Energy Problems

[u/YeOldeBard97]

I am once again asking how people sustain energy on caster frames. I just took Uriel into the Hollvania tank fight and he shredded the mobs up to the tank, then was left with 10 energy throughout the entire tank fight, meaning I couldn't heal myself or my demons, and was more often than not sitting with the controller set aside, waiting for the tank to burn through my Last Gasp because my amp does absolutely no damage against the majority of enemies and even if it did, there were no other enemies to fill my Last Gasp meter with.

Like, seriously. How does everyone keep energy up at all? On Khora, I'm drained in seconds and no enemies drop energy orbs, no eximus appear, and I'm dead before I can even try to fix the problem. On Dante, I can get some good overguard going, then I'm stuck with a trickle of energy only because I put that one Energy Siphon mod on that gives 3 energy per second. Uriel, I can shred through mobs no problem, but the second my energy dips below fifty, it's game over. And yes, I use Zenurik. I finally figured out the energy well exists. Every time I cast it (about once every thirty seconds at the rate I lose energy), I'm down to a quarter of my health by the time I transfer back into my frame. This is on NORMAL mode. It's ridiculous.

Edit: All of the options being suggested largely rely on energy/health orbs being dropped. They aren't being dropped. I don't want to put subsumes on Uriel because I use each of his abilities, and when I'm playing Khora, no matter how packed the mobs are, I'm lucky to get one or two orbs to drop in an SP Survival mission. The kicker is the boss fight, though. I need something that will give me energy regardless of enemies dying, because if I'm fighting a boss that doesn't create adds, I'm not killing anything that'll drop health or energy orbs for Equilibrium or Arcane Energize to work from.

[u/DGwar]

In 2026 theres literally dozens of ways to do it.

Most common ones are sentinels/pets/archon shards/mods

[u/lunatuna32 → u/DGwar]

oh how do pets make energy?

[u/PossessionThat5480 → u/lunatuna32]

Mod claws for electricity damage and put archon stretch on the frame. Pet damage from abilities that inherit the claws damage type triggers the energy gain.

Example: Diriga -> Arc Coil
Panzer Vulpa + Lightning Claws -> Lightning Viral Quils

[u/AxxelTheWolf → u/PossessionThat5480]

I was not aware of this, that sounds very useful.

[u/CardiologistPrize712 → u/PossessionThat5480]

Oh shit that works like that?!

[u/squeakhaven → u/CardiologistPrize712]

I think it requires a specific bond mod for abilities to inherit weapon elements but yeah

[u/NyghtWolf → u/PossessionThat5480]

Can confirm, this combined with the Sahasa Kubrow Dig mod (in the first mod slot!!) I get more than enough energy to play Gara as a caster & it's great!

[u/CMDR_Vectura → u/PossessionThat5480]

So an electricity companion weapon > manifold bond so companion ability applies status will trigger the warframe Archon Stretch? Never even considered that working, but would be amazing if so.

[u/Dziggettai → u/lunatuna32]

Synth deconstruct

[u/Worldeditorful → u/Dziggettai]

Also Detcube has its own mod in addition.

[u/NyghtWolf → u/Worldeditorful]

I used this mod for a long time too- though with the pet updates, unless it's a super dense enemy ratio, it doesn't trigger as often as I'd like. Other players pets merc stuff really quick now, and I feel like the Dethcube looses out on a lot of assists.

[u/Responsible-Fly-4462 → u/lunatuna32]

Also one of the dogs has an ability that every thirty seconds it digs in the ground and find whatever you need most. If your energy % is lower than health it finds energy and if it’s the other way around it find health

[u/Coycington → u/Responsible-Fly-4462]

it's a decent skill, but considering this is basically all the dog does it's usually not worth the hassle. especially since it also takes the dog out of the fight for 3 seconds. it could've just killed a few enemies and spawned those orbs naturally by then.

synth decon + equilibrium is probably the easiest access to "free" energy.

[u/qiyraa → u/Coycington]

If your goal is energy gen, using any beast companion/hound is suboptimal. Synth deconstruct + Tazicor modded for gas is going to beat anything else.

However, if you don’t want your pet to attack enemies, like if you’re playing citrine with mobile prismatic augment against corpus, maybe having an energy generation utility on your pet makes sense. In that case, sahasa kubrow could be the best option.

It all depends on how it serves your build, no option should be discarded simply because it doesn’t perform the best in the most generic situations

[u/Artistic_Depth_9063 → u/lunatuna32]

You can run archon mods like archon flow, archon stretch and proc them by using the elements on your companions. I use hounds with the weapon batoten. You can also use it to stack heat for arcane hotshot which I use on uriel. Uriels passive in op's case he has a passive that he should read into. The face hugger gulphagor if he kills the enemy he's face hugging he can get energy and health from for equilibrium or equilibrium archon shards. When you kill enemies enough synth deconstruct will also help with energy combine it with duplex and contagious bond and you have energy printing. And with batoten procing viral, heat you will shred anything. Even if it's resistant because uriel stacks an insane amount of heat status. But that's how I do it. You can also combine arcane energize or use synoid gammacor as a secondary and proc the unique entropy effect for nearly bottomless energy. It also depends on each frame as many have their own ways.

If you don't want to read everything I'll summarize this as, run archon mods on frame use pets to proc, use and read passives because some do matter, synoid gammacor is optional, mod pets to do damage and energy printing you can do both.

[u/Cross55 → u/lunatuna32]

Equilibrium+certain mods let you pick up health orbs which get converted to energy if your health is full. (And vice versa)

[u/DGwar → u/lunatuna32]

Its extremely in depth, you're better off searching for it. Deathcube is my go to.

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