Talk:Baruuk/@comment-177.133.46.236-20181221182359/@comment-2600:6C47:A200:34B:89A1:D4B9:B6DE:1208-20181222160753

Console here, so take what I say with a grain of salt. Been following reviews and theory crafting with PC Tenno in an effort to Optimize Baruuk. Status? It's pretty bad Jim.

Baruuk is kind of a Wukong 2.0. He's incrediably difficult to kill, but his DPS is absolutely gawdawful. Lull makes for a solid CC ability, with the addition of opening enemies up to finishers (Radial Blind on Wukong anyone?), otherwise the rest of his kit is pretty lackluster for anything other than Tanking.

His 4th is basically a suped up melee version of the Sonicor with Zenurik's Singularity on block. The ragdoll kinda defeats the weapon tho, as the force-waves actually push enemies out of its effective range & break up mobs, meaning you have to chase down individual targets and clobber them to death. This greatly decreases Baruuk's effective TTK, which is further hindered by Desert Storm's incrediably low status chance. In low level missions, Baruuk is an absolute killer; start factoring enemy EHP scaling though, and Desert Storm hits the same TTK wall that Wukong's Iron Staff does, except even earlier than Wukong. Armor scaling royally effs up its DPS, effectively reducing Desert Storm's utility from an Exalted Murderizer to Exalted Tickle-Fingers.

As for a comparision between Baruuk, Garuda, and Revenant? Revenant is currently at the top in TTK/KPM & 2nd in Tankiness. Depending on enemy level, Revenent is either a half-baked tank, or the single toughest Warframe in the game.

Garuda is number 2 in TTK/KPM, 3rd in tanking, though she tops the boards in regards to team support and ability spam. Blood Altar & Seeking Talons gives Garuda an interesting mix of Medic/Damage support. She technically competes with Oberon and Harrow for this roll (Oberon has Team Heal, Armor buff, and Armor Strip; Harrow has Team Heal, Energy Restore, Invincibilty & Crit Buff), but Garuda's support pertains to status application, specifically guaranteed bleed procs on all damage enemies receive (which is ridicoulously powerful). To top it off, her 1st acts as both a watered down version of Covert Lethality and a scaling damage nuke; which combos incrediably well with her fourth. Dread Mirror technically makes Garuda the toughest Warframe in the game, though such would require you to plant you tail-end in a particularily tight corner. Besides which, the combination of her passive, 2nd, & 3rd cannot be understated. Make no mistake: Garuda is jack of all trades, master of spam.

And Baruuk is just another Tank with some CC and a horribly flawed Exalted Weapon. Truthfully, I'd rather run Rhino, Nidus, or Nezha over Baruuk: Their tankiness is on par with Baruuk's if not higher, they all pack effective CC, AND they can actually dish out some pretty serious damage.

Hopefully Baruuk gets some tweaks to his 4th, before DE sticks a fork in him. Increasing Desert Storm's base status chance from 10% to 25% would make all the difference. Otherwise, he's going to be just as big of a flop as Wukong.