A lot of the earlier mods you're likely to have are "damaged" mods and aren't super strong. Not a big investment for those, so it's not a big deal. Players in the clan can probably help you get the standard mods.
There is a lot to take in though. My suggestion is to focus on unlocking the new planets on the star map, which will give you free blueprints and run you through a lot of the game's systems slowly. As far as equipment goes, just try new stuff. You'll want to use your platinum on new slots, so you can try new warframes and weapons. Leveling new stuff boosts your mastery and allows for new weapons. Some popular items for early on are acquiring the Rhino Warframe parts from the boss on Venus and the Hek shotgun which you can buy the blueprints for from Mastery Rank 4 on. Will carry you through a lot of content.
As far as the rep grind on Cetus, no reason to worry about it too hard at the moment. I'm very deep in with all sorts of crazy shit and I just recently bothered hitting their third tier of reputation.
Oh, as far as your boosts go, it should cycle through them and show a timer in the top right corner of the screen when you're on your orbiter.
Does any activity in the game reward platinum or is it only the cash thing? I just have the 50 that they give you to start with, and haven't used it yet.
I've almost got all the basic gear up to max. I did a couple of those void things? Gave a ton of XP, then realized that I didn't have artifacts or whatever they are called and was worried I was dicking over other players by even being there.
re:the booster, then I must just have the one. It's only got a few hours left on it, so I guess that's that.
I have the twitch prime warframe that I'll probably move to next? Does maxing out weapons or warframes provide any bonus, or is it just for completion/power sake? I'm assuming I'll have to go back to the super low level stuff if I switch?
1. Nothing in the game gives you platinum. Except for your first 50 platinum the rest is tradable though. So if you don't want to invest money you can sell items to others who are. Also, stuff like new slots or even Catalysts are ridiculously cheap by F2P standards. Some other things you can get for platinum...are not. If you don't want to invest money into warframe, hoard your platinum and only spend it on unlocking new slots.
2. By levelling up items to 30 (first time) you get Mastery Points (You can also get Mastery points by clearing a new mission location for the first time and unlocking new planets). Enough mastery points and you gain a new Mastery Rank. Each Mastery Rank gives you:
+50 Void trace capacity. Important for relics.
+1 trade per day
+1 to your basic capacity pool with all items (so if you're mastery rank 10, then all weapons will have minimum capacity pool of 10 until your rank with that weapon exceeds 10)
It also increase the amount you can gain per day of:
+1000 Syndicate Standing
+5000 focus.
It also unlocks new gear. For example you need Mastery Rank 7 to build a new Braton Prime (or is it 8?).
3. You're kinda dicking over other players by not having relics. You can get relics by running...well, practically anything. Defense, Survival, Spy, Sabotage can all give you relic rewards.
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Oh good, looking at the announcement on the unvaulting, they've finally made it so you can buy the unvaulted accessories separate, instead of having to buy the whole bundle.
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Leveling anything (warframes, weapons, followers, anything really) for the first time (you can do things a second time to make them better later on) gives you mastery - mastery goes up by ranks, and higher ranks give you access to different gear, and a few other quality of life things. That's the number in the top left. Probably currently a 1 or 2 for you.
When doing the relic things, just pretend you're doing a normal mission and make it a point to grab 10 of those dna-looking symbols that are dropped from the gold enemies. Space mom will tell you when you've "opened the relic". If you don't have 10, kill more gold enemies until you do. You can see the number.. I think in the top left?
You aren't screwing anyone over, by the way. The game is designed to make it hard to hinder other people's experience in any significant way.
If he dosn't have a relic as he said he is kinda screwing people over BUT the good news is relics are easy to comeby, as they drop from any endless mission (interception/excavation/survival/defense) and there are some easy ones on earth!
I suppose you could make that claim, but all he's doing is making them choose between 1 of 3 options instead of 1 of 4. At most they lose '1/4th' of a relic, and as you said.. those are easy to come by!
So I wouldn't feel bad at all, particularly since you didn't know.
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Newbie here. My Excalibur and weapons are all around 27 and I Skana hit 30 so I swapped it for the heat sword. Once I’m at 30 on everything and I swap to new gear and that twitch prime frame, can I continue on where I left off questing or do I have to go back to the first ones again? And do only blue points on the map provide exp?
