Octavia is a versatile Warframe who excels at dealing damage, supporting allies, and controlling the battlefield with her music-powered abilities.
Her kit allows her to boost team performance, distract enemies, and unleash massive scaling damage that becomes stronger the longer she stays in combat.
Depending on your build, Octavia can focus on maximizing her damage, enhancing her team buffs, or extending the duration of her abilities to keep everything active with minimal upkeep.
Warframe Octavia Builds (Octavia Prime Builds)
1) Standard Build (Basic Build)
Our Standard Build for Octavia is meant to provide players who are new to the Warframe or those looking for a starting build that they can use.
This build features an increase in both Ability Strength and Range, providing Octavia with more damage and more reach with her abilities.
Ability, Efficiency, and Duration have also been slightly increased, reducing the cost of energy for her abilities and extending how long they last.
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2) AOE Damage Build (Ability Range and Duration Build)
While several players would attempt to focus on Ability Strength to increase the damage of Octavia’s abilities, we focused more on Mallet and Resonator.
Mallet absorbs damage and releases it; thus, the additional Ability Range allows it to damage several enemies while also drawing their aggression from further away.
Ability Strength, Duration, and Efficiency have also been increased, providing her abilities with more damage, extended time, as well as lower energy costs.
3) Lasting Abilities Build (Ability Duration Build)
Repeatedly casting Octavia’s abilities over and over again may be tiresome for some players, which is why some prefer to focus on Ability Duration.
For this build, we have increased Ability Duration to 227%, which gives you enough time to fight enemies, move around, and recast other abilities more often.
This build works well when you are conserving energy or when you prefer to cast abilities less often and focus more on using your weapons.
Verdict
Octavia performs best when Ability Duration is increased, allowing her to keep her buffs and crowd control running for long periods without frequent recasting.
Her damage abilities scale extremely well with Ability Strength, while Range can improve the effectiveness of her crowd-control and distraction tools.
With the right setup, Octavia becomes an incredibly efficient Warframe capable of high damage, strong support, and effortless control over enemies in almost any mission.
