History GameBreaker / Warframe

* Mesa, the gunslinger frame, is pretty much a tanky murderous aim-bot on legs. Her Shatter Shield can provide a patently insane 95% damage reduction to projectiles, while her Peacemaker ability makes it so that by holding down the fire-button she rapidly murders everything in her sights with her built in dual pistols.

* The [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter Tigris Prime]] can reach 100% status chance (which means every ''pellet'' will ''always'' trigger a status effect, instead of an overall chance of at least ''something'' triggering an effect). Unlike the earlier 100% status shotguns (the Strun Wraith and the Boar Prime), the Tigris Prime has ridiculous base damage (meaning the disadvantage of status builds in terms of raw damage is largely negated), a damage distribution heavily biased toward Slash damage (which is a [[DamageOverTime damage-over-time]] status effect that ignores shields and armor and can stack with itself, making it a player favorite). A properly built Tigris Prime will melt most mobs with its raw damage like the other top-tier shotguns, and unlike those damage-oriented shotguns, when its raw damage doesn't suffice (mostly against heavily-armored foes at Level 120+ or so), the Slash status effects you inflict on that enemy will still kill it within seconds without requiring another shot (and there's nothing stopping you from firing another shot anyway). It is mainly balanced (with the other top-tier shotguns) by the lack of the healing utility found on the Sancti Tigris, its New Loka syndicate brethren, as well as the highest mastery rank requirement of all weapons at the time (13, shared with the [[{{BFS}} Galatine Prime]]).

* Blood Rush. It's a mod that makes it so that the melee system's combo multiplier not only affects weapon damage, but also critical chance. Since this acts on the weapon's ''base'' critical chance again, each combo multiplier can more than double this base crit chance, resulting in an Atterax, with a base damage of 100, dealing damage in the hundreds of thousands on a red crit at a 2.5x combo multiplier, annihilating everything in range.

* The Redeemer Prime is, in short, a 100% status chance shotgun, except it's a melee weapon. To go into specifics, this means it has unlimited ammunition, benefits from the combo multiplier, and - most importantly - can equip Condition Overload. Already extremely powerful in its own right (see below), this mod interacts uniquely with the Redeemer's shotgun fire: while normally its multiplier doesn't count effects applied on the same hit, in this case it calculates individually for ''each pellet''. If, say, the first three out of 10 each proc a different effect, the remaining seven will all dish out at least 4.1x damage. With a simple zero-Forma build of Pressure Point, the four element/status mods, Drifting Contact (to reach 100% status chance), and Condition Overload, the Redeemer Prime will simply vaporize just about anything you point it at short of the Eidolons.
** Changes to Condition Overload in update 26 made the weapon considerably weaker, to the point it almost entirely fell out of favor.

* Condition Overload is a melee mod that grants a 60% damage boost for each different status ailment affecting an enemy. This is a stacking multiplier, so if two procs are active, it'll deal 256% damage; with three, 410% damage, with four, 655%... Suffice to say, a high status chance melee weapon with this mod can shred enemies in short order.
** With the aforementioned melee rework, the bonus became additive on top of the other similar mods. It is still good, but no longer game-breakingly good.

* The [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter Tigris]] [[BlingOfWar Prime]] can reach 100% status chance (which means every ''pellet'' will ''always'' trigger a status effect, instead of an overall chance of at least ''something'' triggering an effect). Unlike the earlier 100% status shotguns (the Strun Wraith and the Boar Prime), the Tigris Prime has ridiculous base damage (meaning the disadvantage of status builds in terms of raw damage is largely negated), a damage distribution heavily biased toward Slash damage (which is a [[DamageOverTime damage-over-time]] status effect that ignores shields and armor and can stack with itself, making it a player favorite). A properly built Tigris Prime will melt most mobs with its raw damage like the other top-tier shotguns, and unlike those damage-oriented shotguns, when its raw damage doesn't suffice (mostly against heavily-armored foes at Level 120+ or so), the Slash status effects you inflict on that enemy will still kill it within seconds without requiring another shot (and there's nothing stopping you from firing another shot anyway). It is mainly balanced (with the other top-tier shotguns) by the lack of the healing utility found on the Sancti Tigris, its New Loka syndicate brethren, as well as the highest mastery rank requirement of all weapons at the time (13, shared with the [[{{BFS}} Galatine Prime]]).

