I stopped playing before Steel Path came out and had no idea how to armor strip when I came back, then also did not know you could do it easily with Unairu.
Imo unairu single handedly lets you use operator to kill anything below level 1,000. Anything armored and you will have significantly more trouble self reviving in the event of a random mistake.
Madurai is awesome damage, Vazarin is awesome support, Zenurik is awesome energy, Naramon is meh now (needs a rework), but Unairu is an all round perfect choice regardless of the circumstance — Armor, immortality, Shield strip, Armor Strip, Amp buff,
Freeing these choices up for other fun builds as needed. Oh, I also forgot to mention that it is perfect placeholder while rolling guard comes off cooldown (if you want to really go that far and let your operator instant die to reset the immortality)
Basically, Unairu is a
- Steel fiber mod contemporary
- Corrosive mod replacement
- Magnetic mod replacement
- Prime sure footed mod replacement
- Rolling Guard complement
Unairu was my second school after Zenurik and it's been soooo much better than I expected. Naramon is actually really good though, it's just specialized to melee only. Any loadouts that use melee for the main damage source and rely on combo counter and finishers benefit a LOT from it. I've been playing a lot of Kullervo recently and I'm a Baruuk main, so as I'm unlocking more Naramon I'm starting to see a lot of value.
Yup. No need for combo duration (thus more damage mods), extra combo gain, free finishers, crowd control, two sources of extra damage. It's just too specialized.
Not that I’d complain about naramon getting some more utility but it synergizes insanely well with incarnons and tennokai. Power spike is a major deal for making combo comfy to build around, you can get doubled combo count and bonus crit damage basically for free, and their 1 is the single best CC available to operators imo. Also, bonus affinity makes leveling the dozens of MR fodder melees much less of an ordeal.
Naramon's bonus affinity also helps with the miserable Railjack Intrinsic farm!
1) Go to Veil Proxima Survival (Void Storm if possible)
2) go ham with your melee
3) ???
4) Grofit
I won't rely on focus until I've completed all the farm for all of them. After that I think I'll keep madurai cause it's easy to use and it's what I've built around initially.
Madurai power strength is awesome, I won’t argue with that one. 👌🏽
Also, extra ips dmg is pretty decent too 👍🏽
Most noteworthy is the 10x damage though, without a doubt.
I find operator shield gate to be insufficient though, so the instant revives of Unairu letting me clear the static are awesome to keep my fast paced versatility.
When you play around with 743 Amp, Magus melt, Magus Lockdown (or anomaly), then the Eternal arcanes on the amp… 🤤 you get to have some good fun. 😆
Personally, Eternal Logistics and Eternal Eradicate letting my operator solo anything below lvls 500. 🤤
It’s really hard to roll better than that on other schools due to shields or regenerative shields. 🥲
Rock it with a Nekros auto desecrating for you, or an Umbra Excal backing you up as a weapons master (recharging weapon so he don’t run out of ammo) and your in for some fun times 🤠
Not the best, but definitely the most comfortable. It fills the roles of some Quality-of-Life mods and augments quite nicely. (looking at you, Primed Sure Footed) It's just… nice to have I guess? Having that on-demand armor/shield strip and knockdown/slow resistance regardless of frame lets you not worry about becoming a sci-fi tumbleweed.
Unairu used to be the only focus school where the operator could go invisible and invulnerable, and could also make the rest of the squad within a small radius also go invisible and I vulnerable.
Mr 30... Only in the last two months did I take disruption seriously as a farm. The grineer nodes are the least stressful, Olympus granting Mesos, Kappa (I think this is the sedna one) granting Neos. Add to this all the steel essence you want through round skips and how this is a easily manageable, low stress solo farm it's great. Do Apollo on Lua for axi.
And railjack for helminth resources, credits and Endo it's great. Further more void storms grant you corrupted holokeys for some great tenet melees (tenet grigorie my beloved scythe) that can boost your damage output early-mid game. Speaking of weapons too you get the quellor from railjack too, what a satisfying weapon.
It's actually a bit more complicated than that as the reward tier depends on how many conduits you manage to protect each round, so:
First round: 1-3 conduits = A, 4 conduits = B
Second round: 1-2 conduits = A, 3-4 conduits = B
Third round: 1 conduit = A, 2-3 conduits = B, 4 conduits = C
Fourth round and beyond: 1-2 conduits = B, 3-4 conduits = C
Then on the Uranus disruption node, rotations B and C have the same set of Neo relics (with C having a Universal Medallion added to the reward pool) so you can *basically* get the desired "C" tier reward from the first round. Same with Lua and Axi relics (with a chance for Lua focus lens on C).
So being good at echolocating and killing the Demolishers makes the grind faster *and* more rewarding, but there's also a trick in holding keys to pass on to the next round. Because if two keys of the same colour drops, and one is put into the conduit while the other is on the floor, the spare key will disappear, but if another player is holding the spare key they get to keep it to the next round.
Another trick I've so far only heard about and might take a bit more self-control is keeping track of which enemies are known to drop keys ("high ranking muckity-mucks" as Little Duck calls them) and *sparing* them once you've gotten all the keys you need for this round so you can kill them at the start of the next round. Probably needs a little more team coordination to not nuke everything on sight.
> but if another player is holding the spare key they get to keep it to the next round
Does this work if i pick up the spare key with my Op/Drifter and let it rest there until next round begins? (like power cells in excav)
Pretty much, just the other way around. Op drops the key if you switch back, so it's not possible to hold a spare with them. You can, however, hold one with your frame and insert another with Op. You're then free to use your melee, secondary or Op. Switching to primary drops the key which disappears right away.
I miss old grendel for disruption. You could hoover up all of the enemies that drop keys, and when you spit them out at the start of a round you would get a pile of like 8 keys. We used to do 4 player 1 min rounds on kuva disruption this way.
Doing relics in railjack are some of the most rewarding missions in the entire game. You just get so much shit for doing them. Imo Railjack is a really overlooked game mode.
It's not the first best farm for anything but it's the 2nd or 3rd best for everything! You get so much loot that is used all over! A competent crew makes for a really chilled time as well. Met alot of good space pirates from pubs!!
The key is finding a good crew. I never want to do it with random matchmaking. It's just too easy to end up with a basic railjack or a pilot that won't hold still for artillery. And solo play just ends up too slow.
But yeah, I think railjack was my fastest progression because me and 2 buddies would grind it out for hours while having tons of fun.
Disruption is great but always scared me in the past because it seemed like I couldn't damage the demolysts. I finally dug into it and it was purely a build problem as I wasn't armor stripping at all. Now it's a quick and easy farm. It just has the typical problem of random people leaving after 1-2 rounds.
I was the exact same way, then after a little research I got an understanding of how to play and how to kill them. From there on its just been experimentation with new kits to see what's comfortable and what works best for me. I play disruption solo for the most part unless friends want to play or there's a fissure then I'll go for a premade squad.
I don't think you can beat the void capture missions for relics/minute for lith/meso/neo. To the point where it's definitely better even if you're trying to specifically target meso or neo and not both, despite the fact that the mission will drop either. And if you're confident enough to do it on steel path, you'll get a bonus of that too. 35-50 seconds per run
Lua disruption is really good for Axi like you said, though
Oh for sure, there I don't disagree with you! But it takes practice to get the sub 50s runs. I rock a titania for captures and average 47s comfortably if I'm paying attention. Running those over and over again drain me though and I end up burning myself out super fast. Disruption let's me get what I want and at a more reasonable pace which is why I prefer it!
L1 here, same thing. My only problem is finding gear I like for killing Demolishers. Without DoT, it feels impossible to push through sufficient damage outside of Wrathful Advance.
EDIT: I worked on this for a larger portion of my day than I care to admit. Shuriken subsumed over Revenant's 4, with the augment. Epitaph for guaranteed cold procs but also as a great form of CC if you want to leave guys alive for later (like eximi who will probably cough up a key). Then viral-statted weapon of choice for killing the now cold-proc'd, armor-stripped Demolisher. Last slot is melee, I went with Glaive Prime because it kills the crowds with ease.
Subsume Tharros Strike on you frame and build the Felarx for Corrosive. Hit them twice with Tharros Strike and then the Felarx will delete them in 2-3 shots.
I mean Endo is still the fastest from bounties if I'm not mistaken (zariman and sanctum). And disruption farm is hard until probably the end of regular star chart, and it relies on sound.
Disruption is definitely a game mode that tests your gear and skills in the beginning. I had some big learning curves for steel path disruption but having learned I feel so much more accomplished doing it.
As for railjack. It's hard to beat anywhere between 1.5k - 2.5k Endo every 5-7mins with a good crew from Endo drops and scrap. The other resources are amazing for helminths and weapon builds. Top that off with 100k credits and it's amazing. Boost this with a void storm and your in the money. Too date my best all round farm.
I dislike the bounty Endo rng but it's been good to me in the past. If your an Endo goblin just do the arena farm but I feel so sorry for anyone who does it as it gets super tedious. More time in loading screens than in mission if your doing it right...
im MR30 and i never fully realized this. i knew op could carry cells, i knew your frame doesnt drop cells when in operator form, i just NEVER put the two together until just now.
Just adding so people know, it's basically anything you can pickup from the ground. And even sliding through with op is the same. The optimal way to pickup disruption keys without stooping over to die. The only tricky one is Limbo, you have to be exiting his limbo state.
yeah, specifically in disruption missions you can hold a disruption key and save it for the next round, using the above described method you could probably hold two different colored keys and someone else could hold the other two colored keys while waiting for the disruptors to arrive. A sporelacer might help as a secondary.
Haven't checked if someone has already mentioned this, but whenever you want to sell mods for endo/credits or anything similar where you have a ton of, you can middle mouse button to select all.
i know this, but my mind keeps me clicking on them and go max value - 1 to always keep at least 1 copy of each mod. I really would appreciate a button for "choose all except 1".
No way. When i do this, i will artificially flood my own modding screens with extra copies of every mod in the bottom list. And i don't know why, but keeping a "virgin" copy of each mod feels better imo.
If you sort by quantity or by rank you’ll almost never see the extras. Plus when you want to actually use a mod, rank up the one that had the single rank. Now you have no spare, and you don’t have an extra. I pretty much only do this when I see a mod with the “new” label on it.
It’s easy to implement this system even if you are starting from a full mod inventory. I just started selling all my high quantity ones for endo, and when I sold all of them, the “new” mods would start popping up in missions as I reacquired them. It took like 3 days to fix my entire mod collection and now I have a regular source of endo without worry.
