Is this as grindy as First Descendant?

[Jarago]

I was hyped for First Descendant and left disappointed after getting like 10th time a drop that i didnt care for instead of 40% chance drop that unlocks character with like 8 hours of grinding same boring base-clearing mission. How does Warframe compare to First Descendant, does unlocking characters require random luck drop from repeating same mission 50 times as well or is that a bit better here? Thanks

[The Big Brzezinski]

Depends on the frame. Some of them do, but they're found in a lot of different places. I can't think of one that takes eight hours of grinding just for blueprints, though.

Mostly you grind for resources early on. Maps are festooned with them. You use them to construct new frames and weapons. Most weapons, at least, you just buy the blueprint off the market for normal credits instead of having to traipse off and farm for. Your real combat potential comes from your mod collection, and mods and the endo the powers them up are found everywhere.

[VerrucktMedic]

If you're being genuine about the 50 times and 8 hours for one character then yeah I can say Warframe is better. A long while back they even introduced an alternative grind for older Warframes called The Circuit where three frames rotate in and can be selected to obtain by then completing rounds of The Circuit. The Circuit being a game mode that rotates between multiple maps and modes and gives you a choice of a random assortment of gear and frames on loan for the duration of your play session.

Newer frames have "RNG forgiveness" resources that you get alongside trying to grind for them, that you can exchange for parts of the frame you didn't get.

Finally you can try building up the premium currency by trading with players, if that's your thing.

[peon]

nidus

protea

these are just two frames off the top of my head I can think of that took me 8 hours or more.

Both frames I havent fed to the helminth, and prolly never will.

Grendel between trying to solo it and fail the missions. I eventually was able to solo it but each mission was literally an hour...

[vid23]

Older frames yes, newer ones usually has random drop and a resource to buy them with that drops from the mission(resource is guaranteed, so you can get the stuff even if youre incredibly unlucky, it will take a long time though)

Or just do some money making content(that involves trading) and buy the stuff you want like every sane person would

Though getting the upgraded version of things(primes) is a lot easier in some cases

[Douchebag Extraordinaire]

If you know what you're doing, it's quick, especially if you farm intelligently.

For instance, planning with the Duviri Circuit to get frames while focus farming other frames outside those that aren't available. And in cases of Primed frames, focus farming specific relics and selling valuable parts at the market (not in game trade chat) to get plats. Some of the older frames with vaulted relics can be bought through just farming newer parts.

When farming, try to achieve two or more things at a time.

[romy]

the difference is that warframe is actually fun to play and also pretty.

I tried tfd and i wasnt impressed : hold W to next checkpoint, kill a bunch of flavourless ennemies that appear around you, rinse and repeat. the weapons are like all the same and you simply drop the same weapons over and over, just this one is one rank higher of whatnot so it does a little more DPS => zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

in warframe you can grind warframes but also weapons (and a bunch of extra stuff like companions or vehicules), each weapon has its own playstyle, you have real melee weapons and melee gameplay. It's far bigger than tfd because it's much older. also for farming warfames blueprints (equivalent to farming character parts in tfd) you have different ways and pity systems (for example you play a mission for a chance to drop blueprints like tfd, but in addition to the chance of directly dropping blueprints you also get a specific pity ressource that you can spend to buy the missing blueprints, so if you fail to drop all needed blueprints after a few tries, you can buy the missing one with the pity ressource).

There is also a specific gamemode which allow you to unlock one warframe per week (that you choose among 3) without any rng at all. So you can bypass grinds that you don't like by simply getting the corresponding warframe that way on weeks when it's available.

[Deathman.Kenshi]

Originally posted by Jarago:

I was hyped for First Descendant and left disappointed after getting like 10th time a drop that i didnt care for instead of 40% chance drop that unlocks character with like 8 hours of grinding same boring base-clearing mission. How does Warframe compare to First Descendant, does unlocking characters require random luck drop from repeating same mission 50 times as well or is that a bit better here? Thanks

Depends on what you farming
I remember one frame didnt dropped for me for YEARS until they added it to different game mode
Especialy older stuff in obscure missions no one ever plays unless they are farming that obscure frame which probably have prime variant you can buy for like dollar worth of platinum on market
YEah if you want everything this game have absurd long grind

[Fibre🌹]

Bro Warframe is the grindiest of grind. Makes Descendant look like childs play honestly, watching my friend be addicted to this game as he tried to convince me to play this for YEARS, the process is cancer. Don't like any of the two but if you want a more relaxed experience, go with First Descendant.

[Illusive Soul]

Originally posted by Fibre🌹:

Bro Warframe is the grindiest of grind. Makes Descendant look like childs play honestly, watching my friend be addicted to this game as he tried to convince me to play this for YEARS, the process is cancer. Don't like any of the two but if you want a more relaxed experience, go with First Descendant.

have fun spend countless hour grind ultimate character in TFD or pay 100$, in warframe , you skip prime weapon / warframe grind by trading.

game has over 10 years update , of course it has sht tons of thing to grind.

[GHOUL PRIME]

i stream and we farm all the time , railjack junk ..plat , rescources , tellarium , that stuff that looks like poop , we farm it all . or just grind platinum and buy stuff , most of the time its the fastest way

[soph]

I grinded out the most recent 3 frames, Jade, Dante, and Qorvex, each in less than 3 hours/~ 10/15 missions depending on mission length. Incredibly important, you can trade for the premium currency with other players. Warframe is both more enjoyable and less punishing of a grind than in TFD. There's more items to grind, and some are especially tough, but the important, and recent gear, is pretty forgiving and comes with pity systems. You can make it all the way through to the very endgame with weapons and frames given to you directly by story quests with 100% chance.

[verbtime]

difference is here if you don't want to grind for something there's usually a viable alternative more easily available

[MisinformedOwl]

This game actually respects your time unlike first descendent.

[NocheLuz]

Originally posted by Fibre🌹:

Bro Warframe is the grindiest of grind. Makes Descendant look like childs play honestly, watching my friend be addicted to this game as he tried to convince me to play this for YEARS, the process is cancer. Don't like any of the two but if you want a more relaxed experience, go with First Descendant.

You should have listened to your friend. You'll find that TFD is basically a Warframe knockoff with only a little bit different system.

Not to mention, people complain about the low drop rate of Gold prizes in Relic, they have a maximum dropping chance of 10% (minimum of 2% but the items for upgrading the drop rate basically gain from the same mission). While in TFD, you have 3% (or 6%) and you have to fight the boss to open them.

[Drago]

The game can be quite grindy, which part of Warframe are we comparing against? What kind of goals? For Warframe, it kinda depends as some things do get dynamically changed or made easier while some gear can also help in making things more tolerable.