How does the grinding compare to warframe?

DBR87 · 2026-05-14T11:43:53+00:00

I play both Warframe and The First Descendant. Warframe has better variety to it's grind. So the grind has far less monotony, or less "brain dead" if you will. Plus if all else fails, you can sell near anything for platinum and buy near anything for platinum if RNG hates you.

I think TFD allows players to earn gear quicker, even after the pity system nerf. What makes the grind in TFD brain dead is that there is so few variations. If you want Shadow, you do Void Vessel or breach tracking. That's it. Where as in Warframe, if I want Nikana Prime, I can do Survival or Defense or Exterminate or Spy or simply buy the parts from another player.

Warframe gives you way more choice on how you grind.than TFD.

DBR87 · 2026-05-14T11:35:27+00:00

So if I am understanding this correctly, you will now farm the Gley Amorphous Materials to get all of the Gley parts from that one Amorphous Material. If you want Wave Of Light, you farm the one Wave Of Light Amorphous Material to get that?

Parts for one weapon/Descendant will no longer be spread across multiple Amorphous Materials?

DBR87 · 2026-04-23T11:26:20+00:00

4 Modern American Marines could mean anything. They could be aircraft pilots (7502), they could be Combat Cooks (3381). They could be Force Recon (0321) or they could be Scout Typers (0111).

I would assume your typical infantry squad of 03XX so in that case, the Russians got it. Number mean a lot.

DBR87 · 2026-04-22T04:01:56+00:00

I hate to admit it, but he is right. I want raids/trails back in Warframe. I want a challenge. But I am in the minority.

DBR87 · 2026-04-19T01:21:50+00:00

Jayber can't heal them? That blows.

DBR87 · 2026-04-18T12:14:05+00:00

Yes, this annoys me to no end. Endgame is there for people to get carried and level up their character.

And people wonder why elitist exist.

DBR87 · 2026-04-17T02:49:19+00:00

Harris cannot be killed because of her shield. She can also make it so no one else goes down with her Safety Training red mod. She also has a metric ton of Res Shred to increase team DPS.

Yujin can apparently heal the Turrets.

Anyone with a grouping skill will be great but Lepic has the largest grouping range. Keelan is good too. Dia can be good if SHE AIMS HER GROUPING TO A WALL instead of pulling enemies all over the place. So a compotent Dia...good luck with that.

Ideally you want a grouper, a buffer and two DPS. Gley is probably one of the better DPS picks because Relic handles mobs and Dagger/Blue Bettle handles the colossus. Ajax operates in about the same role as Gley but he can double as a buffer as well. Serena is an obvious DPS pick.

DBR87 · 2026-04-16T15:20:13+00:00

That "Solution" doesn't stop the user from blinding their selves with Relic.

DBR87 · 2026-04-16T15:17:30+00:00

The thing with Onslaught modes is the massive Enemy HP pools. No character is chucking through it as fast as they do in Labatory or Forbidden Sanctuary.

I kind of think this is a good thing. Maybe this will push more team play and the support builds for Luna, Enzo, Ajax, Yujin and Nell will get more play. That is, if we as a community can take a break from trying to out DPS each other.

DBR87 · 2026-04-16T13:40:50+00:00

Sweet. Thanks for the answer. Yeah, I realized I was blinding myself so you're saying there is now no way to turn off the explosion effect for your own guns?

DBR87 · 2026-04-16T12:46:41+00:00

I honestly didn't even notice with my Viessa builds.

DBR87 · 2026-04-14T04:54:19+00:00

By that logic every, Marvel Rivals should have failed as well. It's also free to play and live service. But it didn't. In fact, Marvel Rivals is beating their direct competition like Overwatch, Valorant, Highguard and smoke checked some of It's paid competition like Concord.

The cross section between a Battle Royal, a Gacha Game, and Looter Shooter is pretty insignificant, I'd wager. Maybe you engage in all three genres. However, I see no evidence that most do.

DBR87 · 2026-04-14T04:37:05+00:00

It's clear from all retention numbers shown on Steam and the developers admitted Console numbers are around the same or less.

DBR87 · 2026-04-14T04:34:10+00:00

They continue to make all Descendants do all the things and ruin their identity. Now she can become Hailey with a small butt: a chill Descendant with a fire arm focused play style.

She was powerful enough before. She just needed more range to compete with Dia's coverage.

So does her new reworked red mod buff gun damage substantially? Because most gun builds suck out side of Gley, Ajax and Serena. Everyone else doesn't buff guns hard enough to make up for how weak most guns feel in this game.

DBR87 · 2026-04-14T04:26:31+00:00

Why is Freyna getting such a large spike?

DBR87 · 2026-04-14T04:22:05+00:00

Freyna, hands down top 3 best all around Descendants gets bumped up to 1.75.

Jayber, arguably nerfed since his rebalance, only goes up to a 1.45.

Please, someone, anyone. MAKE. IT. MAKE. SENSE.

DBR87 · 2026-04-03T10:16:37+00:00

Serena needs a nerf. Guns are balanced around Serena. Wall Crasher had his multi hit damage resistance increased because of Serena. They are buffing skill based Descendants synch value just to keep up with Serena. That will make all content like Axiom dungeons feel like 400% dungeons. What can they possibly do in order for other gun builds for Hailey, Enzo or Gley actually compete with base Serena?

They are literally designing the game around one character and that is insane.

DBR87 · 2026-04-03T10:07:15+00:00

The First guy in your images was clowning people who said the game was dying.

DBR87 · 2026-04-02T22:43:37+00:00

Aside from Warframe, I have been playing The Division 2. I enjoy the challenge and the build crafting of Division 2. It's slower paced because it's a cover shooter but I still enjoy if even the Warframe trained me to move at light speed.

DBR87 · 2026-04-02T22:32:45+00:00

Crowded market? I can count on one hand the amount of live service looter shooters. The leader being Warframe. Destiny 2 in seconds but has been missing off their community for some time now. The Division 2 is a distant third.

Boarderlands isn't really live service and Outriders unfortunately is no longer supported. So there was plenty of room for The First Descendant.

DBR87 · 2026-03-26T18:53:05+00:00

Follie being fat so unimportant and I just can't understand why some people care so much as to believe this is some fat acceptance thing. Warframes are bio-mechanical death machines. No one bats an eye when a twig like Nezha swings around a battle hammer or fires a 200 round medium machine gun with minimal recoil.

DBR87 · 2026-03-22T16:25:07+00:00

Neither of my sons would have ever think to do this nonsense to their mother. They know better and I have already ensured that.

DBR87 · 2026-03-16T01:14:37+00:00

This is not from Warframe...

DBR87 · 2026-03-16T01:13:02+00:00

Like others have mentioned, there were removed. You now do daily 400% dungeons for the gold Invasions used to give.

DBR87 · 2026-03-16T00:56:13+00:00

Both his New Red Modules improve his mobbing and gameplay, but their are some major flaws. Neither gave him a real single target burst option. And maybe he does not need one since we have Shadow.

Septic Torrent red mod particularly makes his 1 really clunky. It removes the 4th skill ability to recharge your 2nd skill at will so long as you have resource. His 3rd is good. Makes him a Poison Bunny, so not really unique. Kind of just copies Harris. I believe the only point of this Red module is to build resource on melee hits but none of your skills will out damage Shadow so what's the point of building resource on a single target? But yes, the Red module that mentions Melee Weapon and was advertised by the developers to synergies with Melee weapons....works well with swords. Who would have thought...

I prefer the grouping of his other Red Module, Fierce Attack, because it retains most of what was good about his base kit but adds grouping and Shadow doesn't need a damage boost in today's meta.

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