Power to you for having disposable income to make use of a discount, but I will say with over 1k hours myself, you've done way more than what was necessary. Part of the Warframe experience is the grind. If you can't bring yourself to sit and grind through the level 20 and 30 missions with what you've got, then I wouldn't predict you to actually stick with the game for grinding late game content such as Steel Path, Netracells, and Archon Hunts. You mention using platinum to skip grinding a Necramech, but doing that grind manually is one of the things that really got me to appreciate Deimos. That grind, however tedious, can absolutely be just as enjoyable and rewarding -- or even more so -- than any late game content that you might encounter. And in the event that more late game content is introduced later, I'm more inclined to believe that you've conditioned yourself into buying whatever you're supposed to grind to access it. The best advice I believe that I could give to a new player is to slow down, and take your time. It's not a race to reach any certain content, and it's almost never in your interest to start with a fresh account with how much there can be to do. As a side note, obtaining Grendel (not the prime version) recently reminded me of when I was just starting out with no mods nor strong weapons. Back then, every mission felt like an accomplishment, which is something I miss sometimes. The amount of patience and strategy that was necessary to employ makes simply completing those missions solo more of a reward than any of the components I received.
I think its more of what type of grind is valuable to different people. You might find the necramech grind enriching since it helped you appreciate deimos more while others may feel as if its a huge time sink for something they're only going to use for the new war quest and nothing further. Personally I find the end game grind like steel path, archon hunts, netracells and the circuit enjoyable since doing those actually add value to your arsenal.
I agree if we're talking about someone who gets to play more than a few hours a day or two of the week. Working full time and long hours sometimes I just prefer to spend plat as well. Let's me play with some of the things I want vs waiting months to do it. Cause it would take that long. I enjoy the game so don't mind spending some money here or there
I’ve got over 3k hours and spent a ton of money to bypass certain grind. The way I see it is if it’s tedious and boring I’m spending plat. I don’t remember the last time I’ve farmed a primed frame lol.
I am MR12 and i have 873 hours play I'm back after a 4 year break and now I'm in great demand, everything I've developed is no longer relevant and I have to go through the whole farming process again. I think the goal I should set is to play to sell for platinum because I will need it to get some weapon mods to make it easier for me to farm. And i wish once to feel what is like to be good in 130 level, I start having difficulties from level 80 and up. I'm still farming to collect parts to build a set and sell it. There are probably methods for making platinum quickly, but you have to be in the know to be the first to offer it, and if you're not pumped up, you'll have a hard time farming where it's valuable
The meta changes as new weapons are added but that's only because they are new and creators want something for peeps to watch :) Most weapons are just as viable as they were years ago.
unlocking Steel Path should be doable with any frame and weapon really (power wise), only need basic mods which you should have farmed already most likely but remember, you don't HAVE to buy mods. you can farm them. Like Galvanized mods are honestly really easy and quick to farm. only impatient people buy those imo. Now, Steel Path can kick your butt in the beginning absolutely. Having a frame that will be able to at least take some damage will help out signifcantly. Don't have to go all out tank but something that is able to sustain or avoid dmg is a big plus, just don't go glass canon if you don't know what to expect or what you're doing. then lastly you'd need to get basically any incarnon weapon you'd like to get you started and you're set for SP, something like a boar incarnon is a good starter and is available to buy for plat if you missed the rotation. but again, you don't have to get that one per say and perhaps you can even get a better one if you're lucky that week. This should easily be sufficient for at least beginning SP. Also for most frames the #1 thing to improve them significantly in the more early stages of the game is having a good energy economy where you're able to use your skills whenever you need and not be like fuck i can't cast anything. very often an energyless frame is a dead frame. honestly at some point lvl 130 will feel like lvl 20 again once you have a build weapon/frame.
Start playing at 2013 and left @ 2019 mr24. Return dec 2023, by july2024 i maxed rank mr34. Used a lot of plat to catchup (mostly fashion +/-6k plat). I'm just lucky someone bought my glaive riven for 9k plat when i returned.
