User:GlazedHam/Gear Guide

Hi everyone! This page should get you going on increasing teh strength of your Warframes and Weapons. The end goal of Warframe is to hoard all the gear you can get your hands on, and rank (level) them all up to 30. Ranking up weapons and warframes add to your Mastery Rank, which is essential for unlocking important game mechanics like trading, joining a clan, and increasing your rank 0 mod capacity. Mastery Rank also allows you to use bigger and better weapons that have a higher rank requirement.

How do I make my gear stronger? By Using Mods!
Leveling gear does not increase the stats of a weapon, you will need Mods. Mods allow you to modify attributes of the item you equipped them to. You can also rank up mods and make them stronger! This will require Credits and Endo. You can find your mods in the Mod Segment across from your Foundry, or from the upgrade menu in your Arsenal.

Mods are the be all and end all to gear. They are what make builds. You can use a site like http://warframe-builder.com/ to search builds for specific weapons and target the mods it uses for your collection.

Mod Capacity
Each weapons and frame has a mod capacity of 30 at maximum rank. Mods drain this capacity when installed.

Orokin Catalyst/Reactor
You can increase the capacity of a weapon or warframe with an Orokin Catalyst/Orokin Reactor, giving the item 60 mod capacity at maximum rank.

Forma
You can reduce the drain of mods in a slot by changing the slot Polarity with a Forma. You will then have to re-level up the item

Where can I get Weapons?
You can buy weapon blueprints from the Market for Credits. You must then acquire the ingredients to build the item and then queue it in your Foundry. There are a few low MR weapons that can be bought already built!

Many other weapons can be found as clan research in a clans Dojo. You acquire these the same way as you do the market blueprints. Some research items need to be completed before the blueprint becomes available for purchase, requiring you to submit materials to the clan in order to unlock it.

Some weapons only come as rewards from Invasion missions, in which you have to complete 3 of a mission and wait for the invasion to come to a close to get the reward. You will end up doing these a lot since most clan research items require the materials from them.

Lastly, some weapon blueprints are just plain old drops from enemies, like the Gorgon. There are only a handful of these though! Most weapons come from the market!

Where can I get Warframes?
Non-prime Warframes can be found in couple of ways, the most common way being as a drop from a planet's assassination target. Defeat the boss and complete the mission and you will get a chance at a piece for a frame. The frames main blueprint can usually be bought at the Market.

Prime frames are acquired the same as all other prime items. You farm all of the parts as drops from Void Fissure missions using several Void Relic items. Once you have all of the parts you usually need many Orokin Cell items to craft it.

By the planet Jupiter, which a player can reach fairly early in the game, they should have access to the following frames as drops from planet bosses; Rhino, Hydriod, Excalibur, Mag, Frost, and Valkyr.

It should be noted: Prime frames are usaully only marginally better than the original counterparts, if you find a frame you like don't be afraid to invest in it!

What are these build times?!
Build times in Warframe turn off a lot of new players. They are effective countermeasures to duping and hacking (which are non-existent in this game). So, that being said, how do you deal with them?

First off, you should always build multiple things! All the time! Always have as many things building as you can. There is no capacity on the build queue so have at it, things will sit in there until you are ready to use them!

When you have things building, there is still a ton of stuff to do!! Progress through your star chart, farm rare resources, farm credits, syndicate missions, level other weapons and warframes, alert missions, nightmare missions, derelict vault runs, orokin puzzles, quest missions, Eidolon hunting, Cetus bounties, farm Kuva, grind Ostron standing, etc. There is SO MUCH to do in this game that the new player might be overlooking.

Obtaining Prime Gear
Prime Warframes and Weapons are acquired by cracking a Void Relic in a Void Fissure missions. You get a chance at each part in the relics reward pool which you can modify by upgrading them with Void Traces.

Once you have acquired all the parts you just have to build it!