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HARDBALLER Oct 10, 2018 @ 1:20am
What the effigy
I recently got my Chroma prime and was looking into an effigy credit farming build. Problem is that there is so much contradicting stuff posted about this that I don't know what is true and what not. Or at least what is true at this point in time.
Here are some of the things I read, some definitive clear-ups are appreciated!

1 - Effigy is useless now (after some or other nerf, I assume).
2 - Effigy still works.
3 -You need the red energy color for the credit farm function to work
4 - The credit farm works with any energy color
5 - The enemy has to be killed by the effigy ability in order to produce extra credits
6 - The enemy has to be killed within the aura of the effigy ability, not by the ability itself.

So what is it now?
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Cylixx Oct 10, 2018 @ 1:24am 
Effigy CC works. Damage is negatable even as low as lvl 30.

Dunno about the others.
Sceles Oct 10, 2018 @ 1:28am 
1, 2 - It's useless for anything other than credit farming, has always been.
3, 4 - Color doesn't matter.
5, 6 - It needs to be killed within the aura.

I have never used Chroma for credit farming though so if I said something wrong someone else can correct me.

Quick look at the wiki indicates that I might be wrong about 5 or 6 but I can't say for sure. Btw doing index gives you credits way faster than farming regular missions. This is one thing I'm sure of.
Last edited by Sceles; Oct 10, 2018 @ 1:38am
Spook Oct 10, 2018 @ 1:37am 
The main thing that probably changed about using chroma to credit farm is that it only really sprung up in conjunction with the discovery of how good the secura lecta was... which itself got a drastic nerf to credit production, leaving the whole strategy very shaky. Especially now that, since then, the index has also been changed to be quite a bit faster to run.

But for your direct questions: Since the popular strategy was based on a different weapon getting the kills, I'm pretty sure enemies just need to be in the "aura" of the effigy for the credit boost to count, and it's not based on energy color at all.
Last edited by Spook; Oct 10, 2018 @ 1:38am
MotherVicar Oct 10, 2018 @ 1:39am 
Effigy is plenty powerful, not sure what people are whining about tbh
Nihil Oct 10, 2018 @ 1:45am 
Originally posted by HARDBALLER:
Problem is that there is so much contradicting stuff posted about this that I don't know what is true and what not. Or at least what is true at this point in time.
Here are some of the things I read, some definitive clear-ups are appreciated!


So what is it now?
So you saw contradictional comments on forums about this topic. So you decided to create a new topic just to get more contradictional replies? :D
HARDBALLER Oct 10, 2018 @ 2:08am 
Amazing how some people just crap all over posts without adding ANY proper response to the original questions....
We got my first replier who informed us on every use effigy has EXCEPT the credit farming - the topic of this post.
Then we got number 2 with some seemingly solid advice except he/she has never credit farmed with Chroma. Still, half points for that.
Number 3 miraculously stays on topic. Cheers bud!
Then we get number 4, taking offense because number 1 said effigy's damage suks and he/she doesn't agree with that.
And finally (hopefully) we have number 5 - the amazing Nihilus - who is trying to turn everything into one big idiotic joke about contradictional replies - and horribly fails at being funny in even the slightest of ways.
Last edited by HARDBALLER; Oct 10, 2018 @ 2:14am
Raza Oct 10, 2018 @ 2:41am 
on points 1 and 2 effigy is prety much same as ever(can be used for low level credit farm or CC+damage with augment in higher levels)
on points 3 and 4 i need to explain a bit so here's how this works:
red energy=heat damage witch is very good vs infested,infested also have next to 0 armor so they don't realy get all that tanky compared to say a grennier hence why people said red energy works u can still credit farm at lower levels with any color but for longer and higher level runs heat and vs infested is necesary(also infested have higher nr of units in a mision so higher credits chance to drop)
on point 5 and 6 i'm 100% sure the effigy needs to be the one geting the kills to get the bonus credits unless something changed very recently
lastly i do have to recomand index as it's simply a better way to farm credits but otherwise i hope this helped
MotherVicar Oct 10, 2018 @ 2:46am 
Originally posted by HARDBALLER:
Amazing how some people just crap all over posts without adding ANY proper response to the original questions....
We got my first replier who informed us on every use effigy has EXCEPT the credit farming - the topic of this post.
Then we got number 2 with some seemingly solid advice except he/she has never credit farmed with Chroma. Still, half points for that.
Number 3 miraculously stays on topic. Cheers bud!
Then we get number 4, taking offense because number 1 said effigy's damage suks and he/she doesn't agree with that.
And finally (hopefully) we have number 5 - the amazing Nihilus - who is trying to turn everything into one big idiotic joke about contradictional replies - and horribly fails at being funny in even the slightest of ways.


