Affinity

Affinity is the in-game mechanic for experience points. Warframes, Archwings, Companions and weapons are all capable of earning Affinity. It is earned by killing enemies, hacking terminals, completing objectives/Missions, using Warframe powers, or picking up Affinity Orbs.

Affinity is only shown numerically in the player's profile. Elsewhere, they are shown only as progress bars to the next level for that piece of equipment, such as in the Arsenal, during missions, or in the end-mission report.

Upon gaining enough Affinity, equipment will rank up and (once the equipment's rank exceeds a player's Mastery Rank) gain one extra point of Mod capacity (two points when supercharged via an Orokin Catalyst or Orokin Reactor), used for applying mods. Affinity is stored in each specific item, not the player's character/account; if an item is sold or used in crafting, it loses all of its associated Affinity and ranks.

Affinity indirectly affects a player's Mastery Rank. A player gains 200 Mastery points per affinity level on a previously unranked Warframe, Archwing or Companion, and 100 Mastery points per level on a previously unranked weapon. Once a player has acquired sufficient Mastery points, they can take the test to increase their Mastery Rank.

The amount of Affinity a weapon or frame has earned during a mission can be seen in the post-mission report, just to the left of the reward info box, where it is referred to as XP (experience).

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Using the Affinity Booster, purchasable for 40 Platinum 40, doubles Affinity gain for 3 days, 7 days with the 80 Platinum 80 booster, or 30 days with the 200 Platinum 200 booster.

Some Prime Access packages also have special 90-day Affinity boosters.

Acquisition

Warframe Affinity

Warframes and weapons gain Affinity for several types of actions, detailed below. Unless specified otherwise, all Affinity gained uses the split according to the general rule: 25% of the amount goes to your Warframe and 75% of the amount is divided evenly among all equipped weapons (18.75% each for four weapons while Arch-gun is summoned through Archgun Deployer, 25% each for three, 37.5% each for two, or the full 75% if only one is equipped).

• Kill an enemy with a Warframe ability. All of the Affinity goes to the Warframe.
• Kill an enemy with a weapon. Half of the Affinity goes to the Warframe and half to the killing weapon.
• Be near an allied Tenno when they kill an enemy. When within 50 meters of an ally (200 meters while using a Fosfor) when they kill an enemy, you gain the same total Affinity, distributed according to the general rule specified above. This doesn't reduce the Affinity gained by the killing player, and doesn't reduce the Affinity gained by other nearby allies. This applies to Archwing mode with much larger ranges for shared affinity.
• No weapons equipped. All of the Affinity goes to the Warframe.
  • This applies when the only equipped weapons are overridden by ability-created ones. (E.g. Using  Exalted Blade while only having a melee weapon equipped.)
• For Archwing, in Archwing missions, the range within which to gain experience from allied Tenno is 4 times increased. (200 metres, 800 with a Fosfor)

Operator Affinity

Operators gain their own Affinity, similar to a Warframe.

• Kill an enemy with an Operator ability. All of the Affinity goes to the Operator.
• Kill an enemy with a weapon. Half of the Affinity goes to the Operator and half to the killing weapon.
• Be near an allied Tenno when they kill an enemy. When within 50 meters of an ally (200 meters while using a Fosfor) when they kill an enemy, you gain the same total Affinity. The Affinity is distributed by 25% for the Operator, 37.5% for the Amp, and 37.5% for their unused melee slot.
• No Weapons equipped. All of the Affinity goes to the Operator.

Companion Affinity

Companions gain their own Affinity, similar to Tenno.

• The Companion kills an enemy. Total Affinity upon kills is equal to that gained by Tenno. The owner of the Companion gains no Affinity.
  • Kills with its weapon. Affinity is split between the Companion and its weapon 50/50%.
  • Kills with an ability. 100% Affinity to the Companion.
• The Companion uses an ability. Amount varies by ability.^{[investigation needed]} 100% goes to the Companion.
• A nearby Tenno, but not the Companion's owner, kills an enemy. Affinity gained by the Companion does not detract from that gained by its owner.
  • Affinity is split between the Companion and its weapon 50/50%.
  • 100% Affinity to the Companion in the absence of a weapon.

