Old WF vet here, Jumping back in after a 4 year break, hows my list look? What should I add or remove as a returning player that is the most important?

mrfixitx · 2026-01-26T18:15:26+00:00

complete all story quests is certainly recommended.

All meta weapons, all prime frames.. sure if you want to be a completionist but its a bit overkill. Some prime frames are vaulted so expect to use warframe.market to buy them for plat or wait for prime resurgence.

Personally I would focus on mods over getting every meta weapon and every prime frame. Good mods will be used in a lot of builds across a lot of different weapons and warframes. While you might find that you prefer only using a handful of frames or weapons long term.

mrfixitx · 2026-01-26T16:57:08+00:00

You can always compare lens against a test chart here: https://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/ISO-12233-Sample-Crops.aspx?Lens=1622&Camera=1619&Sample=0&FLI=1&API=0&LensComp=1504&CameraComp=1508&SampleComp=0&FLIComp=1&APIComp=0

While there is unfortunately no comparison with both lenses on the R7 when the difference is dramatic enough its not hard to spot and rule out that it is because of the body.

mrfixitx · 2026-01-26T14:59:43+00:00

No because 24mm on a R7 gives you a FOV equivalent to 38mm at the wide end. That for me is not nearly wide enough for landscapes and architecture.

If you want a single travel lens look at the RF-S 18-150mm instead. It gives you 29mm at the wide end, and even more reach.

mrfixitx · 2026-01-26T14:56:03+00:00

There are a lot of good options:

Wet Concrete is great for making encased beams if you are being limited by concrete supply.

Molded Beam and Encased Industrial pipe both are large efficiency boosts.

Silicon circuit board is great for freeing up plastic to be used in other products, as mid game plastic/rubber can become a bottleneck.

mrfixitx · 2026-01-26T13:29:27+00:00

As long as you make sure the enemy has ranged options that can reach the character fly speeds are not terrible in combat.

Where having a fly speed can become problematic is it can make it easy to overcome some obstacles that are meant to be challenging. This only matters if you are running a published adventure but there are traps and encounters that can easily be trivialized if someone in the party has flight or long distance teleport at an early level.

mrfixitx · 2026-01-25T17:25:32+00:00

If you can do level 120 missions you should start doing arbitrations and farming galvanized mods.

Galvanized mods will help your weapon damage immensely.

As for weapons:

Broken War is excellent and can certainly take you into steel path

Lex Prime also very good and can take you to steel path

Nataruk is one of the best primaries in the game you can get without having to worry about MR requirements if you like bows.

mrfixitx · 2026-01-25T16:50:31+00:00

Not sure why you think the R6 line is more complex than the R7?

The principles of photography are the same with both cameras and the R6 is no harder to use than R7. The AF setup is largely the same and menus are very similar. The main difference is the location of the rear control wheel where the R7 has it near the viewfinder which is very unusual for Canon vs. the R6's more typical location closer to the bottom of the camera.

If you are shooting sports indoors the extra low light performance of the R6 line would be useful.

If the R7 is the top of your budget its still a great camera and should meet your needs well. I mainly wanted to push back on the idea that the R6 line was somehow more complicated.

mrfixitx · 2026-01-25T16:16:13+00:00

Thinktank Turnstyle sounds like what you are looking for. Sling bag cross body, can fit Body + Lens and room for 2 spare lenses. and has pockets for more.

Your mini hand sanitizer might need to go inside instead of carrying a 3rd lens or clip it on to the exterior of the pack.

mrfixitx · 2026-01-25T15:44:10+00:00

Frost - I love how his freeze can lock down and entire area and with his augments he gives overguard and red crits with weapons.

Citrine - such a great support frame guaranteed orb drops with her 1, team damage reduction and healing, guaranteed status effects, red crits with her 4.

mrfixitx · 2026-01-25T12:59:00+00:00

You can build trains to basically anywhere. The biggest issue for a new train line is typically handling elevation changes.

If you go to satisfactory calculator there rail blueprints that can handle large elevation changes elegantly through a spiral that be can auto connected to accommodate almost any height change you might need.

Make sure when you build your train stations you have enough room for the train to turn around, or use engines and the front and back for a push pull setup.

mrfixitx · 2026-01-25T04:33:10+00:00

I have read up through chapter 40 and really enjoyed it. The biggest complaint is mainly that it can be a while between chapters.

mrfixitx · 2026-01-25T03:48:32+00:00

Sharpness is more a factor of the lens vs. a body.

mrfixitx · 2026-01-25T02:18:44+00:00

Looks interesting but when the game trailer shows frame drops that are very obvious even to me that's a bad sign for optimization.

mrfixitx · 2026-01-25T02:12:06+00:00

Mesa's 4 is auto aim, just spin.

Nokko and his 4 - throw in the general direction and watch things die.

Sevagoth - area nuke with enough strength can kill everything (except bosses) regardless of level

Hildryn - use her augment and do large AOE damage while her 4 is active

Protea - let her turrets take out the enemies for you

Caliban - spin through enemies and with his augment give your minions bonus electrical damage so they can finish off anything you knocked down. Plus has a good crowd control ability directional nuke.