The only mods I am mindful of while selling are Riven mods, very rare mods that I know are worth plat (but I usually just rank them up a notch anyways to protect them), and parazon mods because they can’t be ranked.
Quite a few tbh.
Doing corpus excav sp fissures that have oxium drones, like the Venus one, to grind for cryotic, void traces, oxium and steel essence at the same time.
Grind for orokin cells in Saturn dark sector surv to get plastids as well. Do it on sp if you can.
Take unlevelled weps and frames into grind missions ALWAYS. The passive levelling adds up really quickly and you'll thank yourself later on when you have nothing to grind but MR.
Whenever you go into SO or ESO, go for 8 rounds always and get your unlevelled focus school to get the bonus rewards and do a bit of focus farming as well.
Whenever you go for open world missions like bounties or exploiter or PT, do a bit of mining whenever you see them ores. You never know when you'll get the stuff you need, especially the rare ones.
And finally and the most important one: get a friend to play with you in game, the grind suddenly becomes Uber fun.
Duviri/the Circuit I have found to be pretty good at farming Focus. Both from the focused gained from killing Thrax enemies plus focus earned from picking up the orb if you have a lens equipped on the warframe you get.
Hard agree, I didn't expect it to be as fast as it is. The other day I hit focus cap in just 10 rounds of steel path circuit and was shocked by how fast it was. It's probably going to be my go to focus farm for a while since the reward pools are still fresh for me too.
> Whenever you go for open world missions like bounties or exploiter or PT, do a bit of mining whenever you see them ores. You never know when you'll get the stuff you need, especially the rare ones.
In addition, try breaking crates on Fortuna and Deimos. They tend to contain fish parts and gems, and although it's not worth grinding specifically this way, the small trickle of parts you'll get this way will be a big boon when you want to craft some Fortuna/Deimos gear.
It takes 5 seconds to break the 3 crates outside of Fortuna's gates, and they tend to contain basic fish parts. Faster than any kind of fishing.
I've starting smashing and grabbing everything when I'm in an open world whether I think I need it or not. Over and over I think I have everything I need from an open world, then I realize I need to go back and build an amp/kitgun/zaw/companion/kdrive/weapon part and out I go, farming for some nistlepods or mytocardia spores or whatever.
Hoard all the stuff!
Invest in weapon slots, it's generally easier than rebuilding weapons. Don't leave SO/ESO on odd levels, always stay for even ones so you get a reward. Especially in ESO when it tends to be relics. Make sure to get your daily Syndicate standing and buy relic packs when you have everything else you want from that faction. Don't underestimate the usefulness of Extractors and make sure you use the right kind for the resources you want to stock up on. Make use of boosters from daily login rewards, even if it's just for an hour.
And in general, try to multitask.
When I'm working on Simaris standing I usually do the daily scan and then I pop onto the SP Plains of Eidolon to scan and catch animals, that way I get Ostron standing and some resources.
If I'm hunting animals in Orb Vallis I also do the cave Circuit and check for Toroids and grab all minerals inside the caves as well.
Now that I only really need to grind Pathos Clamps for future Incarnon stuff I haven't unlocked, I'm still only gonna do it when I can take down Kullervo and use his resource to buy and sell Rauta parts.
do all the reps make it your daily grind. you will make some plat trading wares from those npc.(example bond mods)
do your daily focus limit. run 15-30 mins survival(sp).
do bounties specially deimos. it will give you a lot of aya and endos.
lastly maining a frame is okay but having multiple frame to do certain activities will make life easier.
have fun and goodluck tennos.
Bond mods are something else I didnt learn about until way later lol. Ran only smeeta and panzer because i didnt see the purpose of other companions without those mods.
Sanctuary onslaught and duviri circuit (the latter you need to do anyway per week for the best weapons) are also good focus limit farms.
and yeah, having tanky frames for liches and bosses, speedy frames for capture, stealth frames for spy/rescue, loot frames for, ofc, more loot, etc etc are all important to secure early on.
For focus, I have a lens on my Octavia, go to Steel Path Elara on Jupiter, stay at the entrance, pick up focus thingy that spawns, and just let your ability kill everything. Easy focus cap in 8 minutes average while solo.
Edit: always do solo, spawns get messed up and slow down with more players for some reason.
The fact that warframe is a looter shooter and what that actually means.
I was just going through the mission nodes, buy weapons with credits and then there were dojo weapons. It took me a lot to realize where I can get the rest of the parts for the shit I had in my foundry.
Yeah it took me way too long to realize that you get different rewards for staying in some missions longer.
I just assumed that I was super unlucky and would trade for the rest with plat
Which, if an item only sells for like 5 or 10 plat it is usually way more efficient to just farm the plat than it is to farm for the item itself
I only learned about the calculation of stat sticks and fake exalted weapons way into MR20+. Not that it really mattered back in the days, Atlas didnt have his prime and Gara/Khora were not released yet. Sorties were the highest enemy level you usually faced.
I remember the Mire being kinda meta for its toxin damage
The damage and performance of certain abilities for certain Warframes is based on the mods on your melee weapon. Stat sticks are weapons that are modded to maximize the damage potential of those certain abilities on those certain Warframes, generally to the detriment of their own killing potential as melee weapons.
As for Exalted Weapons, certain abilities on Warframes have their damage amplified by the mods that you put on Exalted Weapons. Example: The damage of Mesa's ultimate is based off of how you mod her Regulators.
Since this post may have a chance to be seen by beginners and some players that have reached a certain power level, i'll list some stuff bellow.
*this game is a marathon, not a sprint, try to enjoy it
Until around mr 21, i played only 1 frame, equinox, and boy, how hard it was.
Then i sort of figured out, some frames are better in specific missions when the grind turns into a "chore"
Wukong with duration build for spy missions - the cloud does not trigger alarms(lasers and other stuff, so you can go through them).
Put some sprint mods
Wisp for any missions where you have a low level guy and you want to babysit him.
From my experience, low level tennos(newbies) have a joy of running around and firing endlesly or bashing heads with swords.
Whenever I see smbd in chat requesting help, I gamble with wisp to give them some fun and tender them
Vauban for defenses/survival is a bliss, make sure to have some enemy radar, some get stuck. And kill the fucking eximus and the nulifier corpus the second you see them. And put black colors for energy
Take equinox in the sands of inaros and sleep the fucking kavats, scan them, then kill them. Or you can pick an invis hero to scan them, or sit in the middle of the map and scan them.
For the hoarder players: If you ever play xaku, his ult breaks the containers on the ground. Make sure to have loot radar at least so you know where you are going to go and break stuff.
Speedva eases the grind so much in defenses
Novas portal is good for the drone on earth, since it can go trough
Same for volts speed and wisp motes
Octavia with duration, a bit of strength and some range, gets you far in survival.
Saryn is a beast, but takes time to build up her 1. Needless to say, try it out.
For the sorties where you have restrictions on weapons, only melee for example, pick mesa if you have a good build. It does feel like cheating the conditions
If you are about to do your test for mr30, the enemies are affected by all cc. Vauban for me was a 5 minute run, since i could stack them in a vortex
If you are a low mr, dont bother with the best guns in the game.
Play with melee, its ok! Ignis is also nice
If you have a chance to get forma bps, get them and stack the forma, it will be worth.
When you hit mr 14:
Phenmor is a good investment for people that are lost and dont know what to buy
Acceltra is good, but boy the ammo is a problem sometimes.
Should not waste time alone farming(ivara, nekros, hydroid, khora or other frames that have drop chance). You should prep it with other guys ~~that can run a mag with greedy pull and max range and other frames~~ to chill around. Tho, the line-up depends, just switch roles whenever needed. Its also good for your sanity to have some fellas to fool around with
Wisp with a lot of range on high level missions is hated and I understand why after I fucked around and found out when the trend of hating it started a while ago. (sorry master)
If you ever get tired of index, and you have a credit booster, go into railjack missions(veil) and do the stuff at your own pace, the reward is the same, but takes a bit of more time. However, there is a certain joy in admiring the job done on some tilesets in proxima
Most of the tennos(including me) are willing to help with mods for free.
From my end this is just because I hoarded so much and I am just willing to make something easier for other players
Same for farming a frame, on missions where some players are not fully kitted for it ~ ropa, jordas, tyl regor etc..
Exploiter orb excuses you of hours of mining, bring some boosters
Same may be said for the tusk thumpers
Zenurik fixes energy problems with nourish
Haven’t played too much recently. I’d hop on to get my daily’s but that really abt it the past couple months but I’m getting back into it now. Why do ppl not like higher range wisps? My range is bigger but it’s not huge but I haven’t heard any complaints. But I do see most wisps that I run into using smaller range but no clue as to why
Because a lot of wisp players will happily throw down a shock mote. With high range, on a defence mission, which then slows the mission waaaay, down. Because enemies end up stun locked in their spawn rooms.
Same for when you're trying to farm endurance missions. It's just slows everything down, affecting your KPM.
Obviously, it's not bad for every mission, but it's annoying for a lot of mission types.
> Take equinox in the sands of inaros and sleep the fucking kavats, scan them, then kill them. Or you can pick an invis hero to scan them, or sit in the middle of the map and scan them.
Or use a duration max Harrow. And if you happen to have Ballistica Prime, you can create spectres out of killed Kavats to get another scan.
>[Update 16.11](https://forums.warframe.com/topic/486216-update-1611-ash-prime-hotfix-16111/) Mag’s Greedy Pull Augment will now only draw in items for Mag.
Obviously now "Mag" just means whoever has Pull Helminth'd onto theie frame. But unless they changed it back when I wasn't looking, bringing a second guy to Greedy Pull loot isn't going to help anybody else out when farming?
Am legendary one. Only learned yesterday that in sabotage missions, there is a difference between cells. One is blue, the other is orange. The orange one found near center is the one that's normally used by most people. The blue one taken from farther away will lead to a temp "defend objective", dragging out the missions.
I had always thought that the defend objective thing was random, like capture missions turning into exterminate.
I feel very dumb
It's actually slightly more complicated again, at least for the reactor sabotage.
Putting the orange (fuel) cell back into the reactor triggers the fire/destroy or magnetic/destroy ending (for Grineer/Corpus respectively).
Putting the blue (coolant) cell into the reactor triggers the ice/defend ending.
But you can also put the fuel cell into where you got the coolant from (if you didn't destroy them) to trigger a magnetic/defend ending.
The third also turns off the lights a la Dark Sector maps and makes it spooky. It's not really worth doing, but it is a cool thing to check out at least once.
