Quick Guide - How To Be A Good Warframe Player For Newbies

[Avalon Adm.Lancelot]

How To Be A Good Player For Newbies

I) What you may not know about each mission type

1. Defense
- Don't run around far from the cyropod (the thing you have to protect) or camp at the spawn point aka Hallway Hero. This can lead to you and your team's doom, leaving the cyropod unprotected. Newbies tend to do this a lot since they don't know how affinity or exp sharing mechanic works. You not only down off the grid i the middle of chaos, but also don't get to share exp with your squad (as the sharing range is about 50 meters)

2. Survival
-I understand that Lotus only says when the supply is low, so it's quite confusing how low should the life support level be when you have to activate it. Each life support capsule restores 30% of your life support level and you can also pick up life supports from enemies you kill so DO NOT activate life support until it reaches 40% or below. Also the most important thing is try not to run far away from the squad as the enemy will be spawned randomly and you won't get exp share as said above.

3. Interception
- Each point has console and your job is to make sure that the console is free from enemy. When the enemy get its hand on the console and start to hack, take it down before it can successfully. Take care of your point and the area around. When each round end, staying at capture point will short down the capture session. Don't forget to kill the enemy in the radius of the point while capturing or it will halt the process.

4. Rescue
- Yes, the hostage is stupid so DO NOT give him/her your secondary weapon (he/she is just another stormtrooper who shoots the air aimlessly and tries to fight the heavies) , you can simply rush to extraction since the hostage DOES NOT have to be at the extraction but make sure the hostage is alive.

5. Excavation
- Now this can be the most confusing mission type for new players. The core is to stick together, protect the excavator and keep it running. Newbies often forget about the Power Cells thus tend to leave the extractor without power and stops running. You get the cells from the power carriers you kill, then you have to carry it to the extractor. Never forget to keep an eye on the power level and defend the excavator. If your squad is weak, try to stay away from the highlighted area on the ground as Lotus will send another excavator, making it more difficult. Most importantly, DO NOT run off the grid or away from the squad as repeatedly said above. Each power cell regenerates the shield to 500.


II) What to do to make you stronger

1. Get better weapons
- Throw those MK-1s away and get something better like Braton, Kunai and Cronus for starters. Don't forget to level all gears up to 30 before selling them, however (you can sell your weapons to make room for new ones by selecting it from the menu) As your mastery rank gets higher (you have to take mastery rank test in order to get some top tier weapons) you can get powerful guns such as soma prime, penta and phage. Try not to waste potatoes by planning carefully which weapon you will use it on, same with forma (you can use forma to change the polarity on a weapon once it reaches level 30 to reduce the drain so you can equip more high ranking mods) You can easily get blueprints from market, defeating boss, log in reward, clan dojo, alert mission, void mission and Orokin derelict mission.

2. Get your gears properly modded
- Modding and upgrading is the core of this game. Great weapons without mods are like tigers without claws. You can farm the mods by doing missions. To double mod capacity choose Action and then select the 'Double Mod Capacity' option using Orokin Reactor aka potato (for warframes, sentinels and kubrows) or Orokin Catalyst aka blue potato (for weapons) which you can either craft with foundry or buy with platinum.

3. Know what you're doing -
Know what you have to do with your frame and try to keep up with the squad.

4.Get into an active clan -
Clan can be really helpful and people are often willing to help you through missions, plus you'll get to use trading post to trade with other players, research labs and many more. Here[forums.warframe.com]


III) Potentially Useful Tips

1. Use the Warframe you like
- Oh newbies, you don't always have to use Rhino. Use something you like and get used to it. Excaliber can be really great too with great mods and Rhino's Iron Skin isn't that invincible. This will help you later when you get to higher ranks as you can get the most out of every frame you use.

2. Be a Farmer
- Yes, keep farming stuff and void keys (you'll get those from defense, excavation, interception and survival missions) These components will be used to craft things and you need credits to craft. Look for alert mission and group up with people to farm by finding them in Recruit chat box.

3. Use the chat box
- Chat box can be useful when you want to find a squad to play with or want to host a game. Simply go to Recruit tab and type down if you need help. H is for Host if you want to host a mission and LF is for Looking for. Other terms are T which means Tower for void mission (T1 = enemy level 10-20, T2 = 20-30 and so on) and OD means Orokin Derelict mission. (D = Defense, S = Sabotage, I = Interception, A = Assassination, S = Survival)

4. Don't Spam and be polite
- We are innocent Tenno and easy to be scared. Don't tap the glass too much and we will help you, just keep calm, sit back, get a cup of tea and by the time you come back you would probably get a friendly player to help.

5. Don't beg others
- Please. This is the lamest thing you can expect someone to do in this game where you can literally grind and build everything for free, you only have to spend time with it. Even so, I've seen many people doing such hatred act.

