#the reason im using a rapier is specifically bc of cleanup via slash procs

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Behold: my new favourite nuke frame

Builds + what is happening and why under the cut

What the hell is happening and also why

This is a combination of Ivara's general sneakiness and crowd control, the Helminth ability "Marked for Death", and finishers with rapiers

Marked for Death allows you to target one enemy and send out the next instance of damage you deal to them in an AOE, down to damage type and procs

Rapiers proc slash on both front and back finishers, and in general finishers do an approximately fuckton of damage

Combine this with picking out the tankiest targets, and some easy finishers, and you've got a very small, very finnicky nuke

Builds

Note that neither of these builds are The Best They Could Be, but I'm showing exactly what I was using in the video

Ivara build:

Subsume Marked for Death over your choice of Navigator or Artemis Bow

Energy Conversion is your flex slot. It's not a necessity in my experience and is hard to reliably proc for Marked for Death specifically. You can swap in Infiltrate if you want to use this in tandem with spying, or Augur Message for a bit more duration on Prowl and Sleep Arrow

Preparation highly recommended, I'll add that to mine when I have a spare exilus adapter and also forma bc the zaw ate my last one

Arcane Grace is such a flex slot here that I completely forgot to swap in something more useful. Molt Efficency can help make the whole keeping enemies asleep thing a bit easier, otherwise no clue what could even go here

If you don't have Arcane Energise, Arcane Steadfast is a functional backup, since you'll be casting stuff pretty often. Often enough that you will Need that energy support. Bring energy pizzas or Zenurik just in case

Zaw build:

Plague Kripath, Peye, Vargeet II Jai rapier zaw

Volcanic Edge and Gladiator Might are your flex slots bc this is overkill in terms of damage even without them

Finishing Touch is your only Must here tbh and the rest is up to preference, but this build makes for an overall useable weapon

Corrosive bc fuck ferrite armour (not relevant to finishers, but to general use)

Arcane of your choice. Exodia Might seems like a logical choice but honestly you don't really need the healing between being invisible and pickpocketing everything that moves, and I haven't gotten to test whether Marked for Death procs it

You technically don't need a rapier to do this on Starchart, pretty much any weapon built for finishers will do, but on Steel Path you need those guaranteed slash procs for cleanup sometimes

Caveats

The game is fussy about when it counts something as a back finisher vs stealth finisher, and dishes out damage accordingly. Go for front finishers if you can, as those don't have this issue. Focus on humanoid enemies as some others cannot be front finisher'd (e.g. MOAs)

Marked for Death needs line of sight

The damage from Marked for Death never exceeds the remaining health of the target. Which is to say, single out the tanky ones

Targeting the enemy you're actually trying to finisher sometimes goes after another enemy bc Targeting Is Borked

Steel Path viable but take it with a grain of salt bc this isn't my field of expertise. And obviously bring something else that can deal with Acolytes and alerted Nullifiers (tested far-from-extensively on Sedna and Pluto)

Kills from Marked for Death count as ability kills, so if you wanna focus farm, make sure you've got a lens on your Ivara, not just your zaw

#i have no clue if this is something thats widely known and i just never heard about it but #goddamn is it DUMB and i LOVE it and so i wanna share it with ppl #warframe #my stuff #my builds #video #someday i will also try this with a scythe bc idk if rapiers are a MUST for this tbh #but thats another day bc as i said im shit out of forma #the reason im using a rapier is specifically bc of cleanup via slash procs #might try to bring this to umbra as well but i do vastly prefer ivara #like ivara makes this fun to use. umbra would stay in the simulacrum with it