** Special note has to be given to the combination of the Vectis sniper rifle and the Depleted Reload and Charged Chamber mods. The Vectis has a magazine capacity of 1 (2 for the Vectis Prime), and Depleted Reload decreases magazine capacity, but increases reload speed, meaning that there is literally no penalty for equipping it onto the Vectis. Charged Chamber is a mod that increases the damage on the 1st shot fired from a sniper rifle's clip by 40%, and has an upgraded version called Primed Chamber (that's not a prime mod) that increases the first shot damage by ''100%''-- and with the Vectis having ''only'' one shot and reloading in less than half a second with depleted reload... ''yeah''.

** Special note has to be given to the combination of the Vectis sniper rifle and the Depleted Reload and Charged Chamber mods. The Vectis has a magazine capacity of 1 (2 for the Vectis Prime), and Depleted Reload decreases magazine capacity, but increases reload speed, meaning that there is literally no penalty for equipping it onto the Vectis. Charged Chamber is a mod that increases the damage on the 1st shot fired from a sniper rifle's clip by 40%-- and with the Vectis having ''only'' one shot and reloading in less than half a second with depleted reload... ''yeah''.

** While it was considered special back in its day, and it is undoubtedly useful for new players due to the things mentioned above, due to power-creep and changes in the meta, Broken War can hardly be considered more than average anymore.

** With the aforementioned melee rework, the bonus became additive on top of the other similar mods, making it considerably less useful.

* Loki is considered to be bit of a troll-frame, but when used by a skilled player, he is practically unkillable due to a single ability: Invisibility. A properly modded Loki with Zenurik focus can regenerate more energy while invisible than what it cost to cast it, meaning he can stay permanently stealthed, and while it doesn't necessarily make him invincible, in the hands of a skilled player, it might as well do.
** On top of his invisibility, Loki's other signature move is his Radial Disarm, which when combined with his augment, Irradiating Disarm, makes so that all enemies in his very respectable range would lose their ranged weapons and start attacking each other. It is not impossible to clear entire missions with Loki just by spamming this ability, without firing a single shot.
* Nyx's [[SetAMookToKillAMook Chaos]] is another very good crowd-control solution, ensuring that the only threat to Nyx is when the Energy is low. In addition, her passive is that enemies will be 20% less accurate when targeting Nyx (except while Absorb is active).

* Similarly to Ivara, Limbo is a frame that can completely trivialize and circumvent the main mechanics of certain mission types. First off, Limbo is capable of entering into the Rift Plane just by dashing, where he is literally invincible, allowing him to go through entire maps unmolested at the cost of not being able to deal damage himself. He can, however, use his Cataclysm ability combined with Stasis to create a bubble where enemies are frozen in time and enemies outside of the bubble cannot deal damage to anyone inside of the bubble. Like this, a Limbo modded for maximum duration can put a Cataclysm bubble on a defense target, mobile defense console or excavator, and then just sit back and laze around in the Rift Plane occasionally recasting Stasis without having to face any difficulties. However, while a skilled Limbo player is practically invincible and can solo even sortie missions of these types, they are consistently hated by most of the player-base because they really don't work well with a team, and newbies in particular, who have no idea of how to take advantage of the Rift Plane and his Cataclysm bubbles can easily get locked out of the loop - or if the newbie's using Limbo, actively hinder their team.

