Gloom

For any new players who see this, brought to the wiki by some recommendation:

There are SO many other options out there. Find what works best for you- some are easy to get, some require a bit more work- the trick is to look at what's in front of you and gauge how you want to fight it.

For instance, Life Strike is a mod for Melees that make Heavy Attacks provide Life Steal.

If you need enemies to go slower? You can find other ways of controlling them. Penta- which is accessible at a very early Mastery Rank- can get the Tether Grenades mod which bind an enemy to a spot where a shot lands. Very satisfying, but not too powerful.

Overall? Search button is right there, feel free to try something new!

For everyone else on info...

God, I would love nothing more right now than for DE to nerf the ever-living FUCK out of this ability.

Specifically when it comes from Helminth.

Before somebody decides to dox me or consign me to hell over a basic sense of balancing, think about it like this:

• Gloom is an ability that can be put on ANY frame right now and provide a 95% capped slowdown. Highest in the game... while providing Lifesteal to anything you strike.

• For clarity, Nova's Molecular Prime- while even detonating enemies upon death- can only reach 75% at most. Even in that case, most people prefer to SPEED things up which needs lowered Ability Strength.

• It needs 272% Ability Strength to hit this cap, sure- but you are in the same game where Molt Augmented, Molt Vigor and Power Drain exists. That's already 165% Ability Strength and you only need to cast Gloom once. This means you only truly need 107% Ability Strength, which can easily be done.

• After that, it's simply maintaining it, which can be done NUMEROUS ways. It's Energy Drain is based on nearby enemies and can EASILY be outdone with various Energy sources such as Emergence Dissapate if you're that desperate.

• Duration and Efficiency can easily turn that into a negilible amount of drain as well, which only fuels the power that said Energy Regen gives from the point above.

• All that to make the map completely irrelevant. Assuming you're only using half of this Strength required even- you're running the map at roughly 50% of it's original speed. Enemies will have a hard time striking even if they DO manage a shot.

• Combine with the existence of... y'know... SHIELDS. If you die with Gloom, chances are you fully deserve whatever flak you get from allies.

Now, may I remind you: This isn't an ability that's linked to one very subjective build- this can be put on ANYTHING. I cannot stress that enough.

You wanna play Rhino? I mean, I guess you can.

You wanna try this on Mag? I don't think you'd need to, but sure.

You wanna put this on Wisp? Overkill to a fault, but I can't really stop you.

Everyone can use this ability.

... and anybody who ISN'T has to deal with the map being slowed down to a crawl. Like it or not.

(For folks like me? We hate having the entire game feel like I'm waiting pointlessly. There's no fun to be had when somebody is wasting my time.

I'm basically forced to ask them to turn it off- and we all know that goes. "Solo play" isn't a valid answer of a solution. If it's causing problems that I can't just ignore, that's on the user of it, not me. Same goes for Snowglobe if you want a good comparasion on that.)

When everything can use this ability to the point where it's really your ONLY good choice? That's the point of where it gets nerfed.

... so why hasn't it?

Because for some reason, the playerbase has grown EXTREMELY fond of using the most broken, asinine and- most importantly- boring as hell abilities to do content.

I don't really care if it provides Lifesteal, by the time you have access to Gloom... you most likely don't even NEED it. You have other options.

I mean, let's not forget LIFE STRIKE by itself exists. All you need to do is a quick Heavy Slam and than roll out of the way. You can even put it on a Zaw for Exodia Brave and get energy that way.

20% of your damage converted into Health for you is more than enough when we're dealing 4 digit numbers of damage. Especially if most frames will barely break 1k if they use Umbral Mods.

If you're running content where Life Strike won't even do... chances are, you don't need Gloom for the Lifesteal, you need it because the enemies will One-Shot you when you're bumbling around.

Which is either refusing to improve... or you are in the mission for 3+ hours and should know ways around it by the 1 hour mark.

Thus, while there are extremely powerful things, when it becomes:

• The ONLY thing to use due to how powerful it is.

• Incredibly broken for how you get it, making any form of progress null and pointless by proxy.

• Sometimes both of the above.

You have to stop and think "What is this doing to the balance of the game" and if the answer to most builds AND content alike right now is "Use Gloom"- doesn't sound very balanced, does it?

And as I keep saying: These things are prone to nerfs.

Seriously, I think it would be incredibly easy just to slap an "Increased Energy Cost" or "Lowered Range" on there- and mark my words- no matter how small the nerf may be, people will cry rivers over it simply because they relied on it far too much.

Just look at Wukong after all. Didn't even get properly nerfed and the game got hit hard with negativity over it. Certainly not always ingame- but did ya see the Steam Reviews? Any platform where they could ask was getting bombarded with that.

- When is the time for you to expand the horizons of player choice?

- When is the content "enough" to "finally start grinding"?

- What could possibly be done in the game that won't get shunned because it doesn't incorporate Warframes fully- the very embodiment of godly power in this world unmatched?

- Why do we complain when enemies start actually putting up a fight? Are we to just enjoy beating up helpless things that cannot fight back?

- Players don't want to think, they seem to want mindless numbers with no actual meaning behind them.

For that? Cookie Clicker.

- Players don't want unique content- but they also don't want the old content. These leaves us at an impasse of what the hell to do. Quite literally we've created a conflicting goal in of itself.

If you want nothing to change, just simply look to yourself and see just how well that will go over.

- Players don't want to use the new mechanics, but refuse to even engage with the current mechanics. Am I expected to use Kuva Bramma + Wukong for literal years on end?

Why would I want to do that? That sounds incredibly boring and the pinnacle of laziness.

If I wanted to be with chill vibes, we have many games like Animal Crossing for that.

- When enemies like Void Angels exist, where you can kill them in under a minute- even with incredible levels- what's the point in even having bosses?

Nothing survives our strikes and when it does, it can't even fight back because we locked it down. Even IF they are capable of surviving and resisting your abilities- they're considered "terribly designed" and "a chore to deal with".

TLDR for all of that: It's a powerful ability that needs to get downscaled, you'd be a fool to think it'll last forever.

This is a game where you have hundreds upon hundreds of gear options... and even bigger ways of augmenting to them to your satisfaction. You do not need to be boring with it.

Boring ways to play will not "make the grind faster"- it will just make the grind more boring because you refuse to find ways to make it fun.

The game will get better when you get better. That's just the facts. If you can't convince others, you can start with yourself.