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Shade is a stealth Sentinel pre-equipped with the 
Burst Laser as its default weapon and has the ability to cloak the player with its 
Ghost precept and boost their damage with Ambush.
Acquisition
Shade may be purchased complete from the Market for 
75 with a free companion slot and pre-installed Orokin Reactor. Alternatively, Shade's blueprint may be purchased from the market for 
100,000.
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Time: 24 hrs |
| Rush: 30
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 Market Price:  75
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 Blueprints Price:  100,000
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Shade–Exclusive Precept mods
RevengeSentinel will attack first visible enemy in range, but only if they have attacked the owner, and will not attack while cloaked regardless. Increasing level increases range.
GhostSentinel cloaks itself and owner when enemies are within close proximity and in line of sight. The cloak is disrupted if the owner attacks.
AmbushIncreases owner damage after breaking Ghost invisibility.
Notes
- The Shade-exclusive precept mod
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Revenge is one of the few sentinel AI mods not removed and replaced with the non-exclusive Assault Mode precept mod in Update 24.0 (2018-11-08).
- Revenge cannot be simultaneously equipped with Assault Mode.
- Having Assault Mode equipped will increase Shade's attack range, but not change its inherent behaviour to only attack after its owner has been attacked.
- As of Update 7.10 (2013-05-03), Shade will no longer keep you cloaked when a stealth kill is taking place, even if there are enemies nearby.
- The cloaking cooldown used to be much quicker (around 5 seconds) but was nerfed to take almost 10 seconds to re-cloak again[citation needed]. De-cloaking can have serious penalties in stealth due to this longer cooldown.
Tips
- Ghost only activates if an enemy is in the activation radius sphere for the cloak, and Shade's view of the enemy is not obstructed by nearby objects.
- The cloaking can last indefinitely as long as an enemy is inside the activation radius.
- Activation is not dependent on the direction that Shade is facing. Warframe abilities will not bring you out of stealth and you will remain hidden, as long as another enemy is close by.
- Note that infested Volatile Runners will still explode when you are next to them.
- Consider Shade when choosing to be a support for your team, as running up to downed players without firing weapons can allow you to revive them while cloaked.
Trivia
- The name Shade could be derived from the literal meaning of shade or from the mythological creature the Shade which is a spirit of the dead.
- The Sprite skin for the Shade was first seen in Update 12.0 (2014-02-05), with the addition of the Training section in the Codex, under "Sentinels", as an unknown Sentinel design. Said Sentinel was finally revealed as a Shade cosmetic skin made available for purchase in Update 13.1 (2014-04-23).
- Shade has the highest health of all the sentinels, although it suffers from having half the shields of other sentinels.
- Shade, along with Dethcube were available as promotional items within the virtual world of PlayStation Home, following the users Avatar as they move.
- On the website of the official Warframe merch store, in the Collectibles section under posters in the Prime Poster 3-Pack, a recolored Shade equipped with Summus Prime accessories can be seen hovering next to Mag Prime on the Mag Prime Poster.
- Shade appeared in the Open Beta Trailer about 1:42 into the video.
- The Shade is the only Sentinel with a unique capacity of health and shields; 350 and 50 respectively.
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| Companion | ||
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| Robotic | ||
| Sentinel |  Carrier ( Prime) •  Dethcube ( Prime) •  Diriga •  Djinn •  Helios ( Prime) Nautilus ( Prime) •  Oxylus •  Shade ( Prime,  Prisma) •  Taxon •  Wyrm ( Prime)
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| MOA |  Lambeo Moa •  Oloro Moa •  Para Moa •  Nychus Moa
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| Hound |  Bhaira Hound •  Dorma Hound •  Hec Hound
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| Beast | ||
| Kubrow |  Chesa Kubrow •  Helminth Charger •  Huras Kubrow Raksa Kubrow •  Sahasa Kubrow •  Sunika Kubrow
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| Predasite |  Vizier Predasite •  Pharaoh Predasite •  Medjay Predasite
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| Kavat |  Adarza Kavat •  Smeeta Kavat •  Vasca Kavat •  Venari ( Prime)
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| Vulpaphyla |  Sly Vulpaphyla •  Crescent Vulpaphyla •  Panzer Vulpaphyla
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73 comments
Shade is currently broken. I was using shade to farm spy missions 3 months ago or so with no problems, now it has changed. As soon as enemies turn their back you will break invis and have 10sec cooldown. It used to be shade Line of Sight was required to keep invis but now It is enemy Line of Sight that is needed to stay invisible so if guards + cameras turn you are standing there like a goddam lemon. completely useless now. kubrow stalk still works.
