Help me understand what Kuva is in English...

[Torv]

Don't you dare link me to a 14-page Warframe Reddit or Wiki page link on understanding what the hell the Kuva events are, you may as well be showing me a slab of hieroglyphics.

I'm trying to better understand the extreme complexity of Warframe's endgame where you have to go through an ocean of hidden prerequisites if you're after something particular.

The first is this Kuva thing. The red events. Blood is involved. From what I read, you basically do this here to do that there, before you do that, you must do this and that after and before that and this. Can someone please give me the simplest breakdown of what I need to do with these Kuva events?

Extra credit for anyone that gives a f*ck... how can I get more ephmeras?

[vid23]

You need to void sling through the loud screaming blood cloud things(with the operator), you can ignore everything else
And about the ephemeras, a lot, you can buy them, you can get from liches, from the stalker, baroo sell them i think. Nightwave gives sometime i think. And im sure theres a couple more i just dont remember them edit: https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Ephemera theres all of them, theres a lot

[Donitsi]

-Find Kuva Ciphon somewhere in the mission
-Wait until Ciphon starts sucking Kuva cloud
-Use operator to dash or shoot it
-Repeat 4 times
-Finish the mission

Ephemeras are scattered little bit everywhere. Arbitration drops, Baro Ki'Teer has one, Liches and Parvos Sisters, Stalker has one. I recommend checking from Wiki where you find them.

[Pakaku]

If you're doing Kuva Siphons, then you also need to know how to deal with the Guardians: go Operator and Void Dash into them to make them drop their polearms, then kill them

If you're after Kuva relics to get the mods, you're best off ignoring the normal Siphon missions and just doing the Floods for guaranteed drop chances, unless you really want to clear those siphons.

(Relics also have chances to drop by killing thralls on Lich nodes, but I wouldn't rely on that, I'd do that after I have enough mods to start stabbing)

[Torv]

Originally posted by Pakaku:

If you're doing Kuva Siphons, then you also need to know how to deal with the Guardians: go Operator and Void Dash into them to make them drop their polearms, then kill them

If you're after Kuva relics to get the mods, you're best off ignoring the normal Siphon missions and just doing the Floods for guaranteed drop chances, unless you really want to clear those siphons.

(Relics also have chances to drop by killing thralls on Lich nodes, but I wouldn't rely on that, I'd do that after I have enough mods to start stabbing)

To be honest, I'm not sure why the hell I would need/want to do Kuva missions, there's just a whole system built for it in the game, almost like a dedicated expansion. I see prompts for it everywhere.

Tell me, what can I benefit from by doing these Kuva missions?

[Pakaku]

Originally posted by OS10:

Originally posted by Pakaku:

If you're doing Kuva Siphons, then you also need to know how to deal with the Guardians: go Operator and Void Dash into them to make them drop their polearms, then kill them

If you're after Kuva relics to get the mods, you're best off ignoring the normal Siphon missions and just doing the Floods for guaranteed drop chances, unless you really want to clear those siphons.

(Relics also have chances to drop by killing thralls on Lich nodes, but I wouldn't rely on that, I'd do that after I have enough mods to start stabbing)

To be honest, I'm not sure why the hell I would need/want to do Kuva missions, there's just a whole system built for it in the game, almost like a dedicated expansion. I see prompts for it everywhere.

Tell me, what can I benefit from by doing these Kuva missions?

They were an early source of kuva before other places were added. You can still get kuva there, but now they're mainly where you go to start farming Kuva relics, since you can't stab Liches without the mods in those relics.

[Donitsi]

Originally posted by OS10:

To be honest, I'm not sure why the hell I would need/want to do Kuva missions, there's just a whole system built for it in the game, almost like a dedicated expansion. I see prompts for it everywhere.

Tell me, what can I benefit from by doing these Kuva missions?

There are some items that need it so it's not bad idea to have about 1000-2000 in your inventory. Easier Kuva missions give about 300 Kuva but Kuva Flood gives about 1000-1200. Kuva is mostly for rolling stats for Riven mods.

If you wonder what Riven mods are they for weapons:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2949887238

[Torv]

Originally posted by Donitsi:

Originally posted by OS10:

To be honest, I'm not sure why the hell I would need/want to do Kuva missions, there's just a whole system built for it in the game, almost like a dedicated expansion. I see prompts for it everywhere.

Tell me, what can I benefit from by doing these Kuva missions?

There are some items that need it so it's not bad idea to have about 1000-2000 in your inventory. Easier Kuva missions give about 300 Kuva but Kuva Flood gives about 1000-1200. Kuva is mostly for rolling stats for Riven mods.

If you wonder what Riven mods are they for weapons:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2949887238

Yeah, I definitely need me some cards like that. I'm at the point in the game where I have all the basic Warframe and weapon mods maxed out, but now need to hunt down the special/endgame mods like the one in your screenshot.

That's when I started exploring things like this Kuva system to better understand it and start farming what I need to.. I'm not a huge fan of needing to do 4-6 different things before earning a chance to get a card drop like that, but that's just Warframe I suppose. King of prerequisite requirements.