had to wiki the new strange mission. this arid lancers are gonna shit me. Ivara time.

Yeah, those were the spy missions that got to me a bit as I have no stealth frames. Funnily enough, I played them again this week with a friend who's started playing again and I breezed the sections I took on.

I looked at them, I couldn't work out how to pay to enter.

Just did mr6 and have credits. Will check resources. Cheers. Lots of cool choices there.

(of course I had to look up how to do the challenge because it was terribly explained.)

In fairness, being able to practice at a relay is a nice touch though.

Facewon wrote:

(of course I had to look up how to do the challenge because it was terribly explained.) In fairness, being able to practice at a relay is a nice touch though.

It really is, and has meant I've been able to do them all first go. Realising I could use cyphers on the hacking challenge (5?) was a cheese I was very happy with.

Good stuff. You'll also get a couple of melee weapons for completing certain upcoming Story Quests, one of them is okay but the other is very good. There's also a couple of Warframes you can either get outright, or get all the blueprints needed to build them from other upcoming Story Quests. 

Let me know when you're ready to start The Second Dream. You can play through the whole thing in an hour and there is a really, really, annoying section early on, but the final 20 mins are epic and unlike anything Warframe had done 'til then.

My approach is pretty much the same. I do tend to stick to the early planets when grinding low level gear, but once it gets to a certain point you can take it anywhere.

It's worth noting that half of your XP goes to the killing weapon and half to the Warframe, but if you get kills with your abilities all the XP goes to the Warframe. Also, being near an ally when they get a kill gives you XP as well, so loading into public missions is well worth it. Like you say, endless mission are great, as are Nightmare missions. Plus they're good fun. 


And I really want Harrow. And Loki. I've got some of their parts, but I'm gonna have to get my grind on for the rest.

Make sure to scan some of those weird blue-ish alien-looking drones that appear on Uranus. You'll need those scans to progress with the Natah story quest, the precursor to The Second Dream. 

But yeah, if you don't like a particular weapon just use it for MR then sell it for credits. You'll get the slot back so it's no loss.

Failed my MR 9 test. That's my fist fail, feelsbadman. 

It's a pretty simple stealth test to take down patrolling guards, but you have no abilities and are restricted to melee weapons. Unfortunately, the random as fuck stealth-kill procs made this by far the most frustrating test yet. 

I ran the practice, breezed it. But in the main test I'd used all of my spare chances on the first two bloody guards! 

Oh well. I'll try again tomorrow. Might practice with different weapons in the meantime.

Wow, those Chephalon daily things are a weapon grinding goldmine. Got New twin daggers, equipped them yesterday, at 23 today after 4 missions.

Talking of Fortuna, Face, if you haven't started on the whole modular weapon thing (kitgun secondary and primary weapons from Fortuna, and zaw melee weapons from Cetus) it's well worth getting into. 

Many of them are stupidly good and can be built to suit your needs. Grindy as hell, but hey, you expected that.

Edit: Honestly, I think the Warframe grind might just be the most rewarding I've experienced in this type of game. From literally every single item you pick up or get as a reward being hella useful, to the combination of the minute-to-minute gameplay and procedural tilesets all but negating the staleness of doing the same thing over and over. This could change with time, obvs, and it's far from perfect - but right now I'm loving it.

Those open-world bounties are a pain to solo, so much open ground for enemies to attack whatever you're supposed to be defending. I've barely touched them and instead I'm using other methods to gain Standing. 

On the Plains of Eidolon I'm shooting animals with the tranq gun. Successful captures reward a decent amount of Standing, and nighttime sees a shit-tonne of wild kavats come out. You'll fill your daily Standing limit in 10m mins.

For Fortuna I'm selling gems I get from mining. It's not as quick as the animal conservation on the PoI, but it beats doing those bounties. Caves are the best place to find a concentrated amount of minerals, and in 15 to 20 mins you'll have enough to sell and hit your daily Standing cap, with some in reserve for putting towards building those kitgun parts.

Nice. 

Just doing sword only missions on Uranus. So much lols. And Harrow chain freeze ability is basically all you need to make everything easy.

Got 2 out of 3 perfect on the Spy Mission first time.

Got me a blue drone too. So Natah is started.

MR 9 passed! Then I got jumped by the Stalker in a Defence mission while levelling my Necros Prime and weapons... Got the fucker though. Necros' Shadows of the Dead ability let me summon the ghosts of vanquished enemies to keep the attackers away from the cryopod while I dealt with the Stalker. Thankfully even a low-level Fulmin is still an absolute beast of a gun, and the "bullet-jump away, shoot, bullet-jump away again" tactic just about worked in the close quarters of an Earth defence mission.

That's three for three on the Stalker now. No weapon drops yet though. Fingers crossed for Dread next time, I really want that bow!

Edit: Again! That's two missions in a row the Stalker's come for me. He did drop the Blind Justice nikana stance mod again, so I can sell that on the market for plat at least.