Talk:Grendel/@comment-2003:6:117:BC30:78F7:277:72F0:6F90-20191101063633/@comment-2601:743:280:4990:381F:C823:5817:FF26-20191102011637

The missions are solo-able, dps-wise you probably want a melee weapon since you'll have no mods, but at least melee weapons have a combo system to ramp up their damage (and pseudo-scale damage).

AoE Wise you would want a "Large" weapon, that has a high damage output, greatswords are the most popular go to's though I've heard Arca Titron with the new heavy slam attacks are quite strong (still building a new one)

As for warframe to solo it with, some people use Inaros for base stats, and there are a few other notable picks. But, I think Hildryn is one of the better tank frames for the Grendel missions. Hildryn has a good raw base of shields, and gains overshields (a flat value health type, that does not benefit from mods such as armor *cough*). One, notable feature of her over  Inaros is, she uses her own shields as energy, meaning she, if you can do it right, has infinite energy to gain shields and basically infinite recovery (Not quite true, when the corpus run out of shields you stop healing, but if you get them to their health, you should honestly kill them if you're using a greatsword)

Output 2 when you can, spam heavy slams on corpus, win game.

Remember: For excavation you do not need digs. You need cryotic. You can just drop and go, I ran them for their intital power cycles and let them die when I didn't see any immediate batteries (You can also use batteries to heal their shields). For Survival you will need to output a reasonable amount of steady dps to have enough life support for the entirety of the mission. AND, Defense if you let your pod take too much damage, and you're worried about its health, you can pick out the last few mobs in a round and stall them for regen. So long as the pod isn't taking immediate damage it will engage its recharge and health regen. You can use your 4 and toggle it on and off (like hold them for a few seconds, drop them when you're half)

This mission set is literally the embodiment of all the reasons I hated Destiny. And, made me think "Destiny is like Warframe if Warframe had no mods" Most warframes feel like they're just different skinned suits, the diversity in my gameplay mostly came down to, do I use my knife? do I throw a grenade? Do I sit behind this wall and fire my gun at a mob til it dies? Can't cast my ult, don't have enough energy/it's on cooldown. Albeit Destiny had far more damage on their guns by base since they didn't have a loadout. It felt like an FPS and not a RPG.