* Broken War, [[spoiler: the damaged version of Stalker's new sword from "The Second Dream"]]. Stats roughly on par with Dragon Nikana, plus it's a longsword compatible with the already-lethal Crimson Dervish stance. It instantly made most other melee weapons of its time obsolete. Most damningly, you get it ''for free'' just for finishing the quest...AND it comes with its own Catalyst and weapon slot!
* A properly-modded Tonkor will ''annihilate'' anything in explosive range. Serration, Point Strike, Vital Sense, Split Chamber and Hammer Shot are pretty much requisites. If you're lucky enough to have acquired Bladed Rounds, that will add an additional 3x to the critical damage multiplier, otherwise, Heavy Caliber is a reasonable substitute. After that, set up the mod configuration tabs for specific mission areas using the last two mod slots (Corrosive for Grineer, Toxic to bypass Corpus shields, and max Blast for Infested, mixed enemy types and everything else), and you're good to go. You'll need ''six'' Forma to unleash its full potential, but after that, its explosives will kill virtually anything that isn't a boss in one hit, or two if the first happens to not crit.
** The Tonkor was eventually nerfed to give it lethal amounts of friendly-fire like the rest , making it far less safe to use, but with enough perseverance and caution (or the right frame, such as a Nidus built for spamming Larva) it can still shine.

** The exact reason this works as well as it does is detailed in the Mods folder.
* The Redeemer Prime is, in short, a 100% status chance shotgun, except it's a melee weapon. To go into specifics, this means it has unlimited ammunition, benefits from the combo multiplier, and - most importantly - can equip Condition Overload. Already extremely powerful in its own right (see below), this mod interacts uniquely with the Redeemer's shotgun fire: while normally its multiplier doesn't count effects applied on the same hit, in this case it calculates individually for ''each pellet''. If, say, the first three out of 10 each proc a different effect, the remaining seven will all dish out at least 4.1x damage. With a simple zero-Forma build of Pressure Point, the four element/status mods, Drifting Contact (to reach 100% status chance), and Condition Overload, the Redeemer Prime will simply vaporize just about anything you point it at short of the Eidolons.

* Maiming Strike is memetic for single-handedly creating the "spin to win" meta. It makes it so that when the player's frame is doing a spinning melee strike during a slide, their weapon gets extra 90 percentage points to ''base'' critical chance. This means that a weapon with a 25% critical hit chance will have a guaranteed crit, and 15% chance for an upgraded crit. This is already crazy good, but it gets really insane when combined with...

* Condition Overload is a melee mod that grants a 60% damage boost for each different status ailment affecting an enemy. This is a stacking multiplier, so if two procs are active, it'll deal 256% damage; with three, 410% damage, with four, 655%... Suffice to say, a high status chance melee weapon with this mod can shred enemies in short order.

* Covert Lethality allows daggers to instantly kill enemies regardless of their health or armor on a melee finisher. This would normally only work on unaware enemies, but there are a number of warframes with crowd control abilities that open enemies up to finisher attacks, allowing tank frames like Inaros to systematically murder their enemies one by one regardless of their level.

* The critical damage calculations can also lead to runaway results. If a weapon with 100 damage has a 100% crit chance and a 3x multiplier, it will deal 300 damage. If it has more crit chance, it has a chance for an "orange crit", which would deal 900 damage. Consequently, if they had a 200+% crit chance, they could get "red crits", which would deal 2700 damage. It is because of this that Maiming Strike and other crit-chance increasing mods/rivens are incredibly sought after.

* Similarly to Ivara, Limbo is a frame that can completely trivialize and circumvent the main mechanics of certain mission types. First off, Limbo is capable of entering into the Rift Plane just by dashing, where he is literally invincible, allowing him to go through entire maps unmolested at the cost of not being able to deal damage himself. He can, however, use his Cataclysm ability combined with Stasis to create a bubble where enemies are frozen in time and enemies outside of the bubble cannot deal damage to anyone inside of the bubble. Like this, a Limbo modded for maximum duration can put a Cataclysm bubble on a defense target, mobile defense console or excavator, and then just sit back and laze around in the Rift Plane occasionally recasting Stasis without having to face any difficulties. However, while a skilled Limbo player is practically invincible and can solo even sortie missions of these types, they are consistently hated by most of the player-base because they really don't work well with a team, and newbies in particular, who have no idea of how to take advantage of the Rift Plane and his Cataclysm bubbles can easily get locked out of the loop.
* Nekros and Hydroid, while middling frames on their own, are actually two of the most crucial frames in every grinding party due to a simple reason: Warframe is a game with a lot of grinding, and they are the frame that boost drop rates, Nekros by his Desecration (which makes dead bodies have a chance of giving an additional drop, multiple if they were cut apart) while Hydroid's Pilfering Swarm gives a guaranteed extra drop from enemies killed while grabbed by his tentacles. In a game where you can spend hours upon hours collecting resources, that is nothing to scoff at.
* Mesa, the gunslinger frame, is pretty much a tanky murderous aim-bot on legs. Her Shatter Shield can provide a patently insane 95% damage reduction, while her Peacemaker ability makes it so that by holding down the fire-button she rapidly murders everything in her sights with her built in dual pistols.

