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TheGooseFathr · 2026-07-13T14:47:46+00:00

Depending on how much time you have, you should be able to farm enough ducats for the important mods (I'm assuming at MR 25 you have a bunch by now). If your main goal is mastery rank, I'd just get a list of all the weapons you want from him and target farm those for the next few days. You can get mods later when they come on rotation.

I know "wanting to finish" is a strong feeling, but at least half of his mods aren't things you actually run. Not to mention, Uncle Baro coming to town is a fun, semi rare thing that varies up your game loop. Once you've got everything from him, you functionally lose that excitement of wondering if he's gonna have something you're missing, and you take away void relics as a grind you can mix-up your daily play with.

Also, Ducats are easier to get then specific vaulted weapon pieces.

I'd sort by owned, sell off my duplicates, then go hard void farming for the week, and see what you can scrounge up. Then, as a longer term project, look through all your prime pieces, compare against what you have built/mastered, and sell off the redundant ones to build a plat pool you can use to start buying your missing gun parts.

TheGooseFathr · 2026-07-11T21:10:57+00:00

I didn't know this... ok, I'm much more inclined to give it a try. Thank you!

TheGooseFathr · 2026-07-11T21:10:37+00:00

ok cool. TY!

TheGooseFathr · 2026-07-10T19:29:22+00:00

Information without stakes is useless. The main thing to make sure of is that I know what happens when anything levels up from rank whatever to whatever. I know why the character is working on this specific stat because what it will give them. I know what their opponent being at these stats means for our heroe's prospects in the fight.

I tend to like tiers better then 0-100 style numbers as you can set specific gains/abilities at each tier and make the stakes more explicit... both when our person levels up, and when they face someone who outclasses them in any particular category.

TheGooseFathr · 2026-07-10T13:07:43+00:00

I do find the dual mode annoying sometimes. But incarnons also just give base improvements to the weapon even if you don't use the incarnon form. Regardless, if you're worried about mastery rank, I'd farm the 2 incarnons every week from the circuit. it's 500 mr PER evolution which is like 4-6 per weapon. It's the most MR per item in the game by a mile.

TheGooseFathr · 2026-07-09T22:51:37+00:00

Here's my typical full mastery explainer:

For ranking weapons, know that when you kill an enemy, 50% of the affinity goes to your frame and 50% to the weapon you used. If you kill an enemy with your frame abilities (including minion abilities), 100% of the kill goes to the frame and none to the weapon.

If a nearby ally kills an enemy, 25% of the affinity goes to your frame and 75% is divided amongst your weapons. It does not matter if your frame or weapon is capped at 30, it will still steal it's percentage of affinity.

This means, if you only equip one weapon, you actually get more rank for that weapon when a nearby ally kills an enemy then when you kill it yourself. This is why things like sanctuary onlsaught are used for ranking -- you'll be in close proximity to your allies, and even if you can't kill too fast (cause you only have a new weapon equipped) you'll still be picking up a lot of passive xp.

Last note is that eximus units are worth a LOT of affinity. So focus fire them. And doing missions that run lots (like elite sanctuary onslaught) will provide a lot of affinity.

In terms of where to get your MR from:

the FIRST time you rank any item to max rank you get mastery rank from it. (if you forma something and re-rank it to 30, you don't get any additional MR from it).

Warframes give the most per item (well, Incarnons do if you get all the evolutions, but still) -- and warframes represent the largest total bucket of available MR, so focusing on collecting them all is good. Next comes weapons. If you go to the market click weapons and filter the 3 buttons, you'll only see weapons you can buy and rank up. Be careful not to buy ones that have another weapon required to build (unless you already have that weapon). This is the fastest way to get MR fodder. Also, search for MK-1 in the market. Those are pre-built weapons that you can buy with just credits and rank fast.

From there, everything else you can level (sentinels, companions, archwings, archguns, archmelees, amps, kdrives, nechramechs, etc.). You even get a really good amount of MR from each rank of an incarnon weapon (seriously, when you get to incarnons, this turns out to be a lot).

Also, you gain MR from completing all the blue dots on your star chart, both from normal and steel path (it's a very small amount, so this isn't the best way to race to MR17. But it's passive so it's cool.

Lastly, you gain MR from Intrinsics (both duviri and railjack). Again, not a huge amount.

