Talk:Market/@comment-64.178.247.98-20140124181950/@comment-24370326-20140124191517

I said this a little bit below. I was in a similar spot you were, grinding low level missions for repetitive mods. My suggestion is to join a clan and they will help you farm stuff and protect you on high level missions while you grab XP and good loot.

You can also look forward to the possibility of a platinum discount as a daily login reward. They can be 20%, 50% or even 75%. That should help take the edge off to get some platinum. If you do this, try to focus on getting stuff like catalysts, reactors, etc. This will help you put more mods on your equipment and frame, enabling you to withstand tougher missions where you need to farm blueprints, etc.

I spent a lot of time grinding defense missions on the first 2 or 3 planets for good mods, but that is also a poor source for credits and you probably won't get any blueprints. For me, this resulted in a good mod collection, but a bunch of maxed out weapons and nothing to switch them out for to keep my Mastery Rank on the rise. Rank 4 is when the weapons will start getting good.

Farm blueprints from the bosses and that will save you some credits when you build stuff to use, as you progress in mastery rank.

Platinum really is optional. The clans will help you find stuff you need.