by RubyBlossom5 — last updated 3 days ago
The gilded helmsman emerges from the tempest, his shadow a lure for doomed souls.
ITEM RANK
3060 / 60
APPLY CONDITIONALS
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2-Yellow: +75% Casting Speed.
2-Red: +30% Ability Duration = Total of 167.5% Duration in build.
1-Any: Personal preference.
Focus School - Madurai: using Sling Strength to acquire Gloom's slow cap after a maxed Molt Augmented.
Strength Calculation for Gloom's slow cap: (Base 100% + Modded +79% + Molt Aug. +60% + Sling Strength +40% = 279% Ability Strenth) = 95% Slow.
Click [here] for an In-Game Build Screenshot with heavy-investment.
SHADOW & CLAWS BUILDS
Shadow Build - 0 Forma
Starter Claw Build - 0 Forma
Ultimate Investment Claw Build - 4 Forma + Umbral
The warframe build works well with any loadout, so any weapon/companion choice is viable, but below are just my preferences.
Secondaries
Kompressa Prime - Primer
Epitaph Prime - AoE Primer + Single-Target
Kuva Nukor - Primer + DPS
Melee
Innodem - Permanent 12x Combo/Finisher
Praedos - Passive Mobility
Companions
Smeeta Kavat | Pet
Smeeta Claws
HELMINTH
Here are some alternatives I would use occasionally over Sow. Never removing the Shadow. Gloom can be subsumed for more specific builds in the "Other Builds I Use" section.
Go-To General + SP
Hack-n-Slash - Melee-Focused
Health-Tanking - Guardian
Shield-Tanking #1 - Pillage
Shield-Tanking #2 - Condemn
Cascade - Finisher-Focused
One-Shot Nuke - Roar Build
BIO - OUTRO
Hi everyone, I'm Ruby! I have been a Sevagoth one-trick since his base release back in 2021, taking him to any mission except for Eidolons and ProfitTaker, and after 4 years of maining him, this has become my most comfortable build. This can work from base star-chart, to ETA/EDA. My levelcap build is in the "Other Builds I Use" section.
My goal online is to debunk myths that the community has spread around this warframe and help other players on their [Sevagoth] learning journey, hopefully starting a Youtube channel soon but I will begin with Overframe first.
No Dark Propagation?
It requires 255% ability strength, Roar Subsume and two augment mod slots to one-shot enemies. Without these 3 requirements, you will have to rely on enemy density, very uncomfortable to use in the long-run and super unfriendly to new players. It is undeniably a strong build, but it should not be standard and often tends to be overkill. On my experience, it is only 20% faster in KPM compared to this. I'd rather ditch that 20% for the comfort of my gameplay, the single mod-slot helps a lot on build diversity and comfort.
Can you still nuke on this build?
Yes, but you need a weapon that can spread viral stacks or get used to grouping enemies with the Shadow. Once you get 88 stacks of Molt Augmented (200% strength), a single stack of viral is enough to one-shot anything with his 2+1 combo. The usual weapon of choice is his signature secondary, the [Epitaph]. But I personally prefer the [Kompressa] shooting the ground or by grouping the enemies with Shadow.
Why keep Gloom?
Gloom is a great ability but largely misunderstood. It is difficult to mod for it, but once you acquire 95% slow almost nothing will hit you except for the occasional Eximus unit. You need to get to that 272% strength checkmark, it may not seem much but the difference between 90% and 95% slow is huge. To give you a better understanding, that's the difference between enemies being 10x slower to 20x slower! However, the reason for why many fail to see Gloom's true power, is because other builds are not well optimized for its energy drain, which tend to have...
Neutral or low duration / Neutral or low efficiency / very large range / too little or too much strength. All of these together causes Gloom's drain to be more exhausting than it needs to be, which gives it a bad reputation when it should not be the case.
Why Duration shards instead of Strength?
As we stated before, it helps with Gloom's drain and extends the debuff timer for our Reap. We have enough strength for the build to work, don't need to go overkill. Shards also affect Shadow, which generally does not like Strength, but it loves Range and Duration. The only reason for why you'd need strength on Shadow is to increase the Death's Harvest vulnerability, but Sevy can already spread the same debuff, has enough strength and it expands itself with the augment.
Why Casting Speed shards?
Casting speed helps keeping the entire kit together and Shadow. Allows fast hot-swapping Sevagoth and Shadow and it makes the self-revives faster, allowing you to get the 5 souls you need before the 5s of immortality expire, way better than any other survivability you can slap on Shadow.
No max rank [Transient Fortitude]?
If we max it, that would be overkill on our strength. We only need just enough (+272%) strength to reach the slow cap on Gloom. Having more Duration benefits Gloom's drain and Shadow's Embrace.
Do you dislike content-creators?
Not really? When it comes to complicated warframes, they tend to miss the mark and not understand their kit (you all know whom I'm talking about). That includes [Sevagoth], most of them don't actually understand why the nuke setup works, copy and paste what others say, and now players keep recommending such double-augment builds to new players, which screws them up. The best build I have seen in YT is from Leamxp, but it still had a few things wrong here and there. The build is advertised to be viable for levelcap, but cannot actually work in solo, which is a whole different story.
In short; I do like content creators, I don't like the average one making content on Sevagoth, they always get something wrong about him. (If someone don't make an in-depth guide for him soon, I'll do it myself!).
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