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Hildryn
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Description
Strength is Hildryn's virtue. Her unique high-damage abilities are powered by her Shields, which can be recharged with Energy. Hildryn proves that a strong offense is a good defense.
Passive
Become invulnerable for a brief moment after shields are depleted. This ability is restored when shields fully recharge.
Abilities
1st Ability	Balefire
2nd Ability	Pillage
3rd Ability	Haven
4th Ability	Aegis Storm
General Information
Sex	Female
Mastery Rank	0
Max Rank	30
Health	180 (280 at Rank 30)
Shields	1280 (1780 at Rank 30)
Armor	315
Energy	0 (0 at Rank 30)
Starting Energy	0
Sprint Speed	1
Aura Polarity
Exilus Polarity
Polarities
Introduced	Update 24.4 (2019-03-08)
Themes	Shield Maiden
Progenitor Element	Cold
Subsumed Ability	Pillage
Tactical Ability	Pillage
Sell Price	25,000
Official Drop Tables
https://www.warframe.com/droptables

CODEX

The best defense is a good offense. Hildryn draws from her Shields to fuel her abilities, while Energy recharges her Shields.

Drawing from her shields like a battery, her defensive and offensive utility are unparalleled. This is Hildryn, the domina of armament.

In the sky or on the ground, Hildryn fills her victims full of dread.

—Lotus

Release Date: March 7th, 2019

Reinforced by her stalwart physique, the herculean cyborg, Hildryn, fortifies her allies' defenses as enemy barricades crumble beneath her overwhelming might. Rocket skyward at full thrust, achieve atmospheric flight, and launch shield-powered warheads to raze the battlefield with heavy artillery firepower. Hildryn first rained death from above on March 7th, 2019 during Operation: Buried Debts.

Manufacturing Requirements
25,000	1	1	1	3	Time: 72 hrs
					Rush: 50 Platinum 50
Market Price: 325 Platinum 325			Blueprint Price: standing 5,000
Chassis
15,000	2	2	90	2,300	Time: 12 hrs
					Rush: 25 Platinum 25
Neuroptics
15,000	2	1	85	1,600	Time: 12 hrs
					Rush: 25 Platinum 25
Systems
15,000	2	2	95	1,500	Time: 12 hrs
					Rush: 25 Platinum 25

Acquisition

Hildryn's blueprint can be bought from Little Duck for 5,000 Standing 5,000 upon reaching the rank of Agent with Vox Solaris. Her component blueprints can be acquired as drops from the Exploiter Orb.

Item	Source	Chance	Expected	Nearly Guaranteed
Systems Blueprint	Exploiter Orb	22.56%	~ 4 Kills	27 ± 9 Kills
Chassis Blueprint	Exploiter Orb	38.72%	~ 2 Kills	14 ± 4 Kills
Neuroptics Blueprint	Exploiter Orb	38.72%	~ 2 Kills	14 ± 4 Kills

All drop rates data is obtained from DE's official drop tables. See Mission Rewards#Standard Missions for definitions on reward table rotations.
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Notes

• If Hildryn wields her signature  Larkspur in Atmospheric mode, the weapon holds an additional 300 reserve ammo, for a total of 700.
• Hildryn has the highest base shields out of all Warframes in the game: 450 and 1,575 at rank 30.
  • When taking overshields into consideration, Hildryn is the Warframe with second highest total shield value, behind  Harrow.
  • With her shields as her energy pool, Hildryn technically also boasts the lowest energy as she has none at all.

