Now that we’re not locked into 1 or 2 companions that can’t die, we can finally start using them to fill the gaps in our warframe’s arsenal! Did you find any good uses like that yet?
Looks like Helios is a pretty good armorstrip bot now, combining the Deconstructor with Vicious Bond.
Dethcube seems like a good fit on energy starved warframes thanks to its energy (orb) generator, possibly combined with Duplex Bond? Dunno if companion weapons ever get strong enough to kill high level enemies on their own though
I was thinking about trying out a Chesa for survival missions when you don’t have a Nekros but I dunno if Retrieve helps at all since it only fires off every 10 seconds with a 45% chance of success
What kind of stuff have you tried?
Hounds have always had some useful abilities, like Repo Audit, Synergized Prospectus, and even Null Audit, while being able to equip the robotic mod Guardian, and they’re now buffed by the new Bond mods like Manifold letting them use the abilities more frequently. Without perma-death it’s great being able to take them into higher level stuff and benefit from their CC and utility - they do very nice aoe status priming for any situations where that’s a benefit
I’ve found Sentinels most useful in terms of companion up-time, as they have the shortest base recovery of 25 secs with Primed Regen equipped, before the assistance of Bond mods, with a guaranteed 10 seconds of invulnerability when they recover. Plus since they naturally follow you around over your shoulder, any efforts you take to avoid enemies and damage naturally applies to them and benefits them too (simple parkour to reduce enemy accuracy, using cover from gunfire, Vazarin dashing the frame also catches the Sentinel, Zephyr’s Turbulence covers the Sentinel with enough range, etc). The other companions still get the benefit of manual revives, but the situations where you’re too busy to manually revive still apply the same as before the update so it’s not always a positive you can make use of
In very high level stuff all non-Sentinel companions still tend to spend more time on the floor recovering than up and active, so carefully choosing Bond mods that give you the most realistic and practical ways to quickly revive them becomes more important