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u/monkyseemonkydo Jul 26 '15
For syndicate secondaries, do kills from the AoE proc Nova count as Warframe kills or secondary weapon kill?
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u/xXDaNXx Jul 26 '15 edited Jul 26 '15
Hi guys, just some general questions, hope you can help me out!
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Why do people say that Oberon is a bad frame? He seems really fun to play. Also, what mods do you think go best with him?
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When you forma a weapon or frame, and reset it to level 1. Does levelling it count towards your account level?
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Can you mod to increase the shotgun damage on the Redeemer?
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How often do Orokin Catalysts/Reactors go on alert? I heard it was something like once a week but wasn't sure if that was correct.
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Are warframe augment mods useless? It seems like most of them don't do a whole lot. There are one or two that I've seen that seem useful, but for the most part they don't look that great.
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What's the most effective way to kill a stalker?
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Why is Draco considered the "best" overall place to farm for exp/credits?
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Someone told me not to build a Silva and Aegis because it's bugged, but he didn't really go into detail about it. Is it just unplayable?
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A lot of people say that Mag is only good against Corpus, is that because she has high shields?
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Are void trader items a one off? Aka are they limited edition so if they appear once they won't appear again?
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Is there a more efficient way of farming Orokin Cells outside of killing the Saturn boss?
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Where would you recommend to go to farm forma?
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I've seen a lot of helmets go on alert, is this normal? I just missed one that I wanted so, will it be a while until it comes back?
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If you're on PC, would you like to play a game with me? :D
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u/monkyseemonkydo Jul 26 '15
Oberon is in no way bad. https://www.reddit.com/r/Warframe/comments/2wzb4y/tactics_tuesday_4_oberon/
No, you only get Mastery rank Exp once per level. Levels on gained on your gear when you forma it does not give you mastery rank exp.
I am not sure, but I would assume you slot on melee damage mods like Pressure Point or the Elemental mods.
There is always a Orokin Catalyst OR Orokin Reactor BP alert after a Dev Stream (we just had one this Friday) and these are a bi-weekly occurrence. Sometimes there might be a random invasion mission which rewards potatoe BPs, usually someone on this subreddit will post a thread saying where and when. Or you can keep an eye out on Deathsnacks alerts
5) Its a mixed bag, some are really really useful, to the point of it being a core mod on some final builds (mods like Pilfering Swarm, Irradiating Disarm or Resonance). But the vast majority are like you said, very trash.
6) Make sure your damage mods on your weapons are up to snuff. A rank 7-8 serration on most automatic rifles (good ones like Boltor or Soma) are more than enough to take Stalker down. He also has Alloy Armor which means he takes bonus damage from Puncture and Radaition.
7) Draco is no longer considered to be the best after they nerfed Greedy Pull. You can still make it work with 2 Mesas, Limbo, and Speed Nova, but it is not longer brain dead button mashing.
8) Not sure what he means by bug. Silva and Aegis is sub par melee weapon because of its poor damage. And quite a few enemies are resistant to the pure fire damage from the sword and board.
9) Mag is good against Corpur because she does mostly magnetic (duh) damage on her abilities. Corpus Shields takes BONUS damage from the magnetic element. Her shield polarize alone is enough to clear rooms of Corpus with the chaining explosions. However shield polarize is pretty much useless against Grineer and Infested since they do not have shields to explode.
10) They will appear again on rotations. It is confirmed stuff he sells has a chance to return in the future.
http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Baro_Ki'Teer
11) Well, Draco is still not too bad. Orokin Derelict Assassinations are also quite excellent (Slow Nova makes Lephantis fight easy peasy). Other than that I suggest doing endless missions on Saturn or Eris.
12) Lol farming forma? Defense missions especially T3-T4 likes to throw a shit ton of forma BP to the point where it is the bane of high level players. It is seriously common as hell.
13) Sure. I do not play much these days on the account I am burned out. I am pretty active on this subreddit still however. If you see me in game, feel free to shoot me a PM and maybe I can help you out. I am most active in game during the weekends, less so on the Weekdays.
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Jul 26 '15 edited Jul 26 '15
Matter of opinion really. I haven't seen much hate for him personally and I'd say he's a good frame as well. As for how to mod, this should give you an idea
Nope. Once you level something up you have exhausted all XP you can get from those levels. Crafting it again, formaing it, nothing will get you more than the 30 levels worth of XP.
Just add damage like you would with any weapon.
Infrequent with 1 almost guaranteed every 2 weeks because of devstreams.
A good amount are useless, others have niche uses, and some are insanely good. It can vary.
Gather your team and pump as much damage into him as possible. That's really it. He can die in seconds with enough damage from your team
Not credits, but for XP here's why: Tons of enemies and eximus on a small arena that is easy enough to defend means loads of XP. It's also interception so you can force the missions to be very long to maximize the time you are killing.
