Tips for beginner?

[indigo]

I'm currently almost MR7 and I just got back to the game after not playing it for years even though I never got past the point where i currently am, and I would like to know if you guys had any advices/tips for new players? things you wish you knew earlier? Thanks a lot

[This Cannot Continue]

Originally posted by enzo:

I'm currently almost MR7 and I just got back to the game after not playing it for years even though I never got past the point where i currently am, and I would like to know if you guys had any advices/tips for new players? things you wish you knew earlier? Thanks a lot

There are quite a lot of things you can do. Complete story quests or grind for warframe parts or buy/craft weapons to max rank to raise your MR, do bounties for standing etc. The thing you will need most though is a clear understanding of how mechanics work in game so you'll know what the best loadout or frame to take in certain areas of the game for practicality's sake. Try out warframes and decide what you want, research builds if you're kinda lost on what mods to use and work towards it. Keep in mind a lot of mods are rare and can only be acquired in later areas of the game, so less effective, but still suitable for lower level content mods will still be enough for a while.

The reason you will need higher MR is that many weapons in the game are hard to obtain manually because they are vaulted, so you will most likely need to trade for such items, which has mastery rank requirements, if you do not wish to trade, then this doesn't matter. You will also gain small bonuses from raising your mastery rank but they are not very noticable.


...or have money and buy everything (lmao)
You can also sell mods of value that you wont use on warframe market website for platinum.

[Spec]

Some random tips:
-To keep yourself from burning out, try to focus on 1 thing at a time. This game got content, too much content, thinking about all of it will overwhelm and you'll want to stop playing. So I'd say focus on completing the Quests. Pretty good start.

-Try not to sell any Warframes. Eventually when you unlock the Helminth, you'll wish you didn't sell all those frames, when they have a use being subsumed there, and giving back a warframe slot.

-Try completing every mission on the Star Chart. Some Quests have some Star Chart levels locked and hidden, but whenever you do those quests, you'll thank yourself later for doing all the repetitive quests so you can unlock The Steel Path (the endgame for Warframe).

-Don't fret about mastery ranks. Pretty odd to say, but some people like to boast about high MR's when it has no use being leveled past 16, besides extra flavor to your profile.

-Don't spend platinum on anything but WF slots and maybe Weapon slots for most of the early-midgame. I assume you can guess why.

-Mods... Feel underpowered? Mods... Feel weak? Mods... Enemies too strong? Mods... You'll start to feel the grind for mods when you're preparing for Steel Path. But I'd recommend most (if not all) of your weapons to have some kind of serration on it. At least for the early-midgame. Then slap an elemental mod or 2 on. And be sure to actually level these mods up.

-If you're strapped for plat, farm Relics and sell Relic junk. Most reliable way for newer players (or those with few desirable goods) to get plat. Warframe who are vaulted, or just UNvaulted are the most popular Relics, so farm those. If you can't, don't worry about farming those exactly.

-Nothing in this game is not useful. Beside maybe a couple weapons being not very good, EVERY weapon/frame can work till the end of the game if you mod them right. If anything feels too weak, check it's mods.

-And most importantly, ASK QUESTIONS. Check wiki if you have to, but I have rarely seen a soul NOT have their questions answered within 5 minutes in the game's chat. Often a bot will automatically answer your question.

[dexter]

Make sure you pay attention to mods and level them up. You can search in your mods section keywords like "damage" or "critical chance" and it will find mods whose descriptions contain those. So if you're missing a crit damage mod then you can easily find it. Also don't dismantle mods for credits. Endo is way harder to get so if you get rid of mods, turn them into Endo.

Credits can be gotten through several spots but most people farm the Index once they unlock Neptune.