Several Easy Warframe Weapons that will get you through the entire Star Chart
It’s hard to choose weapons in Warframe. Even early on, there are so many options available to you. But with so many choices, and even more as you level up, it’s hard to know what weapons are genuinely good, and which ones suck. Luckily, I have created a list of a handful of weapons you can use, based on my own personal experience.
Lex
At a price of 50,000 credits, the Lex seems expensive, but it’s worth the price. This little MR3 hand cannon will do wonders for you. Not only does it deal pretty good damage, but the Lex has surprisingly good accuracy as well. This means that a steady hand can do a lot of damage with headshots alone, both in close range and mid range.
The Lex Prime used to be a wonderful upgrade, but it’s no longer really obtainable. By the time you reach Mastery Rank 8, you’ll probably have gotten through the entire star chart already. It’s still a great upgrade to the Lex, but the MR8 requirement makes it sad.
Hek
The Hek is a shotgun. You can’t really go wrong with a shotgun. But the Hek is available early on, at MR4, and is consistently a good weapon. It deals consistent shotgun damage, is easy to obtain and has multiple shots, in case you can’t aim. The Hek is also miles above other early shotguns like the Boar and Strun, and will happily murder things for you. Most notably though, the Hek has a Syndicate augment mod, Scattered Justice. This augment gives you +200% multishot, for very little cost. How can you say no to that?
You can actually pair the Hek and Lex together. With both equipped, you can easily cover both close range and mid-range enemies quite nicely.
Vectis
A sniper rifle seems like an odd choice here. But at Mastery Rank 2, the Vectis is available pretty early on, only requiring you to get to Phobos and Ceres. The Vectis is a single-shot sniper rifle that reloads incredibly fast, and gets a damage bonus for landing consecutive hits.
As proof of how good the Vectis is, I used it on my Mastery Rank 5 account to fight Grineer in Sedna’s Arena Mode. Despite being low level and lacking a decent frame, the Vectis more than handily defeated the level 40+ enemies there, even with my under-ranked Serration mod. The only downside is a lack of area of effect – if there are lots of enemies, you may start struggling. But that brings us to our final option.
The only downside of the Vectis is that you need Nano Spores and Orokin Cells for it, and early on, those are in short supply.
Pretty much any larger melee weapon
Melee weapons are insanely strong. With mods that massively increase status and critical chance, you can tear through rooms with ease. But even without a proper mod setup, melee weapons still get the job done. And there are PLENTY of low level, high reach weapons you can grab. The Galatine and Gram are great low-level choices and are pretty easy to get. But even the humble Heat Sword will put in time for you. A simple build of Pressure Point, as many elemental mods as possible and a bit of crit chance or attack speed can go a long way.
Most weapon types will work, but I’d avoid fist and sparring weapons, if I were you. Swords are always reliable, as are polearms.
Bonus option: the Dex Weapons
The Warframe anniversary weapons, the Dex Dakra, Sybaris and Furis, are all pretty alright weapons. They’re definitely not the best. But since they all come with a potato pre-installed, you can fit on a lot more mods than normal. The only issue is that these weapons are only available once a year, around March and April. But, for all you know, you might have these already. As a bonus, every anniversary, you can get more Dex weapons (even if you already have them), which you can sell for weapon slots.
Unfortunately, there’s a caveat here. While yes, these weapons will get you though the star chart, they need to be modded properly. At the very least, make sure you rank up the pure damage mods. Without those, all weapons are kinda useless…