Talk:Specter (Tenno)/@comment-2600:1008:B04F:6387:ADDC:6A09:C462:B97C-20180907173051

Nidus is by far the best specter at tanking, has the highest effective health rating if you consider his health regen passive and fair crowd control and health regen with his ultimate. Only casts link on your character giving a power strength buff.

Saryn is the best specter for weakening enemies. Her spores (first ability) decrease armor ratings all while her last ability halves the enemies health,

Octavia specter gives a continuous stream of around 1 energy per second on account of her passive, she is the best specter for buffing yourself and allies in multiple ways such as being able to stay invisible for 85% of the game, or her amp which gives a buff of around 100% weapon strength. Her abilities are also great for crowd control. Her only drawback is she has the default song on mandachord, leaving some Tenno to not being able to fully appreciate the buffs she can give.

It should be noted that even though a specter, along with its weapons, scale with the enemy level, a specter should never be used as a killing condition but rather as a support in the form of crowd control, bullet sponge, or a buffer. A specter is most beneficial when their weapons have crowd control capabilities. The Amprex, Ignis, Arca Plasmor, and Zarr are most beneficial as primaries. Secondaries, even though rarely used, should be also a crowd control weapon such as the sonicor. For melee I recommend something with a high block percentage or the rakta dark dagger because of its innate abilities.

I personally enjoy using Oberon as a specter, I enjoy the crowd control he does as well as his buffs and spamming capabilities.

Although specters are in no way essential, I personally enjoy having one with me on most missions. An easy way to farm the vapor specter is doing the capture mission on Venus, letting the wardens start the countdown and then killing all wardens will grant a guaranteed x10 vapor specter BP if you kill all wardens before any of them start the countdown will result in gaining a x5 specter BP upon completion of the mission.