What Are the Current Top DPS Weapons for Ease and Effectiveness?

[Jordan_Peterson]

Back in the day, it was often a kitgun that topped the charts, but nowadays it seems like Zaw or Tenet weapons might be the go-to options. That said, I’ve been out of the loop and haven’t kept up with all the recent changes.

I’m not looking to spark debates about 'meta' or min-maxing—just looking for insight from those who’ve tested various combinations and know which weapons are genuinely strong with minimal effort or investment. Something easy to mod and effective across most situations, like the best-in-slot options we used to rely on.

Can anyone bring me up to speed on what’s currently strong in the latest map?

[TheTool]

Incarnon anything = OP DPS.

[AYAYA]

Originally posted by DE_sucks:

which weapons are genuinely strong with minimal effort or investment.

Nope.

[The Big Brzezinski]

Syam nikana. You can make one in Duviri, and it'll carry you through the whole game. Its big deal is being a nikana with a very powerful and easy to use heavy attack instead of a nigh unaimable one. Its heavy attack also shoots out a large long distance fire wave. This heavy attack emphasis is backed up by good base stats for both crit and status builds. Tennokai makes it a monster. Wrathful Advance makes it an extinction level event.

[Razer]

I think Incarnon Torid is currently the strongest primary? Not sure. But with the new expansion mods and arcanes I'm pretty sure the Kuva Nukor out DPSes everything else.

I personally really enjoy the Tenet Glaxion. It's not the most powerful gun, but it's very fun to use. And yes it kills Steel Path enemies just fine. And it slows and freezes them as well if you build it for cold (which it has innately) and you should. Works on everything, including bosses. Good fun.

There's incarnon weapons, but most are just ok. It's more about whether you enjoy the gameplay of the weapon and the gimmick of switching after getting headshots. For most guns that just kills it for me since I'm not a fan of doing subpar stuff only for it to be strong afterwards. Especially vs infested this is annoying since landing headshots vs them is kind of a hassle. And the infested can be very strong now due to the Ancient Healer/Protector buff. Ancient Protectors are like 2-3x more tanky than an Eximus unit.

A lot of guns can be made good if built right (mods, arcanes, damage types, etc) So I would say it's more upto your personal playstyle on what is "good".

[Sceles]

Take any melee and use melee influence, primed reach, quickening, weeping wounds, blood rush, organ shatter, voltaic strike, roar subsume, naramon to prevent combo decay. Works on any melee. Can be made stronger with a few formas and additional mods, already strong without that.

[Gena Cider]

soma prime

[😎Astran😾]

I have toxic Tenet Arca plasmor, electric (or fire?) Tenet Cycron and frost (or electric?) Tenet Exec. In this combination they shred through any type of enemies in Steel path, let alone on normal difficulty. Also Arca plasmor has ricochet which works like an AoE.

[rhoenix]

Originally posted by DE_sucks:

Back in the day, it was often a kitgun that topped the charts, but nowadays it seems like Zaw or Tenet weapons might be the go-to options. That said, I’ve been out of the loop and haven’t kept up with all the recent changes.

I’m not looking to spark debates about 'meta' or min-maxing—just looking for insight from those who’ve tested various combinations and know which weapons are genuinely strong with minimal effort or investment. Something easy to mod and effective across most situations, like the best-in-slot options we used to rely on.

Can anyone bring me up to speed on what’s currently strong in the latest map?

The problem is that to be good, most weapons need at least some investment.

- Galvanized mods (from Arbitrations), are extremely good, and make a strong difference in many guns. However, they take Arbitration grinding to get.
- Weapon arcanes have a good variety now. However, they often require target farming areas to get the specific ones you want.
- Quite a few of the Incarnon adapters offered from SP Circuit are very, very good - for example the Strun, Lex, Torid, Burston, Latron, and Ceramic Dagger (and likely several others I'm forgetting). They really do work to make those weapons far better than before, and its a workable system to get older weapons up to snuff. The problem is that, again, you have to get them.

