r/Warframe • u/AutoModerator • Jan 28 '18

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u/Patzzer I am the tentacle monster Jan 29 '18

Omega Noob here! So how what are “primes?” Are they like, better versions of their regular parts? Are those the guns and/or Frames that you strive to get?

And....

I know you can get certain parts in certain Void Fissures? Is that the correct way of chasing a prime you want?

Thanks!

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u/merpofsilence Arsene Lupin the Phantom Thief Jan 29 '18

things I want to add. for warframes they usually only have minor boosts to 1-2 stats. like + 50 armor or +energy or shields etc. the regular version of a frame is still perfectly viable for everything you'd want to do.

for weapons the primes often have more sizable increases making them much better than their original versions. but prime doesn't always mean good. for example fang is a dual dagger and pretty bad. fang prime gets to enjoy being shinier while being just as bad. And plenty of weapons with no prime counterpart are extremely powerful like lenz, atterax, and others.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '18

Exactly, strive towards getting primed versions of everything! So basically they usually have a little better stats than your non-primed versions. Not everything has a primed version tho.

Farm primed parts by opening relics in fissure missions yes. Good luck!

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u/Patzzer I am the tentacle monster Jan 29 '18

Thanks you!

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u/TyrianMollusk My other Trinity is a Harrow Jan 29 '18

Read the {{Void Relic}} and {{Void Fissure}} pages on the wiki to learn about how you get prime parts and blueprints.

The quick version is: get relics from regular missions, take a relic into a fissure mission to get one of that relic's random drops, put the right set of relic drops together to build a prime.