Other Affinity Sources

• Use a Warframe/Archwing ability. Affinity equal to the base energy cost, in most cases.
• Hack a terminal. 50 Affinity.
• Complete an objective.
• Collect an Affinity Orb. 100 Affinity.
• Scanning with the Codex Scanner.
  • Scanning objects. 10 Affinity.
  • Scanning enemies. Affinity equal to 1/3 of gain upon killing the enemy (rounded down).
    • Stealth scan. Affinity equal to gain upon killing the enemy.

Note: Special items such as Archwing weapons and Operator Amps can only receive Affinity while they are deployed. Otherwise they do not receive any Affinity at all, from any source.

Stealth Kill Affinity Bonus

Killing unaware enemies will trigger a Stealth Kill Affinity Bonus, which increases the amount of affinity that a player gains from killing said enemy. A notification appears in a player's HUD to the left of the shield counter upon performing a stealth kill, which will display the bonus affinity value for that kill, as well as the time remaining for the combo. The default bonus affinity value is 100%, which can be increased by performing a subsequent stealth attack within 30 seconds of the previous one, which will add another 100% to the bonus value, e.g. killing a second enemy stealthily will grant a 200% affinity multiplier, the third granting 300%, and so forth until it caps out at 500%, whereupon any successive stealth kills will provide said bonus as long as they are made within the time limit. Stealth kill affinity bonuses can be initiated using any attack as long as the enemy is unaware of the player's presence, though melee weapons grant twice the amount of stealth kill affinity compared to ranged weapons or abilities.

The stealth kill affinity bonus resets if a kill is made on an alert enemy, or upon being attacked by an alert enemy. Only enemy units will trigger these affinity bonuses. Environmental objects like Corpus Turrets, Security Cameras, Sensor Bars, and Storage Containers will not reset the multiplier nor do they count as a stealth kill. Certain units like Sensor Regulators are also considered objects, and thus will not initiate stealth affinity bonuses.

Oddly enough, certain Warframe powers (like Paralysis) and Melee Combos that initiate stagger may initiate stealth kill affinity bonuses upon performing a Counterattack Finisher, even if the enemy was previously aware of the player.

Killing an enemy that spawned within 5 seconds will not count towards the stealth affinity multiplier.

Bonus Affinity

If a player completes a mission successfully they gain bonus Affinity based on the amount gained during the mission. Bonus Affinity is shown as yellow in the end of mission report and is an additional 125% of the base affinity earned for each item.

Affinity Range

When playing with other players, Affinity will be shared among you and your squad if they are within a 50-meter radius. This can be increased with Fosfors to 200m or Vazarin's Mending Unity passive (+25m at max rank). Some Warframe Abilities also have their ranges tied to this particular range.

• Harrow
• Trinity

• Penance
• Covenant

	2 50	Penance Sacrifice shields to boost reload, and fire rate while converting damage inflicted on enemies into health for Harrow and nearby allies. Introduced in Update 21.0 (2017-06-29)	Strength:50% (initial heal) 5% (lifesteal on hit) 20% / 25% / 30% / 35% (fire rate bonus) 40% / 50% / 60% / 70% (reload speed bonus)
			Duration:4 s (base time) 1.25 / 1.33 / 1.43 / 1.54 s (bonus per 100 shields)
			Range:N/A
			Misc: 50 m (affinity range) 120 s (max duration)

