Talk:Oberon/@comment-74.96.199.63-20170428230400/@comment-74.96.199.63-20170429041825

Oberon's fine for low-level starchart content. His skillset can be energy efficient and manageable with 0 forma up to about ~40-45, where you need to start investing more in power strength beyond Intensify and Power Drift to reliably survive while supporting your team.

The more you invest into power strength to justify a tanky Iron Renewal build, the more your efficiency and duration are going to take a hit. With maxed Transient Fortitude, R8 Blind Range, Vitality, Steel Fiber, Intensify, Power Drift, Rage, and R4 Streamline, I was scarcely able to stand in front of a single level 55-60ish Grineer Heavy Gunner and tank the volley of shots without arcanes to back me up. A forma would help slot in maxed Streamline/Flow and Blind Range, but frankly the benefit would only help it scale about 5-ish more levels without being unsustainable again.

Unlike many frames, efficiency of your setup appears to be very delicate the higher you go, since you need enough EHP and regeneration to survive effectively, but you also need to make sure enemies damage you enough to get past chip damage and actually activate Rage. The result is a frame that requires at least two separate builds with very different energy economy for different level ranges, but the latter build suffers dramatically as a result of the energy drain imposed by playing with allies.

Your suggestion for Hallowed Ground would provide more incentive to make a play zone for yourself and teammates, but the default range leaves wanting; ideally, it should match Renewal's default of 20. If energy regen while in that zone scaled based on your power strength *and* functioned while Renewal was active, then it could provide a buffer beyond just Rage for Oberon to regenerate energy with without the very expensive task of that two-ability setup. Even so, I think it might be exploitable by other players if it works for all channeled abilities or result in some confusion for others if that energy regen only applies to Oberon, so I'm more siding with the flat, but raised energy toll mentioned earlier.