Khora Q

[fourskulls]

I recently got Khora Prime, and I've been trying to get ready to do Steel Path missions. However, I tried to do an Arbitration with her, and I was having to hit enemies multiple times with the Whipclaw to get a kill. Sometimes I wouldn't do any damage to them at all! (by that I mean they didn't have drone on them)

I'm using an Xoris as a stat stick (Organ Shatter, Blood Rush (8/10), Weeping Wounds, Viscous Frost, Buzz Kill, P. Pressure Point (9/10), P. Fever Strike (8/10), and Gladiator Rush).

On Khora I'm running Steel Charge, Patagium, Accumulating Whip Claw, Umbral Intensify (9/10), Umbral Vitality (9/10), Hunter Adrenaline, Steel Fiber (7/10), Fleeting Expertise, Stretch, and Augur Reach, w/ Arcane Strike, and Arcane Guardian.

Is the Xoris not a good stat stick for Khora, or should I try to get the funds/endo to full upgrade some of those mods that are like 9/10?

[RNG_Wizard]

Going from rank 9 to rank 10 on a mod won't have any noticeable difference on gameplay, especially when most of the mods you have unranked are durability mods. If the build works on Steel Path, it should comfortably work on Arbitration too. Stat stick choice doesn't matter much, almost every melee is overkill when built correctly and the Xoris is a great comfort pick.

Are your whipclaws getting blocked by line of sight? Damage blocked by ancient overguard, guardian eximus damage resistance auras or corpus shield gating? Again, if it can handle Steel Path, it should be able to handle Arbitration very easily.

[fourskulls]

Oh, the mods I didn't mention are all maxed out. Only the ones in parentheses are unmaxed. As for the misses, I did most of my leveling on Hydron, and had trouble with Grineer in my face not getting hit by it.

I haven't made any progress on Steel Path yet, as last time I tried it, it was with a Necros P, with an Ignis Wraith, which was basically a tickle ray. Couldn't tank anything since I couldn't get any Shadows. Right now I've got a Revenant and a Khora P ready to try out, and have been rocking a Nataruk and Kuva Bramma.

[crusher-666]

Arbitration = nullifiers = hard to hit and they need 2
the nullifiers thing is dependant on host latency + buggy
for me its not a gameode to make khora shine .

better check out on kuva survival /steelpath

statstick is statstick if you got a melee riven with high dispo roll it use it
go for cc dmg cd in this order
melee weapon is only for modding your whip nothing else
https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Whipclaw

example build melee
https://overframe.gg/build/161267/

good build for khora whip
https://overframe.gg/build/128012/khora/steelfarm-khora-whipclaw-strangledome-spectorage/
read his guide

i use this bulid a bit modyfied with Spectrosiphon Augment to get more energy

[2GenL]

Abilities that directly damage npc's rarely do anything in steel path. Instead use abilities that multiply your damge output (not addative like mirage's dmg buff despite it giving 100's% extra; instead multiplicative such as xatur void dmg buff or rhino's roar), act as cc and/or reduce incoming damage (tho at high level steel path, cc is better as not much defence against an npc that also does millions of damage towards you...)

multiplicative abilities give far more in the long run when used with mods that multiply your dmg - such as smite mods - along with arcanes (especially some of the new ones!)

eg

Xatu Whisper + Felarx Devastating Attrition: 50% chance to deal +2000% damage on non-critical hits + khora's ensnare subsumbed

Ensnare groups npc's together; whisper will buff and one dmg will create a mag magnetic bubble. If modded for punch through, 1 bullet will hit all the npc's cc'd and do about whipers buff x 2000% dmg (eg if modded for 53% whiper, then 53x2000%)
Then take into account any faction mods which multiply your damage again... you'll be laughing at how easy steel path is


Since you already have ensnare, subsume whipser onto khora's 1 to swap it for whipser to get the buff

[xuton]

i seem to recall xoris not working well as a stat stick because of a nerf that came for its' combo counter (it should be resetting when you use your whipclaw) so i would recommend another melee
in particular innodem (the dagger from zariman) should be a good choice because its able to gain combo through slides / ammo pickups after a few evolutions, but other melees would do a good job as well

[fourskulls]

I just recently got the Innodem, but haven't done anything with it yet. I think it's just got a few levels on it.