Invisibility has a TEN SECOND cooldown. it's mentioned twice below but it really should have it in the page, as this stopped me wasting my time getting shade.
Has an ~8-second cooldown after leaving any kind of stealth state, including Smoke Screen, Invisibility, Prowl and Arcane Trickery, but not Shroud of Dynar.
Did DE forget to port the animations for this guy AGAIN? I mean holy shit, it took them years to realize base Shade and Prisma Shade have next to no animations whatsoever, and then they prime it and it STILL has no animations
After all this years
YES
Always.
Improved Shade’s “Ghost” precept to more closely match how the Huras Kubrow’s “Stalk” works: The activation range is now 24 meters (up from 10 meters), and the precept doesn’t check Line Of Sight anymore.
Also decreased the amount of time to re-cloak after disrupting your cloak.
Increased the weapon damage bonus from Shade’s “Ambush” augment from 120% to 240%, for 3 seconds when you break out of invisibility.
Is the prime worth it? it looks pretty good but the dont look much better
Fashion frame is true endgame, so if you want the true endgame experience I'd say its worth. 😎
If you have Prisma, no unless you want to grab MR or going for fasion.
Taxon Prime would have been a much better combo with Hildryn Prime.
I think Taxon is getting primed with Yareli
They mentioned previously they buffed Shade or did some tweaks. But, according to the Patch History. Nothing has happened to him. Was something done and it just wasn’t logged?
They recently buffed the Ghost precept and Ambush mod.
They had to add the buffs in a hotfix cause they didn't make it through with the Hildryn Prime main patch
Shade's ghost finally improved
Barley
I feel for the tenno who don't know about the helios weapon deconstructor which is silent. I binned my shade due to its crappy noisy weapon, when I could easily have equipped a deconstructor.
Just don't equip the attack precept
Deconstructor doesn't show up on equip menu. I suppose it's Helios exclusive.
Yeah. Only Helios can equip Deconstructor.
If you want a sentinel weapon to be silent, just use one of the silencing mods for the weapon type.
DE really must hate shade, cant jump, shoot, make stealth finishers or move away from a enemy because that breaks the invisibility and enters a 10s cd, and the cooldown is for any kind of invisibility, i'm failing to see how and when shade can be useful, huras kubrow is the same but better literally has less cooldown ,more range and you can move freely.
Deathcube, Carrier, Wyrm and Shade are relics from before kubrows were even a thing, some got reworked but not all, and it shows
Where do you even get this
Uhh,,,,u buy the bp at the market? it is just 100k....
You can get Prisma version from this weeks void trader... july 1-3 13:30 (UTC +0)
"Warframe abilities will not bring you out of stealth"
Unfortunately this no longer works or might need to be expounded upon (offensive abilities will break cloak?). When equipped on Oberon, using Smite instantly brought me out of cloak. Tested in PoE multiple times. Do the devs hate this sentinel? ;_; It seems to be getting worse and worse.
I am killing enemies in shade's line of sight with smite. That's the whole point. It breaks cloak whereas the article says warframe abilities wont.
"The cloaking can last indefinitely as long as an enemy is inside the activation radius."
If you kill all the enemies, there are none left for shade to look at and go "Oh! We should be invisible!"
Sure, but that's not what's happening. There are enemies still around following the Smite, even considering those killed by sparks released from the target.
In addition to this I just noticed Titanias Razorwing also breaks cloak. It makes sense that it should but it should also be described in the article.
is it good to bring this with warframe that have Invisibility ability (Ash, Loki, Ivara and Octavia) and skiajati finisher ?
