Warframe discussion thread

[Firuthi Dragovic]

So I'm opening up this thread as a place to discuss all things about the long-running "space ninja" game.

Geez, I think it's been around... easily 14-15 years by this point? But yeah, it's gone through enough iterations that the game now is nothing like the one experienced a decade ago.

 

[Firuthi Dragovic]

Borrowing this from the Gaming Goals thread to draw the discussion here:

So in my pursuit to get back to the Warframe story I did the event going on and well..what kind of missions is the rider warframe best for? I did a few missions and managed to get her for free more or less but now I can't figure out what to use on her and where to try her out. Also come to recall i hate the capture the flag missions and survival but Mag to my surprise was okay for survival as my Frost's not high enough but...I think I made her too fragile

Another game goal i've got now is to find out where exactly in Warframe I get access to a horse mount as now that I got the rider I'm wondering where to get that although I'd still prefer the motorcycle but we'll see what happens whenever I get that deep. Had to bring randoms into the capture the flag mission and one of the guys did nothing but shoot me.... I was killing foes and keeping them from retaking the point as it was one they swarm so...yeah idk anymore lol. We really need a warframe discussion thread at this point I feel guilty unloading warframe stuff here ^^;

The rider Warframe? Oh, do you mean Dagath by any chance? I'll admit she's not one of my regulars, so I don't know what she's best for.

Mag... I will admit I'm not much of a user of Mag either, and her frailty is exactly why.

The horse mount is Duviri and the motorcycle... you'll need to complete a lot more material to reach that motorcycle. I... think you might actually be able to access Duviri now, since it says Duviri Paradox requires the Uranus junction to be done. Catch is, to use the Kaithe in the Open World missions you need to level up Drifter Intrinsics.

Funny thing, I always forget there is a Kaithe Summon.


Regarding Interception, I've noticed that pattern - enemies will generally all focus on a single point at a time. Makes them easy to chokepoint.

 

[Icepaw]

Yeah until the 18th Dagath can be built for almost free as four alert jobs give you everything to make her, they also released a horse themed skin for her in honor of Year of the Horse. I started with Mag but mainly as the idea that I could magnetize people and lock foes in a death bubble where every round shot into it is trapped in it with them...sounded fun. Her fragile state though... yeah I..will be looking into Frost. I tried Voruna, I tried Ember...that survival mission sucks ass as...most the foes are mechs and fire was pointless against them so Ember got thrashed. Voruna's sniper is wild though...like a machine gun mixed with a sniper, most foes die first shot but Interception was rough. I'd capture a point then try to grab another but by the time I captured a second the enemy swarmed the one I had grabbed and insta captured it..and it was a losing spree till i joined a public lobby for it and then it was cake. The enemies swarmed my point so i stuck around it and slaughtered them while my allies grabbed the others. Still..unsure why that one guy kept swinging his melee at me or shooting my feet but with how heavy they swarmed my point if I'd left it we'd of lost it as nobody helped me.

I did also notice today i got more warframe than i recall, I got Nova for example and...some warframe that looks cut in two... his name escapes me but more so I don't recall where he came from. I got rhino I got Ember I got frost and Excalibur, Voruna and Valkyr. Is..Valkyr any fun by chance I keep seeing videos of her slashing people with her claws but is that her ability or is there a claw weapon? Also..got the recipe recently for the module to create those cat companions but...I don't know where the crystal for those comes from. Some weapon recipes need those crystals too but... I kinda focused mostly the story and random stuff before so I..don't think i got the equipment for fishing which i guess is needed for some things. Really feels like I got side tracked at one point ^^;

 

[Firuthi Dragovic]

Yeah until the 18th Dagath can be built for almost free as four alert jobs give you everything to make her, they also released a horse themed skin for her in honor of Year of the Horse. I started with Mag but mainly as the idea that I could magnetize people and lock foes in a death bubble where every round shot into it is trapped in it with them...sounded fun. Her fragile state though... yeah I..will be looking into Frost. I tried Voruna, I tried Ember...that survival mission sucks ass as...most the foes are mechs and fire was pointless against them so Ember got thrashed. Voruna's sniper is wild though...like a machine gun mixed with a sniper, most foes die first shot but Interception was rough. I'd capture a point then try to grab another but by the time I captured a second the enemy swarmed the one I had grabbed and insta captured it..and it was a losing spree till i joined a public lobby for it and then it was cake. The enemies swarmed my point so i stuck around it and slaughtered them while my allies grabbed the others. Still..unsure why that one guy kept swinging his melee at me or shooting my feet but with how heavy they swarmed my point if I'd left it we'd of lost it as nobody helped me.

I did also notice today i got more warframe than i recall, I got Nova for example and...some warframe that looks cut in two... his name escapes me but more so I don't recall where he came from. I got rhino I got Ember I got frost and Excalibur, Voruna and Valkyr. Is..Valkyr any fun by chance I keep seeing videos of her slashing people with her claws but is that her ability or is there a claw weapon? Also..got the recipe recently for the module to create those cat companions but...I don't know where the crystal for those comes from. Some weapon recipes need those crystals too but... I kinda focused mostly the story and random stuff before so I..don't think i got the equipment for fishing which i guess is needed for some things. Really feels like I got side tracked at one point ^^;

Interception... the best advice I can give you is to look for any 'Frame that slows down massive amounts of enemies. I stand by Frost and Nova for this purpose, even though there may be better slowdown 'Frames. And... I always forget how different low-level public play gets compared to higher tiers, but I don't know why the one guy kept attacking you either.

The 'cut in two' 'Frame? You might have to spell out an ability or two of theirs, as my first impression given your level is that you're talking about Equinox and... she's one of the most annoying early 'Frame grinds as you have to get seven parts for her instead of four. (Not a regular of mine, as you can tell.)

Valkyr's not part of my general stable as button-mashing isn't my thing, but as for the claws... the answer is "both". Her fourth ability is the one that brings out her claws, but there is also a claw weapon type (the Venka being an example of it). The videos are probably about the fourth ability as that gives her a whole lot of defensive staying power.

Crystals for weapon recipes and the cat companion module... okay, so you're probably talking about Argon Crystals, and that is not a resource you want to farm until you absolutely need it. The fact that particular resource comes from the Void is not the issue - it's because it's the only resource that decays over time. You roughly have... two rollovers from the time you pick them up until they start decaying. Genuinely, what I will say is to get every other resource for the weapons or modules you're trying to build before going to the Void to get more Argon Crystals - that way, the minute you get the crystal, you can build whatever you need. It's pretty much one of the few reasons I even go to the Void these days.