Warframe In the Playground

[IFenrys]

I always welcome an opportunity to work on my new Archwing gear :D

Loving the Dual Decurion, now all I need to be happy with Archwing is a nice enormous pair of space claws. Or a Dual Centaur, that would be close enough.

[Leon]

If Archwing was as Fun and rewarding as a Ground mission i'd be interested but as it stands it not. As long as your not speed running a ground mission you can collect a lot of loot and money ~ spend the same time in an Archwing mission and you will be lucky to get a card (half the time its going to be a Core not a mod) and a pittance of resources and credits.

[IFenrys]

If Archwing was as Fun and rewarding as a Ground mission i'd be interested but as it stands it not. As long as your not speed running a ground mission you can collect a lot of loot and money ~ spend the same time in an Archwing mission and you will be lucky to get a card (half the time its going to be a Core not a mod) and a pittance of resources and credits.

It's kinda crap for farming, yeah, but they do seem to have the gameplay down - in the right mission type, Archwing is fantastic entertainment. Personally, I want to see Archwing Excavation - asteroid mining for the win :D

Actually, that might solve the resource issue too, yeah? We'd have to get something other than cryotic, though. Always thought it was kind of stupid that EVERY Excavation rewards cryotic, including PHOBOS THE DESERT WORLD. Mix up the resources a little, guys - maybe let us mine oxium somewhere. Hell, I'll take RUBEDO. It's at the very least more believable.

[Snowbluff]

So there isn't a consensus on how Valkyr works? Disappointing.

If Archwing was as Fun and rewarding as a Ground mission i'd be interested but as it stands it not. As long as your not speed running a ground mission you can collect a lot of loot and money ~ spend the same time in an Archwing mission and you will be lucky to get a card (half the time its going to be a Core not a mod) and a pittance of resources and credits.

Yeah, it totally blows to the third power. If it didn't require it's own mods and affinity, maybe it would be acceptable, but it's not in any way connected to the real game.

It could be fun and less annoying if I could use my real mods from my real weapons.

[NEO|Phyte]

+1ing that Archwing has potential, but it's currently too disconnected from the rest of the game. I've got all the archwing shinies leveled to 30 and all my dojo research tellurium processed, so I have absolutely zero reason to touch it.

One good step in the right direction would be hybrid missions, like in the archwing introduction quest where you start in a regular mission then transition to archwing after a Balor shows up to blap the ship you're on.

Similarly, you should be able to start in archwing to breach a ship, then do legwork on the ship itself.

[Snowbluff]

+1ing that Archwing has potential, but it's currently too disconnected from the rest of the game. I've got all the archwing shinies leveled to 30 and all my dojo research tellurium processed, so I have absolutely zero reason to touch it.

One good step in the right direction would be hybrid missions, like in the archwing introduction quest where you start in a regular mission then transition to archwing after a Balor shows up to blap the ship you're on.

Similarly, you should be able to start in archwing to breach a ship, then do legwork on the ship itself.

This, but only if we get to use our regular mods, or if archwing mods were more common and easier to level. It'd suck to do a mission, but then get stuck on your archwing without proper weapons.

[Krade]

Ugh, this Tactical Alert.

"What's that?" DE asked, "You hate Archwing? Well here's a nice little event for you that's Archwing only!"

The rewards are barely worth it (Unless you NEED a Catalyst). The only good thing about it is that you also get 5 R5 Cores each time you do the mission, which still sucks because there're WAY better ways to farm R5 Cores.

I've done it twice so far and got 73 Ogma Elite kills. Too bad you need 300 for all the rewards so it'll take 8-10 runs to finish the whole thing. Whoopee...

[Vhaidara]

It's for good reason. Update 16 is going to include the J3 Golem rework, giving us an Archwing boss fight.

[Hiro Protagonest]

Auugh I do need that Catalyst, I haven't even finished the Archwing quests, and I'm on "vacation" for two days.

[Leon]

So there isn't a consensus on how Valkyr works? Disappointing.

She works pretty much as you'd expect a Tough Berzerker to work. Pending what your facing and its level things can change a bit but otherwise she's fast mobile and durable with Limited Self healing and Invincibility, a nice Buff and some utility.
My General Purpose Setup for Valkyr:

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Weapons chosen partly on what im fighting and partly on what i feel like using ~ particularly Melee and my Secondary these days its almost always my Vaykor Marelok


Well least im not missing out on anything with this alert, money is nice but i have 2 Built Forma, 19 BPs, 1 each of the Potatoes and 4 spare Bps each of them

[Eldariel]

So there isn't a consensus on how Valkyr works? Disappointing.

