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You are on the right track though. Now that you've mastered your first Warframe, it's time to start branching out - obtaining new Warframes and weapons, and the mods necessary to make them stronger. The most readily-available Warframes for you at this point are Oberon (component blueprints for him can drop from any Eximus enemy), and Rhino (components drop from Jackal, assassination target of Venus.)
Oberon is a mix of tankiness and support, with the ability to heal and purge status effects from allies and himself, as well as inflict radiation procs to confuse enemies and turn them against one another.
Rhino is a brick-wall of durability, his Iron Skin ability granting him immunity to most status effects and the ability to absorb frightening amounts of punishment if built right. In addition, his Roar is a damage buff that can be granted to allies (rare and valuable ability, that), and his Stomp is a wide-range crowd-control effect.
Oberon sucks.
Frost is a good all-around frame, but you need to farm the boss on Ceres to get him. Snowglobe is a good crutch ability in any kind of missions where you need to defend an object for a period of time. Just drop the bubble and stand inside it. You and the object you're defending are basically invulnerable to anything outside of the bubble. His 2nd and 4th abilities can do good damage with the right mods, too.
Lies, he's great.
Not amazing, but still great.
Better then he was, sure.
As for prime warframes, they are the same as their regular versions, except with slightly higher stats. They, like all prime gear, are acquired from Void Relics, which you should be able to use soon if not already. As said above, Excalibur Prime specifically was the first, exclusive to "Founders", those who supported the game when it was brand new. Not all warframes have a prime version yet either.
Frames I'd recomend getting first: Rhino (dudes a tank), Ember (AoE damage/helps with low lvl farming), Frost (makes defense missions easy)
Frames I recomend in general: Chroma (my favorite frame, is a great tank that has massive damage potential), Rhino (easy to use tank), Nekros (makes farming easier/can be built to be a tank), Mirage (quest frame/great dps frame)
Go for wepons too.
Hek, Tigris, Arca Plasmor, Baza, Lesion, Sybaris, Maerlock, Akstilleto, and Corinth are some of my favorite wepons currently. Look for a cool looking wepon buy the BP/build it and try it out. Rank it to lvl 30 and if you hate it sell it, if you like it keep it.
Don't forget to set some goals for yourself.
The game has enjoyable movement/combat, sure, but it gets stale if you don't have something to work towards. Right now i'm working on getting all the syndicate mods for my 2 factions.
Hope you have fun and figure out what you want to do in the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_n2NRhXv-I
★ Avoid using region chat. You will thank me for this later
★ There is no 'best' anything, quite a lot of Weapons and Warframes are indeed viable regardless of what people will tell you about them. Each of them have their own things they excel in, some excel better than others in certain departments
★ Use the 50 starting platinum to get warframe/weapon slots as this will let you hold more weapons and warframes respectively. This is always recommended as a new player so that you can acquire more weapons/warframes and be able to have room for them
★ Set your own goals for yourself even if they seem impossible and work towards them with adding smaller goals to accomplish in between that large goal. This way you can take the game at your own pace and work to achieve things that you are interested in. Because this is more of a sandbox game in nature and the game gives you plenty of tools to do whatever you want and how you want
★ DLCs for Warframe are more of a "starter pack" thing they DO NOT unlock any new content in any shape or form, but everything in it can be easily farmed ingame if you are patient enough. However, if you wish to purchase platinum to also support the developers then it is advised for you to wait for a 75% discount from daily login then purchase platinum that way since you get a lot more out of your money that way
★ Pretty much most things (including Warframes) can be farmed ingame by either Clan Research, purchasing blueprints on the Market for credits, various drops from different sources (bosses, enemies, etc), or syndicates. This way you do NOT have to use platinum to buy them, though no one really buys Warframes or Weapons in the Market for platinum anyways when they can farm them ingame through various methods
★ Rank things to 30 before selling them and be sure to try out new weapons/warframes to get an idea of what you may like, also make sure to check if the weapon can be used to make another weapon: http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Weapons_Required_as_Crafting_Ingredients
★ Start getting familiar with the movement and parkour mechanics, as they are useful to do and also help in surviving or preventing things like getting knocked down/taking less damage. Learning this early is better than having to learn it late in the game: http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Movement#Sprinting
★ Joining a new player friendly clan is advised. Not only do clans offer new friends to potentially meet, but they also offer various clantech research that you can get the blueprints of if they have researched it via credits to be able to craft that said item/warframe/weapon for yourself
★ Weapons/Warframes are basically the foundation of what you'll be building upon. Mods are used to build upon that foundation and they can be upgraded and come in many forms. Always look out for them and always keep one mod of the same type (you can choose to sell duplicates if you wish). Knowing what the different types of damages do and how to mod for them is good to know: http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Damage_2.0
★ In certain mission types such as survival, as a new player DO NOT run around and use all of the life support capsules because that is a waste for you & everyone else and it is annoying (might be considered trolling to some people). Life support capsules are something that you use when your life support is low below 40% or so and using them early is just a major waste
★ Early on for new players it's alot better to do Dark Sector missions which are always against Infested enemies to get Credits and Affinity (experience), however you will need to join a clan before being able to play on one of them: http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Sector
★ You can only earn Mastery Experience from a level 30 item ONCE, re-leveling it will not give you further mastery experience and you will have to craft new stuff in order to obtain more. Items such as a MK1-Braton and a Braton are considered separate for mastery experience.
