Glossary

This page contains a list of important terms and abbreviations to know for all Warframe players.

A

 * Affinity - Experience in Warframe. Contributes to levels for weapons, warframes and sentinels.
 * Alert - Missions that pop up randomly and give additional credits or loot as a reward.
 * AMD - Antimatter Drop, Nova's 2nd ability

C

 * Clan - Warframe's version of a guild.  A clan has its own chat channel, can build a Dojo, facilitates trades, and allows advanced weapons and items to be researched.
 * Corpus - One of the three main enemy faction.They are a merchant cult, built on the foundation of salvaged technology and robotics.

D

 * Dojo - A clan meeting place. Different rooms can be built, with purposes of research, trading, duels, and even an Obstacle Course.

E

 * Extract - To exit a mission or head to the extraction point.
 * Exp (Experience) - Also known as the resource Affinity, used to level Weapons, Warframes and Mastery.

F

 * Farm - To play repeatedly or for long periods in order to obtain experience, resources, mods, or blueprints.

G

 * Gate - Nova's Worm Hole.
 * Grineer - A race of clones. One of the main enemy types.

H

 * Hallway hero - a derogatory term referring to a player in a defense mission (endless, wave, mobile, or survival) who fights far from the defense objective or team, killing enemies too far away for their teammates' to share Affinity.

I

 * Infested - A main enemy faction. Comprised of Corpus and Grineer that have been infected with the Technocyte Virus.

K

 * Keys - Void Keys used to enter the Orokin Void.

L

 * Lotus - Quest guide.
 * LFM, LFG - Looking for more, group.

M

 * Mastery - Your overall account level. Increased by leveling up weapons, warframes and sentinels (not counting forma(s)) and completing a test.
 * Mods - "Cards" picked up during missions and won for completing missions. These are used to enhance the power of Warframes, weapons, and sentinels.
 * MP - Molecular Prime, Nova's 4th ability. Often used to clear out large groups of enemies. Also may refer to the second mission on Mercury.

N

 * NM -  Nightmare Mode. A high difficulty mission that can occupy random nodes indicated with a skull, rewards special mods unique to these missions.

O

 * OD - Orokin Derelict missions, usually followed with an additional letter indicating the mission type. For example: ODS, ODD and ODA refer to Orokin Derelict Survival, Defense and Assassination respectively.
 * ODV - Orokin Derelict Vault, a section of the Orokin Derelicts that provides players Corrupted Mods upon completion of missions after unlocking such vaults.
 * Orokin - The name of the race that previously ruled the solar system. Tenno are their descendents.

P

 * PC - Price check. Used on the trading channel to find out how much something is worth.
 * Plat, P - Platinum, the game currency that can only be won or payed for.
 * Potato, Potatoed, Blue/Gold Potato - An Orokin Catalyst or Orokin Reactor, named such for their resemblence to potatoes.
 * PST - Please send tell. Use /w message to whisper to the player.
 * PM - Private message. Use /w message to whisper to the player.
 * Prime - The surname given to an enhanced version of a warframe or weapon. It can also refer to the use of Molecular Prime (see M Prime).

Q

 * QT - Quick Thinking, a mod that converts energy to health when you are downed.

R

 * R+QT - A combo between the mod Rage and Quick Thinking that allows for a quick revive a 4hp, then death again.

S

 * Slide - While running, press the crouch key to perform a slide manuver; can also be performed in conjunction with a jump and/or attack.

T

 * Taxi - A player that has a mission or planet unlocked that will form a group for a player that does not.
 * T1/T2/T3 - Tower 1, 2 or 3 Orokin Void missions.
 * Tier 1 / Tier 2 / Tier 3 - The level of difficulty in a mission, most commonly used for Orokin Void missions but also in Defense and other missions.
 * Tank - A player that can take large amounts of damage.

W

 * Warframe - The exosuit worn by Tenno. These have special abilities that are used for specific tasks.
 * WTS, WTB, WTT - Wanting to sell, buy, trade.

X

 * Xini - A very commonly played high-level defense map. Formerly Infested, now Corpus.  Located in the Eris sector.
 * XP (Experience) - Also known as the resource Affinity, used to level Weapons, Warframes and Mastery.

Z

 * Zoren Copter - Using the Dual Zoren slide attack to move faster.