best support / buffing frame?

[popmanbrad]

been loving dante and wisp prime just curious what everyone thinks is the best buffing / support frames? also slapped roar on dante so i can give a damage boost to everyone

[Myrdinn777]

Depends on the mission but Protea is nice for stationary ones, free energy + shield buff is nice.

[popmanbrad]

Originally posted by Myrdinn777:

Depends on the mission but Protea is nice for stationary ones, free energy + shield buff is nice.

true i really really really need to grind to get base protea so i can put her in the helminth

[Donitsi]

Trinity is great imo.
Well Of Life (first ability) gives immunity to any negative status effects and knockbacks.

Energy vampire (second) gives energy in AoE as well

Link (third ability) rmakes you status immune if ability has linked into at least one nearby enemy. With small creativity you can direct Status effects from Void laser traps or Fire/ Radiation Hazard effects in Sorties on enemies. Link also reduces damage on you.

Blessing (fourth ability): Restore health and shield of allies in affinity range and gives them damage reduction for 15 seconds.

[Wintermute]

Depends on what you expect from your teammates. If they are morons and you don't permit them to die - grab Trinity. Dante is also great for that purpose. Harrow when you know people in your squad can shoot.

[pirate135246]

Dante with roar on 1, not close

[Razer]

Citrine is pretty good. Gives health+energy orb drops with her 1. Gives 90% DR party wide within affinity range with her 2. Gives 25 Health regen party wide within affinity range with her passive. Gives allies bonus to attacks and status with her 3rd. Allows red crits for everyone with her 4th, although I replace that one with Roar myself.

[Spirit]

wisp with her bootie (joke)
she can deploy flowers that deploy seeds to other players and their pets to boost their hp significantly , their movement speed to ridiculous speeds and zap hostiles for a short amount of time

[CreazyXX]

Originally posted by Razer:

Citrine is pretty good. Gives health+energy orb drops with her 1. Gives 90% DR party wide within affinity range with her 2. Gives 25 Health regen party wide within affinity range with her passive. Gives allies bonus to attacks and status with her 3rd. Allows red crits for everyone with her 4th, although I replace that one with Roar myself.

yea using citrine long time and replaced also 4 ability with roar

[Husker_85]

Originally posted by Spirit:

wisp with her bootie (joke)
she can deploy flowers that deploy seeds to other players and their pets to boost their hp significantly , their movement speed to ridiculous speeds and zap hostiles for a short amount of time

Yes, players should combine Wisp's kit with optimal positioning and use of dance emotes to properly "motivate" teammates

[Pakaku]

I still prefer Harrow and the way he plays like a combat-support in order to give his buffs

Oberon and Protea are also nice

[Dexaldem]

Rhino. 222% Roar is a saintly experience for all involved parties. I exist to be the substitute for Quad Damage from Quake. :>

[Salt Factory]

Jade is aweseome. Full ability strength build gives your team like 100% ability strength, 300+% weapon damage, applies damage vulnerability to enemies, gives your team HP regen.

Also, her 1 is super strong on Arbitration/Archon defense, it basically insta heals the defense targets in there and can give them huge shield regen.

And you have a big AOE armor/shield strip.

She is really good.

[Daniel]

Companion is your best support. Choose wisely.

A good Revenant with Mesmer Shield mod and team-awareness can keep everyone alive beyond level cap. It blows my mind that a lot of players don't use this mod.

[Ittrix]

Well. Support frames are in a kind of bad spot. Most people don't build around the expectation of them, and that frequently makes them redundant. You don't mod for the same thing twice after all, and the same goes for support.
So, the best support frames either:
a.) bring uncommon things (like Harrow's additive critical chance)
b.) bring things in a significantly better way than other methods (Like Dante's or Frost's massive amounts of overguard)
c.) are solid frames who just happen to bring things (Like Octavia)

If they don't fall in any of those camps; they're generally not doing great (Like Chroma).

Sooo... Dante (Frost for the same reasons), Rhino (Harrow + Mirage in almost the same sense), then solid frames like Protea, Octavia, and Jade. I'd say it all goes downhill from there.
I don't actually think Wisp is that great. But she's up there too, I guess.


That said, these days certain kinds of support get frustrating. I don't want a Dante around when I play as a champion's blessing Trinity. I don't want Harrow to go anywhere near my Laetum. Any of the elemental damage buffs can fry my balanced status weapons.

[Salt Factory]

Originally posted by Ittrix:

Well. Support frames are in a kind of bad spot. Most people don't build around the expectation of them, and that frequently makes them redundant. You don't mod for the same thing twice after all, and the same goes for support.
So, the best support frames either:
a.) bring uncommon things (like Harrow's additive critical chance)
b.) bring things in a significantly better way than other methods (Like Dante's or Frost's massive amounts of overguard)
c.) are solid frames who just happen to bring things (Like Octavia)

If they don't fall in any of those camps; they're generally not doing great (Like Chroma).

Sooo... Dante (Frost for the same reasons), Rhino (Harrow + Mirage in almost the same sense), then solid frames like Protea, Octavia, and Jade. I'd say it all goes downhill from there.
I don't actually think Wisp is that great. But she's up there too, I guess.


That said, these days certain kinds of support get frustrating. I don't want a Dante around when I play as a champion's blessing Trinity. I don't want Harrow to go anywhere near my Laetum. Any of the elemental damage buffs can fry my balanced status weapons.

At least the elemental buffs don't mess up your status combinations anymore. No more heat being converted into blast (even tho blast is really good now) thanks to a frost or electric into radiation from a ember (even tho nobody plays ember anyway).