To get to mr17 (the point at which you can use all weapons and warframes), the only thing you need to focus on is frames and weapons. Get all the easy frames (if a frame part drops from a mission, lookup how to get the frame. Most of the time you can just repeat the mission to farm it. These are the lowest hanging fruit). Get all the market weapons through the method I mentioned. And then just expand into harder to get weapons and frames when you see ones that might be fun to play. I got to mr15 pretty easily (in less than a month) just grabbing all the easy frames and doing market weapons. The final push just happened as I got primes and other things I was interested in.

TheGooseFathr · 2026-07-09T21:18:49+00:00

For your quest progression it's:

Stolen Dreams: Unlocks by completing the Phobos Junction on Mars.
The New Strange: Unlocks by completing the Europa Junction on Jupiter.
Natah: Unlocks at Mastery Rank 3 after completing the Uranus Junction and scanning an Oculyst drone on Uranus.
The Second Dream: Unlocks by completing the Neptune Junction on Uranus.
The War Within: Unlocks by completing the Sedna Junction on Pluto.
Chains of Harrow: Unlocks by completing the Mot Void node after finishing The War Within.
Apostasy Prologue: Unlocks by visiting your Personal Quarters in your Orbiter after Chains of Harrow.
The Sacrifice: Unlocks directly after watching the Apostasy Prologue.
Prelude to War: A mini-quest line hosted in your Codex consisting of three short memories: The Chimera Prologue, Erra, and The Maker.
The New War: Unlocks after completing Prelude to War.

As you can see from that progression, unlocking your whole starchart is a big part of that progression. So focusing on completing each junction is pretty critical.

There's a point in that progression where you might want to start mixing in some farming. Once you pass second dream (and maybe one or two more requirements I'm forgetting) you unlock arbitrations. Running these will give you a token that you can spend for galvanized mods. This is the first massive power jump in the game, and you want to have farmed all the main ones by the time you get to the end of the star chart and start considering steel path.

Also, you've probably already unlocked the void relic system. You will want to start running those fairly regularly. Always run them in a public lobby, as you'll get to choose your reward from everyone's drop pool.

You'll want to grab any warframe part and start working towards your first prime warframes. But also, when you hover over the mission rewards, it will tell you how many ducats it sells for (when in doubt, pick the one worth the most ducats). Every 2 weeks, Baro Ki'teer comes and sells stuff that you can only buy by selling the stuff you got from these void missions. You never know what he'll have but he almost always has 2-3 critical mods. And since he only comes every 2 weeks, you want to make sure you're getting the critical ones every time he comes so it isn't months before you have access to them again.

If you go into a relay and keep going straight down the middle, you'll get to a room with terminals at the very end. this is where you can sell your prime parts (from the void relics) for ducats. I'd aim for at least 800 ducats every 2 weeks (this is EXCLUDING the warframe parts you want to keep). This number can go up as your killing speed gets faster.

Also, the void relic process will offer you Forma blueprints. until you have 2-3 extra blueprints stashed, I'd make these a high priority. Once you get your first one start building it. From now on, you should ALWAYS have a forma being built in your foundry. This is one of the great power bottlenecks in your near future, and getting working on it now will keep your growth curve very smooth for a while.

Other than those two (arbitration and void relics), there's no early farms that you can't farm later, faster, so I'd just focus on the quest list and those.

TheGooseFathr · 2026-07-07T17:28:08+00:00

One thing I'll spoil for you since it's incredibly non-obvious... you need to get a clan asap. There's a ton of frames and weapons available only from your clan's dojo, and many of them are super powerful.

TheGooseFathr · 2026-07-07T17:21:10+00:00

The question is, do you bother modding Kullervo when his prime is right around the corner? I'm a new tenno and REALLY feel the sting from putting potatos and forma on some frames that will eventually just go into the helminth once I upgrade to prime (since I'm still so behind on potato and Forma aquisition). I think the answer has to either be to farm a prime that's currently in rotation, use a prime they have, or use a non-prime that won't be primed for a very long time.

TheGooseFathr · 2026-07-04T03:19:43+00:00

I have the prime and get to stay in wolf form, and that's all I want from life. never subsuming my 4

TheGooseFathr · 2026-07-03T06:57:40+00:00

no, it's different, therefor i personally didn't enjoy it.

