Hildryn

• Hildryn equips her Exalted Weapon energy rocket launcher sidearm, the Balefire Charger, using 50 shields or overshields to summon and converts 100 shields or overshields into an energy bolt which explodes on impact with enemies and surfaces.
  • Balefire Charger will ragdoll enemies if Hildryn has overshield.
  • Shield activation cost and cost per shot is affected by Ability Efficiency.
• Balefire Charger has its own unique statistics:
  • Base damage is 100 / 200 / 350 / 500 per hit.
    • Damage distribution is purely Electricity.
  • Shots have a 150% critical multiplier, with a 5% critical chance and 10% status chance.
  • Shots can be charged to increase the damage inflicted, at the cost of consuming more shields:
    • Scales with the amount charged (e.g. 50% charge deals 50% more damage), up to a maximum of 100% damage and 450 shields at full charge.
    • Has a charge time of 2 seconds.
  • Shots have a fire rate of 0.833 rounds per second.
  • Shots have an explosion radius of 1 / 2 / 2 / 3 meters.
    • Does not deal self-damage.
    • Explosion radius is affected by Ability Range.
  • Damage is affected by Ability Strength and most secondary weapon mods.
    • For example, with  Hornet Strike,  Convulsion and  Intensify equipped, each shot will deal
      Base Damage × (1 + Damage Mods) × (1 + Elemental Mods) × (1 + Strength Mods) =
      500 × (1 + 2.2) × (1 + 0.9) × (1 + 0.3) = 3,952 damage.
    • The mods that affect Balefire Charger include:
      • damage (e.g.,  Pistol Amp and  Hornet Strike)
      • elemental (e.g.,  Convulsion)
      • multishot (e.g.  Barrel Diffusion)
      • critical (e.g.,  Pistol Gambit and  Target Cracker)
      • status chance (e.g.  Jolt)
      • fire rate (e.g.  Gunslinger)
      • faction damage (e.g.,  Expel Infested)
      • punch through (e.g.,  Seeker)
        • However, the projectile won't deal any damage while traveling through enemies.
  • Balefire can not be equipped with Acolyte Mods (e.g.,  Sharpened Bullets) or Amalgam Mods (e.g.,  Amalgam Barrel Diffusion).
  • Riven Mods are not generated for the Balefire Charger.
• While Aegis Storm is active, a second Balefire Charger will be equipped on Hildryn's left arm when using this ability. This is a purely cosmetic effect, and does not provide any tangible combat advantages.

Main article: Balefire Charger

The Balefire Charger is Hildryn's signature Exalted Weapon, which can only be used when her Balefire ability is activated. This pistol launches bolts of Electricity that deal area-of-effect damage in a large area, and can be charged to deal more damage. Its massive damage is offset by its low critical chance, critical multiplier, and status chance.

• Balefire is capable of scoring headshots and activating headshot prerequisite effects such as Arcane Precision. However, Arcanes do not affect the Balefire Charger's damage.

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• Currently, Arsenal displays a (moddable) reload stat of 1 second that has no effect.

• Hildryn emits a radial pulse with an initial radius of 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 meters, which follows her as an aura and rapidly expands outward by 20.0 meters per second over a duration of 2 seconds. Hildryn and allies touched by the expanding pulse are instantly cleansed of all negative Status Effects. Enemies in direct line of sight of Hildryn and within range of her aura are marked for pillage, reducing their Shields and Armor by 10% / 15% / 20% / 25%. When Pillage expires or when the ability key (default 2 ) is pressed again while the ability is active, the pulse instantly retracts to Hildryn to restore her missing shields and produce Overshields based on the amount or shields and/or armor stolen from all pillaged enemies.
  • Shield/armor drain per enemy is affected by Ability Strength.
  • Shield cost is affected by Ability Efficiency.
  • Pulse initial radius is affected by Ability Range.
  • Expansion duration is affected by Ability Duration.
  • Shield restore affects Kubrows, Kavats, and MOAs, but has no effect on Sentinels.
  • Armor reduction is permanent and stacks multiplicatively with repeated use.
  • Does not steal from enemies without shields or armor stats.
  • Enemies that possess both shields and armor will need to have their shields broken before armor can be pillaged.
  • Repeatedly pillaging shields will eventually steal 0 points without breaking the enemy's shield, allowing it to regenerate shortly after.
    • Doing the same on armor, however, will be able to entirely remove the target's armor.
  • Casting speed is affected by  Natural Talent and  Speed Drift.
  • Pillaged enemies leaving Pillage's pulse and/or Hildryn's line of sight will still return shields to her.
• Casting Pillage is a full body animation that stops Hildryn's grounded movement and other actions.
• Pillage cannot be cast while Aegis Storm is active.
• Hildryn's shoulder-mounted shield pads briefly become visible when Pillage is cast.
• Enemies affected by Pillage glow in an upward stream of energy particles. Pillaged shields return to Hildryn as energy missiles once the ability expires or is recast while active.
• Pulse, energy stream, and energy missiles are affected by Hildryn's chosen Warframe energy color.

• Similar to Molecular Prime, ability duration is far more effective at increasing this ability's range than ability range itself. Increasing duration also provides more time for Hildryn to move around and tag enemies with the aura.
• Modding for  Corrosive Projection or  Shield Disruption is ill-advised as this ability relies on enemies having shields or armor.