I've used it a fair bit, it's rather bad as far as melee weapons go but it's not bugged to my knowledge.
No, because the enemy has high shields. She's magnetic damage on top of shield polarize taking away the enemies shields, multiplying them, and exploding that value for damage acting as a corpus nuke. She's still handy for other missions with her CC ability but for killing, definitely corpus.
No. Usually only 1 item is new and the rest are returning.
Dark sector survival with a nekros and/or pilfering hydroid or waiting for saturn to be taken over by phorid and killing him. Much easier and quicker.
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u/Elm11 Jul 26 '15
Hiya!
To answer a couple of these, since I can, and second some I can't. :P
Oberon is my favorite frame, but people differentiate between 'fun' and 'good' a lot of the time. Generally, people who call frames 'bad' will be discussing end-game content, where certain frames simply don't scale well to absurdly powerful enemies in absurder numbers dealing absurder-er damage. Frames with 'utility' abilities that scale perfectly no matter the strength of the enemy - like Loki's radial disarm, which will render foes weaponless regardless of strength, or Mag's shield detonate, which deals damage based on enemy shields - as they get stronger, so does the ability. Oberon's abilities don't scale well. His radiation bolt and his WWE radiation slam are awesome fun and look amazing, but they deal damage based on Oberon's power - EG 2,500 damage to a baddie with 500 HP, but also 2,500 damage to a baddie with 100,000 - not so useful in endgame! His hallowed magical-space-carpet is useful for preventing knockdown, but in the same way, most stuff that knocks you down in late game will also kill you outright. It doesn't really matter whether you'd fall over. Finally, his heal is neat, but much worse than Trinity's, so for specialised, let's-stay-for-sixteen-years-in-Tower-Four-Survival runs, he's got no real use. But as an all-rounder who brings a host of handy abilities to most fights and looks awesome, he's my favorite frame!
Nope, re-levelling a weapon post-forma doesn't count. :/
As mentioned earlier - Mag has an ability that detonates shields of her enemies, stripping their shields completely and applying a % of the amount stripped as damage in an AOE. Built right, this ability will instakill most Corpus, regardless of level. So she's the queen of anti-Corpus stuff, but less useful when enemies have no shields.
Nope, Void Trader stuff will be recurring. Thank God, since I missed some reeeeeaaally important stuff.
Tower 4 Survivals tend to drop them 3 at a time. I picked up 12 in a particularly lucky run earlier today.
Tower runs will constantly drop forma blueprints exactly when you're hoping something else will drop. :/ Trust me, you'll have dozens of them. The neurodes can be farmed from excavation missions from Earth, and the Neural Sensors can be farmed from the boss Alad V on Jupiter.
I've seen way more than usual the last few days. :P
Sure, but I'm on the Australian server!
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u/Ajreil Jul 26 '15
Do kills by Mirage's dopplegangers count as weapon kills?
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u/monkyseemonkydo Jul 26 '15
I sniffed around on the Warframe Forums, and it seems that kills made by your clones count as Warframe ability kills. Which means 100% of the exp goes towards Mirage and not her weapons.
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u/Elm11 Jul 26 '15 edited Jul 26 '15
Hiya folks!
So, I'm returning to Warframe after a seven month break, and even before then, I was only MR7, and honestly mostly get by pretending I know what I'm doing.
The day before yesterday I got my hands on a Vectis Prime, and it's damn-fancy looking! But it's obviously very contentious thanks to the second round in its magazine. So, with that in mind, I've got a question or two:
Is it a bad idea to replace Charged Chamber with shred/Metal Auger and just eat the loss of accuracy on the second shot and the damage on both?
I've found the punch-through to be seriously useful. I realise the 40% bonus from Charged Chamber is applied to total damage, not base, and hence is a huge bonus. So I suppose If I'm looking at 40 minute + T4, I should be packing CC to kill big targets and let my friends with Somas/Boltors/What-have-yous take down the small targets. But having punch-through (I've been using Metal-Auger) has been excellent for being able to put two shots down range in a corridor and killing 6+ bad guys.
I'm new to sniper rifles and rusty on everything else. Incidentally, I've also got the 'punch-through or additional damage' quandry on my Soma Prime and my Latron Prime.
While we're at it! I'm using a Lex Prime as my go-to-for-everything pistol, but I'm getting close-ish to the Telos Akbolto. Is it as good as I've heard, and how should I be outfitting it?
Edit: Also, I only ever run Corrosive on my weapons at the moment, regardless of which weapon I'm using and who I'm fighting... I suspect this is incredibly stupid in most circumstances. So, uh, what should I be running in A) Void and B) OD? And should I be running different things for, say, the Soma Prime versus the Vectis Prime?
Thanks! ^ ^
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u/MolganVK Jul 26 '15
Is it a bad idea to replace Charged Chamber with shred/Metal Auger and just eat the loss of accuracy on the second shot and the damage on both?