Newbie here. My Excalibur and weapons are all around 27 and I Skana hit 30 so I swapped it for the heat sword. Once I’m at 30 on everything and I swap to new gear and that twitch prime frame, can I continue on where I left off questing or do I have to go back to the first ones again? And do only blue points on the map provide exp?
Star map progress is not tied to your equipped warframe. Blue dots on the map are ones you haven't cleared yet and will give a mastery bonus the first time you beat them, but you get xp on equipment no matter what you run.
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Progression isn't tied to frames, once you have a place unlocked, it's unlocked for good. Affinity can be gotten anywhere, I believe you get some small amount of mastery rank progression the first time you complete a mission (turning its node from blue to white).
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Newbie here. My Excalibur and weapons are all around 27 and I Skana hit 30 so I swapped it for the heat sword. Once I’m at 30 on everything and I swap to new gear and that twitch prime frame, can I continue on where I left off questing or do I have to go back to the first ones again? And do only blue points on the map provide exp?
Ok. If your weapon is 30, then you can safely throw it in the garbage bin if you don't like it and never see it ever again (well, you might need it as a crafting component, but newly crafted stuff is just as good as old stuff, so toss it). If it's lvl 27, you sell it...then you probably should get back to it at some point and you'll have to level it up from 0 all over again.
However levelling up a shitty weapon is trivial later on. After all, you only need ONE good weapon (Primary, Secondary or Melee), or even no weapon (if that's the kind of frame you're in) to finish higher tier content.
The key rule of warframe is that everything gives you Mastery points once, nothing gives you Mastery Points twice.
Note that Mastery Points and Exp are two different things. Exp is used to level up individual weapons/warframes. Mastery Points is kind of your overall progression.
So kind of like 'cheevos, except not as empty and meaningless.
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also, in the long run, you're not really hurting yourself to stick with a frame you like if it's working for you. there is a LOT of warframe to play and i wouldn't worry too much about leveling other frames until i had most of the star chart open, unless you're still looking for that one that clicks with you.
as an example, i started with volt and hit a point here i was just not feeling it around about ceres? jupiter? somewhere around there. anyway, that's when i got me a rhino and rhino was my dude from then on. i didn't worry about other frames until i set my sights on getting MR14 after i had most of the star chart open.
I started with Volt and my first Prime was Volt because electricity is awesome! Then I saw other frames and farmed up Rhino parts to make him. Then I saw Excalibur frames and I think I straight bought him because I had a surplus of platinum and I didn't have his drop levels open I think. Then I made a Loki and it gave me the brief taste needed before I did my research and farmed up + made all the pieces of Loki Prime as my first "earned" Prime (as opposed to a friend carrying me for Volt Prime stuff).
Basically just by playing the game with others you'll see these neat frames you may decide you want and switch between what you've got as you like.
But is 75% off platinum an actual real thing? Because that could get me to toss them a few bucks.
Hell, I probably will anyway. Steam says like 20 hours or something and I know half are probably leaving the launcher open when I was downloading the initial stuff and forgetting about it; but I've gotten less than 10 hours from full priced games before. (Frustratingly)
But if that big of a discount is a thing you can get, I'm not sure why you would get platinum at any other time; and makes the 20% thing that won't go away on my screen feel more annoying. :rotate:
EDIT: oh yeah, is there any functional difference between normal things and primes, or is it just visual?
But is 75% off platinum an actual real thing? Because that could get me to toss them a few bucks.
Hell, I probably will anyway. Steam says like 20 hours or something and I know half are probably leaving the launcher open when I was downloading the initial stuff and forgetting about it; but I've gotten less than 10 hours from full priced games before. (Frustratingly)
But if that big of a discount is a thing you can get, I'm not sure why you would get platinum at any other time; and makes the 20% thing that won't go away on my screen feel more annoying. :rotate:
EDIT: oh yeah, is there any functional difference between normal things and primes, or is it just visual?
1. You can get 75% discount. Veeery rare. But you know. It happens. Once you get a discount they're active for 48h. Then they're gone.