cool insight and its neat to see what plat can do for your warframe run but i wanna mention here incase anybody feels this way, even in the state you were in with super underleveled gear/mods, you do NOT need to spend ANY plat to get through not only base starchart but the entire steel path one as well. once you get even a somewhat good build going on a warframe and a weapon, you can solo pretty much any content in the game barring some annoying modes/bosses. i only mention this because you put it as you "fixed" your account, but imo in the state you described your account was never broken, you just specialized in one field and decided to get into the other. you cannot play this game wrong lol, cool insight again tho v interesting to hear about
Bro all you had was the same problem that every returning player had lol. You got power crept and had to farm the new mods/warframe/faction standing/ and arcanes to catch up like all returning players do. You made it sound so dramatic like fixing a botch gacha account 🤣🤣
@@pwatoscry2087 unfortunately i was preparing for the new war at that time and didnt even have sp unlocked cause i liked to take the game slowly and reached sp at mr14, missing almost all of jade shadows
let me preface this with: there is no wrong way to play a videogame if you are enjoying it / enjoyed playing it. don't to worry so much. i think the title is a little misleading. your "mistakes" arnt mistakes its the niche that you specialised in when the game was alot newer. You were equipped for a very different era of warframe. it had alot less content and the power scaling and the dynamic was different to what it is now. Alot of mods and weapons and frames were not released when you stopped playing. so even if you had *most* mods, you still would be missing allot of things that turn a bad weapon into a good weaon and a great weapon into a god tier weapon. your rivens make weapons better but arnt needed unless youre trying to play high level steel path content (400 - 1000) or level cap. Most players dont even have the steel path starchart completed or have most of the content completed. unless you are trying to level cap so even moderatly well modded weapons will get the job done. and on top of that damage was reworked many times in the past few years so even if you were "well equipped" it doesnt transfer over the same. you get alot of good stuff from quests and will more or less be able to solo steel path. and they are alot better than they used to be ( aside from a few that still havent been updated like titania's quest) anyways if u read all the way i wish you good luck and i hope you enjoy the game!
That is what i was thinking, there was no mistake. I even wrote a comment that his title was a bit overdramatized (like he was fixing a botch gacha account.) What his experiencing its just what every returning player experience. He just got power crept and fell behind that's all and had to farm the new mods/warframe/arcanes and factions.
@3ASY355 XDD, i thought he fell into the noob trap of never buying slots and sold all weapons rivens and frames including primes. Thats a pain peko account worthy of the title
Title would be more I used 3000 platinum to skip the grind, most things you mentioned could be gained relatively easily or weren't really needed like arcane energize. As for the earlier comments there's no wrong way to play the game, anything you enjoy doing is the right thing to do.
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Power to you for having disposable income to make use of a discount, but I will say with over 1k hours myself, you've done way more than what was necessary. Part of the Warframe experience is the grind. If you can't bring yourself to sit and grind through the level 20 and 30 missions with what you've got, then I wouldn't predict you to actually stick with the game for grinding late game content such as Steel Path, Netracells, and Archon Hunts. You mention using platinum to skip grinding a Necramech, but doing that grind manually is one of the things that really got me to appreciate Deimos. That grind, however tedious, can absolutely be just as enjoyable and rewarding -- or even more so -- than any late game content that you might encounter. And in the event that more late game content is introduced later, I'm more inclined to believe that you've conditioned yourself into buying whatever you're supposed to grind to access it. The best advice I believe that I could give to a new player is to slow down, and take your time. It's not a race to reach any certain content, and it's almost never in your interest to start with a fresh account with how much there can be to do.
As a side note, obtaining Grendel (not the prime version) recently reminded me of when I was just starting out with no mods nor strong weapons. Back then, every mission felt like an accomplishment, which is something I miss sometimes. The amount of patience and strategy that was necessary to employ makes simply completing those missions solo more of a reward than any of the components I received.
yeah im good off that necramech grind, have to grind on deimos for a long time anyways for bounties and missions
I think its more of what type of grind is valuable to different people. You might find the necramech grind enriching since it helped you appreciate deimos more while others may feel as if its a huge time sink for something they're only going to use for the new war quest and nothing further.
Personally I find the end game grind like steel path, archon hunts, netracells and the circuit enjoyable since doing those actually add value to your arsenal.
Nicely put, well done!
I agree if we're talking about someone who gets to play more than a few hours a day or two of the week. Working full time and long hours sometimes I just prefer to spend plat as well. Let's me play with some of the things I want vs waiting months to do it. Cause it would take that long. I enjoy the game so don't mind spending some money here or there
I’ve got over 3k hours and spent a ton of money to bypass certain grind. The way I see it is if it’s tedious and boring I’m spending plat. I don’t remember the last time I’ve farmed a primed frame lol.
