Caliban Prime NUKES Steel Path in Warframe!

Summary

This video is a comprehensive updated guide to Caliban Prime in Warframe, covering how to obtain his Prime relics, an in-depth breakdown of his abilities, and several optimized builds for beginners, Steel Path, and high-level play. It explains Caliban’s dual passive effects, the power of Razor Gyre for energy and survivability, the utility of Sentient Wrath, the strengths and limitations of his summon types, and the defensive stripping from Fusion Strike. The guide also showcases synergistic mods, arcanes, Helminth options, and advanced setups that dramatically boost his summons’ damage, helping players maximize Caliban Prime’s potential.

Takeaways

• 😀 **Caliban Prime Farming**: To get Caliban Prime, you need to farm prime relics or buy Prime Access. Popular relic farming spots include Void Capture missions (Hippid, Uko) and Lua Disruption (Apollo).
• 😀 **Passive Abilities**: Caliban has two passive abilities: a weaker version of Adaptation for damage resistance (up to 50%) and the unique TOAO damage/status effect that boosts status chance vulnerability by up to 100%.
• 😀 **Razor Gy Ability**: Razor Gy is an extremely versatile ability that restores health, shields, or overshields, while also granting infinite energy based on enemies hit.
• 😀 **Sentient Wrath Ability**: Sentient Wrath is a crowd control ability that stuns and lifts enemies in the air for easy headshots while applying damage vulnerability, except on enemies with overguard.
• 😀 **Lethal Progyny Ability**: Lethal Progyny summons sentient allies with three types: Conulist (melee), Ortholist (ranged/artillery), and Sumulist (defensive). The Ortholists with the Razor Mortar augment become powerful damage dealers.
• 😀 **Fusion Strike Ability**: Fusion Strike deals AoE damage, strips armor and shields, and creates a lingering field that permanently reduces enemy defenses in its radius.
• 😀 **Beginner to Midgame Build**: The beginner build focuses on energy management, survivability (via shields), and a balanced combination of strength, duration, and range for versatility in gameplay.
• 😀 **Summoner Build**: The summoner build uses sentient allies to deal damage while boosting their effectiveness with mods like Summoner’s Wrath and Arcane Theorem Infection, which increases sentient damage by up to 360%.
• 😀 **Weapons Platform Build**: This build uses sentients as support, distracting enemies and restoring shields while Caliban focuses on weapon damage. Flexibility is key, with options to subsume any ability.
• 😀 **Zata's Whisper Build**: Zata’s Whisper infuses blast weapons with Void damage, creating a powerful synergy with blast AoE effects. It allows blast weapons to trigger Void status effects in a chain reaction, maximizing damage output.

Q & A

How can I obtain Caliban Prime in Warframe?

To get Caliban Prime, you need to farm his prime relics and crack them open to obtain his parts. The best farming spots for these relics are typically the Void Capture missions, Hippid and Uko, and Lua Disruption Apollo. If you don't want to grind for relics, you can also buy Prime Access.

What is Caliban Prime's official passive ability?

Caliban's official passive is a weaker version of Adaptation. You and your allies in affinity range gain resistance to damage types that you take, stacking up to 50% with 5% per hit. However, this passive doesn't stack with the Adaptation mod on Caliban.

What is the second part of Caliban Prime's passive ability?

The second part of Caliban's passive involves TOAO (Toxic, Radiation, or Magnetic) damage and status effects. Caliban is the only Warframe that can inflict TOAO damage and status, with enemies affected by TOAO suffering from increased vulnerability to status effects, up to 100% status chance vulnerability.

How does Caliban Prime's first ability, Razor Gy, work?

Razor Gy is a movement ability that spins around, punching enemies while inflicting some TOAO damage and a 25% chance to apply the TOAO status. It also restores health, shields, or overshields depending on your current status. Additionally, it refunds energy based on the number of enemies hit, with high enemy density in Steel Path ensuring that you can regenerate more energy than you spent.

What is the purpose of Razor Gy's augment, Razor Mortar?

Razor Mortar groups up enemies hit by Razor Gy and positions them in a blob. This augment synergizes with Caliban's other abilities, particularly when paired with the Ortholist sentient, turning them into powerful damage dealers by automatically attacking the blob of enemies.

What does the second ability, Sentient Wrath, do?

Sentient Wrath stomps the ground, lifting enemies into the air where they are stunned and vulnerable to damage. It does not affect enemies with overguard, so elite enemies and bosses are immune to the stun, though they still take damage vulnerability.

Can you explain the third ability, Lethal Progyny, and its sentient summons?

Lethal Progyny allows Caliban to summon one of three types of sentients: Conulists (melee fighters), Ortholists (ranged attackers), and Sumulists (defensive support). Each sentient type has its own strengths, and they provide different utility in combat, such as dealing damage or drawing enemy aggro to protect Caliban.

How does Lethal Progyny interact with other abilities, like Razor Gy?

When you have Ortholists on the field and use Razor Gy with the Razor Mortar augment, the Ortholists automatically position themselves next to the enemy blob and start dealing damage with an electric bonus. This interaction significantly boosts the effectiveness of the Ortholists, turning them into top-tier damage dealers.

What is Fusion Strike, Caliban Prime's fourth ability, and how does it function?

Fusion Strike releases energy beams that penetrate through multiple enemies and deal TOAO damage, inflicting status effects. It also creates a lingering AoE field that reduces the armor and shields of enemies within it. The field stays for a long time, continually stripping defenses from enemies as they enter the area. Additionally, Caliban becomes invulnerable while casting Fusion Strike.

How does Caliban Prime's defensive capabilities work in Steel Path?

Caliban's defensive capabilities are bolstered by his Razor Gy ability, which can restore health, shields, and overshields. This makes him very survivable, even in Steel Path missions with high enemy density. His passive also provides additional resistance to damage types within affinity range, and Sentient Wrath can crowd-control enemies, allowing you to safely deal with tougher opponents.