2. Primes have advantages. Take Volt Prime for example. 100 armor (vs 15), 300 energy (vs 150) and one extra polarity on his mod slots. Rhino Prime. Again, higher armor (275 vs 190), faster run speed (1 vs 0.95) and more polarities. Nyx Prime, More shields (375 vs 300), more armor (50 vs 15), faster run speed (1,12 vs 1,1) and more polarities.
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-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Yeah, 75% off plat tickets are a thing. They can drop in your daily rewards, and yes, it makes platinum go from "probably not worth it" to "totally worth it". And, interestingly, it seems that if you do spend money when you get a ticket drop, you become more likely to get more of them - they apparently mark you as "possible whale, tempt", seeing how it took me over fifty days to run into my first 75% ticket but after I used it I've gotten literaly four more in like three weeks.
I've used this plat do things like buy Orokin Catalysts and Orokin reactors (because the only way to get those is alerts, and they seem to always hapen when it's like 3AM my time), and be able to buy enough slots keep one copy of every frame I've made and make all the frames and weapons I want, and a couple cosmetics on the side. I have even splurged with big buys like straight up buying two frames (Khora and Ivara) to circumvent the RNG being a dick.
As for the difference between Primes and Normal, generally Prime frames have slightly bigger base stats, and better/more mod polarities (those symbols in some mod slots that can give you a discount if you place a mod with the same symbol in them). Otherwise, they're the same.
Speaking of opening a relic in that mission where you pick one. Being so new I never have a clue what item to choose. Go for the rarest?
My rule of thumb is to prioritize parts of stuff I don't have yet, then parts I don't have spares of yet, then just go by rarity. But I am also one of those long-time players that currently has literally all of the available primes, just need to wait for Limbo Prime to finish building.
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So I'm doing this dig site mission on venus, 3 other people in here. Is there a "normal" amount of excavations people usually do before stopping or what?
I'd like to be done, but we're at 9 and no one else seems to be heading toward extraction...
So I'm doing this dig site mission on venus, 3 other people in here. Is there a "normal" amount of excavations people usually do before stopping or what?
I'd like to be done, but we're at 9 and no one else seems to be heading toward extraction...
Most commonly people just keep going until some asks to extract.
So I'm doing this dig site mission on venus, 3 other people in here. Is there a "normal" amount of excavations people usually do before stopping or what?
I'd like to be done, but we're at 9 and no one else seems to be heading toward extraction...
Most commonly people just keep going until some asks to extract.
This holds true of most endless missions.
For excavation in particular though, due to the way rewards work, extraction tends to happen on multiples of 4 when possible since the reward pools are drawn from in the pattern AABC (this is also why 20 min/waves are common targets for survival/defense).
So I'm doing this dig site mission on venus, 3 other people in here. Is there a "normal" amount of excavations people usually do before stopping or what?
I'd like to be done, but we're at 9 and no one else seems to be heading toward extraction...
Most commonly people just keep going until some asks to extract.
I usually stop anywhere between 1000-2000 cryotic, but yeah it's usually when others want to leave
I had no idea i had crafted a companion. I thought it was a consumable thing and couldn't figure out where it was. :rotate:
EDIT: How do levels work? I'm not seeing my level anywhere (I know my mastery level), but I had assumed it was my warframes level? But I just switched to the twitch frame after maxing Excalibur and it is letting me join a level 8-10 thing even though that frame is level 2.
EDIT2: now there's a thing for a syndicate? I don't see anything in the codex explaining what that is.
The mission level is... incredibly misleading, it's completely divorced from your Warframe level. It's just an indication of the relative difficulty of enemies.
Edit: As far as mastery goes, your mastery ranking is separate from your warframe level (though gaining levels in warframes, weapons, companions, etc, will increase your mastery).
