Sevagoth is the 46th Warframe unveiled and is soon celebrating its third anniversary since becoming available in the game. Obtaining Sevagoth is not a complex process. His blueprint can be acquired by completing the Call of the Tempestarii quest, and his parts are relatively easy to obtain by playing Void Storm missions using Meso, Neo, and Axi fissures.
Essentially, Sevagoth is a very edgy, yet cool Warframe that visually bears a striking resemblance to Nekros, themed around the harvesting of souls from the Void. This Sevagoth build guide focuses on how you can best utilize his diverse kit and make him a force to be reckoned with – all the way up to endgame and even beyond.
How to Play Sevagoth
Although Sevagoth is not the most powerful or META Warframe, playing him is very enjoyable, and he comes with some quite unique mechanics. Primarily, Sevagoth’s fourth ability, unlocked at level 10, enables a unique Shadow transformation that has its own mod and arcane capacity. Additionally, the Shadow form wields its own Shadow Claws weapon, which also has a separate mod and arcane capacity, offering ample customization options.
But before diving into a specific build, here’s a brief overview of Sevagoth’s basic abilities and how to use them most effectively:
- Reap – Sevagoth’s Shadow flies outward, ravaging enemies in its path. Survivors suffer damage over time from Death’s Harvest, and the souls of the deceased contribute to the Death Well.
- Sow – Implant a death seed in nearby targets to drain their life force. Activating Reap detonates afflicted enemies, causing a percentage of their health as radial damage and filling the Death Well with the souls of the dead.
- Gloom – Emit a radial pulse wave that ensnares and slows enemies, siphoning their life force for the Death Well. Allies within the wave heal with each attack.
- Exalted Shadow – When the Death Well fills to above 75%, Sevagoth’s Shadow form is ready to be unleashed. Destroy enemies with a collection of Melee-focused abilities.
In essence, Sevagoth boasts a diverse ability kit that not only allows for significant damage output but also provides substantial utility that slows enemies regardless of their level, enabling their easy elimination. Sow pairs exceptionally well with Reap and can be your primary nuking ability up to a certain enemy level.
In this or any other, strength focused Sevagoth build, you use Sow to implant a death seed into enemies, which you then detonate with Reap, inflicting additional radiation damage and blast damage to adjacent enemies while also fueling your Exalted Shadow transformation. As you reach higher levels and the effectiveness of these two abilities diminishes, you can employ Gloom to slow enemies down, rendering them easy targets for your other weapons.
How to Play Sevagoth’s Shadow
The same principles apply when utilizing the Exalted Shadow, which comes with its own suite of offensive, crowd control, and even healing abilities:
- Embrace – Ghostly hands pull enemies together into a flailing mass, rendering them unable to act.
- Consume – Dash through enemies to rip out their souls, healing the Shadow in the process.
- Death’s Harvest – Afflict nearby enemies with a harrowing condition that increases the damage they take from all sources.
- Reunite – Allows Sevagoth and his Shadow to merge back into one entity.
Turn into the literal Grim Reaper
Starting with Embrace, this ability functions similarly to Nidus’s Larva ability, gathering enemies together and rendering them incapable of action, allowing for easy dispatching. Given the Shadow’s substantial damage output, this is particularly effective for quickly eliminating large groups of enemies. This can be efficiently combined with Death’s Harvest, which amplifies the damage enemies receive from all sources, further enhancing how fast you’ll be able to melt enemies.
Additionally, the Consume ability can be freely used on clustered enemies to both inflict radiation damage and heal the Shadow, should you find it necessary. This multifaceted approach not only facilitates significant damage output but also sustains the Shadow, ensuring its presence on the battlefield is prolonged and more impactful. By strategically integrating these abilities, players can maximize Sevagoth’s potential, leveraging both his destructive capabilities and his resilience.
The Reaper Build
For those aiming to maximize the utilization of Sevagoth’s unique abilities, the Reaper Build is designed to do just that. It’s critical to understand that this specific build demands a significant investment in terms of forma—five in total—because it involves optimizing not just Sevagoth but also his Shadow form and the Shadow Claws weapon. However, it’s worth noting that the build focuses on enhancing specific stats, and alternative configurations with different mods could achieve similar outcomes.
Focusing on strength, efficiency and range to make full use of his diverse kit
For Sevagoth, the build focuses on maximizing Ability Strength and Efficiency. This ensures that Sow and Reap can deal maximum damage and be cast as frequently as possible. A high Ability Strength and Ability Range are crucial for Gloom as well, slowing down enemies within a substantial radius by up to 70%, rendering them vulnerable to your attacks.
Making Sevagoth’s Shadow into a literal Reaper
Regarding Sevagoth’s Shadow, the build emphasizes Ability Strength, Ability Range, and Duration to enhance its damage output and extend its crowd control effects over a wide area. The Shadow’s Claws are fine-tuned to maximize their Critical Chance and Multiplier, facilitating an extraordinary level of damage.
Insane amounts of damage, speed and crits to melt enemies
Essentially, by maximizing the damage and utility of Sevagoth’s abilities like Sow, Reap, and Gloom, as well as optimizing the Shadow form’s crowd control and damage output, this build allows players to adapt to various challenges the game throws at them. Whether you’re facing hordes of lower-level enemies or stepping up to tackle tougher, higher-level adversaries, the Reaper Build equips you with the tools needed to overcome all challenges, all the while being tons of fun.
