Open Call for Warframe Theme Ideas!

[choihojin11]

워 프레임의 이름은 검호 (Gladiator)!

특징은  이빨이 드라큘라처럼 길고 사나 됐으면 좋겠다. 전체적인 모습은줄무늬와 검은색과 노란 색의 조화입니다.

[SharkStereo]

The battle was bloody, endless, bleak... but as Zhetra, the Queen of Anhkure rose over the hill she cast a blinding light as the sun seemed to rise behind her.

Boasting to all a great army, but even among all her ranks, her Three generals stood close by her side...

General of Earth, Baixuren, they say Zhetra blessed his troops with skin of Hardened Clay. (Norse/Axe)

General of Winds, Inkaye, they say they could Leap from the bluest heavens as if given Zhetra's own Wings. (Egyptian/Tonfa)
and finally,
General of Flames, Saladrize, whose men seemed nigh-untouchable, for they basked in the heat of the light that Zhetra shone. (Greek/Shield)

And when in the greatest trouble, Zhetra could always call upon the three Generals, to fight along-side her, as she granted the three enough resolve to tsunami against the hordes.

A Seraphic Light-Winged Angel support frame, maybe even a crazy mix of Egyptian, Greek, and Norse rolled into one.

[HadronVictorioso]

1 hour ago, MadMuse said:

Is Rhino a joke to you? Nothing about Rhino is lithe or agile, or subtle

And you understand nothing, my friend.

[Ysmirdragon]

How about a warframe that uses dual glaives as its personal weapons? 

[(XBOX)Profane Prime]

I think a Warframe based on an oni would be cool. The aesthetics could be that of a samurai because we dont have very much of those aesthetics, and I'd love to see a Warframe based on the samurai look with horns.

 

[Arcthorionn]

A falconeer warframe, using a falcon to scout and pick off weakened foes, maybe even bring drops to their warframe. The whole falconeering sport and fantasy brought into warframe really.

[(PSN)ajbash02]

Hi my names aj. There should be a spider type frame one who ability can spin wep traps that ties enimies up and another that hatches small spiders to drain health. The other two can be a venom skin or extra arms as a melee weapon or  has an ability that is molting its exoskeleton to avoid death. The names can be like [Sicarius] (Type of species of spider) or [Archaeidae] or [widow]. The frame might be better looking as a female frame over male. Maybe it can have a quest where its parts are found in caves on venus orb vallis. It may be cool or even creepy again gave this idea thought but as only an idea. Ty Warframe for your consideration if any.

[Cobrafire102]

Je sais pas si sa marche quand même en français mais bon j'ai une idée assez spécial son nom "Terebon" inspiré du médiévale avec une légère touche d'Alien ses pouvoir seront avec une sorte de hache double qui apparaît dans sa main avec le sang des ennemis en fesant un 360° qui fais beaucoup de dégâts dans un large cercle autour de lui. sa deuxième capacité serai d'aspirer le sang des ennemis pour ensuite le projeter sur eux la troisième serai du sang qui le projet dans les airs et retombe ensuite se qui crée une onde de choc dévastatrice. Sa dernière il fais apparaître une lance de sang et la projete trois devant lui. Donner lui une apparence vieille et un peu médiévale cela fera différent et sera tout aussi génial.

[Asphopickle]

This is going to sound a little crazy, but what about an Origami Warframe? the ability to fold enemies or create "folds" in the environment. Maybe even folding and using "paper" weaponry like shuriken. Plus, how amazing would it be to bisect a Grineer with a papercut?

[TheToastGundam]

Astra, the Dreaming Warframe

While many sleep and dream during the night when Lua is high in the sky, one Warframe gracefully walks the line between it and reality. Using a secondary resource called Lucidity, Astra can empower her abilities, causing them to become twisted versions of themselves. While her arsenal of weapons and powers between her abilities differ, shifting as a dream does from one to another, there is no other description but a nightmare for her Final Dream, a massive, hazy, dormant greatsword that can cleave into reality; when awakened with Lucidity, it becomes the Lucid Dream that forces itself unto the real world, snapping the fine line between the two as easily as a child closing their eyes to rest.
Worry not, Dreamers, for it is not you who she seeks to plunge into a fit of eternal night terrors.

