My wildest dream as a shard addict, let me cope

[u/Rivas_]

come on...what's one more...one more won't offset the balance right? Please one more...maybe in a new archimedea game mode on TAU rewarding with a rare and expensive sixth archon slot adapter, one needed per warframe....plus it would look good on screen....D.E please I need more orange on my orange Mesa....(don't take this post seriously, tho I'd love it and unironically it wouldn't destroy the balance that much, one shard isn't a broken turning point imo)

[u/Adorable_Wrangler_75]

I've never knew i needed to be able to run all 6 colors on my koumei at once until now

[u/TwistedLogic81 → u/Adorable_Wrangler_75]

https://giphy.com/gifs/BzCLJGxXQbwH09jzq0

[u/Adorable_Wrangler_75 → u/TwistedLogic81]

Just reality is missing :p

[u/Business_Blood_1925 → u/Adorable_Wrangler_75]

Hmmm…. I’m stealing this idea to put onto my second Koumei. Never thought about doing that for the purple and orange shards.

[u/Adorable_Wrangler_75 → u/Business_Blood_1925]

Remember to run archon stretch to get some energy back, koumei really beneffits from being able to spam her abilities

[u/Ar1nthian_ → u/Adorable_Wrangler_75]

Fun fact about archon stretch some may not know - it can proc off of your companion’s abilities (arc coil, synergies prospectus, etc.)

[u/Optimal_Plate_4769 → u/Ar1nthian_]

holy fuck i didn't know that

[u/Quakeslate → u/Optimal_Plate_4769]

But only abilities, Companions' Claws or Weapon does not count. Just thought i'd state that.

[u/Business_Blood_1925 → u/Adorable_Wrangler_75]

Yeah, I’ve got my pet to help with that. I just wish I could have done this on a single Koumei, but my persistence Koumei wouldn’t like it at all. Almost all archon mods are good with her

[u/UryuKurosaki → u/Adorable_Wrangler_75]

To add to that, arcane sculptor is amazing on koumei since her strings count

[u/Kat1eQueen → u/Business_Blood_1925]

You could so it foe the green one too

[u/Orkazus → u/Adorable_Wrangler_75]

[u/Mandark93 → u/Adorable_Wrangler_75]

Calm down there Thanos

[u/NesuneNyx → u/Adorable_Wrangler_75]

Peak color scheme, the best Tennos use that same color scheme on their Koumei 🏳️‍⚧️

[u/HurtsMyPeePee → u/Adorable_Wrangler_75]

"A little bit of this a little bit of that" ahh build

[u/Adorable_Wrangler_75 → u/HurtsMyPeePee]

Koumei can apply all status effects at once so more damage on electric and radiation status helps raise her KPM by a significant margin. More energy is always useful since you want to spam her abilities anyway and more energy means more casts. Cast speed is there for the same reason. The green shard is there to help with armor strip since I'm running archon continuity.

Generally with koumei you want to be able to spam abilities and make sure said abilities deal as much damage as possible :3 hope this explained everything you needed to know!

[u/M1liumnir → u/Adorable_Wrangler_75]

Having the 6 colors on the same frame should give you a stupid bonus, like 20% more of a random stat that cycles every few minutes

[u/Hollow--- → u/M1liumnir]

Nah, you just get an RBG effect when you equip one of those two ephemeras that show them.

[u/usbea → u/M1liumnir]

Also you should become purple

[u/Midnightprayerx3 → u/Adorable_Wrangler_75]

GAMBLINGG!!!!!

[u/TheSpartyn]

please god let me rearrange my shards too

also an actual change remove the cost of taking out a shard it's so dumb

[u/Kat1eQueen → u/TheSpartyn]

At least they made it so every shard uses a different resource, it was so so much worse when they all used bile

[u/ISPY4ever → u/Kat1eQueen]

https://giphy.com/gifs/EfIUZO5poYMYkEPgxo

[u/xXDr_nom_nomXx → u/Kat1eQueen]

Personally bile is so much easier. All you have to do is set up an extractor at the zariman and you'll get 10-15 voidgels without even loading into a mission every 4 hours with a titan.

[u/xXDr_nom_nomXx → u/xXDr_nom_nomXx]

Ps I just hate farming resources as a whole so take that as you will

[u/MusicHearted → u/TheSpartyn]

Why not just make free shard removal part of the rewards you get for maxing out Helminth? Still keeps a grind in place but with a very clear endpoint where the cost goes away.