I am MR12 and i have 873 hours play I'm back after a 4 year break and now I'm in great demand, everything I've developed is no longer relevant and I have to go through the whole farming process again. I think the goal I should set is to play to sell for platinum because I will need it to get some weapon mods to make it easier for me to farm. And i wish once to feel what is like to be good in 130 level, I start having difficulties from level 80 and up. I'm still farming to collect parts to build a set and sell it. There are probably methods for making platinum quickly, but you have to be in the know to be the first to offer it, and if you're not pumped up, you'll have a hard time farming where it's valuable
the xoris can easily bring you past lvl 130
The meta changes as new weapons are added but that's only because they are new and creators want something for peeps to watch :)
Most weapons are just as viable as they were years ago.
unlocking Steel Path should be doable with any frame and weapon really (power wise), only need basic mods which you should have farmed already most likely but remember, you don't HAVE to buy mods. you can farm them. Like Galvanized mods are honestly really easy and quick to farm. only impatient people buy those imo. Now, Steel Path can kick your butt in the beginning absolutely. Having a frame that will be able to at least take some damage will help out signifcantly. Don't have to go all out tank but something that is able to sustain or avoid dmg is a big plus, just don't go glass canon if you don't know what to expect or what you're doing. then lastly you'd need to get basically any incarnon weapon you'd like to get you started and you're set for SP, something like a boar incarnon is a good starter and is available to buy for plat if you missed the rotation. but again, you don't have to get that one per say and perhaps you can even get a better one if you're lucky that week. This should easily be sufficient for at least beginning SP. Also for most frames the #1 thing to improve them significantly in the more early stages of the game is having a good energy economy where you're able to use your skills whenever you need and not be like fuck i can't cast anything. very often an energyless frame is a dead frame.
honestly at some point lvl 130 will feel like lvl 20 again once you have a build weapon/frame.
Start playing at 2013 and left @ 2019 mr24. Return dec 2023, by july2024 i maxed rank mr34. Used a lot of plat to catchup (mostly fashion +/-6k plat). I'm just lucky someone bought my glaive riven for 9k plat when i returned.
cool insight and its neat to see what plat can do for your warframe run but i wanna mention here incase anybody feels this way, even in the state you were in with super underleveled gear/mods, you do NOT need to spend ANY plat to get through not only base starchart but the entire steel path one as well. once you get even a somewhat good build going on a warframe and a weapon, you can solo pretty much any content in the game barring some annoying modes/bosses.
i only mention this because you put it as you "fixed" your account, but imo in the state you described your account was never broken, you just specialized in one field and decided to get into the other. you cannot play this game wrong lol, cool insight again tho v interesting to hear about
Bro all you had was the same problem that every returning player had lol. You got power crept and had to farm the new mods/warframe/faction standing/ and arcanes to catch up like all returning players do. You made it sound so dramatic like fixing a botch gacha account 🤣🤣
All you had to do was play the game, didn't need to spend any money
this title could be changed to 'arcane energise ran my pockets' cause that stuff so expensive i just never leave zenurik and call it a day
@@JeffJohn-i7t if u were lucky u coulda gotten an easy r5 in jade shadow event but sadly it's long gone
@@pwatoscry2087 unfortunately i was preparing for the new war at that time and didnt even have sp unlocked cause i liked to take the game slowly and reached sp at mr14, missing almost all of jade shadows
let me preface this with: there is no wrong way to play a videogame if you are enjoying it / enjoyed playing it. don't to worry so much.
i think the title is a little misleading.
your "mistakes" arnt mistakes its the niche that you specialised in when the game was alot newer. You were equipped for a very different era of warframe.
it had alot less content and the power scaling and the dynamic was different to what it is now.
Alot of mods and weapons and frames were not released when you stopped playing. so even if you had *most* mods, you still would be missing allot of things that turn a bad weapon into a good weaon and a great weapon into a god tier weapon. your rivens make weapons better but arnt needed unless youre trying to play high level steel path content (400 - 1000) or level cap.
Most players dont even have the steel path starchart completed or have most of the content completed.
unless you are trying to level cap so even moderatly well modded weapons will get the job done. and on top of that damage was reworked many times in the past few years so even if you were "well equipped" it doesnt transfer over the same.
you get alot of good stuff from quests and will more or less be able to solo steel path. and they are alot better than they used to be ( aside from a few that still havent been updated like titania's quest)
anyways if u read all the way i wish you good luck and i hope you enjoy the game!
That is what i was thinking, there was no mistake. I even wrote a comment that his title was a bit overdramatized (like he was fixing a botch gacha account.) What his experiencing its just what every returning player experience. He just got power crept and fell behind that's all and had to farm the new mods/warframe/arcanes and factions.
@3ASY355 XDD, i thought he fell into the noob trap of never buying slots and sold all weapons rivens and frames including primes. Thats a pain peko account worthy of the title
Did the exact same thing as you
Title would be more I used 3000 platinum to skip the grind, most things you mentioned could be gained relatively easily or weren't really needed like arcane energize.
As for the earlier comments there's no wrong way to play the game, anything you enjoy doing is the right thing to do.
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