Warframe

I’m allllmost ready for the MR8 test, and I found that you can practice ‘your next test’ at Cephalon’s - MR8 is just a jumping test... I’m ready

Excalibur’s 4 works amazingly well on the Tyr Reggor(?) (Uranus boss) - when he does his hiding between the phases, you can still damage him through the door... skipped a phase by killing him then

Thanks all.

I'm MR4, almost 5. I have tried to keep cycling in not max weapons at least when I'm running Trinity. I always have at least a couple slots leveling. But for a long time I only had one sentinel pet, or one good primary. I guess I could buy recipes and craft more but I'm not sure what weapons to try.

I must be doing Excalibur wrong. Maybe I'll check a video or guide. Sword just feels tougher to use sometimes than the regular melee. I do like the radial. Maybe Trinity is just really good, and Excal is such a different role, I have trouble switching. Also his shield/hp was a lot lower so I would sometimes get in over my head.

I have one Kubrow, and the Taxon (plus Artax “gun”) - I got both of them to 30, but I prefer the Taxon for its “vacuum”

I’ve been swapping out Frames and Weapons as soon as I 30 them - there have been a few times when I’ve swapped back into a weapon or frame for some missions - spy/rescue (Dread, Despair, and Nyx), relays (Excalibur - blind(2) + 4 = dead), and sometimes bosses (“best gear”).

They just added a new Pet mod that works like Vacuum. Drops from some of the quadrapeds on the new big Venus area. They show up if you let the normies post their alarm pole thingies and don't destroy them.

MrDeVil909 wrote:

Excalibur is dope, I don't understand the distaste at all, but to each their own.

This

So powerful!

Stele wrote:

I'm not sure what weapons to try.

All of them. Buy/build anything, level it, then trash it or keep what you like. If you like using something do some research to see if it's worth a catalyst. Don't pay too much attention to what is "best" using something you enjoy counts for a lot, as long as it's not completely terrible in the long run.

Stele wrote:

Random thoughts and questions...

I still wish I had taken Volt or Mag as a starter. Every time I try to play Excal I get annoyed. So I stick in my maxed Trinity prime most of the time. I know I should be getting more xp for ranking up but it's just not fun.

And I seem very far away from any other Warframe at this point. Should I do more fissures? Or try to figure out trading? I don't think I have anything very valuable. A couple of prime weapon blueprints. But I certainly won't get enough plat to buy a Warframe with that. So do I spend some real money to mix things up? Or just keep playing Trinity and hope for drops?

Or am I really hindering mastery progress that much by using maxed equip?

Game is fun but I don't have a ton of time to play so trying to not be wasteful.

If you don't like excal (or any basic frame you have), get the parts for another basic frame from doing an assassination mission on any almost any planet, you'll get the 3 parts needed for a new frame easily enough, dump excal, and when you have some high level missions unlocked, build him again, rank him to 30 for the xp and dump him for good (or who knows, you could end up liking him the second time).

You can get Rhino on Venus, Excalibur on Mars (so you can do that boss just for progression), Mag on Phobos, Frost on Ceres, Valkyr on Jupiter. If you're part of a clan, you can get all the parts for Volt, Banshee, and Zephyr from the dojo. (Have someone take you into the void for control modules)

I did some Venus boss runs last night for the other rhino parts. Now I need more plastids to build it. Looks like I need to get to Phobos from Mars next. That also is the earliest void access right?

Scanning fragments on Mars seems to take a while though. And ideas there?

Still working on Switch clan but we need more forma to get the tenno lab built.

I was just looking at the list of early farmable frames, today... I’ll be making a few runs at the early bosses, later. I’m after Mag, for sure. (PC only, btw) I’ll have to pick up Volt from the Dojo, apparently.

Stele wrote:

Scanning fragments on Mars seems to take a while though. And ideas there?

Still working on Switch clan but we need more forma to get the tenno lab built.

Found some tips. I had one of those Theif's Wit mods. Equipping that and actually knowing what map icon to look for helped a lot. Got it done in about 5 capture missions.

And I went ahead and used a store discount to grab another forma and build the Tenno Lab for GWJ clan on Switch. I'm sure it will be a while before we can do weapon/frame research, but I at least want to unlock something and have a long term goal there.

I like my loot detector aura, it highlights everything - finds syndicate medallions, loot crates, sonachords, Cephalon fragments, frame data... everything (just not the lockers) - and it gives me power for more mods

The Raptors are trolling me... I have 7 copies of the Nova systems BP, 4 copies of the chassis, and ZERO neuroptics....

You're going to love farming Equinox.

Stele wrote:

And I went ahead and used a store discount to grab another forma and build the Tenno Lab for GWJ clan on Switch. I'm sure it will be a while before we can do weapon/frame research, but I at least want to unlock something and have a long term goal there.

So lab is done. Looks like there is a hierarchy to all the blueprints. Any recommendations on where to focus first?

Someone started a few of the base weapons already.

More clean-up:

Mercury - Vor - Seer pistol - built
Venus - Jackal - Rhino - maxed
Earth - Vay Hek - next farm target
Mars - Kril - Excalibur(?) - my starter frame - maxed
Phobos - The Sargeant - Mag - cooking
Ceres - Vor & Kril - Frost - maxed
Jupiter - Alad V - Valkyr- I don’t even remember this fight... probably had a team blitz him before I ever got there.
Europa - Raptors - Nova - this was weird, I’d get the prompt “Press F to drop the bomb”, but it wouldn’t drop... I wonder if the prompt was incorrect? Should have, maybe, been X? I had a good group that ran this endlessly, with me, so I just quit picking up the bomb...
Saturn - Ruk - Ember - cooking
Uranus - Tyl - Equinox - rofl... six parts! Night and Day versions - yeah, I’ll get right on that
Neptune - Loki - don’t think I’ve reached this node, yet...

