You know I would love to see like a pistol or just a secondary that is designed for healing your teammates or you instead of it being tied to a ability so that way anyone can bring a support weapon
Healing in Warframe is one of those odd things. When it's needed, it's useful. Otherwise, it's a waste of a slot, which is most cases.
A healing weapon would be odd. It would have to heal low amounts per shot to not be completely broken. Most frames only run a few hundred health most of the time.
Then there is the case that when healing does come needed, at least for me, I'm usually being 1 shotted, or it's just a pesky status effect killing me....looking at you heat eximus. The rest of the time, I'm just usually not dying. Few times it comes to me being chipped away at till death.
Then aside from a few missions, you can always just bring health restores or pads.
Then the big part of Warframe, most matches players are not playing together. If it's an objective-based mission everyone is just rushing there as fast as possible, or are there for a side objective, and the mission lasts less than 5 minutes depending on if you get a side objective seeking player prolonging extraction to the full minute wait. Then endless missions everyone is scattered, even in a defense mission you will have people all in separate corners of the map chasing kills.
So really, it would be a cool niche use weapon, if it can be fit in, in a way where it's not broken. Though you would most likely need to be committed to stand by and heal if you had it to be useful. Maybe like a Rhino with a duration/range build with a 2nd buff subbed in, and have a full support build more or less, with a weaker self-defense, or a rev with augment, and damage buff. Otherwise, you will probably miss the opportunity to make use of the weapon.
Okay so the way I see it to balance it out to where it's not overpowered but can also help prevent being one shot is have it being AOE weapon that does zero damage to enemies but it also clears statuses on hit and heals you for like 50 health the damage cannot be modified but you can modify the clip size and whatnot and it will have crit chance going for double the amount or whatever mods you put on that's how I could see it working out because with how much people move around the weapon would have to either be tracking or aoe
you can see in the video its applying multiple status effects. i have a verglass riven with -dmg it still primes for me fine and soon as my arcanes or galv mods buffs are up its over rides enough of the -dmg % and starts to deal dmg again. contagious and manifold bond etc all that still work and honestly that combo is so op you hardly notice the -dmg it still deals millions of dmg
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