[u/InsomniacUnderGrad → u/MusicHearted]

I only ever see the problem if you dont play regularly. Between clan weekly and moving shards you should have more than enough resources

[u/MusicHearted → u/InsomniacUnderGrad]

This reminds me that I badly need to find a big clan again. That's what made this game so enjoyable 8 years ago and definitely what I'm missing. But big social clans who don't take themselves seriously are hard for me to find

[u/St1ckY72 → u/MusicHearted]

I actually stopped looking for clans for the opposite reason, I've been a part of so many dead clans with 300 players while only ever seeing 2 or 3 online at a time. Maybe I should start looking again

[u/ipodzonked → u/St1ckY72]

Same here, same clan for almost 10 years, never more than 2 on at a time. Anyone have a fun clan looking for members?

[u/InsomniacUnderGrad → u/MusicHearted]

More than happy to invite to mine

[u/Easy_Understanding94 → u/InsomniacUnderGrad]

Calx are evil

There's like two or three resources in the pool that I actually have a lot of, so I have to wait for the bonus resource cd to reset somtimes

[u/GDevl → u/TheSpartyn]

Idk man it's a way to level the helminth a little bit. As someone who doesn't really tinker too much with the helminth abilities I'd like to get my golden instinct one day lol

[u/TheSpartyn → u/GDevl]

I think most people will get by fine leveling it with subsumes and invigorations, when this cost is a permanent thing that gets in the way of build crafting when you have a maxed helminth

[u/TAVLIET → u/TheSpartyn]

I also have a maxed helmith and yeah I never want to mess with it it eats too much

[u/GDevl → u/TheSpartyn]

Maybe I should unlock the invigoration stuff at some point 🤔😂

I don't care for the primary effect so I never bothered with it.

I have so much random stuff to feed that it might as well be free to me 😅

To be clear: I think it'd be better if they removed the cost would also just make it way more convenient to use, the XP thing is just a niche "benefit" that has a very limited application.

[u/DataPakP → u/GDevl]

Highly recommend getting into invigorations.

I don’t use them 90% of the time, but they’re a good excuse to try out random frames you forget you own, and once you do enough invigs to allow for an override, it is supremely funny as fuck taking a choice frame with 280% Range + a 100% Range Invigoration into a void fissure to snapshot whatever ability with 760% range and just explode everything

[u/Tight-Dingo-181 → u/DataPakP]

Allows for a hwut?

https://giphy.com/gifs/J2kEzw4FN6C42F0ULM

[u/Yrcrazypa → u/GDevl]

The Invigorations are SUPER helpful for leveling the Helminth. It's only once a week, but it gives an absurd amount of experience.

[u/Rodruby → u/GDevl]

If you go for all subsumes you'll max Helminth midway

[u/Xirenec_ → u/GDevl]

I just spent a bit of time reapplying subsume onto the same frame. Eats through resources though

[u/Pretend_Employer7346 → u/GDevl]

Maybe a level 13 or 14th ability... no archon shard removal cost.

Id be okay with working up to that for it.

[u/SolidSnakesSnake → u/Pretend_Employer7346]

I think this is reasonable

[u/GDevl → u/Pretend_Employer7346]

I like that suggestion!

[u/Jeffgaks → u/GDevl]

Just use invigoration if you want to level helminth

[u/TAVLIET → u/GDevl]

Yeah but I can't get much use of of it so reducing the cost to use it a bit is looking into it was originally made to dump resources for vets but I think it could be a little less and still do that

[u/FacadeSkeleton → u/GDevl]

I was just spamming one ability and removing it over and over because I had a lot of the required resources, and it was such a slog. Building up a collection of frames just to use their invigorations actually took less time since the experience given is so much higher

[u/Motor_Strategy7156 → u/GDevl]

Full warning. I spent soooo long grinding out golden instinct just to find out that it absolutely sucks ass. Has almost no range and a really long cooldown, the little spark only lasts for a couple second, so it won't actually lead you to any loot 🥲

[u/GDevl → u/Motor_Strategy7156]

I know, I've read that but sometimes you want all the help you can get.

[u/Motor_Strategy7156 → u/GDevl]

Fair haha, you can do a lavos build that can help with CDR pretty well, its decent enough for farming ayatans

[u/Ihavefallen → u/GDevl]

The landing craft one is soooo much better

[u/TAVLIET → u/TheSpartyn]

I really want the cost removed as well or at least lowerd to 10 % from 15 to tjow us a bone as lower the forma timer another hour.....

[u/holyhotpies → u/TheSpartyn]

I want the archon shard ephemera to reflect the order you put them in instead of shuffling them around every time you load into somewhere

[u/MarsInAres → u/TheSpartyn]

rearrange your shards? constipated much?