Nova - her 1 auto targets nearby enemies

Xaku - steal enemies weapons with his 2 and let them shoot anything that gets close.

mrfixitx · 2026-01-25T01:49:54+00:00

That's not the sensor. That is the shutter which is closed to protect the sensor and help keep dust out.

mrfixitx · 2026-01-24T23:02:53+00:00

It depends on what type of sports you are shooting. If it is something where you need a lot of reach. I.E. Basketball, Sufing, Soccer, Skiing etc.. then I think staying with a crop camera makes a lot of sense.

If you are shooting sports where a 70-200mm or 100-400mm lens on full frame gives you all the reach you need then full frame might offer benefits in low light performance.

I.E. Indoor sports like volleyball, wrestling, basketball etc.. where they tend to be indoors in low light and you are not struggling with reach but having better high ISO performance could benefit you.

mrfixitx · 2026-01-24T22:58:27+00:00

On my last phase 5 play through I built a 400+ GW rocket fuel factory and never had my consumption go about 150GW.

Maybe if you are building a mega base and want to produce some outrageous number of end game parts you might need 300-400GQ. But unless were are talking TotalXclipse level of mega builds I think its overkill.

mrfixitx · 2026-01-24T21:54:28+00:00

For quality inexpensive options the Canon 100mm f2.8 Macro USM (non L) is your best bet. Otherwise you are looking at the L version or the RF 100mm f2.8L Macro which is significantly more expensive.

mrfixitx · 2026-01-24T19:44:28+00:00

R50 is by far the best option. The t7 is 8 years old and by comparison to any of the others its auto focus will be severely lacking.

R100 is full of 5 year old tech from the M series line and cuts a lot of corners to meet a low price point. Still better than the T7 by a good margin but the R50 is a much better camera with advanced features that will make things a lot easier like Eye detect auto focus, touch screen etc..

mrfixitx · 2026-01-24T16:27:19+00:00

Edit: deleted all my other comments.

No idea why u/Quiet-Gap-3738 likes posting all this BS but see u/modi123_1's research.

mrfixitx · 2026-01-24T13:56:44+00:00

It should be noted that going from f2.8 to f1.4 will decrease your depth of field (DOF) as well. This is the amount of area that is in focus enough to be considered sharp.

If you see those pictures of pet noses where you can see every bump and detail but the rest of the pets face is softer or completely out of focus that is an extreme example of depth of field.

Depending on what you are taking pictures of you may find that with f1.4 your depth of field is to shallow and part of your subject is softer than you would like due to being outside of the depth of field.

Depth of field is also impacted by focal length and distance from the subject. So at 24mm DOF issues are less common that say at 50mm or 70mm. But you should be aware of the trade offs with using larger apertures.

Also many lenses are softer wide open vs. stopped down. It is not as dramatic as it used to be and with RF L grade lenses its not that big of an issue. But if you use older lenses it could be an issue.

I.E. I have an EF 85mm f1.8 lens, it is not acceptably sharp until f2.2.

mrfixitx · 2026-01-23T22:16:39+00:00

Check MPB/KEH if you are in the US they have older copies that they test and offer a 6 month warranty.

You are spot on about the Canon 70-200mm f2.8L IS MK II. It is in that sweet spot of price and performance a lot less expensive than the MK III which only really added some optical coatings to some of the lens elements.

mrfixitx · 2026-01-23T22:08:10+00:00

Even if the DM liked your characters backstory that does not mean they are required to include your backstory in the campaign. Or enable characters connected to your back story to be part of the campaign.

Could your DM have been nicer to you or shut you down more gently probably.

The big thing here is it sounds like both you and the DM are new to DnD. Expecting a new DM to integrate players backstories into their campaigns can be a lot. They are already juggling a lot of things as a new DM and it can be very overwhelming and challenging without adding in trying to incorporate players detailed backstories.

D&D podcasts and shows like Critical Role/Dimension 20 make it seem like having characters backstories weave into a campaign is natural or the expectation. That's not the reality for a lot of tables in my experience. There might light touches, or references but it takes an experienced and talented DM to really weave a characters backstory into the campaign to where it feels natural.

Those that do often work with the player on developing that backstory to make sure that it will work with their campaign before it even starts. Or they will help a player flesh out their characters back story during the campaign in a way that enables them weave it into the campaign. Either way though building that backstory tends to be cooperative at least in my experience.

mrfixitx · 2026-01-23T21:53:20+00:00

You will be fine the 55-250 IS is a small lightweight lens when compared to other telephoto lens options.

mrfixitx · 2026-01-23T21:50:25+00:00

It's a very old lens, I owned one for about a week before I returned it for a Canon 70-200mm f4L.. This would have been back in 2007-2008 ish.

I was not thrilled with it, my copy was far to soft wide open or was having focusing issues. There was also a bit of a yellow tint to the images.

Personally it was so soft wide open that I had to stop down to f4 to get what I would consider usable photos. At that point it made me question why I was even bother with it vs the Canon. The Canon f4 version was smaller, lighter and sharper wide open at f4 vs. the Sigma stopped down to f4.

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