Is buying Forma with plat worth it?

[Marcmaz]

If not, what's the best way to acquire Forma/Forma Blueprints?

(Note: I am not a new player and have already bought all the slots I need.)

[BurlsoL]

İlk olarak BossGalaga tarafından gönderildi:

You should build forma whenever you have blueprints for it, that way when you need forma, you're not like ermagerds, I don't have any ferma!

Forma goes quick when you are doing Dojo construction, or making weapons from research. I have gone through a good 20-30 of them easily just in cleaning out my dojo's research (mostly for MR fodder).

Forma also goes quick when you finally get a good riven and need to somehow fit it within the mod capacity of the weapon along with other high cost mods. This is not counting weapons like Amprex or Ignis which need 5-7 Forma in them to be servicable against level 80+ enemies. Then there are frames. Many of the newer frames lack the polarities to minimize the cost of needed mods to make that frame 'shine'.

Yes, buying forma is essentially cutting 3 days of wait time, and you could simply just play those 3 more days, and save them up. But when you've been making 1 forma a day for 200+ days, and still don't have enough, you're allowed to cheat every now and then.

[BossGalaga]

İlk olarak BurlsoL tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak BossGalaga tarafından gönderildi:

You should build forma whenever you have blueprints for it, that way when you need forma, you're not like ermagerds, I don't have any ferma!

Forma goes quick when you are doing Dojo construction, or making weapons from research. I have gone through a good 20-30 of them easily just in cleaning out my dojo's research (mostly for MR fodder).

Forma also goes quick when you finally get a good riven and need to somehow fit it within the mod capacity of the weapon along with other high cost mods. This is not counting weapons like Amprex or Ignis which need 5-7 Forma in them to be servicable against level 80+ enemies. Then there are frames. Many of the newer frames lack the polarities to minimize the cost of needed mods to make that frame 'shine'.

Yes, buying forma is essentially cutting 3 days of wait time, and you could simply just play those 3 more days, and save them up. But when you've been making 1 forma a day for 200+ days, and still don't have enough, you're allowed to cheat every now and then.

And how often are you max slotting a weapon or making 20-30 new weapons then immediately maxing them for MR on a daily basis?

If you want to buy forma again, that's up to you. But odds are highly likely that you don't need to max slot every single weapon in the game or research and then craft 20-30 weapons a day because you're probably not going to use them all immediately.

[FULLMEATALVAPIRE]

uhhh no. Only benfit is u have them made cuz ur impateint

[BurlsoL]

İlk olarak BossGalaga tarafından gönderildi:

And how often are you max slotting a weapon or making 20-30 new weapons then immediately maxing them for MR on a daily basis?

I usually do 1 weapon build every few days. Sometimes because I get a good Riven or finally obtain a mod that makes a certain build suddenly work. Some of this is simply a part of wanting to have a good endgame weapon (kills a level 100 eximus bombard easily) of each 'class' for each focus school, while trying to have a good mix of crit or status based weapons within each school. Many weapons have no starting polarity, so even a lackluster build on something can require a few Forma to make it semi-servicable. Then there are Zaws, where you really can't get a decent judge of how 'good' they are without both a catalyst and a few forma into them. If I have no call to max out a weapon, I will be working on maxing out one of my frames. 1 forma a day for more than 100 days, you do the math.

Although those 20-30 weapons were a one-time expense, it was nontheless fairly exhausting on my forma supply, going from ~70 to ~30 when all was said and done (some weapons like Sarpa require Akstiletto which means additional Forma). As new content is added to the game, DE will be adding more weapons, many of which will likely continue to be clan research and require a forma or two to create. Then there are cases where you may have mastered a weapon that used a forma to create, but then ditched the weapon as MR fodder a few months before a good Riven falls into your lap, requiring you to make the weapon again.

As for rate that you go through weapons... If you have a 7 day affinity booster, you can go through 30+ weapons very quickly by the time you hit mid-game, with the only limiter being what resources (credits) you have and how much you can tolerate Hydron. Mastery Rank 18-22 requires a good deal of fodder afterall and once you start, why decide to take it slowly?

Although Forma may, eventually, be like Nitain or Argon crystals, in that you really need them until you suddenly realize that you don't any more. At 1000 hours into the game, and still having about a dozen incomplete frames and countless weapons, that day is hardly on the horizon. And even when that day comes, there is always the instance of donating it to the clan to help with a building or kitting out a newly released frame/weapon. Or maybe one of my Kubrow/Sentinels/Kavats/ect. 35p is a small price to pay for 3 of them.


*addition* weapon 'class' meaning general usage. Assault rifles are different from semi-automatics, shotguns different from both, long range verses short range is also a factor. Then there are secondaries, and melees as well as the matter of crit verses status, or corrosion verses radiation.

[Lena]

İlk olarak Fan Or Death tarafından gönderildi:

I wouldn't, really. Forma is one of the easiest things to get in the game. Just run relics, you will get so many out of it. There are better things to put Plat into in my opinion.

^this.

[omegazeda]

Your plat do what you want with it, if you think it's worth it, get it, it's not expansive.

[ThadZ]

Its 35 plat for 3 builded forma its better than pay 10 for rush the forma so u dont use your forma and you get 3 builded ... whenu realy need forma cause u are rushing some weapon and warframe some day i can spend 10 forma and 24 h by forma is to low to get me enought to build so i paid 35 for 3 and its a good deal

[Xengre]

İlk olarak BossGalaga tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak Xengre tarafından gönderildi:

Buy the 3 pack of forma if you do , never the one pack. What a lot of these people are not telling you is it takes 24 hours for a single forma... which is NOT worth the wait when you are working on a project that requires 4-6 forma. If you have a large number of stuff to work on building forma is not a legitimately valid method of acquiring forma.