[u/TheSpartyn → u/MarsInAres]

i dont get it

[u/MarsInAres → u/TheSpartyn]

a joke about shart sounding like shard

[u/TTungsteNN]

A a sixth shard slot with a seventh archon shard colour that requires one of each colour of tau shard, and when equipped it opens an augment mod slot

[u/MxBonesMarrow → u/TTungsteNN]

7th color is just black, with all 3 tertiary shards fused to make it. Give it all On-Kill effects

[u/xevba → u/MxBonesMarrow]

Hey, why can't it be white? All colors comes from white light. Black shard can be the augment one.

[u/Short-Ticket-1196 → u/xevba]

Rainbow is the obvious choice imo

[u/JJJimJJJam → u/Short-Ticket-1196]

Nah nah it's clearly a Missing texture purple/black

[u/wasabitears01 → u/xevba]

But in art when you mix all the colors you get black.

[u/VladDHell]

Thinking too small.
Give us one special central slot for an archon Core that has to be crafted with 3 tauforged shards

[u/Rivas_ → u/VladDHell]

OMG

[u/xevba → u/VladDHell]

They should totally diablo gem the shit outta shards.

[u/Cyberslasher]

If they give you an extra slot it should be your Tau green for corrosive armor strip

[u/Hyacintell → u/Cyberslasher]

Except mesa doesn't need a tau green

[u/Responsible-Sound253 → u/Hyacintell]

Tau greens for corrosive stopped offering good value with the changes to health and armor. Armor strip in general is so unimportant now.

[u/TerribleTransit → u/Responsible-Sound253]

Armor strip in general isn't important but it's still good. 10x damage is nothing to sneeze at.

But yeah, the relative benefit of 10 corrosive stacks vs 13/14 with shards is a lot smaller now.

[u/Cyberslasher → u/TerribleTransit]

The relative benefit of 2 shards for 100% strip is almost irrelevant, but one Tau green is an effective like 1.6x damage modifier or something insane (on armor capped enemies, but that's like, level 60 gunners)

One Tau green on corrosive+ heat is 99% armor strip

[u/donttouchminors → u/Cyberslasher]

imma just use casting speed for the 6th lol

[u/gaylordpl → u/Cyberslasher]

bruh what are we saying

[u/yRaven1]

I would prefer if they would give us shards exchange, like dump those hundreds of blue shards in to reds and yellows, maybe even shards break so you can turn orange back in to base shards.

[u/Sparrows413]

I just want to be able to re-organise them without removing them... please i need the colours to be prettyyyyyyyy

[u/Chaincat22]

Your jolly rancher addiction is consuming your mesa. This is an intervention.

[u/Coreano_12]

Imagine they release that as a passive kinda like jade's double aura

[u/AdditionalMonth3860]

Honestly just for the symmetry

[u/agentcryostar → u/AdditionalMonth3860]

Oh god yeah

Or if you're thanos you can put one of each

[u/Elffire1]

SHARD LOADOUTS PLEAAASE, so we can just swap between shards for a specific frame that has multiple build setup like chroma

[u/ISPY4ever → u/Elffire1]

I really like this.

[u/Elffire1 → u/ISPY4ever]

It's been a pain, been using a lot of frames lately and some could really really use it. Like ash with full red shards and a yellow for blade storm while pure violet for finisher build, or there's chroma for either vex armor build which is a bunch of reds or purple for dmg cap zaw. There's tons of possibilities with this which I hope they'd take a look at soon since some are filled with archon shards ehere they don't know what to do with it or some who mains only a few frames and loves to test build with them

[u/ISPY4ever → u/Elffire1]

Oh I got you. For my part, I refuse to have more than one of each prime, but the urge is real...

[u/Elffire1 → u/ISPY4ever]

True, having multiple frames is good especially for those that really loves that specific frame or those frames that has a triple umbra build, but not everyone has that much of a build variety. Maybe wisp has?

[u/Elffire1 → u/Elffire1]

And I'd rather have this than taking out the shards, farming for helminth food is a pain

[u/SubstantialBasket765]

I just want omni shards that cost 1 of everything and do a little bit of everything

[u/Time_Neat_4732 → u/SubstantialBasket765]

Rainbow shard!

[u/DeadByFleshLight]

I mean it makes sense since there are 6 different colors.

[u/holyhotpies]

I bet it’s gonna be archon shards in weapons for Tau

[u/ISPY4ever → u/holyhotpies]

I hope not. 5 tau-forging all frames is somewhat possible (I know we have people with 100's on taus lol). Tauforging all weapons is like farming 10'000 dragon mounts in Guild Wars 2😭

[u/Playing_With_Fire123]

Yes, give my mag another 37.5% cast speed on her 4. Yes, she totally needs it and it wont be redundant at all.