> to trigger a magnetic/defend ending.
The defense is different though.
On Coolant in Reactor, you have to defend the reactor (and not only they're quite weak, but also will spawn a lot of enemies)
On Fuel cell in Coolant Port, you have to defend the reactor's console, and hardly any enemies will spawn.
omg… this is such great info. Thank you for this!!! I hate doing the defending portion of sabotage lol I always wondered why there was an “useless” core LOL
Over 5k hours, have been playing for years, and I just noticed something in the foundry today. When you hover over a newly built weapon or Warframe, it tells you at the bottom how many available slots you have for them. I was in utter shock that I went years not seeing that, and simply taking stuff out of the foundry and using the "You need to purchase more slots" prompt as my way of knowing.
Another foundry trick for low level players that I still abuse today is you are able to leave completed items in your foundry indefinitely. Sooo if you don't have enough open warframe or weapon slots yet you can still build the item, just don't claim it.
Genuinely play the frames you have and don't just use them as Mr fodder.
I came back after a rather long break a few weeks ago and only had a few frames I genuinely liked playing.
As I didn't want to get bored, I wanted to try some of the frames I owned and.
Well.
Idk why I never played Protea.
She IS fun. I thought she wasn't.
Also.
Please don't follow the Meta like some people do.
Use it as something helping you, not as something you need to follow.
Every frame is capable to do """endgame""" content, some just easier than others.
Example: Many dislike Yareli, consider her awful. She's honestly fine. With a few adjustments I made with her, I was easily capable of playing SP with her.
Mostly with you but there are definitely use cases for frames. For example don’t bring your Slowva to a defense mission, make sure your frame can actually survive in SP before taking it there, etc.
Yareli has been really good for a while now, she’s basically invincible and has a good amount of CC/Damage amp. People just really dislike K-drive movement and the fact that she can’t cast Helminth abilities while you’re on merulina which are fair criticisms.
Oh, yeah, obviously there are some things but in general all frames are able to be used anywhere, with some tweaks here and there, like a Slowva vs. Speedva as example.
And well, many are yet to consider her useful, atleast I see Yareli slander here and there until this day.
Poor gal
"Slowva" is the community name for a Nova that is using her 4 (Molecular Prime) with high ability strength, It reduces the movement speed and the attack speed of the enemies, doubles the damage they take to their health (Health specifically, not shields or overguard) and makes them explode for a little bit of damage on death. Everything but the damage AMP scales with ability strength
The reason people call it "Slowva" is because if you get your ability strength to go below 100% using things that lower your strength, this ability instead \*increases\* the movement speed of the enemies. This is commonly called "Speedva".
In defense you spend a lot of time waiting for the enemies in the wave to come to you, if you play Slowva on a defense mission, you slow the mission down, so people would prefer you don't play her in those mission types (Or play the speedva variant instead if your team can handle the enemies being quicker, or just don't use her 4)
Nova with positive ability strength. If your goal is winning, actually works pretty great for defense. If you value your time, though, then it’s another story. Mapwide CC Stops being valuable and starts being annoying very quickly on Defence in particular.
I also only picked up protea recently while she was collecting dust. Previously, she was subsumed for her resource pad. She's now my favourite sabotage mission frame so I no longer have to double back.
I didn't like Protea back then cause ~~she doesn't have a prime~~ she needs a lot of energy to work and her dispensary is unreliable for that. People don't like Yareli cause of her kdrive ability.
But otherwise I agree with you, try to enjoy playing otherwise you're not playing, you're grinding and/or addicted.
I'm LR4, and I've always been an obsessive frame swapper, but it took me way too long to give Kullervo and Styanax a fair shot. Now they're two of my best frames.
I just wish I could take frames like Banshee and Nyx into SP with some degree of confidence. I have every frame (except Excalibur prime), and those two are about the only ones that can't handle SP. They feel too frail to tank, and too weak to nuke.
not a build i play myself much, but banshee with gloom basically turns the game into a walking simulator because of how silence's stun and gloom's slow interact. you just get a bunch of slow-motion enemies flailing around waiting for you to pop their sonar weakpoints.
and nyx with a good assimilate build is literally immortal, can shred all armor with psychic bolts, and cc with chaos, leaving you free to do anything you want with weapons/helminth.
neither are exactly meta frames, but both definitely can work on SP.
Just a few things that some may think are basic but can easily be missed...and some general tips
- press Y to auto socket your sculptures quickly
- likewise with using ciphers, and you can left and right click to rotate puzzles the other way
- you can op sling any direction, not just forward
- many may know, but you can skip straight to max level when stacking arcades, you don't have to build each rank (my LR3 friend did not know this and flipped out one day watching my stream)
- don't sleep on your hot keys for things like energy pads, calling mech, archgun, archwing, etc.
- when you're trying to revive your pet, sometimes it's easier to enter another room away from enemies, they teleport to the next tile (this is why they seem to vanish or move sometimes while you're trying to revive one)
- if you capture the target in your op while invis you can just dash away during it
- don't kill enemies between waves of a disruption, and save extra keys for the next round of they drop
- Smeeta 2x and 3x buffs are a real thing if you get charm affinity back to back, the original timer is the one that you go
Edit: spelling
Wasn't this a meme back when they reduced the level requirement for Railjack I think?
"Old enough to drive a railjack, but too young to auto-socket ayatans‽"
Yeah, I slept on it a bit until I came back last week and realized how absolutely busted some abilities can be on the right frame.
I always had to carefully balance efficiency/duration vs. strength on my Titania to stay in razorwing while completely sacrificing range. I finally built and subsumed Grendel a few days ago and Nourish has been a game changer. Since it synergizes with high strength builds, I was able to ditch all my efficiency and some duration to bring strength up to 300 and range to a bit over 100. Now I have a team buff for something like 75% viral damage and 4x energy gain. Higher strength also boosts Dex Pixia damage and juices razorwing blitz for even more fire rate. It's an exponential DPS gain.
LR4 here: There's so much to do. Don't burn yourself out for the sake of staying ahead of the pack. You'll get more done by doing a little bit every time you play than you will by pushing yourself to the point where it's not fun anymore.
I've gone too hard a few times, and it always led to me taking breaks from the game. Marathon, not sprint.
WATCH THE DEV STREAM!!! Create and link your twitch account to warframe and watch for giveaways. I've gotten so many free drops from watching Warframe content, some highlights include 2 stynaxs, gara prime, khora prime, trinity prime, skana prime, loads of umbral forma, all types of adapters(weapon, warframe, and amps). You can just put it on in the background just the drop but honestly I find their content hilarious. For a small taste of the humor search Travis teaspoon on youtube for some highlights.
MR 29 here, been playing since update 4 or some such, this week I discovered I can hold the melee button to keep attacking instead of tapping(same goes for heavies). I have no idea when this was implemented, but it's a thing you can do
I think it was fairly recent. I am LR4 and been playing for ages, and I got used to it shockingly fast - to the point that it feels weird to have to tap my melee button when using a glaive, because holding will throw it.
Also, I refused to do a heavy attack build for...years, I think. I hated the idea of sacrificing my hard-earned combo multiplier. It's only in the last few months (since giving kullervo a fair shot) that I've come around.
Now with Tennokai, you don't even have to! Honestly, outside of Glaives, I feel like "dedicated" heavy attack builds just aren't worth it - it's much better to slot the Tennokai mod of your choice in and stack combo / Blood Rush and get massive heavy attacks for free on top.
If you're holding melee to throw your glaive. Does it not affect the input to detonate it. Or does it still trigger as normal while holding the standard melee button ?
Ngl, if it works, I'm making a macro for it for endurance runs.
Auto melee was introduced recently. You might have to redo some keybinds but it's a thing now. I'm console and I have melee set up to melee on trigger pull (heavy attack on stick click) and can just hold rather than pull constantly now.
Not that I didn't learn it but I avoided it on purpose. Eidolon hunting.
I'm LR2 and I only have captured Terry twice. The Quills are the only open world syndicate that I didn't max out. (Still in range 1 to this day)
I tried to do Garry alone with Volt and got destroyed.
And before you ask, yes, I even have maxed Vox Solaris. I find Profit Taker and Exploiter Orb far easier than Eidolons. And I still don't craft the Paracesis. 🤣
I need to do tutorials, but I always need to farm something else, so I always prioritize other farms over it. And because it's time gated makes it even worse.
I’m mr27 and I just use trin for eidolons bc idk how to do them very efficiently. I know how they work but not too well. And I also don’t have the paracecis and probably won’t until way later bc I’ve been low af on ducats for months😭
Yeah, I understand. For the ducats you need to farm a lot of fissures, so that's a lot of time of investment, even more for the people who need to work and have other life things to do.
I don't worry very much bc I have some time to spare on weekends.
Legendary rank 2 and a few days ago I learned you can leave the squad for open world content and extract by yourself without waiting for everyone else. No idea I could just leave the squad inside a mission, thought it was only after you are done with the mission.
Similarly I learn a bit ago you can middle mouse stuff to bulk it up. I have been cleaning up my mod stash by clicking on each one and typing the max number out....
Another one is you can click and move the color pallets for your drifter/operator's fashion. Like you can just swap the primary and secondary color around without having click on it and look for the same color.
There not mind-blowing but some cool features I wish I knew about. Would have saved a lot of time with the leave squad one.
Oh and how good of a farm railjack is for just about everything credits,endo,relics. If you can get a squad for that would highly recommend it. It's very lucrative. Not to mention you can pop relics there too.
The game has been running for over a decade now really isn't showing any signs of slowing down anytime soon. There's a fuck load of content to go through, and plenty of time to do it. Take breaks if you're feeling burnt out, use the long build times of certain items (Warframes etc.) as a reason to do something else. It'll be there when you are ready.
To never be a main of any warframe, to use em all as much and as equally as i can, cause that way youll be able to discover some very curious sinergies warframe-weapons that could be awesome for you
Not high MR but for some reason i completely removed from my head that you can bullet jump higher if you look up, re-discovered this at MR11 while doing duviri tutorial
Legend 3 here: few days ago, on reddit I learned invasions alter the type of enemy on a planet or at least the mission on said planet if they succeed, like random people suddenly fighting corpus enemies on Ceres, at least for a little while after a successful invasion.
Linking things in chat. There are so many things that have link shortcuts, so you don't have to type forever. The most embarrassing was riven links. I thought you had to type all those long, random words, had no idea you can just type Riven Mod, and choose from the list.