You can join a syndicate and wear their sigil to gain reputation for them while running missions, and also do special missions to get more rep for them. Increasing rep with one will drop rep with others. Generally people min-max to get three or four by primarily focusing on the groupings of Steel Meridian, Arbiters of Hexis, and Cephalon Suda OR Red Veil, New Loka, and Perrin Sequence. Mastering them unlocks unique mods you can purchase with rep as well as unique weapons which are all tradeable. It's basically to encourage trading with others, like I can supply you with anything from Red Veil, New Loka, and Perrin Sequence myself. It's not something you need to worry about immediately though, just if you feel like it. Oh, and the syndicates that dislike you will send assassins after you occasionally, but that's not... usually a problem.
yeah the mission level just gives you a vague indication of the enemies' HP and damage levels, it's nothing to do with any of your level numbers or what you're allowed to sign up for. Player power progression is mostly based on accumulating a good collection of mods, trying different frames and weapons out and leveling them to 30 to raise your mastery rank to unlock more weapons to try out, picking a few weapons you really like the feel of and sticking an orokin reactor and maybe some forma in them for extra polarized mod slots to help cram all the mods in and do ludicrous damage.
I had no idea i had crafted a companion. I thought it was a consumable thing and couldn't figure out where it was. :rotate:
EDIT: How do levels work? I'm not seeing my level anywhere (I know my mastery level), but I had assumed it was my warframes level? But I just switched to the twitch frame after maxing Excalibur and it is letting me join a level 8-10 thing even though that frame is level 2.
Mission level has nothing to do with your level, and no mission level will ever block you from entering. Mission level 8-10 simply means that at the start of the mission enemies are level 8-10 (that number will increase over time for Defense, Survival and Excavation missions).
Increasing level will increase how much damage, health and armor an enemy has.
The following image shows how much tougher an enemy is if it starts with X amount of armor.
This depicts Level-Baselevel. Since a Heavy Gunner has a Base level of 8 (it starts to appear in lvl8 missions) and has 500 armor it will take about 100 times more damage to kill at level 50.
A flame blade will merely take have about 25 times the effective hitpoints.
A regular lancer will be about 50 times tougher at lvl 42, escalating to about 90 times tougher at lvl 50.
Does this sound tough? It really isn't.
1. This can be mitigated a shitload by your effective build, and lvl 50 is the very top level mission content.
2. Unarmored enemies are significantly weaker.
3. Enemy damage doesn't scale nearly as fast, a Lancer merely having 6.5 times his base damage at level 50.
4. Your DPS as a newbie is what? 200? With top level gear you'll probably deliver an effective DPS of about 30k-150k depending on your build.
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Geez Archwing combat is still a bag of shit as ever. When I press back on the keyboard but keep shooting forward with the right mouse button held down that means I want to strafe back and shoot forward, not turn and shoot the camera. Can't hit anything unless I sit still and get shot.
Geez Archwing combat is still a bag of shit as ever. When I press back on the keyboard but keep shooting forward with the right mouse button held down that means I want to strafe back and shoot forward, not turn and shoot the camera. Can't hit anything unless I sit still and get shot.
There's an "experimental controls" option, are you using that? Because that lets you control properly.
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I've had Saryn Prime since a few planets before I even reached Sedna - I've only ever wanted the systems to make my last piece of Chroma! - but alL I gEt arE ThESE NEURoptIIIIICCSSSssSSss :rotate:
So do you unlock the ability to buy new weapons by levelling ones you own up to 30?
You buy blueprints and make them with materials. You can buy them from the marketplace, or buy blueprints from a clan dojo that has researched them. The route is "Buy blueprints, craft it, level it, Check if its used in other weapons as components at http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Weapons_Required_as_Crafting_Ingredients and if not you sell it if you don't exceptionally like it."
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Is tha buy with real life money or the earned money?
Do blueprints drop randomly at all?
You buy with credits, if you buy a weapon with platinum you get the fully crafted weapon with it pre-upgraded with a catalyst. Credits for blueprints, real money (platinum) for the fully upgraded level 0 weapon and a weapon slot included with it. Its basically never a good idea to buy the full weapons, just get the blueprints with credits and craft the guns you want, and just use the platinum to buy weapon slots for more weapons.
There are certain places that do drop blueprints, but most are either from a boss or specific mobs for very specific weapons. Its not like you can get any random blueprint as a drop.
edit - when you go to the market and look at a weapon you'll see 'Buy blueprint' at the bottom. Thats how you buy it for credits. Not all weapons will have blueprints available, specifically the ones that you get from the Dojo or other means won't be purchasable from the market, but a large selection will be.
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Prohass - build the dojo key and I can show you around the different labs we have the next time we're both on.
