Can you recommend me an active playstyle warframe for defense/survival

[侍Kage]

I don't want afk warframes, the idea is boring. I like how warframe feels like arpg such as diablo, poe in survival/defense missions. You get to kill many mobs for drops, it's just fun to kill lot of mobs like arpgs. I want an active warframe with weapon set to do these missions as long as i can actively playing. Thank you very much! How to build them is also a pluıs if you have time!

[Dridore]

I like Equinox.
you gotta kill enemies for your day ult to do damage.
or you gotta kill enemies for your night ult to restore shield and health
you also get access to a aoe sleep
at 0:56 there's my equinox build youtube.com/watch?v=kLBpHRbD7DM
the 190% efficiency compensates the 40% duration since toggled abilities costs scale with it

[侍Kage]

thanks what about nekros, is that also an afk warframe? i see that its recommended by many players.

[Sloznoprikolog]

Just use Gyre. You cast 3 & 4 and just shoot everyone

[ᚺᚢᚾᛏᛖᚱ]

Originally posted by 愛IcyTea Lemon:

thanks what about nekros, is that also an afk warframe? i see that its recommended by many players.

nekros doesnt do much with his abilities. he is recommended because he reduces the need of warframes core mechanic >farming<.

his 1. is useless its a gimmick nothing more
2. its a decent armor strip ability that doesnt require to much strenght to work (looking at you pillage)
3. his bread and butter, its a toggle ability that stays permanent active, each dead body in the aura range rerolls the enemies loot pool so basically nekros generates more drops, it costs either with each body energy or with his augment mod life (recommended since you gonna swimm in health orbs)
4. kinda gimmick like 1. you summon from a pool of killed enemies 7 shadows that attack enemies around you like a necromancer, you get an good augment mod that gives you damage resistance for each shadow active and with some extra work you can do a necromancer afk nekros build that kills quite decent for starchart level but is more meme than efficient.

so yes nekros requires mostly active weapon gameplay to succeed and his 3 as an passive buff, 2as an situational armor strip and his 1 you can just helminth for something better.

[Flint]

Originally posted by ᚷᛖᚱᛗᚨᚾᚹᛟᛚᚠ:

nekros doesnt do much with his abilities. he is recommended because he reduces the need of warframes core mechanic >farming<.

his 1. is useless its a gimmick nothing more

Replace his 1 with a helminth ability you think works, I have Eclipse on him just because it is slightly better than what he has by default.

[tv]

lavos, grendel and low duration protea

[Wintermute]

Pilfering Hydroid for survival. Post-rework, he's pretty decent and active. And gives you more loot. Def superior option over Nekros.

For defense, i'd still recommend sticking to defense frames. Nothing like wasting a run because objective got evaporated. Frost, Gara. Not Limbo though.

[Midas]

Revenant. The thralls take aggro from enemies, so they don't even attack the defense target, but you still have to be proactively fighting and killing things to sustain your thralls and keep enemy numbers down.

[Fake]

Yareli and her Kompressa is all that you'll need.

[Xao]

Hydroid.

Mass area lockdown, high constant area damage, all of his abilities are good, and he's a both a caster and gun platform meaning he's very active.

His 4 also makes enemies easier to shoot rather than harder these days, and Pilfering Swarm lets him be a loot frame too. So people are never unhappy to see Hydroid on their team.

[Douchebag Extraordinaire]

There really aren't any AFK frames, especially at longer times and/or steel path levels.

But as for active def/surv frames, I would suggest Khora with a statstick, Limbo, and Nidus.

[Shield]

Hildryn unironically. She's a one or two trick pony but those tricks do everything you need it to do to succeed at any game mode on the starchart, the rest of the space is filled by your favorite weapons in your loadout. Not so little casting you're not even playing Warframe, but not so much casting you might as well not have weapons. Building her for high strength is also easy and 350%+ str roar and blazing pillage combo is nasty. That'll take you through base SP easy. Her prime is also gorgeous but that's personal taste. She also never dies as she's among the most survivable frames. Even SP infested is comfortable with a powerfully built hldryn

She's also pretty mediocre compared to the rest of the roster so if the devs ever give her a second look (not sure why they didnt for her prime) you can rest assured its for a buff and not a dante.

[Blutwurst]

well. thats a questionable quistion^^ its depends on how far youre in this game and how you want to play. what frame do you like? do you like to use many abilities or less? range or melee?
i came back after a 4 year pause. i dont own many arcanes yet and no legendaries at all. but im still able play steel path with lvl 200 enemies without any problems. solo as well.
the easiest way for me was a high duration loki (all time invis) and a well modded lacu(karatsha). this electric whip... and a smeeta kavat. i use a high crit chance nataruk bow as primary weapon. when i have a revenant, citrin or dante in my team im able crit 1mio+ per shot. when my kavat finally decides to work^^
i need to play him active, mostly melee becouse of better damage output...
but u need to decide what is more fun for u.

[Dridore]

here, i updated the Equinox build https://imgur.com/a/Akr0iJ8
this version has more base strength and doesn't use the augment

[Necroth]

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