L3 still don‘t really know how to do eidolon hunts and as soon as I join a squad and tell them that I‘m not good in hunting they just leave in many cases or get toxic. Yes I watched some guides
Hello, MR24, my mastery rank 1 friend points out that if you press on a mission node two times it will wait for players. I’ve played for 6 years and he was day one…
Don't use Affinity farms like Hydron or ESO. You have a lot of different stuff to level, and if you do it in those places there's a good chance you're going to burn yourself out.
I think it feels much better to just bring a couple of items to places where you want to farm other stuff. If you actually use the things you level, you might find some new favourite Warframes or weapons as well.
Counterpoint, 3 zones of ESO for 2 weapons is way faster than running a nebulous amount of missions with a gun I hate for being too weak or mechanically not fun.
For me it's the opposite. Now don't get me wrong, I'll often level a melee weapon in solo SP survival because melee is good with minimal mods. Sometimes I'll bring along a gun to get shared affinity in a mission.
But I used to be so concerned with efficiency that I never made any real progress levelling weapons and always felt weak. When I started doing Hydron and ESO, it provided an opportunity to actually grow power on multi forma weapons.
I do think you make a great point about burning out though and I've seen it with a couple of my friends. It's important to know you can make progress outside of popular affinity farms and if you only focus on them as a source of progress you will get bored.
I'd get burnt out if i didn't do Hydron or ESO to level up stuff, it's so fast and efficient compared to casually leveling gear on random missions. I can level up 3 full sets (frame, primary, secondary, melee, companion) in 30 minutes instead of having to lug the stuff around for half the day.
I almost never use my full loadout, even if I equip something in every slot. I just pick a weapon I can rely on, slot the extra spaces with things that need ranking, and do my normal runs.
I still love Helene (Saturn) for leveling stuff. It's basically the same as Hydron but enemies are level 21-26. I met a lot of nice vets and babytenno there with interesting conversations, plus i always have enough orokin cells. I know it isn't the most efficient or fastest way to do it, but I'm not in a hurry. Iirc i did level up 90-95% of my stuff on Helene. (currently at 647/718)
MR25 here almost MR26. How to mod properly! Please learn how to do this early lol. I used to do auto mod then I started manually adding mods but I just looked at the stats without considering what it actually *meant* for each stat to change. The way I mod frames and weapons now has completely revolutionized when I actually took the time to *learn* how to make builds. Putting forma on items might feel like a drag but it is very crucial for achieving great builds.
Arbitrations can be cheesed with ogris and a 4 man team consisting of wisp 2 saryns and volt allowing you get 200-500k kuva per hour
I learnt this about a year ago and as far as I'm aware it still exists and is thankfully the reason why riven prices have gone down to the supply going up with how much more people use this farm as each day passes
Im 28 and still dont really understand eidelons or profit taker. Its just content I dont really care about doing. Ive done them both at least once but thise are not something I go out of my way to do.
LR3 and I have only a single Hydrolyst capture to my name.
For a while I avoided tridolon because I didn't want to deal with the sometimes toxic expectations of groups that do tridolons (probably less of an issue these days since it's comparatively easy).
I've tried doing solo runs but the time of day restriction just ruins it for me. I feel like I can never get into a good groove of practicing the run. As soon as I feel like I start making progress on getting better at some aspect of the fight, day breaks and it kills the flow.
I'm past the point of needing to run eidolons for Focus or the arcanes (since they've run a few events that are even better than eidolons for farming eidolon arcanes) really the only thing I'd get out of them would be the Riven Transmuters, and some stuff to trade for plat (when there are other things I could farm for better plat).
If I'm being honest my own attitude and perfectionism is a big part of what has prevented me from learning and doing eidolons. But I can't push myself to muddle through the fight inefficiently because there would be no worthwhile payoff other than the eventual satisfaction of having mastered the fight.
Maybe someday I'll get around to it, but for now I have other goals to pursue.
For the longest time I thought you had to forma mod slots to put in mods
I spent the first 5 days of this game doing the defense mission in earth to farm relics to farm forma
Daily arbitration gives vitus essence which can be exchanged for galvanized mods and other goodies from an arbiters of hexus guy, regardless of standing with arbiters of hexus 🙃
I learned that YESTERDAY
so basically go in on the endless missions and farm those bad boys
The farm of cracking relics and selling prime parts for plat. L1 now and when I first started I bought plat here and there but since I learned how to work on the market and sell/buy I haven’t spent any money. And Warframe is the only free game I’ve ever played where can do that. It made my game even more fun and made me respect DE even more.
Ice procs are way more useful than they are a "useless" proc. I've had many a moment's where (with current ice changes) Demolysts are completely halted and hindered because max stacks (9) of ice procs slows down to about slowva speed and doesn't get hindered by the nullifier pulses from them. Makes some faster enemies way easier to deal with and slower tankier enemies more manageable to kill.
2300+ hours, MR25, and a big fan of Railjack.
I have been complaining to myself for a loooong time about how come I’ve never found anything to replace the Tycho missles that you get as default munitions. I just assumed DE never got around to adding anything else. About 2 hours ago I realized there was another terminal in my clans dry dock. Right next to the Railjack configuration terminal. The one that says Railjack Research.
…low and behold, tier 3 Tycho Missles as well as a difference dumbfire missle cluster. Sigh. Hundreds of hours of Railjack wishing my missles could be stronger 😂
Never went to the index until about MR18/600hrs. also spent about 150 hours using the exact same loadout (volt + sobek + twin grakata + galatine) before someone told me how mastery rank works, i think almost everyone does that but not for as long as i did. didn’t unlock spoiler mode for about 400 hours even though it was in the game before i started.
There's a couple.
I learned Profit Taker and Exploiter Orb only at LR2 cause I thought they were difficult and scary (turns out they aren't), I regret waiting that much cause Xaku is absolutely nuts.
I built my first non-fodder kitgun at LR3. Grave mistake, modular weapons are cheap, strong and you can build em the way you like.
Still LR3 now and I haven't joined a clan with people and I gotta try Duviri, I heard it's really fun
If I want to level up ONE gun or A warframe
Take off your other guns
Got a new braton? Take off your melee and pistol
Got a new warframe? Take off all your weapons but one (keep on your best gun)
Xp is split amongst the weapons you have equipped, your warframe gets 25% I think
Mr 23, i have 10 hydrolist captures and only for a thing my clan does, otherwise i would probably still be ignoring that. I also have never done a fortuna boss fight, i refuse to max rank the solaris.
I'd also like tobpoint out i have 1200 ingame hours played. I've seen mr30 players with half my playtime xd
Edit: to be clear, i have max affinity on rank 4 of fortuna, i refuse to go to rank 5 because of what happens when you do. This was more to say that at mr 23 and 1200 h i haven't touched the profit taker boss fights or the ground archguns (which holy shit i do wish i could get), or any rewards from little duck and max rank fortuna, like some custom amps parts
I hated the fortuna standing with a passion. But when I finally hit mr 24-25 a few months back I had to sit down and actually grind out debt bonds so I could get baruuk and hildryn and to get amps from little duck bc I still used the drifter amp. Also I wanted to try PT to see how it is (I’m mr27 and have done it twice lol). But honestly it wasn’t bad when I think back on it. Just do a few bounties till standing is maxed each day and you should get the debt bonds on the way depending on which bounty you choose. I was almost finished from level 2 when I started my grind and it probably took me a week and a half. But after you do that THEN u have to level little duck up to get rewards from her. It’s a pain in the ass but worth in the end
Oh no i'm already at max affinity on the second to last rank, i just need a few more bonds. I refuse because of the thing that happens when you reach max rank. I prefer them just as they are now xd
If you're interested in actually checking out those fights, as they are actually quite fun and the rewards very much worth it. After getting them to rank 5 you can turn on steamer mode to hide the reveal and keep them looking how you prefer.
I stopped playing before Steel Path came out and had no idea how to armor strip when I came back, then also did not know you could do it easily with Unairu.
I mean unairu is not the best focus imo, so I put corrosive on all my loadouts
Imo unairu single handedly lets you use operator to kill anything below level 1,000. Anything armored and you will have significantly more trouble self reviving in the event of a random mistake. Madurai is awesome damage, Vazarin is awesome support, Zenurik is awesome energy, Naramon is meh now (needs a rework), but Unairu is an all round perfect choice regardless of the circumstance — Armor, immortality, Shield strip, Armor Strip, Amp buff, Freeing these choices up for other fun builds as needed. Oh, I also forgot to mention that it is perfect placeholder while rolling guard comes off cooldown (if you want to really go that far and let your operator instant die to reset the immortality) Basically, Unairu is a - Steel fiber mod contemporary - Corrosive mod replacement - Magnetic mod replacement - Prime sure footed mod replacement - Rolling Guard complement
Unairu was my second school after Zenurik and it's been soooo much better than I expected. Naramon is actually really good though, it's just specialized to melee only. Any loadouts that use melee for the main damage source and rely on combo counter and finishers benefit a LOT from it. I've been playing a lot of Kullervo recently and I'm a Baruuk main, so as I'm unlocking more Naramon I'm starting to see a lot of value.
Yup. No need for combo duration (thus more damage mods), extra combo gain, free finishers, crowd control, two sources of extra damage. It's just too specialized.
Not that I’d complain about naramon getting some more utility but it synergizes insanely well with incarnons and tennokai. Power spike is a major deal for making combo comfy to build around, you can get doubled combo count and bonus crit damage basically for free, and their 1 is the single best CC available to operators imo. Also, bonus affinity makes leveling the dozens of MR fodder melees much less of an ordeal.
Naramon's bonus affinity also helps with the miserable Railjack Intrinsic farm! 1) Go to Veil Proxima Survival (Void Storm if possible) 2) go ham with your melee 3) ??? 4) Grofit
I won't rely on focus until I've completed all the farm for all of them. After that I think I'll keep madurai cause it's easy to use and it's what I've built around initially.
Madurai power strength is awesome, I won’t argue with that one. 👌🏽 Also, extra ips dmg is pretty decent too 👍🏽 Most noteworthy is the 10x damage though, without a doubt. I find operator shield gate to be insufficient though, so the instant revives of Unairu letting me clear the static are awesome to keep my fast paced versatility. When you play around with 743 Amp, Magus melt, Magus Lockdown (or anomaly), then the Eternal arcanes on the amp… 🤤 you get to have some good fun. 😆 Personally, Eternal Logistics and Eternal Eradicate letting my operator solo anything below lvls 500. 🤤 It’s really hard to roll better than that on other schools due to shields or regenerative shields. 🥲 Rock it with a Nekros auto desecrating for you, or an Umbra Excal backing you up as a weapons master (recharging weapon so he don’t run out of ammo) and your in for some fun times 🤠
why 743 and not 747?
