Talk:Nyx Menticide Helmet/@comment-108.180.197.137-20130711065357/@comment-209.56.64.253-20130926131049

The point of alt. helms is to specialize a warframe to fit your playstyle. For example, if you wanted to play a highly ability based excalibur, you would gon with pendragon, as it increases power strength and decreases armor. But if you know you will rarely using your loadout to fight, and mostly your abilities, armor decrease won't matter. If you want to play a more loadout based excalibur, you would use the avalon, as it increases shields, which is inarguably something you need when playing run and gun (with the exception of rhino of course). Some alt. helms don't use this system (example: rhino thrak and vanguard) but i think that is what alt. helms are generally there for, to choose between run and gun or ability based playstyles. You sacrifice stats you don't need for better ones.