Because, i want to build loadout Consist of Silenced status built Bronco with Dizzying Round (To make enemy open to finisher), high damage crit-built Skiajati (to Instant Kill them) and Crit-based traditional Bow (Silenced but Deadly) using stealthframe (I.E: Loki, Ash, Ivara or Octavia). My question is will it works well ?
The reason is simple: i wanted to be real spy, i always wanted to not raising alarm
you can make it work, it is somewhat unreliable however, especially since you are planning to use it with frames that already can cloak with no issue
“Ghost only activates if an enemy is in the activation radius sphere for the cloak, and Shade's view of the enemy is not obstructed by nearby objects.”
“Activation is not dependent on the direction that Shade is facing.”
Logically false. If Ghost’s requirement is that within the activation range it needs to see the enemy to activate cloak, then it is line of sight. Meaning Shade needs to physically move its character model in the direction of the detected enemy in range to activate the Ghost precept, because it is in the process of viewing the enemy (and thus twirls around to cloack/activate the Ghost precept).
The second quoted comment throws off the intent of how Ghost activates. Ghost is line of sight, Shade physically faces the direction in which the enemy is detected within the activation, therefore it is dependent on the direction in which Shade is facing.
I am considering getting a Shade since I need affinity/MR xp; would your observation suggest that a better approach to optimizing Shade's stealth capabilities would require a more...stealthy approach?
The article suggests something like "go wherever and in whatever direction you want - Shade has your back." You, however, rebuke this in what I presume says "Shade can save you, BUT you need to be careful - rather than run straight into rooms without first surveying them."
I have limited slots for warframes (just four because I'm a new player and got no money as I'm still in school). I don't have anything stealthy. So I figured I'll get shade because it offers invisiblity. That should be useful for spy missions and the random riven challenge I got as a reward for something that wasn't a sortie. It requires me to go undetected with no damage. Oh boy...this thing is so inconsistent. It doesn't trigger when there are enemies near by and when it does, it last only for a few seconds and doesn't get trigger ever again. I don't know if I'm doing anything wrong, but I'm finding this sentinel to be useless.
Looks like I have to focus on getting a steatlhy warframe. Suggestion please? What's the easily one to get for a new player and what's the top tier steathly frame that I should get after that?
You can buy wukong in the dojo. It's not a stealthy warframe but is good for spy missions because its cloud form is not detected by enemies.
Loki is easily accessible and a good stealth frame. Very mobile as well.
Ivara has perma stealth and can get a mod that lets you walk through laser detection without sounding the alarm. But walking is slowed and running or bullet jumping will break her stealth. Not too bad with constantly rolling around though.
But i prefer Wukong this is why:
-Its usually Ez to find a clan.
-Loki is pain ass hell to get (it tooks me 3 weeks to get LOKI!)
-Fun to use aspicially the cloud walker
-tank frame + mini spy frame
-Wukong is verry buff
Valkyr for the riben challenge. The cat is literally invincible using her 4, and she's relatively easy to get. This makes her a great tank, and can literally get you through the entire star chart. For stealth, I'd say Loki is your best bet. There are, of course, alternatives to loki like wukong cloud walker, Ivara, and probably even Wisp because she's invisible in the air. Wukong and Wisp are solid endgame frames too, and you'll probably have to end up copping them in the future, plus wisp is hella thicc. Yeah, but if you're only able to get 1 I'd say go for loki, if two then loki and valkyr.
where do i get the blueprints and yes i know it says the market but where in the market nvm i got it
Ummm... Where do i get him tho?
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Acquisition
The Shade Prisma can be purchased off Baro Ki'Teer in the Concourse section of the Tenno Relay for 300,000 and 500. Note that Baro Ki'Teer's stock changes with each appearance, and this item may not be available on a succeeding appearance.
Prisma Shade can be traded, but only for unranked copies without Forma and Orokin Catalyst installed.
"See Also: Prisma Shade, the Primed variant of the Helios Sentinel."
What? Its neither primed nor a variant of Helios.
Yeah, that part need fixing alright.
I think it might be worth noting that Shade's Ghost abiity has 10 second cooldown.