Tips

• As a Warframe with large Shield capacity, Hildryn gains a lot of benefits from  Guardian and Arcane Enhancements affecting Shields, namely  Arcane Aegis and  Arcane Barrier.
• As with other Warframes with high shield values, Hildryn also benefits well from  Adaptation, essentially increasing the amount of damage her shields can absorb.
• Hildryn can absorb higher damage, while being airborne with  Aegis Storm, by equipping  Agility Drift and/or  Aviator.
• Hildryn is an ideal Warframe to use in missions where energy regeneration would be severely hampered, such as in Nightmare Mode missions with the Energy Drain modifier, or Energy Reduction Modifiers in Sorties.
  • Conversely, Hildryn should not be brought on missions that severely affect shields, such as the No Shields Nightmare Mode modifier.
  • In Rathuum and The Index where Tenno start with no energy, Hildryn can immediately utilize her abilities.
• Hildryn's reliance on shields instead of energy for abilities means that she does not suffer from energy loss caused by energy drain attacks and abilities, such as from Parasitic Eximus units and Sensor Bars.
  • Conversely, due to her lack of energy, all energy interactions other than energy orbs provide no benefit for her, such as  Trinity's  Energy Vampire,  Energy Siphon,  Rage/ Hunter Adrenaline,  Quick Thinking/ Gladiator Finesse, Zenurik Focus, or  Arcane Energize.
• Decaying Dragon Key may sound like an undesirable choice for a shield focused Warframe, but reducing maximum shield capacity will allow her Shield Wall passive to recharge faster. Combining it with shield recharge mods like  Fast Deflection and Arcanes like  Arcane Aegis can allow for shields to recharge quickly during the invulnerability period, putting Hildryn in an invulnerability loop if Arcane Aegis is triggered often enough.
  • This particular build will severely hamper Hildryn's ability to cast powers however, due to the greatly reduced shield pool from which to draw shields to fuel her powers.
• Having a Sentinel/MOA (Companion) with  Guardian can allow for Hildryn's shields to instantly recharge upon depletion, effectively resetting her Shield Wall passive.
  • Equipping  Shield Charger is also useful for boosting shield regeneration and providing temporary additional shields and overshields.
  • Both  Guardian and  Shield Charger have a cooldown of 30 seconds.

Trivia

• Hildryn was first revealed in Devstream 122 along with Wisp, sharing space in the same concept art.
• Hildr is an Old Norse word for "battle".
  • Hildr is also a valkyrie in Norse mythology, attested in the Prose Edda.
• Hildryn is the 39th Warframe to be released (excluding Primed and Umbra variants).
• Hildryn is the second Warframe whose blueprint can be acquired from a syndicate, Vox Solaris, using standing, the first being  Baruuk.
  • Unlike Baruuk, Hildryn's component blueprints cannot be acquired from Vox Solaris. Instead, they are dropped from the Exploiter Orb.
  • She is the first Warframe whose component blueprints are dropped from a Landscape's boss.
  • She is also the first Warframe whose component blueprint acquisition depends on recurring Event, Thermia Fractures (also see Operation: Buried Debts).
• Each of Hildryn's component requires 2 Lazulite Toroids to build, for total of 6 Lazulite Toroids. Considering each Lazulite Toroid provides 12,000 Standing 12,000 and her main blueprint costs 5,000 Standing 5,000, Hildryn is the most expensive in terms of syndicate standing, worth 77,000 Standing 77,000 in total.
• Hildryn is the first and only Warframe that does not have an Energy bar.
  • Also, Hildryn is the third Warframe to use an alternate resource for her abilities, after  Nidus and  Baruuk and later  Gauss. In Hildryn's case, she uses her shields.
• The Orokin script on her default helmet reads "shield maiden".
• Hildryn is the second Warframe with unique rolling animations, the first being  Limbo. She instead deploys "wings" from her shoulders and launches herself forward a short distance, similar to  Rhino's  Rhino Charge.
• Hildryn is the first Warframe to have an Exalted Weapon as a first ability, immediately available from Unranked.
  • Other Warframes with Exalted Weapons have theirs as a fourth ability, available at rank 10 and onward.
• Hildryn is the first Warframe to have an Arch-gun,  Larkspur, as a Signature Weapon.
  • She also doesn't have any signature weapon in other category.
• Hildryn is the second Warframe that can be airborne via channeled ability,  Aegis Storm, first being  Titania.

Bugs

• A Hildryn Specter does not use any of its abilities likely because the Specter AI uses energy as a baseline.