* Broken War, [[spoiler: the damaged version of Stalker's new sword from "The Second Dream"]]. Stats roughly on par with Dragon Nikana, plus it's a longsword compatible with the already-lethal Crimson Dervish stance. It instantly makes most other melee weapons obsolete. Most damningly, you get it ''for free'' just for finishing the quest...AND it comes with its own Catalyst and weapon slot!

** The Tonkor was eventually nerfed to give it lethal amounts of friendly-fire, making it far less safe to use, but with enough perseverance (or the right frame, such as a Nidus built for spamming Larva) it can still shine.

* The Orthos Prime and the Atterax, utilized in the infamous "spin to win" setup. Even after they have been nerfed, along with other pole-arms and whips, so that they cannot hit through walls and obstacles, when properly modded they can still tear through enemies like tissue paper, so long as the player can stomach constantly spinning around like a carousel.

* Condition Overload is a melee mod that grants a 60% damage boost for each status ailment affecting an enemy. This is a stacking multiplier, so if two procs are active, it'll deal 256% damage; with three, 410% damage, with four, 655%... Suffice to say, a high status chance melee weapon with this mod can shred enemies in short order.
* Hunter Munitions and Hunter Adrenaline, easily acquirable from the periodic Ghoul Purge event. The former gives a 30% chance to inflict a Slash proc on a critical hit. This, combined with a high-fire rate, high crit chance weapon can allow the player to kill level 120+ enemies via DeathOfAThousandCuts by piling armor-ignoring bleed effects on them. The latter converts 45% of incoming damage to the frame's health into energy. This might sound bad at first, but there are quite a number of frames (Saryn, Inaros, Nidus, etc.) who either don't have shields to begin with, or they have ways to quickly heal back damage, allowing them to quickly gather Energy and use and abuse their abilities with impunity.

** With the release of umbral forma, umbral mods have become even more powerful if you can manage to set polarities for them on your warframe and weapons, allowing just about everything to have easy access to these mods for half the cost.
* The so-called "Corrupted" Mods obtained from the Orokin Derelict vaults definitely qualify-- they give a massive upside, but also a fairly sizable downside. With the right build, the downsides can become irrelevant[[note]]Such as Heavy Caliber, which increases rifle damage by up to 100% at the cost of a sharp decline in accuracy which doesn't affect beam weapons such as the Ignis and Amprex.[[/note]] or even a straight upgrade[[note]]The Narrow Minded Warframe mod increases how long an ability lasts but shortens its effective range-- not much of a problem for an ability that only targets or benefits yourself, such as Chroma's Vex Armor, Loki's Invisibility, and Mesa's Shooting Gallery and Shatter Shield[[/note]].
* Certain Augments certainly fit this category. Ivara's Infiltrate (allows her to ignore spy vault defenses), Excalibur's Chromatic Blade (makes his already really powerful 4th even more broken by applying elemental damage based on emissive color), Nezha's Reaping Chakram (makes his Chakrams even deadlier and also free health dispensers), Rhino's Ironclad Charge (makes him able to supercharge his already game-breaking Iron Skin ability), Ash's Fatal Teleport (with a Covert Lethality Dagger, he can one-shot everything short of bosses immune to the effect), Inaros' Negation Swarm (makes them practically immune to status procs) Loki's Irradiating Disarm (makes his disarm into one of the game's best CrowdControl abilities), Banshee's Resonance (makes her damage booster infectious) and Resonating Quake (makes her able to swipe entire rooms clean of enemies in one cast), Hydroid's Pilfering Swarm (makes enemies drop additional loot) are just some of the more glaring examples.

