Warframe Discussion Thread 8: Half-Priced Life Support | Video Games Open (2024)

Mirror Defence on Mars

The Abyssal Zone on Deimos - you need to buy Abyssal Beacons from one of the six core syndicates (Steel Meridian, Red Veil, etc).

Knockwood said:

Well, mainly the ones you don't get via grinding Assassinations or getting lucky with Relics. How do you get Citrine again? EDIT: or Dagath?

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To elaborate, Dagath is one of the dojo-specific frames, along with Banshee, Nezha, Volt, Wukong, and Zephyr. However, unlike the other five, she has her own unique room that must be placed in the dojo, where you spend the stuff you get from the Abyssal Zone missions.

Knockwood

• Ash: Market (BP), Venus Proxima (Systems), Neptune Proxima (Neuroptics), Pluto Proxima (Chassis)
• Atlas: The Jordas Precept/Simaris (BP), Jordas Golem Assassination (all parts)
• Banshee: Tenno Lab (all parts)
• Baruuk: Little Duck (all parts)
• Caliban: Market (BP), Narmer Bounties rotation A (Systems), Narmer Bounties rotation B (Chassis), Narmer Bounties rotation C (Neuroptics)
• Chroma: The New Strange, Uranus Junction (Neuroptics), Neptune Junction (Chassis), Pluto Junction (Systems) OR Cephalon Simaris (all parts)
• Citrine: Tyana Pass, Mars (Mirror Defense - all parts) OR Otak's pity shop
• Dagath: Dagath's Hollow (all parts) - NB that she needs Vainthorns that are end of mission rewards for Abyssal Zone (keys are 5k Faction Syndicate Standing a pop)
• Dante: Armatus, Deimos (Disruption - all parts) OR Loid's pity shop
• Ember: Market (BP), Sargas Ruk Assassination (all parts)
• Equinox: Market (BP), Tyl Regor Assassination (all 8 parts)
• Excalibur: Market (BP), Lech Kril Assassination (all parts)
• Frost: Market (BP), Vor & Lech Kril Assassination (all parts)
• Gara: Saya's Vigil/Simaris (BP), Plains of Eidolon Bounties (all parts)
• Garuda: Vox Solaris/Simaris (BP), Orb Vallis Bounties (all parts)
• Gauss: Market (BP), Kappa, Sedna (Disruption - all parts)
• Grendel: Market (BP), mod-disabled missions (all parts, 25 Vitus Essence per key)
• Gyre: Zariman Bounties (all parts)
• Harrow: Chains of Harrow/Simaris (BP), Void Fissure-corrupted enemies (Chassis), Pago, Kuva Fortress (Spy - Neuroptics), Defection (any - Systems), Taveuni, Kuva Fortress (Survival, Systems and Neuroptics)
• Hildryn: Little Duck (BP), Exploiter Orb (all parts)
• Hydroid: Market (BP), Vay Hek Assassination (all parts)
• Inaros: Sands of Inaros (all parts) OR Simaris (all parts)
• Ivara: Spy missions (all parts)
• Jade: Jade Shadows (BP), Ascension (all parts) OR Ordis's pity shop
• Khora: normal Sanctuary Onslaught (all parts)
• Kullervo: Acrithis's shop for Kullervo's Bane (all parts)
• Lavos: Father's shop (all parts)
• Limbo: Market (BP), The Limbo Theorem/Simaris (all parts)
• Loki: Market (BP), Hyena Pack Assassination (all parts)
• Mag: Market (BP), The Sergeant Assassination (all parts)
• Mesa: Market (BP), Mutalist Alad V Assassination (all parts)
• Mirage: Market (BP), Hidden Messages (all parts)
• Nekros: Market (BP), Lephantis Assassination (all parts)
• Nezha: Tenno Lab (all parts)
• Nidus: The Glast Gambit/Simaris (BP), Oestrus, Eris (Infested Salvage - all parts)
• Nova: Market (BP), Raptors Assassination (all parts)
• Nyx: Market (BP), Phorid Manifestation (all parts)
• Oberon: Market (BP), Earth Proxima Points of Interest (Neuroptics and Systems), Saturn Proxima Points of Interest (Chassis)
• Octavia: Octavia's Anthem (BP, Mandachord), Lua music puzzle (Chassis), Terrorem, Deimos (Survival - Neuroptics), rotation A chace on Plato, Lua (Exterminate - Systems)
• Protea: The Deadlock Protocol/Simaris (BP), Granum Void (all parts)
• Qorvex: Whispers in the Walls (BP), Sanctum Anatomica Bounties (all parts) OR Bird 3's shop (all parts including the BP)
• Revenant: Mask of the Revenant/Simaris (BP), Plains of Eidolon Bounties (all parts)
• Rhino: Market (BP), Jackal Assassination (all parts)
• Saryn: Market (BP), Kela De Thaym Assassination (all parts)
• Sevagoth: Call of the Tempestarii/Simaris (BP), Void Storms (all parts)
• Styanax: Kahl's Garrison shop
• Titania: The Sliver Grove/Simaris (all parts)
• Trinity: Market (BP), Ambulas Assassination (all parts)
• Valkyr: Market (BP), Alad V Assassination (all parts)
• Vauban: Market (BP), Nightwave shop (all parts)
• Volt: Tenno Lab
• Voruna: Conjunction Survival OR Archimedean Yonta's pity shop (all parts)
• Wisp: Ropalolyst Assassination (all parts)
• Wukong: Tenno Lab
• Xaku: Heart of Deimos/Simaris (BP), Cambion Drift Bounties (all parts)
• Yareli: The Waverider/Simaris (BP), Ventkids' Bash Lab (all parts)
• Zephyr: Tenno Lab

