User:Xtakku/Gear Tier List

This is a list I compiled because a lot of people would ask me "What's the best secondary?" or "Is X worth crafting?" and such. I don't think weapons and warframes, or rather their ranks here, are dependant on playstyle or preferrance because there is a limit to what you can achieve with a certain piece of gear, no matter how much Forma you put in them. I'll try to think of more sophisticated names or maybe rename the tiers to just 1, 2 and 3. However, I think Boss > Viable > Semi-Viable should be fairly obvious.

Boss Tier
Gear listed here is the most viable in the game. For Warframes, this means they have at least one ability that makes them a great asset, or in some cases irreplacable. For Weapons, it means you can kill pretty much everything in the game with it. What you can't kill with them is probably not doable at all (e.g. Wave 200 Outer Terminus). In general, everything in this tier is worth getting supercharged and 1-2 Forma at least, although the latter won't be necessary except for weapons that have no polarity slots by default (Orthos Prime is strong enough without Forma imo).

Warframes

 * Frost (Snow Globe)
 * Rhino (Roar, Roar+Stomp)
 * Nova (Molecular Prime, Antimatter Drop)
 * Vauban (Bastille - yes, despite the nerf you haters)
 * Banshee (Sonar)

Primary Weapons

 * Ogris (ridiculous crowd clearing capability)
 * Strun Wraith (190 base damage... say what?)
 * Braton Prime (great rifle when modded properly)
 * Supra (awesome DPS, however no armor bypassing)

Secondary Weapons

 * Acrid (by far the best gun in the game)
 * Despair (best weapon until you get Acrid)

Melee Weapons

 * Orthos Prime

Viable Tier
Gear you can find here is good and most certainly worth getting if you cannot get the gear listed above for whatever reason. Supercharging these is recommended in most, but not all, cases.

Warframes

 * Ember (World On Fire destroys light Infested)
 * Saryn (high damage output)
 * Trinity (everything but Link)

Primary Weapons

 * Hek (best shotgun after the Strun Wraith)
 * Sobek (lower base damage but better clipsize/RoF)
 * Flux Rifle (Serrated Blade at 200 base DPS)
 * Miter (don't have it yet, not sure about it)

Secondary Weapons

 * Kunai (basically weaker version of Despair)
 * Twin Gremlins (insane when fully modded - Get Gunslinger OR Lethal Torrent!)
 * Akbolto (similar to Gremlins, not as much need for RoF improvement)
 * Bronco Prime (high base damage, however no armor bypassing capability)

Melee Weapons

 * Orthos
 * Scindo
 * Gram
 * Fragor
 * Hate

Semi-Viable
Basically gear listed here is for new players who cannot get their hands on gear in the above tiers, or who just like the style of a weapon/warframe I just couldn't consider for the Viable/Boss tiers.

Warframes

 * Nyx (good control frame, but inferior viability when compared to others)
 * Ash (2nd most effective health, high damage skills)
 * Excalibur (by far the best beginner frame, good to clear trash)

Primary Weapons

 * Gorgon (basically a weaker Supra, only advantage over it: hitscan)
 * Boltor (solid Rifle, even after it's nerf ages ago)
 * Dera (basically stronger than Braton but weaker than Braton Prime)

Secondary Weapons

 * Dual Vastos (solid damge and RoF but no armor bypass)
 * Kraken (only for skilled marksmen - excellent base damage of 2*45=90)
 * Hikou (high base DPS, but horrible damage per hit makes it's ammo efficiency horrible)

Melee Weapons

 * Glaive (okayish alternative to heavy melee charge builds)
 * Fang Prime (excellent damage per swing, horrible range, low damage to light Infested)
 * Reaper Prime (bad charge damage but solid normal attacks... that don't ignore armor)
 * Dual Ether (Serrated Blade on normal attacks is nice)
 * Dual Heat Swords (among the non-heavy weapons it's great for charge builds)
 * Kogake (Physics Impact damage, insanely fun, solid DPS when using crit builds)

Other
Gear that's a lot more situational/restricted but still has it's perks.
 * Torid (huge potential DPS but needs Vauban or other strong CC)
 * Volt (for Speedruns, e.g. Assassination or Void runs except Exterminate)

Exceptionally terrible
I know people will hate me for this, and it's mostly for jokes as it should be obvious that any gear not listed yet is not viable. However, I generally recommend to NOT get any of the following:
 * Loki
 * Loki
 * Afuris, Twin Vipers
 * Loki
 * Bows (most notably Dread)
 * Thunderbolt mod
 * dat Loki
 * pretty much all melee weapons not mentioned above
 * simply Loki
 * Loki