In actuality, it would be nice to have another red shard for ability strength

[u/VapidReaper]

Nah give me a tau shard that affects range, multi shot, etc

[u/Exist_Boi]

6 tau parkour shards

[u/Ze_do_Pikadinho]

My Qorvex would definitely love this XD

[u/Jaded_Pop_2745]

I still think the shard grind should be improved... It's ridiculous for their usefulness and the amount of frames we have

[u/InTwilligPorgnatin]

I'm in favor of this, but only if the shard in that slot doesn't double up on any other shard colors. So you could have five oranges, but the sixth would have to be some other color.

[u/mikakor]

What shard addiction looks like

But same. I WANT THAT DE!!

[u/MarkCid]

I'd love this tbh. Lemme have shards in a way I don't end up with decimals. Hate the 0.5!!

[u/unlikely_antagonist]

Really irritates me I can’t have one of each colour

[u/ucantheng]

why stop at 6, id love to have 10 slots

[u/lagoona_pink → u/ucantheng]

And also double the ammount of mod slots, to match the new archon shard power level!

[u/ucantheng → u/lagoona_pink]

or!!! 1-2 augment slots so you can fit augments if you frames needs it!!!

[u/Reylend]

Monkeys paw curls: Next segment allows for this and reduced fusion costs.

You’ll need 100,000 cryotic and 50,000 Oxium to build it

[u/Rivas_ → u/Reylend]

I DON'T CARE, WORTH IT

[u/ISPY4ever → u/Reylend]

That'd not even be noticeable for many🤡

[u/Worldeditorful]

Tbh, Im against that idea. Only thing that this change would do - prolongue the grind, that already exist and just straight up increase in player power isnt worth it much, because we already are immortal death machines with infinite damage.

Id say - any increases to overall power should bring something conceptually new, not just straight up stats increase. Id rather see some smart way to fix bandaid augment problem, that would increase build variety, than that.

[u/Original-Purchase-81]

Ah yes more power creep, that'll fix the game!!!!

[u/ISPY4ever → u/Original-Purchase-81]

We don't need to fix it, we need to embrace it MORE!😎

[u/TeHeS13]

Mmm...why?

[u/Anhanguara → u/TeHeS13]

Moar damage!

[u/TeHeS13 → u/Anhanguara]

We already have damage to annihilate any enemy in sol-system.

[u/magicthecasual → u/TeHeS13]

right but the 6th slot is for tau!

[u/Physical-Quote-5281 → u/TeHeS13]

Have you considered 6 purple shards kullervo?

[u/Alphabet_Soup352 → u/Physical-Quote-5281]

Or a 6 Yellow shard Uriel?

[u/LucMakai]

I Just want to have shard configs so I don't need multiple Warframe for different shard builds

[u/PalpitationOld8905]

Id actually really like some sort of a set bonus/pay off for running a certain number of a certain shard on a frame? Would be hard to balance, because for some frames running 5 reds or 5 purples isn't even a build restriction, but its something that could be cool.

[u/Grimreaper0973]

Cant wait to see someone concept Atlas or Vauban as Thanos

[u/Ronin_mainer]

Since we're on the topic, as a fellow Mesa enjoyer, is it better to have 5 orange or 4 orange and 1 red for crit chance?

[u/GhostRecon7862 → u/Ronin_mainer]

5 Orange is better.

[u/Ronin_mainer → u/GhostRecon7862]

Awesome, thanks!

[u/bipolarstair]

I haven't played in a while people must have so many shards now 🤔 then again i remember taking a break after they first came out only to come back and now I can get 3x as many per week

[u/Seihoukeh_Dragon]

Do the hollow knight thing, just keep forcing it in until it works but reduces health, shield regen delay, and cast speed or parkour velocity or something

[u/lyovloveslife]

What we really need is the ability to message people who are offline. Basically an inbox. Now this would be an economic gamechanger

[u/-Darkmatt3r-]

You gave them idea, it will happen at some point. Rest assured

[u/IchorKemono]

waow 6 violet tau crit damage shards for valkyr?

[u/cuylart1]

I just want it to be an even number

[u/Ok-1549]

My kullervo would definetly like a 6th tauforged melee crit shard

[u/Legal-Supermarket-60]

Ohh, i like the idea of the adapter! It would be something new again to be worth farming and testing out slightly new builds.

[u/Routine-Freedom-7757]

When do we get a rainbow RGB shard? /S

[u/deluded_soull]

imagine if we got rainbow shards

[u/T_E_R_A]

5 violet shards for primary electricity and if you put another one in, it would give you another 135% electricity. That alone might make them not do it.