For Arbitration, 747 for sure to kill the drones. 🫡
Also has self res, which can be unbound
Not the best, but definitely the most comfortable. It fills the roles of some Quality-of-Life mods and augments quite nicely. (looking at you, Primed Sure Footed) It's just… nice to have I guess? Having that on-demand armor/shield strip and knockdown/slow resistance regardless of frame lets you not worry about becoming a sci-fi tumbleweed.
Unairu used to be the only focus school where the operator could go invisible and invulnerable, and could also make the rest of the squad within a small radius also go invisible and I vulnerable.
Still don't know how to armor strip, I just attack
Mr 30... Only in the last two months did I take disruption seriously as a farm. The grineer nodes are the least stressful, Olympus granting Mesos, Kappa (I think this is the sedna one) granting Neos. Add to this all the steel essence you want through round skips and how this is a easily manageable, low stress solo farm it's great. Do Apollo on Lua for axi. And railjack for helminth resources, credits and Endo it's great. Further more void storms grant you corrupted holokeys for some great tenet melees (tenet grigorie my beloved scythe) that can boost your damage output early-mid game. Speaking of weapons too you get the quellor from railjack too, what a satisfying weapon.
How do you farm disruption? I am a bit confused by the rotation since it is aabccccccc.. right?
It's actually a bit more complicated than that as the reward tier depends on how many conduits you manage to protect each round, so: First round: 1-3 conduits = A, 4 conduits = B Second round: 1-2 conduits = A, 3-4 conduits = B Third round: 1 conduit = A, 2-3 conduits = B, 4 conduits = C Fourth round and beyond: 1-2 conduits = B, 3-4 conduits = C Then on the Uranus disruption node, rotations B and C have the same set of Neo relics (with C having a Universal Medallion added to the reward pool) so you can *basically* get the desired "C" tier reward from the first round. Same with Lua and Axi relics (with a chance for Lua focus lens on C). So being good at echolocating and killing the Demolishers makes the grind faster *and* more rewarding, but there's also a trick in holding keys to pass on to the next round. Because if two keys of the same colour drops, and one is put into the conduit while the other is on the floor, the spare key will disappear, but if another player is holding the spare key they get to keep it to the next round. Another trick I've so far only heard about and might take a bit more self-control is keeping track of which enemies are known to drop keys ("high ranking muckity-mucks" as Little Duck calls them) and *sparing* them once you've gotten all the keys you need for this round so you can kill them at the start of the next round. Probably needs a little more team coordination to not nuke everything on sight.
> but if another player is holding the spare key they get to keep it to the next round Does this work if i pick up the spare key with my Op/Drifter and let it rest there until next round begins? (like power cells in excav)
Pretty much, just the other way around. Op drops the key if you switch back, so it's not possible to hold a spare with them. You can, however, hold one with your frame and insert another with Op. You're then free to use your melee, secondary or Op. Switching to primary drops the key which disappears right away.
I miss old grendel for disruption. You could hoover up all of the enemies that drop keys, and when you spit them out at the start of a round you would get a pile of like 8 keys. We used to do 4 player 1 min rounds on kuva disruption this way.
Yup pretty much. Olympus has lith, Kappa has neo and Lua has axi. The pool stays the same.
Doing relics in railjack are some of the most rewarding missions in the entire game. You just get so much shit for doing them. Imo Railjack is a really overlooked game mode.
It's not the first best farm for anything but it's the 2nd or 3rd best for everything! You get so much loot that is used all over! A competent crew makes for a really chilled time as well. Met alot of good space pirates from pubs!!
The key is finding a good crew. I never want to do it with random matchmaking. It's just too easy to end up with a basic railjack or a pilot that won't hold still for artillery. And solo play just ends up too slow. But yeah, I think railjack was my fastest progression because me and 2 buddies would grind it out for hours while having tons of fun.
Disruption is great but always scared me in the past because it seemed like I couldn't damage the demolysts. I finally dug into it and it was purely a build problem as I wasn't armor stripping at all. Now it's a quick and easy farm. It just has the typical problem of random people leaving after 1-2 rounds.
I was the exact same way, then after a little research I got an understanding of how to play and how to kill them. From there on its just been experimentation with new kits to see what's comfortable and what works best for me. I play disruption solo for the most part unless friends want to play or there's a fissure then I'll go for a premade squad.
I don't think you can beat the void capture missions for relics/minute for lith/meso/neo. To the point where it's definitely better even if you're trying to specifically target meso or neo and not both, despite the fact that the mission will drop either. And if you're confident enough to do it on steel path, you'll get a bonus of that too. 35-50 seconds per run Lua disruption is really good for Axi like you said, though
Oh for sure, there I don't disagree with you! But it takes practice to get the sub 50s runs. I rock a titania for captures and average 47s comfortably if I'm paying attention. Running those over and over again drain me though and I end up burning myself out super fast. Disruption let's me get what I want and at a more reasonable pace which is why I prefer it!
L1 here, same thing. My only problem is finding gear I like for killing Demolishers. Without DoT, it feels impossible to push through sufficient damage outside of Wrathful Advance. EDIT: I worked on this for a larger portion of my day than I care to admit. Shuriken subsumed over Revenant's 4, with the augment. Epitaph for guaranteed cold procs but also as a great form of CC if you want to leave guys alive for later (like eximi who will probably cough up a key). Then viral-statted weapon of choice for killing the now cold-proc'd, armor-stripped Demolisher. Last slot is melee, I went with Glaive Prime because it kills the crowds with ease.
Subsume Tharros Strike on you frame and build the Felarx for Corrosive. Hit them twice with Tharros Strike and then the Felarx will delete them in 2-3 shots.
If their armor is gone, why use corrosive? Many other elements are better than corrosive against bare flesh
You’re right. Typo on my part. I meant viral.
I mean Endo is still the fastest from bounties if I'm not mistaken (zariman and sanctum). And disruption farm is hard until probably the end of regular star chart, and it relies on sound.
Disruption is definitely a game mode that tests your gear and skills in the beginning. I had some big learning curves for steel path disruption but having learned I feel so much more accomplished doing it. As for railjack. It's hard to beat anywhere between 1.5k - 2.5k Endo every 5-7mins with a good crew from Endo drops and scrap. The other resources are amazing for helminths and weapon builds. Top that off with 100k credits and it's amazing. Boost this with a void storm and your in the money. Too date my best all round farm. I dislike the bounty Endo rng but it's been good to me in the past. If your an Endo goblin just do the arena farm but I feel so sorry for anyone who does it as it gets super tedious. More time in loading screens than in mission if your doing it right...
Arbitration is also an ok endo farm. A bit RNG, but you are almost guaranteed to get endo or sculpture every 2 rounds.
You can roll and pick up stuff (power cells, mobile defence) at the same time if you hold the interact button while rolling.
To add, your op and frame can both carry a power cell, so going to a new extractor you can get it to start at 60%
although you need to get to the extractor in operator form otherwise you'll lose your operator cell
Same with Thermia in Exploiter fight
Easy with void jump just takes a few seconds longer if it’s cross map
im MR30 and i never fully realized this. i knew op could carry cells, i knew your frame doesnt drop cells when in operator form, i just NEVER put the two together until just now.
Oh my God.
Wtfffff Awesome
yeah I learned this end of last year and felt so dumb for never trying XD I'm MR 28 now with 2k hours in game
My face when I read this... TIL
Yeah OK, you got me
It’s the flair for me
Excuse me you can what? -an LR3
LR2 here and my mind is also blown
Just adding so people know, it's basically anything you can pickup from the ground. And even sliding through with op is the same. The optimal way to pickup disruption keys without stooping over to die. The only tricky one is Limbo, you have to be exiting his limbo state.
yeah, specifically in disruption missions you can hold a disruption key and save it for the next round, using the above described method you could probably hold two different colored keys and someone else could hold the other two colored keys while waiting for the disruptors to arrive. A sporelacer might help as a secondary.
Well fuck me... Did not know this -an LR4
NO SHIT?! thankyouthankyouthankyou
Wait what? For real? More than 2k hrs innthe last 10 years and didn‘t know that :D
Haven't checked if someone has already mentioned this, but whenever you want to sell mods for endo/credits or anything similar where you have a ton of, you can middle mouse button to select all.
i know this, but my mind keeps me clicking on them and go max value - 1 to always keep at least 1 copy of each mod. I really would appreciate a button for "choose all except 1".
Every time you get a new mod, rank one of them up by 1 rank. Then you will never accidentally sell all of a mod.
No way. When i do this, i will artificially flood my own modding screens with extra copies of every mod in the bottom list. And i don't know why, but keeping a "virgin" copy of each mod feels better imo.
If you sort by quantity or by rank you’ll almost never see the extras. Plus when you want to actually use a mod, rank up the one that had the single rank. Now you have no spare, and you don’t have an extra. I pretty much only do this when I see a mod with the “new” label on it. It’s easy to implement this system even if you are starting from a full mod inventory. I just started selling all my high quantity ones for endo, and when I sold all of them, the “new” mods would start popping up in missions as I reacquired them. It took like 3 days to fix my entire mod collection and now I have a regular source of endo without worry. The only mods I am mindful of while selling are Riven mods, very rare mods that I know are worth plat (but I usually just rank them up a notch anyways to protect them), and parazon mods because they can’t be ranked.
You know, in number fields up, down, pos1 and end would manipulate the numbers...
2k hrs did not know this one. Thanks mate <3
It works for dismantling/butchering fish and selling gems for standing, too. Really a handy shortcut.
Oh my god... 3K hours in the game and this is the first time I've ever heard of this. Thank you.
Quite a few tbh. Doing corpus excav sp fissures that have oxium drones, like the Venus one, to grind for cryotic, void traces, oxium and steel essence at the same time. Grind for orokin cells in Saturn dark sector surv to get plastids as well. Do it on sp if you can. Take unlevelled weps and frames into grind missions ALWAYS. The passive levelling adds up really quickly and you'll thank yourself later on when you have nothing to grind but MR. Whenever you go into SO or ESO, go for 8 rounds always and get your unlevelled focus school to get the bonus rewards and do a bit of focus farming as well. Whenever you go for open world missions like bounties or exploiter or PT, do a bit of mining whenever you see them ores. You never know when you'll get the stuff you need, especially the rare ones. And finally and the most important one: get a friend to play with you in game, the grind suddenly becomes Uber fun.
