User:Rastanari/Optimal Warframes for Missions

Any warframe can be used to complete any mission but beginning players do not have access to just any warframe.

Beginning players can buy a complete, fully-functional warframe from the Market using Platinum but these purchases tend to be expensive. Normal progression in the game involves beginning players clearing most or all the Mission nodes on one planet before moving on to the next. As Mission nodes are completed players will collect the various parts and resources required to build additional warframes in the Foundry.

For a beginning player, there is only a limited set of warframes available to be farmed, built and used as that player progresses through the initial set of planets.

Early Warframes
Beginning players are strongly recommended to collect the components and resources required to build the warframes listed below in order of accessibility (along with the planet from which they can be farmed). Note that if a player chooses the Excalibur warframe at the start of the game its components obviously do not need to be farmed.

Rhino (Venus)

Excalibur (Initially selected as a starter warframe or farmed on Mars)

Frost (Ceres)

Optimal Warframes for Missions
As stated earlier, any warframe can be used to complete any mission but certain warframes provide abilities that make it easier to complete specific types of missions.

Until a beginning player has become experienced and skilled using a specific warframe and is comfortable and able to complete each of the mission types easily with that warframe, the abilities provided by the warframes recommended below will greatly ease the effort required to complete that mission type.

Assassination: Rhino (Iron Skin to absorb damage during a boss fight)

Capture: Excalibur (Exalted Blade to quickly take down the target) or Rhino (Iron Skin to absorb damage while chasing the target)

Defection: Player Choice

Defense: Frost (Snow Globe around the cargo being defended)

Excavation: Frost (Snow Globe around each excavation site)

Exterminate: Excalibur (Exalted Blade to quickly take down large groups) or Frost (Avalanche very effective on large groups but mainly at maximum rank)

Hijack: Player Choice

Interception: Frost (Snow Globe around each Interception point)

Junction: Excalibur (Radial Blind with melee attacks makes Junction boss fights trivial)

Mobile Defense: Frost (Snow Globe around each point being defended)

Rescue: Player Choice

Sabotage: Player Choice but Rhino good for taking a lot of damage running from point to point through enemies

Spy: Player Choice

Survival: Frost (Snow Globe around each survival station)