• Info
• Tips & Tricks

Info

• Harrow expends 50 energy to flagellate himself twice with his thurible, sacrificing all of his shields and Overshields to gain 20% / 25% / 30% / 35% Fire Rate and 40% / 50% / 60% / 70% Reload Speed while restoring his Health by 50% of the amount of shields and overshields sacrificed. While active, 5% of any damage dealt by Harrow to enemies converts into health for Harrow and allies within his Affinity Range. Penance has a base duration of 4 seconds, plus extra duration of 1.25 / 1.33 / 1.43 / 1.54 seconds for every 100 Shield and Overshields points drained, up to a maximum of 120 seconds.
  • Affinity Range is not affected by  Ability Range but is affected by Fosfor and  Vazarin's  Mending Unity.
  • The amount of shields to be drained is determined on activation. Shield points from  Condemn will not be drained if gained during Penance's casting animation.
  • Each time Harrow flagellates himself, 50% of the total shield points are subtracted.
• Can be recast while active to stack extra duration to the remaining time.
• Allies affected by the lifesteal include all Warframes, Companions, Eidolon Lures, summoned allied units such as Specters, allied Invasion units, Hostages, Kavor Defectors, Sortie and Arbitrations Defense Operatives, and Defense Objects.
  • On Defense Objects, Penance restores up to 50 health per second.
• While active, stylized art appears beneath the aiming reticle; when a player is healed by Penance, colored text denoting the amount of health healed from damage dealt briefly replaces the art for several seconds. Both visuals are affected by Harrow's Warframe energy color.
• Harrow's wounds on his back from flagellation emit piercing light in his chosen Warframe energy color.
• Casting Penance stops all of Harrow's movement and actions.

Tips & Tricks

• Mod for a higher shield pool to gain more extra duration for Penance by default.
• Harrow can opt to choose to build Penance over Ability Strength for quick bursts of fire rate and lifesteal, or Ability Duration for sustained fire rate and reduced need to deplete Shields to recast. While the former is useful in quick missions and Assassination runs, the latter can be useful in endless missions such as Survival, considering the added protection afforded by a Duration-based  Covenant.
• Use  Condemn to quickly replenish shields and Overshields to fuel Penance' extra duration.
• Build up your shield and Overshield pool again after casting Penance, then recast Penance to stack extra duration onto your remaining time to keep the ability active much longer.
•  Guardian,  Protect,  Brief Respite &  Arcane Barrier are useful for this ability as they are capable of restoring Harrow's shields.
• Cast  Covenant before or after using Penance to protect yourself from damage when you are at your most vulnerable state.
• The fire rate bonus also affects melee weapons.
• Can reduce recharge delay for  Cycron or a Kitgun equipped with  Pax Charge, however, it does not affect recharge rate.

	4 100	Covenant Protect nearby allies with an energy force that absorbs all damage and converts it to a Critical Chance bonus for all those under the Covenant. Headshots are amplified even further. Introduced in Update 21.0 (2017-06-29)	Strength:5% (base critical chance) 1.50% (critical chance per 100 damage)
			Duration:3 / 4 / 5 / 6 s (invulnerability time) 6 / 8 / 10 / 12 s (critical chance time)
			Range:N/A
			Misc: 4.0x (headshot multiplier to bonus critical chance) 50% (bodyshot critical chance cap) 200% (headshot critical chance cap) 50/250 m (affinity range/open-world affinity range)

