The phantom, the reaper, the devourer of Forma himself - Sevagoth!
Release date: 2021-04-13
Passive: On fatal injury and entering Bleedout, Sevagoth’s body petrifies into a broken tombstone as his Shadow manifests itself.
Reap - Sevagoth’s Shadow flies outward ravaging enemies in his path. Survivors are damaged by Death’s Harvest over time. The souls of the dead fill the Death Well.
Sow - Plant a death seed in nearby targets to drain their lifeforce. Reap what has been sown to detonate afflicted enemies, dealing a percentage of their health as radial damage. The souls of the dead fill the Death Well.
Gloom - Summon a radial pulse wave that ensnares and slows enemies, siphoning their lifeforce for the Death Well. Allies within the wave steal health with each attack.
Exalted Shadow - When the Death Well fills to above 75%, Sevagoth’s Shadow form is ready to be released. Tear the enemy asunder with a collection of Melee-focused Abilities.
Acquisition: Main blueprint is acquired after completing the Call of the Tempestarii quest. Components each have a 10% chance of being awarded as a bonus reward at the end of Void Storm missions exclusively in Neptune Proxima, Pluto Proxima, or Veil Proxima.
Man, Sevagoth has been buffed out of control from where he started. A double augment build will passively nuke the map, spread damage vulnerability, and apply a critical chance curse to any enemies that survive The Hauntening. At last, he can finally refresh his damage vulnerability at will! Gloom will also provide some second-line CC by slowing anything approaching an objective (or at least, whatever survives the Shadow Haze onslaught).
If you’re looking for an accessible Sevagoth that won’t eat your forma, I can highly recommend running both augments and replacing his Shadow with a survivability tool like Condemn or my FBHCAB setup (Fractured Blast/Lycath’s Hunt, Health Conversion, Arcane Blessing).
Also a funny story, Shadow Haze dropped at the end of July 2023, and the remainder of that year saw Sevagoth experience a meteoric rise in usage of 36%… from 0.3% usage to 0.41% usage, lol. I imagine the Prime has skipped the queue because they realise they’ve created a monster and people are going to want to use this frame.
Please look forward to Sevagoth Primes running rampant and making missions completely unplayable. Did you think Saryn and Gyre were bad?
Having seen Reap & Sow tileset nuking builds slowly starting to gain exposure and traction over the past few months, when DE announced Sev Prime, a small part of me was genuinely like “oh dear”
If people think the current Wukong slam spam is bad, they won’t enjoy this :^)
The newest upcoming Prime is here (sorry Lavos and Xaku)! A Warframe know more for his amazing subsume ability than the frame itself. I gave this guy an honest shot when he came out, I even managed to farm 2 of him rather painlessly, he just never felt good to play to me. Not only is he a massive forma hog, being 2 whole frames in one with an exalted weapon on top, his killing potential always felt…lackluster. His shadow is also rather disappointing, normal melee or just any good gun will be far more deadly (Exalted weapons in general are long overdue a rework). Gloom is an absolutely amazing ability to give to other frames, though. Any frame that struggles with surviving can benefit from the massive slow and lifesteal Gloom provides, it makes Saryn literally immortal (baring one-shots) with the constant damage ticks from Spores.
