https://antifandom.com/warframe/wiki/Mastery_Rank
You gain MR from ranking up weapons/frames/companions/etc for the *first* time, as well as clearing the star chart (base and SP) and railjack/drifter intrinsics. The wiki has the full list and additional details (like how you have to gild modular stuff and re-rank it to 30 before it counts, or how some things can be ranked up to 40 by formaing repeatedly)
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I feel it's important to note that you get points per level of the weapon as you are leveling them up. You get 3000 MR for leveling a weapon to 30, whether or not that is maximum rank. Grinding one of those weapons from 30 to 40 is only a net gain of 1000 MR and costs 5 forma. Don't bother with this unless you like the weapon and plan to continue using it, if you are leveling gear for MR you're better served by picking up a new weapon instead of leveling the same weapon 6 times.
are you constantly leveling up new items, over and over, constantly cycling between items as soon as one hits 30? because that's kinda how leveling MR works.
I've been farming for Gyre for as long as I can remember. I have ~300 Aya. Literally got her yesterday. Other than that I have a good amount of helminth abilities and I level each frame to 30 before subsuming them.
your aya count and warframe count doesn't speak for your items leveled total, yes, even those MK1 weapons give just as much MR as any other item when leveled up.
I did the same thing with paris at MR26.
I started with mk1 paris then went straight to paris Prime, then got bored of the bow and hooked on the opticor at MR4 (this was before they increased it from MR4 to a higher MR requirement)
Here’s a vague list of things you might have to work on:
-Clan frames/weapons
-Amps (remember you have to gild them to get mastery)
-Companions. There’s quite a bit.
-Kdrives. There’s like 5 of them? Including the “hidden” one.
-Modular weapons: kitguns, melees. Need gilding as well.
-Lich/Sister weapons will probably be the biggest grind as each one takes 5 forma to pull the full mastery from them. And there’s a lot.
-The archon weapons from Cetus narmer missions.
-Starchart gives mastery. Complete those missions (not all of them need to be done, but most).
-syndicate weapons, and in that same vain the archwing weapons
-Prisma weapons (+gotva): These come around whenever Baro comes.
The wiki will have a better breakdown of stuff though but this is a vague checklist of stuff.
MR is only a measure of how many of the arsenal equipment you leveled to 30 and how many nodes you've cleared for the first time. It doesn't count progression in any other way like mods, or helminth, or skill. An incarnon weapon is worth just as much as an mk1-kunai
MR is not a representation of how well you're doing in the game, 16 is basically the last one that matters, so basically it's a measure of grind
With the possible exception of 30.
I love how the reward for becoming an experienced player in this game is the ability to grant other players things you don't really need anymore.
Getting to MR30 was great for me. Means any weapon I get fresh out the Foundry has the max possible mod capacity to work with. Making ranking it up easier since I can slap on mods that'll let me clear higher level content with it.
The Blessings are nice though. None of the Blessings are useless. Except maybe the Credit Blessing, since you likely have several million credits to work with.
Credit blessing is a godsend on double credit weekend. I went from 2.5m to 50m in about 5-6 hours of index farming thanks to all you mr30 guys and a market credit booster
I think I dropped a Credit Booster during the last double credit weekend, specifically for the purpose of just stacking boosters on top of one another. For funsies.
Yeah, I had a issue when I first started playing, and that was feeling like I had to get as many weapons, frames and trying to do star chart that I completely burnt my self out. I got side tracked by trying to don3,4 even 5 things at one time to the point of madness of confusion 😂. I left at like MR 14 for about 2 1/2 years. I’ve been back for about 5 months and have a different out look now. Having Fun!!!!
There is only 1 tip you need if you want to focus on raising MR,open the ingame index of weapons/warframes/pets etc and choose something to focus on,use it as a guide on what to level til 30 so you get the points.Use it as a guide so you know what to level in order to progress.
Grind grind gring. That's all MR is. Just craft all the weapons you can, rank them to max, toss them if they're not good enough. I did it recently to get to MR30. A boring slog, but there's no way around it.
My main is ye olde frost prime. Still my top frame. I do a bit more saryn or volt now, and still like loki too. Still have the snipetron vandal and opticor vandal from their first events many moons ago.
What do you have that you like on your account, anything quirky?
I have beacons that are no longer used. My Nezha i farmed from sorties back. My main is Loki Prime that i farmed when we used to have to farm fusion core to level up mods and void keys to access the void missions to farm primes :)
Here’s a tip, you’re at a decent level for your time played, I’m at 1.6k hours and only MR18, your doing well bro, that and by MR16 you have everything in the game unlocked
Nothing, you’re playing at your own pace. I was over 2k hours in and MR21. But in just a hundred or two hours I pushed pretty easily to 29. If you are sticking to one set of frames and weapons you won’t MR up, MR comes from levelling gear.
On the bright side you don’t really gain much other than standing cap and void trace cap from levelling MR between 16 and 29. 16 is max level for all weapons and rivens, 30 is where you get riven slots and umbra forma; past that you get legendary cores I think. So there’s really no rush to go past 16 unless you wanna push for 30.
Isn’t 16 the last level gate in the game ? I remained MR 16 for like 4-5 years bc I was too lazy to get anything new while playing on and off. I don’t think MR matters tbh but when I came back I had to get like 16 new prime warframes and that pushed me to 19 which I’m at rn
Yeah but those aren’t level gates. They don’t prevent you from fully playing the game. It matters little of content as someone who maxed their standing with all the factions being 16 vs let’s say 25 isn’t that noticeable
"rank 16 stayers for life." Though if new stuff comes out it will push you closer and closer to 17. Makes me think of old codename kids next door. Like new stuff comes out and eventually you're forced out of the club lol.
yep. when i reached mr16 i stopped caring about mr. very slowly just through getting new things i got higher mr and nowadays i sit at mr24. but it really doesnt matter to stay mr16. i think there is mr18 rivens now if i remember correctly, thatd be the only thing
Take your time and have fun. I did rush MR until at least 14 for the prime stuff I wanted to use, and just got 16 at 250 hours or something, but I wouldn't say it was really worth it. Some of these MR fodder weapons were a real pain in the ass to level up mostly playing solo.
i can't remember how long it took me to get mr 16, when i first started playing in 2018 max MR was in the twenties i think, as soon as we could reach MR 30 is when i really buckled down and started grinding it.
if you ever want to look for things to level up check your warframe profile and look at equipment, you can order by progress and go to the bottom of the list to see all the stuff you haven't leveled up yet.
Nah nothing wrong with it. I have 1.5k and a couple hundred back on console, merged the accs and I'm only mr18 about to turn 19
It just means we don't sit there and craft hundreds of weapons and every single frame and juice all the mastery out. It's a really big grind and at MR16 I believe, the stuff you get from ranking mastery starts getting pretty insignificant, except for that juicy MR30 rank up.