You should build forma whenever you have blueprints for it, that way when you need forma, you're not like ermagerds, I don't have any ferma!

What do you have to have 6 forma now for that can't wait? I can't imagine anyone critically needing forma. Anyway, it's your plat, up to you.

When I created my clan, I was low on forma so I...farmed forma, crafted forma and waited patiently. The world didn't end.

You are making a pretty big assumption that you have built a forma everyday for literally 2 months basically. That or you only use 1 weapon and 1 frame, like ever, which is the wrong way to play WF.

What if I have 4-5 frames I built recently and I need 2-5 forma for each of them and another 5 weapons that need the same? There is 20-50 forma right there for a meager 2-3 week project. This also means you would have to farm 50 relics for forma drops EVERYTIME which is already hard but even harder if you get rares. Forma even when common don't seem to drop that often in the first place in my experience. Then its on to the next project of frames and weapons when you get bored.

Then there is the issue of the large quantity of MR fodder or desirable weapons that require forma to build them from the dojo and such. You would have to wait months to be able to build all of those or you could sell some stuff for enough plat and build it all in one week. One is very obviously the superior choice here.

Then there is dojo forma needs...

İlk olarak BossGalaga tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak BurlsoL tarafından gönderildi:

Forma goes quick when you are doing Dojo construction, or making weapons from research. I have gone through a good 20-30 of them easily just in cleaning out my dojo's research (mostly for MR fodder).

Forma also goes quick when you finally get a good riven and need to somehow fit it within the mod capacity of the weapon along with other high cost mods. This is not counting weapons like Amprex or Ignis which need 5-7 Forma in them to be servicable against level 80+ enemies. Then there are frames. Many of the newer frames lack the polarities to minimize the cost of needed mods to make that frame 'shine'.

Yes, buying forma is essentially cutting 3 days of wait time, and you could simply just play those 3 more days, and save them up. But when you've been making 1 forma a day for 200+ days, and still don't have enough, you're allowed to cheat every now and then.

And how often are you max slotting a weapon or making 20-30 new weapons then immediately maxing them for MR on a daily basis?

If you want to buy forma again, that's up to you. But odds are highly likely that you don't need to max slot every single weapon in the game or research and then craft 20-30 weapons a day because you're probably not going to use them all immediately.

This post indicates you aren't quite at end game yet or you utilize/abuse only one setup in general. I would get bored of that so, even tho I could just have one setup, I would prefer to entertain myself the way the game was intended to be played by utilizing your various options. I have all but Khora, Octavia, & Nidus. I have around 70 weapons and everything has catalyst and forma in it. A ton of weapons have simply no polarities at all REQUIRING forma to fit more than 2-3 mods in it and quite a few forma at that with some primed mods and other expensive mods. Want to make an extreme Chroma or Volt build? 4-5 forma, want to add that 18 cap riven with your primed mods? 4-5 forma. Etc.

To get the amount of forma I have had to use would have taken me building, literally, a forma every single day for over 2 years... I may have several hundred hours of playtime but almost all of it is afk/alt tab time. 85% of what I accomplished was done in my first 2 months of play then down the road when I came back another 1 month of play so 3 months total. Buying forma was mandatory for this.

Besides what else are you going to use your forma on? Potatoes (because you will never ever get anywhere near enough from events/alerts unless you progress like a snail) and slots are all. Maybe rarely a mod if you don't want to farm it or need to buy a vaulted frame (largely pointless, and vaulted weapons run much cheaper than vaulted frames usually). Cosmetics? In short, after slots and potatoes forma are the primary use of plat unless you are one of those players who is underperforming.

[SQLOwns]

only stuff worth the plat are slots and cosmetics.

[lula]

It's worth it, 3 forma for 35 plat. Do it if you have a steady income of plat, farming forma blueprints isn't the issue, waiting the 24 hours to craft them is. 35 plat for three to four days work is definitely worth it imo.

[Nomine]

its worth it if you have a good plat income. sometimes you simply dont have time for everything, including enough relic runs to find a bunch of forma bps.

[Jodyxe]

A while ago forma bundle was on sale, so I bought like 90 formas that day. Then I decided to upgrade a bunch of weapons that I had nice rivens for (each weapon used 5-6 formas with riven) and all my sentinels and their guns. In one day. I spent all 90 in one day. Now, just imagine - it takes 90 days to craft 90 formas. So:

1. If you are not short on platinum and need to level some gear fast - buy forma bundles;
2. If earning platinum is not your main objective in the game and you use only your favourite gear, then farming forma is better alternative.

All comes to the time, as always. Those who value theirs will buy formas in bulk, such as me. Others will keep steady everyday farming.

[Miro Laaksonen]

I actually do think the three forma bundle is well worth it. Not at first if you have just started and don't have a steady income of platinum, but eventually you'll reach the point where you need more forma than you can craft with their crafting time if you like having full builds of bunch of different weapons and warframes

[Connatic]

İlk olarak Marcmaz tarafından gönderildi:

If not, what's the best way to acquire Forma/Forma Blueprints?

If you do, get the 3 for 35 plat bundle. Otherwise, getting Forma blueprints isn't as bad as it used to be. They are a relatively common drop from Void Relic runs.

[massgunner32]

İlk olarak Connatic tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak Marcmaz tarafından gönderildi:

If not, what's the best way to acquire Forma/Forma Blueprints?

If you do, get the 3 for 35 plat bundle. Otherwise, getting Forma blueprints isn't as bad as it used to be. They are a relatively common drop from Void Relic runs.

I find a lot of Forma on the Meso ones specifically, almost went crazy searching for primes to get my ducats.