Warframe’s wealthy mechanical meta provides an abundance of the way to construct your Body, however as you progress by way of content material, survivability turns into increasingly of a urgent subject. Whether or not it’s high-level Elite Sanctuary Onslaught, Metal Path or Sorties, understanding methods to use protect gating can provide your Warframe survivability for any scenario.

Protect gating is a way in Warframe that depends on the transient interval of invulnerability that each Warframe will get when their shields break. When a Warframe’s protect hits 0, any injury they took over the protect is nullified quite than spilling onto their well being bar, and so they grow to be very briefly invulnerable. This prevents gamers from shedding their total protect and well being pool to a single hit, and implies that much less resilient Frames can’t be taken out by one very hefty assault (besides within the case of harm that bypasses shields, like toxin).

Till comparatively not too long ago, protect gating relied on having low shields that dropped to 0 and recharged quickly. Gamers used an merchandise known as a Decaying Dragon Key to primarily make Warframes invulnerable with the precise construct. In October 2023, adjustments to the protect system rendered quite a lot of protect gating builds and recommendation much less helpful. The invulnerability interval is now calculated based mostly on the quantity of shields that the Warframe has when their shields break. If a Warframe has 1150 shields (not together with overshields), they get 2.5 seconds of invulnerability, and it scales down from there based mostly on the quantity of shields the Warframe had on the time the shields broke. This encourages gamers to steadiness excessive most shields and speedy protect recharge to get one of the best use out of a protect defensive construct.

Protect gating requires cautious timing: a typical construct is to make use of a mod known as Temporary Respite or a set of mods known as the Augur set, which convert a share of the vitality a Warframe spends to shields. You retain your vitality effectivity low, whereas nonetheless guaranteeing you may have the vitality that you must repeatedly forged a capability, and each time your shields hit 0 (indicated by a blue flash throughout your Warframe), you utilize a capability, which pours the vitality you’ve expended again into your shields and recharges them immediately, able to take the subsequent hit whilst you sit fairly, invulnerable for as much as 2.5 seconds.

The previous model of protect gating remains to be within the recreation to some extent: the corrupted mod Catalyzing Shields reduces your most protect capability whereas additionally rising the bottom invulnerability length to 1.33, that means builds that took benefit of the previous meta can nonetheless use quite a lot of their current gear.

If you’re fast on the dodge button, you need to use the mod Rolling Guard to get an additional invulnerability interval if you dodge, or you possibly can deal with one of many Warframes that restore shields with their skills. For example, Magazine is a powerful protect gate Warframe along with her third capability, Polarize, which depletes enemy shields and restores shields to her allies. Hildryn already has a superior model of protect gating inbuilt, as her passive capability provides her 3.5 seconds of invulnerability, and her Pillage second capability restores her shields. Harrow first capability, Condemn, restores his shields in a short time and may protect gate successfully consequently. Pillage and Condemn will be subsumed into the Helminth, which makes them staple skills for late recreation and solo content material.

Nevertheless you select to protect gate, it’s a enjoyable and energetic manner of accelerating survivability for endgame content material.