Learning goals
- Understand companion modding.
- Understand capacity, drain, polarity, and ranks.
- Understand category-specific mods.
- Understand utility versus survivability versus behavior mods.
- Avoid random companion builds.
Explanation
Companions have their own mods. Companion stats, abilities, and behaviors are upgraded or manipulated through mods. Companion modding uses familiar ideas such as capacity, drain, ranks, polarities, mod categories, and build purpose. It can include survivability mods, precepts, utility mods, weapon or claw-related mods, Bond mods, and category-specific mods.
What should I do?
Build companion mods by role: add important precepts, add pickup utility when useful, add survivability, add role support such as farming or priming, add Bond mods only when conditions can be met, and avoid filling slots randomly.
Common mistakes
Avoid these companion mechanics mistakes before spending mods, Forma, arcanes, or farming time.
- Equipping random companion mods.
- Ignoring capacity and drain.
- Ignoring category restrictions.
- Ranking niche companion mods before core ones.
- Forgetting companion weapons have separate modding.
- Building damage before survivability.
Key Takeaways
- Companion modding is similar to Warframe modding: capacity, purpose, and category matter.
Practical task
Every companion mod should have a reason to be in the build.
- Open one companion build.
- Pick three equipped mods.
- Label each as behavior, survivability, utility, damage, pickup, or synergy.
- Remove or question one mod with no clear purpose.
- Write what the build is trying to do.
You can explain the purpose of the companion build.