Warframe

[MadMaxHellfire]

nova + ember and everything instadies in t3.

 

[Damned Registrations]

Eh, I'd feel like a cheater getting carried like that though, even just randomly pairing up with some higher level dude that happens to be doing the alert or whatever I'm on feels scummy.

Must be stronk, farm everything solo, crush game, crush enemies, crush spare time.

Incidentally, since I maxed rank Volt already (who was so obviously the best starter choice I feel bad for anyone that didn't pick him, static let me kill Vor in the tutorial when I saw him, LOL) I'm making Rhino now, since he was stupidly easy to farm and seems good for solo play. Finally got a shotgun damage mod to drop too, so I at last have a decently damaging weapon again for my level. Was annoying having to melee everything if I wanted to do double digit damage without dancing around for static or burn energy.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

Volt already (who was so obviously the best starter choice I feel bad for anyone that didn't pick him

all those who chose excalibur are laughing at you.

 

[Damned Registrations]

That's ok, I can't hear them anyways because I have 50% more run speed so I'm so far ahead I'm out of earshot.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

The main thing you end up needing platinum for (whether acquired through dosh or judaism) is slots for weapons and warframes, since your Mastery rank only increases from the initial leveling of stuff (re-leveling after applying Forma to add polarities doesn't count). Not to mention some like Mirage can only be acquired once, so not throwing them in the trash bin is preferred.

 

[Gerrard]

Back in my days we didn't have a tutorial. Even a shitty one.
I'm glad I'll never have to grind for Barrel Diffusion or Serration again though.

 

[Bliblablubb]

Eh, I'd feel like a cheater getting carried like that though, even just randomly pairing up with some higher level dude that happens to be doing the alert or whatever I'm on feels scummy.

I know that feeling. When I started playing I got carried through hell and back, getting drowned with frame parts in the process. But boss cutscenes never really triggered and I had no idea what was going on. I also couldn't do alerts on my own because I had unlocked pretty much no sectors. Gets a little depressing when you have to steamroll though low level content, just to unlock possiburu future alerts...
And I got marked for death by somefag called St4lk0r for no reason. I didn't even fight his first form, because I had already done 2nd dream before he even spawned the first time.

I still haven't cleared planets beyond Earth/Mars/Jewpiter/Saturn come to think of it...

 

[Sykar]

nova + ember and everything instadies in t3.

Nova is great fun and my main though I have taken a break for a year now not sure if I should pick it up a little again. Her first ability sucks though.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

you use nova for her 2, to cleanse a corridor from grineer, and 4, to cleanse everything from everything.
i can't even remember what her 3 is :V

 

[Sykar]

Wormhole/Teleport. Pretty nice to travel around with it.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

oh, yes, one of the most annoying troll powers ever.

 

[Endemic]

If you've got Flow and\or Streamline, that helps.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

loki is a specialist. it's the only frame you want to bring in spy missions and its other powers are terrific but only in very specific situations/builds.
then one day you learn how to be permanently invisible and slaughter everything without them even noticing your presence, but that's another story.

 

[Endemic]

loki is a specialist. it's the only frame you want to bring in spy missions and its other powers are terrific but only in very specific situations/builds.
then one day you learn how to be permanently invisible and slaughter everything without them even noticing your presence, but that's another story.

Disarm is great for CC, especially against grineer with the syndicate mod that procs radiation.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

IMO Overextended and Stretch are before Irradiating Disarm in mod priority for Loki. Disarming moar and at a larger radius is better than making them ineffectively hit each other with sticks for a while too.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Well the process is oldest first and only one at a time, so I think next would be Nyx Prime if they retire a frame and two other other items like they have with recent new Prime releases.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

So should I be worried about prime warframes becoming unobtainable? That seriously sucks

no.
prime equipment is just a bit slightly, almost unnoticeably better than standard versions (except for scindo prime and maybe another piece or two). prime stuff is more a status symbol than anything, you don't need it at all, there's plenty of extremely non-prime powerful stuff you can obtain elsewhere: sancti tigris, synoid simulor, dragon nikana, sonicor, staticor, rakta ballistica...
enjoy the game, don't chase names.

 

[Damned Registrations]

How good/important is the clan stuff? I'm rather enjoying my solo play right now, just fucking shit up at my own pace, is it viable to just never join a clan or will you be cut off from something essential eventually?

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

a whole lot of powerful stuff comes from clan laboratories.
there're no clan activities, like group pvp and such. it's all individuals enjoying their own games with a common money/materials sink.
also having clan and alliance chat channels could spice up all those lonely nights in draco.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

And we've got like three (IIRC) small Clans for Codexers that have all the stuff available and no obligations.