★ Get to Mastery Rank 2 so you can start trading by selling stuff on https://warframe.market/ to earn platinum for yourself but keep in mind only certain things are tradeable. Resources and normal warframes/weapons are NOT tradeable. Learn what can be traded here: http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Trading
While warframe.market isn't the ONLY way to trade it is a lot more easier to use for newer players who wish to get into trading and the prices are always changing due to supply & demand, sometimes the prices on here will VARY from trade chat (but Trade Chat prices ARE NOT set in stone either)
★ You can mark things such as mods or resources with 'G' or mark a specific point of interest that you would wish for people to check out. For instance if you see a green line thing where an enemy or group of enemies were at then you can use 'G' to mark that specific resource for people to come pick up
★ You can assign items to your Gear Wheel then using 'Q' (default key) to open your Gear Wheel then selecting which item you wish to use, this is useful since you will eventually use those slots for various consumables or scanners
★ Don't worry about the 'meta' just use whatever you like and try experimenting with things. You don't even need specialized builds for warframes or weapons until after you finish the Star Chart anyways
★ If you need anything in particular such as a resource then feel free to ask in recruitment chat because there are people that are willing to help you by taxi'ing you to that planet (taxi meaning that you or they join the same squad then they select a mission node on a planet)
★ You can use a Forma to add another polarity to your weapon/warframe/etc when you put a mod in the same polarity (symbol) slot it will cut that mods cost in half, however when you use a Forma on something it will reset that items rank back to unranked then you have to level it to 30 again. Having multiple Forma on an item means you'll be able to place make use of your mod capacity on that item better: http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Polarization
★ Reactors (for your Warframes/Sentinels/Companions) or Catalysts (for your Weapons) are used to double your Mod Capacity on whatever item you're using them on but generally for new players it isn't advised to use them until you have found something that you really like or plan to use for a long time. There are sometimes various alerts or invasion missions to be able to get these without having to pay anything, also might come as a sortie reward depending on your RNG
★ You can use Endo ( http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Endo ) to upgrade your mods. Endo is dropped by enemies, can be a mission/bounty reward, sortie reward, coverting duplicate/excess mods to endo, and you can also covert Ayatan Sculptures into Endo at Maroo's Bazaar at Mars
★ Complete the starting story quests to be able to get most of the functionality for your ship (various other things may become unlocked as you finish certain story quests or other methods)
★ Completing all of the planet nodes will allow for you to do Nightmare Missions on that planet which are missions that have modifiers but you will get a random Nightmare mod when you complete them. Farming nightmare mods is quite handy and a lot of them are used often and you can even sell them for platinum to people (recommended to use something like https://warframe.market/ to do so)
★ Do Junctions in order to progress to new planets to be able to fight new bosses which drop Warframe parts (some warframes can come from clantech research or other methods like story quests). Junctions give you rewards from story quests to various blueprints to help you ease into the game more and they also reward you with some Mastery XP
★ Once you have completed all of the star chart then you can look into doing whatever you want and exploring the game much further indepth, such as focusing on more specialized builds for your frames/weapons/etc or whatever you want really
★ After completing the star chart then you can use some of the following to get what you need: Akkad (Eris) / Hydron (Sedna) / Bere (Sedna) / Helene (Saturn) / Io (Jupiter) for Affinity farming and the Index for Credit farming (recommended to do Medium Risk since it gives 135k credits and you can use a Credit Booster to double your reward)
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=878446464
(Keep in mind since a certain patch that some Warframes have switched locations farming wise with Excalibur being on Mars - new players can now get him early now, Trinity on Pluto, and Frost being on Ceres)