Kavats

[Beef n' Leaves]

Are Kavats worth all the scanning and farming for Genetic Code, or should i just stick with Sentinels and Kubrows?

[Normal Lee]

I personally prefer Smeeta Kavat to sentinels/kubrows. Farming genetic codes is a real pain and you'll want a group, but it's worth it.

[Vegetamaker]

Carrier/Carrier Prime is better if you are new player or really need farm items (just to do it easier). They are really nice too if you are go out of ammo very often.

In any other situation Smeeta Kavat is the best.
Double resource buff works amazing with Void Traces and Kuva.
Red crits are just amazing.
Instant reload is good too with certain weapons (but I hate it, I feel that I didn't reload).

BUT, there is always a but, forget the farm for Kavats Genetic Code. They have a really low "drop chance", they are uncomfortable to farm and a waste of time.

Wait until an Kavat Genetic Code alert and you will get half kavat. So with two alerts you will can create one.

[Beef n' Leaves]

Speaking of farming, I don't have enough alloy plate to get the upgrade on the incubator. Time to place down some extractors.

[Zack]

When the Kavat's Charm gives you rare resources and red crits it's always a blast.

[robruckus65]

scanning takes wayyy too long imo its faster to just run some fissures adn sell priemd stuff and just buy teh dna for 50 plat... kavats have really nifty abilities I prefer sentinals for their utility but kavats are pretty handy...

[Archwraith]

Companion when using Nidus or Inaros, rest is using sentinel for me

[Beef n' Leaves]

The RNG has gifted me with Genetic Code!

[Totally Innocent Chatbot]

If you, unlike I would guess about 90% of the Warframe playerbase, can stand living without Vacuum, then yes, Smeeta Kavat is very worth it. Apart from their slightly increased survivability, Kubrows are nearly worthless by comparison.

[Asphe]

引用自 Beef n' Leaves：

Are Kavats worth all the scanning and farming for Genetic Code, or should i just stick with Sentinels and Kubrows?

I consider them 'MR fodder'.

All of the cats have nice abilities, but like the dogs.. the fact that they are somewhat independent of you means they will get killed often [yes, their defence stats are superior but they like standing on pools of toxin and will chase mobs into bad situations]. Sentinels seem weaker by comparison until you realise that because they stick to you like glue, you can better protect them by simply protecting yourself, unless you also like standing in pools of toxin and like meleeing level 200 ancients.

On one paw, when you fight high level mobs a lot, you just don't expect the cat dogs to survive long. Sentinels on the other paw, can both heal your health and shields [with limitations] and of course, Vacuum. Sentinels can also scan your targets, slow/freeze them, knockback/down mobs as well as expanding your +radar range and also kill mobs.

[Totally Innocent Chatbot]

引用自 Asphe：

引用自 Beef n' Leaves：

Are Kavats worth all the scanning and farming for Genetic Code, or should i just stick with Sentinels and Kubrows?

I consider them 'MR fodder'.

All of the cats have nice abilities, but like the dogs.. the fact that they are somewhat independent of you means they will get killed often [yes, their defence stats are superior but they like standing on pools of toxin and will chase mobs into bad situations]. Sentinels seem weaker by comparison until you realise that because they stick to you like glue, you can better protect them by simply protecting yourself, unless you also like standing in pools of toxin and like meleeing level 200 ancients.

On one paw, when you fight high level mobs a lot, you just don't expect the cat dogs to survive long. Sentinels on the other paw, can both heal your health and shields [with limitations] and of course, Vacuum. Sentinels can also scan your targets, slow/freeze them, knockback/down mobs as well as expanding your +radar range and also kill mobs.

In an ironic twist, some longtime vets believe the exact opposite. They claim that it is kubrows and kavats that have increased survivability at higher levels (largely because they are reviveable), and that it is sentinels that are far harder to keep alive/need constant babysitting.
Just gonna throw that out there.

[Archwraith]

引用自 Totally Innocent Chatbot：

引用自 Asphe：

I consider them 'MR fodder'.

All of the cats have nice abilities, but like the dogs.. the fact that they are somewhat independent of you means they will get killed often [yes, their defence stats are superior but they like standing on pools of toxin and will chase mobs into bad situations]. Sentinels seem weaker by comparison until you realise that because they stick to you like glue, you can better protect them by simply protecting yourself, unless you also like standing in pools of toxin and like meleeing level 200 ancients.

On one paw, when you fight high level mobs a lot, you just don't expect the cat dogs to survive long. Sentinels on the other paw, can both heal your health and shields [with limitations] and of course, Vacuum. Sentinels can also scan your targets, slow/freeze them, knockback/down mobs as well as expanding your +radar range and also kill mobs.

In an ironic twist, some longtime vets believe the exact opposite. They claim that it is kubrows and kavats that have increased survivability at higher levels (largely because they are reviveable), and that it is sentinels that are far harder to keep alive/need constant babysitting.
Just gonna throw that out there.

Tbh, I rarely have any dying problem with my kavat or kubrow. While I mostly use it with Nidus or Inaros, using other while my pet modded with pack leader, its health is very well sustained as long as you deal melee damage. Every melee hit restores their health easily that keep meleeing enemies will make them nearly invulnerable in the process.

[Renataendborinn]

my advice just grab a heliocore and wack the feral kavats to death since it scans what you kill with it. and if you dont have inaros yet do that mission and then at a point you get swarmed by feral kavats start swigging your heliocor like mad at the kavats.

[Grottowalker]

honestly from most useful to just filler, for me its Huras Kubow [This is a god send on frames that use their first or second skill often as for most if not all frames it does not break stealth]
second is the smeavta cat[ Since it creates a decoy to draw fire and spends half its time being invisible it is tanky in the sence that it just avoids taking dammage]

sentinals[good for the buggy missions where companions do tend to die often... the programing is not super amazing when it comes to boss fights where the boss has invunerable stages, this also applys to farming kuva. the kuva guardians have some bug currently where they can kill your kubrow or kavat without a chance to revive them]


basicly i use my kubrow most of the time since stealth is OP and its much stronger then Shade sentinal.

for fun ill use the smeeava kavat or the hCharger when i know i wont be needing stealth.

when doing missions like kuva farming i just use djinn since he has some decent CC and i dont care too much when he dies.



as for the DNA, as stated by some one in this thread, keep an eye out for alerts, and farm prime parts and sell them then buy the dna off the market. too grindy otherwise.

[Renataendborinn]

if you have google chrome this is a good app to use https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/warframe-helper/megdibgjimdgcjgdjocdldjchhfmhacb it shows a real time list of all alerts and invasions.

[barfbag69fartmachine]

Scanning isn't that hard if you have a helios somewhere
But yeah, keeping animals alive is a real pain, not to mention they don't have vacuum