Do I have to grind the Railjack before I can finish the lich?

[Dhaaaan]

I'm a returning player from years ago, I had an unfinished Kuva lich left so I decided to get rid of it and try to kill it. The lich fighting part was the same as before, but once I finally got all 3 correct mods he fleed to Mars proxima.

The mission for it is level 75-90. As a returning player, my railjack is the absolute bare minimum. I can barely handle level 10 fights. I can't even do the fight because it is locked behind "intrinsics 5" I don't remember any of this at all. When I did the Kuva lichs before they weren't locked to railjack missions after defeating them.

What should I do here? How do I even get intrinsics 5? Is there an easy way to get around this? I've been grinding the lich with parazon mods for a few hours now and it'd really suck if I had to grind the railjack just to get rid of the lich. I don't even have a dojo.

[jonnin]

Yes, it means you need to level up the RJ.
https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Intrinsics
that will also link off to the other RJ stuff you can level up.
you don't need a dojo for RJ. Its not like the weird solar rails thing from way back, its an unfortunate reuse of the word rails, I think.

The lich thing is such an unholy mess I have ignored mine for years.

[ShatteredPumpkin]

Originally posted by jonnin:

Yes, it means you need to level up the RJ.
https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Intrinsics
that will also link off to the other RJ stuff you can level up.
you don't need a dojo for RJ. Its not like the weird solar rails thing from way back, its an unfortunate reuse of the word rails, I think.

The lich thing is such an unholy mess I have ignored mine for years.

he doesnt need to level it up its enough if he optains it and can still just join others theres something called premade groups .-. or clan members

[(*'-')]

Yeah I'm just getting back into this too dhaaan, and was disgusted to see I need a railjack to do lich now. I was able to avoid railjack LIKE I WANTED when I played in 2019? or early 2020 idk. But now I think the sisters are like that too?

I'm trying to play WARFRAME but instead I'm constantly forced to play operatorframe or archwingframe and now railjackframe.

[jonnin]

Originally posted by (*'-'):

Yeah I'm just getting back into this too dhaaan, and was disgusted to see I need a railjack to do lich now. I was able to avoid railjack LIKE I WANTED when I played in 2019? or early 2020 idk. But now I think the sisters are like that too?

I'm trying to play WARFRAME but instead I'm constantly forced to play operatorframe or archwingframe and now railjackframe.

archwing
operator
railjack
->khal
->mechwarrior
->Quests (special modes, solo only, whatever else, stealth or fail, powerless operator, ...)

you can do a lot as frame only, if you don't care to progress. I am also just now getting some of this stuff done, kept putting it off hoping it would be forgotten like archwing. Some of it is quite fun for me, but its not warframe, as you noted, and that is starting to (or now, just IS) dominate the new content.

[RoxxasTheDemonslayer]

they changed it as some point so Both the Litch and Sisters flee to a base.

the good part is that the fight is a shared node and works with Public grouping.

the semi-bad thing is that it wont be just Your litch the group fights but ALL of them
-thankfully one at a time.

and they all drop special swag.

so seems like the only thing you need to do is raise instrisics level... and pet the mods on the cyber-railjack thingy so you can half use it on other ships or whatver.

[jonnin]

RJ isnt much of a grind. I am at 4-4-4-4-6 or however many thingys there are after soloing all the earth nodes about 4 times each and the first venus node a few times. About 2-3 days, and the earth missions are super easy. If you decide to solo at it, the NPCs are decent at defense, below average at piloting, excellent at repairs, decent at gunnery. Their problem as pilots are they won't prioritize picking up loot and won't do the RJ blow stuff up goals consistently when you are off the shop trashing stuff, and they also keep flying away when you try to get back onboard after winning until you can teleport back. You can reassign the pilot as defender temporary to stop that last one, and take a loot-lap if you want after winning with you at the helm.

I ran augmented nezha to give my guys the shared 3 invincible buff for defending and high end guns, boarders at this level have 0 chance. Prioritize getting your crew, reloads for the 2 shot dome gun, and getting back onboard with the omni and the runs go very fast.

Anyway, as far as grinds go, this one is pretty small. Big thing is investing in mods will set you back some endo, but every single container has 15 endo, so you make at least 300 per run.