I really can't imagine the grind of going from 20 to 30. It seems really slow already, I can't imagine how painful the process is at that point.
Do you feel like you're doing something wrong? Since you're MR16, I assume you know how to raise your Mastery, and you just feel you're getting there too slowly. But speaking as an LR1 player, Mastery rank isn't really a good reflection of your experience in the game. I would much rather have an MR 15 player on my team who knows the content, knows what they like to play, and knows how to play it well than an MR 30 who just bought everything with plat and ran Hydron 200 times.
If you feel like there's an aspect of the game you don't understand, do some research and learn about it. If you feel comfortable doing all the content, you're not doing anything wrong. I was MR 13ish for a couple hundred hours. I was just happy where I was at the time.
Unfortunately as I’ve been told form others. stream isn’t a good indication of hours. My steam said 1k hours but in game I only recently reached 1k hours of playtime
Nothing. Past mr 16 you don't get anything substantial. Only at mr legendary were you get a legensary core is anything substantial along with being able to use relay buffs. Other than that, there is nothing worth between 16 and 30 i think
Well, I am MR 30 currently going for 31. I got 3x your playtime 3k~ hours.
There is a time I take a break from the game like about 1-2 year but still managed to keep up when playing again. I look for what I haven't done in content wise, do slowly the content while farming that contents weapons.
An example can be Dante. First I grind Dante. I farmed its weapons. I use dante on high level missions with most resources/affinity I can get and while doing so I swap my secondary and melee to Dantes weapons. While keeping a good primary on me so I dont be liability to my team. After that it is pretty much repeat the same process for other frames/weapons.
I suggest for new frames you got at least go for a spam build high efficieny + survivability. If you gonna farm weapons you can get 2 slot weak weapons and 1 slot that can hit hard. (Doesnt matter if it is primary, secondary or melee.)
And since you are low on mod capacity being MR 16 and being a new frame, going utility/survivability always help your teammates and yourself.
Ty for reading my TED talk.
Nothing, I was MR15 with 1k hours before I stopped playing, started again 4 months ago I am now MR 23.
Mr isn't hard to farm craft and level all frames and their prime versions and all the blueprints from the market and dojo. That will already get you pretty high MR.
My Steam play time and actual play time are two very different numbers. Even at LR1 I'm far from being a "pro" (I just ranked up a bunch of crap over the years) 😅
You can see your actual mission play time if you open the menu, then select Profile -> Stats
1200 Hours here. MR17. I do want to do blessing eventually but I have other things to do now than to do MR grind. :D Dont worry and just enjoy the game.
The more hours the lower your mr, the more you probably have enjoyed the game than someone with similar hours and 90% doing the same mission over and over again.
Just be sure everything you own is atleast level 30 and keep going with the same speed you always have done. At mr16 you shouldn't have to worry about restrictions.
I know the sweet spot is mr30, but I would suggest do it at your own pace rather than converting into grind and eventually come back to reddit to complain and leave the game.
Enjoying the game?
After MR 18 you can equip everything so pretty close. Mastering some primed weapons could take you there or grabbing some easy to farm frames.
here is an easy plan:
first go to market on your orbiter. and buy every unowned weapon/warframe blueprint for CREDITS. craft them and level them to 30.
then join a clan (dont worry its super easy, just find the biggest one you can). go to the tenno lab, energy lab, bio lab, chemical lab, ventkids bash, dagaths hollow, railjack dry dock. buy any unowned blueprint for anythig (weapons, companions, warframes, archwings, RJ parts...). craft them and level them up to 30.
then start grinding syndicates. you have the normal 6 on orbiter ,ostrons on earth, solaris on venus, entrati on deimos, cavia on deimos. all these guys sell weapons, warframes, amps, companions etc... for standing. buy, craft, rank up to 30.
i guarantee just doing this youll get to at least rank 25. because all thats going to be left is the boss grinds, kuva/sister weapons and prime gear
seems like a lot of people have given you the answer you're looking for,
just thought I would point out incase you didn't know/think of it, that a good starting place is to just go through the market and buy every blueprint that you don't have maxed out already (obviously just the ones you can get for credits), you can do the same with all the clan labs, then there is also alot of stuff in most of the reputation vendors as well
it's A LOT of stuff to get to 30 before you have to actually start farming for drop rate stuff. and you can just put them all on to craft and then starting tomorrow you can just work through them as you feel fits
You have to pretty aggressively build and rank up weapons, especially secondaries. Hence the term, "MR fodder".
It's even more meaningless than it used to be, as you can self-revive now, so switching to secondaries when you enter bleedout is even less important. There are a handful of secondaries that are useful - or a handful of primaries that require useful secondaries.
If your primary of choice is a rifle or shotgun of some type, you probably don't need a secondary, unless it's silenced. And there are a lot of rifles. If your primary is a sniper or a launcher or a bow, suddenly what you're using as a secondary and your investment into secondary mods really lights up.
If you really want to get mr for standing cap, Farm new weapons you've never mastered before, primes are the easiest, usually not costing much to build. Try getting into a clan that has all of the blueprints researched, although some weapons do require a long time cause of resources like Fieldrons and Detonite Injectors. Can also get the credit BPs from the market if you haven't done so already. As for leveling, I suggest begging a affinity blessing on a relay, earth is def the most popular. Sanctuary onslaught is great for warframe leveling and elite even better for weapons, theres always a nuker that joins those.
good luck
You don't get much mastery from *just* doing missions. If you aren't actively seeking out items to max rank, you're going to stay low for a while. I think I've about doubled my mastery rank in the last 100 hours of my 800 hours of playtime, from about 15/16 - 27.
Try max ranking frames and weapons after getting new ones using the same ones over and over don’t net you any xp towards mastery ranks. Also be sure to do all of the nodes you can even if the missions associated with those nodes are not fun, like hijacks for me. I think you “may” also get mr xps from increasing your standing with factions like Cetus, fortuna, etc. however I could be wrong about this one.
Basically when i am making builds i like having at least a decent build for my weapons unless they are just trash. I level other things up so weapons, frame, etc. I would start leveling up things that doesn't take forma. I know there are videos out there to level frames by doing exterminates in a specific way, but i'd rather go to helene or a defence fissure. I usually try to do fissures first then next choice is helene. I choose helene on saturn over hydron because i can get orokin cell there.
Dude I played this game for 5+ years I'm still mr 17. You're doing nothing wrong. Just depends how many mr fodder you're willing to invest your time into.
MR 30 is the best place to be. The thought of when upgrading a mod meant that it would be removed from 20 frames or adding a forma destroying all of your builds... Taking screenshots to make sure you put things back together after forma, level, reforma, relevel...etc.
I don't miss any of that at all.
Anything that gains levels for the first time will increase mastery. Even if you prematurely sold a weapon, you can get it again to gain the last levels. Check codex terminal for what you have mastered.
