Alternative title: I turned Koumei into every other frame.
If you’re going to get rid of the crux of her kit, really just play another frame. Of course to each their own, but I’m tired of seeing people complain about Koumei when they haven’t really given her the chance and used her in a way she’ll shine.
It’s like when Tenet Glaxion came out and everyone tried to make it into Torid Incarnon. Surprised Pikachu face.
It’s gotten to a point where I just go ahead append a warning that I have no source and am just making casual conversation.
Source: my previous comment on Lemmy.
My favorite melee that, albeit AFAIK well respected, you don’t actually ever see in the wild is Stropha.
The style definitely does not suit every frame, but my Volt, Zephyr, and Mag can take crazy advantage of it.
It was only a few days ago I took Corufell off Mag and replaced it with Stropha. Should’ve done that wayyyy earlier.
Hopefully you haven’t gotten too far into your own clan, because the best strategy for people doing solo clans is to actually be in a clan with completed research first, replicate all of the blueprints, and then split off and do your own thing. Otherwise you are bottlenecking yourself pretty significantly.
Yes, you’ll hear about people that completed all research solo, but usually those are players that are already far into the game and are just doing it for the memes.
Total research costs on this page.
TL;DR: cut your losses, join a complete clan, replicate absolutely everything, restart your personal clan.
Limbo is a frame from the old times. He used to be pretty neat, but as the game evolved, his gimmick became less and less valuable and useful.
I’d really hate to see them just tape overguard on another frame and call it fixed.
To keep Trinity’s kit true to her essence, she needs massive scaling damage reduction capabilities. This way, pulse healing abilities can actually be relevant.
This is probably be beyond what DE means by “light rework,” but if they’d rework her 4th ability to work similarly to Harrow’s Covenant, where you have a damage absorption period followed by an uncapped but decreasing function of absorbed damage to damage reduction, I think she could regain her relevance.
Please no taped on overguard.
Personally I did not need to put anything into energy for Koumei besides Equilibrium and Synth Deconstruct.
I am very much a “use the right tool for the right job” type player, and your Warframes are tools just as much as your weapons are. Of course you mix the fun in there, but the point is to not make a Warframe into something they’re not and expect efficiency and effectiveness.
As someone in this post already said, Koumei is a probability/statistics frame at her core. She has a ramp up period with each mission, and so in order to almost guarantee effectiveness, the biggest resource you have is time. In other words, she is not going to be effective in short missions. The other big resource you have is your arsenal i.e. the tools you can control going in. The trick is to maximize that by using tools and mods that will mostly give you stats that you know will not be provided by decrees.
So most notably that means not focusing too much on ability strength and efficiency in your arsenal, and instead focusing on interactions that can proc off of the decree effects, or flat modifiers for stats that won’t be touched by decrees such as range and duration.
And the last thing is to accept that your run might suck for the first 30 or so minutes. By around 30-40 minutes, based on probability, your run should start to settle in and you’ll see the pay-off of the decrees.
I have not personally subsumed any abilities yet, but the candidates would be her 3 primarily, and potentially also her 1. Omamori isn’t very useful in its current state considering it doesn’t actually prevent you from dying, and more or less is worthless beyond the small window between not needing damage mitigation and being prone to one-shot damage. Kumihimo is also fairly redundant in the context of her 4, and can be removed if you have no real need for diet Bunraku.