Sadly though with the recent cease and desist stuff they've been involved with it seems like they've turned scummy.

Also East TN. Took myself and the wife about 40 minutes of waiting to get ours cast.

LR4 here, the screenshots might help with suggestions on how to obtain things in a timely manner. One thing to note though is that a lot of veterans like my self who have been playing for close to 10 years have been able to pace ourselves with the release of content to some degree. So while the total number of MR based items may seem high, it wasn't always the case.

As far as weapons go you'll want the Galvanized mods. You can get those by doing arbitration missions which cycle every hour. In those missions a specific enemy called Arbitration Drones will spawn. They are immune to all warframe abilities and give that immunity to nearby enemies. When they die they have a chance to drop a material called Vitus Essence, which is used to buy the Galvanized mods from the Arbiters of Hexis syndicate at a relay. The mods you'll want to prioritize are the multishot ones.

As for your issues with your frame survivability, you'll have to give some more detail on who you've been playing and I can make some suggestions for builds.

To add on to this, while I dont personally use that site for builds it can be a good jumping off point for showing what frames want what and then you can adjust to taste. Another very helpful operator arcane that I like having as my oh shit button is Magus Repair.

I would consider looking into Klipper. That would be a fantastic upgrade and there are plenty of videos on how to go about it. The documentation for the project is also easy to parse.

It was the first major upgrade I did to my Ender 3 that I got back in July. Way too spoiled by it at this point to go back to Marlin.

This is really a head scratcher. I'm no Klipper expert when it comes to really tinkering with the printer.cfg, however if I was in your situation the next place I would go with troubleshooting would be on the firmware side of things. Klipper already makes regular backups of your important configs so maybe try making a copy of them and do a clean install of Klipper with a default printer.cfg for your printer and see if that helps narrow down the issue some more. Saves you having to spend money on hardware if you don't end up actually needing it.

Sorry for the late reply. Looks like the majority of what you still need to level is Prime things. If you weren't already aware those can be acquired from Void Relics. A large majority of the ones you still need to level are vaulted. Luckily two frames and their associated weapons are un-vaulted each month. You can check to see which are from the market in your ship under Prime Resurgence. Or by going to Maroo's Bazarr on Mars and talking to Varzia.

The next large chunk of items are the Kuva and Tenet weapons which you get from the Lich system. This would probably be the most time consuming behind the Prime items you're missing. For a full run down of how that system works i would recommend just checking the wiki page.

The rest are kind of scattered about so you can always refer to the wiki as to how to acquire them. The one exception to that would be the compainion weapons which you will get from building the normal and prime variants, leveling the Sister Hounds (which you will get from interacting with the Lich system), and leveling the Moas from Legs in Fortuna.

Hope that helps!

Best non spoiler tip for dealing with them I can give is this. Damage resistance doesn't mean much when you hit them physically hard.

Realized I just missed the part where you said you've been using Galvanized mods. My bad. What MR are you currently and I can make some weapon recommendations.

Took me a bit of time to add them all up but here's where i'm at including what's been slotted:

Tauforged Red: 38 Blue: 20 Yellow: 42 Purple: 11

Regular Red: 49 Blue: 64 Yellow: 52 Purple: 5 Green: 10

So i have a bit i suppose.

Did do that yes. Double checked my config against another Ender printer with the same 4.2.7 board as mine and with the same hot end before starting my calibration.

I only feel the need to fuse for Taus when I'm low on them. Only had to do that a handful of times. When you have as much playtime as I do they start to build up without the worry of running out.

I'd say a Neo based on how the fan shroud looks

I swapped to direct drive myself. Went with the Creality Sprite Pro since I already had mounted a CR touch to my print head.I thought it made the most sense for interoperability.

Ok so i swapped the extruder connection to the Z stepper one and it did spin! So the motor's not bad or the connection. Swapped it back to the extruder socket and nothing. So maybe its something in the Klipper config for the extruder?

So i think the gears might have been jammed something? Now the motor is turning perfectly fine in the correct plug. Must have just shipped that way from the factory i suppose. Thanks so much for the help!

I run Klipper firmware on this printer not stock Marlin. I usually print PLA at 210 so the temperature cut off wasn't the problem. I fully heated the nozzle before trying to extrude filament.