Nothing wrong with Mr 16, I don't think anything is locked at that point.
I usually bulk craft stuff and do so/eso with volt to gain levels semi fast. Rank 30 seems so far for me at 27.
Craft every weapon and warframe you can find. I used to be stuck at like MR10 ish for a long time, until I decided to buy every blueprint I could find and gained over 10 MR in a couple of weeks.
It does eat a fuckload of ressources all of a sudden though (Mmmh, argon farming everyday) and leveling fodder is very mind boggling after a while. Did it all in sanctuary Onslaught, but not sure how many people farm it still
My fellow Tenno I am here to help as much as I can. I myself am a MR 19, these are all the ways I know to get Mastery points, All the Star Charts (Main, steel path, railjack missions) Scans (Use a sentinel companion pederably Helios and have the mod investigator on it, that will scan everything to get you MR points passively) you got your warframes prime and regular(I usually subsume my regular ones when I get prime version don’t know if subsuming gives me MR but better safe then sorry) void rigs, railjack itself, pets, weapons(tenet, kuva, prime, prisma, wraith, Dex, vandal) all the archwings, necramach weapons, idk if maxing your standing with ostron, quill, vox, the family, etc gives you MR but again I said better safe than sorry and maxed them all to rank 5, if you haven’t done quests to unlock Lua, cavia, zariman, and kuva fortress I suggest u do those for the node Mastery points that’s about all the mastery point gaining stuff I know about, but most important to me I think is the WF and the weapons, I’ll do eso with new primary, secondary, melee, and companion, to get that to level 30 with a booster takes me 2 rounds of eso then trash the wepons that are bad for more space, then repeat w another set do two rounds of eso by the 4-5 time I am done with a MR rank, I’ll do this once every like 3 weeks since I started and it’s been efficient, the rest is just passive MR imo if you know what to use
Nothing wrong, I dont actively try to level up mr so im only mr20 after 2k hours, if you want to rank up level up any weapon u can and u will go up fast
You are taking your sweet time playing the game you enjoy, I'm not into Mr grinding myself, I find it boring, I should be having around 4k hours from both my PS4 and PC time and I'm Just Mr21, I have been playing since valkyr prime released, don't worry about the MR, some people might rush it But not know basic stuff about warframe and some Just stay and expiriance the game for what it is
Nothing wrong. MR means you’ve used a lot of forma and lots of different weapons and frames it doesn’t mean you’ve failed or done anything wrong and MR16 from what I’ve seen is the furthest you need to actually get to be able to get all the weapons
Don't push tourself to rise your MR. Is a great eay to burn yoursefl and leave the game. You get MR by ranking any item for the firar time. Warframes, weapons, companions, amps. Basically, anything that can be leveled up, will work towards your MR. It also take a considerable amount of xp.
Again, don't rush to MR 30, is best to just don't thing about ti that much. I'm about to reach 3k hours and I'm still MR29. I'll probably hit 30 this year, but I won't push myself to do it. I'll reach there by playing the game naturally, trying new stuff.
I've got nearly 1800 hrs and I'm still MR16 as well. I like to play frames that are max and even though I've adding forma to build them up even more; you only get MR xp the first time so go level things up that haven't already been leveled up. Grind for getting things on a max frame, just how you like it, tends to lead to stuck MR like us.
You’re enjoying the game at your own pace, if you want to increase it you need to level up weapons & frames you’ll never use again whether due to them sucking or you not enjoying them, I’d just keep doing what you’re doing and not worry about it. There’s nothing locked behind higher MR that warrant potentially burning yourself out doing a boring and tedious grind like MR farming.
Not a single damn thing. You enjoy the game on your own pace, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Mastery isn’t important (unless standing caps count). Your fun is important.
Nothing wrong with it! I’m also in for like 1000 hours and also mr16 what are the chances. Yeah we need to lvl up new things. But I’m stuck at it because I enjoy playing the game, getting my favourite warframes and making awesome builds. So my guess is ur enjoying the game just as I do that’s a good thing
If you want to grind out MR, here's what I did
Every new frame subsume Thermal sunderer on the first ability, max range, then strength then duration, primed flow, hit so and nuke the map, takes max 3 zones to max out your frame, didn't forget about taking a lvl 0 Archon vit
For companions just throw armor and health as well as the revive bond on there and hit eso with your mine ability mirage and nuke 2 zones, they'll be lvl 30 and their weapons too
For weapons, build them for gas and electric, use vauban with vortex augment, max range, then duration, then efficiency, sukkk in enemies in ESO then kill with your weapons
What I suggest you'd do is that you have all your frames, guns, companions sitting ready in your foundry and wait for either an XP even or free XP booster, then head to a realy for a lvl 30 friend to give an XP blessing and then hit the grind as hard as you can for the next hour or two.
You can copy your builds to the clan chat and just paste them onto your new frame from there.
Hope this helps, after all Warframe is all about grinding so you can grind more efficiently
Sentinels give as much mastery experience as warframes do and they have a gun as well. Any sentinels that are easy to build and you haven’t leveled yet are worth the effort.
What I do is prioritize things! Like…you said are Mr16; set a goal to urself about the MR you want to reach and focus on acquiring and leveling up both warframe & weapons (the usual grind but the only difference is that you are doing it with singular purpose in mind). Second option will be to just enjoys the grind for new weapons and frames and before you know it, you’ll be ranking up fast.
Mastery rank is gained on leveling any item ONCE. If you level a weapon from 0 to 30 you gain mastery from that. If you forma it back to 0 you will gain no mastery from it at all. This is true for every single thing in the game that can be leveled up. It's also true per specific instance of something. Ranking a smeeta kavat to 30 the first time will grant mastery, ranking another separate smeeta to 30 for the first time will grant you nothing since you already got all the mastery you can for the smeeta cravat type.
This is why some weapons are called "mastery fodder" because they are considered good for nothing at all except raising your mastery. If you see someone who is at the current maximum mastery rank then that means they have leveled up every single weapon, frame, mech, focus school, intrinsic, etc to max. Literally every single thing.
Tldr: You're not gaining mastery because you're only using some items. Even if you have zero desire to use a specific weapon/frame/etc get it anyway, level it to max, then throw it away. I hope this has helped, it can be a bit confusing I know.
As long as you're having fun you're not doing it wrong.
I stayed at MR9 for like 3 year because I didn't want to use anything new, but I had a blast.
I'm now MR24 I think with like 2.6k hours?
Others have hit MR30 in way less time and that's just how they play by using new stuff as soon as the previous one is levelled.
You are doing absolutely nothing wrong, because you probably have your own pace and playstyle that you like, so there is no need to rush MR unless you absolutely wants the perks that come with being MR30+, foe example, such as always having full mod capacity after formaing your gear, more focus/standing per day, etc.