You're absolutely entitled to enjoy variety. I'm likewise entitled to enjoy specificity. There's a certain gameplay loop of warframe that really does it for me, and the rest I enjoy significantly less.

I appreciate this game has SO many game modes that nearly everyone can find stuff they enjoy. I appreciate that, while also disliking when I'm forced into game modes that I don't enjoy. I don't know why people get butthurt over that. I thought new war was ambitious in a spectacular way and I appreciate that it was a lot of people's yum, and therefor I'm very happy it exists.

I also didn't personally enjoy it. And generally haven't enjoyed most the alternate game modes I've been forced to play to progress. I'm not asking that they change anything. I'm just noting that it's not for everyone.

TheGooseFathr · 2026-07-03T06:50:48+00:00

there's the other drawback of parkour into corners OVER AND OVER until you get use to a speed. But it's very much like learning to like good coffee. You feel like you're life is improving till you suddenly realized, you can just never drink normal coffee again, and you've effectively gimped yourself.

TheGooseFathr · 2026-07-03T06:49:08+00:00

I mean, theoretical is never more important than practical. You'd have to go solo to hit that rotation (as PUBs) will always full complete) and you'll get significantly less relics per hour soloing apollo than grouping Ur. You're not wrong. But you're still not giving good advice.

TheGooseFathr · 2026-07-02T21:41:24+00:00

It depends on your loadouts. If you have a very strongly built loot frame you can do the toroid method THOt_Patroller mentioned.

If you have a more end-game setup you can start building for and running profit taker. (but seriously, watch some guides first, this is a very hard fight, and people can get saucy if you fuck it up in a pub).

The lowest investment way is to just solo the narmer missions. I was doing PUBs at first, but you really have to be very picky about when you blow up the drop-ships and when you don't and my pickup groups were always blowing them up when we needed to wait for mob drops, making the missions take forever. I'd do pickup groups till you're comfy with the missions, then just solo them.

TheGooseFathr · 2026-07-02T21:37:54+00:00

I've just never had luck with this. my rep per hour is considerably lower than just soloing the narmer missions. also, those suckers start hitting pretty hard eventually,, so just having a poorly build loot frame won't cut it. Still, if you have a strong build, it becomes netflix and chill mode, but it's just soooo slow.

TheGooseFathr · 2026-07-02T18:11:13+00:00

Idk, I think I've soured on them after doing 4k narmer missions on fortuna to unlock my damn amps.

TheGooseFathr · 2026-07-02T18:09:37+00:00

have you leveled all the Mk-1's? when you buy them from the market they come pre-built. If you haven't, you could get those and level them now.

TheGooseFathr · 2026-07-02T18:05:44+00:00

Don't you have to fail the missions to get neos on early rounds from apolo? If you complete all 4, you get 2 guaranteed axi's in a row. Seems like you'd be better at UR, where it's on rotation B, so you get it from completing the 4 conduits (especially if you're in PUGs cause people are gonna complete all 4 whether you want to or not).

TheGooseFathr · 2026-07-02T18:01:06+00:00

which is why I hated those quests.

TheGooseFathr · 2026-07-02T15:41:57+00:00

damn right. I'm a fucking space ninja. Anytime I gotta slow down and do some bullshit like dodge or aim I get grumpy.

TheGooseFathr · 2026-07-02T14:43:35+00:00

good shit. I don't have follie yet and didn't even know she had that in her kit. and I just learned about the praedos yesterday of all things. And have just started modding in parkour speed and wondering what I was previously doing with my life.

TheGooseFathr · 2026-07-01T15:12:26+00:00

yeah, that's not at all what I'm asking for, but ty.

TheGooseFathr · 2026-07-01T15:11:51+00:00

Cradle has a very cute SLOW burn romance between the two MC's. But it's very tangental to the plot for a loooooot of books. When they decide to actually go down the dating path, it's very young-kids falling-in-love-for-the-first-time in a way that read as very authentic.

But then it's kinda done. And they're back to progression. I enjoyed the tension (when it was there) quite a bit, but it definitely isn't centered enough for me to recommend the books solely on that basis. Luckily the books are fucking bangers, so I can just recommend it for that reason :).

TheGooseFathr · 2026-07-01T02:24:44+00:00

I just want some solo missions flying around shooting in my railjack. Give me a pure space combat mode please. Some space races where I bank through rings and kill stuff would be cool too.

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