Warframe | The Best Defense (Shield Gating) | BUT WHY ?

if you talk to most people in the Warframe Community they will tell you that Shield gating is really good but why it doesn't do much it provides a short window during which damage taken doesn't bleed over into your health pool once your Shields break but once that window closes you can still get hit and die so why is it better than other more traditional forms of defense like actually using your Shields stacking health and armor or using abilities or mods to provide damage reduction well the most straightforward answer is that damage immunity even if brief is generally better than damage reduction it doesn't matter how hard something hits you if you're immune you're just going to shrug it off and on a similar note it doesn't matter how rapid the damage is because again as long as you're immune you're going to shrug it off that is not the case with the other defensive mechanics like armor Shields and damage reduction eventually these are not going to be enough but that's not the only reason why Shield gating is so popular it's also very accessible as long as the Warframe has some amount of shields it can utilize Shield gating the duration of The Shield gate will change depending on the amount of shields you have on your Warframe starting at 33 seconds with minimum Shields and scaling all the way up to 2.5 seconds with 1,150 shields which would make it so that warframes with more Shields would be better at Shield gating but we also have catalyzing shields which minimizes your Warframe Shields and then resets the shield gating numbers to preab of dth now why would you want to your Shields if more Shields equals a longer sh Shield gate well because catalyzing Shields hard caps your maximum Shield gate timer at 1.33 seconds and fewer Shields are easier to replenish you see the game doesn't look at your maximum Shield when it's determining the gating duration it looks at your Shield value at the time of breaking so if your Warframe has 1,150 Shields which would give you the full 2.5 seconds of Shield gating but you get hit twice with the first hit removing 1,000 Shields and the second hit breaking the rest of them you're you're only going to get minimum short gating duration because at the time of breaking you had 150 Shields and this brings us to another reason why the catalyzing shields mod is so good it changes this from a flat value to a percentage value which makes a lot of sense because catalyzing Shields absolutely nukes your Shield value so not only is Shield gating accessible it's also very flexible now because Shield gating has effectively infinite scaling because it doesn't matter how hard you get hit because you're just going to be immune and because it's so easily avail able and flexible the ability to recover any amount of shields becomes extremely strong because if you can recover your shields in between Shield gating you're effectively Immortal one thing to bear in mind though is that Shield gating doesn't prevent damage to Shields it just prevents damage from bleeding over into your health so if you get hit and your Shields break which triggers a shield gate and then you use something like replenish Shields they can instantly start taking damage again which isn't amazing so the shield recovery needs to be reliable it needs to be repeatable you need to be able to do it it at a moment's notice well it's a good thing then that we have the orre set as well as brief respite both of which recover a percentage of the energy you spend on abilities as Shields allowing you to effectively turn energy into Shield at a moment's notice this is particularly strong on spamming casters like Kora or Atlas because you don't even have to think about it you're constantly replenishing your Shields by doing nothing out of the ordinary now the shield generation from these mods is generally not that high which is why they're usually paired up with catalyzing shields because if you're maximum Shields are very low you're no longer recovering a small percentage of your Shields when you trigger briefer spite or the ogre set and those are just the genetic ways of recovering Shields there are more frame or even companion specific ones caliban has lethal progyny Equinox has menen M Harrow has condemn hin has pillage mag has polarize and Crush then there is prota with grenade fan Revenant with Dons maab STX has Rally Point Trinity has blessing or you could even put on rebuild Shields from Helman and speaking of helm men hildren spillage is subsumable then there are companion mods we have Guardian which is a genetic robotics mod we have molecular conversion for taxin there is protect for ratak kubos even smas charm can replenish your Shields though it's not very reliable you could even use the r dark dagger which replenishes a small amount of Shields and can actually ground overshields when hitting an enemy that's affected by a radiation status proc and I could go on and on and on there are augments arcanes specters there's a thousand different ways that you can use to recover your Shields so let's us move on to the next for the lack of a better word thing you can stack Shield gating on top of other stuff one mod that people love to stack on top of Shield gating is rolling guard another source of invulnerability this is a 7-second cool down with a 3sec up time and all you have to do is roll invulnerability in general is very strong when paired up with Shield gating because it allows you to cover the weaknesses of Shield gating there is a delay between your Shields breaking and regenerating and while you can deal with that with fast deflection which shortens the this delay and increases the speed at which your Shields recharge you can also just be invulnerable or or you can have good damage and Crow control the enemies aren't going to hit you if they're crowd controlled or dead Shield gating is a great example of how knowing the why of something is very important if someone tells you that Shield gating is all you need for steel path you're going to run your Excalibur into steel path get hit trigger your Shield gate and then get hit again and die because it's not just the effect of the shield Gates the invulnerability you get from it that's keeping you safe it's a combination of many things and if Done Right can make you effectively Immortal and that is pretty much it for the video so I thank you very much for watching as always guys I hope youve enjoyed the video and found it helpful and I would also like to extend a special thank you to all the channel members thank you very much guys I really appreciate your support if by the way there is any other mechanic you would like to see explained in this style of video feel free to leave a comment down below and I will see you next time bye-bye

Channel: MCGamerCZ

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Keywords: warframe, shield, shields, shield gating, defense, gameplay, guide, explanation, good, best, steel path, endgame, catalyzing shields, mod, frame, invulnerability, ability, DE, Digital Extremes, value, tutorial, how to, simple

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Length: 6min 0sec (360 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 15 2023