Warframe Zephyr

Light, agile and lethal, that’s Zephyr, death from the skies, Tenno.

Remember Tenno, Zephyr has a Prime version, Zephyr Prime.

Zephyr is a warframe with abilities focused on boosting her mobility and causing direct damage. However, it’s risky use her as a spearhead without no one watching her back, because she have a very low armor values.

The most experienced Tenno are able to move among the enemies, avoiding their attacks and eliminating quickly groups of minor enemies without taking much damage.

Stats

Energy

RZero 100 - RMax 150

Armor

RZero 15 - RMax 15

Shield

RZero 150 - RMax 450

Health

RZero 150 - RMax 450

Sprint Speed

RZero 1.15- RMax 1.15

Mastery Rank

Rank 0

Aura Polarity

Vazarin

Polarities

Naramon x1

Madurai x1

Exilus Polarity

None

Price

275 Platinum

How to Get Zephyr

Like most warframes, Zephyr can be bought in the Market Console or through the Arsenal using Platinum. This is the most expensive way, but it also includes a warframe slot and an Orokin Reactor already installed.

The second option will be to buy the different parts of Zephyr, as well as her Blueprint, on the Tenno Lab in the dojo of your Clan. To do that, the Clan must have done the investigation previously.

Part	Where	Drop Chance
Zephyr Blueprint	Dojo, Tenno Lab	100%
Zephyr Chassis Blueprint	Dojo, Tenno Lab	100%
Zephyr Neuroptics Blueprint	Dojo, Tenno Lab	100%
Zephyr Systems Blueprint	Dojo, Tenno Lab	100%

Zephyr Abilities

Now we are going to talk about Zephyr abilities. Like the rest of Warframes, Zephyr has four powerful abilities, which can help her to overcome various situations. Besides, she also has one passive ability we will mention later.

1. Tail Wind

From the ground, charge and release to launch Zephyr into an airborne hover. From the air, tap to dash forward, or aim down to dive bomb enemies below.

This Zephyr ability can be used for several purposes. With it you can move quickly knocking down any enemy in your way. Besides, you can use this ability continuously to keep gliding in the air, if you have enough energy, of course.

You can also dive bomb between your enemies, knocking them down and causing an important amount of area damage. To do that, being airborne you have to aim down and use this ability. Where you aim will be where you land, so choose well the place.

If you want to take advantage of this ability to fly away and escape from dangerous situations, or if you want to travel long distances quickly (as the crow flies), I recommend you to improve the Duration and Efficiency. This way you boost both speed and fly distance, and also the amount of times you can use it.

2. Airburst

Generate a burst of massively dense air that explodes on contact and sends enemies flying. Launch Airbursts into Tornadoes to make them grow.

With this ability, Zephyr creates a compressed air “grenades”, which cause serious damage, knocking down and pushing away the enemies in its area of effect.

When you use this ability on a tornado, you will get is that the area of effect of zephyr’s last ability, doubles. Keep in mind that this does not increase the damage of the Tornadoes, only its area of effect.

If you want to make the most of Airburst, I recommend you to maximize both Strength and Reach and, as always, try to maintain a balance with Efficiency to be able to use more time this ability.

3. Turbulence

Creates a wind shield around Zephyr, redirecting all incoming projectiles.

This ability will allow you to avoid any projectile, no matter the type, this includes most threats you will face on the battlefield. To take advantage of this tactical advantage I recommend you to maximize both Duration and Reach.

Be careful Tenno, although Zephyr can avoid the projectiles redirecting them, the missiles can kill you if they hit close, affecting you with its explosion radius. Moreover, do not forget that melee attacks, flamethrowers and other similar weapons will ignore this ability and cause you damage normally.

The interesting thing about this ability is that it has an important area of effect, so all allies within will be protected as well.

4. Tornado

Create deadly tornadoes that seek out and engulf enemies. Tornadoes deal the elemental damage type they absorb the most. Shoot enemies engulfed in Tornadoes to do additional damage.

And this is Zephyr’s final ability, you can use it both in offensive or defensive way. No matter which one you choose, you should know that the amount of tornadoes is fixed.

If you want to take advantage of the defensive options of this ability, first you will have to keep in mind your surroundings, being preferable to use this skill in small rooms to prevent tornadoes from scattering to much. What you have to improve in this case will be both Duration and Reach, to affect more enemies with the tornadoes.

If you prefer a most aggressive option, you need to boost Strength and Reach, trying to maintain a balance with Duration and Efficiency.

You must remember two things if you want to master Zephyr, the first one will be that using Airburst (2nd ability) on tornadoes, you will increase its reach. The second thing is that you can take advantage of the absorption capability to apply elemental damage. Imagine how devastating cam be a corrosive tornado for example.

Passive Ability: Lightweight

“Move with increased agility while airborne and fall more slowly”.

Due to her Oxium composition, Zephyr is significantly lighter in comparison to other Warframes, dramatically altering her airborne physics. Specifically, she descends slower and has improved aerodynamics which can be used to control her midair movement with greater ease and agility.

To sum up Tenno, you can use Zephyr’s abilities focusing them to a defensive or offensive use. In the first case I recommend you to maximize Duration, Reach and Efficiency. This way you can use the abilities more times and they will last longer.

On the other hand, if you prefer a more offensive approach, you must focus on Strength and Reach, trying to maintain a balance with Duration and leaving Efficiency in the last place.

And that’s all we can tell about Zephyr, Tenno. We hope this information will help you in your missions and wreak havoc among the enemy lines.

As always, if you see any mistake or missing information let us know through the comments below.

Good hunt, Tenno.

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