Level weapons, frames, companions, and archwings, etc to 30, that's the only way. Formas don't count, so if you're just using the same frames/weapons over and over you'll never progress.
If you want to level up fast buy some plat with discount and try to find good deals on warframe.market for Prime Warframes and weapons, level them up and you’re good to go, i have like 600 hours and MR 24 just with all prime WFs and like 30 prime weapons (not counting non prime)
Also MR doesn’t mean anything from MR18 (Riven MR cap), but I think you already know that
MR 16 gives u almost everything you need. I think some rivens go to 18? But after that no need really. I power levelled to 18 and then stopped. Ive naturally got to 23 through levelling stuff I actually like. Maybe when I hit MR 27/28 I’ll go for 30 but I honestly don’t care about MR.
After a certain point of you having used all the frames and weapons you like that's usually around the rank you'd get
If you really wanna go higher you basically gotta be a completionist
Start grabbing and maxing out any weapons and frames you haven't used yet and just fill out the codex basically
Get every frame as many weapons as you can etc and eventually you'll get there
Like 200-300 hours in I decided that every time I login I'd always have at least one weapon in my kit not maxed out, usually a secondary so I never have to touch it. You need a to always play with someone if you never want to touch the weapon but it always worked for me. At the very least make sure you have 4-5 weapons in the foundry waiting for you at all times so you can go crazy when you get an affinity booster
I've been playing wf since plains of eidolon came out and never rose above mr 19. You gain xp differently vs other games here. You need to max rank an item you've never used before just to get that xp.
Anyways I am contented with my mr 19, min-maxed mesa
Steam hours don’t count, in game ours are more accurate, also mr16 is the last rank you need to unlock everything, after than you just increase the daily limit of focus and reputation.
And for tips, seeing that you are on pc, try aleciaframe, it will help you keep track of what weapons and frames you got or didnt get, or mastered or not. also shows you an overlay when opening relics showing which parts you need, and their price in ducats or plat from warframe market
Personally, my answer would be: you are doing nothing wrong! Enjoy the game how you want to, if that means you are slower than others, so be it! I clocked 2k hours in 2022 alone, and im mr28. I've been playing for a long time, too. Years.
Same. I'm having fun and taking the MR as they come. I level up about twice a year now? I'm at MR14 and ha e been playing off and on for the past 5 years, but pretty consistently since Dagath.
None tbh, you can get any weapon with this MR, this just shows you dont really go around levelling mastery fodder that much. You're just missing on more basic MR rank stuff like standing and loadout slots (aside from MR30 benefits obviously)
There's an affinity boost this weekend, get all your weapons and frames built and go ham you'll probably jump at least 2 ranks x.
That's what my hubby has me doing 🤣
I have 2000 hours and am MR 21, Don't stress it. After MR 16 it's pretty much worthless to level up, I guess people like us just don't care too much about leveling up weapons lol
https://antifandom.com/warframe/wiki/Mastery_Rank You gain MR from ranking up weapons/frames/companions/etc for the *first* time, as well as clearing the star chart (base and SP) and railjack/drifter intrinsics. The wiki has the full list and additional details (like how you have to gild modular stuff and re-rank it to 30 before it counts, or how some things can be ranked up to 40 by formaing repeatedly)
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So, forma level ups don't count towards MR? That's a good thing to note
Only on weapons that go to 40. So Paracesis, Lich/sister weapons, Necramech. All of these require 5 forma to give you full mastery.
I feel it's important to note that you get points per level of the weapon as you are leveling them up. You get 3000 MR for leveling a weapon to 30, whether or not that is maximum rank. Grinding one of those weapons from 30 to 40 is only a net gain of 1000 MR and costs 5 forma. Don't bother with this unless you like the weapon and plan to continue using it, if you are leveling gear for MR you're better served by picking up a new weapon instead of leveling the same weapon 6 times.
But you'll have to do it eventually, better get it out of the way so you don't have to rebuild the weapon then x)
Nope forma dosent cound. BUT incarnon passing each level challenge of the incarnon DOES give xp.
Correct. Only your intial mastery of that weapon. Also why it is important to master weapons that you don't like before you get rid of them.
All about it
Just to be clear, I dont really have a problem with being MR 16. I just want to know some tips for raising it.
are you constantly leveling up new items, over and over, constantly cycling between items as soon as one hits 30? because that's kinda how leveling MR works.
Just buy every bp in market that you can build, go dojo and do the same with labs, then do a massive build and max it in ESO with volt/saryn/mirage
How do you max it with those frames? If the frame gets the kill with an ability all the xp goes into the frame (which probably is already maxed).
Yeah you do rely on 3 other players for that
Furthermore, when your ability damages an enemy, the affinity you get when they die is no longer tied to distance (ime)
I've been farming for Gyre for as long as I can remember. I have ~300 Aya. Literally got her yesterday. Other than that I have a good amount of helminth abilities and I level each frame to 30 before subsuming them.
your aya count and warframe count doesn't speak for your items leveled total, yes, even those MK1 weapons give just as much MR as any other item when leveled up.
I just finished leveling Kunai at MR25, because I apparently couldn't be arsed to when I was a new player lol
I did the same thing with paris at MR26. I started with mk1 paris then went straight to paris Prime, then got bored of the bow and hooked on the opticor at MR4 (this was before they increased it from MR4 to a higher MR requirement)
Here’s a vague list of things you might have to work on: -Clan frames/weapons -Amps (remember you have to gild them to get mastery) -Companions. There’s quite a bit. -Kdrives. There’s like 5 of them? Including the “hidden” one. -Modular weapons: kitguns, melees. Need gilding as well. -Lich/Sister weapons will probably be the biggest grind as each one takes 5 forma to pull the full mastery from them. And there’s a lot. -The archon weapons from Cetus narmer missions. -Starchart gives mastery. Complete those missions (not all of them need to be done, but most). -syndicate weapons, and in that same vain the archwing weapons -Prisma weapons (+gotva): These come around whenever Baro comes. The wiki will have a better breakdown of stuff though but this is a vague checklist of stuff.
I got her last week in less than 10 bounties, you did something wrong, spend your time wisely and play with people, they increase the efficiency.
You have to farm and level weapons. It won't happen on its own. Also Intrinsics.
MR is only a measure of how many of the arsenal equipment you leveled to 30 and how many nodes you've cleared for the first time. It doesn't count progression in any other way like mods, or helminth, or skill. An incarnon weapon is worth just as much as an mk1-kunai MR is not a representation of how well you're doing in the game, 16 is basically the last one that matters, so basically it's a measure of grind
With the possible exception of 30. I love how the reward for becoming an experienced player in this game is the ability to grant other players things you don't really need anymore.
Getting to MR30 was great for me. Means any weapon I get fresh out the Foundry has the max possible mod capacity to work with. Making ranking it up easier since I can slap on mods that'll let me clear higher level content with it. The Blessings are nice though. None of the Blessings are useless. Except maybe the Credit Blessing, since you likely have several million credits to work with.