One other small thing about Prime Warframes: they have a passive ability where if you kill an death orb in a Void tileset mission, you'll get 200 power for your frame when it explodes.
The unvaulting for Rhino Prime has be super excited. He's my favorite frame so far. Plus it happens on my birthday, so I might end up treating myself to the bundle. Loving this game so much I'm happy to throw a few bucks at DE.
Got glasses for the very first time yesterday (I'm 36) so this is a big adjustment. Playing warframe with them last night was a bit strange.
DId a Lua defense mission last night and was amused at how many Kavat mods I got. Had 3 rare ones drop, so I'm guessing that's a sign I should breed a Kavat at some point. However I love my space horror hound and don't know if I could replace him with space cat.
Tried to do a puzzle room on Lua last night with a group but couldn't understand what was going on. Trying to work on opening the Sedna Junction, so I'm gonna have to do some research to learn the basic mechanics of these puzzle rooms.
Prohass - build the dojo key and I can show you around the different labs we have the next time we're both on.
One other small thing about Prime Warframes: they have a passive ability where if you kill an death orb in a Void tileset mission, you'll get 200 power for your frame when it explodes.
Unless it's changed, you don't have to kill the death orb. Just walk up to it and touch it while using a prime frame to get your energy.
I don't know if any of you have used Pox with mods to make it corrosive + blast and high status, but it's pretty awesome to watch. Even without Jolt (which I found out last minute is a 100p mod, yikes) it has a ~98% status chance and it makes clouds that just shred armor and repeatedly knock the enemies down.
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I don't know if any of you have used Pox with mods to make it corrosive + blast and high status, but it's pretty awesome to watch. Even without Jolt (which I found out last minute is a 100p mod, yikes) it has a ~98% status chance and it makes clouds that just shred armor and repeatedly knock the enemies down.
Barrel Diffusion plus two 60/60 mods gets you to 94.7%, adding Lethal Torrent brings it up to 98.4%. All of which is convenient because then you can do dumb things like put Fulmination and a busted-ass Riven on it.
Prohass - build the dojo key and I can show you around the different labs we have the next time we're both on.
One other small thing about Prime Warframes: they have a passive ability where if you kill an death orb in a Void tileset mission, you'll get 200 power for your frame when it explodes.
Unless it's changed, you don't have to kill the death orb. Just walk up to it and touch it while using a prime frame to get your energy.
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1. Nothing in the game gives you platinum. Except for your first 50 platinum the rest is tradable though. So if you don't want to invest money you can sell items to others who are. Also, stuff like new slots or even Catalysts are ridiculously cheap by F2P standards. Some other things you can get for platinum...are not. If you don't want to invest money into warframe, hoard your platinum and only spend it on unlocking new slots.
2. By levelling up items to 30 (first time) you get Mastery Points (You can also get Mastery points by clearing a new mission location for the first time and unlocking new planets). Enough mastery points and you gain a new Mastery Rank. Each Mastery Rank gives you:
+50 Void trace capacity. Important for relics.
+1 trade per day
+1 to your basic capacity pool with all items (so if you're mastery rank 10, then all weapons will have minimum capacity pool of 10 until your rank with that weapon exceeds 10)
It also increase the amount you can gain per day of:
+1000 Syndicate Standing
+5000 focus.
It also unlocks new gear. For example you need Mastery Rank 7 to build a new Braton Prime (or is it 8?).
3. You're kinda dicking over other players by not having relics. You can get relics by running...well, practically anything. Defense, Survival, Spy, Sabotage can all give you relic rewards.
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I suppose you could make that claim, but all he's doing is making them choose between 1 of 3 options instead of 1 of 4. At most they lose '1/4th' of a relic, and as you said.. those are easy to come by!
So I wouldn't feel bad at all, particularly since you didn't know.
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Star map progress is not tied to your equipped warframe. Blue dots on the map are ones you haven't cleared yet and will give a mastery bonus the first time you beat them, but you get xp on equipment no matter what you run.
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Ok. If your weapon is 30, then you can safely throw it in the garbage bin if you don't like it and never see it ever again (well, you might need it as a crafting component, but newly crafted stuff is just as good as old stuff, so toss it). If it's lvl 27, you sell it...then you probably should get back to it at some point and you'll have to level it up from 0 all over again.
