Warframe

So last night I was basically doing the same defense mission over and over again, well I entered it one time and there was this boss guy + the normal waves and he was one-shotting everyone. We fought him for a good 30 mins and only got him to half before we wiped.

What caused this guy to spawn?

To be clear there, status is the chance to proc the elemental effect, like cold's slow, viral cutting hp in half, corrosive reducing armor by 30%, etc. The elemental damage always happens regardless of status. Also, which proc you get is random, but weighted by how much damage each element has in it. An Akstiletto with a ton of corrosive dmg and a little bit of cold is going to do corrosive procs far more often than cold. There's also the normal slash/puncture/impact procs to consider too.

Shotguns get real weird too, if you can get them to 100% status. At that point, suddenly every single pellet procs a status effect, guaranteed. There's a whole world of difference between 98.5% (Sancti Tigris) and 100% (Tigris Prime).

Hekotat said:

So last night I was basically doing the same defense mission over and over again, well I entered it one time and there was this boss guy + the normal waves and he was one-shotting everyone. We fought him for a good 30 mins and only got him to half before we wiped.

What caused this guy to spawn?

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Stalker/Shadow Stalker? Killing bosses puts players on his hunted list and there's a 2% (+0.5% per other person in the group also being hunted) chance per mission that he'll spawn. He goes nearly immune to the damage types you use, forcing you to switch it up, and is a real pain in the ass to kill when you're new. Once you complete a main story quest and unlock focus, he's pretty trivial to take down.


And reminder: I have shitloads of relics for almost all of the current prime stuff and a lot of vaulted ones. I did all of Helios Prime's parts last night in about 90 minutes solo and Oberon P the night before. I don't mind dragging people along to get parts they need whenever there's good missions up, but no one's taken me up on the offer so far.

I'm not sure, his name was in Japanese and he was carrying a giant flaming sword. I joined into the mission already in progress so I don't know how it went down, took me a few minutes to realize he wasn't a player.

Janx said:

I'd be down. Have a wide array of warframes to use really just want to finish some prime warframes and could always use more weapons. What's your name in game? I'll throw you an invite when I get home at noon.

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Svieri. Think you're already on my list.

Hekotat said:

I'm not sure, his name was in Japanese and he was carrying a giant flaming sword. I joined into the mission already in progress so I don't know how it went down, took me a few minutes to realize he wasn't a player.

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Yeah, that was probably Shadow Stalker. He has most of the abilities of Excalibur, plus a select few from other frames. He's also immune to practically every warframe ability, or at least their primary/damage effects anyway. Stuff like Frost's snowglobe still slows him way down though. He'll also dispel any buffs you try to use on yourself, which is a real bitch when he shows up to missions when you're using Loki.

Never seen his name come up in Japanese though, have you limited your region to North America and set a ping limit to like 200? Otherwise you'll have a bad time in a lot of public games.

Vorph said:

Svieri. Think you're already on my list.


Yeah, that was probably Shadow Stalker. He has most of the abilities of Excalibur, plus a select few from other frames. He's also immune to practically every warframe ability, or at least their primary/damage effects anyway. Stuff like Frost's snowglobe still slows him way down though. He'll also dispel any buffs you try to use on yourself, which is a real bitch when he shows up to missions when you're using Loki.

Never seen his name come up in Japanese though, have you limited your region to North America and set a ping limit to like 200? Otherwise you'll have a bad time in a lot of public games.

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I didn't even know you could limit ping/region, there is so much to this game it's hard to take it all in.

Hekotat said:

I didn't even know you could limit ping/region, there is so much to this game it's hard to take it all in.

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Options > Gameplay. Not sure what the defaults are set to. I use N.A./200ms. Keeps missions playable, but doesn't prevent you from joining someone halfway around the world with a terrible connection if you need to buy something from them.

I'm only mastery rank 5 and still working on unlocking the planets, currently finishing up Europa and the void ones it connects to.

Yeah, by terrible I mean people in the 400-1000ms range that you'd never want to actually play with. 200ms is even a bit annoying, my macro for Zenurik doesn't fire properly and I end up having to void dash manually.

zombiewizardhawk said:

I'm only mastery rank 5 and still working on unlocking the planets, currently finishing up Europa and the void ones it connects to.

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Ah, I thought you were higher MR. I'd change my suggestions to:
Primary - Hek (I can give you a Scattered Justice mod if you're lacking in Steel Meridian rep)

Secondary - Still Akstiletto Prime. Definitely try to finish up Lex Prime, and I'd advise building a Sonicor too.

Melee - Still Atterax. Build a Krohkur when you can get the tellurium, it's the new best 1h sword (and also the best dual sword if you build two more to make the twin version). Orthos Prime is a solid option with very low MR req too.

Can I gain standing with all of the factions or is it a pick one and done kind of deal? I haven't done any of them yet.

I like the orthos so maybe i'll try to get the prime.

Vorph said:

Sell for credits so you at least get a free weapon slot out of it. I got like 5 of them and 6 or 7 Wyrms (which are good for 2 companion slots each) and there's no real point in keeping dupes around.

Edit: Hope everyone got what they wanted from the event, Twitch just clamped down on the drop system and now it doesn't work with multiple streams anymore.

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Oh no wonder I wasn't getting much yesterday. Well at least i had 1100 items from a couple days back and got lots of formas and ayatan stars out of it.

I have 4 factions.

Steel Meridian gives 50% Red Veil.
Suda gives 50% Hexis but -50% Red Veil.

So you max Steel & Veil, then max Suda & Hexis while using Steel daily missions (and the occasional sigil day) to offset what you lose in RV so it never drops below exalted. Make sure to get the 15% sigils for Steel and Suda, Veil and Hexis go a lot faster that way.

Did one of those life support missions this morning where Lotus drops the life support but even if I used them as soon as they dropped I still couldn't make it to the 5th or 6th one without reaching zero. This is the first time I'm having issues with this type of mission, what am I missing?

Have to kill enough enemies to get their personal life support drops (+5%) to hold off activating the +30% beacons for as long as possible.

Or do like I do and get Nekros. I did a 40 minute survival the other day to farm a mod and Desecrate generated so many personal ones that I never activated any of the big beacons at all. Survival is a lot easier in a group too.