Hi I’m a relatively new player and currently MR5 and am still working my way through the star chart(At Saturn atm). I started with Mag and am currently using the Boltor.
I’ve been watching guides on YouTube and so have a basic understanding of how to achieve my build. However it seems a lot of the mods I require are out of my reach or require forma/potatoes.
When should I start following builds? Am I still too early?
I don’t have any forma blueprints nor any potatoes. Should I be grinding for them specifically now or only when I’ve gotten further?
Currently my Boltor has the following mods Serration rank 6, Infected Clip and Hellfire. I’ve seen that multi shot is important and the rifle multi shot mod can be dropped on spy missions at 5% chance. Is it worth grinding spy missions for it?
Any other advice would help too. Thank you!
On the one hand, the most “important” thing for you to do right now is to just keep on proceeding through the starchart. As long as you aren’t struggling with enemies, you’re good to just keep on going with that without taking too much time to farm unless you want to.
That said, it never hurts to get things early. Multishot really is a very powerful stat, and so long as you have enough Endo and Credits to rank it up it will be a big boost to your overall damage output. Spy missions can also get you pieces for the Ivara warframe, who is useful for a lot of stealth-oriented situations.
HOWEVER, please note that the rifle multishot mod doesn’t drop from spy missions - the shotgun multishot mod does. It looks like the easiest (albeit not the fastest) way to get Split Chamber from the planets you’ve currently unlocked is to do invasions and side with the Corpus enough times that the Grineer send an assassin killsquad after you, then wait for them to show up and kill them when they attack you. Just be careful - if they win, you’ll take a long-term debuff unless you spend some rare materials to remove it. Details on the assassins here.
It’s your choice like the mod will be handy for the whole game and many builds. So I yeah why not
Infected clip (toxin) and hellfire (heat) combine to make Gas. Gas is a very finicky element, you might want to consider toxin and electricity for Corrosive, which is very strong against armor, the first thing that will probably slow you down. Or just Toxin if you are fighting corpus, because it bypasses their shields.
I wouldn’t worry about following builds this early unless you start having problems. Build weapons like the Hek and Atomos, they’re great fun. Level up your main damage mods (serration/hornet strike/point blank/pressure point)
Multishot is important, getting it would be good (There’s one for rifles, shotguns, and pistols) https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Split_Chamber - it doesn’t look like it drops from spy missions though.
After the star chart is when builds start becoming useful. You can just brute force it with whatever mods you have before then.
I was going to say that grinding Forma is always worth it however Convict45 has the better idea. Farm Forma incidentally while ranking stuff. When it comes to Potatoes I get them via Nightwave. Do the daily/weekly tasks and you periodically get currency which can be used to buy things from Nora’s store. Both versions of Potato are always options… however there’s a short intermission between Nightwaves so that’s worth watching out for, don’t want to need a Potato and not be able to grab one because Nightwave ended a few days ago.
I’ll say this: In spite of your ability to put Potatoes on an unranked weapon don’t Potato a gun until it’s 30 unless you’re certain it’s a keeper either for shear power or fun-factor. Potatoes don’t just grow in the ground.
Potatoes I get them via Nightwave.
Kinda a waste IMO potatoes = 20 plat = 75 credits which for a new player is a ton due to no access to missions
some of the aura mods sell for 20-30 plat and only cost like 20 nightwave credits, then you can just install potatoes.
On top of that new players should be buying nitain only as tons of early crafts require it and they will only be getting credits like once every 6 weeks with the missions they have access to.
This is a good point. I keep forgetting how much Nitan Extract is needed now that I’ve built the majority of things that require it.
ya like every single prime frame needs like 5 i think and wukong and ivara for some reason need like 9 ea.
To do all craftables you need like 800 nightwave creds which is a hell of a lot of weeks of nightwave if you cant bum rush it to rank 30 nightwave
That’s the beauty of Warframe, you can start anything anytime you want, sometimes it just takes some time to understand what the game wants you to do and then the time to grind.
Feel free to experiment as well, if the grinding gets too annoying, you can always play some other missions for fun to see what you encounter, and maybe another cool build idea will pop up.
Always “build” with mods you have. Just dont stress about it.
In early game its good idea try to farm different missions to get all basic mod you can and go with your own pace.