[(NSW)RATHURUE]

Theme: PROPER Thief warframe.  

No, not just another loot/spyframe or just copy from all the lootframe abilities combined as one. But a true skill-based lootframe.

Name can be...let's call it [Pilfer, the Empty] for the time being. He's entirely different from all pre-existing warframe because his abilities depends entirely on how 'empty' his loadslot and modslots are...as well your pockets.

 

This, is Pilfer. The Thief. The Turned-Gentleman.

Within his reach was all the wealth known to man. Yet, in the end, he will hold none.

For his goals are noble, but his methods are not.

What will you do Tenno, if you have nothing in hand?

 

*Passive ability: [Empty Handed, Full Hearted.]

- Gains Armor, Shield and Health depending on how many empty mod slots are in his loadout.

-Gains Ability Strength if you don't equip Melee Weapon, Duration if you don't Equip Secondary and Range if you don't equip Primary. 

 

1st ability: Shadowstick

# If there's a weapon on Melee slot: Throws a single Kunai at the enemy.

- It deals a small AoE blast when impacts non-punchthroughable surface. If any enemy was present in the AoE radius, they became tethered for a set duration. AoE can be increased using Range mods, but the number of enemies affected needs Ability Strength to be increased.

- Enemies are stuck to the direction they are facing when hit with this ability. Those with ranged attack ability can still use their weapon. Melee-based enemies are stuck.

- Enemies struck with this, however, are open to finishers. No damage multiplier other than the normal finisher damage calculation because this can be abusable.  

# If there's no weapon in the Melee slot: Pilfer instantly teleports to the back of targeted enemies, and dove into the enemies' shadow. Unlike Ash's Fatal Teleport, this ability doesn't open enemies to melee finisher, but instead you can control the enemy's movement and attacks. The attacks made by the enemy controlled gains boosted damage, starting from 200% that can be increased by Ability Strength. Attacks received by the controlled enemy will whittle down the enemy's HP bar that acts like this ability's duration: you can either let the enemy be killed, or tap the slide button once to release the 'possession'. Channeled ability, will take Energy slowly as long as you're in the enemy's shadow; energy consuption can be decreased using Efficiency Mods. 

 

2nd ability: Snatch.

# If the enemy hold tenno-usable weapon and have free weapon slot(s): Pilfer grabs into enemy in melee range and takes their weapon for him to use. Upon doing this, he gains the weapon the enemy was using, and the ability changes into a 'hold to toggle'. Pilfer can hold more than one weapon for each category: Melee, Primary or Secondary that can be swapped using the ability toggle, just like how Wisp/Vauban changes motes/orbs. To compensate for the lack of mods in the weapons stolen by this ability, the weapon gains 200% damage and 200% Status Chance that can be increased by Ability Strength, and the weapon damage would scale just like enemy damage. 

- You can hold maximum of THREE weapons per category using this ability.

- Weapons stolen using this ability has 'durability' meter that runs out as you fire or attack. Can be increased using Duration mods, or you can just steal another weapon of the same type to reset the durability.  

# If Pilfer's all equipment slots are full: Snatch acts like a single-target Disarm and will generate a single random ammo pickup. The enemy's weapon will be held on Pilfer's hand, and could be tossed using [shoot] key, dealing [Impact] damage and knocks down enemies hit.

# If the enemy doesn't hold tenno-usable weapon(s), or has been Snatched beforehand: Pilfer snatches one item, taken in random from the enemy's drop table. Enemy will be stunned for a short duration.  

Just for fun: Similar to how Grendel was reworked, you can Snatch grenades, Latchers, Mines or rockets fired to you and lob it back to the enemy. Ever want to make those Corpus soldiers have a taste of their own energy mines? Now you can!

 

3rd ability: [For the Poor]

# Targers players: Pilfer expends up to 50% of his own HP/Shields/Energy, depends on which has the highest amount at the point of casting, to restore the party member's HP and gives Overshield. 

# Targets enemies: Pilfer marks an enemy with his mark, ensuring that the enemy would drop extra Credits, Health or Energy orbs when they are killed. Health has more priority than Energy orbs, like 90/10 division to prevent generating too much energy, thus enabling ability spam.