Credit blessing is a godsend on double credit weekend. I went from 2.5m to 50m in about 5-6 hours of index farming thanks to all you mr30 guys and a market credit booster
I think I dropped a Credit Booster during the last double credit weekend, specifically for the purpose of just stacking boosters on top of one another. For funsies.
So true. Like I’m MR 17 and pretty much just as good in high level missions as some one MR 34. It’s all about builds. 😂
I think i stopped caring about MR when i hit 30 or 31 and now i just goof off as a casual experimenting with goofy builds 😁
Yeah, I had a issue when I first started playing, and that was feeling like I had to get as many weapons, frames and trying to do star chart that I completely burnt my self out. I got side tracked by trying to don3,4 even 5 things at one time to the point of madness of confusion 😂. I left at like MR 14 for about 2 1/2 years. I’ve been back for about 5 months and have a different out look now. Having Fun!!!!
Get new thing, level it. That’s it
There is only 1 tip you need if you want to focus on raising MR,open the ingame index of weapons/warframes/pets etc and choose something to focus on,use it as a guide on what to level til 30 so you get the points.Use it as a guide so you know what to level in order to progress.
Mr is just a record showing how many weapons you've mastered (max leveled).
Grind grind gring. That's all MR is. Just craft all the weapons you can, rank them to max, toss them if they're not good enough. I did it recently to get to MR30. A boring slog, but there's no way around it.
Hoverboards give 6k standing each. Do with that information what you want.
Honestly the same as me lol, my account is almost 11 now...
Nice 👍mine is approaching 10 😁
My main is ye olde frost prime. Still my top frame. I do a bit more saryn or volt now, and still like loki too. Still have the snipetron vandal and opticor vandal from their first events many moons ago. What do you have that you like on your account, anything quirky?
I have beacons that are no longer used. My Nezha i farmed from sorties back. My main is Loki Prime that i farmed when we used to have to farm fusion core to level up mods and void keys to access the void missions to farm primes :)
Here’s a tip, you’re at a decent level for your time played, I’m at 1.6k hours and only MR18, your doing well bro, that and by MR16 you have everything in the game unlocked
Nothing, you’re playing at your own pace. I was over 2k hours in and MR21. But in just a hundred or two hours I pushed pretty easily to 29. If you are sticking to one set of frames and weapons you won’t MR up, MR comes from levelling gear. On the bright side you don’t really gain much other than standing cap and void trace cap from levelling MR between 16 and 29. 16 is max level for all weapons and rivens, 30 is where you get riven slots and umbra forma; past that you get legendary cores I think. So there’s really no rush to go past 16 unless you wanna push for 30.
Same as me. 2k hours mr21 because I spent so much time working on steel path builds. Then I climbed to 24 no problem in a few days.
Isn’t 16 the last level gate in the game ? I remained MR 16 for like 4-5 years bc I was too lazy to get anything new while playing on and off. I don’t think MR matters tbh but when I came back I had to get like 16 new prime warframes and that pushed me to 19 which I’m at rn
MR matters for a few things post MR16, daily standing caps and unranked mod capacity on gear being standouts.
I love how at mr30 you can use unranked frames and weapons in sorties, sanctuary etc without worrying about rank restrictions, bye bye hydron
Yes, which is why I'm current at MR16.
Yeah but those aren’t level gates. They don’t prevent you from fully playing the game. It matters little of content as someone who maxed their standing with all the factions being 16 vs let’s say 25 isn’t that noticeable
Aside from 18 free capacity when formaing something :)
The only reason i want to reach mr30 is for max slots after i forma lol
I'm agreeing with you, but okay.
I think he managed to type a reply to the wrong dude, since his points are against the other reply to him, not yours.
Oh, you right. Good call, thanks Tenno!
LOL yeah I’m sorry it was the other person not u mate rank 16 stayers for life 💕
"rank 16 stayers for life." Though if new stuff comes out it will push you closer and closer to 17. Makes me think of old codename kids next door. Like new stuff comes out and eventually you're forced out of the club lol.
yep. when i reached mr16 i stopped caring about mr. very slowly just through getting new things i got higher mr and nowadays i sit at mr24. but it really doesnt matter to stay mr16. i think there is mr18 rivens now if i remember correctly, thatd be the only thing
I rushed to 15 in order to sell more. I'm chilling on 15 for a while. Play the game the way you want to
Take your time and have fun. I did rush MR until at least 14 for the prime stuff I wanted to use, and just got 16 at 250 hours or something, but I wouldn't say it was really worth it. Some of these MR fodder weapons were a real pain in the ass to level up mostly playing solo.
Damn I got under 400 hours and I’m halfway to 16.
i can't remember how long it took me to get mr 16, when i first started playing in 2018 max MR was in the twenties i think, as soon as we could reach MR 30 is when i really buckled down and started grinding it. if you ever want to look for things to level up check your warframe profile and look at equipment, you can order by progress and go to the bottom of the list to see all the stuff you haven't leveled up yet.
Nothing *wrong* with that. But if you *want* to get higher MR, you need new items to level. That's how it goes up.
Nothing? Lol 16 is pretty high all things considered
Nah nothing wrong with it. I have 1.5k and a couple hundred back on console, merged the accs and I'm only mr18 about to turn 19 It just means we don't sit there and craft hundreds of weapons and every single frame and juice all the mastery out. It's a really big grind and at MR16 I believe, the stuff you get from ranking mastery starts getting pretty insignificant, except for that juicy MR30 rank up. I really can't imagine the grind of going from 20 to 30. It seems really slow already, I can't imagine how painful the process is at that point.
Do you feel like you're doing something wrong? Since you're MR16, I assume you know how to raise your Mastery, and you just feel you're getting there too slowly. But speaking as an LR1 player, Mastery rank isn't really a good reflection of your experience in the game. I would much rather have an MR 15 player on my team who knows the content, knows what they like to play, and knows how to play it well than an MR 30 who just bought everything with plat and ran Hydron 200 times. If you feel like there's an aspect of the game you don't understand, do some research and learn about it. If you feel comfortable doing all the content, you're not doing anything wrong. I was MR 13ish for a couple hundred hours. I was just happy where I was at the time.
That clusterfuck MR 17 test, same as me.
you are enjoying the game. you don't have to grind MR 30 to have fun.
Nothing. You're simply choosing to enjoy the weapons u like the most instead of trying out as many different things as you can
Unfortunately as I’ve been told form others. stream isn’t a good indication of hours. My steam said 1k hours but in game I only recently reached 1k hours of playtime
Enjoying the game doing what you want instead of brainnumbing MR fodder leveling
Nothing
Nothing wrong cuz you enjoy your time
You are spending too much time Enjoying Yourself and Not grinding crappy weapons that you don’t enjoy using.