Those issues aside, quite a few of the Kuva and Tenet weapons are good alternatives to going the Incarnon route.

FWIW, my Tombfinger primary kitgun still sees some use to this day, as does my Corinth Prime. For melee, my Falcor and Xoris melee weapons have seen much use with the Melee Influence arcane installed. Glaives were part-time grenades before - now with Melee Influence, they're cluster munitions.

[Razer]

Originally posted by 😎𝔸𝕤𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕟😾:

I have toxic Tenet Arca plasmor, electric (or fire?) Tenet Cycron and frost (or electric?) Tenet Exec. In this combination they shred through any type of enemies in Steel path, let alone on normal difficulty. Also Arca plasmor has ricochet which works like an AoE.

Hm. While those weapons are alright and fun. By no means are they anywhere near top dps.

[Jordan_Peterson]

Originally posted by Razer:

Originally posted by 😎𝔸𝕤𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕟😾:

I have toxic Tenet Arca plasmor, electric (or fire?) Tenet Cycron and frost (or electric?) Tenet Exec. In this combination they shred through any type of enemies in Steel path, let alone on normal difficulty. Also Arca plasmor has ricochet which works like an AoE.

Hm. While those weapons are alright and fun. By no means are they anywhere near top dps.

idk. the Arc Plasmor Tenet is my top dps performing gun. I can go around lookup all the top dps on overframe. put 6,7,8,9 formas into them and just be disappointed cause not one can keep up with the easy and forget dps of a simple tenet or angstrum special edition. Dont know that name atm but u know which version I mean.
All other guns need some "extra" mechanic that is either annoying or taking extra effort. Not something I am used to OG Warframe.

[Razer]

Originally posted by DE_sucks:

Originally posted by Razer:

Hm. While those weapons are alright and fun. By no means are they anywhere near top dps.

idk. the Arc Plasmor Tenet is my top dps performing gun. I can go around lookup all the top dps on overframe. put 6,7,8,9 formas into them and just be disappointed cause not one can keep up with the easy and forget dps of a simple tenet or angstrum special edition. Dont know that name atm but u know which version I mean.
All other guns need some "extra" mechanic that is either annoying or taking extra effort. Not something I am used to OG Warframe.

It does great damage dont get me wrong. But we're talking about dps. Damage per second. A fast firing aoe weapon will beat the plasmor any day. It just fires too slow and has low ammo capacity and long reload.

Have you tried the kuva nukor with the new enervate arcane? Burns everything like butter. Millions of damage red crits. No riven. Saw 10mil at times. Its a bit inconsistent due to variable crit, but it kills everything real fast. SP Dedicant? Lol. Its just a normal unit.

[Erei]

Tordi incarnon is apparently top dog ATM. But considering Warframe power curve, that doesn't mean other gun can't one shot stuff either.
I use arca plasmor (tenet) and I one shot anything that's not boss/eximus in steel path. Plus it's AoE and bounce on wall with infinite punch through.
Eximus may take a few hit, depending on what it is. Or just swap to melee and kill them. Most die in a hit to. especially when you learn to bounce your shot to hit them 2-3times.

I don't really care about my DPS when the room is all dead in one hit.


Outside of steel path, everything die with a sneeze. So that's very much irrelevant.

[Egro]

The easiest 1 with the least effort is Nataruk. Super easy to get, 2 forma in and you look at a 100k AOE weapon. Enough of investments you'll look at a 2 mils damages weapon. The only contra is it's a bow..

[Gamedoc]

Ocucor with Sentient Surge & appropriate elements makes short work of most content. Just make sure to take a good single-target primary or melee.

[rhoenix]

Originally posted by Gamedoc:

Ocucor with Sentient Surge & appropriate elements makes short work of most content. Just make sure to take a good single-target primary or melee.

This is actually a good idea. It needs a rarer mod (Sentient Surge) which you may need to trade for, but that's a very workable option.