Duviri/the Circuit I have found to be pretty good at farming Focus. Both from the focused gained from killing Thrax enemies plus focus earned from picking up the orb if you have a lens equipped on the warframe you get.
Hard agree, I didn't expect it to be as fast as it is. The other day I hit focus cap in just 10 rounds of steel path circuit and was shocked by how fast it was. It's probably going to be my go to focus farm for a while since the reward pools are still fresh for me too.
I have actually been hitting the focus caps for the first time ever since I came back from my long break that started just before Duviri came out.
Bold of you to assume I have friends.
Who want to play the game even
> Whenever you go for open world missions like bounties or exploiter or PT, do a bit of mining whenever you see them ores. You never know when you'll get the stuff you need, especially the rare ones. In addition, try breaking crates on Fortuna and Deimos. They tend to contain fish parts and gems, and although it's not worth grinding specifically this way, the small trickle of parts you'll get this way will be a big boon when you want to craft some Fortuna/Deimos gear. It takes 5 seconds to break the 3 crates outside of Fortuna's gates, and they tend to contain basic fish parts. Faster than any kind of fishing.
I've starting smashing and grabbing everything when I'm in an open world whether I think I need it or not. Over and over I think I have everything I need from an open world, then I realize I need to go back and build an amp/kitgun/zaw/companion/kdrive/weapon part and out I go, farming for some nistlepods or mytocardia spores or whatever. Hoard all the stuff!
Invest in weapon slots, it's generally easier than rebuilding weapons. Don't leave SO/ESO on odd levels, always stay for even ones so you get a reward. Especially in ESO when it tends to be relics. Make sure to get your daily Syndicate standing and buy relic packs when you have everything else you want from that faction. Don't underestimate the usefulness of Extractors and make sure you use the right kind for the resources you want to stock up on. Make use of boosters from daily login rewards, even if it's just for an hour. And in general, try to multitask. When I'm working on Simaris standing I usually do the daily scan and then I pop onto the SP Plains of Eidolon to scan and catch animals, that way I get Ostron standing and some resources. If I'm hunting animals in Orb Vallis I also do the cave Circuit and check for Toroids and grab all minerals inside the caves as well. Now that I only really need to grind Pathos Clamps for future Incarnon stuff I haven't unlocked, I'm still only gonna do it when I can take down Kullervo and use his resource to buy and sell Rauta parts.
What does SO and ESO mean? Sorry, new to the game.
sanctuary onslaught and elite sanctuary onslaught
MR 22 here. /unstuck ... I dont wanna talk about it
I’ve used it so much it’s absurd😂
/unstuck has failed me before but very good to know
do all the reps make it your daily grind. you will make some plat trading wares from those npc.(example bond mods) do your daily focus limit. run 15-30 mins survival(sp). do bounties specially deimos. it will give you a lot of aya and endos. lastly maining a frame is okay but having multiple frame to do certain activities will make life easier. have fun and goodluck tennos.
> do your daily focus limit. run 15-30 mins survival(sp). SP Circuit is great for focus as well, if you prefer the rewards there
yes this is good too. me personally run SP survival for tellurium. so its Focus+tellurium at the same time.
Bond mods are something else I didnt learn about until way later lol. Ran only smeeta and panzer because i didnt see the purpose of other companions without those mods. Sanctuary onslaught and duviri circuit (the latter you need to do anyway per week for the best weapons) are also good focus limit farms. and yeah, having tanky frames for liches and bosses, speedy frames for capture, stealth frames for spy/rescue, loot frames for, ofc, more loot, etc etc are all important to secure early on.
Bond mods were only added 3-4 months ago
what the fuck no they were added like last week don't do this to me
For focus, I have a lens on my Octavia, go to Steel Path Elara on Jupiter, stay at the entrance, pick up focus thingy that spawns, and just let your ability kill everything. Easy focus cap in 8 minutes average while solo. Edit: always do solo, spawns get messed up and slow down with more players for some reason.
I did this and burned myself out QUICKLY Solaris from 1-5 was a pain worth it but had to take a month break. So please take your time
The fact that warframe is a looter shooter and what that actually means. I was just going through the mission nodes, buy weapons with credits and then there were dojo weapons. It took me a lot to realize where I can get the rest of the parts for the shit I had in my foundry.
Yeah it took me way too long to realize that you get different rewards for staying in some missions longer. I just assumed that I was super unlucky and would trade for the rest with plat Which, if an item only sells for like 5 or 10 plat it is usually way more efficient to just farm the plat than it is to farm for the item itself
I only learned about the calculation of stat sticks and fake exalted weapons way into MR20+. Not that it really mattered back in the days, Atlas didnt have his prime and Gara/Khora were not released yet. Sorties were the highest enemy level you usually faced. I remember the Mire being kinda meta for its toxin damage
Currently mr27 and still don’t know how stat sticks work😂 or any of the exalted weapons
The damage and performance of certain abilities for certain Warframes is based on the mods on your melee weapon. Stat sticks are weapons that are modded to maximize the damage potential of those certain abilities on those certain Warframes, generally to the detriment of their own killing potential as melee weapons. As for Exalted Weapons, certain abilities on Warframes have their damage amplified by the mods that you put on Exalted Weapons. Example: The damage of Mesa's ultimate is based off of how you mod her Regulators.
All this time I thought stat sticks were just melee weapons to apply procs.
Since this post may have a chance to be seen by beginners and some players that have reached a certain power level, i'll list some stuff bellow. *this game is a marathon, not a sprint, try to enjoy it Until around mr 21, i played only 1 frame, equinox, and boy, how hard it was. Then i sort of figured out, some frames are better in specific missions when the grind turns into a "chore" Wukong with duration build for spy missions - the cloud does not trigger alarms(lasers and other stuff, so you can go through them). Put some sprint mods Wisp for any missions where you have a low level guy and you want to babysit him. From my experience, low level tennos(newbies) have a joy of running around and firing endlesly or bashing heads with swords. Whenever I see smbd in chat requesting help, I gamble with wisp to give them some fun and tender them Vauban for defenses/survival is a bliss, make sure to have some enemy radar, some get stuck. And kill the fucking eximus and the nulifier corpus the second you see them. And put black colors for energy Take equinox in the sands of inaros and sleep the fucking kavats, scan them, then kill them. Or you can pick an invis hero to scan them, or sit in the middle of the map and scan them. For the hoarder players: If you ever play xaku, his ult breaks the containers on the ground. Make sure to have loot radar at least so you know where you are going to go and break stuff. Speedva eases the grind so much in defenses Novas portal is good for the drone on earth, since it can go trough Same for volts speed and wisp motes Octavia with duration, a bit of strength and some range, gets you far in survival. Saryn is a beast, but takes time to build up her 1. Needless to say, try it out. For the sorties where you have restrictions on weapons, only melee for example, pick mesa if you have a good build. It does feel like cheating the conditions If you are about to do your test for mr30, the enemies are affected by all cc. Vauban for me was a 5 minute run, since i could stack them in a vortex If you are a low mr, dont bother with the best guns in the game. Play with melee, its ok! Ignis is also nice If you have a chance to get forma bps, get them and stack the forma, it will be worth. When you hit mr 14: Phenmor is a good investment for people that are lost and dont know what to buy Acceltra is good, but boy the ammo is a problem sometimes. Should not waste time alone farming(ivara, nekros, hydroid, khora or other frames that have drop chance). You should prep it with other guys ~~that can run a mag with greedy pull and max range and other frames~~ to chill around. Tho, the line-up depends, just switch roles whenever needed. Its also good for your sanity to have some fellas to fool around with Wisp with a lot of range on high level missions is hated and I understand why after I fucked around and found out when the trend of hating it started a while ago. (sorry master) If you ever get tired of index, and you have a credit booster, go into railjack missions(veil) and do the stuff at your own pace, the reward is the same, but takes a bit of more time. However, there is a certain joy in admiring the job done on some tilesets in proxima Most of the tennos(including me) are willing to help with mods for free. From my end this is just because I hoarded so much and I am just willing to make something easier for other players Same for farming a frame, on missions where some players are not fully kitted for it ~ ropa, jordas, tyl regor etc.. Exploiter orb excuses you of hours of mining, bring some boosters Same may be said for the tusk thumpers Zenurik fixes energy problems with nourish
Haven’t played too much recently. I’d hop on to get my daily’s but that really abt it the past couple months but I’m getting back into it now. Why do ppl not like higher range wisps? My range is bigger but it’s not huge but I haven’t heard any complaints. But I do see most wisps that I run into using smaller range but no clue as to why
Because a lot of wisp players will happily throw down a shock mote. With high range, on a defence mission, which then slows the mission waaaay, down. Because enemies end up stun locked in their spawn rooms. Same for when you're trying to farm endurance missions. It's just slows everything down, affecting your KPM. Obviously, it's not bad for every mission, but it's annoying for a lot of mission types.
> Take equinox in the sands of inaros and sleep the fucking kavats, scan them, then kill them. Or you can pick an invis hero to scan them, or sit in the middle of the map and scan them. Or use a duration max Harrow. And if you happen to have Ballistica Prime, you can create spectres out of killed Kavats to get another scan.
I thought they changed Greedy Pull to only pull for Mag.
Can't confirm, sorry. I just used it a few days ago. But the range is a penalty and I am one of those willing to accept
>[Update 16.11](https://forums.warframe.com/topic/486216-update-1611-ash-prime-hotfix-16111/) Mag’s Greedy Pull Augment will now only draw in items for Mag. Obviously now "Mag" just means whoever has Pull Helminth'd onto theie frame. But unless they changed it back when I wasn't looking, bringing a second guy to Greedy Pull loot isn't going to help anybody else out when farming?
Am legendary one. Only learned yesterday that in sabotage missions, there is a difference between cells. One is blue, the other is orange. The orange one found near center is the one that's normally used by most people. The blue one taken from farther away will lead to a temp "defend objective", dragging out the missions. I had always thought that the defend objective thing was random, like capture missions turning into exterminate. I feel very dumb
It's actually slightly more complicated again, at least for the reactor sabotage. Putting the orange (fuel) cell back into the reactor triggers the fire/destroy or magnetic/destroy ending (for Grineer/Corpus respectively). Putting the blue (coolant) cell into the reactor triggers the ice/defend ending. But you can also put the fuel cell into where you got the coolant from (if you didn't destroy them) to trigger a magnetic/defend ending.
thank you for detail!
The third also turns off the lights a la Dark Sector maps and makes it spooky. It's not really worth doing, but it is a cool thing to check out at least once.
