Wyvern
Khaleesi
Some of us love the grind - it is masses of fun these days
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Some of us love the grind - it is masses of fun these days
MetalSoup
There's a GIF for that
Eugh... Well about time I get into some type of Free-MMO instead of sneering and hissing from the sidelines... Might as well be future robot-ninja themed!
I wouldn't call it an MMO, it's more co-op focused, up to 4 players, I think.
Stunt
New member
Wyvern
Khaleesi
Update 12 is live:
ADDITIONS
-‘Ties That Bind’ – Darvo’s Alert return! For a Limited Time Only, play it before it’s gone!
- Level Expansion – Hunt for the Grineer in the overgrown forests of Earth!
- New Game Mode – “Interception†Territory Control Mode! This Mission type is making its debut on Earth, check it out where Mobile Defense missions used to be!
- New Clan Dojo room available - Build Warframes in the Tenno Research Lab.
- New Clan Dojo Garden room + 8 new decorations!
- New Warframe – Zephyr, the aeronautical Warframe (+ alternate helmet!)
- New Weapon – “Phage†Infested Primary. Get it in the Market or Clan Research Today!
- New Weapon – “Jat Kittag†Grineer Melee Get it in the Market or Clan Research Today!
- New Weapon – “Akstiletto†Tenno Secondary Get it in the Market or Clan Research Today!
- New Weapon – “Dual Cestras†– Dual wield your Cestras! Get it in the Market or Clan Research Today!
- 4x new Warframe "Immortal" skins (Volt, Vauban, Saryn, Nova)
- “Oryx†Oberon Alternate Helmet
- HUD 2.0 – all new look HUD with expanded informational output.
- Added 3D character portraits for transmissions! Get ready to see your allies and foes come to life!
- Improved Mod management – including duplicate mod stacking and auto-install.
- Enemy Leaders AI – specialized enemy types that spawn with improved stats and ally support abilities.
- Added support for Steam Big Picture.
- Added Daybreak colour picker to the Market.
- Added avatar packs for Oberon, Mag Prime, and Frost Prime.
- Completely reworked the sounds of all Infested Ancients - this is also the first time players will hear the winning sounds as voted on in the Design Council.
- Polarity Management is here! You can now swap the order of Polarities on your Forma’d gear!
- Reintroduced “Natural Talent†Mod, play the new Interception missions to find it today!
- Reintroduced “Dead Eye†Aura to the Alert Pool!
- “Training†Section now live in the Codex, a helpful area for all things Warframe!
CHANGES:
Warframe Changes:
- Improved sounds for Nyx’s Psychic Bolts.
- Saryn’s Moult ability now causes radial damage when it is killed.
- Valkyr now has 600 base armor.
- Valkyr’s Hysteria ability now takes weapon damage and crit into consideration.
- Frost's Freeze now comparable to Ember’s Fireball ability.
- Frost’s Avalanche ability now has increased casting speed and damage.
- Frost’s Snowglobe now has health in the following values as upgraded/fused: 1500,2500,3000,3500.
- Frost’s Ice Wave now force procs slow (chill).
- Oberon's Regeneration projectile speed increase.
Weapon Changes:
- Bow weapons receive 1/3 damage buff + gave charged arrows innate puncture depth.
- Dread arrows have increased flight speed.
- Embolist now has increased damage and forced poison proc.
- Tigris now has improved damage, critical chance, and proc rate.
- Hek damage increased and more minimum damage added to falloff.
- Hammer and Staff weapons now ragdoll enemies on charged attacks.
- Vulkar now has increased damage and proc rate.
- Latron and Latron Prime now have increased damage.
- Sentinel Deth Machine Rifle weapon now has 5% crit chance.
- Flux Rifle now has improved damage and proc rate.
- Critical Chance and reload speed of bows slightly tweaked.
Aura Changes:
Physique Aura rebalanced (+3% Health per level)
- Steel Charge Aura rebalanced (+5% Damage per level).
- Rejuvenation Aura rebalanced (+.5% Heal Rate per level).