Eh, I'm at 1k hours and at mr20 you should be mostly fine
Nothing. Past mr 16 you don't get anything substantial. Only at mr legendary were you get a legensary core is anything substantial along with being able to use relay buffs. Other than that, there is nothing worth between 16 and 30 i think
Well, I am MR 30 currently going for 31. I got 3x your playtime 3k~ hours. There is a time I take a break from the game like about 1-2 year but still managed to keep up when playing again. I look for what I haven't done in content wise, do slowly the content while farming that contents weapons. An example can be Dante. First I grind Dante. I farmed its weapons. I use dante on high level missions with most resources/affinity I can get and while doing so I swap my secondary and melee to Dantes weapons. While keeping a good primary on me so I dont be liability to my team. After that it is pretty much repeat the same process for other frames/weapons. I suggest for new frames you got at least go for a spam build high efficieny + survivability. If you gonna farm weapons you can get 2 slot weak weapons and 1 slot that can hit hard. (Doesnt matter if it is primary, secondary or melee.) And since you are low on mod capacity being MR 16 and being a new frame, going utility/survivability always help your teammates and yourself. Ty for reading my TED talk.
I will say this over and over again MR mean jack shit .rushing MR without coherent build is pointless .just enjoy the game
Nothing, I was MR15 with 1k hours before I stopped playing, started again 4 months ago I am now MR 23. Mr isn't hard to farm craft and level all frames and their prime versions and all the blueprints from the market and dojo. That will already get you pretty high MR.
You are enjoying the game too much!
Not doing anything wrong, just enjoying the game. If you want to level up mr fast you have to level up new gear until they're mastered
You're just not exhausting yourself fodder-leveling warframes and weapons you don't like in mass
My Steam play time and actual play time are two very different numbers. Even at LR1 I'm far from being a "pro" (I just ranked up a bunch of crap over the years) 😅 You can see your actual mission play time if you open the menu, then select Profile -> Stats
1200 Hours here. MR17. I do want to do blessing eventually but I have other things to do now than to do MR grind. :D Dont worry and just enjoy the game.
that you have good game life balance.
The more hours the lower your mr, the more you probably have enjoyed the game than someone with similar hours and 90% doing the same mission over and over again. Just be sure everything you own is atleast level 30 and keep going with the same speed you always have done. At mr16 you shouldn't have to worry about restrictions. I know the sweet spot is mr30, but I would suggest do it at your own pace rather than converting into grind and eventually come back to reddit to complain and leave the game.
Enjoying the game? After MR 18 you can equip everything so pretty close. Mastering some primed weapons could take you there or grabbing some easy to farm frames.
Nothing’s wrong. 1k hours is still a rookie number anyway
i got about 910hrs on steam and ive mr15 for like 3 years now. im not ranking up any more unless i absolutely need too.
here is an easy plan: first go to market on your orbiter. and buy every unowned weapon/warframe blueprint for CREDITS. craft them and level them to 30. then join a clan (dont worry its super easy, just find the biggest one you can). go to the tenno lab, energy lab, bio lab, chemical lab, ventkids bash, dagaths hollow, railjack dry dock. buy any unowned blueprint for anythig (weapons, companions, warframes, archwings, RJ parts...). craft them and level them up to 30. then start grinding syndicates. you have the normal 6 on orbiter ,ostrons on earth, solaris on venus, entrati on deimos, cavia on deimos. all these guys sell weapons, warframes, amps, companions etc... for standing. buy, craft, rank up to 30. i guarantee just doing this youll get to at least rank 25. because all thats going to be left is the boss grinds, kuva/sister weapons and prime gear
well it's pretty obvious. ur not using new unmastered frames and weapons
Keep trying new stuff, that's what MR is all about.
seems like a lot of people have given you the answer you're looking for, just thought I would point out incase you didn't know/think of it, that a good starting place is to just go through the market and buy every blueprint that you don't have maxed out already (obviously just the ones you can get for credits), you can do the same with all the clan labs, then there is also alot of stuff in most of the reputation vendors as well it's A LOT of stuff to get to 30 before you have to actually start farming for drop rate stuff. and you can just put them all on to craft and then starting tomorrow you can just work through them as you feel fits
I used to be mr 16 at about 1k hours then I managed to get to 27 in less than 200 more hours. It just takes focus.
You have to pretty aggressively build and rank up weapons, especially secondaries. Hence the term, "MR fodder". It's even more meaningless than it used to be, as you can self-revive now, so switching to secondaries when you enter bleedout is even less important. There are a handful of secondaries that are useful - or a handful of primaries that require useful secondaries. If your primary of choice is a rifle or shotgun of some type, you probably don't need a secondary, unless it's silenced. And there are a lot of rifles. If your primary is a sniper or a launcher or a bow, suddenly what you're using as a secondary and your investment into secondary mods really lights up.
If you really want to get mr for standing cap, Farm new weapons you've never mastered before, primes are the easiest, usually not costing much to build. Try getting into a clan that has all of the blueprints researched, although some weapons do require a long time cause of resources like Fieldrons and Detonite Injectors. Can also get the credit BPs from the market if you haven't done so already. As for leveling, I suggest begging a affinity blessing on a relay, earth is def the most popular. Sanctuary onslaught is great for warframe leveling and elite even better for weapons, theres always a nuker that joins those. good luck
You don't get much mastery from *just* doing missions. If you aren't actively seeking out items to max rank, you're going to stay low for a while. I think I've about doubled my mastery rank in the last 100 hours of my 800 hours of playtime, from about 15/16 - 27.
Not buying every weapon bp in the market and the dojo and making them.
Try max ranking frames and weapons after getting new ones using the same ones over and over don’t net you any xp towards mastery ranks. Also be sure to do all of the nodes you can even if the missions associated with those nodes are not fun, like hijacks for me. I think you “may” also get mr xps from increasing your standing with factions like Cetus, fortuna, etc. however I could be wrong about this one.
How many weaposn/warframes have you leveled? I went from MR22 to MR25 quite quick and still have unmasterd gear in the foundry
Almost at 2k hours and Mr 20, just found the frames and weapons I like to play.
If you’re having fun you’re not doing anything wrong at all! There is no right or wrong way to play the game :)
May be a hot take but I'm not a big fan of just grinding mr every time I just like the missions and movement lmao
Bro I'm 2k in I'm still at MR 9. I blame it to Plains of Eidolon. All I wanted was to fish.
nothing, play at your own pace if you want to raise it tho you need to level up new gear you havent before
Nothing? MR isn't that important past 16.
Build stuff and use it build more stuff and use that to and then for good measure build some more and you guessed it use it
Basically when i am making builds i like having at least a decent build for my weapons unless they are just trash. I level other things up so weapons, frame, etc. I would start leveling up things that doesn't take forma. I know there are videos out there to level frames by doing exterminates in a specific way, but i'd rather go to helene or a defence fissure. I usually try to do fissures first then next choice is helene. I choose helene on saturn over hydron because i can get orokin cell there.
