Warframe is a vast and immersive game that offers numerous ways to track your advancement and enhance your rank. Among various progression metrics, equipment ranking plays a crucial role. In this guide, we’ll delve into how equipment ranking works and share tips for leveling up quickly.
To increase your equipment rank, you need to accumulate Affinity while using a specific Warframe or weapon. Actions like defeating enemies, completing missions, utilizing abilities, and collecting Affinity Orbs all contribute to enhancing an individual Warframe’s level.
Fortunately, the game’s mechanics allow you to progress steadily through the ranks simply by enjoying the game in your preferred style. However, there are more efficient strategies and activities that can help you optimize your gameplay time.
Overview on Leveling Your Warframe
The design of activities within Warframe makes certain methods significantly more effective for farming Affinity. Here are our top recommendations:
- Defense Missions
- Sanctuary Onslaught Missions (preferably Elite)
- Spy Missions
- Steel Path
Participate in Defense Missions
Defense Missions serve as a core method for earning Affinity in Warframe. These are endless challenges where teams must protect a target from waves of increasingly difficult enemies.
After every five waves, players can choose to exit and claim a reward or continue for another five waves. Failing to reach the next wave checkpoint results in losing all previously earned rewards, so strategy is essential.
The best aspect of Defense Missions is the high volume of enemies available. Players earn 100% Affinity from ability kills and 50% from weapon kills, leading to rapid progression in Warframe levels.
Key missions to focus on are Hydron on Sedna and Helene on Saturn; the latter additionally supplies useful Orokin cells. Both nodes feature Grineer enemies, who provide the highest Affinity rewards of any faction.
Engage in (Elite) Sanctuary Onslaught Missions
Sanctuary Onslaught Missions operate similarly to Survival Missions, challenging players to endure against countless waves of escalating enemy numbers and difficulty.
These missions are excellent for leveling up weapons, and since Warframes earn 50% of the Affinity for weapon kills, they also contribute to passive leveling. An Elite version exists, but entry requires Mastery Rank 30 or a Rank 30 Warframe, along with an under-leveled, polarized Warframe to gain extra Affinity.
Undertake Spy Missions
Spy Missions present a different gameplay experience, catering to players who prefer stealth tactics. In these missions, your goal is to steal confidential data from enemy servers via hacking.
This method yields 1000-4000 Affinity for each successfully hacked Data Vault. Additionally, players can engage with enemies for more opportunities to gain experience points.
The key is to achieve stealth kills to boost your Affinity multiplier between Data Vault hacks. This approach suits solo players or those favoring quieter engagements, especially useful for stealth-oriented Warframes like Octavia or Loki.
Challenge Yourself on the Steel Path
Steel Path missions introduce a new level of difficulty for seasoned players. If you’re further along in the game and wish to level a different Warframe, tackling Steel Path versions of the aforementioned missions (except Sanctuary Onslaught) is an efficient choice.
These missions not only double the resource and mod drop chance but also yield massive Affinity as you defeat tougher foes. To gain access to the Steel Path, you must complete every node on the Star Chart, excluding the Mutalist Alad V Assassination, Railjack, and Golem nodes.
That wraps up our guide on quickly and effectively leveling your Warframe. Before diving into the aforementioned methods, we suggest completing all story missions and additional nodes to bolster your capabilities for farming.
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