• Info
• Augment
• Tips & Tricks

Info

• Harrow expends 100 energy to break free of his shackles in a whirlwind of impenetrable energy, imbuing himself and allies inside his Affinity Range with complete Invulnerability to damage and Status Effects for 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 seconds. While invulnerable, any enemy damage prevented by all affected players during this time accumulates into a total pool.
  • Affinity Range is not affected by  Ability Range but is affected by Fosfor and  Vazarin's  Mending Unity.
• After the invulnerability phase, all affected players receive the Retaliation buff which provides an additive weapon Critical Chance bonus lasting for 6 / 8 / 10 / 12 seconds. Retaliation provides a 5% base critical chance, plus extra critical chance converted from total damage prevented at a rate of 1.50% per 100 damage points prevented. Additionally, the combined critical chance percentage is multiplied by 4 on headshot hits.
  • Critical chance bonus is capped at 50% on bodyshot hits and 200% on headshot hits.
  • The critical chance applied to the weapons is a flat value applied after mods.
    • Example: A weapon with 10% base critical chance which has a Rank 5  Point Strike equipped and is affected by a capped Retaliation buff will have
      10% × (1 +  150%) + 200% = 225% critical chance on headshot.
• Protection and Retaliation buffs affect both players and their Companions.
• Covenant cannot be recast while its buffs are active.
  • Multiple Harrows can cast Covenant independently of other players' active invulnerability and critical chance buffs.
• Casting animation of 3 seconds is affected by Casting Speed. Casting Covenant is a full-body animation that stops Harrow's movement and actions.
• During the invulnerability phase, the current total of damage prevented is displayed to the right of the aiming reticle, represented by a shield-like emblem.
  • After the invulnerability phase, the critical chance bonus and its headshot multiplied percentage are briefly displayed at the same position, represented by a bullet-like emblem.
  • An audible whispering sound plays when each buff's duration ends.
• Covenant's buff icons for invulnerability and critical chance are displayed beside the shield and health indicators, with the critical chance bonus percentage located at the top-right of the icon and buff timers at the bottom.
• Harrow and affected allies are visibly surrounded by a gust of energy while under Covenant's effects. This visual effect expands or contracts depending on the phases of the ability, and is affected by Harrow's chosen Warframe energy color.

Augment

Main article: Lasting Covenant

Lasting Covenant is a Warframe Augment Mod for  Harrow that increases  Covenant's critical chance buff duration each time an enemy is killed with a headshot.

Lasting Covenant

Tips & Tricks

• It synergizes well with abilities that buff critical damage, such as  Electric Shield.
• Also pairs well with the  Dual Toxocyst since they are at their optimal power when you are getting headshots.
• Since the critical chance applied is additive, this ability can turn a  Nukor modded with  Primed Target Cracker (and possibly other critical damage mods such as a Riven) into a viable critical secondary.
• As Covenant's critical chance buff is capped, Harrow may opt to build on Ability Duration over Ability Strength, as not only does the increased invulnerability protect him longer, the damage he negates during the extended invulnerability phase can be enough for him to cap the aftermath Retaliation buff.
• Stacks with  Arcane Avenger, resulting in an additive +95% critical chance on bodyshot and +245% on headshot with both effects maxed.
• Casting this while attempting to revive a teammate makes for a reliable survival strategy, as the invulnerability phase will protect you from enemy fire.
• If the mission has Environmental Hazards, like the toxic waste in the Grineer Shipyard tileset, you can use them to stack extra damage negation during the invulnerability phase.
• Covenant synergizes well with a Kitgun equipped with  Pax Seeker, with its projectiles gain benefits for critical chance to headshot from this ability.
  • However, headshot kills by Pax Seeker's projectiles won't trigger  Lasting Covenant augmentation.

	4 100	Blessing Restore the health and shields of allies within Trinity's Affinity aura while giving them some damage immunity. Introduced in Update 4 (2012-11-02)	Strength:40% / 50% / 75% / 80% (shield/health restoration) 25% / 30% / 40% / 50% (damage reduction)
			Duration:3 / 5 / 7 / 10 s (buff duration)
			Range:N/A
			Misc: 50 m (affinity range) 75% (damage reduction cap)