Im not taking offense, I was clearing something up... you asked about/for that.
(also if you really want to credit farm, skip Chroma and just do index tbh)
Last edited by MotherVicar; Oct 10, 2018 @ 2:46am
TreyUwU Oct 10, 2018 @ 5:49am 
But why do you want to credit farm with chroma for 100k every hours (exagerated) when you can run the index for 200K every 20 minutes ?
Plus to be really effective, you need to bring an hydroid with you, and I actually don't know someone who farm credit in missions other than into the index.

I used to credit farm on Eris some times ago with an hydroid, chroma, secura lecta and nekros.
Then the index got "buffed" and everyone is doing it right now, seriously, it's a lot faster.
Last edited by TreyUwU; Oct 10, 2018 @ 5:55am
Tigerlight Oct 10, 2018 @ 5:53am 
Originally posted by HARDBALLER:
Amazing how some people just crap all over posts without adding ANY proper response to the original questions....
We got my first replier who informed us on every use effigy has EXCEPT the credit farming - the topic of this post.
Then we got number 2 with some seemingly solid advice except he/she has never credit farmed with Chroma. Still, half points for that.
Number 3 miraculously stays on topic. Cheers bud!
Then we get number 4, taking offense because number 1 said effigy's damage suks and he/she doesn't agree with that.
And finally (hopefully) we have number 5 - the amazing Nihilus - who is trying to turn everything into one big idiotic joke about contradictional replies - and horribly fails at being funny in even the slightest of ways.
Just like you just did with your contribution?
Yeah. Op or not.
:)

Do Index. 2 runs of Silver.
It does and will absolutely smoke any other Credit farming methodology.
The cut-and-dried version is, who cares how the Effigy farm works or if it does.
Last edited by Tigerlight; Oct 10, 2018 @ 6:12am
TreyUwU Oct 10, 2018 @ 5:57am 
Plus you can't buff the amount of credit you gain from effigy, so if you really want to farm credits with this outdated thing, just max mods for effigy only and here you go, also bring a secura lecta, and try to find someone dumb enough to follow you with an hydroid, and you'll be happy.
Oh and ennemies need to die inside the effigy's aura in order for the credit boost to apply, it was confirmed by rebecca 1 year ago.
Plus the aura range is a static 10 meter (can't be increased by mods), have fun o/
Effigy need to kill the ennemies.

After that, you'll make 60-80K credits with a credit booster applied every ~4 minutes on Akkad.
While others with credit boosters can go up to 240K credits every ~6 minutes in the medium index.
I'll let you do the math.
Last edited by TreyUwU; Oct 10, 2018 @ 6:15am
M4tt Oct 10, 2018 @ 6:00am 
Farming with effigy was only efficient before index became a thing. Not worth it anymore.
Rabanito Oct 10, 2018 @ 7:15am 
Originally posted by HARDBALLER:
I recently got my Chroma prime and was looking into an effigy credit farming build. Problem is that there is so much contradicting stuff posted about this that I don't know what is true and what not. Or at least what is true at this point in time.
Here are some of the things I read, some definitive clear-ups are appreciated!

1 - Effigy is useless now (after some or other nerf, I assume).
2 - Effigy still works.
3 -You need the red energy color for the credit farm function to work
4 - The credit farm works with any energy color
5 - The enemy has to be killed by the effigy ability in order to produce extra credits
6 - The enemy has to be killed within the aura of the effigy ability, not by the ability itself.

So what is it now?

Use effigy for CC and a little extra damage. Forget about credit farming with it.

You want credits? Go to the index.
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Date Posted: Oct 10, 2018 @ 1:20am
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