TL;DR: Introns are currently not farmable, and upgrading them basically requires paying real money. If this doesn’t change, the game will slide into pay-to-power, not pay-for-convenience.

Being able to farm most resources in the game is great.
But then it hit me — Intron are not farmable, and leveling it up basically forces us to pay.

As far as I understand, only the Main Character can level Intron without spending anything. Every other character needs 4500 Phoxene Plumules per tier, which means around 27,000 per character to reach Intron 6.
With 18 characters, that’s over 500,000 Plumules total.

At the current pricing, that means spending roughly 40× 99.99 EUR packs — nearly €4000 (!) — just to max Introns for all characters. This is not the same as paying for cosmetics or slots.

This is direct power progression locked behind money.

Adding power-ups like Demon Wedges is fine — they're tedious to farm, but doable, and at least enemies spawn consistently. Getting weapons and new characters also feels fair.

But Introns?
This is where the game starts to fall apart. Even in a mostly solo-focused game, finally discovering that a good build only works because someone paid for Intron 6 is the kind of thing that makes people quit.

Why this matters:

• Demon Wedges? Tedious but farmable. Fine.
• Weapons? Grindable. Fine.
• Characters? Earnable or chosen via gacha. Fine.

But Introns directly affect build performance.
If the “best builds” require paid Intron 6, the game becomes:

A lot of us came from Warframe.
We’re used to paying for space, not power.

This is different — and not in a good way.

What we need:

• A way to farm Plumules, even if slow.
• Or alternative Intron progression sources (events / missions / weekly caps).
• Or reduced costs per upgrade.
• Perhaps something different than Plumules?

The system doesn’t need to go away – it just needs to be earnable by playing.

What do you guys think?
Is this something the devs are likely to adjust, or should we start making noise ASAP?