• Info
• Augment
• Tips & Tricks
• Bugs

Info

• Trinity expends 100 energy to invokes potent restorative and defensive power from within for herself and all allies within Affinity Range, restoring 40% / 50% / 75% / 80% of her and her allies' maximum Shields and Health and granting them 25% / 30% / 40% / 50% Damage Reduction for 3 / 5 / 7 / 10 seconds.
  • Cast time of 0.5 seconds is affected by Casting Speed.
  • Affinity Range is affected by  Mending Unity and Fosfor flares.
    • Affinity Range increase for Archwing and Landscape missions also apply to the range of Blessing.
    • Range is not affected by  Ability Range.
  • Damage reduction is capped at 75%, achievable with 150%  Ability Strength.
  • Affected allies include all Warframes, Companions, Eidolon Lures, summoned allied units such as Specters, allied Invasion units, Hostages, Kavor Defectors, Sortie and Arbitration Defense Operatives, and Defense Objects.
    • On Defense Objects, Blessing restores up to 500 health over 5 seconds which does not stack with similar restoration effects. The damage reduction is also capped at 50%.
• Blessing is uninterruptable. Even if Trinity enters bleedout while casting, the healing and damage resistance will still be granted.
• After life support has completely drained in Survival, losing all shields will prevent Blessing from restoring them similar to No Shields Nightmare mode.
• Does not restore or create overshields.
• While active, electricity-like energy waves will appear on all affected characters and companions; the color is affected by Trinity's energy color.
• Can be recast while active.
• In addition to disappearing when the buff timer reaches zero, Blessing will disappear for a brief moment when recasting.
• In addition to the above, Blessing disappears when the caster of the Blessing goes into Archwing mode.

Augment

Main article: Champion's Blessing

Champion's Blessing is a Warframe Augment Mod for  Trinity's  Blessing that increases their own primary and secondary Critical Chance based on the total percentage health healed, up to a +350% bonus.

Champion's Blessing

Tips & Tricks

• Blessing's damage reduction increases the effectiveness of her  Vampire Leech augment's overshields.
• Fosfor flares greatly increase affinity range and Blessing range by 200m. Try them in open world Landscapes.
•  Narrow Minded does not decrease the range of Blessing, but does impact Trinity's other abilities.
• 125% Ability Strength or higher allows Blessing to completely restore shields from 0% and reliably reset shield gate invulnerability.

Bugs

• Casting Blessing after a Nova casts Molecular Prime will cause the explosions to have your energy color.
• Blessing's healing doesn't consistently heal Kavor Defectors within affinity range. This bug seems to be more prominent when the Defectors are buffed by mote(s) from  Wisp's  Reservoirs

In addition, some Warframe Augment Mods may augment an ability with a mechanic tied to Affinity Range such as  Immolated Radiance.

Due to the sheer scale of Empyrean missions, this Range limit is ignored in regards to sharing Affinity.

Level Requirements

Pie chart illustrating the proportion of each level of the total affinity required to rank any item from unranked to 30.

To reach a given level from unranked, a Warframe or Sentinel needs 1000 × level² Affinity in total. A weapon needs half that amount.

To reach the same level from the previous level, a Warframe or Sentinel needs 1000 × (2 × level − 1) Affinity. Again, a weapon needs half that amount.

Cumulative Affinity Requirements From Rank 0

Level	Warframe/ Sentinel	Weapon	Level	Warframe/ Sentinel	Weapon
1	1,000	500	21	441,000	220,500
2	4,000	2,000	22	484,000	242,000
3	9,000	4,500	23	529,000	264,500
4	16,000	8,000	24	576,000	288,000
5	25,000	12,500	25	625,000	312,500
6	36,000	18,000	26	676,000	338,000
7	49,000	24,500	27	729,000	364,500
8	64,000	32,000	28	784,000	392,000
9	81,000	40,500	29	841,000	420,500
10	100,000	50,000	30	900,000	450,000
11	121,000	60,500	31*	—	480,500
12	144,000	72,000	32*	—	512,000
13	169,000	84,500	33*	—	544,500
14	196,000	98,000	34*	—	578,000
15	225,000	112,500	35*	—	612,500
16	256,000	128,000	36*	—	648,000
17	289,000	144,500	37*	—	684,500
18	324,000	162,000	38*	—	722,000
19	361,000	180,500	39*	—	760,500
20	400,000	200,000	40*	—	800,000

*Only for  Paracesis and Kuva Weapons. Note that this chart does not accurately reflect on total cumulative Affinity needed to rank up to 40 as you have to Forma the weapons five times in order to increase the max rank to 40.

