Something to note about Protea is if the set bonus from the augur mods or brief respite gives you shields, the new shield gating duration will override your shield satellite's duration. It usually isn't an issue but if you ever find yourself dying as protea it is likely either a toxin proc or your shield gate duration suddenly went from 3 1/2 seconds to 1/2 a second due to those mods.
Just in case anyone in the comments is lacking in Tauforged Crimson Archon Shards, did some quick maths and found out you can remove one and still reach the Gloom Cap with the remaining two. (Gloom reaches 95% slow at 272% Power Strength, and this build comes with 289% Power Strength with everything factored in. 289% - 15% = 274%. You can almost entirely skimp out on all shards by running Growing Power in your aura as well).
the prime visuals do a good job on improving upon her base model however, it was very very clear from the beginning that whatever the prime would be, won't be better than the outstanding deluxe genuinely the best deluxe there is, it looks just so good
Augur mods and Respite prevent her shield grenades from giving full shield gate
I know you kinda said she could run "any companion" but i don't think you mentioned the best (especially for her), Nautilus. Passive tight enemy grouping with Cordon + Manifold Bond goes a long way in increasing the effectiveness of your Blaze Artillery, and your general killrate. Though, specifically with the Gloom build, there is a negative synergy due to the slowdown effect applying to how fast the Cordon grouping can actually move enemies. But i have a feeling a lot of people will be running Roar instead anyway due to faction damage double dipping on DOTs and Protea being a DOT enjoyer between her shrapnel grenades and her Blaze Artillery.
Arcane eruption is amazing on this build protea takes full advantage of using energy orbs as CC
❌ Augur Mods ✅ Equilibrium for Empowered Health Orbs from Dispensary
One thing I would love to mention, is the way her heat DoT turrets work. Each enemy they hit, it 2x’s their damage, THIS IS AN INFINITE MULTIPLIER, and is capable of hitting multiple enemies at once. In turn, sky rocketing her multiplayer. This also works with weapons, meaning the heat on your weapons is also doubled. Using a heat Probosc Cernos is two birds with one stone territory, as it groups, and can spread heat.
I actually prefer running her Temporal Anchor with the augment. Using her 1 to cover the map in long lasting shrapnel fields that shred armor of any eximus that don’t just get stunlocked by the grenades is fantastic. Her 4 refills her energy and shields back to whatever it was before using it so you can activate it again and go back to spamming more grenades. She can lock down entire interception maps on steel path by herself and clean up and armorless eximus or acolytes with her turrets.
There's a bug where Auger mods fuck up her first abilty shield satellites.should not use them on her or your weapons.
I find Protea's 4 more useful than some might think, and that's mainly due to the augment Temporal Erosion providing her 1 and 2 armor strip when it's active.
Replacing the 2 auger mods with blind rage and equilibrium with 3-4 tau duration shards is optimal for 3.5 sec shield gate Transient is also worth considering for lower gloom drain
I hope DE doesn't nerf her now that she is accessible.
She really can be build in many different ways, I personally focused more on duration and strength using purp equili shard and 4 red strngth and keeping range neutral or slightly above... tho I personally prefer running a rank 0 archon vit as you don't really need the hp if ur shield gating / using roll guard for toxin for example
The amount of visual shrugs and "it depends on choice"s given in this video shows just how versatile Protea is. Fantastic frame.
i’m so excited for the yareli build, hopefully mr brozime has nice things to say
Protea is like Octavia... In the sense that whether or not she gets "adjusted" depends entirely on if people start using her or not. Anyway guys she's really boring you're just pressing 2 in-between managing 3 different timers and nobody should play her. (Is it working?)
I've been enjoying Gaz's setup with mecha set to spread the heat statuses around more a great deal
I think subsuming Hydroid's Tempest Barrage and using the Viral Tempest augment - while absolutely overkill - is hilariously strong as its just the right build for it and the viral procs synergize brilliantly with her slash grenades. It also significantly reduces the grenade spam, just press 4 twice and grenade twice and any enemy that goes into the AOE for 20s will die.
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