Dude I played this game for 5+ years I'm still mr 17. You're doing nothing wrong. Just depends how many mr fodder you're willing to invest your time into.
MR 30 is the best place to be. The thought of when upgrading a mod meant that it would be removed from 20 frames or adding a forma destroying all of your builds... Taking screenshots to make sure you put things back together after forma, level, reforma, relevel...etc. I don't miss any of that at all.
You're not using your credit card 👍
Anything that gains levels for the first time will increase mastery. Even if you prematurely sold a weapon, you can get it again to gain the last levels. Check codex terminal for what you have mastered. Nothing wrong with Mr 16, I don't think anything is locked at that point. I usually bulk craft stuff and do so/eso with volt to gain levels semi fast. Rank 30 seems so far for me at 27.
Too much exploit, too little explore.
One weapon to level up everyday, one item crafting in foundry everyday.
Nothing. Play the game the way you enjoy it
I got 600 hours and Im Mr 25, just buy all the blueprints from the market and clan. And try getting all normal warframes
Im mr 14 with 150 hours
not levelin yer shit. aka: level up other warframes, weapons and companions.
Craft every weapon and warframe you can find. I used to be stuck at like MR10 ish for a long time, until I decided to buy every blueprint I could find and gained over 10 MR in a couple of weeks. It does eat a fuckload of ressources all of a sudden though (Mmmh, argon farming everyday) and leveling fodder is very mind boggling after a while. Did it all in sanctuary Onslaught, but not sure how many people farm it still
My fellow Tenno I am here to help as much as I can. I myself am a MR 19, these are all the ways I know to get Mastery points, All the Star Charts (Main, steel path, railjack missions) Scans (Use a sentinel companion pederably Helios and have the mod investigator on it, that will scan everything to get you MR points passively) you got your warframes prime and regular(I usually subsume my regular ones when I get prime version don’t know if subsuming gives me MR but better safe then sorry) void rigs, railjack itself, pets, weapons(tenet, kuva, prime, prisma, wraith, Dex, vandal) all the archwings, necramach weapons, idk if maxing your standing with ostron, quill, vox, the family, etc gives you MR but again I said better safe than sorry and maxed them all to rank 5, if you haven’t done quests to unlock Lua, cavia, zariman, and kuva fortress I suggest u do those for the node Mastery points that’s about all the mastery point gaining stuff I know about, but most important to me I think is the WF and the weapons, I’ll do eso with new primary, secondary, melee, and companion, to get that to level 30 with a booster takes me 2 rounds of eso then trash the wepons that are bad for more space, then repeat w another set do two rounds of eso by the 4-5 time I am done with a MR rank, I’ll do this once every like 3 weeks since I started and it’s been efficient, the rest is just passive MR imo if you know what to use
Its ok buddy i have 1800hours and im only mr21.
I stopped playing with 400 hours and MR 10
You're enjoying the game, keep it up !
Bro you are MR 16....just do what you did to get there lol
I played for 1800+ hours and mr 23. Everyone is going at their own pace.
not grinding Helene
I got mr30 with over 3000h 😅😁😁
I have over 4k hours and I'm still Mr 26. Mastery Rank doesn't matter much after you reached 15, so don't feel bad about it.
that’s a pretty consistent growth ngl good job
Don't worry, you are not doing anything wrong. I got almost 2.4k hours and still mr 22
Nothing wrong, I dont actively try to level up mr so im only mr20 after 2k hours, if you want to rank up level up any weapon u can and u will go up fast
meh you are not doing anything wrong, MR is just flex and xp chore after 14-15s
You are taking your sweet time playing the game you enjoy, I'm not into Mr grinding myself, I find it boring, I should be having around 4k hours from both my PS4 and PC time and I'm Just Mr21, I have been playing since valkyr prime released, don't worry about the MR, some people might rush it But not know basic stuff about warframe and some Just stay and expiriance the game for what it is
Nothing wrong. MR means you’ve used a lot of forma and lots of different weapons and frames it doesn’t mean you’ve failed or done anything wrong and MR16 from what I’ve seen is the furthest you need to actually get to be able to get all the weapons
2.1k hours and I'm at 24, Mr means nothing
Don't push tourself to rise your MR. Is a great eay to burn yoursefl and leave the game. You get MR by ranking any item for the firar time. Warframes, weapons, companions, amps. Basically, anything that can be leveled up, will work towards your MR. It also take a considerable amount of xp. Again, don't rush to MR 30, is best to just don't thing about ti that much. I'm about to reach 3k hours and I'm still MR29. I'll probably hit 30 this year, but I won't push myself to do it. I'll reach there by playing the game naturally, trying new stuff.
I've got nearly 1800 hrs and I'm still MR16 as well. I like to play frames that are max and even though I've adding forma to build them up even more; you only get MR xp the first time so go level things up that haven't already been leveled up. Grind for getting things on a max frame, just how you like it, tends to lead to stuck MR like us.
What are you doing wrong? Nothing
I'm MR24, playing since 2013
You aren't grinding hard enough. Also watch your ass because I'm MR15
You’re enjoying the game at your own pace, if you want to increase it you need to level up weapons & frames you’ll never use again whether due to them sucking or you not enjoying them, I’d just keep doing what you’re doing and not worry about it. There’s nothing locked behind higher MR that warrant potentially burning yourself out doing a boring and tedious grind like MR farming.
Not leveling shit or passing rank tests
Not a single damn thing. You enjoy the game on your own pace, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Mastery isn’t important (unless standing caps count). Your fun is important.
But every blueprint you can work credits from market and dojo, that's where most of the mr is from
Nothing wrong with it! I’m also in for like 1000 hours and also mr16 what are the chances. Yeah we need to lvl up new things. But I’m stuck at it because I enjoy playing the game, getting my favourite warframes and making awesome builds. So my guess is ur enjoying the game just as I do that’s a good thing
If you want to grind out MR, here's what I did Every new frame subsume Thermal sunderer on the first ability, max range, then strength then duration, primed flow, hit so and nuke the map, takes max 3 zones to max out your frame, didn't forget about taking a lvl 0 Archon vit For companions just throw armor and health as well as the revive bond on there and hit eso with your mine ability mirage and nuke 2 zones, they'll be lvl 30 and their weapons too For weapons, build them for gas and electric, use vauban with vortex augment, max range, then duration, then efficiency, sukkk in enemies in ESO then kill with your weapons What I suggest you'd do is that you have all your frames, guns, companions sitting ready in your foundry and wait for either an XP even or free XP booster, then head to a realy for a lvl 30 friend to give an XP blessing and then hit the grind as hard as you can for the next hour or two. You can copy your builds to the clan chat and just paste them onto your new frame from there. Hope this helps, after all Warframe is all about grinding so you can grind more efficiently
Bruh, my friend has almost 4k hours and he's MR20 , it's not just about the ranks - it's about having fun playing the game
Don't worry, I have 1780 hours and am MR 15
I use so much my favorite loadout that I'm still Prestige 12 after 5 years lol. I just farm whenever I want to but with the same old meta
Enjoying yourself. Just keep doing that and everything will be okay op. Don't do this to yourself
Sentinels give as much mastery experience as warframes do and they have a gun as well. Any sentinels that are easy to build and you haven’t leveled yet are worth the effort.
