What is the most Non-Gameplay reason you wanted a frame/weapon for?
I had a lot of interesting answers when I asked about everyone's favorite non-gameplay thing in Warframe, so I am back with this one.
I have always wanted Mirage because she looked like a jester, the fact that she is a glass cannon was not on my mind when I got her (she is much stronger than I thought though)
Then came Hydroid, I know he is not so useful and needs a rework, but I love Eldrich horror and a Cthulu/Kraken had to be in my arsenal.
When my wife saw Mirage Prime she decided she wanted to play so I immediately started farming her parts and helping her get her MR up (when mirage prime needed MR 8 to use) in time for her birthday. Since then we've played about 1000 hours of the game together.
I have to agree with your wife that Mirage Prime is just beautiful. This is a very heartwarming story too.
Unfortunately by the time I got serious in the game, she was vaulted.
I am a big sensory person, so I often latch onto stuff that really nails it in one of those applicable categories. For instance, I am playing a lot of Styanax right now for the soundscape of the clinking metal footsteps and the strange echo-voiceline effects on ability use, it is very satisfying. Wisp for very similar reasons, such a cool set of sound effects. Citrine's visuals are so pretty and make my eyes happy. Yareli I fashion-framed to look like coral and she makes me think of the beach so it makes me happy to play her too. Xaku makes me feel like I'm experiencing the 'spooky scary skeleton' meme in 4D. Also Vauban juggles when you are holding down his ball abilities and I just think that's neat :)
The thing that made me write my other post was that I loved the noise Nezha makes when he activates his 3. Warframe is strangely a very sensory game. I sometimes play the circuit just for all the singing in it.
Being able to compose little jingles on Octavia's mandachord was a major incentive to get her. Zephyr's mech skin keeps me playing her even when other frames would be better suited to the mission.
I mained Octavia for a while, I got her for free but the marching band look was a big draw for me (especially the "feathers" on her hat). I had no idea I could compose for the Mandachord when I got her. Genuine question, what is Zephyr not good for? she is one of my favorite frames to play, but I have not unlocked everything yet.
Zephyr's biggest failing IMO are her survivability and the inconsistency of the CC on her 4th ability. It doesn't really pick up enough enemies to compete with other frame's hard CC abilities, and those tornadoes wander too much which is a pain on some defense tilesets. She has solid abilities and good augments, but none of her skills are the best at what they do. Despite all that, she's a solid frame with good ability synergy.
She does have one specific build that I love. Slap some "damage reduction while airborne" mods on her, use Tailwind to hoverglide. Get out your Knell, headshot to activate full auto mode, use Air Burst (with the Airburst Rounds augment) to group enemies into a pile, and then unload. It gets even better if you have Arcane Velocity equipped to increase firerate. It turns Zephyr into an A10 Warthog.
I came back to the game just after TennoCon 2021 because I liked Yareli's visual design. She's definitely one of the fashionframes ever. I like Equinox Prime for similar reasons.
I got and maxed out every single bow and most crossbows in the game because I love archery even if I’m probably the worst sharpshooter on this side of Sol System. It’s also the reason why I got a riven for Ballistica (sadly not even that fixes it, incarnon please :c). It’s also the reason why Ivara is my fave aesthetically (and mostly gameplay wise too).
I really liked Latron when I collected the first one when starting the game. It's a simple but cool shooting rifle. It's not great, but I'm collecting every Latron in game and not putting them away, even if I'm not using them.