Balefire Surge

+1 on Arctic Eximus comments. Their shield counts aswell.

This thing doesn't seem to work if enemy hit is ragdolled

So, i'm a hildryn main and i've been testing a lot with this mod. When i'm the host, the mod works perfectly. When i'm the client, i noticed that a few things influence in if whether the mod will work or not:

The functionality of this mod seems to have something to do with 'how much time the projectile stays in contact with the target". From what i have tested, what causes the mod to not work is a combination of punch through and lag. If the target has a very 'thin' body, like a Butcher, the chance of the mod working is way lower than if the target is a Nox, for example, which has a 'thicker' body. To solve that problem, you should always try to aim the charged shot in a way that it can 'go through' the thicker part of the enemy's body. Usually, aiming for the belly or the chest will make this mod work around 70% of the times. Also, it is worth noting that agaisnt heavy units, like Heavy Gunners, Ancients, Nox, Napalm, Bombard, etc. the mod seems to work way more consistently.

Another thing that influences too is the distance between you and the target. If you are too close to the target (less than 3m away) or too far from the target (more than 50m) the mod seems to not work most of the times.

Targets that die very easily like butchers, runners, orokin drones, etc will most of the times cause the mod to not work too.

Artic Eximus are your best friends, because the effect of this mod also works with their snow bubble, which can take several shots before getting destroyed.

Lastly, do not go for headshots when using this mod, as that will make it not work even against heavy units some of the times.

It doesn't seem like it activates when it kills an enemy in one shot? Or it has some kind of timer.

Also seems to charge companion shield(I tested by removing her 3 and replacing with Breach Surge for fun, companion shields were going into over and recharging like mine on charged shot)

Great mod for sustaining Aegis Storm. It also means you can keep charging your shields against targets with no shield or armour values, i.e. the Infested!

I feel very dumb that it took me over an hour before I realised why this mod was overperforming so highly.

Multishot: it's a thing. You're actually getting just under 3x the listed value. After power strength. That's like, 2k shields per shot even without Blind Rage.

Yeah, it's pretty good.

Is there a internal cooldown they didn't talk about with this thing.... seems to work for a good 3 shots.. then nothing for about 60 seconds.. then works again... kindof odd

It should be noted, because it's not really clear from the mod's description, that the Nullifier bubble destroying effect also requires shots to be fully charged - unlike the Miter's syndicate augment.

We all hate Nullifiers, but it's questionable if this rather inefficient way of fighting them is really worth a mod slot. Balefire charges so slowly, you're definitely going to need more than just Lethal Torrent if you want to use this effectively. Although, if you're running with slow weapons in a high level mission and Nullifiers are a great concern, go ahead.

Tried this mod out and it doesn't seem to work at all.  The Nullifier effect in particular never seems to trigger, and I get better results just shooting them normally with my primary or secondary.  Second Hildryn augment mod I've tried that seems to not actually work.

tested this with hildryn full str, and yeah, all I will say is that this mod is very underrated :)

What's actually really nice is that since it grants overshields, she now has a way to access the part of her passive that blocks Bleed and Toxin damage. This is especially important in Infested missions where the enemies don't have shields to sap

This mod doesn't seem very consistent.  Sometimes standing right in front of a dude and blast him in the face with a charged shot, get no shields back at all (as client).

This is exactly what I wanted out of Hildryn. An Augment that lets me use Aegis Storm. Replace your efficiency mods with this and you become Flying Warframe God of Fitness

Doesn't seem to trigger when hitting ragdolls

This thing turned out to be quite a gamechanger.

With 338% power strength I get ~2550 shields back per shot.

I can pretty much fly for as long as there are enemies nearby, even though I have only 12% duration.

Worth keeping in mind that as a client its worth keeping the balefires charged for about half a second before firing as the augment won't always activate if you  fire them as soon as they are fully charged.

Worth mentioning that this restores shield when hitting a Frost eximus bubble too.

Not 100% sure if that's intentional tho.