- Sprint Boost Aura Rebalanced and re-released into Alert System. (+2.5% per level, 10% overall).
- All Damage Resistance Mods buffed (2% to 10% per level).
- Void Defense missions are now Endless, they no longer have a set number of waves to complete.
- Mobile Defense removed from Earth in favor of new Interception game mode.
- Corpus Crewmen Helmets now are destroyed after taking an amount of damage, revealing a head that is open for headshots underneath!
- Volt and Banshee parts can now be researched in the new Dojo Labs!
- Improvements made to the Void Drop table, find Prime Drop locations on the Wikia or Forums (https://forums.warfr...drop-locations/).
- Trading - Added “trade item changed†notification in trade screen.
- Trading logic changes: It's no longer "turn based" for the most part, you can change your offer at any time. Only when you accept the trade do you wait, for the other player to accept or make a change. Both players have to accept the current trade before it completes.
- Reworked menu profile bar to accommodate new boosters.
- Replaced some ice piles in Corpus Outpost with snow, that were being confused for game play related objects.
- Further tweaks to radius and occlusion of 3D weapons.
- Slight reduction in firework's particle count.
- Lowered max height on Jackal missile volley to avoid detonation in the rafters.
- Added new Grineer attack animations.
- Alad V and Lotus transmissions now appear in Jupiter.
- Toned down the frequency and strength of rumble and alarm sounds in transition levels.
- Random diorama music cues will now play at login screen.
- Shortened the duration of the Day/Night cycle to be on 4 hour intervals.
- Sentinel & Sentinel weapon XP added to login rewards.
- Reduced audio radius for Ember’s World on Fire ability.
- Replaced “Naked Nick†with a tinted Tenno Prisoner for the casket defense mode.
- Visual language cleanup – Orokin Derelict keys now look more like keys.
- Made some optimizations to several visual FX.
- Changed survival pickup and capture target objective marker icon.
- Reloading after the last shot fired is now more responsive.
- Made the glaive type weapons shrink when "unfocused" in arsenal.
- Sentinel Mod card duplicate images changed to have unique images.
FIXES
- Fixed door collision in Grineer Galleon that would block projectiles when shooting through the door.
- Fixed trading race condition on initial offer.
- Fixed trading Platinum being offered by both players.
- Fixed "Trades Remaining" not updating when it is refilled on login.
- Fixed beam FX registration for Synapse and Spectra.
- Fixed issue where stats were not updating for the selected Warframe that is being compared to the equipped.
- Fixes to scarf physics.
- Fixed animations for the Spectra reload.
- Fixed holster positions of Cernos for multiple Warframes.
- Fixed multiple issues where meshes were intruding other areas (tilesets invading eachother).
- Fixed misnamed dojo props.
- Fixed Sentinel weapons that lose their mods when they are revived after death.
- Fixed enemy melee types that could hit the player twice in one swing.
- Fixed some issues with cover and AI navigation across all maps.
- Fixed the Galantine not having elemental FX on its blade.
- Fixed a deadzone in the melee sweeps, which could cause attacks to miss where the enemy's full body collision started roughly where the player's hand is.
- Fixed minimap for multiple Orokin Void rooms.
- Fixed destroy sounds on breakable fan and vent covers.
- Fixed some issues related to elevator door hints on mini-map.
- Fixed the Grineer asteroid floating cryopod bug in Mobile Defense.
- Fixed the cryopod doors being triggered more than once by solo players.
- Fixed Jackal not dropping Mods when defeated.
- Fixed missing squad chat tab that was unavailable in-game.
- Fixed some bugs related to the codex.
- Fixed NPCs on clients to now play exit-cover transitions properly.
- Fixed some zipline activation and landing points in multiple tile sets.
- Fixed teleport script still getting players in falling loops.
- Fixed Operations panel not automatically appearing when goal/invasion arrives.
- Fixed an issue where weapon attachments wouldn't update when cloaked.
- Fixed an issue where selecting a core after starting fusion mode would let you fuse into a fusion core.