* The [[TheTrickster Wukong]] rework brought many quality of life improvements to a frame that was previously known for being hard to kill but very little else. Of all of the changes, one particular ability improvement blew the Spy game mode wide open. Originally, Cloud Walker was a very slow way of avoiding damage and not much more. Movement speed was buffed to be faster than full-sprint Volt, casting time was made much faster, energy costs were lowered, it can be cancelled via attacking, and most importantly, it ignores cameras, traps, laser doors, and enemy vision. Spy with Wukong is now as simple as pointing in the direction of the vault, activating the ability, and basically teleporting straight to it.

* Ivara is one of the hardest frames to get, but she is also one of the most broken by far. Her Quiver has four different types of arrows that allows her to put enemies to sleep, distract them, make wire paths to circumvent parkour challenges and she can even make things invisible, including rescue targets. Her second ability makes her invisible and allows her to pickpocket enemies, allowing her to steal energy orbs and remain permanently stealthed, while her last ability summons a bow that deals staggering amounts of damage. However, while all of these would make her a top grade warframe, the thing that makes her unquestionably a game breaker is her Prowl augment, Infiltrator, as it completely trivializes spy missions by making her undetectable by all the various defensive lasers and scanners in the data vaults, allowing her to just casually walk in through the heavily watched laser fences and crack the vaults without having to go through the usual process, essentially breaking the entire mission type.

** Its [[AceCustom successor]], the Steel Meridian-built Vaykor Hek, is even more powerful, due to its larger clip, high critical chance, and (thanks to Primed Ravage) extremely high critical damage. The one downside is that it loses the ability to use a unique mod for the Hek that increases the number of pellets per shot, but the benefits ultimately outweigh the negatives - it has roughly the same average per-shot damage as the regular Hek with the unique mod but with twice the magazine size, meaning it can, among other things, kill the aforementioned [[spoiler:Sentients]] in one magazine, damage resistances be damned.
* The [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter Tigris]] [[BlingOfWar Prime]] is can reach 100% status chance (which means every ''pellet'' will ''always'' trigger a status effect, instead of an overall chance of at least ''something'' triggering an effect). Unlike the earlier 100% status shotguns (the Strun Wraith and the Boar Prime), the Tigris Prime has ridiculous base damage (meaning the disadvantage of status builds in terms of raw damage is largely negated), a damage distribution heavily biased toward Slash damage (which is a [[DamageOverTime damage-over-time]] status effect that ignores shields and armor and can stack with itself, making it a player favorite). A properly built Tigris Prime will melt most mobs with its raw damage like the other top-tier shotguns, and unlike those damage-oriented shotguns, when its raw damage doesn't suffice (mostly against heavily-armored foes at Level 120+ or so), the Slash status effects you inflict on that enemy will still kill it within seconds without requiring another shot (and there's nothing stopping you from firing another shot anyway). It is mainly balanced (with the other top-tier shotguns) by the lack of the healing utility found on the Sancti Tigris, its New Loka syndicate brethren, as well as the highest mastery rank requirement of all weapons at the time (13, shared with the [[{{BFS}} Galatine Prime]]).

* ''The Sacrifice'' quest grants you Skiajati, a [[KatanasAreJustBetter nikana]] that gives you 5 seconds of invisibility every time you perform a successful BackStab. Equip an EnemyDetectingRadar such as Enemy Sense and you can clear entire rooms of enemies with little retribution. It's also already at max rank when aquired.

Since Warframe is a FreeToPlay game with lots of grinding, players are naturally incentivized to do said grinding as efficiently as possible. This, of course, leads to experimentation, min-maxing, and can and do result in absolutely broken builds, frequent developer patches be damned. That said, while with enough dedication, and some luck, any weapon and frame can be turned into an absolute powerhouse, some are still obvious superior to the point where they seem to throw game balance out the window. Here are just a few of them:

* Ivara is one of the hardest frames to farm, but she is also one of the most broken by far. Her Quiver has four different types of arrows that allows her to put enemies to sleep, distract them, make wire paths to circumvent parkour challenges and she can even make things invisible, including rescue targets. Her second ability makes her invisible and allows her to pickpocket enemies, allowing her to steal energy orbs and remain permanently stealthed, while her last ability summons a bow that deals staggering amounts of damage. However, while all of these would make her a top grade warframe, the thing that makes her unquestionably a game breaker is her Prowl augment, Infiltrator, as it completely trivializes spy missions by making her undetectable by all the various defensive lasers and scanners in the data vaults, allowing her to just casually walk in through the heavily watched laser fences and crack the vaults without having to go through the usual process, essentially breaking the entire mission type.