- Utility ability to both heal party member and himself for extra survivability.

 

4th ability: [Emptiness' End]

# If there's no weapon equipped in Melee slot: Pilfer summons an Exalted Dagger that deals True damage, however keeping it active will continually consume Credit gained on the stage at accelerating pace, further boosting the dagger's damage. When you have 0 credits, the ability will end and cannot be casted until you have a minimum of 1k credits.

- Damage can be increased using Strength mod, but it will consume more Credits per tick. Credit consumption rate could be decreased using Duration Mods, but it slows down Damage increase.

- Mainly designed as a Boss-killing ability: you kill the boss easy but essentially forfeits your credit reward.

# If there's a weapon equipped in Melee slot, but none in either Secondary and Primary slot: Pilfer uses Credits earned in the stage as throwing cards, dealing rapid-fire slash damage against an enemy. Consumes 10 credits per hit.

- Enemies killed in this way would refund half of the credit cost to kill them, and that amount could be increased using Efficiancy mods.

 

Backstory could be something like a Dax general that flaunts his wealth, acquired by repressing people under his rule so much, it actually disturbs the supply chain that's fueling the Orokin-Sentient war. The Council of Seven decides to rob him of all the wealth and turn him into a Warframe with everlasting feeling of emptiness, yet with how his abilities work he would never actually keep anything that he has gotten, to work as a saboteur: to go into resistance camps that's gaining power from the absence of Orokin troops because they are now focusing on the Sentient threat, to rob'em of supplies and weapons. When he was given to a Tenno, s/he symphathizes with the Warframe so much they defected from the Orokin and made a living as 'Gentleman Thief', taking resources from Orokin factories and vaults instead to give upon the poor and needy. 

Unlike Ivara that's modelled after Robin Hood, Pilfer was modelled more of Goemon, the noble thief from Japanese lore.

 

If that doesn't work because of theme overlap, I also got at least three more frame ideas: [Priwen, the hollow Shield], a Dullahan-based frame that's basically your operator covered by floating armor bits that can detach and attack enemy ala JoJo Stand, [Morphiea, the Unshaped], a clay-based Warframe who ability and form changes based what polarity combination you have in your mod page, and  Al Iksir, Alchemy/Kuva-based Warframe that's ability channels Kuva into enemies/allies/itself to give special buffs and abilities, but since we're limited to one entry per player, those would be for the next time.

[Mergarta]

ζάρια (Zária) the word mean dice in English 
 

A frame base on gambling and RNG to unleashed her ability by her passive

 

when her passive triggered somehow she will roll the dices and ability will be based on those dice faces

[Tachigare]

ok so you know how Trinity is the defacto "heal" frame in game? I want to make another one for reasons of flexibility. However, instead of being the energy/health regenerator like Trin, I'd make this one a combat medic. A more combat oriented support frame who can switch seamlessly from tending to hurt allies to helping them kick more ass.

Nightingale draft

here's my concept: Nightingale, the combat medic, Themed after nurses (and medical professionals in general, really). although she's named after the founder of modern nursing and (in my draft) designed after another iconic nurse, I'd imagine her abilities to be derived from a certain other Nightingale from a certain Japanese gacha game. I'd imagine her play style would be more flexible than Trin, and her passive would let her heal herself and / or allies every time she hurts an enemy. using syringes to dispel status effects, but also to inflict debuffs (puncture maybe?) on enemies. Maybe she could also sacrifice some of her HP to buff another ally, even performing emergency operations to instantly revive them at lower health at the cost of her own HP. basically, you bring Trinity if you're concerned for your squad's survival. you bring Nightingale so you can kick more ass more efficiently while still having a bit more survivability.

as for her back story, I'd imagine she's an Archimedian (sorry if I spelled that one wrong lol) who was on board the Zariman with her child, and after the adults start going insane she's still retained some fragments of her mind to lock herself up in a room before completely flying off the handle. once the Zariman returned, she was found still alive, and her body was used as the foundation for the first Nightingale Warframe. and Nightingale's first Operator? none other than her own child, unaware that their frame is in fact their own mother (we all know at this point that the Orokin are mostly comprised of A-holes (aside from Margulis who's the Token Heroic Orokin and maybe Silvana),so this should be "perfectly normal and acceptable" in their standards).