[fourskulls]

Went ahead and got an Innodem fully loaded, and tried out a Steel Path mission with Khora. Whipclaw did nothing (as someone else mentioned). Guess thats what I get for trusting some guy on YT saying that Khora was one the best for Steel Path. Didn't help that Perrin dropped all his immortal eximus units on me.

[arti_llery]

Might depend on what you have on the weapon for mods. I use Khora just fine on steel path, she just takes a sec to get the damage ramped up with whip claw.

[Kawalorn]

Ursprungligen skrivet av fourskulls:

Is the Xoris not a good stat stick for Khora, or should I try to get the funds/endo to full upgrade some of those mods that are like 9/10?

Ursprungligen skrivet av Warframe Wiki:

Combo resets when used with certain Warframe abilities and Exalted Weapons.

Do not use Xoris as stat stick.

[fourskulls]

Is there a higher chance on the steel path that enemies like Acolytes and Syndicates show up? The two times I've tried the first mission I've had Perrin show up and once had an Acolyte. I had to backtrack to pick up my primary off the ground, and they vanished for some reason.

[Kawalorn]

Ursprungligen skrivet av fourskulls:

Is there a higher chance on the steel path that enemies like Acolytes and Syndicates show up? The two times I've tried the first mission I've had Perrin show up and once had an Acolyte. I had to backtrack to pick up my primary off the ground, and they vanished for some reason.

Acolyte is a guaranteed spawn on Steel Path every 3-6 minutes, except for archwing and boss missions. I do not believe there is any bonus chance for other assassins.

[FubarOne]

Ursprungligen skrivet av fourskulls:

I'm using an Xoris as a stat stick (Organ Shatter, Blood Rush (8/10), Weeping Wounds, Viscous Frost, Buzz Kill, P. Pressure Point (9/10), P. Fever Strike (8/10), and Gladiator Rush).

On Khora I'm running Steel Charge, Patagium, Accumulating Whip Claw, Umbral Intensify (9/10), Umbral Vitality (9/10), Hunter Adrenaline, Steel Fiber (7/10), Fleeting Expertise, Stretch, and Augur Reach, w/ Arcane Strike, and Arcane Guardian.

For your stat stick, the choice of melee weapon doesn't usually matter much, typically whatever you have the best riven for with some combination of CC, CD, Dmg, and a harmless negative (including faction damage since it doesn't affect whipclaw). Some exceptions are Synoid Heliocor (initial combo), Fragor Prime (initial Combo), Venka Prime (x13 combo max), weapons with syndicate augments like Jaw Sword, Mire, etc. The only weapon that is actively detrimental is Xoris. You lose all combo every Whipclaw cast, so avoid it completely.

The mods on your stat stick are mostly ok, though Viral often isn't the best choice for Whipclaw since you want to be killing stuff in a single hit, so Corrosive or plain Toxin are usually better choices. In the same vein boosting Slash isn't gonna do much since the damage is evenly split between IPS so the weighting is gonna be off if you're using elementals that are leveled at all and you can't get any boost from faction damage to increase slash proc damage. Gladiator Rush is meh, use Gladiator Might and switch to Naramon. As mentioned in the bit about rivens you want more crit chance and crit damage.

For your frame you don't need Umbral Intensify. Accumulating Whipclaw is an ability strength bonus, so you don't need any mods for it. On the same note, drop Stretch and Augur Reach and use Overextended. Or Augur Reach and Overextended if you want the shield conversion, but anything over 200% range is wasted on Whipclaw. It's still useful for Entangle and Strangledome, but they're still fine at ~200%. As for survivability and parkour mods, eh do what you want I guess.