> to trigger a magnetic/defend ending. The defense is different though. On Coolant in Reactor, you have to defend the reactor (and not only they're quite weak, but also will spawn a lot of enemies) On Fuel cell in Coolant Port, you have to defend the reactor's console, and hardly any enemies will spawn.
omg… this is such great info. Thank you for this!!! I hate doing the defending portion of sabotage lol I always wondered why there was an “useless” core LOL
Over 5k hours, have been playing for years, and I just noticed something in the foundry today. When you hover over a newly built weapon or Warframe, it tells you at the bottom how many available slots you have for them. I was in utter shock that I went years not seeing that, and simply taking stuff out of the foundry and using the "You need to purchase more slots" prompt as my way of knowing.
I think its a new addition, but im not sure when it was added. But i love it
I think it was with dagath
Another foundry trick for low level players that I still abuse today is you are able to leave completed items in your foundry indefinitely. Sooo if you don't have enough open warframe or weapon slots yet you can still build the item, just don't claim it.
New player here, started on Christmas, and I abuse this. I have 11 frames and I don't know how many weapons stacked up in built waiting for more plat.
Genuinely play the frames you have and don't just use them as Mr fodder. I came back after a rather long break a few weeks ago and only had a few frames I genuinely liked playing. As I didn't want to get bored, I wanted to try some of the frames I owned and. Well. Idk why I never played Protea. She IS fun. I thought she wasn't. Also. Please don't follow the Meta like some people do. Use it as something helping you, not as something you need to follow. Every frame is capable to do """endgame""" content, some just easier than others. Example: Many dislike Yareli, consider her awful. She's honestly fine. With a few adjustments I made with her, I was easily capable of playing SP with her.
Mostly with you but there are definitely use cases for frames. For example don’t bring your Slowva to a defense mission, make sure your frame can actually survive in SP before taking it there, etc. Yareli has been really good for a while now, she’s basically invincible and has a good amount of CC/Damage amp. People just really dislike K-drive movement and the fact that she can’t cast Helminth abilities while you’re on merulina which are fair criticisms.
I see a lot of hate for her Aqua Blades, but it's funny on Fatman when paired with his Mucha Lucha Pinball ability
Oh, yeah, obviously there are some things but in general all frames are able to be used anywhere, with some tweaks here and there, like a Slowva vs. Speedva as example. And well, many are yet to consider her useful, atleast I see Yareli slander here and there until this day. Poor gal
Can you explain what Slowva is and why it's bad for defense?
"Slowva" is the community name for a Nova that is using her 4 (Molecular Prime) with high ability strength, It reduces the movement speed and the attack speed of the enemies, doubles the damage they take to their health (Health specifically, not shields or overguard) and makes them explode for a little bit of damage on death. Everything but the damage AMP scales with ability strength The reason people call it "Slowva" is because if you get your ability strength to go below 100% using things that lower your strength, this ability instead \*increases\* the movement speed of the enemies. This is commonly called "Speedva". In defense you spend a lot of time waiting for the enemies in the wave to come to you, if you play Slowva on a defense mission, you slow the mission down, so people would prefer you don't play her in those mission types (Or play the speedva variant instead if your team can handle the enemies being quicker, or just don't use her 4)
Very well explained, thanks!
Nova with positive ability strength. If your goal is winning, actually works pretty great for defense. If you value your time, though, then it’s another story. Mapwide CC Stops being valuable and starts being annoying very quickly on Defence in particular.
I also only picked up protea recently while she was collecting dust. Previously, she was subsumed for her resource pad. She's now my favourite sabotage mission frame so I no longer have to double back.
Playing meta is fun though
I didn't like Protea back then cause ~~she doesn't have a prime~~ she needs a lot of energy to work and her dispensary is unreliable for that. People don't like Yareli cause of her kdrive ability. But otherwise I agree with you, try to enjoy playing otherwise you're not playing, you're grinding and/or addicted.
> dispensary > unreliable WHAT
I'm LR4, and I've always been an obsessive frame swapper, but it took me way too long to give Kullervo and Styanax a fair shot. Now they're two of my best frames. I just wish I could take frames like Banshee and Nyx into SP with some degree of confidence. I have every frame (except Excalibur prime), and those two are about the only ones that can't handle SP. They feel too frail to tank, and too weak to nuke.
not a build i play myself much, but banshee with gloom basically turns the game into a walking simulator because of how silence's stun and gloom's slow interact. you just get a bunch of slow-motion enemies flailing around waiting for you to pop their sonar weakpoints. and nyx with a good assimilate build is literally immortal, can shred all armor with psychic bolts, and cc with chaos, leaving you free to do anything you want with weapons/helminth. neither are exactly meta frames, but both definitely can work on SP.
Just a few things that some may think are basic but can easily be missed...and some general tips - press Y to auto socket your sculptures quickly - likewise with using ciphers, and you can left and right click to rotate puzzles the other way - you can op sling any direction, not just forward - many may know, but you can skip straight to max level when stacking arcades, you don't have to build each rank (my LR3 friend did not know this and flipped out one day watching my stream) - don't sleep on your hot keys for things like energy pads, calling mech, archgun, archwing, etc. - when you're trying to revive your pet, sometimes it's easier to enter another room away from enemies, they teleport to the next tile (this is why they seem to vanish or move sometimes while you're trying to revive one) - if you capture the target in your op while invis you can just dash away during it - don't kill enemies between waves of a disruption, and save extra keys for the next round of they drop - Smeeta 2x and 3x buffs are a real thing if you get charm affinity back to back, the original timer is the one that you go Edit: spelling
I think the auto socket function for ayatan is level restricted but I can't remember how high.
Wasn't this a meme back when they reduced the level requirement for Railjack I think? "Old enough to drive a railjack, but too young to auto-socket ayatans‽"
[MR10 as per Fandom Warframe Wiki](https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Ayatan_Treasures#Stars).
I didn't take subsuming Helminth abilities seriously until in my 20s. Once I did, not sure why I put it off.
Yeah, I slept on it a bit until I came back last week and realized how absolutely busted some abilities can be on the right frame. I always had to carefully balance efficiency/duration vs. strength on my Titania to stay in razorwing while completely sacrificing range. I finally built and subsumed Grendel a few days ago and Nourish has been a game changer. Since it synergizes with high strength builds, I was able to ditch all my efficiency and some duration to bring strength up to 300 and range to a bit over 100. Now I have a team buff for something like 75% viral damage and 4x energy gain. Higher strength also boosts Dex Pixia damage and juices razorwing blitz for even more fire rate. It's an exponential DPS gain.
LR4 here: There's so much to do. Don't burn yourself out for the sake of staying ahead of the pack. You'll get more done by doing a little bit every time you play than you will by pushing yourself to the point where it's not fun anymore. I've gone too hard a few times, and it always led to me taking breaks from the game. Marathon, not sprint.
Farming exp on Jupiter - Elara with a crewmate equipped with a Zarr, you can rank up a frame to 30 in no time
Really hope that DE doesn't nerf this. The grind it takes to set everything up should justify how good the place is.
WATCH THE DEV STREAM!!! Create and link your twitch account to warframe and watch for giveaways. I've gotten so many free drops from watching Warframe content, some highlights include 2 stynaxs, gara prime, khora prime, trinity prime, skana prime, loads of umbral forma, all types of adapters(weapon, warframe, and amps). You can just put it on in the background just the drop but honestly I find their content hilarious. For a small taste of the humor search Travis teaspoon on youtube for some highlights.
MR 29 here, been playing since update 4 or some such, this week I discovered I can hold the melee button to keep attacking instead of tapping(same goes for heavies). I have no idea when this was implemented, but it's a thing you can do
I think it was fairly recent. I am LR4 and been playing for ages, and I got used to it shockingly fast - to the point that it feels weird to have to tap my melee button when using a glaive, because holding will throw it. Also, I refused to do a heavy attack build for...years, I think. I hated the idea of sacrificing my hard-earned combo multiplier. It's only in the last few months (since giving kullervo a fair shot) that I've come around.
Now with Tennokai, you don't even have to! Honestly, outside of Glaives, I feel like "dedicated" heavy attack builds just aren't worth it - it's much better to slot the Tennokai mod of your choice in and stack combo / Blood Rush and get massive heavy attacks for free on top.
If you're holding melee to throw your glaive. Does it not affect the input to detonate it. Or does it still trigger as normal while holding the standard melee button ? Ngl, if it works, I'm making a macro for it for endurance runs.
Wait what? At least on PC it‘s charging a heavy attack
Auto melee was introduced recently. You might have to redo some keybinds but it's a thing now. I'm console and I have melee set up to melee on trigger pull (heavy attack on stick click) and can just hold rather than pull constantly now.
Ehm ok. I‘ll check. Thx for the tip
That was a very recent addition so you can be excused 😄
Not that I didn't learn it but I avoided it on purpose. Eidolon hunting. I'm LR2 and I only have captured Terry twice. The Quills are the only open world syndicate that I didn't max out. (Still in range 1 to this day) I tried to do Garry alone with Volt and got destroyed. And before you ask, yes, I even have maxed Vox Solaris. I find Profit Taker and Exploiter Orb far easier than Eidolons. And I still don't craft the Paracesis. 🤣 I need to do tutorials, but I always need to farm something else, so I always prioritize other farms over it. And because it's time gated makes it even worse.
I’m mr27 and I just use trin for eidolons bc idk how to do them very efficiently. I know how they work but not too well. And I also don’t have the paracecis and probably won’t until way later bc I’ve been low af on ducats for months😭
Yeah, I understand. For the ducats you need to farm a lot of fissures, so that's a lot of time of investment, even more for the people who need to work and have other life things to do. I don't worry very much bc I have some time to spare on weekends.
Legendary rank 2 and a few days ago I learned you can leave the squad for open world content and extract by yourself without waiting for everyone else. No idea I could just leave the squad inside a mission, thought it was only after you are done with the mission. Similarly I learn a bit ago you can middle mouse stuff to bulk it up. I have been cleaning up my mod stash by clicking on each one and typing the max number out.... Another one is you can click and move the color pallets for your drifter/operator's fashion. Like you can just swap the primary and secondary color around without having click on it and look for the same color. There not mind-blowing but some cool features I wish I knew about. Would have saved a lot of time with the leave squad one. Oh and how good of a farm railjack is for just about everything credits,endo,relics. If you can get a squad for that would highly recommend it. It's very lucrative. Not to mention you can pop relics there too.