Notes:

1. 'Frames that aren't Assassination drops are bolded.
2. Primes drop from Relics, and there's too many of those for me to list here. Ditto for "special" weapons (there are currently around 500 weapons in-game).
3. Once you unlock the Circuit, you can choose the following 'frames as rewards for normal Circuit on a weekly rotation basis: Excalibur, Trinity, Ember; Loki, Mag, Rhino; Ash, Frost, Nyx; Saryn, Vauban, Nova; Nekros, Valkyr, Oberon; Hydroid, Mirage, Limbo; Mesa, Chroma, Atlas; Ivara, Inaros, Titania; Nidus, Octavia, Harrow; Gara, Khora, Revenant; Garuda, Baruuk, Hildryn.
4. Some of those farms are decidedly easier than Assassination missions (Dojo research), but some of those aren't (Caliban with his time-gated BS springs to mind). Special mention to Equinox that needs 8 drops from its Assassination boss. IDK who thought that was a good idea.
5. There are 17/52 Assassination farm 'frames.
6. The last Assassination farm 'frame to be added was Wisp and she was added to the game back in 2019. DE simply doesn't use this method any more.

Knockwood said:

1. Thank you desdendelle !
2. This should be on the Wiki.
3. I'd forgotten or never heard of a bunch of those... Lavos? Which one's that?

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Glad to help.
It's on the wiki, just... not in one place; all I did was concentrate the info that's on each 'frame's page there.
Lavos is the alchemy-themed 'frame that has timers for his abilities in lieu of using energy. I never got around to using him often, so I don't know how good he is, but some people swear by him as a gun platform.

Heh... I meant our wiki. And I've started putting it up : https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Warframe:_the_Quick_and_Dirty_Guide_to_Acquiring_Warframes
Just need to do the bolding.

... Is regular Grendel actually out of reach right now?

desdendelle said:

Glad to help.
It's on the wiki, just... not in one place; all I did was concentrate the info that's on each 'frame's page there.
Lavos is the alchemy-themed 'frame that has timers for his abilities in lieu of using energy. I never got around to using him often, so I don't know how good he is, but some people swear by him as a gun platform.

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Lavos is my main. His new augment makes him amazing (actually better than Chroma for Profit-Taker, among other things) because when you infuse an element into your abilities and then use it, all your weapons get +200% of that elemental damage for up to 20 seconds, with guaranteed procs.