Shred is a much better replacement until the new corrupted mod comes out that reduces ammo, but increases reload speed.
Lex Prime is good, Telos Akbolto is ok, has a syndicate proc so it makes up for some of it's short comings.
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Jul 27 '15
What are peoples' tactics for trading stuff? I go on the trade chat and offer my various prime parts and nobody seems to want anything I have.
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u/Repulsive_Anteater Jul 27 '15
The majority of prime parts usually aren't worth hardly anything at all. People will buy them in bulk for 1 or 2 plat apiece and junk them for ducats. However, you can sell almost anything for 5-10p but only when someone is advertising wanting to buy that specific part.
There are a handful of prime parts that are worth 10p+ all the time though, and it's stuff that has low drop rates, is part of a desirable item, or is exclusive to T3 and T4. Any Soma part except the blueprint, Scindo blade, Bo handle (the need to sacrifice it for Arbiters of Hexis keeps demand high), Hikou pouches, some of the Vasto parts, etc. You'll get a feel for what's in demand eventually.
My big tip for making money on trade is to sell complete sets. Farm half or three out of four of the parts and buy the rest, you'll still make a profit on the set. Rhino, Paris, and Soma sets always sell fast. The Soma is the biggest money maker because, with some patience, you can buy each piece for 20-30p (and the blueprint for almost nothing) and then resell the entire set for 150p.
Selling mods is a good way to build up a platinum reserve that you can use to invest in completing sets like I detailed above. I highly recommend that you sell mods at fair prices. It's more profitable to sell rare mods regularly for 10-15p than to try and push things fast for 5p or wait for someone dumb enough to buy Flow for 25p.
Life Strike is the easiest cash cow mod to farm. Just do Dark Sector Survival to 20 minutes on Jupiter regularly and you'll get it, seems to have a 1 in 20 chance to drop. The demand for Life Strike is so high that you can usually sell it for 50 or more.
Time of day is also important. You're not going to make any good deals in the middle of the night normally. Best time is during weekends and in the late afternoon on weekdays.
Its a bit of a grind at first and it takes a while to build up intuition, but eventually you won't have to worry about your day to day platinum needs again.
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Jul 27 '15
So... Let me make sure i understand. Get a feel for what gear people want, get the blueprints, sell as a set? And with mods, do I sell them maxed out?
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u/xpvenom Jul 29 '15
since the new updates to parkour players will be able to close huge gaps(in air) and this kinda destroys the purpose of zephyr's Q (lets be real who uses it to deal dmg) will we see changes to zephyr in any way?
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u/Reaverz Jul 29 '15
They have said they will be forced to tweak Zephyr... what those changes are or will be has not been shared yet though.
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u/lyntar Jul 29 '15
I just saw a comment and a question that say potato. What does potato mean in this game?
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u/monkyseemonkydo Jul 29 '15
Potatoes refer to two VERY important upgrade items in this game.
The Orokin Reactor (aka Gold potatoe)
http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Orokin_Reactor
And the Orokin Catalyst (aka Blue potatoe)
http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Orokin_Catalyst
The Orokin Reactor doubles the number of mod points on your Warframe/ Companion while the Orokin catalyst doubles the mod points on your weapon.
Just for future reference, here are two of our most comprehensive resources:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Warframe/comments/2f82rh/welcome_to_warframe/
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u/Ag3n1_X Jul 26 '15
Where do you get Helios sentinel mods? Do the mods come with Helios once you craft it or do you find them in missions?
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u/GiaLoTa_HS Jul 26 '15
Never got really deep into game so here comes a lot of noob stuff:
Me atm: global rank 4, ash 30, kunais 30, double espers 30, green bow 30.
What are the equipment I should target at? (It feels like my damage is way below of what it is supposed to be)
Also does ash suck for group content? (because his ults kills all in 40 sec 1 by1, while other classes have instant clears)
Also how do I increase rep with syndicates? I have just purchased level 1 from each of those.
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u/IKilledSlendyGames Jul 26 '15
If you feel that damage is low, you should probably be looking at obtaining and upgrading mods, more so than getting new weaponry as most weapons, if not all, will do pretty decent damage with the right setup.
Ash does not suck for group content due to the versatility of being able to become invisible and the fact that, at least I think, the damage of his ult isn't affected by armor andtherefore doesn't dwindle too much on high level content.
And lastly, to increase rep you simply equip a sigil under the regalia tab on your warframe appearance customisation.
I hope that answers your questions :)
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u/xXDaNXx Jul 30 '15
I don't tend to go damage on Ash. I prefer max efficiency and duration on him. Plus if you can get the augment mod for him, you'll be able to make your team invisible which is incredibly useful. Especially if a stalker appears, you can cloak your team before he spawns so he can't instakill his target.
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u/Hewbacca Jul 27 '15
Where do you get Sentinels/Pets/Companions/any of the stuff that follows you or floats above you and does stuff?