6. Go AFK correctly
- This is all about going afk, because going afk while you're in a mission with someone else will make you an &*#%@&$(, so if you know you may go afk, choose 'Solo' on a menu next to your profile icon before starting a mission.

7. Don't get a kubrow if you're still a beginner
-It's a quest however if you're low on credit and still have to farm for things, it will rob everything away from you in mere 10 days. No difference from having a high maintenance girlfriend. Need a companion? Get a sentinel.


IV) What you have to do to play Warframe happily

1. Friends
- It's a co-op based game and playing with friends, especially IRL friends can be really fun. You can speak to each other freely in your own language without worrying about others. It will make grinding much less boring...I guess.

2.Good connection
- Having a good connection is really important. Warframe's server can be really &%*() up sometime but other than that, make sure your connection is good enough and you're on the right server (you can check it on the menu)

3. Make a plan
- Always. You have to keep in mind what to do or build next because it takes time to grind and build. This way you can get your affinity up fast without waiting for your frame/ weapon to finish building. Calculate what you have to use or buy, same applies for platinum.

4. Don't buy everything with platinum
- If you follow 3.), things you only have to spend plat (short term for platinum) are color extension packs, skins, syndana, decorations, clan and alliance regalia. DO NOT buy What Stalker? pack. Keep killing bosses to get death mark from Stalker and he will come for you. When you kill him or make him flee, he may drop one of the blueprints of Dread, Despair and Hate. The only essential thing that needs your platinum is weapon and warframe slots. You don't even have to spend any single dollar if you know how to farm and sell blueprints via trade channel or other channel, which you can check the price from Here[wftrading.net] and you can change the region from the menu to check each region's market information.

5. Do a research
- Keep reading and learning about Warframe to get the best out of it. Here are some great sites you can use

Builds[warframe-builder.com]
Guides
Wikia[warframe.wikia.com]
Damage 2.0 guide[forums.warframe.com]


Have fun playing and high rankers, please help the newbies, be patient with them. Remember who you were on the very first day you stepped out of the pod in confusion. Encourage them, guide them and be a dependent Tenno. Feel free to add tips and tricks!

PS. English isn't my mother language, so please accept my apology if there's any mistake.

[Maxscart]

Did you post this in the actual guide section? This is gonna get lost, very easily, among the other threads. Also, this section isn't that popular as General Discussion.

If you haven't, I recommend you do.

[Dusklite]

Originally posted by Maxscart:

Did you post this in the actual guide section? This is gonna get lost, very easily, among the other threads. Also, this section isn't that popular as General Discussion.

If you haven't, I recommend you do.

I second that. Make a guide out of it and maybe it'll help some more people. I guarantee an upvote on my part.

[Maxscart]

Yeah, it's quite useful and some people would probably make use out of it.

No guarantee it won't get lost in there, either.

[Dusklite]

@OP: If you want that upvote, just let us know here when you put it up. I rarely browse the guides section myself (more of a wiki-person) and might utterly forget about it otherwise.

[Avalon Adm.Lancelot]

It's my first topic on steam and I've just realized there's a guide section ._. anyway I'll post on that section right away :) Thanks for telling! :D

[Avalon Adm.Lancelot]

I've just put it on the guide section and I promise to keep it running, if I can come up with anything to write, of course.

[Dusklite]

Only little suggestion I have: try and break up the text some more by making subsections for easier navigation. Content-wise it's a pretty nice read.

edit: and you might want to specifically point out that Kubrows are a bad idea for beginners. I know it's implied since it's a guide for beginners, but people might get the wrong idea reading it like this... well, I dunno.

[Avalon Adm.Lancelot]

@Dusklite Thanks for your advice :D I've just editted it to make it look less scary to read.

[Suzaku]

If I might make a recommendation, the Interception section could use some expansion, even if you feel newer players usually do well. Mention things like how each point has consoles that the enemies interact with to take the point, and that defending them is crucial.

I would also make a mention of blueprints in the Get Better Weapons section, as it's not uncommon to see threads complaining that "everything costs real money" because new people don't realize that blueprints are how you obtain things for free in most cases.

[Dusklite]

Originally posted by Suzaku:

If I might make a recommendation, the Interception section could use some expansion, even if you feel newer players usually do well. Mention things like how each point has consoles that the enemies interact with to take the point, and that defending them is crucial.

I would also make a mention of blueprints in the Get Better Weapons section, as it's not uncommon to see threads complaining that "everything costs real money" because new people don't realize that blueprints are how you obtain things for free in most cases.

Good recommendations. I second that.

Maybe even expand the guide a bit to explain platinum spending in more detail (the good, the bad, the useless) and (fair) trading in general (things like using wftrading.net as a guideline and monitoring trade chat for supply and demand as well as region switching come to mind)...

[Avalon Adm.Lancelot]

@Suzaka @Dusklite
Thanks a lot for your help :D I consider myself a newbie but I want to make a useful guide. I kept getting lost back then without any help, so I don't want that to happen to new players.