Is putting a reactor & forma on a non-prime frame worth it?

[Valohmheimr]

Or should I wait until i can get the prime version of that frame. I'm considering to put them on my frost or should i wait until i can get frost prime?

[Enji]

can be, some weapons are not primed but are still worthwhile as they are unique, ie opticor etc. However no mk1 should ever be primed :)
You'll get more reactors easily if you keep playing. but make sure you find a weapon that you enjoy using regularly as your workhorse weapon.

[Watermelons]

It may be a while before Frost Prime is unvaulted again. If you have no plans on trading or buying the parts off of other players, then I'd say go for it. Reactor him at least. Orokin Reactors may be valuable for their function, but unlike Catalysts, the amount you'll use throughout your time playing will be much less than Catalysts. So to speak, there are fewer things in the game that ask for Reactors than Catalysts, and they seem to be what DE enjoy giving out anyways in their Gift of the Lotus alerts.

[Pckables]

Depends on how much you value your reactors over use of the frame.
If you aren't going to use frost much, then you might not want to bother and instead stick with a frame you want to use regularly.

Personally I avoid putting reactors in non-prime frames, but thats because i've almost every frame at my disposal now. But before that, I put a reactor in Excalibur and Valkyr, because those were the frames I liked to use for most of my missions.

[Wolf Echo]

Originally posted by Valohmheimr:

Or should I wait until i can get the prime version of that frame. I'm considering to put them on my frost or should i wait until i can get frost prime?

If the Prime version exists and you can still aquire it fairly easily, then no, not really.

If it's gonna be a long time till you get the Prime version or one doesn't exist, then it depends on if you like the frame/weapon in question. If you do, then it's worth it. If you don't, then you're just wasting a potato IMO.

As far as Frost is concerned, like Watermelons said, it could be a long while till his Prime is unvaulted again since he was last unvaulted in Febuary. So you'd be better served giving him a reactor for the time being and maybe a forma or 2 since forma are basically a dime a dozen if you do enough relic openings.

[Valohmheimr]

Frost has been my favorite frame ever since I got him and right now using my plats to unlock more slots is my top priority so I don't think I'm gonna buy it from other players.

Then I'm going to put a reactor and forma in while waiting for Frost Prime to be unvaulted again. I will probably have more forma and reactors by the time it's unvaulted.

Thank you for the advice :)

[Alzorik]

Exceptions are for Harrow, Octavia, Nidus, Equinox, Garuda, Inaros, Khora, Gara, Nezha, Titatnia, Ivara, Baruuk, and Wukong. Revenant frame is bad nuff said

[Mooman]

Frost was my go to frame for all defensive missions around the starchart, excavation, defense, mobile defense and got heaps of use.

If you got the mods to fit the extra capacity go for it, forma and reactors will always be available to build later if used now and you get the prime.

[No_Quarter]

Considering you need 1 reactor and 2-6 forma per build, I do not assume you will hav emany warframes you want to build so it is damn worth it.

Also once warframe has a Prime version I keep my regular one for fun and silly builds while Prime is for powerful stuff. Or like example being Rhino Prime, he kept his Steel Charge and has strong builds, but regular Rhino was reworked for Corrosive Projection and is focused aorund buffer build

[Watermelons]

Originally posted by No_Quarter:

Considering you need... ...and 2-6 forma per build,

Optimized builds, sure. But that's not at all necessary.

[No_Quarter]

Originally posted by Something Something Watermelons:

Originally posted by No_Quarter:

Considering you need... ...and 2-6 forma per build,

Optimized builds, sure. But that's not at all necessary.

I just figurd the average number that worked for most of my builds where I didn't ♥♥♥♥ something up. Comes down to which warframe are we talking about, regular Chroma does need like 5 or more forma but Oberon can be op as balls with like 2 forma.

If you like particluar warframe hella lot you will sure invest 7 forma to get that additional 5% of performance which is a huge diminishing return but we still do it with our main warframes.

No one likes every warframe that much, both of my Loki's, limbos, Ashes, Zephyrs - 0 forma.
Titania alone has 11 or 12 forma because of all her thingies.