The cumulative Affinity to rank for the Paracesis and Kuva Lich weapons including Forma cycles is as follows:

Total Cumulative Affinity Requirements From Rank 0

Level	Weapon
31	930,500
32	962,000
33	1,506,500
34	1,540,000
35	2,152,500
36	2,188,000
37	2,872,500
38	2,910,000
39	3,670,500
40	3,710,000

Enemy Affinity Scaling

Main article: Enemy Level Scaling

When you kill an enemy, the Affinity gained is shown on screen underlined in blue. The formula enemy affintiy scales at is as follows:

$\text{Affinity Multiplier} = 1 + 0.1425\times\text{Current Level}^{0.5}$

Note that the base affinity multiplied by the Affinity Multiplier value is also rounded down to a whole number, e.g. 62.7 affinity will be rounded down to 62.

Current affinity scaling.

Because the square root is taken of the enemy's current level, the actual benefit of facing high-level enemies is minimal. For example, killing a level 100 Napalm would give 1213 Affinity, less than twice the Affinity you would get from a level 3 Napalm (623). Therefore, "farming" Affinity is easier when killing many low-mid level enemies instead of taking on high level enemies.

For further reading on this subject, consider the Affinity and Affinity Density chapters of the Enemy Level Scaling article.

Farming Locations

These are based on opinions and may not be 100% true. These should be viewed as advice for farming Affinity until better facts are proven.

Starchart Missions

• Hydron is a common spot for general Affinity farming, with Helene being a more accessible alternative, albeit netting less Affinity overall due to the lower level of enemies.
• Oceanum can be stealthily speed ran by more advanced players, hacking all three data vaults without being detected to farm for Affinity for a particular weapon.
• Adaro can be used to level up weapons by taking advantage of a stealth Warframe or a Warframe that can force enemies to sleep (for example  Ivara,  Equinox, or  Loki) to gain Stealth Kill Affinity Bonus. If leveling up guns, make sure to equip a mod that reduces its noise level, such as  Hush or  Suppress, if the gun is not innately silenced.

Archwing Missions

• Salacia is arguably the best location for leveling up Archwings, Arch-guns, and Arch-melees.

Other Locations

• Dark Sector missions are scattered throughout the Star Chart. These provide bonus Affinity gain to specific weapon classes.

There are a total of 26 Dark Sector Missions.

