Mag Build
Mag, one of the starters Warframe you would see when you enter into the game. The monarch of the Magnetic field who have the ability to control the battlefield and can crush her enemies. Her passive is Magnetic Attraction. It’s quite fascinating to see how she pulls the nearby items towards her whenever her bullet jumps. She is one of the most used warframe once, we have to accept the fact that she not used now in the meta-phase. But she is still worth and is super fun to play.
Mag Special Abilities
Pull – As she is a master of Magnetic field, she creates a magnetic pull that drags the enemies towards her and deals with the damage output. If you use this ability after casting Magnetize then the damage caused will be doubled. The enemies who are under the area of effect of pull will be stunned. If they die or able to survive then the change of dropping an energy orb will be increased.
Magnetize - With this ability she creates a magnetic field around a targeted enemy making him as the center of the field, immobilizing him and dragging the nearby enemies towards the center. As a result, all the bullets and projectiles fired near the area of effect of this ability will get redirected to the center, thereby causing amplified damage. If the targeted enemy dies then the field will explode and all the enemies around the field will deal with the damage. The damage created by the field explosion is based on the damage it absorbed. You can only use 4 magnetic fields at a time. Making a new field after that will destroy the oldest field.
Polarize – She creates a magnetic pulse. This ability will affect the enemies with shield or armor. When an enemy with a shield or armor comes in contact with the Polarize ability, their shield will take damage and their armor will be reduced and damaged. Enemies who have depleted shields or no armor will not be affected by this ability. Enemies who are affected by the pulse will also drop shards. When these shards are paired with magnetize, they also cause some damage to the enemies.
Crush – This is quite an impressive ability of Mag. She will magnetize the bones of the enemies around her and suspend them in mid-air, then will cause the magnetic damage by crushing them. Sound so psychic right. But, it's cool. The damage will increase if the target is magnetized already. This also restores energy to the shields of allies and increase them over their limit thereby creating an overshields.
Best Mag Builds
Creating a Mag Build is really a big deal, as you need to deal with a lot of energy. It’s like you have to use the aura mods like Energy Siphon for extra energy regeneration. The energy pool is pretty low in Mag and hence getting her with Primed Flow is also important. It is likely to invest some more forma to balance the mod capacity for every Mag build you would create.
The Strength ability mods affect damage created by the crush, polarize and pull. The damage that is inflicted with magnetize will also increase by using such mods. It also affects the amount of Armor and shield restored by Polarize and Crush. The Range ability mods will increase the range and radius of area of effect. Taking all this consideration we suggest you the best Mag builds that will make your game even more fun.
Mag Build General Power Stat Table
CAPABILITY | THE POLARIZE | GREEDY PULL | THE CRUSH |
HEALTH | 157.50 | 157.50 | 487.50 |
SHIELD CAPACITY | 450.00 | 450.00 | 450.00 |
SHIELD RECHARGE | 37.50/s | 37.50/s | 37.50/s |
ENERGY | 563.00 | 563.00 | 563.00 |
ARMOR | 65.00 | 65.00 | 65.00 |
SPRINT SPEED | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
POWER STRENGTH | 184.00% | 194.00% | 209.00% |
POWER DURATION | 183.00% | 12.50% | 12.50% |
SPEED | -3.00% | -3.00% | -3.00% |
ENERGY REGENERATION | 0.60 | 0.60 | 0.60 |
POWER EFFICIENCY | 75.00% | 135.00% | 135.00% |
RESIST KNOCKDOWN | +30.00% | - | +30.00 |
Special Abilities Stat Table
CAPABILITY | THE POLARIZE | GREEDY PULL | THE CRUSH |
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PULL | |||
