what arcanes from belly of the beast?

[Nain]

hey there.
so as the belly of the beast operation has 12 days left, and i have almost finished getting all the non-arcanes stuff, what arcanes should i focus on first?

arcane barrier looks realy juicy, but is the 6% chance even realistic? and the cost looks quite high, seeing as i would need some 21 arcanes to fully max one out (if i understood this correctly), the volatile mote cost will not get me much variety with my slow playtime and old-man stuff and all.

on the other hand, i could maybe go for arcane acceleration, as im an avid primary weapon user (can barely keep up with the younguns parkouring all over the place). same would go with arcane rage and arcane fury.

but theres also those elemental defensive ones like resisting cold etc, should i maybe prioritize those, as i am almost done with the quests in the codex (only the hex is left) and steelpath is also almost unlocked (missing some 20 nodes)?

[Donitsi]

Acceleration is great on Boar Prime. Big downside for me is that it takes away Arcane slot from Warframe instead of shotgun. I would go for Arcane Rage but I've got excellent aim for weakspots. If you feel that hitting headshots challenging then you may want to reconsider.

Originally posted by Nain:

Arcane barrier looks realy juicy, but is the 6% chance even realistic?

When bunch of weak mobs shoot you at once the 6% triggers all the time. Fun Arcane for Hildryn

[Spirit]

when you are part of a clan go for arcane energized , its part of the more useful arcanes out there

[Donitsi]

Originally posted by Spirit:

when you are part of a clan go for arcane energized , its part of the more useful arcanes out there

Isn't that bit overrate Arcane nowadays? The game is incredibly generous with energy today

I would get something that gives extra boost to my equipment or warframe.

[Spirit]

maybe but with energize you can be more lenient with your energy management by cranking up other stats up to 11 while your efficency goes down

[Verios44]

Energyze
Aegis
Nullify

Would be my top priorities, but this is a generous event. Not a bad choice to just farm all arcanes available.

[Ittrix]

Most Eidolon arcanes these days are unhelpful or niche compared to the other stuff.
The universally better ones would be:

• Arcane Aegis (Functional immortality for a bit when it procs)
  
• Arcane Avenger (Universal damage increase for shield gaters or health tankers)
  
• Arcane Energize (Universal energy economy boost- but it's kind of overkill these days with equilibrium.)

After that it's all nicher:

• Arcane Grace + Arcane Guardian are... okay... for health tanking.
  
• Arcane Arachne can benefit abilities which can benefit from weapon damage increases, like Breach Surge.
  
• Arcane Nullifier is good for Eidolon hunts.
  
• Arcane Trickery is good for Ash (his assassinations count as 'finishers' and will be better invisibility than smoke bomb)
  
• Arcane Velocity is good for Mesa (fire rate for her exalted)
  
• Arcane Strike cccould be good with the upcoming exalted weapon changes, and mmmight be good on some frames already
  
• Arcane Fury is sometimes good for psuedo exalteds or exalteds as well.
  
• Titania can trigger a slew of the 'primary' and 'pistol' arcanes for dex pixa. Pretty sure Pistoleer trumps them all, but we have Arcane Rage and Arcane Acceleration among the better ones.
  
• Putting aside her weapons, Arcane Consequence is also sometimes liked for speedrunning on Titania / Volt.

To... 'disqualify' a few:

• Arcane Barrier sounds nice. It's not. It could maybe be good on Hildryn, but for survivability purposes arcane aegis is better in basically every way as it will provide infinite shield gate for the duration.
  
• Arcane Resistance, likewise, sounds nice. No toxic status? No getting one shot through shield gates?? Yippee!!! ... Nope. Toxin damage still counts, and toxin damage still goes directly through shields. It is not handy.

Aside from the top 3, they're all incredibly specific. I'd only farm them if you think you're actually going to play a fair amount of what can benefit from it. No reason to farm trickery if you don't play ash, no reason to farm velocity if you don't play mesa, etc.
That or if you really don't like eidolon hunting and just wanna get it over with.

[Nain]

thanks folks, ill start with energize first then and aegis, and then go down the list if i manage to get enough motes!

[Razer]

For me most important ones would be Arcane Energize and Arcane Grace. Energize isn't as good as it used to be though with the multitude of ways to get energy now. Arcane Barrier is good for frames with lots of shield, so not as important, but still good.

Focus on the ones giving damage on hit / crit or the one giving crit on getting hit. Note there's 3 Arcane Rage in Nightwave as well.

Health tanking is OP on anything with decent armor below level 500 (so basically ALL content). Arcane grace will keep you alive as long as you have decent armor and hp values. It would be the most important one next to arcane energize imo.

[NocheLuz]

Arcane Energize is a must-have for most new players. Because it will mostly enable you to use infinite channeling ability. For example, You can use Valkyr's Hysteria. Which basically made you unkillable for the duration. I did use her in 1999 for Infested(no spoiler) enemies and without Arcane Energize, I would have never kept Hysteria up the whole mission, from start to finish.

Arcane Aegis is also a nice one to have. In fact, if you stack quite a lot of shield/shield regeneration, this can be used on almost all Warframe. If it procs, it will make you almost immortal for the duration. Because your shield will mostly not go down or will get shield gate once the shield breaks but quickly regenerates to full. And because of high shield regeneration/lower delay, you'll have a higher chance of activating the Arcane.

[Ittrix]

Originally posted by Spirit:

maybe but with energize you can be more lenient with your energy management by cranking up other stats up to 11 while your efficency goes down

Yyeah, but you could also just crank your other stats up to 11 with other arcanes and ignore energize in the first place.
Of the 40 something warframes I actually polished, I use energize on... 2 of them. And of those 2; not even on their main loadouts.

[tv]

fortifier, rage and vrotex

[Razer]

Originally posted by tv:

fortifier, rage and vrotex

Fortifier aren't event arcanes. He sells those outside the event.

[Frostysir]

Energize purely due to how insanely hard it is to get it otherwise, other arcanes are always much cheaper and have a significantly better chance in the Loid vosfor lottery. Get it so you dont ever have to worry about it later.

And honestly its so good that it lets some caster frames actually function quite well even without Zenurik as the active focus school. Can be a pretty great thing.

Then for my personal favorites, Avenger, Velocity and strike.

[pirate135246]

Barrier is TERRIBLE, DO NOT WASTE CURRENCY ON IT, aegis is wayyyyyy better and cheaper. you are better off getting a second maxed copy of energize since you can sell it for more than barrier and grace are worth, then buy the one you want and have some plat leftover

[Spirit]

Originally posted by Nain:

thanks folks, ill start with energize first then and aegis, and then go down the list if i manage to get enough motes!

when you do belly of the beast operation again and again you get the best stalker deterrence : jade