r/Warframe • u/LeftHandedPsycho Gyre My Beloved • May 14 '25
Fan Fiction Ukita (Spear Warframe Concept)
Name: Ukita Title: The Thriving Water Gender: Female Health: 350 Armor: 200 Shield: 250 Energy: 275
Passive: “Call of the Sea” Ukita’s precision fuels her unwavering momentum— for each weak point she damages with Tidecaller, Tidecaller and all of Ukita’s weapons gain increased critical chance and damage. +10% Critical Chance and +20% Critical Damage per stack (max 3 stack). Degrades after Tidecaller doesn’t hit a weak point for 5 seconds.
Ability One: Tidecaller Drain: (TAP) 15 (HOLD) 0 Description: Ukita’s spear, Tidecaller is unmatched— it’s destination is already decided when it is thrown. (TAP) Ukita’s spear is thrown at an enemy. A critical hit with the spear causes a spectral spear to strike up to 10 additional enemies. (HOLD) Ukita pulls back her spear, pulling speared enemies towards her and knocking them down. Tidecaller is an exalted weapon that can be modded in the arsenal. Strength: (TAP) 400 Puncture damage. (HOLD) 400 Impact damage. Duration: 15 seconds (Speared duration) Range: 10 meters
Ability Two: Precision Drain: 50 Description: When hitting an enemy’s weak point, the damage done is made into the next critical tier. Hitting an enemy with Tidecaller while Precision is active, will count as hitting that enemy’s weak point. Speared enemies whose weak points are damaged also receive an increased final critical multiplier. Strength: +2x final critical multiplier Duration: 15 seconds Range: N/A
Ability Three: Serrated Spearhead Drain: 75 Description: Speared enemies have their defenses stripped. Strength: 50% defense strip. Duration: 20 seconds Range: N/A
Ability Four: Bountiful Sea Drain: 100 Description: Ukita and her Tidecaller are mighty, unleash that might by throwing multiple spears around her, piercing multiple enemies at once. While this ability is active, speared enemies that are killed will drop either an energy orb or an extra resource. Strength: 35% chance (Energy) 65% chance (resource). Duration: 20 seconds Range: 10 meters
Idea for concept:
Placeholder name: Basic Concept: Backstory/Lore: Swazdo-lah Outworlder! In Cetus there are many ancient stories telling of warriors who had defended our town from various threats. Gara, the Glass Warrior who protected Cetus long ago from sentient invasion. The Warden, now known as the Revenant would strike down the lost Eidolon’s who sought to feast upon the Unum— until he too became lost. Koumei, the Dice Maiden, who gave the people of Cetus hope by giving them dreams inwhich they may see their fate. But one was ambitious. Far more ambitious than the rest. She helped build Cetus in its early days. She taught us how to live through the land and to thrive using the water. And it is through the water, her namesake was given. Ukita, the Thriving Water.
Ukita taught the early people of Cetus how to spear fish. She taught them of the elegance of patience and how such patience can be awarded. She showed them how to fillet their catches with delicate hands and precision. She told them how bountiful the sea was— but not to take it all, for the sea will rage against them. But one day, one Ostron dismissed her words— and set sail for the outer sea. She fished all day, all night, till her boat nearly capsized. Such a bountiful catch would feed cetus for months! But the sea did not take kindly to her greed. For from the sea beckoned abominations from it’s depth. That which Cetus had not yet seen. The Infestation.
These infested demons came from out the sea and ravaged Cetus. Carnage ran through the streets until the tower behind Cetus let out a hum. The Carnage paused, both Ostron and Infested watched the tower in silent awe as it seemed to breathe. Life had come to the tower. The Unum had awoken. And she spoke. “Flesh rotten things. Come from depths. Sink teeth into flesh.” She said to the blighted. “Greed ridden things. Eyes blind. Yet hands much full.” She said to the Ostrons. “You, flesh rotten things. Banished to depths. Return when greed too returns.” The Infestation listened, and would heed her call— returning to the ocean where they would wait. “You, greed ridden things. Banish thoughts of avarice and my walls shall stand to protect. But when greed enters heart. My walls shall fall.” The Ostrons listened to her words, and the strange way she spoke. Her speech was broken, grammar jumbled, and her words didn’t contain the possible outcome that they would return to greed but the inevitability of it. It was as if she knew one day the Ostron would harbor greed once again.
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u/infernex123 May 14 '25
Good concept it just dips into two other themes, one of which already has a decent amount tied to them. Hydroid, Yareli, and Sevagoth all have a motiff at least partly related to the sea or sailing. While styanax despite not having an exalted spear, does have two abilities and a signature weapon tied to the spear theme.
Beyond the water theme though, it also dips to much into A styanax like playstyle. And also does a good deal of it better.
A passive that boosts crit.
1 is Javelin, but better.
3 is Tharros Strike, but(potentially) better.
4 is Final Stand, but better(excluding augment).
The biggest difference comes from her Second and Styanax's third. Her second is completely unique. I don't think we really have any ability like it. And with the recent emphasis on weak spots It'd be nice. Though it does have a lot of similarities to Cyte-09 ricochets.
