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Volt and the Grimoire
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A Warfame’s Fictional Writings

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“So, why are we waiting again?” Frost asked as he threw an energy pad on the ground and tutted. “I wanted to wait for a whole squad!” Volt replied, fiddling with his Vectis. It had been a while since Volt had done anything apart from close Void Fissures on his own, and for some reason, he’d decided to head to the weird Entrati Labs on Deimos, mostly out of curiosity. The Cavia, a weird team of Void-touched animals, led by an oddly almost normal human being by the name of Loid, needed their help, and that had made Volt start… [Continue Reading]

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An awesome Volt and an awesome Zenistar
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On Maining The Most-Used Warframe

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With 2023’s Warframe stats coming out during the last Dev Stream, it turns out, when you combine Primed Warframes and normal Warframes, Volt is the most-used Warframe. The stats can be seen here, and show Warframe usage based on all Mastery Ranks and over different ranks. At 7% usage (4% for Volt Prime and 3% for normal Volt), Volt edges out the starter frame and poster boy Excalibur, in spite of the fact that you get Excalibur Umbra at max rank for doing a rather simple story quest. At the same time, when looking at individual frames, there are only… [Continue Reading]

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Volt with Voidshell Skin and wing ephemera
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The Same Volt I Started With

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Normally, when an older player gets a new Prime Warframe, their normal version is chucked away. Some will get eaten by the Helminth, but others might just be sold entirely, especially if they have already been subsumed. After all, inventory space is limited, and it’s nicer to keep the new, spangly golden Warframe, rather than keeping the old one. Me though? Even though I have Volt Prime, I still use a normal Volt. Not just any Volt though. I use the same Volt that I picked in Vor’s Prize. I mean, why not? The only real difference is how much… [Continue Reading]

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Styanax, ready to strike
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Warframes I Should Play More

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Warframe now has over 50 Warframes you can play with. But somehow, I keep on sticking to the same few Warframes. To the point that my time spent as Volt accounts for about a third of my playtime (on both Volt and Volt Prime). However, I could really do with stretching myself a bit and playing some different frames. But what Warframes fill the role I want when playing casually? Volt has always been a jack of all trades, and I want that in other Warframes too. Criteria Volt has got a lot going for him. He can speed through… [Continue Reading]

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The Volt Electrolyst skin
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The Volt Electrolyst Skin

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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… [Continue Reading]

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Volt Sentient Skin
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A Volt Deluxe Skin! Yay!

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It finally happened! After all these years! My beloved Volt has received a deluxe skin that actually looks like a deluxe skin! Alongside the New War update, we got two new deluxe skins, for Volt and Mesa. The theme for them both is Sentient in design, and they represent how the Warframes would look like, if Sentients had made them. Kinda like failed experiments on the path to creating Caliban, the actually Sentient Warframe. For both Warframes, this is actually a second deluxe skin for them. They both already have deluxe skins, but the first deluxe skins didn’t sit well… [Continue Reading]

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Volt Prime with Tennogen skin, Tennogen Syandana and default helmet
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“But Medic, why is your Volt yellow?”

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Readers new and old have probably seen a recurring pattern on this blog. Many pictures of Warframes used in my articles have a pretty bright colour. Most of my gear is coloured yellow, using a strong yellow from the free Halloween palette. Depending on the Warframe, I’ll add black and a tertiary colour, so I’m not 100% a banana. The question though is WHY do I look so derpy, in my nearly-banana look? I could have some actual decent fashion sense, but I am dedicated to yellow. Why though? To stand out from a crowd The most obvious reason is… [Continue Reading]

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Volt with Kuva Bramma
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My MR31 Volt Build

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Your Starter Warframe can be very hit or miss. While the choice of starter Warframes can be easily fixed by getting Rhino on Venus, there’s always a sentimental feel about your very first Warframe. In my case, I am probably WAY too attached to my Volt. That’s pretty obvious by now. After all I have written a ton of articles about my Volt. The question is, now that I’m such a high level, has my Volt build changed at all? Let’s find out! Well, well, well? What do we have here? It’s a very weird build that makes no sense.… [Continue Reading]

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Nova using Molecular Prime
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Confusion with New Mastery Ranks

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“Hey! What are you doing here?” Volt glanced away from the console he was trying to hack, so he could see who was shouting at him. “Uh, hacking the console so we can leave this ship before it explodes?” Volt replied calmly. The Tenno in person was a Gauss, with all the armour he could fit on his body. “You’re not supposed to be in this Sortie mission!” “Uh, why not?” With a flick of his wrist, Volt retracted his Parazon and started heading towards extraction, as did the rest of the team. However, the Gauss kept on sprinting forward… [Continue Reading]

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RAINBOW VOLT!
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Building for Volt’s Electric Shield

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Long-time readers may have noticed that I have a… thing for Volt. My bright yellow electric space ninja has a lot of mileage on it. In Warframe, Volt and Volt Prime make up about 40% of total usage. The next closest Warframes after Volt Prime (30%) and Volt (10%) are Khora and Ivara, with about 15% between them. During this time, I have written a LOT about both Volt and his builds. I have both a general-usage build and a 1-forma build for Sanctuary Onslaught. Both of these builds surround playing with specific parts of Volt’s kit. The general usage… [Continue Reading]

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