However levelling up a shitty weapon is trivial later on. After all, you only need ONE good weapon (Primary, Secondary or Melee), or even no weapon (if that's the kind of frame you're in) to finish higher tier content.
The key rule of warframe is that everything gives you Mastery points once, nothing gives you Mastery Points twice.
Note that Mastery Points and Exp are two different things. Exp is used to level up individual weapons/warframes. Mastery Points is kind of your overall progression.
So kind of like 'cheevos, except not as empty and meaningless.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
as an example, i started with volt and hit a point here i was just not feeling it around about ceres? jupiter? somewhere around there. anyway, that's when i got me a rhino and rhino was my dude from then on. i didn't worry about other frames until i set my sights on getting MR14 after i had most of the star chart open.
Basically just by playing the game with others you'll see these neat frames you may decide you want and switch between what you've got as you like.
But is 75% off platinum an actual real thing? Because that could get me to toss them a few bucks.
Hell, I probably will anyway. Steam says like 20 hours or something and I know half are probably leaving the launcher open when I was downloading the initial stuff and forgetting about it; but I've gotten less than 10 hours from full priced games before. (Frustratingly)
But if that big of a discount is a thing you can get, I'm not sure why you would get platinum at any other time; and makes the 20% thing that won't go away on my screen feel more annoying. :rotate:
EDIT: oh yeah, is there any functional difference between normal things and primes, or is it just visual?
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1. You can get 75% discount. Veeery rare. But you know. It happens. Once you get a discount they're active for 48h. Then they're gone.
2. Primes have advantages. Take Volt Prime for example. 100 armor (vs 15), 300 energy (vs 150) and one extra polarity on his mod slots. Rhino Prime. Again, higher armor (275 vs 190), faster run speed (1 vs 0.95) and more polarities. Nyx Prime, More shields (375 vs 300), more armor (50 vs 15), faster run speed (1,12 vs 1,1) and more polarities.
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Always a safe bet, yeah. If you know what's vaulted, sometimes a vaulted uncommon is more valuable than a rare, but mostly just grab rarest stuff.
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I've used this plat do things like buy Orokin Catalysts and Orokin reactors (because the only way to get those is alerts, and they seem to always hapen when it's like 3AM my time), and be able to buy enough slots keep one copy of every frame I've made and make all the frames and weapons I want, and a couple cosmetics on the side. I have even splurged with big buys like straight up buying two frames (Khora and Ivara) to circumvent the RNG being a dick.
As for the difference between Primes and Normal, generally Prime frames have slightly bigger base stats, and better/more mod polarities (those symbols in some mod slots that can give you a discount if you place a mod with the same symbol in them). Otherwise, they're the same.
My rule of thumb is to prioritize parts of stuff I don't have yet, then parts I don't have spares of yet, then just go by rarity. But I am also one of those long-time players that currently has literally all of the available primes, just need to wait for Limbo Prime to finish building.
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I'd like to be done, but we're at 9 and no one else seems to be heading toward extraction...
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Most commonly people just keep going until some asks to extract.
This holds true of most endless missions.
For excavation in particular though, due to the way rewards work, extraction tends to happen on multiples of 4 when possible since the reward pools are drawn from in the pattern AABC (this is also why 20 min/waves are common targets for survival/defense).
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I usually stop anywhere between 1000-2000 cryotic, but yeah it's usually when others want to leave
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I had no idea i had crafted a companion. I thought it was a consumable thing and couldn't figure out where it was. :rotate:
EDIT: How do levels work? I'm not seeing my level anywhere (I know my mastery level), but I had assumed it was my warframes level? But I just switched to the twitch frame after maxing Excalibur and it is letting me join a level 8-10 thing even though that frame is level 2.
EDIT2: now there's a thing for a syndicate? I don't see anything in the codex explaining what that is.
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Edit: As far as mastery goes, your mastery ranking is separate from your warframe level (though gaining levels in warframes, weapons, companions, etc, will increase your mastery).