* Nekros and Hydroid, while middling frames on their own, are actually two of the most crucial frames in every grinding party due to a simple reason: Warframe is a game with a lot of grinding, and they are the frame that boost drop rates, Nekros by his Desecration (which makes dead bodies have a chance of giving an additional drop, multiple if they were cut apart) while Hydroid's Pilfering Swarm gives a guaranteed extra drop from enemies killed while grabbed by his tentacles. Oh, and the two of them can work in tandem, getting three or four possible drops out of a single enemy. In a game where you can spend hours upon hours collecting resources, that is nothing to scoff at.

* The [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter Tigris]] [[BlingOfWar Prime]] is the latest in the line of shotguns that can reach 100% status chance (which means every ''pellet'' will ''always'' trigger a status effect, instead of an overall chance of at least ''something'' triggering an effect). Unlike the earlier 100% status shotguns (the Strun Wraith and the Boar Prime), the Tigris Prime has ridiculous base damage (meaning the disadvantage of status builds in terms of raw damage is largely negated), a damage distribution heavily biased toward Slash damage (which is a [[DamageOverTime damage-over-time]] status effect that ignores shields and armor and can stack with itself, making it a player favorite). A properly built Tigris Prime will melt most mobs with its raw damage like the other top-tier shotguns, and unlike those damage-oriented shotguns, when its raw damage doesn't suffice (mostly against heavily-armored foes at Level 120+ or so), the Slash status effects you inflict on that enemy will still kill it within seconds without requiring another shot (and there's nothing stopping you from firing another shot anyway). It is mainly balanced (with the other top-tier shotguns) by the lack of the healing utility found on the Sancti Tigris, its New Loka syndicate brethren, as well as the highest mastery rank requirement of all weapons at the time (13, shared with the [[{{BFS}} Galatine Prime]]).

* Maiming Strike is memetic for single-handedly creating the "spin to win" meta. It makes it so that when the player's frame is doing a spinning melee strike during a slide, their weapon gets an extra 90% ''base'' critical chance. This means that a weapon with a 25% critical hit chance will have a guaranteed crit, and 15% chance for an upgraded crit. This is already crazy good, but it gets really insane when combined with...

* The so-called "Corrupted" Mods obtained from the Orokin Derelict vaults definitely qualify-- they give a massive upside, but also a fairly sizable downside. With the right build, the downsides can become irrelevant[[note]] Such as Heavy Caliber, which increases rifle damage by up to 100% at the cost of a sharp decline in accuracy which doesn't affect beam weapons such as the Ignis and Amprex.[[/note]] or even a straight upgrade[[note]]The Narrow Minded Warframe mod increases how long an ability lasts but shortens its effective range-- not much of a problem for an ability that only targets or benefits yourself, such as Chroma's Vex Armor, Loki's Invisibility, and Mesa's Shooting Gallery and Shatter Shield[[note]].

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* Certain Augments certainly fit this category. Ivara's Infiltrate (allows her to ignore spy vault defenses), Excalibur's Chromatic Blade (makes his already really powerful 4th even more broken), Nezha's Reaping Chakram (makes his Chakrams even deadlier and also free health dispensers), Rhino's Ironclad Charge (makes him able to supercharge his already game-breaking Iron Skin ability), Ash's Fatal Teleport (with a Covert Lethality Dagger, he can one-shot everything short of bosses immune to the effect), Inaros' Negation Swarm (makes them practically immune to status procs) Loki's Irradiating Disarm (makes his disarm into one of the game's best CrowdControl abilities), Banshee's Resonance (makes her damage booster infectious) and Resonating Quake (makes her able to swipe entire rooms clean of enemies in one cast), Hydroid's Pilfering Swarm (makes enemies drop additional loot) are just some of the more glaring examples.