Working my way up Steel Meridian, and Red Veil syndicates. Simaris gets his scans when I can manage them. Konzu - I ran a bunch of bounties for him, last night, before I realized I wasnt going to get that last couple points (damn daily maximum ) to move to the next bracket (short by less than 200).

Chroma - interesting that it needs built parts of other frames to build its parts - Frost, Ember... I think I’m close to this one - heck I’m only one piece short for his Prime variant.

It seems like you can only get Volt from the Dojo, so I bought all 4 bits, and that’s cooking too. I was part of one defence where one of the other members typed “Yay, there’s a Volt... I don’t have to do anything” - I’m looking forward to finding out why, for myself.

Still having a blast.

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I did a defense with an ember last night. The rest of us might as well not have been there.

I wish I'd known, could have leveled a weak primary gun. Everything was ash before I could shoot it.

Stele wrote:

I did a defense with an ember last night. The rest of us might as well not have been there.

I wish I'd known, could have leveled a weak primary gun. Everything was ash before I could shoot it.

There are a few nuker frames. Banshee/Ember/Equinox are the 3 bigger ones. Ember/banshee both use to be quite nuts but were nerfed but can still do good work certainly on under lvl 30-40 enemies. Equinox does better at lower level stuff and higher level stuff but ember/banshee are better at that mid level current (talking pure nuking banshee sonar gives her other uses on high level).

I hope they take another look at Ember nuke mode similar to how they changed Mesa's Regulators.

I assume I don't see Equinox because by the time you're capable of putting the slog/resources into getting him, you're probably not interested in the levels where he'd be effective. And he the funny ribs.

I have enjoyed Excalibur a little more in the last few days, and got it up in the 20s now.

Also tried a couple more melee weapons out, and have another pistol crafted. But I need more weapon slots to try it. Can't decide if I should just dump my old Mk1 starting pistol even though it's not quite maxed or just buy more slots anyway. I guess I could need them someday, but still trying to conserve plat early.

EDIT: I got my control module from the void after I pushed through Phobos. In another 12 hours I can finally craft Rhino, then 3 days to play it. But will be nice to mix things up again with a fresh warframe.

It's weird that Equinox is not more popular. It's the greatest frame for fast and easy 10 wave Defenses. And if you party with another Equinox, you can actually get weapon XP because you'll be doing 45% of the damage with your frame instead of 90%.

Max out any frame or weapon before ditching it - getting them to 30 is how you advance your Mastery Rank.

Stele wrote:

Can't decide if I should just dump my old Mk1 starting pistol even though it's not quite maxed

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Max, then dump. Always. One day you will be scrounging for MR points and you'll need to go rebuy the pistol, and level the whole way up again.

Almost every weapon you're picking up now is going to get thrown away when you find a similar yet better one, so don't go too nuts on buying new weapon slots yet. Just level and dump MR trash.

Ugh I finished off the Mk1 Kunai last night you jerks. Also hit MR5.

Rhino is crafting!

Also got all 3 Oberon parts in the last day or two at random. Just got another Orokin Cell this morning, so I should have it crafting sometime this afternoon.

Going to double my frames in 3 days. This weekend could be fun trying out 2 new ones.

Hey Switch clan. A couple of recipes are done in the Clan Dojo! You can get some new weapon blueprints for 15k in the Tenno Lab. I've also started crafting the other weapons I could that were low rank, mastery 3 or 5 requirements. Those should have recipes in 3 days. Didn't start any stuff that's MR8 or higher yet.

There's also a Nutrio Incubator Upgrade Segment in the lab research that helps with your kubrow back on the ship and keeping its status from going down as quick and saving money on the status restore items. I think it needs more Cryotic or Oxium, some materials I don't have much/any of yet. But if anyone can contribute that'd be great. Seems like a really useful item for all our pets.

Volt finished, got a little time with her... still figuring out the powers - I need to actually read their descriptions, now that I have more than just the first power.

Been working on my Cetus reputation, mostly.

Anyone know how the log-in rewards work? Is it a “consecutive days” thing, or just total days?

And... standing... it looks like Syndicate standing (for the 6(?) basic ones - Steel Meridian, Red Veil, etc) is capped at 1000 + (MR x 1000), I think that’s per faction, right? I don’t always see a cap for Ostron (Cetus’s) standing... but I’m sure I’ve seen one before... is there a cap? Does it use the same formula? Does Simaris’s follow the same pattern? “His” seems to be more limited by what you can scan...

Wink_and_the_Gun wrote:

Anyone know how the log-in rewards work? Is it a “consecutive days” thing, or just total days?

And... standing... it looks like Syndicate standing (for the 6(?) basic ones - Steel Meridian, Red Veil, etc) is capped at 1000 + (MR x 1000), I think that’s per faction, right? I don’t always see a cap for Ostron (Cetus’s) standing... but I’m sure I’ve seen one before... is there a cap? Does it use the same formula? Does Simaris’s follow the same pattern? “His” seems to be more limited by what you can scan...

It is total. Every 50 total days is a big rewards although 200/400 are special mods which are even better.

You have limit correct but it is limit per kind of Standing. So You can get X Syndicate standing (total I believe) a day. However, that limit is separate from Ostron, or K drive etc. There is total like 6 separate pools for standing that each have own limit.

It's been a while since I played, but that syndicate cap is just for standing earned via wearing sigils, right? You can go over that by doing missions and turning in trophies.

I feel like it was a cap... missions and sigil combined... trophies are outside the “earning cap”.