Talk:Chroma (Warframe)/@comment-50.118.162.79-20150912132959

Its such a shame that the devs had to make Chroma near useless in PvP. The abilities have been reduced in effectiveness so much that 1 and 4 are useless. Using 1 is actually a damage LOSS and slows you down. Skill 4 drains insanely fast. They have made most of the elements useless in PvP with Cold being pretty much the only decent one.

The wiki for the PvP abilities says "Elemental Ward: Reflects melee damage with the ability's multiplier back to the attacker" This is WRONG. You still take the damage, thus its not reflected. It also only works on Cold as far as i have tested. This is key for PvP on PS4 which is pretty much nothing more than Melee spam. Guns are ignored. Its all Melee spam and rarely anything else.

Anyone know know what the "passive" effects of Elemental for Heat and Eletric are? Does Cold still increase Amour? The toxin "buff" is pretty weak considering just how weak the effects of the other abilities are when using Toxin

Spectral Scream: Toxin is by far the worst for this skill, it doesnt do any reasonable damage to begin with but with toxin its decreased by a futher 50%. You are needlessly slowing yourslef down and dealing MUCH less damage than just using a proper weapon. At max rank (no mods) it deals a MASSIVE 6 damage (3 when using Toxin)

Elemental Ward: "Reflects" damage when using Cold. Though its not actuall a reflect you STILL take the damage as well. Using Toxin, again its pretty much meh. Not yet tried Heat or Eletric but i doubt either will be as useful as Cold.

Vex Amour: Good. uration isn't great though. This doesnt change based on your chosen element which is nice, it means Toxin isnt terrible with this. That is about it.

Effigy: Don't use. Ever. That simple. Drains energy insanely fast and isnt worth a minor speed increase. It also cuts your Armour by 50%

The BIGGEST killer though: Elemental Ward is VERY important but has a several second delay between activating it and actually getting the effect to start working. This makes using right as you see an enemy useless as most of the time you will be dead WAY before it has activated as you encounter SO much 1hit kills, especially when it comes to Melee which has been spammed like hell throughout most of my fights.

Last thing of note: I have played MANY matches, about 50 i would say so far - i have encountered ZERO other Chroma. I can honestly see why. Its slow. Its abilities are weak and its just rather meh. It is a real shame as its my favorite frame so i still use it