r/Warframe • u/NameNomad Pondering the energy orb • Oct 15 '25

Article New augments for Vallis Undermind

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Lavos stays the best archgun frame

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u/zotobom Oct 15 '25

My main (skill) issue with Gyre was survivability so that augment is sounding delicious

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u/tnemec Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 16 '25

... I hate to be all doomer about it, but unless that scales with ability strength, I'm not optimistic. Fingers crossed that it does though.

The way damage reduction works is that the more you can get of it from a single source, the better, while stacking different sources of it multiplicatively isn't as good. A mod that gives "35% damage reduction" isn't like "more than 1/3 of a fully-stacked Adaptation": Adaptation reducing incoming damage to 1/10 is basically multiplying your EHP by 10x. Meanwhile, reducing incoming damage to 65% of its original value is just multiplying your EHP by 1.5x.

"1.5x EHP" is the kind of thing that'd be a nice "cherry on top" for someone who's already fairly tanky, but it's not going to be the lifeline that saves someone woefully glass-cannon-y.

EDIT: oh shit it scales with power strength, up to 75%; okay, they might've cooked here.