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00R-Gundam said:
Hello kiwis, im considering getting into warframe, is it new player friendly or will i have to play 60 hours for it to get good?
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I'm a relatively new player (started early 2023), and curently MR28. Some advice for a newcomer:

  • Just have fun. The game isn't super hard, just enjoy the gun/sword play, missions and story. It's why you're here, after all!
  • Your long-term goal is to complete the star chart (i.e. complete every mission on every planet). Unlocking new planets is generally preferable to completing a planet, if given the choice.
  • Play Duviri (Warframe's version of a roguelike, available to all players after tutorial). One of its purposes is to let new players experiment with warframes and weapons they dont have yet. It also lets new players unlock most Warframes through it instead of the traditional methods (which can often be pretty tedious).
  • Work toward Nightwave (warframe's version of a battle pass system, it's free don't worry). Nightwave rewards let you obtain a lot of good things, mainly orokin reactors/catalysts which are necesary to turn any weapon/warframe from shit to not shit.
The way mastery rank and weapons work is not very well explained. I'll try my best.
  • Most of a weapon's power comes from mods, not the weapon's innate stats. There are certainly metas that exist, but you can make any weapon work well if you like it enough.
  • Every weapon/warframe has a "mod capacity" and 8 slots to insert mods. Every mod in the game has a cost to install it, which is deducted from the mod capacity. Mods can be freely inserted/removed, and are always shared between weapons/warframes (i.e. only 1 copy is ever needed), so feel free to experiment!
  • If you need additional mod capacity, you can get it by using a orokin reactor/catalyst on it, which doubles your mod capacity. These cannot be removed, so choose wisely.
  • If you need even more mod capacity, you can get it by using "forma". Forma works similarly to prestige in CoD: when a weapon/warframe is at max rank (rank 30), you can reset it progression to 0 and climb the ranks again. However, when you install forma, you will "polarize" a mod slot to a certain symbol, which will halve the cost of any mods sharing that symbol, but double the cost of any others.
  • To improve your Mastery Rank (analogous to your Profile's level), you must climb the ranks of your weapon/warframe. You only earn mastery xp from ranking up until you reach rank 30 the first time (i.e. forma doesn't help with MR).
  • MR unlocks new gear until MR15. After that point, you only get minor bonuses, so don't stress about it beyond that.
Also, my personal opinion: don't play public on your first playthrough unless you are having trouble on a particular mission.
 
00R-Gundam said:
Hello kiwis, im considering getting into warframe, is it new player friendly or will i have to play 60 hours for it to get good?
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Once you figure out how to navigate the ingame market and player trading, its the best monetization model of any free to play game. To see stuff you can work towards right now, head to the ingame market, hover the Featured tab so it expands, and then click on either Warframe or Weapon. Under the search bar will be a button that says 'Hide Items Without Blueprints'. Each remaining warframe/weapon is an item that has no special requirements to unlock, like quest completion or joining a clan (which you should still do though). Then you just click on a weapon or warframe, click Blueprint, and then buy the blueprint for the listed Credit (the blue, free currency) value. Once you own the blueprint, you can hover over a missing component to see where you can get find it. Weapon bps acquired this way will require you to go to planets and farm for resources, while warframe bps will require you to go to a specifc planet's Assassination mission and farm 3 blueprints: 1 each of Neuroptics, Chassis, and Systems for that specfic warframe. (ex, you buy the Rhino blueprint from the market. Then you go to the Assassination mission on Venus, called Fossa, then you kill that boss over and over until you have 1 copy each of Rhino Systems, Rhino Chassis, and Rhino Neuroptics. Then you craft those 3 parts, which allows you to finish crafting the main bp and unlock the frame. Rhino is the first frame you can earn in the game, so its worth doing just to get the process down.)

Also, your account starts with 50 platinum (paid currency). The amount of weapons/warframes you can have on your account is determined by the amount of Weapon Slots/ Warframe Slots. I won't lie, the slot limitations early on are painful, but there are a few ways to get slots for free. By trading items to other players, you can get platinum to buy slots, and you can also rank up in Nightwave, the free battlepass. (The entire pass is free, not just a few rewards like other games do.) I would recommend using your 50 free plat to buy a Warframe slot for 20 platinum (people often short platinum to just p, so 20 platinum becomes 20p) and using the rest to get 2 weapons slots (each weapon slot purchase gives you 2 slots, so buying 2 is a total of 4 slots).

I rewrote this comment a bunch of times, hope it makes sense.
 
Niggergante said:
I'd argue that the credits would be better be used for buying auras to be traded the next week.
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Speaking of credits. When you get your railjack, do the first mission as much as you can whenever the game throws you a free credit booster (or you’re desperate). With a full crew it takes just over 1-2min and it’s a big help early(ish) on.
 
Carpe Jugulum said:
Speaking of credits. When you get your railjack, do the first mission as much as you can whenever the game throws you a free credit booster (or you’re desperate). With a full crew it takes just over 1-2min and it’s a big help early(ish) on.
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As the resident disruption enjoyer, just learn to build for disruption and run Laomedeia on Neptune when you need creds. Not the most efficient way to farm, but it will let you know if your builds are trash and will actually net you resources and focus.
 
marisa # said:
Play Duviri (Warframe's version of a roguelike, available to all players after tutorial). One of its purposes is to let new players experiment with warframes and weapons they dont have yet. It also lets new players unlock most Warframes through it instead of the traditional methods (which can often be pretty tedious).
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Correction on this: They moved Duviri to after The Second Dream (a story quest). It still remains a good alternative source for warframe parts.
 
