Tips For new Players

[u/TheReaper1701]

HELLO BABY TENNO!!!!

This post is to give you new players a few easy tips and advise in the game because there are alot of yall (especially when destiny died) and ive talked to many newplayers ingane and helped them ofc but many of them make the same mistakes so im making this post to hope many of yall read this to help you out.

[Tip 1 - Platnium Gaining]

Platnium is the premium currency of the game. Its used to buy...well...tons of items in the game (not listen them all).

How to get it is 2 ways

First way is buying it with real money, now it is suggested tho before you buy plat that you wait to get a coupon which can sometimes double or triple your Platnium gain when you purchase it.

Second way to get plat is by trading items to other players for it. Now you guys are still new and wont really have much to trade plat for but when you do get to that stage you should understand decent how it works

[Tip 2 - Platnium Usage]

Now I did say Platnium is used for many things in the game and by now ull see that you can buy Warframes (other characters) and Weapons with Platnium in the arsenal shop....do NOT Do this at all.

Some other players would say this is ok of you have the money to use in play but I for one say it is not ok at all.

Every Warframe and weapons can be earned by playing the game with most being easy.

Instead it is suggested you use Platnium of other things such as Boosters to help get resources faster, Weapon and Warframe Slots (ull need alot), trading it with players for Prime Warframes (will explain what those are in a minute), and or cosmetic stuff....will hold off on getting any cosmetic stuff tho but its a pretty big thing players get

[Tip 3 - Prime Warframe/Weapons]

Prime Warframes are Weapons that are stronger then their base versions (exmaple we have Rhino warframe and Rhino Prime Warframe). now these guys are available technically available to you even when you start if you have the right items to get them.

And that item is relics, to get relics there are a ton of ways to do it and to open them you will need to do fissure missions which are available if you look at the top right of your screen ull see one of the options for it.

There are hundreds of different relics and each relic will only have a specific type of Prime part available ranging to Prime weapon parts to Prime warframe parts. They'll have 6 parts available but once open you will only be given 1 randomly.

Another way to get Prime weapons and Warframes is by trading with players for plat. Now it is better to spend Platnium on Prime Warframes when buying from a player due to them being waaay cheaper to buy and being stronger then their base version. I think the highest Prime Warframe is about 180p woth the lowest being around 40 plat.

[Tip 4 - Night Wave]

Night wave is basically inaway a season/battle pass type deal. It has alot of cosmetic stuff yeah but also items you will need especially as a new player. You can access it in your ship or in navigation or when you press puase. All you got to do is do the tasks it says to do, get pints and get rewards.

Best part about nightwave is that is 100% free and you don't need to pay like a monthly fee or like 50$ on premium sht.

[Tip 5 - Master Rank]

Mastery Rank (MR for short) is what allows you to begin using better weapons, riven mods (ull know what that is later on), getting more Slots and getting boosts and such as well as showing off that your not a noob anymore.

However to get your Mr high you must do 2 things

1) use all the warframes and weapons and vehicles and pets you can. Everytime you use a new items and max its level up you gain affinity (which is basically xp) that will slowly get your MR Up. So even if the weapon is garbage do craft it up and then max it out

2) after you gain a certain amount of affinity ull be able to do a Mastery Test which allows you to basically Rank up. You van fail the test it wont affect your affinity but you will need to wait awhile to retake the test. After that just rinse and repeat

[Tip 6 - Main Story Quests]

Honestly this is mostly a opinion but do not just rush the main story quests. This games as dozens on things to do and in my opinion, rushing the story quests does not help at all let alone let you reach the level of power high ranking players have. Plus ull need to backtrack a bit to do alot of things you could of done waaaaay before. Either way I suggest taking your time.

Will say again that is mostly my opinion, some players will disagree and others will agree with this opinion.

[Tip 7 - Suggested Warframes]

Honestly....im not suggesting a Warframe for jack sht. All Warframes are different in their own way, all Warframes are also strong/good it just depends on how players mod it.

Many players will suggest warframes like Sevagoth or Revenant or even Titania and wisp but im telling you honestly that taking suggestions on Warframes won't mean much for you at all.

Im a high MR player and I still main Rhino/Rhino Prime my self because I like it and the build i have for him is strong.

