Light attack (12x combo count) melees need a Reach/Primed Reach buff. Prenerf memeing strike would be too high but what we have now is too low. Melee was once the go-to scaling option before weapon arcanes and galvanized mods. Now primaries and secondaries have similar scaling, more aoe/killrate, and less button spam. Only heavy attack melees that delete hallways in a few keypresses (Glaive Prime, Cerata, Stropha) can compete with all that.
- Starcraft reboot with Brood War era story and units, and Company of Heroes 1 macro and pacing
- Isometric ARPG with modern graphics, a well-integrated story, no gearcheck bosses, and high SSF droprates
- Online/offline CCG with MTG-level mechanical depth and art style but no F2P business tactics
- Star Wars lightsaber combat with deep fighting mechanics and modern graphics
- Star Wars space combat with coordinated squad-based dogfighting
As a returning player I found the comments helpful for figuring out what the meta even was (compared to 3+ years ago). There isn't a meta onboarding website that outright tells you "damage mods like Serration are mostly replaced by weapon arcanes x faction damage mods", "status primers are routinely used outside of simulacrum", "pure slash (with primer) is generally good not just for Nekros", "Adaptation + Vitality are mostly replaced by Rolling Guard + Brief Respite + Decaying Dragon Key + Shield Gating", etc.
Edit: I just found some pins with weapon build templates in the #Builds channel of the Warframe Community Discord
I just read some wiki pages today after finishing The New War and Angels of Zariman. They're easy to follow and tie a lot of quests together into one story if you look up central characters like Lotus.
I played Warframe for about 1y and took a 3y break (before teleporters were added). When I returned it took me about a month to realize I don't have to stand on them to use them like Railjack Tactical Menu, just hold M and click. And lots of new players in my clan have asked where to get 1200 Oxium for the Archwing Launcher Segment (Io, Jupiter defense).