- Fixed edge cases of crashing when player1 is spectating player 2, and player 2 revives after dying causing player 1 to crash when trying to get a camera view from the other players avatar.
- Fixed multiple reported crashes.
- Fixed an issue with the Tigris where having an odd number of bullets could cause the reload animation to play twice.
- Fixed weapon holster positions of many weapons across many Warframes.
- Fixed multi-boss intro cinematics on clients.
- Fixed Galatine clipping when jogging, jumping, or running.
- Fixed NPCs from making noise when they shoot themselves - now they will only bark if an ally shoots them.
- Fixed the issue where disarmed enemies would not attack the player or the core in defense missions.
- Fixed Master Thief mod ceasing to function after a host migration.
- Fixed character rotation errors that occur when moving between menu screens.
- Fixed hang and/or crash when reviving after Harvester kills you.
- Fixed a number of repeating and incorrect Lotus lines.
- Fixed display of crit-rate and crit-multiplier for projectile weapons (it was showing values lower than were actually being used).
- Fixed issue where player names did not appear in chat when players join or leave a match.
- Fixed ‘Kill remaining enemies’ message from appearing after a host migration during the claim screen.
- Fixed issue where Clients were not seeing Critical damage indicators if their shots were lethal as critical indicators were not shown if the enemy had no chance at surviving the shot.
Source
ADDITIONS
-‘Ties That Bind’ – Darvo’s Alert return! For a Limited Time Only, play it before it’s gone!
- Level Expansion – Hunt for the Grineer in the overgrown forests of Earth!
- New Game Mode – “Interception†Territory Control Mode! This Mission type is making its debut on Earth, check it out where Mobile Defense missions used to be!
- New Clan Dojo room available - Build Warframes in the Tenno Research Lab.
- New Clan Dojo Garden room + 8 new decorations!
- New Warframe – Zephyr, the aeronautical Warframe (+ alternate helmet!)
- New Weapon – “Phage†Infested Primary. Get it in the Market or Clan Research Today!
- New Weapon – “Jat Kittag†Grineer Melee Get it in the Market or Clan Research Today!
- New Weapon – “Akstiletto†Tenno Secondary Get it in the Market or Clan Research Today!
- New Weapon – “Dual Cestras†– Dual wield your Cestras! Get it in the Market or Clan Research Today!
- 4x new Warframe "Immortal" skins (Volt, Vauban, Saryn, Nova)
- “Oryx†Oberon Alternate Helmet
- HUD 2.0 – all new look HUD with expanded informational output.
- Added 3D character portraits for transmissions! Get ready to see your allies and foes come to life!
- Improved Mod management – including duplicate mod stacking and auto-install.
- Enemy Leaders AI – specialized enemy types that spawn with improved stats and ally support abilities.
- Added support for Steam Big Picture.
- Added Daybreak colour picker to the Market.
- Added avatar packs for Oberon, Mag Prime, and Frost Prime.
- Completely reworked the sounds of all Infested Ancients - this is also the first time players will hear the winning sounds as voted on in the Design Council.
- Polarity Management is here! You can now swap the order of Polarities on your Forma’d gear!
- Reintroduced “Natural Talent†Mod, play the new Interception missions to find it today!
- Reintroduced “Dead Eye†Aura to the Alert Pool!
- “Training†Section now live in the Codex, a helpful area for all things Warframe!
CHANGES:
Warframe Changes:
- Improved sounds for Nyx’s Psychic Bolts.
- Saryn’s Moult ability now causes radial damage when it is killed.
- Valkyr now has 600 base armor.
- Valkyr’s Hysteria ability now takes weapon damage and crit into consideration.
- Frost's Freeze now comparable to Ember’s Fireball ability.
- Frost’s Avalanche ability now has increased casting speed and damage.
- Frost’s Snowglobe now has health in the following values as upgraded/fused: 1500,2500,3000,3500.
- Frost’s Ice Wave now force procs slow (chill).
- Oberon's Regeneration projectile speed increase.
Weapon Changes:
- Bow weapons receive 1/3 damage buff + gave charged arrows innate puncture depth.
