Warframe leveling

[Coffinmaker]

Hey guys, I'd post on the official forums but cannot as i'm working. I just started playing Warframe and want to know how those play progress through the first 15 or so levels. What is your leveling style?

Do you play through all of the sectors of each planet or do you play through enough to get to the boss sector and just farm it for a while? Do you still progress from mercury-venuse-earth-mars-jupiter as the wiki says?

I'm a rank 20 volt using the braton, lex and chronus.
Volt has vitality and redirection mods on it. 60 and 200% respectively.
I can't remember what's on my weapons, nothing special though.

 

[Coffinmaker]

Bump. Does anyone play this game?

 

[Llwellyn]

I just started playing as well, but generally following the progression is probably best, unless you know someone who can carry you through some higher level missions to target specific mods and such that you will want later.

Farming the bosses is probably not a bad plan, so long as they still have a chance to drop something useful.

They just redid the whole game from the ground up in a manner of speaking - lots of overhauls, and new players now have a series of quests and get the first real repeatable mission as part of the tutorial. They also made a ton of balancing changes. Be careful of how old the info you are reading is, as some of it is likely not applicable anymore, especially pricing, item requirements, and drop rates and locations.

The Braton is a good weapon, and one of the only ones you can buy with credits until you have something like 65 or 75 combined levels of XP on items (rank 2, or whatever they call that in the progression). The others are all just ok; the Lato is accurate but low damage; the Lex hits like a truck. Melee weapons are up to you until you can get really good ones later on, either dual-wield with reach and abilities modded or some of the ranged melee weapons (they don't use ammo).

If you don't plan on spending any Platinum, then start looking into what it takes to build a Rhino from scratch. It's a really good step-up warframe out of any of the 3 newbie ones. Unless you are totally in love with the Volt, it's probably what you should aim for. It's got a damage-absorb for a special ability, and it's much more durable than the Excalibur. The higher base stats make your mods worth more for the same drain too.

 

[PhatoseAlpha]

MR16. The beginning path was considerably different back when I started then now.

The number one single most important thing to do is to obtain the core mods. Serration & Split Chamber for the rifles, and they're equivalent on the other weapon types, followed up by the elemental damage mods.

 

[Coffinmaker]

Thanks for the replies. I've got serration on my Braton leveled up to 75% for now. I'm going to fuse it higher though when I get more cores. I'm starting to get some decent elemental damage mods but I can't find a split chamber anywhere. Sounds like it's quite rare.

 

[z1ggy]

Bump, necro, sorry. I just started playing this game, and I really like it. I'm a total noob though... Playing Volt. Is there any "best" weapons, mods to get? Save all my money, etc??

 

[PhatoseAlpha]

Save your starter plat for warframe and weapon slots. Boltor Prime is currently the best weapon in the game, or near enough that it obsoletes everything, but because of how mastery works you'll end up needing to level up everything anyway.

First and foremost concern is the pure damage mods - Serration and Hornet Strike. Then the multishot mods, then the elemental mods.

 

[z1ggy]

So I've been playing now for about a week. It's a fun game and I've now beaten Earth and Mercury, and am playing Venus.

This planet is wayyyy harder than the other two, because I chose to use the Paris bow which after reading reddit and warframe wikia, won't be that effective against Corpus.

I am building a rifle now that has slightly better impact damage which will help, but I have almost no elemental mods. I think I have a poison.. and maybe a cold one? I have one called Charge or something similar, too.. is that electricity?

Also, I read and interpreted that if say I stuck a cold and an electric next to each other in my mod load out, that I would get a Magnetic effect or... do they combine or something for the effects? That part kind of confused me a bit.

Anyway, I'm running a Volt with Paris, Lato and skana. The mods I can't list now because I don't have my game up infront of me, but I don't really think I have anything special.

 

[PhatoseAlpha]

They don't need to be next to each other. The mods are processed sequentially, from top-left and across, then the row beneath them. If you have multiple elements on your weapon, they'll combine in groups of 2. Cold+Electricity becomes magnetic. So if you have +60 elec and +60 cold, it combines to +120 magnetic damage, and no elec or cold. Every damage type has a proc it can activate.

Things to note: Only the location of the first damage type of an element counts - any other mods adding that same element just add to that one, or whatever that one combines into. So if I've got a fire mod, toxin mod, another fire mod, and a cold mold, the fire+toxin become gas, the second fire adds to the gas, and the cold is stand alone.

The electric mod for non-shotgun primaries like Paris is called Stormbringer.

Do you have a non-damaged Serration yet? If not, run the excavation mission on earth until you get it. It's a possible reward from a successful excavation, and it is the single most important mod in the entire game. Get it and start leveling it ASAP.

 

[z1ggy]

Okay I get it now. So I have a cold and toxin on my skana, and now I get viral effects, which is nice.

I think the rifle I got was the B... Bakar? I forget but it's a grineer rifle and has decent impact damage.

I do have Serration, but unsure what you mean by non-damaged. So should I just be playing that mission over and over again to keep getting Serration drops to fuse it?

 

[JumBie]

Just started playing yesterday but after completing a few missions I realized its damn near impossible to find people to play with, I might have to leave my game running for 20 minutes before I find someone to help me with a mission. Would be nice if some of us played together.

 

[PhatoseAlpha]

By non-damaged, I mean it's not one of the damaged mods dropped in the newbie quest. Those are visibly cracked on their mod cards, and have lower top levels and gain less per level then a standard version of the mod.

You can use dupes, but it's generally faster to get fusion cores. Though, that may not be true that early in the game - it's been a long time since I was newbie.


