Desecrate Mechanics

[Kolos1001]

Have you ever tried to explain them to a non-gamer? It's incredibly awkward and somewhat unsettling. 

[Jokul]

"Desecrate is like farming for carrots"

[TARINunit9]

Upon casting Desecrate, all corpses in range have a 60% chance of turning into magic healing potions and a 54% chance of turning into money, ammo, or other profitable items

 

Yeah, a little bit disturbing

Edited October 22, 2015 by TARINunit9

[Ajreil]

A death-themed Warframe that re-animates the souls of his victims to fight for him, inevitably dying (re-dying?) at which point his ghost corps is dissolved to gain additional loot could be a bit unsettling, yes. But considering from the Tenno perspective enemies exist for the sole reason of being destroyed for loot or simply because your Lotus says they are on the wrong side of the conflict, being able to melt the bodies of your enemies to gain an extra bit of loot is necessary.

 

After all, you need all of that loot to make better weapons to kill more things to get more loot to make bigger guns to....

Edited October 22, 2015 by Ajreil

[Ajreil]

The best way to explain it if you want the non-gamer to sleep would be something like this:

 

Your goal is to kill enemies because they drop loot that you need to craft better weapons and gear. That is how you get better at killing. When you desecrate a body, you are making it drop loot a second time. It's basically a way of being more efficient.

[Kolos1001]

Everyone ignoring the fact that chopping up bodies into pieces improves the ability