Talk:Oberon/Abilities/@comment-27672605-20160129161121/@comment-108.233.135.167-20170502135205

Unfortunately, the game skews more and more toward dealing with hordes of enemies, and most weapons only target individuals. CC and etc. utility abilities are plain mandatory for most content appropriate for your loadout. If people only used weapons, you'd be complaining that people don't ever use abilities. (Go play LoL. hur hur.)

The real problem is a lack of consistency across our options, some due to it being difficult to predict OP synergies between different elements of the game (a certain build on a certain frame, combinations of frames, combinations of weapons, etc) and some due to good ol' power creep. Warframe is a cautionary tale of detrimentally short-term planning in a F2P structure. That is, if the goal is a well-balanced game and not just a thriving business.