Silent_Buddha
Legend
A few things.
If you do not plan to spend any money (I've spent 240 USD so far on this game), then try out various weapon types and warframes to get a feel for what you like.
Once you know it is something you may want to use a lot, use an Orokin Catalyst (weapons) or Reactor (warframe) on them. That will double the amount of capacity you have on the item for mod upgrades making them much more capable.
Trivia - Orokin Catalysts and Reactors are refered to as potatoes by players in game.
They can be attained either via real work currency (platinum in game) or rarely via alerts (usually for a short duration after a patch).
If you really like the weapon/warframe, after leveling it to 30, you can then apply a Forma to it which allows you to put a Polarization slot or change a Polarization slot. Polarization slots halve the capacity costs of Mods with matching polarization when used in that slot. Some of my favorite weapons and warframes have had up to 4-5 Formas applied to them. You can get Forma through missions in the "Void" which are accessed with Void Tower keys.
Try to save up 100k for a Sentinal ASAP. They are incredibly useful. Some deal pure damage like the Wyrm an Djinn. Some are more support or utility like the Carrier (vacuums objects to you) or Shade (makes you invisible when enemies get near). One thing to note is that Sentinels and Sentinel weapons can also use Potatoes and Forma to increase their effectiveness.
You can farm Warframe parts from the various bosses (each drops parts for a specific warframe) which can then be build in the foundry. You'll then need to buy a Warframe blueprint from the market (in game cash) to assemble them. You can also buy Weapon blueprints from the market (in game cash) and build them in the foundry.
That's the very very basics. There's so much more. Like the void, clan Dojo's and research, derelicts, etc.
Oh and increasing your ranking in game is done via leveling up weapons (100 xp/level), warframes (200 xp/level), sentinels (200 xp/level), and dogs (200 xp/leve). Unlocking character ranks gives access to more weapons up to rank 8. After that it is mostly for bragging rights as well as access to more harvesters (an extra harvester per 5 character ranks).
You only get experience from leveling an item once per item. But you don't have to get all the experience (3000 for weapons, 6000 for warframes/companions) at once. For example, you may level up the starter weapon to 15, sell it and use a better weapon. But at a later date if you have the weapon slots you can always get the starter weapon again to level it to 30 to get the rest of the XP from leveling it.
Regards,
SB
!!!! Holy shit, look slike their pricing model works. I spent only $7.