ENERGY COST | 31.25 | 16.25 | 16.25 |
MAGNETIC | 184.00 | 194.00 | 209.00 |
POWER RANGE | 28.50m | 37.50m | 35.25m |
DAMAGE BONUS | +100.00% | +100.00% | +100.00% |
ENERGY ORB | 18.40% | 19.40% | 20.90% |
MAGNETIZE | |||
ENERGY COST | 62.50 | 32.50 | 32.50 |
RADIUS | 3.80m | 5.00m | 4.70m |
POWER DURATION | 18.30s | 1.25s | 1.25% |
DAMAGE BY ENEMY | 230.00% | 242.50% | 261.25% |
| 92.00 | 97.00 | 104.50 |
EXPLOSION RADIUS | 9.50 | 12.50m | 11.75m |
ENEMIES IN RANGE | 18.40% | 19.40% | 20.90% |
POLARIZE | |||
ENERGY COST | 93.75 | 48.75 | 48.75 |
DAMAGE | 460.00 | 485.00 | 522.50 |
EXPANSION DURATION | 3.66/s | 0.25/s | 0.25/s |
EXPANSION SPEED | 5.90m/s | 5.90m/s | 5.90m/s |
SHIELD REGEN | 460.00 | 485.00 | 522.50 |
EXPLOSION RADIUS | 9.50m | 12.50m | 11.75m |
ROBOTICS DISABLED | 7.32s | - | - |
| 184.00% | - | - |
CRUSH | |||
ENERGY COST | 125.00 | 65.00 | 65.00 |
MAGNETIC | 1472.00 | 1552.00 | 1672.00 |
RADIUS | 15.20m | 16.50m | 18.80m |
KNOCKDOWN | 1.00s | 20.00m | 1.00s |
| +800.00 | +800.00 | +800.00 |
SHIELD RECHARGE | 40.00 | 40.00 | 40.00 |
SHIELD REGEN | 18.40 | 19.40 | 20.90 |
CHARGE SPEED | 0.24s | 0.09s | -0.14s |
The Polarize Mag Build
This mag build is most useful and suited for high-level missions. This build is created and focus around you the Polarize ability. The special feature of this ability is that it deals with the damage output based on the enemy’s armor. Which means the higher the armor the higher the damage output. But this will not help you when it comes to infested enemies. Creating a build for Polarize ability is a big deal as you need to make all considerations into account to make the stats as high as possible. This Mag builds we suggested you are made in such an everything is quite balanced and satisfied. You can also create your own Mag build. But make sure to equip with mods that will provide you with a good amount of duration. When you have enough duration, it will increase the reach and a good amount of range will increase the radius of the explosion.
Greedy Pull Mag Build
Mag is one of the most used Warframe for many reasons. And among them, The Greedy Pull Mag Build is one of the main reasons, as it would pull the pickups and resources towards you and your group. This build is fun and can be used for low-level missions. This Mag build equips you with a good amount of efficiency combined with the stack of range and strength. All you need to do is get yourself a perfect spot, then press 1 until all the enemies around you get dead. This is quite easy and very useful ability when it comes to crowd control. You can also use Energy Conversion, Redirection or Umbral Intensify to all more strength if you are planning to use this Mag build for higher-level enemies and missions. Make sure to equip with a good melee weapon to deal with armored enemies.
The Ultimate Crush Mag Build
This build is more or less similar to Greedy Pull Build, but this crush Mag Build can deal with more damage potential comparatively. This build is quite good at dealing with crowd control abilities but the cost of some good amount of damage, if you use it with Fracturing Crush mod. If you use this Mag build for higher level missions, instead of Energy Siphon use Corrosive Projection as aura mod. If you want to make any change with this build, you can switch them in place of Vitality and Streamline as they are the weakest mods.
Conclusion
Mag is one of the most used and played warframe. The sad thing about her is not a good damage dealer. Her unique skill set and abilities are really good and pretty fun to play yet she lacks in damage output when compared with other warframe. Make sure you use the right Mag build that suits the mission you are dealing with. You can also find other Mag builds, but we are not sure about how it works. It is important to choose the build that makes your gameplay easier rather than making it complicated. The Mag build we mentioned here are such type of builds, so try it out and have fun.