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Protea Prime, the regal evolution of the original Protea Warframe, represents a significant leap forward in battlefield manipulation and tactical support. While retaining the core mechanics of her predecessor, Protea Prime boasts a range of enhancements that solidify her position as a powerhouse in the Warframe arsenal.
Enhanced Stats:
Protea Prime possesses a noticeable increase in base stats compared to the original. This includes:
- Higher Shields: Protea Prime boasts a 400 point shield boost, offering significant survivability in the face of enemy fire.
- Increased Armor: With an additional 200 armor points, Protea Prime can weather even heavier attacks, allowing her to stay in the thick of the fight.
- Improved Energy: A 50 point energy pool increase allows for more frequent deployment of her powerful grenades and temporal abilities.
Augmented Arsenal:
Protea Prime wields the signature Velox Prime, a rapid-fire secondary weapon with superior stats compared to the standard Velox. This includes:
- Increased Critical Chance: A 20% boost in critical chance grants Protea Prime a higher potential for devastating damage output.
- Enhanced Critical Damage: Critical hits with the Velox Prime pack an even greater punch with a 50% increase in critical damage.
- Improved Status Chance: With a 15% status chance increase, the Velox Prime possesses a greater potential to inflict debilitating effects on enemies.
Temporal Mastery:
Protea Prime’s core abilities remain largely unchanged, retaining their focus on manipulating time and supporting allies:
- Grenade Fanfare: Launches grenades with various effects, including healing, shielding, and temporal disarming.
- Dispensary: Creates a deployable turret that provides ammo and health regeneration to allies within its radius.
- Blades of Time: Creates temporal duplicates that draw enemy fire and deal damage when they expire.
- Temporal Anchor: Reverts Protea to a previous state, negating damage and status effects.
However, the augment mods available for Protea Prime offer further customization and strategic depth:
- Disarming Dispensary: Augments the Dispensary to disarm nearby enemies, enhancing its battlefield control potential.
- Homing Beacons: Modifies the Blades of Time to home in on nearby enemies, maximizing their effectiveness.
- Chrono Projection: Extends the duration of the Temporal Anchor, allowing for more strategic repositioning.
Support & Defense:
- Grenade Fanfare: Protea throws grenades that provide shields, health, and temporary invulnerability to allies, making her a valuable asset in keeping the team alive.
- Dispensary: This deployable turret provides ammo and health regeneration, further bolstering her team’s sustainability.
Offensive Potential:
- Blades of Time: These temporal duplicates draw enemy fire and deal damage upon expiration, allowing Protea to contribute significant damage while remaining mobile.
- Velox Prime: Her signature weapon boasts high critical chance and damage, offering a potent offensive tool.
Tactical Control:
- Temporal Anchor: This ability allows Protea to revert to a previous state, negating damage and status effects, granting her a powerful escape tool and enabling strategic repositioning.
- Augment Mods: Protea Prime can further specialize her playstyle through augments like Disarming Dispensary for crowd control or Homing Beacons for maximizing the effectiveness of Blades of Time.
Overall, Protea Prime excels at a dynamic playstyle that involves:
- Supporting allies: Utilizing grenades and the Dispensary to keep your team alive and well-supplied.
- Dealing damage: Employing Blades of Time and the Velox Prime to eliminate threats.
- Tactical maneuvering: Utilizing Temporal Anchor to escape danger or reposition strategically.
Conclusion:
Protea Prime stands as a testament to the refinement of an already powerful Warframe. With boosted stats, an improved signature weapon, and the potential for further customization through augments, Protea Prime solidifies her role as a temporal tactician, capable of supporting allies, manipulating the battlefield, and dishing out significant damage. She is honestly one of the more fun support Warframes in the game. Sponsoring impressive damage, great healing. As well as a Energy junky for those who love to spam their abilities often. I use her as a means to lurk and keep everyone else up to snuff for long drawn Defense missions. Sometimes wondering into some of the rougher endgame content. This variant of her is by far worth the grind/purchase!
