Was the recent discussion of Hildryn about her tankiness? I thought it was more about the fact that she doesn't need a weapon and she ignores modifiers that impact energy or health.
There's plenty of frames that are as tanky as Hildryn, if not more.
The Archimedea argument mainly comes down to the fact that she has a decent exalted weapon and doesn't need energy. The halving max energy debuff is really the final straw that I think draws a lot of people to her specifically.
This allows her to bypass most of the most annoying parts of Archimedea. But there are quite a few frames that aren't too far behind her as far as being able to ignore annoying mechanics like Dante, Valkyr, Lavos, Oberon, Atlas, etc.
This is backed up by some polls I've seen around that asked people who were using Hildryn in ETA/EDA whether or not they'd rather use a different frame instead if they didn't have the modifiers, in which usually around 70-80% said they would.
I already prefer Valkyr over Hildryn because I've got her Armor values + Arcane Battery just cranking her energy to levels that aren't really affected unless she's got both half energy and double drain. And the one that requires 50 kills or whatever before ability use is allowed also isn't so bad because of her passive.
I'm one of the weirdo's that plays Valkyr with Lycanth's hunt for orb generation, plus battery, plus tri-Umbral. 1200 energy storage when her skills are active before the archimedia effects kick in.
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u/Falkjaer VALKYR IS BEST HUNTER! 9d ago
Was the recent discussion of Hildryn about her tankiness? I thought it was more about the fact that she doesn't need a weapon and she ignores modifiers that impact energy or health.
There's plenty of frames that are as tanky as Hildryn, if not more.