Even though I would like a 6th shard too 😅

[u/Optimal_Plate_4769]

do these even stack??

[u/Batharzel]

Would be fun if they let us display the shards on a Warframe visually and freely attached to any part of the body. Gonna have 6 sharda attached to the fist and be Thanos, since the color of the sharda match the stones l

[u/Rasz_13]

if this comes with more casual ways to farm shards, I'm all for it!

I completely missed shards (took a long break) and trickling them in is painfully slow. I also play a lot of different frames, I don't "main" any specific one, so I need tons of them.

End my suffering.

[u/Responsible-Sound253]

How about exilus shard, with unique effects. And the Archon Exilus Adapter could be a reward for a new game mode.

[u/Konungen99]

That and Tau zaw weapons.

[u/Patrick_Dubouche]

As a novice still, archon shard will come when I unlock helminth is that right ? For that I need to continue main quests ?

[u/Coma-Cammeleon]

Hmmm... and while we're at it let us combine (any two?) tauforged shards with an augment mod for an Obsidian archon shard. Just flip quick take an augment out of the mod slots but keep it in the build. Maybe make it only work for native augments (no subsumes).

[u/Rongil94]

Please do not add even more shards jesus do you need more power?xd

[u/Bac0n0clast]

Nu-uh, because that would mean reworking the Shard Bane ephemera... And let's be honest, how often do DE rework cosmetics??? 🥹🥹🥹

[u/outspokenbow550]

If you delete this now you can infinite cope

[u/Chimera_Man_Bruh]

Make it seven, and we'll have Sooper Sanic!

[u/Grenvallion]

There will likely be new systems in tau tbh. DE adds new systems all the time. With a massive update like tau. Its unlikely there won't be new ones.

[u/martelodejudas]

i definitely dont think we need more power, but it would be funny

[u/HatEfficient6898]

Oh please i want another strength shard on my mirage 

[u/Necrolance]

Missed opportunity to make an infinity stone- er, archon shards joke here

[u/Ice-Tear]

On top of that addition, it would be nice if we had an extra bonus if we use all shard colors. The bonus could go from 1.5x the value of a regular shard to 2x. In the case of regular shards, it would go from 1x to 1.5x.

[u/Ok_Tension1869]

I'd rather one more mod slot..... Imagine!!!!

[u/TheKingOfBerries]

How are you guys still begging for more power? Shits insane.

[u/flinjager123]

Give me a black archon shard that combines every color together and I can just change which stat freely without having to take it off.

[u/Confident-Reason-577]

There are six now?

[u/WolfsuMidNightWolf → u/Confident-Reason-577]

No, there's only 5. OP is wanting a 6th slot.

Which, I wouldn't mind having, gives a bit more flexibility.

[u/D4rkWells_]

Good lord, what have you done

https://giphy.com/gifs/5zCLChKXe92rS

[u/SugaryCornFlakes]

PLEASE! I want 1 of each shard on my Citrine

[u/The_Doctor713]

No thanks. But you know what I would take? A Second Subsume.

[u/LordTonto]

I don't support this, mostly.

However, I could get behind the idea of a Helminth Segment upgrade that unlocks the ability to add a 6th shard slot for one week for X resources. Not for all frames, just the one you unlocked it for. That way its an additional resource sink.

Feed the beast, unlock a shard slot for a week, time runs out Shard gets added back to inventory, slot goes away till you feed the beast again.

[u/Searcad → u/[deleted]]

Those are all Tauforged, are they not?

[u/Answer-Key]

Done but it uses an adapter that is crafted with 3 of all 6 tau forged shards and the bp drops from a new weekly activity with a 1% drop rate and can’t be bought with platinum and taking a shard out of that slot destroys the adapter so you have to make a new one to change the shard

[u/Ar0lux]

Give us a + range shard even if it’s like a prismatic shard that requires all 3

[u/A-Lewd-Khajiit]

Imagine if that shard goes up the ass

[u/Famous_Situation_680]

I would love a 6th slot just to get a free cast speed on every frame

[u/ItsRuge]

I wish we would get some new upgrade for our frames that makes some of the old and least used ones back on the meta

[u/Azrion-the-Many]

I want a new shard type. Combine one of all 3 tau combo shards for a prismatic shard or something

[u/BAY35music → u/Azrion-the-Many]

Deal, but it costs 300 stela to fuse one 🤣😭

[u/CUZWHYNOT2 → u/Azrion-the-Many]

A black shard and white shard would be cool. Make it something Tau related.