• Rushing a 1-minute craft for 10 plat
• Crafting 10 squad energy restores at a time when the 100x blueprint exists (ditto for other consumables)
• Accidentally applying Umbra Forma to a frame instead of a regular Forma
• Accidentally removing an existing polarity with Forma
• Adding a Vazarin polarity to Atlas's Exilus slot for Primed Sure Footed (his passive is knockdown immunity while grounded)
• Selling all of my Ayatan stars for Endo and then not being able to slot any into Ayatan sculptures
• Accidentally rolling over multiple Riven god rolls
• Buying way too much stuff for retail sell price on warframe.market
• Buying Primed Chamber
• Dissolving all copies of an arcane, realizing I also dissolved the max rank copy, farming enough copies of the arcane for myself and a friend, then accidentally dissolving half of them again

I'm sure there's more stuff I'm forgetting or repressing. 5k+ hours btw

Khora is a monster. Lots of people use her for farming/interception, but I much prefer to run her as a whip-cracking DPS with Magistar Incarnon, Magus Aggress, and Amethyst Archon shards for melee crit damage.

Definitely concerned that Khora won't be able to casually hit huge damage numbers after the pseudo-exalted rework. We'll see what happens, I guess.

Besides the design flaws that others have pointed out already, I can't play Lavos since his ability chording gives me hand pain after prolonged sessions, and I can't use my mouse buttons for them without redoing binds or creating a completely separate Lavos-only button profile.

Cooldown-based abilities are also not my thing; I've played enough classic MMOs to tire of the timeline optimization meta-game.

Finally! I'm so tired of the Fandom platform.

Also, the Stakeholder Analysis meta-wiki page is unintentionally very funny.

This isn't the first year they've done it, but heatmaps by mastery are a great enrichment to the otherwise flat ranking-by-usage data.

I kinda wish there was an option to combine stats for base/Prime frame variants, especially for Primes that released in the lookback year.

Edit: am I tripping, or are stats missing for Excal Umbra/Prime?

Does anyone have an Ash setup that they like? He's one of the few frames I cannot seem to find any joy in playing. I've tried Savage Silence Bladestorm and found it incredibly boring to wait for things to die.

I believe in living with the consequences of my actions. I definitely made that choice deliberately and not because I didn't know you could submit a support ticket for that.

In any case, it's in the distant past now. Check before you click!

I heard a similar pitch from someone else after I came back to Warframe around the launch of Duviri. Initially I wasn't impressed, but the incremental improvements from Archon shards and properly built Electric/Gas weapons made a pretty large difference to me (even better now after status reworks). She's definitely a regular in my Circuit/EDA rotation now, and an easy frame to recommend for new players.

Also, as someone that still plays Loki and Chroma, there are dozens of us! Ok, maybe just one dozen, but still.

Sicarus Incarnon has dethroned Laetum as my comfort secondary. It's the perfect blend of ridiculously strong and easy to use, especially with the ricochet.

Dera Incarnon with Primary Crux is very funny and my second favorite of this batch. I just wish the Incarnon fire rate was higher - I find myself camping the Incarnoff mode until it's time to laser a priority target.

Cestra is also extremely funny but still has horrible shot spread, so it's mostly meme gun status to me.

Sybaris is fine. I'm sure the many Sybaris enjoyers appreciate the upgrade.

Okina is pretty nuts! Definitely melee of choice on Frost, but stands out in lots of other builds too. I'm curious what the other two in your top 3 Incarnon melee are.

No frills, just on-demand damage, defense, and CC. Rhino is still a beast thanks to Roar's unique damage interactions and Iron Skin getting reworked to provide overguard. I like playing a minmaxed Roar build when helping new players so they can get a taste of real power.

Great timing, since I just wrapped up MHWilds for now. I'm definitely gonna be retouching Ash too if you know what I mean.

I'm not super keen on more Archimedea, especially with defense and assassination in the rotation. I do like the sticker system conceptually - it reminds me of Smash Brawl. More mod systems!

I recently took Citrine to EDA after a long period of dust collection and was pleasantly surprised by how well she aged.

• Automatic priming with Prismatic Gem and (Re)Crystallize's crit chance/damage bonuses make her a fun substrate for weapon builds that would otherwise be constrained by mod slots.
• She also makes excellent use of Archon Continuity/Stretch and Arcane Impetus, freeing up efficiency/strength mod slots for defense and parkour.
• Fractured Blast serves a dual purpose as health/energy regen and constant shield gating, so you can comfortably run negative efficiency (or deal with Energy Exhaustion/Constricted personal modifiers) as long as you keep up the KPM.

