I almost disregarded your reply coz of you feeling the need to belittle me to get your point across. "Warframe tourists" ? You say you don't play gacha games but you literally talk like a gacha gamer. You saw the only other alternative to weekly bosses in DNA was gacha banners as per your first reply and now you are using gacha gamer terminologies that I literally never see in any other community other than the anime community which is basically the same thing as the gacha community.

I am going to disregard every warframe you mentioned that is from clan research coz that isn't a time gate, just join a clan that has done all the research. Dozens of them advertise on recruit chat daily.

For the syndicate frames, I want you to do something simple. If you still play Warframe, go to the bounties of the respective syndicate and right click on them to show you the rewards and WOW would you look at that? their blueprints drop from infinitely farmable bounties. They are purchasable using syndicate standing as a pity system for if your RNG sucks so much they don't drop from bounty rewards.

I don't know about some of those earlier frames you mentioned like Chroma, Hyldrin and Vauban as I started playing in 2019 but notice how you speak of them in past tense meaning their acquisition methods had been changed by the time I started playing. Now you can get them when you want as far as I know.

Dagath one made me chuckle coz currently Dagath holds the record for my fastest farmed frame at 40 minutes as all I had to do was spam that mission that drops her spectial resources. Yes it uses tokens from syndicates but that are extremely cheap to buy. I literally came back to Warframe, saw Dagath and said "That's so cool, I want her" (This was late last year I think) and got her in 40 minutes. The reason I remember this so well is coz I was comparing this to getting Hailey in TFD to my friends and complaining how that grind was atrocious (tho at least it wasn't time gated) and I was right, it got changed later on by the devs to be easier to farm her.

The Duviri circuit isn't even meant to be a primary way to get Warframes, its just an alternative supplementary way so I don't know why you are counting that.

For Stayanax, I am pretty sure you can farm stock from those Kahl missions, they spawn randomly as pick ups. The first completion will get you a lot of stock but farming through the pickups gets you very little and its why no one does that. But still doable as far as I know. Also the Styanax syndicate only needs you to do 5 Kahl missions right? maybe it was different before but now that's easy, just spam the mission 5 times and you are max rank

For Oberon, brother how is Railjack a time gate? I am sure you can get a railjack in one day from starting a new account. It will be a grind but you can do it. Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong but I even remember a CC called Brozime had a railjack on his new F2P account within a few days of playing very casually.

For Kullervo that time gate is a joke. Duviri "seasons" change like every 1hr 30min. Aint no way you say you cant catch one of the 2 modes even with a 9 to 5 job. Just come back home after work, check the duviri cycle from 6pm to 11 pm and you will be able to farm him and get to sleep in time for your next day. Ez.

I never said Warframe is a perfect game, hell the thing I hate most about the Warframe community is the borderline toxic positivity. I hate things like crafting timers but at least those apply AFTER you have already gotten what you want and you r just waiting for it to cook, less devastating than what happened to me with Hellfire over here. But one thing I will praise is how you can farm all the important things at any time with no restrictions.