Dante vs Follie
Same Support / Healer fantasy — which support kit fits your squad and mission rota?
TL;DR — Quick Pick
Pick Dante if…
- You want the squad gap filled by Dante's vibe — Seeker of knowledge.
- You'd rather build around Dark Verse than live in Follie's Self Portrait loop.
- Your builds lean status effects and Dante's passive extends that plan.
Pick Follie if…
- You're sold on Follie's fantasy (Follie, the merry, macabre Shadowgrapher, brings ink to life) more than another Support / Healer option.
- This slot should feel like Forced Perspective, Shadowgraph, and Plein Air, not a reskin of Dante's Noctua, Light Verse, and Final Verse.
- You value Follie's orb-efficiency passive for longer ability spam on dense holds.
Verdict
Both fill the Support / Healer lane. Lean Dante for status-duration amplification and Dark Verse; lean Follie for orb economy and Self Portrait. Mission Usefulness is a wash — decide on kit feel and passive, not the rating table.
At a Glance
Dante
Stat
Follie
Support / Healer
Role
Support / Healer
AnyAura
VazarinMatch the priority to your main ability
Mod Priority
Match the priority to your main ability
Noctua
Kit Opener
Forced Perspective
Mission Usefulness
Mission
Dante
Follie
Steel Path Survival / Defense / Disruption
Mobile Defense / Excavation
Exterminate / Capture Speed Runs
Spy / Rescue / Nightmare
Open World / Bounties
Long-Range Gunplay / Eidolon-Style Content
When Each Shines
Dante
- Dark Verse carries mid-mission casts; Final Verse is the density payoff.
- Status-heavy weapons in hand — Dante's passive makes those procs earn their keep.
- Missions that reward committing to Dante's full ability loop instead of dabbling.
Follie
- Self Portrait carries mid-mission casts; Plein Air is the density payoff.
- Long holds where energy comfort matters — Follie's loop stays online without babysitting orbs.
- Dense spawns where Follie's cast cadence outpaces gun-only clears.
Mod Scaling Focus
Dante
Match the priority to your main ability — Strength or Duration first for most kits, then Efficiency, then Range.
- STR
- Raises damage and effect potency across Dante’s Strength-scaling abilities.
- DUR
- Extends channeled / timed effects — often comfort on Dante if the kit leans on buffs or zones.
- RNG
- Helps radius / targeting tools. Dump it if Dante is mostly self-buff or exalted weapons.
- EFF
- Keeps ability uptime comfortable, especially on longer Steel Path missions.
Follie
Match the priority to your main ability — Strength or Duration first for most kits, then Efficiency, then Range.
- STR
- Raises damage and effect potency across Follie’s Strength-scaling abilities.
- DUR
- Extends channeled / timed effects — often comfort on Follie if the kit leans on buffs or zones.
- RNG
- Helps radius / targeting tools. Dump it if Follie is mostly self-buff or exalted weapons.
- EFF
- Keeps ability uptime comfortable, especially on longer Steel Path missions.
Who Should You Pull?
- Status duration is how your weapons scale and Dante extends that plan for free.
- You'd rather specialize hard into status-duration amplification than stay generic in the Support lane.
- Skipping Follie frees a craft slot — you'd rather finish Dante properly.
- Open-world and bounty pacing still feel good on Dante, not only endless survival tiles.
- Inventory space / foundry queue: Dante jumps the line over another Follie craft.
- Energy / health orb rooms are common in your rota and Follie gets more mileage out of every pickup.
- Your favorite clear starts on Forced Perspective and ends on Plein Air — Follie is built for that arc.
- Dante's Dark Verse loop asks for a different muscle memory than you want to practice.
- Vazarin on the aura slot matches the school you're already building weapons around.
- Potato + Forma budget this month has Follie's name on it.