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It doesn’t matter how many war crimes Saryn commits in Warframe. Poisoning your enemies while they’re under a viral plague and then planting biohazard spores on them is excusable if the perpetrator is a hot ninja cyborg. Even better if she’s gilded in gold. It just so happens that Saryn Prime is available once more through the Prime Resurgence Event. So, here’s a timely Warframe Saryn Prime build for a stylish venture into biological warfare.
Saryn Prime Build Guide | Mods, Arcanes, Archon Shards
Sadly, Saryn is notorious for being squishy. There’s no other way around this no matter how much armor you mod in or how well you rely on Adaptation. You’re best bet is to get used to Shield-gating. You can technically run Adaptation and forego Shield-gating, but her notoriously low health pool won’t make it easy.
Also, the build can get expensive since you’re going to need at least 400 logins and around four Forma and one Primed mod. There is a budget version in the image above. Check out the build regardless:
- Brief Respite
- For enabling Shield-gating along with Catalyzing Shields. Replace it with Growing Power if you’re going with Adaptation instead.
- Primed Sure Footed
- Almost mandatory for Steel Path since getting knocked down means death. Needs at least 400 logins.
- Primed Continuity
- For more Duration and to offset Transient Fortitude’s negative Ability Duration. It helps with all Abilities.
- Umbral Intensity
- To offset Overextended’s negative Ability Strength.
- Overextended
- For more Range for your Spores and Miasma.
- Transient Fortitude
- Again more Strength to offset Overextended’s negative Strength.
- Catalyzing Shields
- Allows Shield-gating. Replace it with Adaptation if you don’t like Shield-gating.
- Venom Dose
- Powerful Augment Mod that grants massive Corrosive damage to help you strip armor.
- Augur Reach
- Ability Range for Spores and Miasma.
- Stretch
- Even more Ability Range for Spores and Miasma.
The main mode of play here, as you might have noticed, centers around maintaining Spores as it’s Saryn’s most useful Ability for general gameplay.
However, you can also use the build for leveling since it can easily spam Miasma in places like Hydron, Sedna, or even the normal Sanctuary Onslaught.
Arcanes for the Saryn Prime Build
This build is really Energy-hungry since you’re going to be spamming Spores and Miasma a lot. You also need to be constantly topped up with Energy in case you need to cast Molt for survivability.
With that in mind, we recommend the following Arcane combo:
- Arcane Energize
- Molt Augmented
Arcane Energize is mandatory, otherwise, the build loses its ace. It’s a bit of a one-trick pony. Molt Augmented helps a lot with Miasma though it takes a while to build up; feel free to replace it with something else on shorter missions.
Archon Shards for the Saryn Prime Build
As for the Archon Shard colors, here’s where your choices become dizzying. Saryn has a lot of viable Archon Shard colors for this build. But to help narrow down your choices, we believe these offer the most substantial benefits for our Warframe Saryn Prime build:
- Amber Archon Shard (Casting Speed)
- 2x Emerald Archon Shard (Corrosive)
- Emerald Archon Shard (Toxin)
- Crimson Archon Shard (Strength)
Ideally, you want all of them to be Tauforged, but you can get away with regular Emerald Archon Shards with Corrosive stacks as you only need two to help Spores strip armor.
Saryn Prime Build Playstyle
We’d like to warn you that even with Shield-gating, this is not a build for newbies and requires some heavy micromanagement skills, especially with dodging and spatial awareness.
You generally don’t want to be hit since messing up Shield-gating is deadly for Saryn. Take advantage of Miasma’s range to keep out of your enemies’ line of sight. As for what to do when a mission starts, this is the step-by-step process:
- Cast Toxic Lash (3rd Ability)
- Find an enemy and cast Spores (1st Ability), then attack said enemy to spread Spores.
- Cast Miasma (4th Ability) to further spread Spores and kill off weaker enemies. You might also want to use this sparingly depending on your Energy.
- Cast Molt (2nd Ability) situationally to avoid damage or distract enemies. You can also use Molt immediately whenever your Shield gets depleted as it will replenish your Shield right away, allowing you to refresh your Shield-gating cycle.
- Don’t forget to refresh your Toxic Lash whenever the duration runs out, and try to prevent your Spores from decaying.
Weapons also play a huge part here in your damage as the abilities usually won’t kill stronger Steel Path enemies right away. All in all, you’re gonna have to work hard and get good, though our Warframe Saryn Prime build can help you ease that effort.