Cpomes down to question not being that smart, if you like a particular warframe you should invest in it. Primes are not that much better so it is not worth it to overthink it that much, Reactors come by easy andForma per day is not much but sure is enough for you to build everything you like to play. Also bundle of 3 forma for 35 is so easy to farm, 35 plat is like 2 corrupted mods, 2 rare drops from relics, one super rare mod can get you 6 formas, talking about Condition Overload or growing power or Adaptation.

So overthinking if you should spend it if you wanna spend it is just a waste, just go and play.

[Watermelons]

Originally posted by No_Quarter:

Originally posted by Something Something Watermelons:

Optimized builds, sure. But that's not at all necessary.

I just figurd the average number that worked for most of my builds where I didn't ♥♥♥♥ something up. Comes down to which warframe are we talking about, regular Chroma does need like 5 or more forma but Oberon can be op as balls with like 2 forma.

Frost can ignore an entire stat, Duration, so that alone tells you he's a good and simple Warframe that doesn't ask for a ton of forma.

As for the rest of what you're saying, you're getting ahead of the OP. ♥♥♥♥ like Adaptation and all that. There's absolutely no need to talk about that right now for our OP, all that is exactly what I mean by optimization. And it isn't necessary for now. Especially when talking about a non-Prime.

[No_Quarter]

Originally posted by Something Something Watermelons:

Originally posted by No_Quarter:

I just figurd the average number that worked for most of my builds where I didn't ♥♥♥♥ something up. Comes down to which warframe are we talking about, regular Chroma does need like 5 or more forma but Oberon can be op as balls with like 2 forma.

Frost can ignore an entire stat, Duration, so that alone tells you he's a good and simple Warframe that doesn't ask for a ton of forma.

As for the rest of what you're saying, you're getting ahead of the OP. ♥♥♥♥ like Adaptation and all that. There's absolutely no need to talk about that right now for our OP, all that is exactly what I mean by optimization. And it isn't necessary.

by me optimization means that you can actually get a lot of forma for free if you work for it a bit so that you do not need to spend aas much time overthinking if you should spend it.

built my clan alone bu my self, big dojo, rank 10, everything researched, Mr26, built tons of warframes and weapons, all I can say is that forma is not precious.
And him getting Frost Prime now when it cannot be obtained..... slim chance unless he trades for it, but he mentioned waiting....

So while you are true abotu Frost's build, if he considers forma can help to whatever he wants to build then he should go for it, duration is not bad at all to have it on because it makes armor reduction last longer which can help him considering he does not have high level gear and whatnot

[Watermelons]

Originally posted by No_Quarter:

built my clan alone bu my self, big dojo, rank 10, everything researched, Mr26, built tons of warframes and weapons, all I can say is that forma is not precious.

Yeah I built my own massive dojo by myself back when I actually had tons of Forma. MR26 and I have basically every available thing built, potato'd, and likely forma'd several times. That includes the non-Primes and weaker versions of things. Forma is moderately easy to get, but you have to actively try and get it. Otherwise, Forma droughts are very easy to fall into. I've never had double digit amounts of Forma again after I built that dojo. I'm in a drought right now because I don't do enough relic cracking.

So we're in the same boat but on different ends of it. I don't even know why you brought it up when you should know we're both very far into the game. In fact, we're on the complete opposite spectrum of the OP.

[No_Quarter]

Originally posted by Something Something Watermelons:

So we're in the same boat but on different ends of it. I don't even know why you brought it up when you should know we're both very far into the game. In fact, we're on the complete opposite spectrum of the OP.

that is why i brought it up, to point out that he should not worry about it too much.

he is 200 hours in, he is close to being able to dive into every realm of the game and being able to farm everything. So he should be able to afford things we are saying if he learns how game works, how market works and that fun is way more important than saving up few forma as we are talking about really minor things compared to what REALLY makes you farming senses hurt like rare arcanes, maxing out all R10 mods, getting rivens for weapons you love, getting skins you like etc.

Pointing out world of possibilities was my goal, nothing else. At 200 hours is about the time when game opens up and you can farm stuff on 20 sides, making your market value "higher" aka more viable to sell something at any time meaning that with time all the things above become more avaliable.

so 35 plat for 3 formas and 20 plat for one reactor is basically less than 1 hour of any random farming. Which sounds way better than 1 hour of overthinking if you should or should not do it.

even if you call it a waste - if you enjoy time you wasted then it is not a waste.