My main gripes:

• Preserving Shell upkeep is difficult in enemy-scarce environments and damage reduction doesn't scale super well as of right now. I did the most boring thing possible and opted to run a shield gating build instead.
• Crystallize casts so slowly that I felt compelled to use two amber cast speed shards.
• Can we talk about how shitty Mirror Defense is, even after the overall defense changes to 3 waves per rotation? The hardest part about playing Citrine is farming her parts in the first place.

It only gets better. 120-ish hours is where I'd expect the game to start really opening up for you, assuming you've been making progress on the star chart and mastery ranks. 😄

As you can tell, there are many foot-guns and opportunity costs in this game. If you aren't playing under someone else's guidance, I recommend finding a mentor, else you risk making the same expensive mistakes that I (and many others) have made.

Kunai is the standout of this bunch IMO. I think it's the only weapon in the game with such easy access to headshot homing (do Buzlok and Zymos count?); no need to prep with Scourge alt-fire or Void status. It's carried me through countless headshot Riven challenges. Great on Cyte-09 as well for emergency Evade refreshes. The main drawbacks are its extremely small magazine size and occasional weird tracking against enemies with unconventional weakpoints.

Skana is my second favorite (ok fine, I just want an excuse to use literally any of the cool longsword skins and stances). When's Pangolin Incarnon Genesis??

Paris is a fun one as well - super satisfying to scythe down entire hallways with a single shot. Pretty funny on Mag as well. Bhisaj-Bal makes this slightly easier for general use over Dread IMO, but Unseen Dread has the definite edge on stealth frames. Unfortunately I find bows in general fairly clunky to use, so I don't get a ton of use out of this one.

Braton is fine, if somewhat boring. The extra damage on evo 2 only being active on channeled abilities means I only ever feel compelled to use this on Sevagoth or Ember, but even without that it's a strong, easy-to-use Incarnon.

Lato Incarnon Genesis is the only Incarnon I haven't tried yet. I've been stubbornly re-farming Lato Vandal since I was an idiot and sold my previously-mastered copy a long time ago. I don't expect this to outshine other secondary Incarnons, but it seems strong enough on paper as a reliable Circuit/EDA pick.

My queen 👑🙏

Assimilate + Ruvox (Ternary Vault) + subsumed Dispensary for full parkour! I never liked Revenant anyways! (Edit: this fun bug has been patched out. RIP)

Mind Control on Leech or Jade Eximus is very funny and cool, but like others have said, I don't care for the overguard-peeling minigame before you can get to the juicy innards. Sunika Kubrow with Assassin Posture kinda helps, but most times the slash ticks will just kill Eximus outright.

Want: Ember, Mesa, Mirage (plus Saryn, Gyre, Khora if I'm allowed to be extra greedy)

Expect: Ash, Ember, Rhino

Please no: Jade

I too came for the space ninja pirate wizards and stayed in spite of the... other stuff.

The Second Dream was cool and all, but the new systems were so rough at launch that I took my first extended break from the game because of it.

::: spoiler Tap for spoiler I still don't like my space kid that much so they stay in the Orbiter closet. :::

Welcome back to the space circus. Remember, you're here forever!

Despite the fact that many players hang out in Steel Path, it is entirely optional just like most other things in the game. Like others have mentioned, Warframe is a veritable archipelago of stuff to do.

Dang, do people actually like Gloom? I feel like I want enemies to spawn faster and run at me as quickly as possible so I can commit more war crimes per second. If I could get universal Speedva for free, I'd absolutely do it.

A few more from the recesses of my brain (and friends reminding me):

• Not checking Void Traces and running 100+ relics while capped
• Selling my Hema and Sibear (I've sold countless other weapons that I thought were "trash" at the time, but these are the two I regret most)
• Leaving several hundred Nightwave cred on the table because I forgot to spend it before a season rolled over
• Accidentally leaving multiple Kubrows out to die from genetic regression (back when that was a thing that could happen)
• Failing a level cap defense in SP Circuit and losing rewards for the entire run (back when that was a thing that could happen)
• Somehow the first clan emblem I ever uploaded was off-center by a few pixels? I'm still not sure how that happened, but it drove everyone insane until I scrounged up the plat to fix it.

Things I've dunked on my friends for doing:

• Selling frames with Archon shards still equipped
• Dying to fall damage in Duviri (just roll or summon horse lmao)
• Selling unslotted Ayatan treasures
• Farming ducats for Baro and then forgetting to actually buy stuff from him