- Dread arrows have increased flight speed.
- Embolist now has increased damage and forced poison proc.
- Tigris now has improved damage, critical chance, and proc rate.
- Hek damage increased and more minimum damage added to falloff.
- Hammer and Staff weapons now ragdoll enemies on charged attacks.
- Vulkar now has increased damage and proc rate.
- Latron and Latron Prime now have increased damage.
- Sentinel Deth Machine Rifle weapon now has 5% crit chance.
- Flux Rifle now has improved damage and proc rate.
- Critical Chance and reload speed of bows slightly tweaked.
Aura Changes:
Physique Aura rebalanced (+3% Health per level)
- Steel Charge Aura rebalanced (+5% Damage per level).
- Rejuvenation Aura rebalanced (+.5% Heal Rate per level).
- Sprint Boost Aura Rebalanced and re-released into Alert System. (+2.5% per level, 10% overall).
- All Damage Resistance Mods buffed (2% to 10% per level).
- Void Defense missions are now Endless, they no longer have a set number of waves to complete.
- Mobile Defense removed from Earth in favor of new Interception game mode.
- Corpus Crewmen Helmets now are destroyed after taking an amount of damage, revealing a head that is open for headshots underneath!
- Volt and Banshee parts can now be researched in the new Dojo Labs!
- Improvements made to the Void Drop table, find Prime Drop locations on the Wikia or Forums (https://forums.warfr...drop-locations/).
- Trading - Added “trade item changed†notification in trade screen.
- Trading logic changes: It's no longer "turn based" for the most part, you can change your offer at any time. Only when you accept the trade do you wait, for the other player to accept or make a change. Both players have to accept the current trade before it completes.
- Reworked menu profile bar to accommodate new boosters.
- Replaced some ice piles in Corpus Outpost with snow, that were being confused for game play related objects.
- Further tweaks to radius and occlusion of 3D weapons.
- Slight reduction in firework's particle count.
- Lowered max height on Jackal missile volley to avoid detonation in the rafters.
- Added new Grineer attack animations.
- Alad V and Lotus transmissions now appear in Jupiter.
- Toned down the frequency and strength of rumble and alarm sounds in transition levels.
- Random diorama music cues will now play at login screen.
- Shortened the duration of the Day/Night cycle to be on 4 hour intervals.
- Sentinel & Sentinel weapon XP added to login rewards.
- Reduced audio radius for Ember’s World on Fire ability.
- Replaced “Naked Nick†with a tinted Tenno Prisoner for the casket defense mode.
- Visual language cleanup – Orokin Derelict keys now look more like keys.
- Made some optimizations to several visual FX.
- Changed survival pickup and capture target objective marker icon.
- Reloading after the last shot fired is now more responsive.
- Made the glaive type weapons shrink when "unfocused" in arsenal.
- Sentinel Mod card duplicate images changed to have unique images.
FIXES
- Fixed door collision in Grineer Galleon that would block projectiles when shooting through the door.
- Fixed trading race condition on initial offer.
- Fixed trading Platinum being offered by both players.
- Fixed "Trades Remaining" not updating when it is refilled on login.
- Fixed beam FX registration for Synapse and Spectra.
- Fixed issue where stats were not updating for the selected Warframe that is being compared to the equipped.
- Fixes to scarf physics.
- Fixed animations for the Spectra reload.
- Fixed holster positions of Cernos for multiple Warframes.
- Fixed multiple issues where meshes were intruding other areas (tilesets invading eachother).
- Fixed misnamed dojo props.
- Fixed Sentinel weapons that lose their mods when they are revived after death.
- Fixed enemy melee types that could hit the player twice in one swing.
- Fixed some issues with cover and AI navigation across all maps.
- Fixed the Galantine not having elemental FX on its blade.
- Fixed a deadzone in the melee sweeps, which could cause attacks to miss where the enemy's full body collision started roughly where the player's hand is.
- Fixed minimap for multiple Orokin Void rooms.
- Fixed destroy sounds on breakable fan and vent covers.
