[Warframe] Still Plugging Away

Warframe wasn’t the only thing I played this week — I actually logged in to FFXIV for the 1st time in almost 3 months, due to hearing that the current “Little Ladies Day” event included glowsticks as a cosmetic item.  Since my young daughter loves glowsticks, I logged in on her character and ran the event.  It was so quick and easy that I then logged in to my own character and ran the event also.

But that was it.  I felt no desire to follow the additional content released in the latest patch, or to unlock the 2nd new dungeon or anything like that.  I guess that means I should actually cancel my subscription.

I also bought the new DLC/Expansion for Stellaris.  I’m only about 100 years in to my 1st game so far.  The overall feel is much the same, but tech discoveries are quite a bit slower — normally at the 100 year mark I’d be getting close to the end of the tree, but I’m just now starting to research the T4 weapons and barely got cruisers, though I do have Star Fortresses and can build habitats, at least.  I’ll do some update posts after I’ve gotten farther in and have seen more of the new techs and how everything fits together.

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Oh, I’m supposed to *scan* the kurias? Wish I’d done that on the other 4 I’ve seen. Ah well…

In Warframe, I’m still MR17, though I’m knocking on the door of 18 now.  I’ve been focusing on completing quests and unlocking more of the planetary nodes.  I’ve completed all the nodes going up through Uranus now, only have 1 left on Neptune, and 4 on Pluto.  I’ve also completed all the nodes in The Void.  Sedna’s still got about half the planet to go, and I need to recruit some people to help me do the Derelict Assassination mission so that I can unlock Eris.  That’s what Recruitment chat is for, right?  I’ve even done about half of the Kuva Fortress.  I guess people don’t really go there, though, as I’ve run all but the spy mission on “public” but only the “assault” mission had a person join, and then he dropped back out within a minute or so.

Running the “assault” mission in the Kuva fortress. Basically had to run in, take over their big gun, use it here to destroy one of their ships, then go back and sabotage it. Fun mission!

Can I just say that I love Inaros?  I thought I wouldn’t, due to the frame not having any shields, but it has such a high armor rating that it really doesn’t need them.  I’ve looked up various builds for it and have settled on my own “tweaking” of the mods that I like.  It’s lower than a “max health” build” but has higher armor so it’s still very survivable — in fact, I’ve only ever needed to be revived a single time in all that I’ve played with Inaros so far, and I was doing the level 50 missions in The Void with him just fine.  Honestly, I’m not sure what took me out that 1 time I did fall, as at no other time on that mission was my health even remotely low.  It must have been a sniper or something, I guess.  Fortunately, I was with another player and he was able to revive me, so it worked out fine (and I revived him probably 10x in that same run, so it was only fair the he revive me too — he kept folding like a cheap suit, it felt like).

My co-worker who’s playing now sprung for the Loki/Ember Prime combo pack and has been ranking his Loki Prime up, so I got with him and we ran a few grind runs on Ceres, then he queued us up for a Nightmare “No shields” run on Earth to see what mod we’d get from that.  He had Vitality modded on, but sadly still went down a lot, as did the 2 people who joined us on the run.  It appears that most frames just really need their shields.  I didn’t ever really take much damage though — something about having 4600 health and high armor plus the ability to control crowds and heal myself at the same time, while laying waste in a giant circle around me with my Orthos Prime and Primed Reach mod…

Anthem quest complete!

So far as the quests go, I’ve completed Octavia’s Anthem and Chains of Harrow.  Since I’d already bought the Octavia frame, the Anthem quest rewarded me with a riven mod, though to unveil it I’m going to need to go to the Plains of Eidolon and figure out fishing and mining.  The unlock conditions are: catch a fish, mine a gem, AND kill an enemy within 30 seconds.  That quest was interesting since I had to fight Sentients at one point, so I got to see how using the Operator to reset the resistances made life a lot easier there.  The final phase where you are inside a giant mandachord instrument and have to jump on all the right spots to have it play a song was … if I’m honest, a bit tedious, but still a nice change of pace from how frenetic a lot of the missions and quests can be too, so I won’t say it was bad, just a bit long.

Chains complete. Now to find the 3rd component so I can actually build the frame…

Chains of Harrow was more like a “haunted house in space” than anything.  Unlit mission runs with blood-scrawled messages, fighting zombies and ghosts.  Had I bought that frame with plat the reward would have been another riven mod, but I wanted to earn the frame this time, so… I’ve got the blueprint and I’ve managed to find systems and chassis blueprnits from my regular play, but the neuroptics apparently only drop from defection missions and only during the 3rd phase, and even then only about an 11% chance on any given run, so that might be a while before I get the last piece.  Which is fine, as I need time to farm up more kuva.  I did a kuva siphon mission this weekend and since I knew what to do this time (go go video guides!) I was successful at it and got 643 out of a needed 2000, so… 2 more times at least. And that’s just for Harrow.  I’ve got that “Krokhur” (sp?) weapon that needs kuva to build it, so I’ll need to run a few more of those mission types for that too.

An example of some of the haunted house elements of the Harrow quest.

For Hidden Messages I’m at the last phase, but the quest won’t complete until the Mirage frame is complete in the Foundry.  I started that cooking this morning, so on Thursday I’ll be able to get the completion for that.  The phases of that quest largely just involved clearing out lots of infestations, so nothing much to write about.

This guy’s been hanging out on my ship from time to time since completing the Harrow quest also.

I’m now most actively working on “The Silver Grove” quest.  I’m on the last phase of that, but finding the plants to scan for it has been a pain in the tuchas.  I need 25 of a moss type that grows more or less on Ceres.  The wiki says it’s “very common” there, but I spent nearly an hour last night in a single mission searching for it and only found 3.  Then there’s another “frostleaf” plant that grows on Mercury and Venus, but I haven’t been able to find any of that at all on any of the missions I’ve run there (and yes, I made sure I’m on the correct tileset).  Then there’s the “rare” plant that’s on Earth.  I’ve found 1 of the 2 I need, but it only grows during the day and I keep winding up running missions in the night.  They swap day/night every 4 hours, so I just need to keep trying until I get lucky and find another day cycle, it seems.  Once I finally collect those plant scans, then I’ll get the 3rd Titania piece.  That will be fun, I think.

This is getting long, so… Happy Gaming out there!