So i started warframe, doesnt feel as overwhelming as i thought it would be, been opening up planets where i can while doing Quests. Chose Volt as my first warframe because it goes fast and i can force lightning enemies. Currently doing the archwing(building the odonata) questline and waiting for the kubrow one to finish. Picked New Loka to pledge into because i like the aesthetic. Overall ive been having fun and i can see myself playing it.
 
00R-Gundam said:
Overall ive been having fun and i can see myself playing it.
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All that matters. Glad you’re enjoying it.

Also you can tell us old fags what the new player experience is like these days. Win win.
 
Hit MR 25 today. Only a couple non prime warframes left to level. I bought nearly all the weapons off the market and I'm working on dojo blueprints/weapons slowly due to their forma and invasion mat requirement. How do people reach mr30? Is it just playtime and getting prime things as the resurgences pass? It feels like I'm about to hit a massive wall in my MR grind.

Edit: Fuck, it is probably kuva and tenet weapons.
 
Mobster Monitor said:
Hit MR 25 today. Only a couple non prime warframes left to level. I bought nearly all the weapons off the market and I'm working on dojo blueprints/weapons slowly due to their forma and invasion mat requirement. How do people reach mr30? Is it just playtime and getting prime things as the resurgences pass? It feels like I'm about to hit a massive wall in my MR grind.

Edit: Fuck, it is probably kuva and tenet weapons.
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Kuva/tenet weapons, duviri/railjack intrinsics, both mechs can go to rank 40, completing both star charts, kdrives, amps. I kept a notepad doc on my computer of everything left I had to get and sorted it by tiers of how annoying it would be to do, then just chipped away at it. The wall is pretty much whether or not you decide to do the grinds that can get very tedious (tenet melees, Sporothrix and similar, amps, etc). There is a ton of mastery locked in prime gear though, so once you do all that other stuff you are gated.
 
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mirai gadget 8 said:
I kept a notepad doc on my computer of everything left I had to get and sorted it by tiers of how annoying it would be to do, then just chipped away at it.
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I've made a spreadsheet of all the Warframes/prime weapons I had and didn't with the parts missing just to keep track of it all. It sounds like the developers are finally implementing something similar into the relic system so you'll know if you're already acquired/built a specific prime thing so you won't have to track it yourself.
 
Mobster Monitor said:
Hit MR 25 today. Only a couple non prime warframes left to level. I bought nearly all the weapons off the market and I'm working on dojo blueprints/weapons slowly due to their forma and invasion mat requirement. How do people reach mr30? Is it just playtime and getting prime things as the resurgences pass? It feels like I'm about to hit a massive wall in my MR grind.

Edit: Fuck, it is probably kuva and tenet weapons.
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If you're lost with that there's always wiki where you can check out everything. If you're really lazy there's AlecaFrame that scans your inventory and shows you what you're missing but I'm not sure about how it plays with Warframe's ToS

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Catgirls are Love said:
I've made a spreadsheet of all the Warframes/prime weapons I had and didn't with the parts missing just to keep track of it all. It sounds like the developers are finally implementing something similar into the relic system so you'll know if you're already acquired/built a specific prime thing so you won't have to track it yourself.
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AlecaFrame just does it for you if you're on PC but I'm glad to hear it's finally getting added to the game itself.
 
00R-Gundam said:
So i started warframe, doesnt feel as overwhelming as i thought it would be, been opening up planets where i can while doing Quests. Chose Volt as my first warframe because it goes fast and i can force lightning enemies. Currently doing the archwing(building the odonata) questline and waiting for the kubrow one to finish. Picked New Loka to pledge into because i like the aesthetic. Overall ive been having fun and i can see myself playing it.
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If you seem to like the game my best advice is to just take it slow at the beginning. You're time gated with the build times for stuff and in my opinion you don't get good weapons until mr7 and don't get fun weapons until mr10, so no reason to rush and burn yourself out. And I feel like warframe does a pretty good job of drip feeding you the new content and systems as you play and when I started a year ago I never felt overwhelmed and that was before all the major QoL improvements.

Mobster Monitor said:
Hit MR 25 today. Only a couple non prime warframes left to level. I bought nearly all the weapons off the market and I'm working on dojo blueprints/weapons slowly due to their forma and invasion mat requirement. How do people reach mr30? Is it just playtime and getting prime things as the resurgences pass? It feels like I'm about to hit a massive wall in my MR grind.

Edit: Fuck, it is probably kuva and tenet weapons.
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I did every normal/prime frame, every market weapon, most of the mission reward/rep weapons, half-ish of the kuva/tenet/clan weapons, and a fair amount of prime weapon (34)s and I'm sitting at a comfortable MR28. There is random stuff that you don't think about that give you extra mastery like the junction fights and intrinsics for your railjack and drifter, and if you consistently do prime resurgence relics you should get pretty close pretty quick. Like I probably have at least 60k mastery left in kuva/tenet weapons, but its not worth the forma or requiem mods for me right now to grind it out.
 
The instrinics actually give loads towards MR.

If you haven’t done all of railjack, do what can as you go through in voidstorms because you sometimes get the currency that’s used to buy four of the tenet weapons.

Don’t forget the arch weapons and to check Baro every fortnight.
 
Currently on MR 4. Been enjoying myself although i have no idea what the fuck is going on or what warframes are. Ill assume theyll show deep lore regarding that. I like the Void Relic system and i like the archwings. So far things have been smoothly. My only gripe is that sometimes i get paired with a player that basically nukes everything by just existing and im left with nothing to do but to stand there, although i understand thats the end game for any warframe its kinda of annoying, ill use it as a lesson for when i become strong like that. Also fuck Spy missions, not because they are bad, but because retards dont know how to stealth for shit and then they complain as to why they got caught.
 
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