I'm sure everyone here who joins pub groups can relate when I say not a day goes by when a unprepared, under equipped low level joins your squad and forces you into leaving and trying again or put in extra effort to make up for their unhelpfulness. So I thought I'd share some basic tips in hopes that someone will find them useful, let's go.
Before you start a hunt
*You must complete The War Within and speak to Quill Onko in Cetus (to the right of the gate leading into the plains) in order to get your first amp which is required to take out a Eidolons shield so you can shoot it with your weapons.
*Operator Void mode (L1 on PS4) makes you immune to any and all damage that a eidolon can throw at you but those S#&$s will still send you half way across the map if you're close by when they stomp the ground, remember to use it when reviving allies and to avoid incoming attacks so your space hooman don't die every two seconds.
*Before starting a fight with a Eidolon, go to any nearby grineer camps and look for a green balloon like thing called a Lure. Once you find it, shoot and hack it to get it to follow you. These things help you by stopping the eidolon from teleporting away after you damage it. To get them to do that you have to first get them close enough to kill and absorb Vomvalysts (small head like thingy that fly around and shoot you while fishing) and once they absorb enough they will emit a blue pulse and the yellow icon above them will turn blue indicating they're ready to be helpful instead of just sit there and block your view when you're trying to shoot. You can also kill vomvalists with your operators amp and collect the small blue ball they drop (not the sentient core the other one) by just walking over it and then running next to a lure. Also you need about three of these to capture a eidolon and get extra loot at the end of the battle so make sure you have enough of them before engaging a eidolon.
*Eidolons are highly vulnerable to radiation damage which you can get by combining Electricity and Fire elemental mods.
Hunting giants
*Eidolon fights have several stages that you need to remember and anticipate in order to be effective. To start you need to switch to your operator and shoot it with your amp till it's purple shield bar is depleted. Then you switch to your Warframe and aim for one of the square shaped targets on it's limbs (they have a yellow healthbars when you aim at them) and shoot it till it breaks. Each time you break one of those the eidolon will send out a massive EMP blast that will damage you and deplete your Warframes energy, you can either try to run out of the area of effect or use void mode to avoid taking damage at the cost of losing your frame's energy. Once all of the targets on it's limbs are destroyed it will let out a cry which will cause you to get swarmed by vomvalysts, at that point you need to switch to operator and take out as many as possible before they reach the eidolon and sacrifice themselves to replenish it's health and shields (this can also happen after you take out it's shields if you don't destroy the target on it's limbs fast enough). After a few seconds the eidolon will get back up for one last stand and it won't have any shields so you can go ham with your weapons.
Weapon and Warframes
*For the weapon it's pretty simple, you want something thats accurate and hits hard, so the best choice is a sniper rifle. There's the Vectis or Rubico which are pretty good with Rivens but most players prefer the Lanka because of it's innate Electricity stat meaning all you need are the basic damage and elemental mods to get over 15k radiation damage which will let you take out limbs in seconds.
*As for frames there are a few mandatory ones that every meta group consists of and those are,
Volt/Rhino/Chroma for damage.
Trinity/Oberon for keeping lures alive.
Harrow/Limbo for countering the eidolons EMP attack.
I highly recommend not bringing anything aside from these frames or weapons into hunts because if you do, you're immediately a liability and usually the one being blamed if the hunt isn't successful.
Hope you found this guide helpful and good luck racking up those articulas.( Yes you get awesome eidolon action figures for capturing them that you can decorate your Orbiter with)
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I'm sure everyone here who joins pub groups can relate when I say not a day goes by when a unprepared, under equipped low level joins your squad and forces you into leaving and trying again or put in extra effort to make up for their unhelpfulness. So I thought I'd share some basic tips in hopes that someone will find them useful, let's go.
Before you start a hunt
*You must complete The War Within and speak to Quill Onko in Cetus (to the right of the gate leading into the plains) in order to get your first amp which is required to take out a Eidolons shield so you can shoot it with your weapons.
*Operator Void mode (L1 on PS4) makes you immune to any and all damage that a eidolon can throw at you but those S#&$s will still send you half way across the map if you're close by when they stomp the ground, remember to use it when reviving allies and to avoid incoming attacks so your space hooman don't die every two seconds.
*Before starting a fight with a Eidolon, go to any nearby grineer camps and look for a green balloon like thing called a Lure. Once you find it, shoot and hack it to get it to follow you. These things help you by stopping the eidolon from teleporting away after you damage it. To get them to do that you have to first get them close enough to kill and absorb Vomvalysts (small head like thingy that fly around and shoot you while fishing) and once they absorb enough they will emit a blue pulse and the yellow icon above them will turn blue indicating they're ready to be helpful instead of just sit there and block your view when you're trying to shoot. You can also kill vomvalists with your operators amp and collect the small blue ball they drop (not the sentient core the other one) by just walking over it and then running next to a lure. Also you need about three of these to capture a eidolon and get extra loot at the end of the battle so make sure you have enough of them before engaging a eidolon.
*Eidolons are highly vulnerable to radiation damage which you can get by combining Electricity and Fire elemental mods.
Hunting giants
*Eidolon fights have several stages that you need to remember and anticipate in order to be effective. To start you need to switch to your operator and shoot it with your amp till it's purple shield bar is depleted. Then you switch to your Warframe and aim for one of the square shaped targets on it's limbs (they have a yellow healthbars when you aim at them) and shoot it till it breaks. Each time you break one of those the eidolon will send out a massive EMP blast that will damage you and deplete your Warframes energy, you can either try to run out of the area of effect or use void mode to avoid taking damage at the cost of losing your frame's energy. Once all of the targets on it's limbs are destroyed it will let out a cry which will cause you to get swarmed by vomvalysts, at that point you need to switch to operator and take out as many as possible before they reach the eidolon and sacrifice themselves to replenish it's health and shields (this can also happen after you take out it's shields if you don't destroy the target on it's limbs fast enough). After a few seconds the eidolon will get back up for one last stand and it won't have any shields so you can go ham with your weapons.
Weapon and Warframes
*For the weapon it's pretty simple, you want something thats accurate and hits hard, so the best choice is a sniper rifle. There's the Vectis or Rubico which are pretty good with Rivens but most players prefer the Lanka because of it's innate Electricity stat meaning all you need are the basic damage and elemental mods to get over 15k radiation damage which will let you take out limbs in seconds.
*As for frames there are a few mandatory ones that every meta group consists of and those are,
Volt/Rhino/Chroma for damage.
Trinity/Oberon for keeping lures alive.
Harrow/Limbo for countering the eidolons EMP attack.
I highly recommend not bringing anything aside from these frames or weapons into hunts because if you do, you're immediately a liability and usually the one being blamed if the hunt isn't successful.
Hope you found this guide helpful and good luck racking up those articulas.( Yes you get awesome eidolon action figures for capturing them that you can decorate your Orbiter with)
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