You can join a syndicate and wear their sigil to gain reputation for them while running missions, and also do special missions to get more rep for them. Increasing rep with one will drop rep with others. Generally people min-max to get three or four by primarily focusing on the groupings of Steel Meridian, Arbiters of Hexis, and Cephalon Suda OR Red Veil, New Loka, and Perrin Sequence. Mastering them unlocks unique mods you can purchase with rep as well as unique weapons which are all tradeable. It's basically to encourage trading with others, like I can supply you with anything from Red Veil, New Loka, and Perrin Sequence myself. It's not something you need to worry about immediately though, just if you feel like it. Oh, and the syndicates that dislike you will send assassins after you occasionally, but that's not... usually a problem.
Mission level has nothing to do with your level, and no mission level will ever block you from entering. Mission level 8-10 simply means that at the start of the mission enemies are level 8-10 (that number will increase over time for Defense, Survival and Excavation missions).
Increasing level will increase how much damage, health and armor an enemy has.
The following image shows how much tougher an enemy is if it starts with X amount of armor.
This depicts Level-Baselevel. Since a Heavy Gunner has a Base level of 8 (it starts to appear in lvl8 missions) and has 500 armor it will take about 100 times more damage to kill at level 50.
A flame blade will merely take have about 25 times the effective hitpoints.
A regular lancer will be about 50 times tougher at lvl 42, escalating to about 90 times tougher at lvl 50.
Does this sound tough? It really isn't.
1. This can be mitigated a shitload by your effective build, and lvl 50 is the very top level mission content.
2. Unarmored enemies are significantly weaker.
3. Enemy damage doesn't scale nearly as fast, a Lancer merely having 6.5 times his base damage at level 50.
4. Your DPS as a newbie is what? 200? With top level gear you'll probably deliver an effective DPS of about 30k-150k depending on your build.
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There's an "experimental controls" option, are you using that? Because that lets you control properly.
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I've had Saryn Prime since a few planets before I even reached Sedna - I've only ever wanted the systems to make my last piece of Chroma! - but alL I gEt arE ThESE NEURoptIIIIICCSSSssSSss :rotate:
You buy blueprints and make them with materials. You can buy them from the marketplace, or buy blueprints from a clan dojo that has researched them. The route is "Buy blueprints, craft it, level it, Check if its used in other weapons as components at http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Weapons_Required_as_Crafting_Ingredients and if not you sell it if you don't exceptionally like it."
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Do blueprints drop randomly at all?
You buy with credits, if you buy a weapon with platinum you get the fully crafted weapon with it pre-upgraded with a catalyst. Credits for blueprints, real money (platinum) for the fully upgraded level 0 weapon and a weapon slot included with it. Its basically never a good idea to buy the full weapons, just get the blueprints with credits and craft the guns you want, and just use the platinum to buy weapon slots for more weapons.
There are certain places that do drop blueprints, but most are either from a boss or specific mobs for very specific weapons. Its not like you can get any random blueprint as a drop.
edit - when you go to the market and look at a weapon you'll see 'Buy blueprint' at the bottom. Thats how you buy it for credits. Not all weapons will have blueprints available, specifically the ones that you get from the Dojo or other means won't be purchasable from the market, but a large selection will be.
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One other small thing about Prime Warframes: they have a passive ability where if you kill an death orb in a Void tileset mission, you'll get 200 power for your frame when it explodes.
Got glasses for the very first time yesterday (I'm 36) so this is a big adjustment. Playing warframe with them last night was a bit strange.
DId a Lua defense mission last night and was amused at how many Kavat mods I got. Had 3 rare ones drop, so I'm guessing that's a sign I should breed a Kavat at some point. However I love my space horror hound and don't know if I could replace him with space cat.
Tried to do a puzzle room on Lua last night with a group but couldn't understand what was going on. Trying to work on opening the Sedna Junction, so I'm gonna have to do some research to learn the basic mechanics of these puzzle rooms.
Unless it's changed, you don't have to kill the death orb. Just walk up to it and touch it while using a prime frame to get your energy.
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Barrel Diffusion plus two 60/60 mods gets you to 94.7%, adding Lethal Torrent brings it up to 98.4%. All of which is convenient because then you can do dumb things like put Fulmination and a busted-ass Riven on it.
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This could very well be my tendency to murdering everything I see shining through!