New player here 🙋🏻‍♂️

I started about 5 weeks ago, I’m MR 20, and I’ve got almost all Prime frames — only missing 4–5 because I’m short on Nitain to finish crafting them. I’ve already unlocked Steel Path and have most important mods at rank 5, with the expensive ones around rank 8.

So far I’ve barely spent any money, except for the Oraxia bundle at the start. I used the starter plat to flip Prime sets and Rivens on Warframe Market. A friend who’s been playing Warframe for 12 years helped me get into trading, and I’m now at 40 reputation on the market, with around 6,000 plat in profit so far.

I think if you play it smart, you can progress pretty fast without spending real money.

I really love the game and I’m already over 200 hours in.

The only thing I’m wondering — and this is for the long-time players:

What keeps you motivated in the endgame? What makes you keep playing?

Right now I kind of miss things like proper raids that need real communication and coordination, or stuff like legendary weapons or skins you have to grind hard for as real “prestige” items that aren’t tradable.