Do people have an unusual index setup they're proud of?

[Inner Sight]

How many people use various warframes for The Index? I mostly just used Mirage and Zephyr. I think a lot of people used Khora, Rhino and Inaros. Maybe Wukong is popular there too.

I assumed people avoided any warframe that channeled energy to be useful since the financial stress drained energy too fast to keep anything going after a point. which removed a lot of potential frames from the list.
Diminishing returns on powerful debuff abilities seemed to remove a lot of other frames from the roster of potentials.
And the eradication of crowd control seems to get rid of the viability of some frames entirely.

But every now and then I see someone do incredible in there using something unusual like Titania holding 20 points and not dying somehow. I have no idea how or why.

Do people have an unusual index setup they're proud of?

[bobes sponja]

I don't run index too much (thats probably why I hover around 1-2 million credits all the time...) but I like using ev spam trinity there. Makes it more fun for others, and I can just switch my brain off to bully the enemy with my 2

[Mystra4]

A Titania succeeds well enough in the Index, because she can move around to the energy pickups real quickly and build her energy reserves. Arcane Energize does a lot of the work in this setup.

Also, he has natural evasion during Razorwing, and can combine Aerodynamic and Aviator for universal DR.

[Ittrix]

Rhino was the big one because
a.) damage buff akin to a universal faction mod
b.) Iron skin making HP and shield reductions from carrying points meaningless.

Unusual set ups... I know in team groups everyone besides point carrier rhino was pretty much open season. Probably lots of funky stuff in there.

[2GenL]

Mag with range and 100% armour strip to help your allies kill the npc's quicker at high level

[Basan™]

Even during that Ergo Glast quest that forced you to play the Index in terribly uneven odds imposed by cheating Nef Anyo's to release those Myconians, I've been using for the last couple of rounds my Wisp, with my recent Aero Vantage's Exilus mod acquisition to increase her aerial invisibillity time and tie it off with a Hush mod'ed Dera Vandal for increased accuracy during those now fully invisible aim glades to get some kills vs. the stronger opponents like Ambulas ground AoE's.

And another strong point is to have her having set 2 points with her 3 different 2nd skill's Mottes, placed near their points taking spot and also near ours to retreat quickly to either cash those in or to defend if needs be.
So far, she's better placing those Mottes upon the open sky map, but if you place both Mottes atop each side's point taking spot when the indoors map kicks in you'll also fare decently with that strategy as well.

[Aerond]

Recently, I use Titania for Index run. It's faster than my regular Revenant run. Even better if I solo it, because randos have this weird quirk where they're hogging all the points, but refuse to bring that to the goal post...

[C486]

Khora, subsume her 3 for w/e and still have access to vacuum.
It's serviceable.

[Ghin]

Lazy Nidus with gas damage Vectis Prime. Throw 2 at wall, aim for head, everyone dies. Repeat as necessary.

[Donitsi]

Trinity for defending. Infinite Energy for the team, replace first ability with anything you see useful against the enemy and now she has Blessing augment which can give nice crit bonus if you see it working.

[Dr. Sarkasmus]

Vauban + Kuva Chakur + Tenet Diplos, both built on radiaton.

Vauban built on Duration and Range, while Range gets priority

[Gravelord Qwint]

I used to play Mirage for the huge damage burst with arca plasmor or Volt because speedy boi is best boi. But that was a long time ago.

[Flamboyant]

if u got vazarin protective sling and powerful enough weapon u can use like almost anything
For podman run i used revenant, for some quick runs i feel alright with wisp (dont have to do anything and bunnyhopping becomes viable if ur weapon oneshots enemies)

[arti_llery]

Khora does work well, the cages catch your opponents, and you can have 2 out at a time. Plus you get Venari who can tie up another one if they are out of range of a cage.

Depending on the map, you'll have to plan out a spot to drop a cage. I use her on defense mostly, to keep the enemies away from the goal.

[jvjd]

Why ppl run index? unless you are new player who wants some mods over there but if you want credits run Exploiter orb first run of the day or do sorties

[Aerond]

Originally posted by jvjd:

Why ppl run index? unless you are new player who wants some mods over there but if you want credits run Exploiter orb first run of the day or do sorties

Index is literally the cheapest method to gain credits. You just need a warframe and a gun.