Hydroid/Prime

Release Date: August 29th, 2017

Hydroid Prime is the primed variant of the Hydroid Warframe featuring more powerful stats: increased armor, energy and shield ratings, as well as an additional and  polarity. It was released alongside Ballistica Prime and Nami Skyla Prime.

Trivia

 * Hydroid Prime can achieve a maximum of 1,680 shield with a maxed Redirection and Primed Vigor mod, tied with Frost Prime.
 * Hydroid Prime's Tentacle Swarm, Undertow and passive ability-spawned tentacles are no longer translucent. Instead, tentacles become opaque and have a new texture that is affected by Hydroid Prime's Warframe Appearance colors.
 * Energy color applies a coat of energy on the tentacle's model and alters the color of the numerous glow spots on the texture. This allows players to customize their tentacles to look similar to the older tentacle model prior to.