The original Nightingale sacrificed herself to save countless other Tenno in their fight against the Sentients. And with The New War coming closer and closer, perhaps The Nurse's care is needed once again.

All in all, I would find a nurse-frame who saves lives and kicks ass in a completely different play style than Trinity would be interesting.

[(PSN)flying_weisel]

A native american themed warframe with a kubro companion. A totem warior.

[CheeseLord999]

Explosives themed warframe! Boooooom!

[Lachlan_the_Sane]

You know what I love doing in other games and wish I could do in Warframe? Put up a barrier to protect my team. I love dropping bubble shields, I love deployable barriers, and I extra-especially love holding down right click and just daring the enemies to shoot my big fat shield instead of whatever squishies are standing behind me. So if we're putting that into Warframe, then my suggestion for a simple one-word theme is Bulwark.

I won't suggest a full ability set or visual design, but here's the theory behind what a Bulwark would do. Bulwark would have a passive where holding down the Block/Aim button projects a fairly sizeable barrier in front of them (big enough to cover a Mobile Defense terminal) which blocks enemy fire but allows friendlies to fire through it. And visually, Bulwark should have some kind of weighty shield-projecting apparatus on their left arm.

(Oh, and DE, would it be too much for you guys to add a non-binary or non-gendered Warframe?)

[VinterCain]

A really cool warframe would be a Grineer or Corpus Frame. It could be Steel Meridian or The Perrin Sequence who work with the Tenno to develop a warframe that incorporates their technology. This would be very exciting theme for a frame and help show that technology is also progressing in the current era and its not just relying all on ancient Orokin technology. Now that we are seeing that these factions have been building space stations themed after the factions it would be cool to see a warframe themed after one of the factions, too.

[(PSN)Robert---E]

 

A mix of warframe and traditional shaolin as a base theme,a three sectional staff type weopon for melee,

For the actual theme abilities; ability sap of other warframes in same mission,ie mimic allies abilities for the other frames in same mission 

For solo missions the option to use a pre'authorized mix of the players frames that are owned.

The story of the theme is that this new frame is Ash's long lost brother priest, named,"Riven"

Riven, because under special circumstances Riven can make mimic abilities just a little more diverse/powerful for self/allies ect.

Master Riven, once a great instructor of Tenno, faded from history-forgotten hero in the old war era, now re'emerges as...

 

 

[Coilheart]

A master of arms warframe. Someone who's used and mastered so many weapons, they get bored of them really quickly and have to change them all the time. Would include at least 3 variations of 3 different exalted weapons (primary, secondary and melee) and have them expire quickly so you have to cycle through them all the time.

[Fungus_Billeh]

8 hours ago, Thural said:

Tank frame, with an arm or shoulder mounted cannon, and looks like a literal tank.

Exalted weapon that's shoulder-mounted mini-gun

[MachinaMaster]

A Burrower Warframe.
A warframe all about melding with the ground and digging with abilities representing that. Appearance could be beetle inspired.
Could have a fast travel ability where it goes into the ground leaving a trail upraised earth/floor as it goes. Maybe cause knockdown or stagger to enemies ran into while traveling? Some other effects based on the type of tileset it is in or other active abilities of his?

Maybe a unique Drill exalted weapon that's kept folded down and collapsed on one of its arms, like Mesa Prime's regulators. Its combos could let you deal extra continuous damage when holding down the melee button in the middle of its combos instead of just spamming the button. Using it with the travel ability causing a lot of extra damage with the knockdown?

 

[(XBOX)ECHOINGXKNIGHT]

A mimic frame would be cool, like a frame that who's first ability is to scan the other three frames in a mission to get a random ability from them or get a buff from an enemy when solo

[Eakdanai123]

This is my concept(Sorry for my poor English skill)

Skinwalker(Or shapeshifter) warframe
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Theme:This warframe strobgly inspired by shape-shifting mythology around the world which I thibk it's interesting. Turn in to a beast and then transform in to another person.