Things change every now and then, hard for the community at large to keep track at all times. I understand it's still the same though:
Hysteria Damage: (300+Weapon Base Damage)*1.75*Power Strength (& Pressure Point/Spoiled Strike/Steel Charge affect Weapon Damage) split evenly among Impact, Puncture and Slash
Hysteria Crit: 25% + Weapon Crit chance to crit, 2/5 for the crit to do 1*Weapon Crit Multiplier and 3/5 for the crit to do 2*Weapon Crit Multiplier

Hysteria also retains the ground slam of the original weapon (so e.g. Jat Kittag Hysteria slams send people flying). Refer to Hysteria (Weapon) on the Wiki for more details.

[Dhavaer]

Is there a way to tell if a mission contains a datum or medallion without actually finding it?

[Eldariel]

Is there a way to tell if a mission contains a datum or medallion without actually finding it?

No, but Defense/Interception maps tend to have none or very few (sometimes I've had 1-2) - they give more straight-up Rep to compensate though. Otherwise they're usually there; Loot Detector/Thief's Wit will help you find them particularly if you're not that familiar with rare cache locations on the tileset. When you find the first, you'll know how many of course.

[Krade]

I've been meaning to ask this for a while now, but is one of you guys Gilalar? I got a friend request shortly after posting my ID on here but no one that I saw here had that name and he wasn't on my recent player list, either.

In other news, I really don't wanna finish this event but at the same time I don't want to not do it, either. #firstworldproblems

[Eldariel]

I've been meaning to ask this for a while now, but is one of you guys Gilalar? I got a friend request shortly after posting my ID on here but no one that I saw here had that name and he wasn't on my recent player list, either.

That would be me, though I have no memory of sending any friend requests. Well, if you got one, I must've sent one so I suppose my memory is just bad.

[Krade]

That would be me, though I have no memory of sending any friend requests. Well, if you got one, I must've sent one so I suppose my memory is just bad.

Well now we're friends! Hooray!

New Gift of the Lotus mission up with the TennoLive stream. Catalyst Blueprint. Be warned: There are a LOT of Napalms in this mission. It was fun.

Edit: Doing T1 Survival to get the Loki Prime Chassis. Send out recruit advertisement that includes "Only going to 20 minutes. Bring whatever." First response: "Can I join? I have max damage synoid gammacore and I can be nova prime, frost prime, trinity or nekros if I need to be, and I am rank 16." So I didn't invite him.

[IFenrys]

So I finally got my Nyx Prime, and I'm trying to do a goofy build for her based entirely around Radiation procs, specifically so that I can have "MKULTRA" listed in my loadout menu. Any ideas for the primary? I've got the Dark Sword and Secura Dual Cestra picked out for this one(hooray for PS's Radiation-based Sequence effect :D).

[Vhaidara]

Amprex with a heat mod

[Hiro Protagonest]

Or Synapse.

[Eldariel]

There's also the radiant Boar Prime. With Seeking Force and stat proc stuff, it hits a nice bunch of people for a nice bunch of Radiation with a nice proc chance.

Well now we're friends! Hooray!

New Gift of the Lotus mission up with the TennoLive stream. Catalyst Blueprint. Be warned: There are a LOT of Napalms in this mission. It was fun.

Huzzah! And yeah, that alert is just about the best place to farm Rage for those interested (and just to kill a lot of those Napabuggers for those not). Bonus points for using Ember, of course.

[Hiro Protagonest]

Gotta get more fusion cores and credits... trying to rank up my Steel Fiber and Vitality for Valkyr. -_-

Angron Valkyr is totally my main now. Gotta keep ranking up that Steel Meridian for Justice Blades so I can put it on Dual Cleavers, which according to this beats out Scindo Prime as the best damage on Hysteria. Also trying to get Detonite Injectors for Jat Kittag, need only one more after siding with the Grineer on one invasion.

Also since only syndicates that I'm in the bad books of demand Reactors, I can reactor TWO frames! I'll probably use the other one on Trinity.

