Warframe Chroma Build Guide

Chroma is a durable elemental based warframe whose abilities change based on the energy color used.

Heat: red, magenta, brown, orange and bright yellow
Electric: blue and purple
Toxic: green, lime, teal and dark yellow
Cold: white, grey, black, and some faded colors

Aura: V: You could do either Rifle amp or Steel Charge depending on preference, or Forma it to – to use Corrosive Projection.

Powers:
Spectral Scream (1) and Effigy (4) are basically useless. They might be fun for low level stuff, but that’s not really why anyone takes Chroma.

Elemental Ward creates and aura with various buffs depending on the element used:
Heat: Buffs health, deals damage
Electric: Buffs shields, Reflects damage back to enemies as lightning
Toxin: Buffs reload speed and holster rate, does AOE Toxin Damage
Cold: Buffs armor, reflects damage and reduces attacker’s movement speed and attack rate. Melee damage is not reflected.

This power is quite complicated, so I’d recommend going to the wiki and reading that if you plan on using Chroma a lot. My favorite element is Heat, primarily for the health buff.

Vex Armor: Increases Chroma’s armor when shields are hit and damage when health is hit. Because of this power, you don’t want to run Redirection, Steel Fiber, or damage mods on your weapons (because they only provide a small additive bonus compared to the Vex armor bonus).

Effigy: Creates a flying copy of Chroma that goes around Spectral Screaming everything. Rather useless and low damage.

Mods:
You want to maximize power strength and duration at the cost of all other attributes. Intensify, Transient Fortitude, Blind Rage, (Primed) Continuity, Narrow Minded, Streamline, Vitality for durability, and Handspring in the Exilus slot.

Syndicate/Augment Mods: None are useful.

Utility Mods: Elementally appropriate parkour mod, Rush, or Handspring. I recommend the latter for boss fights since there are often a lot of knockdowns.

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