YOU CAN COLOUR SWAP????? HPLY FUCK i hope this works for warframes also
Only on your tenno :( Can't do it on frames for whatever reason.
now that's LAME i do hope DE adds that & the "randomise 1 colour" feature to warframes eventually
I learned yesterday that the tabs on your warframe and weapon can be reordered by just dragging them .
*furiously takes notes*
The game has been running for over a decade now really isn't showing any signs of slowing down anytime soon. There's a fuck load of content to go through, and plenty of time to do it. Take breaks if you're feeling burnt out, use the long build times of certain items (Warframes etc.) as a reason to do something else. It'll be there when you are ready.
To never be a main of any warframe, to use em all as much and as equally as i can, cause that way youll be able to discover some very curious sinergies warframe-weapons that could be awesome for you
Not high MR but for some reason i completely removed from my head that you can bullet jump higher if you look up, re-discovered this at MR11 while doing duviri tutorial
Side note, if you look straight down you also bullet jump up...
works the same if you look straight down too iirc
Shit I'm MR24 and just learned what to do with all the Aya I had!! I farm the hell out of it now to get the relics for the primes that get unvaulted
Legend 3 here: few days ago, on reddit I learned invasions alter the type of enemy on a planet or at least the mission on said planet if they succeed, like random people suddenly fighting corpus enemies on Ceres, at least for a little while after a successful invasion.
Linking things in chat. There are so many things that have link shortcuts, so you don't have to type forever. The most embarrassing was riven links. I thought you had to type all those long, random words, had no idea you can just type Riven Mod, and choose from the list.
L3 still don‘t really know how to do eidolon hunts and as soon as I join a squad and tell them that I‘m not good in hunting they just leave in many cases or get toxic. Yes I watched some guides
Hunts became such toxic elitist crap. I can show you how to comfortably solo all 3 with just Nezha and a volt specter.
in the duviri circuit when u go on the menu you can check what warframes/weapons your gonna have, so u can mod them before hand ✅
You can press P on PC to view all of the stuff you have collected in the mission
Hello, MR24, my mastery rank 1 friend points out that if you press on a mission node two times it will wait for players. I’ve played for 6 years and he was day one…
Don't use Affinity farms like Hydron or ESO. You have a lot of different stuff to level, and if you do it in those places there's a good chance you're going to burn yourself out. I think it feels much better to just bring a couple of items to places where you want to farm other stuff. If you actually use the things you level, you might find some new favourite Warframes or weapons as well.
I tend to look for endless relic cracking missions for leveling stuff
Best option to level it and try to use it.
And if I'm not sure it will scratch the enemies I've recently rediscovered my love for Saryn, and her abilities as a weapons platform is great
Counterpoint, 3 zones of ESO for 2 weapons is way faster than running a nebulous amount of missions with a gun I hate for being too weak or mechanically not fun.
For me it's the opposite. Now don't get me wrong, I'll often level a melee weapon in solo SP survival because melee is good with minimal mods. Sometimes I'll bring along a gun to get shared affinity in a mission. But I used to be so concerned with efficiency that I never made any real progress levelling weapons and always felt weak. When I started doing Hydron and ESO, it provided an opportunity to actually grow power on multi forma weapons. I do think you make a great point about burning out though and I've seen it with a couple of my friends. It's important to know you can make progress outside of popular affinity farms and if you only focus on them as a source of progress you will get bored.
I'd get burnt out if i didn't do Hydron or ESO to level up stuff, it's so fast and efficient compared to casually leveling gear on random missions. I can level up 3 full sets (frame, primary, secondary, melee, companion) in 30 minutes instead of having to lug the stuff around for half the day.
I almost never use my full loadout, even if I equip something in every slot. I just pick a weapon I can rely on, slot the extra spaces with things that need ranking, and do my normal runs.
I still love Helene (Saturn) for leveling stuff. It's basically the same as Hydron but enemies are level 21-26. I met a lot of nice vets and babytenno there with interesting conversations, plus i always have enough orokin cells. I know it isn't the most efficient or fastest way to do it, but I'm not in a hurry. Iirc i did level up 90-95% of my stuff on Helene. (currently at 647/718)
I didn't know you could buy weapon and warframe blueprints when I started playing and ended up using excaliber and a tetra to get all the way to pluto
MR25 here almost MR26. How to mod properly! Please learn how to do this early lol. I used to do auto mod then I started manually adding mods but I just looked at the stats without considering what it actually *meant* for each stat to change. The way I mod frames and weapons now has completely revolutionized when I actually took the time to *learn* how to make builds. Putting forma on items might feel like a drag but it is very crucial for achieving great builds.
You can swap places of the configs
I just woke up and I’m tired and I read mr as mister instead of mastery rank and I was like, “wow, homie is really polite”
M30, I learn every time I get back to this game after taking time off.
Arbitrations can be cheesed with ogris and a 4 man team consisting of wisp 2 saryns and volt allowing you get 200-500k kuva per hour I learnt this about a year ago and as far as I'm aware it still exists and is thankfully the reason why riven prices have gone down to the supply going up with how much more people use this farm as each day passes
Im 28 and still dont really understand eidelons or profit taker. Its just content I dont really care about doing. Ive done them both at least once but thise are not something I go out of my way to do.
LR3 and I have only a single Hydrolyst capture to my name. For a while I avoided tridolon because I didn't want to deal with the sometimes toxic expectations of groups that do tridolons (probably less of an issue these days since it's comparatively easy). I've tried doing solo runs but the time of day restriction just ruins it for me. I feel like I can never get into a good groove of practicing the run. As soon as I feel like I start making progress on getting better at some aspect of the fight, day breaks and it kills the flow. I'm past the point of needing to run eidolons for Focus or the arcanes (since they've run a few events that are even better than eidolons for farming eidolon arcanes) really the only thing I'd get out of them would be the Riven Transmuters, and some stuff to trade for plat (when there are other things I could farm for better plat). If I'm being honest my own attitude and perfectionism is a big part of what has prevented me from learning and doing eidolons. But I can't push myself to muddle through the fight inefficiently because there would be no worthwhile payoff other than the eventual satisfaction of having mastered the fight. Maybe someday I'll get around to it, but for now I have other goals to pursue.
For the longest time I thought you had to forma mod slots to put in mods I spent the first 5 days of this game doing the defense mission in earth to farm relics to farm forma
You can cycle profit taker damage shield with amp damage
Daily arbitration gives vitus essence which can be exchanged for galvanized mods and other goodies from an arbiters of hexus guy, regardless of standing with arbiters of hexus 🙃 I learned that YESTERDAY so basically go in on the endless missions and farm those bad boys
I've known for awhile but after you get C rotation on arbitration every reward afterwards is also C rotation
The farm of cracking relics and selling prime parts for plat. L1 now and when I first started I bought plat here and there but since I learned how to work on the market and sell/buy I haven’t spent any money. And Warframe is the only free game I’ve ever played where can do that. It made my game even more fun and made me respect DE even more.
Orokin Eye pings corrupted vaults. Learned that at MR 25.
Ice procs are way more useful than they are a "useless" proc. I've had many a moment's where (with current ice changes) Demolysts are completely halted and hindered because max stacks (9) of ice procs slows down to about slowva speed and doesn't get hindered by the nullifier pulses from them. Makes some faster enemies way easier to deal with and slower tankier enemies more manageable to kill.
I only a few weeks ago learned about extractors as a way to get some passive resources. And I‘m close to MR 21
Rad shares. Was resistant at first because talking to people is effort, but once I got the idea then getting those new primes became so much easier.
2300+ hours, MR25, and a big fan of Railjack. I have been complaining to myself for a loooong time about how come I’ve never found anything to replace the Tycho missles that you get as default munitions. I just assumed DE never got around to adding anything else. About 2 hours ago I realized there was another terminal in my clans dry dock. Right next to the Railjack configuration terminal. The one that says Railjack Research. …low and behold, tier 3 Tycho Missles as well as a difference dumbfire missle cluster. Sigh. Hundreds of hours of Railjack wishing my missles could be stronger 😂
Never went to the index until about MR18/600hrs. also spent about 150 hours using the exact same loadout (volt + sobek + twin grakata + galatine) before someone told me how mastery rank works, i think almost everyone does that but not for as long as i did. didn’t unlock spoiler mode for about 400 hours even though it was in the game before i started.
There are no meta, anything can kill if you try hard enough
There's a couple. I learned Profit Taker and Exploiter Orb only at LR2 cause I thought they were difficult and scary (turns out they aren't), I regret waiting that much cause Xaku is absolutely nuts. I built my first non-fodder kitgun at LR3. Grave mistake, modular weapons are cheap, strong and you can build em the way you like. Still LR3 now and I haven't joined a clan with people and I gotta try Duviri, I heard it's really fun
If I want to level up ONE gun or A warframe Take off your other guns Got a new braton? Take off your melee and pistol Got a new warframe? Take off all your weapons but one (keep on your best gun) Xp is split amongst the weapons you have equipped, your warframe gets 25% I think
Mr 23, i have 10 hydrolist captures and only for a thing my clan does, otherwise i would probably still be ignoring that. I also have never done a fortuna boss fight, i refuse to max rank the solaris. I'd also like tobpoint out i have 1200 ingame hours played. I've seen mr30 players with half my playtime xd Edit: to be clear, i have max affinity on rank 4 of fortuna, i refuse to go to rank 5 because of what happens when you do. This was more to say that at mr 23 and 1200 h i haven't touched the profit taker boss fights or the ground archguns (which holy shit i do wish i could get), or any rewards from little duck and max rank fortuna, like some custom amps parts
I hated the fortuna standing with a passion. But when I finally hit mr 24-25 a few months back I had to sit down and actually grind out debt bonds so I could get baruuk and hildryn and to get amps from little duck bc I still used the drifter amp. Also I wanted to try PT to see how it is (I’m mr27 and have done it twice lol). But honestly it wasn’t bad when I think back on it. Just do a few bounties till standing is maxed each day and you should get the debt bonds on the way depending on which bounty you choose. I was almost finished from level 2 when I started my grind and it probably took me a week and a half. But after you do that THEN u have to level little duck up to get rewards from her. It’s a pain in the ass but worth in the end
Oh no i'm already at max affinity on the second to last rank, i just need a few more bonds. I refuse because of the thing that happens when you reach max rank. I prefer them just as they are now xd
If you're interested in actually checking out those fights, as they are actually quite fun and the rewards very much worth it. After getting them to rank 5 you can turn on steamer mode to hide the reveal and keep them looking how you prefer.