Make New Tenno?

[Cuddletauren]

Hi I don't know if this is a ridiculous question or not, so let it be clear that I am not trolling. Can I make a different class of tenno? I remember choosing my dude and then I wanted to be a mage or something equivilent in this universe or something, but I'm not finding an option.

Thanks much.

[Donitsi]

ESC/ Equipment/ Arsenal. There you change your warframe

[Cuddletauren]

ah so it's warframes that are the only thing that I would be needing to customize then?

[Zefar]

You can get ALL of these Warframes as long as you have platinum to buy slots with. You get their blueprints from bosses on each planet.

https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Warframes

You can check there on where to get the Warframes.

[Cuddletauren]

very nice information, thank you both.

[Kittenpox]

If you find yourself short on Platinum, but without IRL cash to acquire more, then consider opening relics in Void Fissure missions, and using the "Warframe Market" website to see the approximate buy/sell price for trading "Prime" weapons / warframe parts with other players.
(I find the in-game trade chat gets cluttered, but being able to browse players listings on the site is much easier - even if it means waiting for the other player to complete a mission before inviting them to your clans Dojo to trade.)

Buying plat on the main Warframe website *does* help support the game, though, so is definitely worth considering - plus occasionally you can get a price discount via the daily login reward in-game. :-)

[Kittenpox]

Once you've got a bunch of plat, you could use it to buy extra slots for storing Warframes (and/or Weapons) - but if you have enough you could buy some warframes outright via the in-game shop. :-)
(The same place you can buy Squad health/energy boosters, Codex scanners, and MK1 weapons, via credits.)

It's not something I'd recommend without a lot of research into the frame you're looking at (I've only ever done this once myself), to avoid buyers remorse - but it *is* an option if you're feeling that you have too many dollars in your pocket.

[Cuddletauren]

I'm an all-in kinda guy with a huge game library. The game is worth the money. Thanks for helpful advice for a noob like me :)

[pavig]

Warframes are like robot suits of armor, so you will eventually end up with a collection of them. You start out with Excalibur (sword specialty) or Mag (crowd control spellcaster), or Volt (traditional spellcaster), but if you keep playing you will unlock quite a few more. You can change any time, and will level and tweak each class to your preferences. Higher level content requires balanced teams so you might swap to a different warframe just for one mission.

You can unlock either of the other two starter frames fairly early in game. Other frames you may get early are Rhino (tank), Oberon (healer) etc. Limbo, and insanely powerful spellcaster that can cross into other dimensions comes fairly early too. Some come for free from quests or parts drop from enemies. Others have to be more explicitly farmed.

You can unlock about 35 frames in game, each with their individual skill set... but it takes time and effort to do it for free, so many people buy frames they are interested in using the in game real world currency. They are fairly expensive bought directly from the in game market, but most can be bought from other players who have farmed the parts much cheaper. My advice is not to buy stuff until you have played through enough of the main quest lines to understand what you are buying.

Keep playing your dude and unlock nodes in the star chart. Play with different weapons, and upgrade your stuff with mods in the arsenal. It will all become clear over the next hundred hours or so of gameplay.

[pavig]

Ha! While I was writing my reply everyone else had already answered the question. ;)

I'm also an all in collector when it comes to games, so please take my advice and don't go too crazy buying stuff when you start out in warframe. Farming content is the game in warframe, and it forces you to make do with what you have rather than always having the optimal build for any situation. Take it at your own pace until you get a better understanding of what is worth buying

... and join a clan at some point. Clans can research some of the most interesting warframes in game so you can build them yourself. You'll have five or six frames before you know it. :)

[Kittenpox]

Volt, for example, is one of the frames you can get by acquiring the blueprints from a clan dojo.

Similarly, the 'Helios' type robotic companion sentinel is also only available by either buying with plat (No), or getting the blueprint from a clan dojo once they've unlocked it (Yes).

Out of curiosity, CuddleTauren, which warframe did you pick at the start?

[massgunner32]

Mag is kinda a mage type, and braidead easy to farm, you just have to kill that joke boss in phobos.