Best focus for the Warframe

[Bigwhitehound]

Don,t know if this has been asked before but. Which focus tree is best for the Warframe it's self?
NOT the operator. I almost never use the operator (YUCK) so I'm asking what you think. Thanks.

[Totally Innocent Chatbot]

Originally posted by bigwhitehound:

I almost never use the operator (YUCK)

Your loss.

[BurlsoL]

Operator gets better as you unlock focus. It also gets better when you have completed War Within. If you have not yet done War Within and gone to the cave behind Konzu in Cetus, you havn't seen anything about the operator yet.

Operator alone can get to a point where it can outperform most lower tiered players (those who struggle with level 50 enemies), make spy and stealth missions trivial, and has special advantages against sentient enemies as well as shadow stalker.

[Bigwhitehound]

I understand that some players like the operator, but others including me don't. So what focus is best for the Frame. Not the operator. Best passive, if nothing else.

[Watermelons]

Originally posted by bigwhitehound:

I understand that some players like the operator, but others including me don't. So what focus is best for the Frame. Not the operator. Best passive, if nothing else.

Regardless of your feelings over the Operators, that doesn't mean you cannot read information, assess, and come to your own conclusions.
Each school has two passive abilities that are mostly good for your warframe, while the rest affect the Operator's stats or their abilities.

Madurai lets you get extra physical and elemental damage.
Vazarin gives you some instant revives for you and your teammates, as well as a larger Affinity share range.
Zenurik makes energy orbs give more, and melee channelling more efficient.
Naramon can increases the amount of XP your melee gets from its kills, and makes the melee combo counter longer lasting.
Unairu can reflect a % of damage taken back to the attacker, and increases the armor of both Warframe and Operator.

From all that, figure out what you want instead of asking "which is best?". That's a stupid question.

[Fishyflakes]

General play: Zenurik - Naramon - Vazarin
Eidolons: Madurai - Unairu - Vazarin

edit: oh I guess you aren't going to do Eidolons

[Totally Innocent Chatbot]

For general use: Zenurik for free energy regen whenever you like (Energizing Dash, just requires you to Void Dash as operator then switch right back to frame).

For situations where you're going full melee (or leveling a melee, or farming Focus with a lens'd melee): Naramon for boosted Affinity to your melee weapon and a massive reduction to the rate at which your combo counter depletes.

For situations where you're playing as Trinity: Vazarin, for a small handful of instant revives and increased Affinity sharing range (i.e. increased range for Trinity's Bless).

For situations where you have no need for energy or melee, but want to deal as much damage as possible: Madurai for 25% extra physical and elemental damage.

[𓆚 standardheadache 𓆚]

If you never want to use your 5, then all the Warframe bonuses from focus trees are okay, if underwhelming. Focus 1.0 would've been more your style.

This being said, not using your operator at all means that you won't be able to progress past The War Within, do Eidolon hunts, or fight Sentients without a lot of trouble. Umbra's augmented passive will also be useless to you. Inaros's 4 will be far more punishing to charge without Vazarin, energy hog frames will need to eat pizzas all the time to sustain what Zenurik could give them, etc.

[Jackofallgods]

Even if you want to ignore focus skills you should practice using operator mode for reviving teammates along with activating life support and whatnot. As long as you are crouched in void mode then you are invincible and do all that worry free. And thats for free, no focus points needed.