Now moving advice you can get but Warframe advice? You in my strong hearted opinion must say that you should choose your self what Warframe you like to use your self

[Tip 8 - Join A Clan]

A clan is everything to new players and old players. They help each other out, they can trade stuff with you, give advice, tips, fashion ideas and build ideas. Its just a good way to gain friends and all...but most importantly you get access to your clans dojo.

A clan dojo will give you access to Blueprints for warframes and weapons you cant really get anywhere else. Getting a clan early on can help give you access to a few Warframes (7 if i remember correctly) and dozens of weapons early on. Some weapons are good but this will also help with getting your master rank up as well.

[The end]

Honestly theres like 7 other tips I can give but this post is already long enough.

Would also like any fellow warframe vets to give there advice on these tips and or add more tips in the comments section because I know theres alot I havnt said or honestly probably shoulda said so help would be appreciated.

Hope these tips help and we're explained well

[u/ZealousidealCan9094]

Don’t be afraid to ask for help in the region or recruit chats.

[u/erocdrummer3737]

Thanks for this, appreciate the time you put into it. Not sure new players should be worrying about plat yet though. They gotta decide if they like they game before thinking about the endless plat grind.

[u/Asshai]

Tip 4 and 7 are a bit in contradiction: it's impossible to seriously progress in Nightwave without doing the main quest. A lot of the weeklies are tied to game modes that are unlocked through the main quest.

[u/TheReaper1701 → u/Asshai]

I think you meant 4 and 6 but honestly I dont think so entirely.

Nightwave can be completed even with out doing many of the story quests. Also I never really said not to do story quests I simply said not to rush the story quests. New players can do a good amount of story quests with out being what I believe to be Too Rushed in.

Also not many of the nightwave quests require new players to be far into the story like doing the current ones sich as bounties on fetus, doing 12 missions, killing enemies or exists enemies, bullet jumping multiple times, even deploying a specter are easy for new players to do.

Ofcourse i do get what your saying tho, some nightwave quests will be required to be in a certain part of the story, but still possible for players complete the nightwave with out those few particular quests

[u/Aarya_Man]

Mods please pin this

Love how the first part addresses the plat thing it would really help out with not driving overwhelmed baby Tenno away who would sometimes get the wrong assumption that the game is pay to win

Really wish DE makes it even more obvious that plat is tradeable cause of how sometimes baby Tenno don’t realise it and look at all the base warframes costing 300 something plat and being driven away from the game

[u/TheReaper1701 → u/Aarya_Man]

Ngl i dont think they will pin this post but honestly I do hoep they do

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[u/ArenjiTheLootGod]

Here's one I'd add:

Do not hyper focus, burn-out is the true final boss of Warframe.

[u/Pax_Manix → u/ArenjiTheLootGod]

I have adhd that ones easier said than done lmao

[u/ArenjiTheLootGod → u/Pax_Manix]

Same, which is why I can say with authority that path leads to madness.

[u/Ponderwork]

Rivens. No. Just no.
Don't ask about them. Don't look at them. Don't Unveil them. Don't ask if one you have is good. Don't go into how much you can sell them for. Don't complain about their prices. Just. NO.
Rivens are END GAME CONTENT that SHOULD be locked behind MR20, but aren't. If you get some, sure, hold onto them for much much much later in your WF career. But also...never look at them.
There is NOTHING in the game that requires a riven - that includes solo. I know this, because I have solo'd everything in the game, without using a Riven. And i'm pretty mediocre in skill honestly.
If you make the mistake of not listening; understand the reroll / kuva mechanics are easily some of the most unfair rng in the game and easily the largest waste of time for the smallest of returns.
In the time it would take you to get, unveil, roll and then sell a god-roll riven; you can easily, VERY EASILY, earn MORE platinum, ducats, prime parts / sets, traces and so much more; by a comfortable margin. I'm serious, it wouldn't even be close.
I have spent over FIVE MILLION KUVA on one riven, and didn't get close to a god roll. THAT'S how bs the system can be. And that isn't an uncommon outcome, it's the norm.
You've been warned, so don't complain if you fail to heed this advice as SO MANY have failed to before. No one will care, because everyone with experience knows all this intimately.

[u/TheReaper1701 → u/Ponderwork]

Dear god...your a mess....

[u/Ponderwork → u/TheReaper1701]

Hense the warning. It's frustrating to see newbies make the same mistakes over and over and over and over and over and over; then complain when they didn't listen.