Hydroid prime vs non prime hydroid

[NotTheBest]

I been playing with non prime hydroid for a while and i really love him i even gave him the extended mod capsity and i was wondring if i should get the prime one as he is stronger and can half the mod price by half in the right slots or should i stick with the non prime one

[Mhblis]

Hydroid prime is only barely better.

As for mod capacity just Forma normal Hydroid and you get the same effect.

The mod cpacity on a normal and primed frame are the same.
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Thebonly 2 reasons to get a Prime are.

1. The look. Primes often look better and have more fashion options.

2. A few less forma needed for min max builds.

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So if its easy to get, and you want the look then get it. Otherwise just spend the forma on Hydroid.

You dont have to go to a Prime. Im still using basic Frost over Primed Frost since he has 4 forma on him.

[Ciulla]

Nguyên văn bởi Mhblis:

Hydroid prime is only barely better.

As for mod capacity just Forma normal Hydroid and you get the same effect.

The mod cpacity on a normal and primed frame are the same.
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Thebonly 2 reasons to get a Prime are.

1. The look. Primes often look better and have more fashion options.

2. A few less forma needed for min max builds.

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So if its easy to get, and you want the look then get it. Otherwise just spend the forma on Hydroid.

You dont have to go to a Prime. Im still using basic Frost over Primed Frost since he has 4 forma on him.

Mod capacity is not the only reason. Frost Prime has 75 more shields at max rank, for example, and Hydroid has some of the more significant stat changes of any prime: higher shields by 150, 50 more armor, and 37 more energy. That being said, outside of higher level content, these bonuses are unlikely to matter and looks are the primary reason for using a prime outside of certain cases such as Atlas, Chroma, Oberon, and Rhino where the bonus stats provide a significant enough boost to power to warrant them being important.

[Ciulla]

Oh, and if you're interested in my sources on the stat bonuses, check the wiki on Fandom - they have them listed.

[BurlsoL]

Nguyên văn bởi Mhblis:

Hydroid prime is only barely better.

As for mod capacity just Forma normal Hydroid and you get the same effect.

The mod cpacity on a normal and primed frame are the same.
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Thebonly 2 reasons to get a Prime are.

1. The look. Primes often look better and have more fashion options.

2. A few less forma needed for min max builds.

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So if its easy to get, and you want the look then get it. Otherwise just spend the forma on Hydroid.

You dont have to go to a Prime. Im still using basic Frost over Primed Frost since he has 4 forma on him.

To add to this, even going forward, it is not a bad idea to keep prime and non-prime frames if you have the warframe slots to spare.

Having them separate allows you to have a non-prime frame forma'ed for a specialized purpose (such as farming materials), then have your prime frame forma'ed for more general use. Once you get access to lenses, you can have different lenses on the two variants so that you can essentially do the same kind of activity with both, but raise two different schools.

The statistic benefits are not actually that meaningful no matter what the hard numbers say since most frames are eventually used in a situation where they are destroying the content effortlessly and 50 shields, or 15 armor doesn't mean anything when you aren't taking meaningful damage from anything.