- Fixed some issues related to elevator door hints on mini-map.
- Fixed the Grineer asteroid floating cryopod bug in Mobile Defense.
- Fixed the cryopod doors being triggered more than once by solo players.
- Fixed Jackal not dropping Mods when defeated.
- Fixed missing squad chat tab that was unavailable in-game.
- Fixed some bugs related to the codex.
- Fixed NPCs on clients to now play exit-cover transitions properly.
- Fixed some zipline activation and landing points in multiple tile sets.
- Fixed teleport script still getting players in falling loops.
- Fixed Operations panel not automatically appearing when goal/invasion arrives.
- Fixed an issue where weapon attachments wouldn't update when cloaked.
- Fixed an issue where selecting a core after starting fusion mode would let you fuse into a fusion core.
- Fixed edge cases of crashing when player1 is spectating player 2, and player 2 revives after dying causing player 1 to crash when trying to get a camera view from the other players avatar.
- Fixed multiple reported crashes.
- Fixed an issue with the Tigris where having an odd number of bullets could cause the reload animation to play twice.
- Fixed weapon holster positions of many weapons across many Warframes.
- Fixed multi-boss intro cinematics on clients.
- Fixed Galatine clipping when jogging, jumping, or running.
- Fixed NPCs from making noise when they shoot themselves - now they will only bark if an ally shoots them.
- Fixed the issue where disarmed enemies would not attack the player or the core in defense missions.
- Fixed Master Thief mod ceasing to function after a host migration.
- Fixed character rotation errors that occur when moving between menu screens.
- Fixed hang and/or crash when reviving after Harvester kills you.
- Fixed a number of repeating and incorrect Lotus lines.
- Fixed display of crit-rate and crit-multiplier for projectile weapons (it was showing values lower than were actually being used).
- Fixed issue where player names did not appear in chat when players join or leave a match.
- Fixed ‘Kill remaining enemies’ message from appearing after a host migration during the claim screen.
- Fixed issue where Clients were not seeing Critical damage indicators if their shots were lethal as critical indicators were not shown if the enemy had no chance at surviving the shot.
Source
Wlad
New member
Anybody still play this? I started again with Update 14 and I'm pretty much hooked. At first I wasn't planning on spending any money on the game, but I have since changed my mind and bought a couple of Warframe and weapons slots. I currently have 3 Warframes (30 Volt, 30 Nyx and 14 Rhino) with the 4th (Valkyr) finishing tomorrow night and the 5th (Mag) will start crafting tomorrow morning (if I have time to log in before work). Also busy crafting a boatload of weapons. I've made it to rank 4 so far, but I'm very close to reaching rank 5. I'm still learning how most of the game's systems work but I'm really enjoying it.
I've joined a random clan I found on the recruit channel and that has really helped a lot with research weapons, mods, farming etc. but I think it would be cool to play a few rounds with some locals as well. Did my first Dark Sector Defense mission tonight and got about 350000 credits in about 20 minutes! That was pretty awesome and it enabled me to buy a LOT of blueprints.
Anyway, add me on steam (Myrdlok) if you still play the game and want to have a round or two at some point.
I've joined a random clan I found on the recruit channel and that has really helped a lot with research weapons, mods, farming etc. but I think it would be cool to play a few rounds with some locals as well. Did my first Dark Sector Defense mission tonight and got about 350000 credits in about 20 minutes! That was pretty awesome and it enabled me to buy a LOT of blueprints.
Anyway, add me on steam (Myrdlok) if you still play the game and want to have a round or two at some point.
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wilburlikesmith
New member
I was able to copy my friend's Steam Warframe game folder and convert it into a normal installation on PC without having to download it all again and it was pretty simple 
Only getting into the game now, started with Excalibur because apparently it's quite easy to get Mag prime!
Only getting into the game now, started with Excalibur because apparently it's quite easy to get Mag prime!
Wlad
New member
Update 16 is out! Including the new frame, Chroma (who looks quite awesome), PvP 2.0 and 8 player raids.
Update seems to be around 500mb. Full patch notes here.
