The Volt Electrolyst Skin

For a long time, I used to complain how the Volt Proto skin was ugly and not really a deluxe skin. Most deluxe skins generally add more to a Warframe and not less. But the Proto skin was a stripped down Volt, and frankly, it was just really… lame. Particularly the helmet, which I think pretty much everyone replaced with the Volt Arrester Tennogen helmet. Eventually though, Volt would get more skins. Two, in fact.

The first one is the Voidshell Volt skin. Voidshell skins came along with the Angels of the Zariman update, and allow you not only to change the colours of the skin, but the materials too. Volt was one of the first Warframes to get a Voidshell skin, and you can do some pretty cool stuff with it. However, the Voidshell skin is more like the Immortal and Tennogen skins, where the body remains the same. It’s not a deluxe skin, but the options you get with Voidshell is pretty cool. Way better than the Proto skin for Volt.

The other skin, as you can guess from the title, is the Volt Electrolyst Skin.

Shocking.

The Electrolyst skin actually came out alongside the New War. By its name, you can tell that it’s based on the Sentients. In fact, the Electrolyst skin was sold in a bundle alongside Mesa’s Projectilyst skin. The theme of these two skins is a what if? scenario. What if Sentients built Warframes? What would they look like? Well, we actually know the answer to that – Caliban is a Sentient-themed Warframe that summons friendly Sentients and floats around a bit.

At first though, I was kinda annoyed at this skin. Most deluxe skins generally took a completely different direction with their themes. I mean, Rhino’s second deluxe skin turns him into a beetle, and it looks awesome. But the Electrolyst skin was basically “Volt but Sentient”. And while the skin is a deluxe skin, it really does borrow from Volt’s normal silhouette. The shoulders are wider sure, but the arms are similar, Volt skill has that familiar butt cape and his codpiece is still there. It’s cool that Volt’s chest is basically hollow and full of electricity, but it’s still Volt.

Because of this, despite buying the skin straight away, I wasn’t really sure what to do with it. I didn’t use the Electrolyst skin at all at first, I just stuck to my normal Immortal skin. I found that the colours I normally use didn’t work well, and I couldn’t find a Syandana or armour set that I felt matched. It took me ages to even just experiment and find anything vaguely good. I did make a Fortuna 69-like look, but I never really wore it.

Funnily enough though, when I came back to Warframe for Nightwave and its funny pistol skins, I did actually find something I liked. On a different Volt. While running through void fissures, I ran into a Volt that was pure white with white and purple energy, and the Syandana from the Titania Deluxe skin. So I added my normal yellow and I came out with a Electrolyst skin I actually liked.

It only took a year to find a cool look, but at least I do now like how I look. Sometimes it takes a while to stumble into something good…