It can be difficult to find players, especially on non-endless mission types. The playerbase tends towards Defense, Survival and Excavation, and typically they run through the other mission types as fast as possible.

 

[z1ggy]

Just started playing yesterday but after completing a few missions I realized its damn near impossible to find people to play with, I might have to leave my game running for 20 minutes before I find someone to help me with a mission. Would be nice if some of us played together.

You can probably join my clan if you want, I am in game almost everyday now between 6pm-9pm EST.

By non-damaged, I mean it's not one of the damaged mods dropped in the newbie quest. Those are visibly cracked on their mod cards, and have lower top levels and gain less per level then a standard version of the mod.

You can use dupes, but it's generally faster to get fusion cores. Though, that may not be true that early in the game - it's been a long time since I was newbie.


It can be difficult to find players, especially on non-endless mission types. The playerbase tends towards Defense, Survival and Excavation, and typically they run through the other mission types as fast as possible.

I see. Why is it that plays flock toward those missions? I noticed that, as well. I play the earth excavation mission a lot now because I read that's one of the best places in the early worlds to find a Serration mod. I'm guessing players choose 1 of those 3 because it's basically endless mods until you die/leave mission.

 

[PhatoseAlpha]

Mostly it's about spawn rate and rewards. The endless missions spawn a lot more enemies per minute then the majority of the non-endless missions, so you end up with more XP and drops for your time.

The infested Hive missions in Eris can come close, but they have to compete with the Dark Sector endless missions and lose out due to the xp/credit bonuses from Dark Sectors. And Mobile Defense missions have about the same rate when they're in the defending stage, but still lose out slightly since it's not constant.

 

[z1ggy]

Mostly it's about spawn rate and rewards. The endless missions spawn a lot more enemies per minute then the majority of the non-endless missions, so you end up with more XP and drops for your time.

The infested Hive missions in Eris can come close, but they have to compete with the Dark Sector endless missions and lose out due to the xp/credit bonuses from Dark Sectors. And Mobile Defense missions have about the same rate when they're in the defending stage, but still lose out slightly since it's not constant.

Well, I'm still a noob so I've only cleared Mercury, Earth and about half of Venus, so I am only really able to farm Earth, so I do the one excavation mission when I am farming.

I need a new secondary weapon....Currently using the Lato. What's a good upgrade?

 

[PhatoseAlpha]

Seer's not bad if you don't mind grinding Vor for a bit. And the Stug is actually pretty powerful, and it's innate corrosive, but can be dangerous since it's explosive. Lex, Magnus and Vasto are all pretty decent as well, and Lex Prime is excellent - if you can get your hands on one.

All the really stand-out secondaries are late game stuff though. Primes are always good, but grinding the void is probably beyond you that early one. Brakk, Despair and Detron are all very good - but are really hard to obtain. I pretty much use the Marelok as my standard sidearm, but that's clan tech and required MR 5.

 

[z1ggy]

Seer's not bad if you don't mind grinding Vor for a bit. And the Stug is actually pretty powerful, and it's innate corrosive, but can be dangerous since it's explosive. Lex, Magnus and Vasto are all pretty decent as well, and Lex Prime is excellent - if you can get your hands on one.

All the really stand-out secondaries are late game stuff though. Primes are always good, but grinding the void is probably beyond you that early one. Brakk, Despair and Detron are all very good - but are really hard to obtain. I pretty much use the Marelok as my standard sidearm, but that's clan tech and required MR 5.

Looks like my only choice is grinding out Vor. About how long would that take? Does he drop each part every time you beat him, or is it random?

I may also try to beat Venus to get Rhino ASAP to make my life a little easier. I keep dying with Volt...Hopefully I can find some squad members to help out.

 

[PhatoseAlpha]

It's not a 100% drop rate. Depends a lot on how lucky you are, and again, it's been a very very long time since I've done that.

 

[z1ggy]

I see. I might try playing Vor a few times tonight then, should be much easier than the last time I played it.

Hopefully I can find some more serration mods because I haven't been able to level that up yet...

 

[TheFamilyMan]

Anyone still playing this? A friend and I just fired this up a couple weeks ago and are having a pretty good time. I think it's something we'll end up putting some good time into. Any help on some high level missions would be greatly appreciated.

If anyone has any mods/bp/plat lying around in the game and won't be playing/coming back, let me know and see if we can work something out.

Can provide in-game handle via PM if interested.

 

[metaphors]

I just started putting some time in this on ps4 and a bit on pc as well.

 

[DaTT]

Just started this today. Seems OK. Not sure how involved I will get as of yet.

 

[aigomorla]

i used to grind it hardcore....
I sort of gotten tired of it...

But its a massive grind on the same maps over and over again, and then using deleric keys and other stuff to grind more schematics, followed by a time gate + waiting for the right alert to pop up so you can get once again, another schematic.

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You may want to join a clan which has a large dojo since the only real way to trade is though a dojo, and you can also get some cool weapon schematics via Clan Dojo research.

 

[DaTT]

i used to grind it hardcore....
I sort of gotten tired of it...

But its a massive grind on the same maps over and over again, and then using deleric keys and other stuff to grind more schematics, followed by a time gate + waiting for the right alert to pop up so you can get once again, another schematic.

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You may want to join a clan which has a large dojo since the only real way to trade is though a dojo, and you can also get some cool weapon schematics via Clan Dojo research.

Hmmm, the game now sounds confusing.

 

[Coffinmaker]

Ya I did play it for a while but I no longer do. Too much grind on the same maps over and over again as aigomorla mentioned.