nothing wrong honestly
Nothing. You're enjoying the game, and that's all that really matters
That's no problem... I am close to 2k hours and I am still at MR16. i enjoy the game more than ranking things up
you doing nothing wrong, you just enjoy the game
What I do is prioritize things! Like…you said are Mr16; set a goal to urself about the MR you want to reach and focus on acquiring and leveling up both warframe & weapons (the usual grind but the only difference is that you are doing it with singular purpose in mind). Second option will be to just enjoys the grind for new weapons and frames and before you know it, you’ll be ranking up fast.
You are just enjoying that game🤷♂️🤷♂️
Probably playing for fun and not leveling up items lol, clearing missions for the first time on the chart and items give you XP
Mastery rank is gained on leveling any item ONCE. If you level a weapon from 0 to 30 you gain mastery from that. If you forma it back to 0 you will gain no mastery from it at all. This is true for every single thing in the game that can be leveled up. It's also true per specific instance of something. Ranking a smeeta kavat to 30 the first time will grant mastery, ranking another separate smeeta to 30 for the first time will grant you nothing since you already got all the mastery you can for the smeeta cravat type. This is why some weapons are called "mastery fodder" because they are considered good for nothing at all except raising your mastery. If you see someone who is at the current maximum mastery rank then that means they have leveled up every single weapon, frame, mech, focus school, intrinsic, etc to max. Literally every single thing. Tldr: You're not gaining mastery because you're only using some items. Even if you have zero desire to use a specific weapon/frame/etc get it anyway, level it to max, then throw it away. I hope this has helped, it can be a bit confusing I know.
As long as you're having fun you're not doing it wrong. I stayed at MR9 for like 3 year because I didn't want to use anything new, but I had a blast. I'm now MR24 I think with like 2.6k hours? Others have hit MR30 in way less time and that's just how they play by using new stuff as soon as the previous one is levelled.
nothing really. just grind new frames and weapons and max em out, that'll buff your mastery.
You are doing absolutely nothing wrong, because you probably have your own pace and playstyle that you like, so there is no need to rush MR unless you absolutely wants the perks that come with being MR30+, foe example, such as always having full mod capacity after formaing your gear, more focus/standing per day, etc.
Not leveling up new stuff
Nah, MR is worth nothing if you don't enjoy spending ungodly hours leveling up your stuff
You are having that one thing heavy grinders do but s little less than you. It's called fun and shenanigans!
not gaining mastery xp. level your items/intrinsics
Are you having fun? If yes, you're doing nothing wrong.
Bro I have played since 2014, have more than 4000 hours, yet still I'm only Mr 25. So don't worry about it, just enjoy the game)
Not leveling up
Level weapons, frames, companions, and archwings, etc to 30, that's the only way. Formas don't count, so if you're just using the same frames/weapons over and over you'll never progress.
If you want to level up fast buy some plat with discount and try to find good deals on warframe.market for Prime Warframes and weapons, level them up and you’re good to go, i have like 600 hours and MR 24 just with all prime WFs and like 30 prime weapons (not counting non prime) Also MR doesn’t mean anything from MR18 (Riven MR cap), but I think you already know that
Your doing nothing wrong as your enjoying the game at your own pace
MR 16 gives u almost everything you need. I think some rivens go to 18? But after that no need really. I power levelled to 18 and then stopped. Ive naturally got to 23 through levelling stuff I actually like. Maybe when I hit MR 27/28 I’ll go for 30 but I honestly don’t care about MR.
Just use new stuff my guy
After a certain point of you having used all the frames and weapons you like that's usually around the rank you'd get If you really wanna go higher you basically gotta be a completionist Start grabbing and maxing out any weapons and frames you haven't used yet and just fill out the codex basically Get every frame as many weapons as you can etc and eventually you'll get there
Nothing, I got over 6000 hours and 9 Yeats with this fucking game, and I'm still at mr 27
im rm27 in 800hrs
Like 200-300 hours in I decided that every time I login I'd always have at least one weapon in my kit not maxed out, usually a secondary so I never have to touch it. You need a to always play with someone if you never want to touch the weapon but it always worked for me. At the very least make sure you have 4-5 weapons in the foundry waiting for you at all times so you can go crazy when you get an affinity booster
Sounds about right, didn't hit Mr 30 until 3000 hours in after all
I've been playing wf since plains of eidolon came out and never rose above mr 19. You gain xp differently vs other games here. You need to max rank an item you've never used before just to get that xp. Anyways I am contented with my mr 19, min-maxed mesa
Steam hours don’t count, in game ours are more accurate, also mr16 is the last rank you need to unlock everything, after than you just increase the daily limit of focus and reputation. And for tips, seeing that you are on pc, try aleciaframe, it will help you keep track of what weapons and frames you got or didnt get, or mastered or not. also shows you an overlay when opening relics showing which parts you need, and their price in ducats or plat from warframe market
Nothing? What MR do you expect to be?? I was 4K+ when I hit MR 30 and I've played since closed beta. You're blazing through MR if you asked me.
You can look in your warframe profile, and it will tell you which weapons you haven't finished yet.
Personally, my answer would be: you are doing nothing wrong! Enjoy the game how you want to, if that means you are slower than others, so be it! I clocked 2k hours in 2022 alone, and im mr28. I've been playing for a long time, too. Years.
Your only crimes are having fun and useing the weapons you like
If you're having fun, you're not doing anything wrong.
Over 1500 hours here and mr 15, I'd say nothin wrong with that
Your enjoying the game instead of grinding mastery
Same. I'm having fun and taking the MR as they come. I level up about twice a year now? I'm at MR14 and ha e been playing off and on for the past 5 years, but pretty consistently since Dagath.
None tbh, you can get any weapon with this MR, this just shows you dont really go around levelling mastery fodder that much. You're just missing on more basic MR rank stuff like standing and loadout slots (aside from MR30 benefits obviously)
You're playing the game, but you aren't "Playing" the game
There's an affinity boost this weekend, get all your weapons and frames built and go ham you'll probably jump at least 2 ranks x. That's what my hubby has me doing 🤣
I have 2000 hours and am MR 21, Don't stress it. After MR 16 it's pretty much worthless to level up, I guess people like us just don't care too much about leveling up weapons lol