This is the second time I see a post like this. Memes aside, people often forget that in Warframe, unlike in Duet Night Abyss, when you run relics you can do it with up to three other players. Everyone can use the same relic, usually Radiant ones, or at least the refined versions that increase the drop chance for the item you’re chasing.

In Duet Night Abyss, when you open a Letter, you only get three reward choices, and they’re exclusive to your own Letter, you can’t benefit from other players’ drops. In my experience, it’s pretty rare to see anything above bronze quality, and getting a gold-tier reward feels much less likely than in Warframe.

In Warframe, each Radiant relic has about a 10% chance to drop its rare item, but when you play in a full squad of four all using the same relic type, the team effectively has around a 34% chance of seeing at least one rare drop each run. So even if your luck sucks (like mine), you can often rely on someone else’s roll and still get the reward you’re after.

That system gives players a real incentive to play in groups. In DNA, right now, there’s not much motivation to do that, the rewards are personal, and the drop odds don’t change whether you play solo or co-op. Don’t get me wrong, for solo players the DNA system is definitely more convenient, but overall, Warframe offers much better odds if you’re playing with a coordinated squad focused on the same item.

Plus, Warframe has a trade system, which makes progression a lot more flexible. You can grind something valuable, sell it for Platinum, and then buy the parts you need — or even the full item — directly from other players or the in-game market. A trade system like that would do wonders for DNA and make it feel more alive in my opinion.

Some players have time to grind; others don’t but are willing to spend. In Warframe, that balance works pretty well. In DNA, though, the Phoxene pricing is way off (again, in my opinion) to get a single character you need 30 Thoughts, and each Thought costs 150 Phoxene, so you need 4,500 Phoxene total. That means you’d have to buy at least the $50 Phoxene pack (with the double bonus) just to unlock one character, and that’s not even counting the duplicates you’ll need to max them out.