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• Hildryn overcharges her Shield Matrix to continuously link to allies and enemies alike. When targets are in her direct line of sight and within a 8 / 10 / 12 / 15 meter radius, Hildryn drains 5 Overshield/Shield points per second for every ally linked, and 25 Overshield/Shield points per second for every enemy linked. Deactivate the ability by pressing the ability key (default 3 ) again.
  • Link radius is affected by Ability Range.
  • Activation shield cost is affected by Ability Efficiency, while ally and enemy shield drain per second are affected by both Ability Efficiency and Ability Duration.
  • Casting speed is affected by  Natural Talent and  Speed Drift.
• While linked, ally Warframes and Companions gain extra maximum shield capacity by 150 / 250 / 300 / 500 points, 50% / 60% / 70% / 80% faster shield recharge rate, and the shield wall invulnerability phase from Hildryn's Shield Matrix passive ability; when the link is broken, excess shield points from the maximum shield capacity bonus become Overshields lasting until used.
  • Shield capacity bonus is affected by Ability Strength.
  • Shield recharge rate bonus is affected by Ability Duration.
  • Shield wall invulnerability is not affected by Mods.
  • When the Shield Wall invulnerability is ready to protect an ally, the ally's shield bar appears energized by lightning.
  • Has no effect on Inaros or Nidus, due to their lack of shields.
• While linked, enemies receive 100 / 125 / 150 / 200 Radiation damage per second, doubled when Hildryn has overshield. Light and medium enemy types are staggered when first linked, with a chance to be staggered again per damage instance. Heavy enemy types do not appear to suffer staggers from this ability.
  • Damage per second is affected by Ability Strength.
• Casting Haven is a full body animation that stops Hildryn's grounded movement and other actions, while deactivating Haven does not play an animation nor stop Hildryn's actions.
• While Haven is active, Hildryn's upper body is enveloped in a fluctuating energy barrier, while her thigh-mounted shield pads become constantly visible.
• Upon linking with a target, a shield beam connects the target to Hildryn with audible humming.
• Energy barrier, shield pads, and shield beam colors are affected by Hildryn's chosen Warframe energy color.

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• Hildryn activates her jet thrusters as she lifts off from the ground. Hildryn gains vertical and horizontal flight capabilities using the movement (W A S D ), crouch (Ctrl ), and jump (Spacebar ) hotkeys, similar to Archwing Maneuvers but without the Afterburner. While active, her shield matrix drains shield points continuously to generate an energy field with a range of 8 / 10 / 12 / 15 meters; the energy field shrinks as Hildryn gains vertical height and expands as she is closer to the ground. Enemies inside the energy field and within Hildryn's line of sight have fiery pillars of energy erupt from beneath them, forcing the targets to be suspended in midair, receive 100 / 125 / 150 / 200 Radiation damage per second, and occasionally drop energy orbs. Deactivating Aegis Storm (default 4 ) causes Hildryn to slam into the ground, knocking down and dealing 100 / 300 / 400 / 500 Impact damage against all enemies inside the energy field.
  • Damage is affected by Ability Strength.
  • Range is affected by Ability Range.
  • Activation shield cost is affected by Ability Efficiency, while shield drain per second are affected by both Ability Efficiency and Ability Duration.
  • Pillar damage is increased as the energy field's radius becomes smaller.
• Aegis Storm cannot ascend higher than 10 meters above the ground. If Hildryn is above this threshold when activating the ability or due to changes in elevation, she will float downward. Also, if Hildryn moves into terrain that has a higher elevation than her previous location, she will maintain her current altitude instead of rising to match the terrain.
• Hildryn's Balefire Chargers are the only weapons usable while this ability is active. Primary, Secondary, and Melee weapons cannot be used with Aegis Storm.
• Pillage cannot be cast while Aegis Storm is active.
• Hildryn can perform dodging while Aegis Storm is active, at the cost of using 50 shields per dodge.
• Aegis Storm's movement speed is affected by ability like Volt's Speed and Wisp's Haste Reservoirs.
• Hildryn's shoulder-mounted and thigh-mounted shield pads become permanently visible while Aegis Storm is active.

• While channeling Aegis Storm, Hildryn can benefit from damage reduction from both  Agility Drift and  Aviator.
• Even though they can't be used, weapons with Weapon Augments can still trigger their Syndicate Radial Effects, as long as they were the equipped weapon when activating Aegis Storm. Using Balefire Charger will prevent these effects, as that then becomes the equipped weapon. This is useful with the Perrin Sequences' Sequence effect, which recovers 25% of the warframe's shield, which is especially effective for Hildryn.
• Operator Mode can be used without cancelling Aegis Storm, allowing Hildryn to crowd-control a large area of the battlefield while the operator uses their Amp or resurrects teammates. This also supplies affinity to an operator's Amp. However, take care not to die as operator, as Transference Static's shield depletion is particularly crippling for Hildryn.
• While channeling, Hildryn's shields can be restored by Volt's  Capacitance, Trinity's Blessing, Night Equinox's Mend & Maim, and Mag's Polarize. Trinity's  Vampire Leech will not restore shields.

Interactive Maximization is not available in Abilities tab, please check the corrisponding ability or Warframe's Maximization