How do I gain focus?

[76561197979566298]

I have Madurai unlocked but nothing I do in game seems to give me Focus points.

[Fake]

Install a Lens on your gear.

Get your Warframe/Weapons/etc to 30.

You can find the option to install Lens in the same place that allows you to install Formas.

Just note that Lens are one time use only, the only way to change lens is to install another lens and destroying the prior lens.

If you forma an item that has a len installed, it will stop working until you get the item back to level 30.

[Verios44]

I recommend to put it on a warframe over a weapon. Especially one with tons of aoe.

[Nibbie]

The main way is as above, put lenses on your gear. They convert a portion of the excess affinity your gear earns (any xp they get after they are max level) into focus. While you have lenses equipped, small yellow orbs will spawn every so often in missions, which dramatically increase how much focus you get from your lenses for a short time. You can get lenses from a few sources, like bounty missions in open worlds.

There are a couple other ways of getting focus too. One is to kill certain enemies, like those found in Angels of the Zariman or Duviri content, which give focus when killed. Another is to trade Eidolon Shards, found from doing Eidolon hunts in the Plains of Eidolon.

[76561197979566298]

Originally posted by Verios44:

I recommend to put it on a warframe over a weapon. Especially one with tons of aoe.

Can you list some ideal warframes? Ive been using excal umbra and rhino prime a lot. I have Nova and ember prime, mag prime for maybe aoe?

[76561197979566298]

Originally posted by Nibbie:

The main way is as above, put lenses on your gear. They convert a portion of the excess affinity your gear earns (any xp they get after they are max level) into focus. While you have lenses equipped, small yellow orbs will spawn every so often in missions, which dramatically increase how much focus you get from your lenses for a short time. You can get lenses from a few sources, like bounty missions in open worlds.

There are a couple other ways of getting focus too. One is to kill certain enemies, like those found in Angels of the Zariman or Duviri content, which give focus when killed. Another is to trade Eidolon Shards, found from doing Eidolon hunts in the Plains of Eidolon.

How/where do i get a lens besides buying from the store?

[Verios44]

Originally posted by BATHE N FOE'S BLOOD:

Originally posted by Nibbie:

The main way is as above, put lenses on your gear. They convert a portion of the excess affinity your gear earns (any xp they get after they are max level) into focus. While you have lenses equipped, small yellow orbs will spawn every so often in missions, which dramatically increase how much focus you get from your lenses for a short time. You can get lenses from a few sources, like bounty missions in open worlds.

There are a couple other ways of getting focus too. One is to kill certain enemies, like those found in Angels of the Zariman or Duviri content, which give focus when killed. Another is to trade Eidolon Shards, found from doing Eidolon hunts in the Plains of Eidolon.

How/where do i get a lens besides buying from the store?

Lens - bounty rewards from cetus activities
Greater - 40 plat or zannman bounties
Eidolon - blueprint reward from higher cetus bounties
Lua - highest tier and blueprint comes fround round C of lua disruption.

[Verios44]

Originally posted by BATHE N FOE'S BLOOD:

Originally posted by Verios44:

I recommend to put it on a warframe over a weapon. Especially one with tons of aoe.

Can you list some ideal warframes? Ive been using excal umbra and rhino prime a lot. I have Nova and ember prime, mag prime for maybe aoe?

Rhino or mag would do good, especially when running defense endless or similar.

[76561197979566298]

Originally posted by Verios44:

Originally posted by BATHE N FOE'S BLOOD:

How/where do i get a lens besides buying from the store?

Lens - bounty rewards from cetus activities
Greater - 40 plat or zannman bounties
Eidolon - blueprint reward from higher cetus bounties
Lua - highest tier and blueprint comes fround round C of lua disruption.

How can I tell which round is going?

[Wampum Biskit]

Originally posted by BATHE N FOE'S BLOOD:

Originally posted by Verios44:

Lens - bounty rewards from cetus activities
Greater - 40 plat or zannman bounties
Eidolon - blueprint reward from higher cetus bounties
Lua - highest tier and blueprint comes fround round C of lua disruption.