I've been playing a lot again the last few weeks and will probably continue to do so until Bloodborne comes out next week. My 10th frame (Ash) will be done tomorrow morning and after that I will try to go for the new frame.
Update seems to be around 500mb. Full patch notes here.
I've been playing a lot again the last few weeks and will probably continue to do so until Bloodborne comes out next week. My 10th frame (Ash) will be done tomorrow morning and after that I will try to go for the new frame.
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Wlad
New member
I couldn't play Bloodborne last night and decided to play some Warframe. Got 75% off plat when I logged in so I bought 1000 plat for about R150 and got myself Nekros and Limbo as well as a new weapon and still have about 300 plat left. I'm up to 13 frames now; at least I have a lot of stuff to level now for mastery. Want to get to mastery rank 8 so I can finally get the Dragon Nikana. There was also double credits last night so I made about 200K credits as well.
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Jan
Grand Poobah
Giving this thread the old necromantic treatment.
This seems like the kind of game you become addicted to and play to the exclusion of everything else for a time, put it down, and then return to it many years later.
This game is very different from the first time I picked it up during the beta on PS4. It's not just that new loot has been added, fundamental things like the way damage works has been changed. They expanded the movement system so you locomote around the map in a series of parkour-style moves (which sounds silly until you've tried it).
And as has been pointed out elsewhere, they're still making big changes -- this week they're introducing a whole new open world MMO-ish area called the Plains of Eidolon
And they're also still adding more Warframes and other loot:
This seems like the kind of game you become addicted to and play to the exclusion of everything else for a time, put it down, and then return to it many years later.
This game is very different from the first time I picked it up during the beta on PS4. It's not just that new loot has been added, fundamental things like the way damage works has been changed. They expanded the movement system so you locomote around the map in a series of parkour-style moves (which sounds silly until you've tried it).
And as has been pointed out elsewhere, they're still making big changes -- this week they're introducing a whole new open world MMO-ish area called the Plains of Eidolon
And they're also still adding more Warframes and other loot:
Jan
Grand Poobah
I would also just like to add a big thank you to [MENTION=2530]Wyvern[/MENTION] for getting [MENTION=24051]GotChange[/MENTION] and I set up nicely on our noobie accounts.
(It looks like my old PlayStation-linked account was culled at some point... luckily I didn't spend any money on it (which is likely the reason it got culled after years of inactivity))
(It looks like my old PlayStation-linked account was culled at some point... luckily I didn't spend any money on it (which is likely the reason it got culled after years of inactivity))
Shrike
New member
Any south african clans playing this? I just started and am WAY confused as to which kind of warframe I want to start with, I have a little platinum from a steam sale and I want to start with something that fits my gameplay. In games my gameplay preferences are in order of what I like the most:
1. Pet class
2. Solo through healing and then using the same character in groups
3. Stealth solo/sniper
I will also end up playing a LOT of solo since my play times are short due to work/family.
Any advice on what I should spend the plat on?
1. Pet class
2. Solo through healing and then using the same character in groups
3. Stealth solo/sniper
I will also end up playing a LOT of solo since my play times are short due to work/family.
Any advice on what I should spend the plat on?
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MalicE
Party time! Excellent!
Excalibur is still the best starting frame imo
Jan
Grand Poobah
Also pretty new, but here's my dubious advice based on your requirements.
1. Pet class: You're probably thinking of something like a Witch Doctor or Necromancer from Diablo, yes? The closest Warframe has to a summoner is Nekros, but I haven't found his resurrection skill (Shadows of the Dead) to be comparable to say, an army of Fetishes or Skeletons. You can also consider Nyx, which mind controls enemies. Inaros also has an ability where he devours an enemy and turns them into a sand-shade that fights for him for a time.
In some way, all frames are pet classes as they can all equip companions (Sentinels, Kubrows, Kavats). If that's your thing, Oberon might be the one for you as he gives allied pets buffs to health, shields, and armour. However, I have not found pets (Kubrows, Kavats) to be nearly as useful as Sentinels.