* All beam weapons after their 2018 February rework have became incredibly powerful, but the four biggest winners are [[LightningGun Amprex]], which is a high-crit chance weapon firing ChainLightning that can melt entire rooms in seconds, the Atomos, which is pretty much just a tiny Amprex that fires fire beams and does the same as its bigger cousin, the [[FireBreathingWeapon Ignis and its Wraith variant]], which is a flamethrower that can also melt entire rooms in a slightly different manner, and finally the Synoid Gammacor, which is a pinpoint-accurate laser that nod only deals ridiculous damage, but its syndicate proc also replenishes the user's Energy reserves.

* Loki is considered to be bit of a troll-frame, but when used by a skilled player, he is practically unkillable due to a single ability: Invisibility. A properly modded Loki with Zenuric focus can regenerate more energy while invisible than what it cost to cast it, meaning he can stay permanently stealthed, and while it doesn't necessarily make him invincible, in the hands of a skilled player, it might as well do.

* Similarly to Ivara, Limbo is a frame that can completely trivialize and circumvent the main mechanics of certain mission types. First off, Limbo is capable of entering into the Rift Plane just by dashing, where he is literally invincible, allowing him to go through entire maps unmolested at the cost of not being able to deal damage himself. He can, however, use his Cataclysm ability combined with Stasis to create a bubble where enemies are frozen in time and enemies outside of the bubble cannot deal damage to anyone inside of the bubble. Like this, a Limbo modded for maximum duration can put a Cataclysm bubble on a defense target, mobile defense console or excavator, and then just sit back and laze around in the Rift Plane occasionally recasting Stasis without having to face any difficulties. However, while a skilled Limbo player is practically invincible and can solo even sortie missions of these types, they are consistently hated by most of the player-base because they really don't work well with a team, and newbies in particular, who have no idea of how to take advantage of the Rift Plane and his Cataclism bubbles can easily get locked out of the loop.

* Riven Mods for weapons have a chance to make bad weapons usable, good weapons broken, and already broken weapons absolutely godlike.

* The Redeemer Prime is, in short, a 100% status chance shotgun, except it's a melee weapon. To go into specifics, this means it has unlimited ammunition, benefits from the combo multiplier, and - most importantly - can equip Condition Overload. Already extremely powerful in its own right (see below), this mod interacts uniquely with the Redeemer's shotgun blasts; while normally its multiplier doesn't count effects applied on the same hit, in this case it calculates individually for ''each pellet''. If, say, the first three out of 10 each proc a different effect, the remaining seven will all dish out at least 4.1x damage. With a simple zero-Forma build of Pressure Point, the four element/status mods, Drifting Contact (to reach 100% status chance), and Condition Overload, the Redeemer Prime will simply vaporize just about anything you point it at short of the Eidolons.

* The Redeemer Prime is, in short, a 100% status chance shotgun, except it's a melee weapon. To go into specifics, this means it has unlimited ammunition, benefits from the combo multiplier, and - most importantly - can equip Condition Overload, a melee mod that adds a stacking 60% damage multiplier for each status effect on an enemy. Condition Overload interacts uniquely with the Redeemer's shotgun blasts, calculating individually for each pellet; so if, say, the first three pellets each proc a different effect, the remaining seven will all dish out at least 410% damage. With a simple build of Pressure Point, the four element/status mods, Drifting Contact (to reach 100% status chance), and Condition Overload, the Redeemer Prime will simply vaporize just about anything you point it at short of the Eidolons.

* The Redeemer Prime is, in short, a 100% status chance shotgun, except it's a melee weapon, has infinite ammo, and it benefits from the combo multiplier, making it work incredibly well both as an armor-stripper, a way to pile slash procs on an enemy, or just a source of burst damage.

As Warframe is a F2P game with lots of grinding, players are incentivized to do said grinding as efficiently as possible. This, of course, leads to experimentation, min-maxing, and results in absolutely broken results, frequent developer patches be damned. That said, while with enough dedication, and some luck, any weapon and frame can be turned into an absolute powerhouse, some are still obvious superior to the point where they seem to throw game balance out the window. Here are just a few of them: