BEST SECONDARY 2024: My Top 10 Secondary Weapons in Warframe (2024)

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i love lists like this bc incarnon weapons are overused with good reason but sometimes they are annoying to charge, make a melee list next! Or a frame list would be interesting from you

I knew when he put the laetum in honorable mentions it had to cause controversy 🤣🤣

Sevagoth (with his augment) and Kuva Nukor is nutty. Kuva nukor has low crit change so crit dmg is overlooked even tho it has really high crit multiplier but Sevagoth you can utilize that Crit Nukor

I charge my laetum in like 3 shots and took it to level cap. By far my favorite secondary besides epitaph.

KOMPRESSA GANG!!!!! Emerald shards broke it as a primer!!! Has innate Viral allowing you to mod for Corrosive and Cold, thus allowing you to full strip, prime max Viral stacks, prime max Cold stacks, and Encumber to max out every other status for you. This thing was my go to primer for Disruption before we got emerald archon shards, I haven't used a different primer since we got them (except for heat inherit setups, which I typically use my Tysis for due to my Heat + Faction damage riven). It's so good! With that being said, the Knell Prime is probably my favorite secondary. I like weapons with unique mechanics that reward skilled play, like the Dual Toxocyst, and the Knell hits the nail on the head for me...plus it does REALLY solid damage.

Great list! Big fan of the Laetum but happy to try these other options. I use the Nukor often, but about to build a Sporelacer! Thanks for the vid!

great video and i love that you add screen shots of builds in the description
keep up the good work

Note on Epitaph: The charged shots have insanely high crit chance and guaranteed impact proc, so with the Hemorrhage mod it can actually be a pretty good dps tool. Even more so because you can use it as a primer for itself with Galv shot.

On more static missions, I love the Azima alternate fire with radiation. It lets me CC a big area and takes care of nullies that get near it.
I find it to complement well the explosive weapons I love playing

I'll throw a couple out there;
- Kunai Incarnon: SUPER FUN AND ONE SHOT AUTO HEADSHOT GALORE; especially with the amazing "death-trap-trigger" evolution
- Cyanex: auto-homing missile launcher, surprisingly shreds with a proper Viral/Heat setup
- Tenet Cyron: I LOVE BEAMS, and the infinite Ammo in this one is fantastic. Personally i run it as a Heat Dps weapon
- Lato Vandal Incarnon: The bit more lowkey Ricocheting secondary, with the wonderful "death-trap-trigger" evolution, which like the Kunai Incarnon, gives you an insane CC and CD buff for 4 seconds after switching from your primary, love the !!! damage numbers 🤣

You nailed it on sporelacer. Early game with a Nezha or Rhino you are immune to knockback so at MR5 you can do steelpath easy. If you dont go all in with the forma's you wont see its true potential.

My most used Secondary is epitaph for obvious reason, I dont really use secondaries as main damage source, I usually want them to have some ulity aspect (and I dont have Nukor)
but my favourite secondary as an actual secondary is Pyrana prime without a doubt
I know it is not the strongest, but it has the best gimmick in the entire game, and it just "feels powerful"
also on the side note, I love that someone placed twin kohmaks in the honorable mention, I love those things, most dual weilding secondaries but they are probably my favourite out of the bunch
Edit: How could I forget the cyanex, my 2nd most used secondary, its a bit niche of a primer but it is very fun to use with its richochetting homing projectiles and gas procs

I commented super late, but I just wanted to say I love your list of guns, your top primaries got me to use battacor and now its one of my most used primaries.

With the Nukor, I recently spawned one for whispers content. Generated a rad progenitor. And to be increasingly silly, I’ve modded it purely for rad. I know, I know. It’s a work in progress. Still need to max out the new electric prime mod to further increase the rad output.

Awesome build. i like the staticor!

Hi, thanks for your video. After seeing it my dmg cc fr +recoil (neg) bubo has regained my attention

I liked this list because it actually spoke on the annoyance of charging certain incarnon weapons.

Great list. My most used secondaries are the Sporelacer and the Ocucor.

Good list. Your list is pretty much all my main secondary weapons. Nukor is also my most used weapon. Im a Wisp main also.. :) 10/10

Laetum for SP, backup for when Ninja say hi. Just a single target meltdown.
Sporelacer, I don't free roam without it. Effective in any open map.
Epitaph, for any heat primer builds.
Ocucor has taken more gameplay over Nukor since the augment, otherwise they are basically similar to me in usability.
iLex for the Ninja 1 shot.
If they were to remove all secondary weapons tomorrow, the only one I would miss will be Sporelacer or Laetum.

Another Banger!
I love many of these, i'm just a weapon junky.
I juice the hell out of every weapon i get my hands on, but when it comes to Warframes, i don't put more than 2 Forma in 🤣

Sporelacer and kuva nukor are my favourite secondaries and most used. They are both insane

I believed after seeing the Buzlok in the honorable mentions for the primaries, but now I know for certain after seeing the Twin Kohmak in the same category for the secondaries: you know ball

Best secondary for Yareli - Cyanex. Great for the CO meta, lets you focus on driving. Which you need, given the board's potential and wonkyness. Fast moving Mesa, in any mission other than silly long runs.

Great reasoning in your video.

i really enjoy using the lato vandal incarnon, idk what it is, its just super satisfying

Really liked the primary vid so im excited for this one🤙
Also can we expect a melee list next?😁

You're giving me a little hope for Warframe youtubers. 😂😂😂
I don't think I've ever said that before. 🤔
A lot of people misunderstand the purpose of incarnon weapons. So it's refreshing to see your list not packed full of them.
Incarnon was added to weapons that are otherwise struggling to perform as well as weapons without incarnon.
Imagine incarnon on say the Fulmin Prime or Sybaris prime. It would be insane. 😂😂 I got level cap numbers after a just a few mods on them.
I guess my brother met you in game and referred me to your channel.
Keep up the good work man.

as a relative newbie to the game who just got into making incarnon weapons, i 100% agree with the laetum. It's fun to kill everything within 5~10 bullets with incarnon but charging that gauge is so darn painful since the bullet speed makes headshots inconsistent.

Just an editing feedback: pls show the weapon in the arsenal or foundry when you talk about it. At least for a bit… I wanna see what it looks like and associate the name with a gun.

My favorite secondary has to he the grimoire but only when it's on gauss. It performs OK but what sells it for me as a weapon as a whole is how unique it is and after you spend alot of time inside wf you want something that breaks the mold and gives you a unique experience

4:45 the Grimoire alt-fire does not have to kill enemies - just tag them to gain the Invocation buffs

With sporelancer can combine with an argonok to armour strip with the almalgemated mods of impact processing so can take it to much higher levels of SP then just level 500 aswell

Love you content man, you got a sub from me

23:37 because of this part, the little marked for death synergies, that I actually pick up this helminth ability again, but not on either trinity or revenant. It is someone else, and I cooked.

You should do another video like this but with your favorite melee weapons

16:53 I still didn't try the Kompressa and I'm farming Voruna ATM, quick question: Veruna's 2, Fangs of Raksh, just spreads the condis it creates of if I prime a enemy with this gun (or others that can do that) I can spread a lethal bomb of condis eo clear the screen? Ty.

Hey man so I just wanna give some love, I just saw the top primary weapons video and started this one, I felt the need to get out of the meta stuff cause it just got a bit boring and repetitive (hella funny the comments on knightmareframe's video) and lemme just start off by agreeing with ur opinion on Laetum. Im a baby tenno (just turned mr15 after 2 months of grinding from mr9) in the middle of this incarnon chaos and all im seeing is Phenmor and Laetum. Now they re both amazing but man stopping all that momentum and action to try to get headshots with Laetum... man the worst investment i could ve ever done. Been fun for about 2 hours but that was it. Also i really wanna give Stahlta and the other off meta primaries in ur video a shot especially now I finally got Gauss prime and got into some energized munitions acceltra shenanigans. Cheers!

Tenet Cycron for me. Does help I got a juicy riven for it. Magnetic, Corrosive and lots of Heat ftw.

Pax Charge on Sporelacer and zero ammo problems.. you can spam it all day long and it's so much fun!

The Sporlacer is my most used secondary but im really into the The Zakti Prime right now

Thanks i'm gonna try these on Yareli and see what works and what doesn't

Phyranna prime is my kinda go to when I don't think I can charge up. There are enemies that have no heads/headshot weakness that might invalidate half of these weapons, and some are status immune/capped like I thnk liches? But I guess that falls into a niche rather than a general purpose secondary.

Could you do a vid on your Wisp Prime build? You seem to have a really good build for every occasion while I do not :c

My current fav Secondary weapon is the Kunai Incarnon i really love playing it on Ivara. Could you tell me what mods you use on the Tenet Plinx ? i just recently picked it up and it kinda feels like a Secondary Stahlta to me, im just not sure how to mod it properly.

All the experimented players know about the sporelacer is one of the best burst aoe damage in secondaries and had universal builds, crits, brute damage or elemental. That weapon carrying me to many time and always save my life in low ammo circunstances. For that reason still in every top like tier S and the nukor is not than incredible suffer so much in long fights for me because the ammo efficiency is the top 9 or 10.