[Krade]

So I finally got my Nyx Prime, and I'm trying to do a goofy build for her based entirely around Radiation procs, specifically so that I can have "MKULTRA" listed in my loadout menu. Any ideas for the primary? I've got the Dark Sword and Secura Dual Cestra picked out for this one(hooray for PS's Radiation-based Sequence effect :D).

As an alternative to the Secura Cestra's, the Detron is all radiation damage. It can be a bit harder to get though, and, if you can, I'd suggest grabbing the Mara Detron (no idea if the Void Trader will ever have it again, though).

[Eldariel]

Gotta get more fusion cores and credits... trying to rank up my Steel Fiber and Vitality for Valkyr. -_-

Angron Valkyr is totally my main now. Gotta keep ranking up that Steel Meridian for Justice Blades so I can put it on Dual Cleavers, which according to this beats out Scindo Prime as the best damage on Hysteria.

That doesn't seem to account for the Manticore-skin on Scindo Prime which would push it ahead. Otherwise horrible but since Hysteria doesn't care about attack speed, the skin does actually make it work.

Oh, and for Cores? If you have any of Nekros/Mag/Banshee, try and get onto an E-Gate farm group. The setup can easily generate 1800 mods in an hour, about 400 of which are Cores (mostly Common 3 Cores but they get the job done) and the whole grind comes with so much creds and mods to sell that you can afford to max mods quite painlessly. I don't normally use such grinds myself; I feel it's kinda missing the point of the game. But with it being practically impossible to get reasonable amounts of Cores the normal way ever since the T4S Core drop nerfs, I'll have to say that it does make life a lot easier (and it's not like Core-grinding is a particularly engaging play experience either way).

[IFenrys]

Thank you for the excellent suggestions, all. I now have a few ideas to work with, including one that I found while goofing around with leveling gear - apparently, the Mutalist Quanta's alt fire has a 100% chance to proc Radiation.

As an alternative to the Secura Cestra's, the Detron is all radiation damage. It can be a bit harder to get though, and, if you can, I'd suggest grabbing the Mara Detron (no idea if the Void Trader will ever have it again, though).

I do actually have the Mara Detron variant, and I got a Detron about 2 days after it was released to the masses. RNGesus was with me there :D

Now the Brakk, on the other hand... RNGesus was NOT with me there. Only got that very recently, and just in time to find out that there's going to be a Prisma variant :(

That doesn't seem to account for the Manticore-skin on Scindo Prime which would push it ahead. Otherwise horrible but since Hysteria doesn't care about attack speed, the skin does actually make it work.

In theory, yes. But, that requires the Manticore skin to be usable with Scindo Prime. That ability has, unfortunately, been patched out.

[Eldariel]

In theory, yes. But, that requires the Manticore skin to be usable with Scindo Prime. That ability has, unfortunately, been patched out.

Huh. I've been out of loop for too long to miss something so obvious. Thanks for the pointer.

[Vhaidara]

Now the Brakk, on the other hand... RNGesus was NOT with me there. Only got that very recently, and just in time to find out that there's going to be a Prisma variant :(

For those not in the know, I got all three parts from my first G3 encounter. Drove him nuts.

[IFenrys]

For those not in the know, I got all three parts from my first G3 encounter. Drove him nuts.

Yes, this was infuriating.

[Eldariel]

Bleh. I spent a whole week (50+ hours) hunting for the G3 to get the Brakk. And I still don't have Detron to the day with about 900 hours of gameplay; a bunch of Receivers and Barrels, sure, but the bloody Hunter just doesn't have the BP (well, he hardly shows up ever at all). Stalker at least had the courtesy to drop both Hate and Despair in a row after the 40+ Dreads or nothings. Right now I'm in the position where Detron and clantech are the only Secondaries I have yet to level but the Hunter isn't showing any signs of cooperation.

EDIT: Yeah, thanks Hiro.

[Hiro Protagonest]

Right now I'm in the position where Dread and clantech are the only Secondaries I have yet to level but the Hunter isn't showing any signs of cooperation.

Uh... I think you mean Detron, not Dread.

[Snowbluff]

Tomb of the Sentient announced.



SOmeone in the facebook comment said "goodbye Destiny." I quietly reminded him about the worst part of Warframe (the PvP).

Warframe = farming wave PvE with space ninjas.
Destiny = fun PvP with space wizards.
Borderlands = oh god why bullet sponges crap tier!