Steel Path Excavation is Impossible Solo

[CoffeeSorcerer69]

The health on the excavators in Steel Path is too low, The moment enemies get the shield down, they destroy it in seven seconds because when your solo you can't get batteries fast enough because enemies prioritize the Excavator over you.  Excavator health and shields need to be 5-10x it's current amount for Steel Path to work properly.

[Zakkhar]

It was already buffed (it wasnt scaling with enemy level properly).

You cannot just guard it like on normal mission. There are more enemies present and they do more damage.

You either need

• something that clears everything in shot radius (eg. Mesa or any actual nuker). or
• something that cc's everything in shooting radius (Slow nova, Khora, Night Slowequinox, Zephyr, Hydroid). or
• something that protects the Excavator itself (Limbo, Frost, Gara).

The combinations of those are also possible (Khora both cc's and nukes, Gauss should be able to do the same)

[sh0shin]

It's definitely not impossible. If you can't complete SP excavation at base SP levels, that's on your gear and/or play.

[0_The_F00l]

You can , you do need a specific set of abilities to do it - Mass CC or defense is most effective  ,

or just plenty of patience as you keep moving to new excavators as the old one breaks.

[GreenSoup2HoT]

Irradiating Disarm. 

Everything is killing themselves they got no time to kill the excavator.

You also strip away all guns so that they have to run in melee distance which makes it easier to kill prioity targets. 

I've actually been enjoying Damaging Decoy as well. All the elites will try to kill that as well. 

Edited April 16 by GreenSoup2HoT

[Mr.Holyroller]

Hate to say it but its probably just your Warframe/loadout that's limiting you.
There's plenty of frames that can solo excavation with little to no difficulty.

Frost, Limbo, Vauban, Nyx, Loki, Octavia, and then just builds that are pure damage focused.

If you're really really struggling, feel free to add me in game and if im around ill help you at least to clear them off your star chart ^^

[Trollocaustic]

On 2024-04-11 at 2:45 PM, CoffeeSorcerer69 said:

The health on the excavators in Steel Path is too low, The moment enemies get the shield down, they destroy it in seven seconds because when your solo you can't get batteries fast enough because enemies prioritize the Excavator over you.  Excavator health and shields need to be 5-10x it's current amount for Steel Path to work properly.

I love how all the replies to your complaint basically allude to "skill issue".

[moondog548]

In addition to what everyone else has advised: specters.