 

[Damned Registrations]

So after shopping around a bit, I'm considering settling on the Latron to dump my forma and catalyst into- it seems to have amazing ammo efficiency compared to anything else I can get until rank 7 or or so, which is pretty useful for me since I like to play solo, I like survival/defense/etc. missions that ramp up over time, and I like fighting shit out of my depth. All of which eat into your ammo reserves.

Latron aside, I definitely want my weapon to be a rifle, because before I stopped playing online, I did get a few nice rare augs for it- the one that adds punch through and the ammo mutation. I also got both the toxin and cold elemental augs so I can make it viral and wreck some fucking grineer while I farm for ash parts. Punch through seems fairly expensive but it's a godsend vs the grineer, annoying fucks with their shields and playing popamole all the time. Also I found a great spot on one of their ships where they run into the line of fire like lemmings and I could easily get triple shots off on them all day. Even without the mod I was able to replen my life support just from drops nearly indefinitely. At least until the fuckers with shields showed up.

Thoughts?

Edit: Actually the Zhuge seems like it'd be more ideal but I doubt my odds of getting 2 argon crystals any time soon.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

You can handle Grineer Shield Lancers by shooting at the eye-slit (I *think* the hitbox is a tiny bit above the actual slit, but it might just be that I'm not seeing it right) of the shield or around the shield's edges. I tend to leave Punch-Through mods only to bows because the Shred mod (Nightmare mode reward, fairly common) gives both Fire Rate and Punch-Through, which I find a good combination for a single shot travel-time projectile weapon when Fire Rate improves draw charge up too (since you don't want to waste arrows to non-maxed draws either), or with Opticor (lazor cannon). Most of the time weapons either have inherent punch-through or AoE qualities and thus don't need the mod or punch-through can be replaced with just shooting more accurately and more damage or other mods can be slapped on the slot instead.

But seriously, you don't want to put the potato and Forma on a Latron. Latron is too weak for that. Latron is a semi-auto rifle that has lower damage than many proper fully automatic weapons in the game, even before weapons with superior crit potential are factored in. IMO the only purpose for Latron is as building component for Tiberon, which is a burst rifle that fires three shots that each deal more damage than Latron. However, Tiberon will require Mastery Rank 4, but you kind of want to acquire more MR anyway to unlock access to more weapons and you get it naturally as a side effect of first-time-clears of mission nodes and gear levels.

I do recommend looking into the Tiberon myself though, it's a very solid weapon and if we discount the anniversary-gift-only Dex Sybaris it's IMO the best Burst Rifle to get (also has a good look and really sweet reload animation). If it's a rifle you want in more generic terms and not specifically a semi-auto rifle, my own personal go-to assault rifle is Soma Prime, which is more like a long range and highly accurate light machine gun than an assault rifle though, but I prefer a gun that combines high DPS, accurate marksmanship, and huge magazine size into one stylist package (the fact that with Madurai passive activated it goes full Paul Verhoeven on anything made of meat is just a great bonus).

EDIT: Zhuge is a fine weapon too, and getting two Argon Crystals isn't that hard (besides, you have to get two in one go anyway, since Argon Crystals have half-life decay every server day rotation). Just tag along to farm some Void and you will inevitably have more than two of them at the end of an hour or two.

Anyway, but if you wanted specifically semi-auto rifles which are not sniper rifles, the selection is actually fairly scant. I suppose one could count something like Opticor to be one, but actual semi-automatic rifles are limited to just Latron and Grinlok IIRC.

 

[Damned Registrations]

I was considering the Tiberon as well but wasn't sure if it'd be worth it, since it costs a Forma anyways and only does ~10% more damage per bullet, I could probably squeek out more than that out of the extra mod points by using the thing on the Latorn anyways. Maybe I'll try holding out for the Zhuge though. I do have a bunch of tower keys saved up, and recently found out about the treasure rooms, so maybe I'll go looking for those and hope to get lucky. I don't really want to rely on the multiplayer to progress though, both because it makes things too easy and because it makes the missions less fun if I have to worry about keeping up with everyone else instead of being able to explore or whatever.

I noticed the Soma myself while browsing their stats, it seems potentially amazing. Those crit modifiers are insane.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

forget snipers. they don't work. warframe is a fast and close-quarter environment, sniper rifles have no place there. ditch the latron.
edit: sorry, i was thinking of the lanka, not the latron.

also i might be spoiled by all the overpowered weapons but i felt the tiberon seriously underwhelming. if you really need to go for a burst rifle, i'd chose a harpak. maybe it's not the most powerful weapon around but it's fun, satisfying to use, and can ragdoll enemies for some funny chain reactions.

 

[Hoaxmetal]

Some Prime is the best, uguuuuu~