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Warframe: 8-Legged Freak – Best Oraxia Build

Lure your enemies into your web!

The long-awaited spider-frame is finally in Warframe, and she does not disappoint. Born from the shifting reality of Duviri, Oraxia is everything players wanted and more.

Arachnaphobes beware, Oraxia comes in with enough spiders to fill the entire Origin System. If you’ve been wondering how to build Oraxia to conquer Steel Path, then look no further. In this guide, we’ll be going over Oraxia’s kit, how to get her, and the best build to make her ready for the late-game. 

Oraxia Overview

Stats

  • Health: 575 (675 at rank 30)
  • Shields: 125 (225 at rank 30)
  • Armor: 125
  • Energy: 150 (200 at rank 30)

While Oraxia’s shields and armor may seem low, her survival is focused on her health, so it’s not too detrimental. Her Energy is lower than we would like, but that can be fixed with mods.

Passive

Wall latching with Oraxia activates Predator’s Lurk, making Oraxia invisible.

Abilities

Mercy’s Kiss (1st Ability)

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Oraxia becomes invulnerable and pounces on an enemy. When Oraxia strikes her victim, they take Toxin damage and become staggered. If the enemy’s health is less than 50%, they instantly die. When an enemy is killed by this ability Health Orb drop chance increases by 100%

This ability is the linchpin for keeping Oraxia alive and full of energy. Not only will the guaranteed Health Orbs give us a constant stream of healing, but Equilibrium will ensure we constantly get Energy, which Oraxia desperately needs.

Webbed Embrace (2nd Ability)

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Oraxia hurls a cocoon sack that splatters on impact with a surface and spreads a web over the surrounding area. Enemies who enter the web are trapped, take Toxin damage, and have increased Damage Vulnerability.

Another great ability from Oraxia, Webbed Embrace offers excellent Crowd Control while also making it easier to kill enemies since it enhances the damage on all of Oraxia’s abilities.

Widow’s Brood (3rd Ability)

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Oraxia shoots egg darts at her enemies, dealing Toxin damage, staggering them, and marking them. When a marked enemy is killed, a Scuttler hatches from their body and attacks nearby enemies.

A perfect ability for some extra mob damage, the Scuttllers help clear out any enemies you might miss. Furthermore, they synergize well with mods like Summoner’s Wrath and Arcane Camisado.

Silken Stride (4th Ability)

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Oraxia unfurls her spider legs, becoming immune to Status Effects, increasing her Maximum Health, and Movement Speed. Oraxia’s ranged weapons are also imbued with Toxin armor.

This ability is what makes Oraxia an absolute Health tank. Silken Stride not only increases our Health based on our Ability Strength, but it also increases the Toxin damage our weapons do as well. This means with enough Ability Strength, we can do devastating amounts of damage and survive it all.

How To Get Oraxia

All of Oraxia’s blueprints can be obtained from completing the new Duviri node, Isleweaver. To unlock this node, you need to first complete The Hex quest.

Alternatively, you can purchase all of Oraxia’s blueprints from Acrithis (or Dominus Thrax during Operation: Eight Claw), using Scuttler Husks, a currency gained from completing Isleweaver. 

8-Legged Freak – Best Oraxia Build

It doesn’t take much to make Oraxia powerful, which makes choosing mods for her really easy. This build focuses on turning Oraxia into a strong weapon platform while also making her scutterlings do a lot of damage and keep her alive by making her Health pool massive.

Mod Choice

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The mod choice for this build is as follows:

  • Blind Rage: All of Oraxia’s abilities benefit from Ability Strength, so Blind Rage is an easy choice for this build. The drop in Efficiency hurts, but we offset that with other mods.
  • Precision Intensify: We grab this mod for the same reason as Blind Rage. This mod is perfect since our fourth ability boosts our weapon damage when it’s active, but you can swap this out for a general Ability Strength mod if you feel your other abilities need to be stronger.
  • Archon Continuity: This mod was made for Oraxia since she’s always doing Toxin damage. Adding free Corrosive Status Effects on top of the massive amounts of Toxin damage you’ll be dishing out is a no-brainer.
  • Equilibrium: Oraxia wants a lot of Energy to make sure she can keep her fourth ability active while also keeping her army of Scuttlers topped up. Equilibrium will help her do that, especially with her first ability that guarantees a dropped health or energy orb when it takes out an enemy.
  • Primed Flow: We grab this mod for the same reason we grab Equilibrium. Oraxia needs energy, and this mod will make sure we have a lot of it.
  • Fleeting Expertise: We grab this mod to help offset the drain from Blind Rage. We lose a bit of Duration, but we don’t need a ton of Duration for this build.
  • Stretch: Other than Ability Strength, Oraxia really likes Ability Range since it buffs just about every aspect of her kit. We grab this mod to give her the range she wants.
  • Auger Reach: We grab this mod for the same reason we take Stretch. If you feel like one Range mod is enough, then you can swap this or Stretch out for something else.
  • Summoner’s Wrath: We take Summoner’s Wrath as our Aura mod to buff our Scuttlers. Once again, another mod that seems perfect for Oraxia since it buffs her little spiders as well as fits her Aura Polarity Slot. 

Arcane Choice

  • Arcane Bellicose: Oraxia’s fourth ability gives her a lot of health, making this Arcane very powerful. More Ability Strength from higher health makes this an easy choice.
  • Arcane Camisado: Another good Arcane for Oraxia because of her spiderlings, this Arcane will make our spiders move faster while also increasing our Ability Strength.
  • Arcane Arachne: A third Arcane perfect for Oraxia, this will increase our primary and secondary damage by a ton when we wall latch for a set time. This synergizes strongly with her fourth ability and shouldn’t be slept on.

Helminth Abilities

Oraxia is one of those characters that really doesn’t need or want to swap out her abilities because they all work so well together. If you really wanted to swap one out, Roar (Rhino) is always a good ability to grab for the buff, but it doesn’t fully make up for what you’ll be losing.

Weapons & Gear

With her kit, Oraxia doesn’t need any specific weapons to be dangerous. Grab your favorite primary and secondary and go wild.

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