Well with occuor can just take a cedo in for priming and DMG in disruption if, needed but, would agree wouldn't useally run for it like this and would do a primer 2ndary on average disruption runs / use

Melee Crescendo is not needed for Secondary Outburst (ex with Catabolyst) imo. It'll be nice when people have it but for now nobody's got a full one of those and it's annoying to use with a low rank one.
Instead, use Ceramic Dagger. Slap the +initial combo stuff on it. With the built in stuff and normal mods it'll hit 166, or 9x combo. Alright, not amazing i admit. With a riven with 34 initial combo on it (which is doable on a 3 buff with curse riven or a 2 buff riven) you'll hit 200 initial combo for a 11x combo multiplier. To be honest that's good enough for most purposes. However, if you got a low roll riven and want to run with it or just want one more multiplier you can run Ready Steel (with a 30 initial combo or better riven, almost any initial combo roll works here) for the full 220 initial combo/12x multiplier (or 10x without the riven).
Or run some of the Ceramic Dagger stuff and then run Melee Crescendo on it if you want, i dunno.

12:52 I love how it took you this long to get bane of grinder. Sometimes RNG is just like that...

Would have also added the Atomos to your honorable mentions it's actually fairly decent

Staticor Is my son In this game, a blindness love.. no matter how many ppl says it a meh tier or less In my eyes it's just an S+ tier.

Euphona prime is my fav because of the cool gunslinger reload (also does good dmg, don't sleep on it)

With the confirmation that we will have the infested equivalent of the liches this year any infested, corpus or grinner weapon (remember that when the sisters arrived the liches also got new weapons) has to be quarantined until we have news.
PS: A big problem that incarnon weapons have is their inconsistency (they are great at times but only at times) if the base weapon is a prime weapon then little problem because at least it has the stats to be at least competent but when it is not the case...

The Sporelacer is my goto for most high-level missions. I like to put Pax Charge on there, since you don't have to worry about ammo, and it reloads almost instantly. I have a good riven (104.3% cc, 68.8% toxin, -0.1 [!] dmg to Corpus) which also can be used on the Primary version.

bit late, but using something like the scourge's secondary fire can make charging the laetum and dual tox a lot easier to do

i'm still not sure how i feel about the incarnon weapons, but your issue with them is basically the same i have with them. i just want "pull trigger, death happens." if i wanted a weapon with a "weird" charging mechanic i'll use the Battacor, or the Trumna.
i'm still looking for which warframe creator(s) will do a video top 10 of "incarnons" and then top 10 of "non incarnons" for a definite list players can aim for. Though i suppose the incarnon weapon(s) are way too powerful for any normal weapon variant to actually matter.

The problem with Laetum is that Laetum is balanced around levelcap. Buffed up and properly built In normal missions it will have trouble changing incarnon cause it deals to much damage. If you use it in levelcap with xatas whisper it will feel like how its supposed to feel in base steel path. When its full potential is unleashed It kills faster and more effortlessly than even dual toxo.
I used to love it then I liked it less (I went through a similar phase as you are) now that I discovered Void Cascade I love it more than the first time I got it.

I want to see a video with Bubonico vs Shedu.
Or a shedu showcase since you said you prefer it because considering how hard it is to farm it feels underwhelming to me.

What’s your ocucor build?

I just came back to warframe after a 3yr break and I've been watching a few videos on the new good gear and you're a funny ass dude, I don't want you to jump off a bridge and molly my bean in the background of the ocucor goes hard af. On an unrelated note, I like the direction the game went in the meantime. I left cuz I didn't wanna bother with all the annoying rng for certain warframe and weapon farms, kuva lich etc and being locked out of arbitrations when they added new war and zariman. But I made up some ground recently and I haven't had this much fun in a long time now doing steel path circuit and void cascade
Edit: btw can you hook us up with your sporelacer parts?

Noticed an issue with your dual toxocyst build. You're using Carnage Reign instead of Fevered Frenzy. gunCO doesn't count the base damage increases from incarnon evolutions, so it's better to take fevered frenzy for the extra multishot. Mathematically fevered frenzy beats out carnage reign at as little as 7 stacks. Plus multishot will help you build incarnon faster and help you get more value out of your incarnon meter.

My favorite is Mara Detron it’s my beloved pocket shotty but all the weapons on the list r awesome def gonna try out sporelacer, also staticor I see it in the comments I got the bp but never built it

I really like Prisma Angstrum Incarnon, maybe its not meta but very easy to make it incarnon and pew pew after :D

5:36 🤣🤣🤣 this was just too funny. completely agreed on what you said about laetum

"We're not putting Laetum top 10 because charging the Incarnon is a pain."
"And now on the top 10 list we have Lex Incarnon, Zylok Incarnon, and Dual Toxicyst Incarnon."
😐

what parts do you use for sporelacer

Sporelacer is godlike. I've been using it forever.

