Operator Abilities?

[Dornheim]

Before the plains add on, if you held 5 it would enact the operator ability, (e.g. healing). Now it just pops out your opeerator from the warframe. How do you trigger the operator abilities?

[ardoon]

Focus 2.0 got rid of them, they were terrible anyway

[Games Master Mucho]

They sadly get removed after you finish The War Within, I'm kinda expecting the Apostasy to add a better replacement for "Wraith Mode" or if not then the Venus Open World update. Kinda missed wraith mode

[Sithis]

Wait, do they work until you hit War Within? I got the impression they were cut out for good.

But yes, as of PoE (or actually, as of War Within update; PoE simply changed things around in the already-introduced system), 'wraith mode' was replaced by Operator mode using its separate upgradeable weapon and five abiity trees that, instead of being small augment to a single ability, provide you with boosts/effects of all your Operator mode actions including dash, melee, and so on.

[Spook]

Finishing War Within used to mean you had both the useless super move AND the completely useless run-around-child mode. PoE and the accompanying focus rework removed the super move (at least once you've progressed enough?? Unclear on this) and made most of the focus nodes dedicated to trying to make the run-around child not useless.

[Crystal_Ignition (exo)]

tbh i wished they had expanded on ghost mode, while i agree the whole hold down and be locked into an ability was dull it would be nice to be able to quick fire operator abilities instead of going into the mode then doing it
that way operator mode can be used for more niche but more powerfull abilities like a channeling ability that invunerability stripped, that would make more sense then, "the shields need the operators"
i just wanted the operator to be a magician more then just a finicky version of warframes

[Sithis]

Originally posted by Spook:

Finishing War Within used to mean you had both the useless super move AND the completely useless run-around-child mode. PoE and the accompanying focus rework removed the super move (at least once you've progressed enough?? Unclear on this) and made most of the focus nodes dedicated to trying to make the run-around child not useless.

Actually, 'useless supermove' wasn't as useless, depending on what you pick and how you mod it. Say, Vazarin was one of the few ways to heal certain defence targets that even Bless wouldn't, and modding an ability for maximum recovery would also let you use it fairly frequently, too.

[kknd]

Originally posted by Sithis:

Originally posted by Spook:

Finishing War Within used to mean you had both the useless super move AND the completely useless run-around-child mode. PoE and the accompanying focus rework removed the super move (at least once you've progressed enough?? Unclear on this) and made most of the focus nodes dedicated to trying to make the run-around child not useless.

Actually, 'useless supermove' wasn't as useless, depending on what you pick and how you mod it. Say, Vazarin was one of the few ways to heal certain defence targets that even Bless wouldn't, and modding an ability for maximum recovery would also let you use it fairly frequently, too.

Yeah I kinda wish they'd kept it. I enjoyed CC ability on whatever frame I want via Zenurik's 'lift wave' move.

[Dornheim]

Just to clarify, can I heal me and my squad anymore?

[Totally Innocent Chatbot]

Originally posted by Dornheim:

Just to clarify, can I heal me and my squad anymore?

If you're using the Vazarin school, you can indeed heal yourself and your allies by unlocking the Protective Dash ability and Void Dashing through them in Operator form; however, it no longer works on allied NPC's such as Defense targets.

[Sithis]

Originally posted by Totally Innocent Chatbot:

Originally posted by Dornheim:

Just to clarify, can I heal me and my squad anymore?

If you're using the Vazarin school, you can indeed heal yourself and your allies by unlocking the Protective Dash ability and Void Dashing through them in Operator form; however, it no longer works on allied NPC's such as Defense targets.

It's also [debatably] weaker and more problematic to use than the healing waves from before - it only restores up to 60% health per 'healed target' per dash, and actually requires you to dash through other people - which, considering players tend to get quite far from one another, can be a pain at times; but most of all, yeah, you can't heal anyrhing but other players, making allies and defence(sortie)/rescue targets only healable by Trin/Oberon and the likes, and stationary defence targets unhealable in general.