IMO, this warframe should origined on earth(or maybe related to sentients) because shape- shifting  is earth's mythology.
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1st Ability[Wendigo Form] :Turn in to a giant lion+gorilla-like monster gain him bonus durable and damage but lose some movement speed. Normal attack in this form is punch and bite.He also gain 2 new abilities. (replace 1st and 2nd ability the rest is disabled) (1)[Leap Smash]:Jump to target area and smash when landing deals damage and stun all enemies in radius.
(2)[Sucking]:Suck blood from enemy deals damage while heal your self.Press 4 to turn back to original form.

Energy cost:30 and lose 8 every second during transformation.(All of abilities is no cost)
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2nd ability[Bird of Prey Form]:Turn in to a giant eagle+bat-like monster gain him bonus movement speed and flight but lose some durable. Normal attack in this form is like eagle attack which use talon to attack.He also gain 2 new abilities.(replace 1st and 2nd ability the rest is disabled)
(1)[Winged Storm]:clap wings then sent a storm in front of him dealing damage overtime last for 15 sec.
(2)[Predator's Strike]:Fast move to target direcrion.deals heavily damage to all enemies in the path.Press 4 to turn back to original form.

Energy cost:30 and lose 8 every second during transformation.(All of abilities is no cost)
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3rd ability[Corpse Walking]:target enemy's corpse and turn in to it. Gain its appearance,attack,weapons and that enemy's allies will not atracking you during transforming.He also gain their abilities too but depend on enemy's kind.Press 4 to turn back to original form.

Energy cost:40 and lose 10 every second during transformation.
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4th ability[Doppelganger]:Press this ability and will show a selection wheel. This wheel ask you to select one of your teammate and transform in to them.Gain their appearance,abilities,mods but not weapons(Still use your own weapons). He has seperate HP and Energy in this form (with 100% when transformed).If he dies in this form he will instance died.This form last for 20 second and can't cancel.This ability is disabled in solo mode.

Energy cost:150
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Passive:Have a chance to gain energy from kills while transforming except Doppelganger and Corpse Walking form.

[(PSN)shadowwolf375]

Oh man I've been waiting for this. There have been many Warframes that are just really good but there are also ones based off of mythic creatures, lore, legends, and so on. Some of the more well known ones are Wukong, Titania and Loki for example. But this got me thinking. Why not a Warframe based off of one of the four guardians of the Four Chinese Symbols? This is what I thought up.

Byakko, the White Tiger Warframe. Originally locked away on the snowy mountains of Venus by the Corpus. He has broken free and now protects the Earth along with Titania. It is said that he can be seen wandering the Earth during the Autumn season. While he is a Guardian capable of protecting allies he is ferocious enough to strike fear into the hearts of his enemies.

Byakko could be a kind of tank like Warframe that has high health and armor with maybe above average shields. Since he is a tiger he can have slightly above average movement speed just so he doesn't become too broken.

He could also have two abilities that help his teammates like either healing them or increasing their armor while his other two could be high damaging abilities that harm the enemy.

All in all I just feel it would be sweet to see the White Tiger of the West become a Warframe and not only stand alongside Nova but also stand alongside Wukong, Titania and Loki.

[(PSN)SANS-_-DEITY]

Warframe name - Skale/Scale

 A serpent like frame.

Think of this Warframe as a cursed Ancient Warframe that responded to the turmoil on Earth beneath the plains of Edilon. Visuals for this Warframe should reflect the curse flowing throughout it's body.

First ability - Acid spit - Direct Corrosive damage to enemies, instead of viral, due to not being injected.

Second ability- Survival (hardening the scales to provide armor i.e rhinos iron skin. Visual changes to armor.

Third ability - Summon - summon ancient constrictors to squeeze health and energy from enemies, resulting in those orbs being dropped , benefiting teammates

Fourth ability - Curse- leap upon your targets, infecting them with a lethal dose of poison (high viral damage) that directly  renders them contagious and temporarily insane. They attack their comrades in this state, infecting them. Survivors are left weak due to viral damage. Activate the ability again to activate the (poison/curse injected into targets, rotting them from the inside out.