How can I tell which round is going?

rotation (rounds) is always A-A-B-C

for defense rounds change every 5 levels
1-5 = A
6-10 = A
11-15 = B
16-20 = C

for survival it changes every 5 min...

0-5 = A
5+-10 = A
10+-15 = B
15+-20 = C

disruption is a little different see the table at :

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

it's under rewards section.

[Xgpmcnp]

The usual suspects to farm Focus at the higher levels (or at least, they were when I did my setup some years ago), are Volt, Saryn or Octavia with a Lua lens in Elite Sanctuary Onslaught and just nuking the map, you max your focus decently fast enough.

[Xgpmcnp]

Originally posted by Wampum Biskit:

Originally posted by BATHE N FOE'S BLOOD:

How can I tell which round is going?

rotation is always A-A-B-C

for defense rounds change every 5 rounds
1-5 = A
6-10 = A
11-15 = B
16-20 = C

for survival it changes every 5 min...

0-5 = A
5+-10 = A
10+-15 = B
15+-20 = C

hope that helps

Disruptions do work differently though and C rotations are much easier to get, since it depends on the amount of objectives succesfully defended every round. Iirc, it's possible to only get C rotations if you defend all objectives succesfully first round, and it only gets easier, down to 2+ objectives defended, as rounds go. The wiki has the info anyway.

[76561197979566298]

Originally posted by Xgpmcnp:

The usual suspects to farm Focus at the higher levels (or at least, they were when I did my setup some years ago), are Volt, Saryn or Octavia with a Lua lens in Elite Sanctuary Onslaught and just nuking the map, you max your focus decently fast enough.

I found I had a basic Madurai lens and I put it on my mag prime. Thats not a bad idea right?

[Verios44]

Originally posted by BATHE N FOE'S BLOOD:

Originally posted by Xgpmcnp:

The usual suspects to farm Focus at the higher levels (or at least, they were when I did my setup some years ago), are Volt, Saryn or Octavia with a Lua lens in Elite Sanctuary Onslaught and just nuking the map, you max your focus decently fast enough.

I found I had a basic Madurai lens and I put it on my mag prime. Thats not a bad idea right?

Nope not a bad idea, it will do its job. Just upgrade it when you can. Even a basic will get you started.

[Xgpmcnp]

Originally posted by Verios44:

Originally posted by BATHE N FOE'S BLOOD:

I found I had a basic Madurai lens and I put it on my mag prime. Thats not a bad idea right?

Nope not a bad idea, it will do its job. Just upgrade it when you can. Even a basic will get you started.

Yeah I agree, it's perfectly good. Lenses are definitely not a difficult thing to come by, so "wasting" the basic ones is really nothing lost. Do keep in mind, OP, that you can't unequip lenses, if you want to equip a better one, you'll have to trash the old one. Which is a basic, common and weak one, so you're just fine.

Lenses above the basic ones don't do anything fancy, they just convert more affinity to focus gain, so they're just faster, that's all. You could farm the entire focus tree with just a basic one, albeit much slower.

[Xgpmcnp]

One thing I'll mention that helps understand why putting lenses on frames is important: When you gain affinity, depending on what killed, this is how I remember it working (do not quote me on this):

Your weapon (primary, secondary, melee) kills: 50% affinity on weapon, 50% on frame
Your warframe kills (abilities): 100% affinity on frame
Allies in affinity range kills: Shared through all your stuff equally

Lenses work by converting affinity gained on a level 30 thing into focus. If your weapon, with a lens, kills, it'll take 50% of the affinity only to convert, but if your lensed warframe kills, it'll convert 100% of the affinity. If your warframe AND your weapon are lensed then it's the same, but that's 2 lenses. So the hard to craft Lua Lenses are usually better reserved to be put on a warframe that can easily kill and generate tons of affinity, to avoid having to have multiple, and give focus fast.