Planet	Mission Name	Type	Credit Reward	Additional Credit Reward	Level	Resource Drop Chance Bonus	Affinity Bonus	Weapon Affinity Bonus
Earth	Coba	Defense	1,500	12,000	6 - 16	15%	12%	8% on Melee
Earth	Tikal	Excavation	1,500	12,000	6 - 16	15%	12%	8% on Melee
Venus	Malva	Survival	1,700	10,000	8 - 18	10%	10%	5% on Rifles
Venus	Romula	Defense	1,700	10,000	8 - 18	10%	10%	5% on Rifles
Mars	Wahiba	Survival	1,900	14,000	10 - 20	20%	15%	10% on Pistols
Mars	Kadesh	Defense	1,900	14,000	10 - 20	20%	15%	10% on Pistols
Ceres	Gabii	Survival	2,400	20,000	15 - 25	35%	26%	21% on Melee
Phobos	Memphis	Defection	2,400	16,000	15 - 25	25%	18%	13% on Melee
Phobos	Zeugma	Survival	2,400	16,000	15 - 25	25%	18%	13% on Rifles
Ceres	Seimeni	Defense	2,400	20,000	15 - 25	35%	26%	21% on Melee
Jupiter	Cameria	Survival	2,900	14,000	20 - 30	20%	15%	10% on Shotguns
Jupiter	Sinai	Defense	2,900	14,000	20 - 30	20%	15%	10% on Melee
Europa	Larzac	Defense	3,200	16,000	23 - 33	25%	18%	12% on Pistols
Europa	Cholistan	Excavation	3,200	16,000	23 - 33	25%	18%	12% on Melee
Uranus	Assur	Survival	3,400	16,000	25 - 35	25%	18%	13% on Melee
Saturn	Piscinas	Survival	3,500	14,000	26 - 36	20%	15%	10% on Shotguns
Saturn	Caracol	Defection	3,500	14,000	26 - 36	20%	15%	10% on Rifles
Uranus	Ur	Disruption	3,900	16,000	30 - 35	25%	18%	13% on Pistols
Neptune	Yursa	Defection	3,900	18,000	30 - 40	30%	23%	18% on Shotguns
Neptune	Kelashin	Survival	3,900	18,000	30 - 40	30%	23%	18% on Rifles
Pluto	Hieracon	Excavation	4,400	20,000	35 - 45	35%	30%	25% on Pistols
Eris	Zabala	Survival	4,400	18,000	35 - 45	30%	23%	18% on Pistols
Sedna	Amarna	Survival	4,400	16,000	35 - 45	25%	18%	13% on Rifles
Eris	Akkad	Defense	4,400	18,000	35 - 45	30%	23%	18% on Melee
Pluto	Sechura	Defense	4,400	20,000	35 - 45	35%	30%	25% on Rifles
Sedna	Sangeru	Defense	4,400	16,000	35 - 45	25%	18%	13% on Melee

• Sanctuary Onslaught and Elite Sanctuary Onslaught are the best locations for Affinity farming, spawning a high volume of enemies in a short amount of time. Normal Sanctuary Onslaught can be used for Warframe, weapon, and companion Affinity farming, but the elite version restricts access to only max ranked Warframes.
• Endless Void Fissure missions provide Affinity gain bonuses for the duration of the mission after opening a certain number of Void Relics, up to a maximum of 2x Affinity gain at 16 relics opened.

Notes

• Fully ranked equipment still accumulates Affinity even though the mission end screen does not display it. The total Affinity can be seen from a player's profile page.
• Enemies in the Simulacrum when killed do not reward Affinity.
• Mastery Rank Tests will not reward Affinity upon completion.

See Also

• Mastery Rank

Patch History

Update 24.6 (2019-04-04)

• Killing enemies with Operator abilities (Void Blast, Void Dash) will now grant the kill Affinity to the equipped Amp when possible.

Update 11.3 (2013-12-12)

Changes to Sentinel XP distribution

Based on reports and experiences with slow-ranking Sentinels, we have changed the way Experience is distributed amongst your feisty friends.

• Previously:
  • Sentinel kills would split experience between your Sentinel’s weapon and your Warframe, so your Sentinel itself would miss out on experience.
  • Weapon kills would split evenly between your Warframe and your Weapon (50% each), then a 42% bonus chunk of experience would be given to the Sentinel and its weapon (21% each). Note that the total XP earned was 142% of what you saw on the screen – now it will be 200%.
• Now:
  • Regular weapon kills divide experience evenly between your weapon and your Warframe (50% each).
  • Kills using a Warframe ability give all the experience to the Warframe (as before).
  • Sentinel weapon kills divide experience evenly between your Sentinel and its weapon (50% each).
  • Kills using a precept give all the experience to your Sentinel (as before).
  • Experience from other players (shared experience) is split evenly amongst your gear as follows: a quarter goes to your Warframe and a quarter goes to each of your weapons (25% each). If you have a sentinel equipped, a 100% bonus chunk of experience is split evenly between your Sentinel and its weapon (50% each).