Platinum

Rushing Warframes Is Kinda Lame

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Excalibur and Warframes speak to Lotus at Tennocon

So apparently Dante is a lot of fun. Dante in this case being the new Warframe released in Dante Unbound, the most recent Warframe update. The archivist Warframe has an exalted book and a ton of cool features, including some ghostly owls and the ability to create vast, vast amounts of Overguard, which is basically overshields except way better. Honestly, Overguard pisses all over overshields and frames that rely on overshields, but that’s not the topic of this article. Today, I want to talk about Warframe build times, while I patiently wait for Dante to finish cooking in my foundry.… [Continue Reading]

Three Days is Too Much

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Rain on the Plains

Most things in Warframe come from your foundry. The foundry is a miracle piece of technology that takes blueprints and crafts them into Warframes, weapons and even space ships. For what looks like a small 3D printer, the Foundry does a lot of work. But in order to make these items, we Tenno need to be patient. Building things in the foundry uses real life time. For example, building a Health Restore pad takes 1 real life minute, while Kitgun and Zaw parts require an hour per piece. Some items take a full 24 hours to finish building, such as… [Continue Reading]

On Just Buying Things with Platinum

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New Gara Skin (with default helmet because I like it)

Sometimes, it’s tempting to just buy something with Platinum. Whether it’s a skin from the market or a weapon part you’re missing. The grind for every item isn’t the same or in any way equal. So what do you do? Do you just buy the thing with plat or do you just farm for it? It’s a hard question to answer. Well, it’s a hard question for most people to answer. I tend to just farm the thing no matter what. Unless it’s a Prime that is pissing me off with a missing part. Time VS Money The question always… [Continue Reading]

Why Warframe Shouldn’t Have an MMO-Style Market

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Gauss running on water

Every time something vaguely related to trading comes up in Warframe, someone always shouts that we need an MMO-style market. Or an auction shop, or whatever you want to call it. The idea being that users just throw up what they want to sell and buyers can just click a button instantly and get their item. After all, an auction house works great in other games, doesn’t it? Surely it’ll work in Warframe and it’ll make trading so much easier! But I don’t think it will. I actually think an auction house will make trading worse. Now, that’s a rather… [Continue Reading]

Never Finding The Perfect Animation Set

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Volt using the Limbo Agile Animation Set

Animation sets in Warframe are a neat way to give individual Warframes a bit of personality, rather than them all being mindless heaps of metal and flesh. It’s not really a personality but something that makes them more relatable. The very feminine frames like Ember and Mirage will stand with hands on hips, in a vaguely seductive manner, more masculine frames like Rhino will stand tall and proud and some frames will toy with the immense power at their fingertips. In fact, the newer the Warframe, the more personality they seem to have in their animation sets alone. The newest… [Continue Reading]

Fifty Platinum – What Should You Do With It?

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Phovos the Excalibur in his blue and orange colour scheme.

When you start Warframe, you’re given 50 Platinum. Platinum is the premium currency of Warframe which, unlike many other premium currencies, can be traded with other players. Most of the time. The 50 Platinum you start off with though can only be spent in the Warframe Market and can’t be traded with other players in any way. The question is, how do you spend that Platinum? It’s very tempting to instantly spend that 50 Platinum on one of the cheap Syandanas for your Warframe. The Uru Syandana for example is very nice, with a metallic sheen to it and a… [Continue Reading]

Easy Things To Sell For Platinum

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Maroo's Bazaar does have other uses though. You can trade your Ayatan items with her for endo, see what other people are selling and hang out in a pretty cool little relay.

The way Warframe is set up, you can easily play Warframe and never spend a penny on it. But in order to do so, you do need to wander into the world of trading. While I’ve mentioned a few things that can make you a quick buck before, I think it’s time to have an updated list of things guaranteed to get you some Platinum. Whether you wade through the Trade Chat in-game or sit in your dojo waiting for people to message you via warframe.market is up to you, but these things will pretty much always help build up… [Continue Reading]

On Buying Warframes with Platinum

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A scary priest of a frame.

The other day, I checked my Warframe profile and was amazed to see that Ivara has sneaked her way into being my third most played Warframe, after Volt and Volt Prime. Wasn’t really that much of a surprise because Ivara is insanely useful in Spy missions, but she also comes in very handy for a large number of smaller tasks, such as quick alert missions, looking for and scanning enemies with her larger Enemy Sense, completing Riven mods and general roaming the plains. In fact, after Volt, Ivara is a really good Warframe on the Plains of Eidolon, as she… [Continue Reading]

Retvik’s Ridiculous Guide to Rolling and Selling Rivens

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Volt on the Plains of Eidolon

Riven mods. All the potential in the world to make your favourite weapons amazing, locked away behind a wall of randomness and horrible Kuva. They’re also locked away behind a limited amount of space, with a base amount of 15 Riven Mod slots, with more riven slots costing you 60 platinum for a measly 3 slots. They’re expensive and annoying and disappointing and if you want to make use of them, not end up with an inventory of crap or make some platinum, you need to learn how and when to get rid of them. Let’s make things clear right… [Continue Reading]

World Champions – The Cream of the Crop

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Perhaps one of the more prestigious accomplishments that a person may be able to claim is being able to compete directly against the best of the best with the world’s eyes locked upon you. In the new world of e-sports, it somehow becomes more prestigious when you’re sitting right next to them as opposed to not even in the same city. In any case, we call those who emerge victorious champions of the world. Team Fortress 2 is a curious case among e-sports of the modern day – it doesn’t have a recognized worldwide competition of its own which can… [Continue Reading]