Dystopia

It's not under NDA anymore, so you can check out streams or what people have uploaded to youtube if you don't mind spoilers. It is in pre-alpha though so things are likely to change between now and whenever it releases.

Aegis storm feels much better with the rework for better mobility and finally being able to cast abilities while it is active. It's a little unfortunate that the Alt-Fire augment for Balefire does require the player to be using Aegis Storm, because it does feel significantly better to use than the charge fire mode. I do wish that it was possible to use other weapons than balefire while Aegis Storm is active, and being able to aim down sights to try to get Hildryn a little more out of the way when you're trying to aim.

Balefire did get some buffs too recently like staggering enemies instead of ragdolling them, and charged shots consuming less shield and a slight increase in damage.

Overall, I find Koumei fairly fun to play, a lot of her kit seems to be focused around priming for CO style mods.

Her 1 can have some issues with where the threads are placed, enemies are able to walk around them if the ability isn't cast in a location which funnels them to the player, or they may stand still and just fire at the player from a distance.

Her 2 is a fun ability, somewhat useless in short missions and completing challenges can be hindered by your team. Challenges seem to be weighted mostly towards airborn kills, wall latches or kills at certain ranges, I'd like to see the other challenges like headshot kills/elemental kills more often. Her 1, 4 and passive all helped with covering any elements you were missing. There are some less useful decrees in there that can be earned/possibly detrimental depending on your weapon loadout. Being able to remove Decree after it's been earned would be helpful. It would be nice if some of the decree bonuses could scale with warframe duration like armor on finisher kill for x-seconds being extended.

Her 3 is a little questionable for her survival, it only works 50% of the time and has a 3s cooldown. She does have more base health and armor than most other warframes, so it might be worth investing into health and armor depending on what level the content is that you're playing. The ability seems like it might be useful subsumed onto something with a large hp pool and easy access to healing like Wisp if you aren't interested in shield gating.

Her 4 has really good range and hits anything in line of sight. The CC lasts for a reasonably long amount of time and holds enemies still enough that you aren't struggling to get headshot kills if that was one of your Omikuji challenges unlike some other ragdoll cc abilities.

There are the recently reworked warframes if their changes were significant enough.

Qorvex's +3m of punch through is nice to have if you're using non AOE weapons/innate punch through, typically these mods have a fairly high capacity drain making them harder to slot on some builds.

Chyrinka Pillar is okay at providing some minor CC around points/objectives but enemies with Overguard really hurts its effectiveness by preventing the enemies from being CC'd, and enemies with Overguard seem to be becoming more common with newer updates.

Containment Wall works well in hallways and groups enemies into a line making his passive more effective assuming you're making use of punch through. The enemies are also Rad proc'd so they typically keep attacking each other in a large group rather than spreading out afterwards.

Disometric Guard is great to have on Radiation based sorties to prevent your teammates from killing each other or the objective. Also good to have against lichs/sisters that can inflict Radiation status, and a lot of tenet weapons have Radiation as base part of their base damage.

Crucible Blast is basically Sol Gate but with more base damage.

With his damaging abilities being Radiation, he's not very effective in most missions. It's probably a worse damage/status type since the update to simplify damage. Sentients are rare in most content and the Murmur are the only other faction it's strong against. This is also the tileset where you commonly get modifiers like enemies with Overguard when playing Deep Archimedean missions diminishing the effectiveness Radiation's friendly fire.

Probably worth adding that Ivara, Inaros and Titania are the possible warframe choices for the non steel path version of the circuit this week.

Ivara's not a bad choice if you need warframe for spy missions, just remember to also pick up her Infiltrate augment so that you can walk through lasers undetected. Normally requires you to run spy vaults to collect her parts.

Inaros did get a rework recently but his usage seems to have tapered off since then, at least from what I've noticed in public match making. Normally requires Simaris Standing if you don't have the base version anymore.

Titania is a pretty good warframe for various missions, lantern is usually pretty strong for defending excavators/defense objectives. Requires Normally requires Simaris Standing to acquire her parts if you've already completed her quest.

The problem with support Wisp/support frames in general is that if you're already going into endgame content, you can usually expect your team's kits to already be sufficient for that content. You can increase their survivability further by making use of shock motes to stun enemies and rad procs but this typically just slows down missions (especially the shock motes in defense missions) if they're used in situations where they aren't really needed, and can cause issues with builds that make use of enemies clumping together like if you're trying to make use of Gas/Blast or have a Harrow in the squad trying to buff with Covenant. Rad procs from breach surge usually aren't as much of an issue though.

