Why did it get easy to get Warframe and Focus

[Logan]

First of all just asking and no complains there, its too good for me however I look at it. Just wanted to know what happened that it got easy on grinding, with 'The Circuit' (Duviri) it got so easy to get Warframes and there parts along with tons of 'Focus'. Once I read its better to just buy 'Harrow' with platinum then to even try farm for its parts and now its just a matter of cycle when it comes in 'The Circuit' for taking and 'Focus' you can get while doing that is many times over one could get before that in any single mission.

[Maxim]

I think that's the exact reason, DE knows that certain frames and farms are rather painful and take lots of time and slowly add new features after those "older" frames have been there for a while.

Especially considering there is so much new side-content, to focus on farming single frames instead of doing other content, you can now enjoy the side-content and wait for the right cycle to get a full frame, also its another way to encourage players to get back to the game, even if its only for the cycles.

Generally Warframe has a good balance of ways to obtain resources, if fishing or mining sucks for you, go hunt Thumpers, Exploiter or Iso-Vaults with more combat focused gameplay. It's a lot more RNG, but offers higher rewards alongside.

The new arcane system is neat too, even if it doesn't help new players too much without getting lots of cheap duplicates first. Though one could argue to trade for cheap high level arcanes and dissolve them to potentially yield much more expensive ones.

A resource and farm-heavy game like this definitely benefits from such options and even though I have most frames anyway, I was very excited to see the circuit, especially for the extras it yields beyond the frame itself.

[Logan]

Originally posted by Maxim:

I think that's the exact reason, DE knows that certain frames and farms are rather painful and take lots of time and slowly add new features after those "older" frames have been there for a while.

Especially considering there is so much new side-content, to focus on farming single frames instead of doing other content, you can now enjoy the side-content and wait for the right cycle to get a full frame, also its another way to encourage players to get back to the game, even if its only for the cycles.

Generally Warframe has a good balance of ways to obtain resources, if fishing or mining sucks for you, go hunt Thumpers, Exploiter or Iso-Vaults with more combat focused gameplay. It's a lot more RNG, but offers higher rewards alongside.

The new arcane system is neat too, even if it doesn't help new players too much without getting lots of cheap duplicates first. Though one could argue to trade for cheap high level arcanes and dissolve them to potentially yield much more expensive ones.

A resource and farm-heavy game like this definitely benefits from such options and even though I have most frames anyway, I was very excited to see the circuit, especially for the extras it yields beyond the frame itself.

I think this might be the very reason but lets see if someone has any other idea as well.

[genu]

Warframe has been tinkered with until nothing works anymore and everything has been built over. Unfortunately, the only way to solve this is by stepping on the toes of large parts of the community.
so warframe is finished by itself. why should i do anything if i know exactly that the time will come when it will be thrown at me. Sevagoth is just one example of this.

[tv]

I imagine it's because actually getting focus was a fools errand before the circuit released, and the devs noticed that new players were likely ignoring focus entirely if not constantly failing to reach daily focus cap, (I sure did). To the point where the community parroted getting carried by a saryn/ mesa/ rev/ in one specific defense mission (hydron) as the meta method of getting focus. Even after the circuit released and before focus gains were doubled, i was outright ignoring focus powerups that appeared, because it would split the gains between lenses and schools if even it topped 3 digits, whereas killing a duviri thrax was 2500 to my current school. That doesn't even address the imbalance of the schools themselves.

You can pick zenurik from the very beginning and get unlimited energy, so why really bother with the other schools? Even now Vazarin school is redundant, when healing and shields are so common. Not picking Unairu school is a debuff in itself by the end of the game.

Hopefully they add some focus skills for drifter or new focus upgrades when they return to duviri next year of after, because now there is nothing to spend focus on. I finished all five schools since duviri released.

[Adeptguy]

Originally posted by tv:

I imagine it's because actually getting focus was a fools errand before the circuit released, and the devs noticed that new players were likely ignoring focus entirely if not constantly failing to reach daily focus cap, (I sure did). To the point where the community parroted getting carried by a saryn/ mesa/ rev/ in one specific defense mission (hydron) as the meta method of getting focus. Even after the circuit released and before focus gains were doubled, i was outright ignoring focus powerups that appeared, because it would split the gains between lenses and schools if even it topped 3 digits, whereas killing a duviri thrax was 2500 to my current school. That doesn't even address the imbalance of the schools themselves.

You can pick zenurik from the very beginning and get unlimited energy, so why really bother with the other schools? Even now Vazarin school is redundant, when healing and shields are so common. Not picking Unairu school is a debuff in itself by the end of the game.

Hopefully they add some focus skills for drifter or new focus upgrades when they return to duviri next year of after, because now there is nothing to spend focus on. I finished all five schools since duviri released.

Just wanted to chime in on the zenurik part. While yes, I too was someone who picked zenurik and basically ignore every other school out there, I am starting to convert over to other schools that are pretty cool as well. My new fav is unairu, even though most of my builds still have zenurik (but thats just cuz im lazy to make new. updated builds for them). Zenurik was picked cuz it used to be harder to get energy back then, it was the obvious choice for a casual player. But these days we have so many alternative ways to acquire energy its really amazing when you think about it. This is the best time to try out anything other than zenurik and that is one of the changes DE made over time that I agree with, for a change.

[Synopse]

With Duvri, DE added an alternate way to play the game to hook up a new target group. Consequencially, they added a new way to farm all the stuff you want to get from grinding.

[Basan™]

I guess that none of you noticed a different value number buff added to every different type Focus lenses a couple of months back, tops. Because that sure helped me catch up in levelling up my Unairu Focus tree along with pretty much finishing my Vazarin (and my still most used) one.

[PhellAsleep]

Seems obvious to me. As they add new stuff for old players to grind and farm, they need to adjust the old stuff for new players so they can catch up.