Chroma Build

An elemental avatar which turns into a perfect war machine for any situation and can any threat. This is a tactical Warframe of excellence. He is a very versatile Warframe. Chroma controls the primal element and based on the element he chooses; his abilities will be altered. If you have noted that when customizing chroma’s appearance and changing his energy color with altering his chosen element. You can choose only four basic elements and they are Heat, Cold, Electric and Toxin. The icon is next to his energy color that indicates the current element.

Chroma Special Abilities

Spectral Scream - This is the first ability is of chroma. It releases a deep breath of the elemental that deals with damage. When it spits a blaze, which depends on the energy color, causes one or other basic elemental damage. With this skill active you can keep moving forward, which will be quite interesting depending on the mission or situation you deal with.

One thing about this ability is, it constantly consumes energy when it is active. You have to remember this because, when you try to increase this ability with the duration and efficiency you will have very low energy consumption. And selection Efficiency would be a better option to improve this ability. This is a purely offensive ability, and to use its full capacity you need to focus on maximizing the strength, as well as have to maintain a balance with efficiency/duration and the range.

Elemental Ward - This emits an aura around him, which creates an offensive area of effect based on the chosen elemental alignment. This will permeate chroma and his nearby allies with defensive energy. Elemental ward is an ability that combines both offensive and defensive effects. In the offensive part, this ability will cause elemental damage constantly inside the aura field. And in the defensive part, it causes health improvement for chroma. One interesting fact about this ability is, when an affected ally leaves the area and returns, he won’t recover the extra health, but instead, it improves his maximum health. Improve the strength, duration, and a balanced range to take advantage of both the offensive and defensive capability.

Vex Armor - This is a well-known ability for the Chroma. When you activate it, all you need to do is, just let the mobs hit you. This may sound weird, but it's quite fun to use some explosive weapons in this way. The idea is to receive enough damage so that both the Armor and the damage will get a bonus, which charges when you receive damage to your shields and health. Strength is an important factor to be taken into account to make the most of this ability. This ability will affect your allies too, so it is important to improve your range.

Effigy - With this ability, the chroma will shed his pelt and turns it into a sentinel. The pelt will attack the nearby enemies until it dies or gets deactivated when chroma runs out of energy. The attack caused by pelt is based on chroma’s chosen element. It also has a radial elemental attack which damages and knocks back the enemies and caused a radial stun attack. The enemies killed by the pelt provide some additional credits. With this Effigy is active, chroma will get improved speed and a penalty to armor.

Best Chroma Builds

The Chroma Warframe is a versatile one and is used for a lot of different things. Because of this reason many seasoned players have tried it with a lot of forma, and is quite difficult to find the perfect Chroma build. The difficulties start with picking the aura polarity. If you choose Madurai variant, you can pick Dead Eye or Rifle Amp and Steel charge. If you choose Naramon, it will give you access to Corrosive Projection, Energy Siphon, and Sprint Boost. If you are looking for some tanky build then you can go with Vazarin polarity. We have suggested you with some best builds and you can try them out based on your playstyle.

Chroma Build General Power Stat Table

Special Abilities Stat Table

The Tank Chroma Build

In some case, Chroma is predetermined to be played as a tank. Particularly when you pick up the white energy color, Elemental Ward helps you to get a higher armor than the ice shield, and this will increase your survivability. Combining this with Vex Armor will make to face everything. This build uses Hunter Adrenaline and Vitality as a combo which gives you high strength and long duration. You can switch it with Armored Agility and Steel Fiber if you prefer a high tanky form.

Fixing the aura slot polarity is somewhat a tricky one because you can get profit from almost every aura. You can select Corrosive Projection, as it is a team-friendly solution. If you want to use more forma, then you can try to fit Umbral Intensify and Umbral Vitality as it can bring you some good min-max your abilities.

Credit Farm Chroma Build

This is quite an old-school build and focus on the Effigy skill and increases all the installed credits by 100%. The enemies killed by using effigy will give 60% increased chance to get additional credits, the range will be doubled but only within 10 meters. It is recommended to use a syndicate weapon and reach mastery Rank 18 to get the maximum cap. It’s a pretty straight forward chroma build, as it has a good amount of duration, strength and can get some kills with Effigy ability. Corrosive Projection and Vitality are a good choice for a survival mode, but you can replace it by Redirection or Steel Fiber if you want. Select the Energy color as per the enemies you are dealing with. Red and Green are the best choices.

Eidolon Hunt Chroma Build

This is quite a popular build because it will gather you all the current Arcanes and strengthen all your Warframes. The overall idea is to create tanky chroma build to survive with a good amount of duration and ability strength to keep your abilities up. It is quite similar to the Main Tank Chroma build, but if you have a sniper rifle and dead eye, you can proceed and it will help you to kill the Eidolons faster. If you have some trouble with your energy pool, you can switch Streamline or Vitality for Primed Flow.

Profit-Taker Chroma Build

If you are looking for some build which is very close to Eidolon Chroma build with some adaptation, then Profit-Taker Chroma Build will be a beneficial one. When you put in Adaptation, it will reduce the incoming damage. Other than this it is quite an easy build. This Chroma build has a stack with much ability strength and you can combine it with some duration. And this will help you to use your abilities for a long time.

Coming to the mods, use Handspring over Power Drift, Umbral Vitality over the normal version and also some replacement for Hunter Adrenaline. This will help you to get some extra energy intake. To increase the strength ability, consider Constitutions, Primed Continuity or Augur Secrets too.

Conclusion

Chroma is one of the great and unique Warframe and its energy color-changing skills is quite interesting. Try out the different chroma builds we have suggested and experiment it with your gameplay style. Once you got your perfect chroma to build you will enjoy the game.