If you are willing to give up fashion, you can subsume Elemental Ward and use a green energy colour for a reload buff to complement Wisp's Haste mote, along with the Everlasting Ward augment mod so the buff is actually useful to your team.

Breach Surge is a lot less useful now that enemies are often protected by overguard, ignoring the blind effect and being immune to the CC effects of Radiation procs, I think they might even be immune to friendly fire too (they aren't targetted, and I think they're immune enemy AOE attacks like a Bombard's rockets). You can still try to make use of it though, there's only so many enemies that can attack at the same time so you can still reduce the number of enemies attacking your team/the objective at the same time.

Pillage/Fire Walker for status cleanse; Pillage gives you Armor Strip at the same time while Fire Walker gives to a movement speed boost for memes. Your team still needs to walk through the flames though but it's a more passive in its use versus Pillage which requires you to cast every time you want to use it. With Overguard being on everything now, status cleansing is a lot less useful, but it was still nice to have for Sorties.

I think you're much better off modding to specialize for your loadout and letting your team pick up the buffs passively instead of trying to directly buff your team.

I generally try to use anything that isn't meta, and is really like weapons with a unique trait/gimmick. The Hystrix is a secondary I've been using a lot more because you can cycle through an element to force proc heat/cold/electric/toxin, which is really useful for different setups like heat if you want to use Cascadia Flare or cold if you're trying to boost crit damage/slow demolysts without interfering with your modded elemental combos. It does have a fairly small magazine,so it can be harder to use without some form of ammo efficiency/infinite ammo.

Dystopia–not our one

Should probably get this out of the way now, wouldn't be surprised if it comes up fairly often, but I'm a different person from the one you're talking about. It's just a name I used years ago in a different game and I reused it when I made my warframe account.

Limbo works for going through Lua spy vaults and I think corpus green lasers. There are still much better choices though. I typically just use Wisp because I'm invisible as long as I'm airborne and I can teleport to the 2 to bypass lasers.

Limbo has a bit of a learning curve and is also one of those frames where it's very hard to be good Limbo.

Playing in a group has an impact has an impact on enemy density and also has an effect on how often enemies will target you (some behind the scenes stuff limiting how many enemies can attack at once). Enemy level does not scale with the number of players in a lobby.

Most game modes are generally better in public, sometimes you can end up in lobbies where people have "disruptive" builds like a max range Wisp slowing down enemy pathing in a defense mission. You do get more drops due to more enemies being able to spawn, and when you start doing fissure missions, anyone that manages to collect 10 reactant before extracting is able to pick one of the rewards from the opened relics. If you fail to collect 10 reactant before extracting, your relic will not be consumed but you also wont be able to pick a reward from the pool of cracked relics.

Less popular game modes like Infested Salvage actually go by faster if you're playing solo, the mission length scales with player count.

The main uses for Operator/Drifter are for certain bosses, utility and for killing special enemies that have two phases like Vomvalysts and Thrax. The most useful focus school for new players would be Zenurik. You want to unlock Wellspring which lets you create a marked zone by pressing 1 (assuming you're on PC) and standing inside it with your warframe will give you an energy regen buff. There are some other quests that do make use of your operator/drifter too, and a game mode focused around playing as the Drifter (Duviri: Experience - feels very different from base warframe though and controls could be a little less clunky).

If you didn't pick Zenurik as a starting school, you can find 'Zenurik' Focus Lenses them as a potential reward in Cetus Bounties at Konzu. (These reward tables rotate so they won't always be available). They can be installed on any piece of equipment that is rank 30 by going to Arsenal > [pick any piece of equipment that is rank 30] Upgrade > Actions (at the bottom of your screen) > Focus Lens. This will convert a portion of affinity gained to Focus which can then be used to unlock a new Focus school once you have 50k points accumulated within the respecitve school. Warframe is unfortunately a little convoluted, you want to make sure you're using an Zenurik lens if you're trying to unlock that Focus school. Just play the game and you will gain standing passively.

To change your focus school, Esc > Equipment > Operator > Focus > Pick a school to swap to/unlock if you have enough points in the specific school you want. *You might be able to convert Eidolon Shards as an alternative to farming focus but this is later progression wise, I think you might still need to go through initially unlocking a specific school using it's respective lens.

*I'm mostly going off memory, if you don't have access to operator yet by pressing '5', it's currently only enabled for quest progression. It becomes useable in game after completing 'The Second Dream'.