Other frames with pet-like abilities are Hydroid and Nidus. Hydroid can spawn tentacles that smack bad guys around, and later on he has the added benefit of an Augment Mod that that increases drop chance -- very good for farming. Nidus can create a
Chroma's ultimate is Effigy, which lets him shed his pelt that then acts as a turret of sorts.
2. Solo: Just about all frames are solo-capable and may be given self-heal through a Stance Mod. Some frames with extra survivability built into their abilities are:-
- Inaros (Devour; Scarab Swarm; Undying passive)
- Nidus (Different undying passive; healing zone)
- Oberon (Healing zone)
- Chroma (Elemental Ward - Red/Heat, Blue/Electric, Black/Cold; Vex Armor)
- Equinox (Equilibrium passive converts 10% of health orbs into energy, and energy orbs into health)
- Frost (Snowglobe shield bubble)
- Gara (Crowd control, shield bubble, and AoE through Mass Vitrify + Shattered Lash)
- Limbo (Riftwalking - Beware: Complicated! Rather unlock him via quest)
3. Stealth: Banshee, Loki, Ivara, and Ash.
Banshee's passive silences all of her weapons and the weapons of her Sentinels. She is also relatively easy to get hold of if you have a Clan. Ours happens to have researched Banshee already, so if you're interested in trying her out, drop me your in-game name and I should be able to invite you -- just have to quickly discuss it with the other guys tonight.
Loki can go invisble for really long, and is pretty easy to select mods for (i.e. newbie friendly). Can also Teleport, though teleportation in Warframe is complicated -- read up before selecting a teleporting warframe.
Ivara is like Thief-mode for Warframe. She can also go invisible and has the added benefit of "stealing" loot from enemies while Prowling. She is also hell to farm, so a good choice for a plat purchase. Complicated to play, though. Check videos and read the Wiki before deciding.
Ash can go invisible for a short period and can also teleport.
Bonus round: Primes
Since you're spending plat, something you should consider is buying a Primed version of Warframes listed above (where available). You can use warframe.market to track down sellers.
Relevant primes are: Ash Prime, Banshee Prime, Hydroid Prime, Loki Prime, Nekros Prime, Nyx Prime, and Oberon Prime.
Some of these have been "vaulted" (i.e. parts no longer drop in the game), but there are still people selling the parts.
Frost Prime you can get for free until 31 December using the Prime for Prime promo. You can also get Soma Prime this way, which is highly recommended as it is one of the best guns in the game. (Steps: get 7-day free Amazon Prime Video trial, link to Twitch for free Twitch Prime for 7-days, claim Prime rewards, cancel Amazon Prime Video trial.)
Difficulty to acquire
A factor you may want to consider is how difficult a particular non-Prime Warframe is to acquire:
- Nidus: Quest that is only available after you complete the main story.
- Inaros: Quest which is only obtainable from Baro Ti'keer. He should be arriving on Friday again. If you can't access the relay where he's at, let me know and I'll buy the quest for you if you want it. The quest story was amazing, but it can be tricky to solo depending on how much the RNG hates you.
- Chroma: Blueprints unlocked as you traverse Junctions, but you need to farm Saryn on Sedna to craft one of the components. You basically have to play through the whole main story (or unlock its locations, at least) before you get there.
- Ivara: Components drop from Spy mission rewards. You have to extract data from all three points to stand a chance to get her component.
- Equinox: Standard boss-farm, but requires double the number of components and nearly double the amount of time to craft.
- Oberon: Components drop from Eximus units. Probably took me over 150 hours of normal playing to get everything.
- Ash: Components drop from Manics (not the ones that spawn during the boss fight for farming Equinox). Basically you need to trip the alarm on high-level Grineer missions, or play endless Grineer missions like Defence or Survival and hope they spawn. Probably took me over 150 hours of normal playing to get everything.
- Gara: Components drop from bounties on the Plains of Eidolon.
- Excalibur: Honourable mention. In case someone reads this and hasn't selected their starting Warframe yet. Excalibur is a pain to farm later. Choose him as your starter frame and thank me later.