10. Zylok Prime - 7:50
9. Lex Prime - 8:48
8. Catabolyst - 10:13
7. Epitaph - 12:03
6. Furis - 13:16
5. Dual Toxocyst - 15:04
4. Kompressa - 17:00
3. Ocucor - 18:38
2. Sporelacer - 20:38
1. Kuva Nukor - 22:59

i agree 100% with nukor it’s hard to even try diff secondaries becus it’s so good i like dual toxics but nukor just too OP

The compressa is gate locked behind the vent kids like rank 4 or in my opinion a way too much plat to buy from the shop. I feel like that is a main reason that it is not talked about a lot

Isnt the description wrong? About PUNCHTROUGH on chaining weapons like the Nukor, it doesnt create new chains per punchtrough hit.
You can test that on simulacrum with 6 enemies lined up 3 close to you and 3 further away

im using CEDO on my mirage because the glaives + multishot are just OP crazyprime whole romms and kill SP stuff on its own but i kinda lack use for secondary
what would you reccommend me for secondary for RAW DAMAGE that has good ammo efficiency, dosnt require too much precision, isnt status based (already have plenty of that) ,and if incarnon is easy to trigger ? prefably something like acylote killer
i was thinking about book or kitguns as support (getting more power strenght) but idk, i feel like dedicated archon/acylote killer would be better
dont take me wrong, i dont lack damage on cedo (priming with prety much all statuses + shotgun is great to kill eximuses) nor melee (kills everything but it relies on slash ALOT of small slashes so isnt that good aganist acylotes) but i feel i have no use for secondary atm and i want to change that by having it as acylote/boss killer i guess

don't sleep on the vermisplicer either, incredibly easy to use and so nice with a riven

I will double down on the “give us a frame video” idea. You have a lot of good information to share and I wanna know it all

nice video! do you mind to give insight of the Sporelacer build?

what did you use as the grip and loader for the sporelacer?

I really like your videos because your not just another warframe content creator NPC

I have both the zylok and the zylok prime, i have the incarnon adapter and i even have a zylok riven.
the reason it still sits on the shelf for me and many people is because its incarnon is bugged where it doesn't account for any modded multishot, that destroyed its damage potential and de has so far neglected it, therefore, as will i.

I love ur list,maybe we can get warframe list next?

2:03 Hey again Moug, I know it feels like I'm nitpicking and I'm sorry but the total 10,000 damage value displayed is including multishot in it's calculation. It's not 250,000 after multishot, it's just 424.23 per pellet * 24.9

The epitaph definitely does damage

Multishot and gunco wont work for catabolyst grenade build, which is the build where you use the augment. Kinda disappointing.

i have been using spore lacer for ages since 2020 lmao glad to know its still busted

what do i replace the lex riven with?

What animation are you using on your sevagoth cause the head twitching is cool

What's a good tetra build

My sporelacer has 9 formas. I built it by coincidence cause I simply wanted to do something with the reputation i earned in deimos to get the vulpaphila, and honestly nothing and I mean nothing has come close to how mindless the sporelacer makes the game.
Forget headshots, I do floorshots with this thing and it evaporates the enemy, and with pax charge it reloads near instantly
The only bad thing about this weapon is the bad habits i developed, i can't headshot anymore lmfao, i suck at it, even tho I was super good at it when i started the game

Me: Hmmm I feel like I'm missing out on other guns that might be better than my Sporelacer.
*Sees Sporelacer in #2 with all the positives that I also loved about it being reassured*
Me: Damn, guess it's still you and me bud.

bro keep it up..

bro listens to skeler? instant sub

did you say what starting element your nukor had... pretty key info if not. Someone out there just got a radiation or impact one with no idea why that's maybe not great.

pls do like a short or something for the nyx’s build🙏🏾

I like your list of guns (no): gun 1, gun 2, gun 3 and so on.

we need melee now🥰

sad to see the akarius not being on this list :(

I never knew Zylok had an incarnon, lots of the weapons too I have, but just can't bother putting in the work to build them

The tome isn't a food weapon but it's a really good utility

hey can u tell me whats ur primary weapon on 7:47 mark? thanks

I don't mean to be that guy, but i'm MR 19 and still struggling to build my good weapons. Can you help with a video if you haven't already made one on your channel?

Prisma angstrum is my favorite