History Warframe / TropesAToD

** ''Jack of All Trades''[[note]]With a versatile role to handle any number of needs[[/note]]: [[HolyHandGrenade Oberon]][[note]]Who is decently tanky, can heal, deal damage, buff allies, and inflict or remove status effects, but without as much ease or cost-efficiency as other classes dedicated to each role[[/note]], [[FirePurifies Nezha]][[note]]Whose abilities amplify his mobility and survivability, dispel negative ailments from allies and restore health, deal direct damage either through area of effect or direct projectile, and can impale his enemies to prevent them from attacking[[/note]], [[YinYangBomb Equinox]][[note]]Whose status as a DualModeUnit means she has every means of survival-enhancement in Night form, can supplement allied damage output in Day form, and basically functions as two separate classes rolled into one chassis -- but she has slow transitions between these two stages, next to no interplay between them, and must stay in one form to charge up its ultimate[[/note]], [[GlassWeapon Gara]][[note]]Who can produce both deadly blades and impassible barriers from glass, as well as encase enemies within glass in order to freeze them and increase their damage taken; however, she must micromanage timers and combo her abilities to maximize their effectiveness, all without any innate means to recover her health or energy[[/note]], [[WillOTheWisp Wisp]][[note]]Whose abilities heal and boost allies's speed, stun crowds of enemies and deal a powerful beam of damage.[[/note]], [[{{Psychopomp}} Sevagoth]][[note]]Whose status as a DualModeUnit allows him to heal allies as well as slow, debuff and nuke enemies in one form, while becoming a regenerating melee master in his Shadow form[[/note]], [[TheSpartanWay Styanax]][[note]]Whose abilities can restore the party's shields and energy, increase his own critical hit chance, strip enemy defenses, restore his own health, group enemies up, and blast them down with potent Bleed effects[[/note]], [[GemstoneAssault Citrine]][[note]]A support-oriented frame who can boost allies' status chance and critical damage, in addition to providing auras that regenerate allies' health and mitigate their damage taken; overlaps with ''Resource Master'' as she can generate additional health and energy pickups, which in turn can amplify her regeneration aura.[[/note]].

** Void Flood and Mirror Defense can be accessed relatively early in the game through Duviri and Tyana Pass on Mars, respectively. They're also easier than their counterparts that can be unlocked late game [[spoiler: on the Zariman and Albrecht's labs]] which add extra challenge to the game mode. [[spoiler: The Void Flood node on the Zariman sticks you with a time limit and negative conditions for letting the timer run too far down in contrast to its Duviri counterpart letting you work at your own pace, while the Deimos Mirror Defense has a longer parkour section, a weaker automated defense in the form of Qorvex's ''Chrynka Pillar'' instead of Citrine's ''Prismatic Ward'', and stronger enemies in the form of the Murmur]].

*** The Zenistar, while not massive on its own, has a peculiar bug where, [[https://forums.warframe.com/topic/783353-dominion-heavy-blade-skin-with-zenistar-feedback/?ct=1714178452 if equipped specifically with the Dominion Heavy Blade skin]], the weapon will become so large, '''''its blade is nearly the size of an entire Warframe.'''''

*** The Zenistar, while not massive on its own, has a peculiar bug where, [[https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/z88um0atU0KJr0rd_P-v9GbFJWz7BEtb-6qzABn-K960p4GxmBVNF-jYz2WEAHb-QDAR30hl if equipped specifically with the Dominion Heavy Blade skin]], the weapon will become so large, '''''its blade is nearly the size of an entire Warframe.'''''

** Warframe armor is also good, as it increases damage resistance directly. Definitely better than shields, which are absolutely useless in high level play[[note]]although shields regenerate naturally, and some frames can get a lot of them, they have NO damage mitigation at all, which means at higher levels of play, enemies can often strip hundreds of shields per shot; compare to health, which doesn't regenerate but can, with high armor, have incoming damage reduced by as much as 80-90%[[/note]].
** On the other hand, Rhino's Iron Skin is more or less a layer of ablative armor; it lets him take a lot more punishment than he normally could. This is because it is functionally a third set of hitpoints on top of his health and shields, and soaks up damage before it reaches him. More importantly, though, it makes him completely immune to ''most'' forms of Crowd Control (stuns, knockdowns, grapples, etc.).

** Banshee can do this with extreme prejudice via a properly-leveled Sonic Boom attack. Nekros can likewise do the same against a single enemy with Soul Punch, but his concussive force is ''far'' greater, capable of sending Grineer Heavies flying clear across the room, knocking over everything in their path.
** Any explosive weapon, though Tonkor seems to stand out a bit, sometimes propelling enemies through the largest rooms you can encounter in the blink of an eye. Any non-explosive weapon modded to include Blast damage. A Blast proc acts like a scaled-up Impact proc; while the latter knocks enemies off their feet, the former actually ragdolls enemies and sends them a distance -- the distance being defined by how much Blast damage was applied. Go on, mod a shotgun or a sniper rifle with Blast. See what happens.

* BodyCountCompetition: The game can easily fall into this with well equipped players, who will try to get a few kills before their team mates can because the entire team is tearing apart the enemy hordes thrown at them. Not helped by the mission results keeping a score of who killed the most enemies. Add a degree of urgency on top of that if you enter an Exterminate mission, with a finite number of enemies, and are presented with an XP-rewarding challenge to get a certain number of kills. Better get those kills in before your teammates swipe them all!

*** Soma is one of the most powerful weapons in the game if properly modded, but it's a fairly standard hitscan automatic rifle with nothing flashy at all.
*** The Karak, which is essentially a dressed-up Grineer M-16, and performs like it. 30-round mag, solid damage and accuracy. It's a great choice for midgame players who've worn out their Bratons and don't have access to the Soma. This comes back with the Kuva Karak as, while it's not flashy or capable of area-of-effect damage like other Kuva weapons, it's still ''a Kuva weapon'' and is capable of just as much as its peers, if in exchange for being mostly the same as the original Karak with boosted stats.