid, you will need 70,000 credits, and along with the price of the main drawing, the entire costume will cost 120,000, which makes it one of the most expensive in the game.
Like all the other characters in the game "Warframe", Hydroid has four unique skills. Next, you will find a detailed description of each of them.
Thunder storm
Using this skill (key 1), the Hydroid deals damage to all enemies within 10 meters with water bullets flying from above. In fact, it is very reminiscent of a deadly rain lasting 5 seconds. At the same time, without enhancing abilities with mods, the damage from a drop reaches 150 units. Another advantage of the ability is its relative cheapness. So, activating the Storm Flurry will cost you 25 mana. This skill is best used against a small crowd of enemies gathered in a heap, since the radius of the skill is not very large. The Storm Flurry does not pass through obstacles, so it will not work to kill opponents behind a door or wall.
Tidal wave
This skill (key 2) allows the Hydroid to crush opponents in a huge wave. A wall of water rushes forward and deals 300 damage every second. In addition, the wave overturns and pulls along opponents who were not killed by it. So the “tidal wave" will be useful if you are surrounded.
Low tide
Using this skill (key 3), the Hydroid warframe turns into a water trap, drowning and damaging all enemies within a radius of 18 meters. In this case, the character himself also immerses in water and becomes invulnerable to any opponent. Including the status and aura of the Eximus does not apply to him. The cost of the skill is 2 mana per second. The effect will continue until the character runs out of energy or until the player turns off the ability.
Every second, all enemies caught in the water are dealt 25 damage. At the same time, reinforcing modes significantly increase the damage done and reach 57 units. In addition, water damage bypasses shields and armor and deals 200% more damage to Ancient Healers. Another useful feature of low tide is that underwater Hydroid shields are restored. So if you need to leave the battle to make up for defense, activate this skill and restore your warframe. A build on energy efficiency and strength will be most useful for this skill.
Swarm of tentacles
By activating this ability (key 4), the Hydroid summons a sea monster to its side. This monster has 12 tentacles, inflicting huge impact damage of 200 units every second. At a minimum level, the duration of the ability reaches 20 seconds, and the radius of action is 20 meters.
A swarm of tentacles can be aimed at the target, and this skill will be especially useful for most missions of the game "Warframe". Quests for defense or survival Hydroid will easily pass with this skill. Especially if they pass in narrow corridors. In this case, the enemies will not be able to get through the tentacles. The cost of activating a skill is 100 units of energy, which is quite expensive. But energy efficiency mods will significantly reduce mana cost for this ability.
Hydroid Build
Warframe has many of its secrets, the knowledge of which will be very useful for players. So, the addition of the Syndicate mod “Stealing tentacles” will bring 50% more resources from killing the enemy. This passive ability makes Hydroid one of the most sought-after Warframe games. Resource Quests are not complete without this character. The following photo shows one of the most common Hydroid builds. You can make it even without polarizing the suit, but you need to insert the Orokin reactor, which increases the capacity of the mods.
It is worth considering that the strength and radius are increased due to the duration and energy efficiency. So, without the help of the Trinity warframe , you can’t do it here - the character will constantly need energy. A Necros company with Defilement and an accelerating Nova will also be useful. In this case, defense and survival will pass easily, quickly and bring a large amount of necessary resources.