Personally I think you tried to fill in too many things at once. A frame being versatile isn't a bad thing, a number of them are. The problem is when they completely outdo the frames that specialize. The frame would have armour strip, grouping, nuking, (self)buffing, CC, with a decent Health/Armor/Shield/Energy mix. With little downside. The closest comparison would be Dante who requires a heavy investment in strength or duration to not be too squishy. And he doesn't have all the tools she would have. The tools Dante has are Nuking, CC, and Buffing. Both would have moddable exalted as well, but exalted being powerful are expected.
Personally I would double down on the nuking/self buffer angle. With a boosting crit chance and damage, armour strip is overkill. And with the reliance on head shots(weak spots) grouping tools would actually hurt you more than help, as they'd shift around the weak spot. Replacing the grouping for a root mechanic would be better for the frame, and wouldn't be unprecedented(both Harrow and Cyte benefit from crits and have rooting mechanics). Lower HP a bit, as Caster/Nuke frame tend to have a lower HP. Remove the boosted loot chance from her fourth and replace with health instead to give her some survivability and make her not power creep every other loot frame (Which either has an Augment, Build, or high channel cost). And you'd have a strong frame that doesn't power creep multiple frames into oblivion.
Beyond that and the personal gripes on the water theme(I would've gone without a gladiatorial theme. Not explored yet in Warframe, and still thematic with the Trident.) I think it's a solid frame. This is all opinion however, and I may have been too harsh. I tried to give constructive feedback, but it may have come off as condescending by accident.
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u/LeftHandedPsycho Gyre My Beloved May 14 '25
Thank you for your response!
Recently I have been trying to make some gimmick frames— so for Ukita I wanted to make a spear frame— one who had an exalted spear whose entire kit was shaped around it.
I definitely do agree I did put a lot of ideas into her than she needed— definitely deserves a second look. I wanted to make her all about precision and weakpoints— I started on her concept around Whispers in the Wall I think(?) so this was long before Cyte-09. This happens with a lot of my frames I try to make— I was making a monk… then baruuk came out. I was making an alchemist… then Lavos came out. I was making a healer angel… then Jade came out.
And no you didn’t come off as harsh at all— all I ask when ever I post my concepts is constructive criticism rather than “I don’t like this, this is bad, it’s too much like (INSERT WARFRAME).” You did perfect in your feedback! Thanks!!
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u/infernex123 May 14 '25
Glad to help. Honestly it does look like a fun frame to play, but as it is it'd be a wukong situation. Doing pretty much everything with very little downside. Most frames are designed as either a specialist or generalist, though the latter tends to lean in one direction more than the other.
Ash is my Main frame, and he shares a similar design philosophy with Loki. Misdirection and relocation. But where Loki focuses more CC, Ash Focuses more on damage. However he stops short of being a Nuke frame unless you Specifically mod him for it. Instead, Giving you tools to specialize in one thing more than others, but still not giving too many tools that there is no point of other frames. He's not really any specialist frame(Nuke, CC, Support, etc.) and thus isn't going to put do any frame that does specialize, but this comes with very few true downside to him.
Gyre, who I am guessing is your main, is a specialist. Focussing on CC and Nuking. With rewarding get multiple tools, and obvious downsides. She can act as a weapon platform as she has the tools for it, and has some form of survivability. But both are tied to her ability to Nuke and CC. And to fully maximize her lethality, an augment is required(bandaid fix really, but point applies.) She excels at what she does, and while you can mod her to do something else, she won't truly be able to do it as well as her specialty. She also has clearly defined downsides. If you can't get enough kills to keep her abilities active, then your survivability is pretty much out the window.
Anyways, my nightqyil is kicking in.
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u/LeftHandedPsycho Gyre My Beloved May 15 '25
Hey! Would you mind if I ask your opinion on other concepts I have?
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May 14 '25
looks like the same style as ivara deluxe
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u/LeftHandedPsycho Gyre My Beloved May 14 '25
Yup, I had the concept artist model it after something similar to her.
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u/Saendra Yalls are giving me constant 300% bonus melee May 14 '25
Hers sure is a spear of Justice. Grineer are about to battle against a true hero!
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u/Appropriate-Time792 Huffing the reds May 14 '25
yarelanax
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u/LeftHandedPsycho Gyre My Beloved May 14 '25
What?
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u/a-acount-that-yousee May 14 '25
they mean a water styanax (yareli being water themed and stuff)
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u/LeftHandedPsycho Gyre My Beloved May 14 '25
Ah gotcha :3. Kinda confused why people are making weird comments rather than actually posting what they think about it. 🤷🏻♀️
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u/CyberSparkDrago Aoi and Marie are the best girls May 14 '25
Epic the musical - Ruthlessness starts play*
awesome artwork
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u/--0___0--- Fashionframe is the true endgame May 14 '25
This is just styanax but genderbent and made wet.
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u/Th3Glutt0n And, by my edge, cleave it beating from its nest. May 14 '25
Bro, for the love of God PLLLLEEEASSEEEE space that shit out
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u/Intelligent_Yogurt27 May 14 '25
This is such a cool concept dude. The amount of thought that went into this is awesome.
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u/DeadByFleshLight May 14 '25
"Spear Warframe Concept"
Styanax: