#warframe mods

[eve-be-sleep-deprived]

Custom mods? CUSTOM MODS!?

Oh, such temptation, my soul does squeal!

Make your own Here!

[bunnyframerot]

Hands down Ax-52 is my new favourite weapon in this game, got this bad boy built full weak point crit and it hasn't let me down yet. Sure you can't shoot everywhere, and sure the dmg doesn't go into the milions but hey! if it shreds through a Scaldra with armor on 120 lvl like butter? Then I'm happy.

This is the build I've got, been tweaking it here and there but if everyone's got any recomendations for mods or changes let me know!

[l1brarian1999]

Warframe Mods - Weapons

Mods are the main way of improving your equipment, so they're rather important and need their own post. They're essentially trading cards but rather than summoning creatures like in Magic The Gathering, you're slotting them into a gun or a dude to make them stronger.

Just like trading cards, they come in a variety of colours, which usually indicates the Rarity - now don't be confused, there's a difference a mod which is Rare and a mod which is rare. You might have a Common mod, that is very hard to acquire. You might have a Rare mod that is very hard to acquire. Most mods are in the standard scale:

Bronze / Common - sort of a brown colour

Silver / Uncommon - more of a Blue to be honest.

Gold / Rare - Yellow, essentially.

Platinum / Legendary - a nice bright white with a subtle blue tint. Usually these are reserved for Primed Mods with a few exceptions. They are always Rank10s

There's more kinds - but generally speaking they'll just be Reskins of Rares or Legendaries.

Now mods have Ranks, most mods you acquire them at rank 0 and pour in Endo and Credits to rank them up. The higher the Rarity, the more it costs. And each mod has a set number of Ranks - usually 3, 5, or 10 with a few exceptions here and there.

Almost all mods work on a Percentile Basis. This means that if the Base stat is lower, the mod can still be used but it presents less benefit. Consider: a rifle with 10% Crit chance, and then you use Point Strike, this only adds 12% crit chance for a total of 22%. Not a great use of the mod slot, which you only get 8 of.

Most mods are quite straightforward - just a flat increase to a stat. E.g. Serration just makes you do more damage. Some mods will boost two stats, or three. Some mods reduce a stat, and also increase a stat, usually by a lot more. E.g. Blind Rage gives you a LOT of Power Strength but at the cost of making abilities cost more. Some mods add entirely new effects. E.g. Aviator reduces the damage you take while in the air.

There are even mods that are purely cosmetic.

And there are a lot of them, though a lot of them you won't ever use. Over time we've figured out the winning combinations, though it changes from time to time.

Let's start simple: Weapons. Relatively simple anyway.

After a while, you'll notice that for each category of weapon - rifle, shotgun, pistol, melee, so on - there's a set of 'core' mods.

Damage - sometimes called Raw Damage, mods like Hornet Strike, Serration, Point Blank, and Pressure Point. These are the very first mods you should be putting on a weapon almost every single time.

Your usual firearms variables like magazine capacity, reload speed, fire rate, recoil, so on so forth. Melee weapons have their own, stuff like Range (the length of the sword) and attack speed (how quickly you swing)

Elemental Mods - each category has mods for four base elements: Heat, Toxin, Cold, and Electric. So if you want Incendiary rounds, or a poisoned sword, this is how. These have complexities in and of themselves, enough for a separate post.

Critical Mods - Think like in Pokemon, there was a chance your moves would sometimes deal double damage, like that but now its something you have control over.

Status Mods - the likelihood that you'll inflict some kind of effect upon the enemy, like poisoned, bleeding, or even irradiated. There's also mods that make these effects last longer.

Faction Mods - Mods that somehow make a weapon do more Damage against a particular faction of enemies.

And many, many, many more.

Warframe Modding gets more complicated quicker - at first you'll just be putting in mods to make sure you stay alive; more health, more shields. And then maybe wanting your Warframe powers to hit harder, or hit more enemies, and that's where builds get interesting. We'll do a separate post for Warframe stuff

As you get further into the games, you'll start collecting enough mods that you have Options. Like some weapons won't be useful for damage, but maybe they're good for a utility like stripping enemy armour, or healing you.

So as you get further along, enemies will get tougher, and you'll need to hit them harder. You maybe rank up your mods more, or add new ones. I won't go into huge detail, so here's a scenario to plant the idea of Multipliers vs Additions: If you add Serration to a Rifle, you are multiplying that rifle's base damage. B x S If you then add Heavy Calibre, you are adding more damage. B x (S+HC). Sure, this is an increase... But. If you instead add Point Strike, and get decent consistent critical hits, then you multiply the damage by the Critical Damage stat. B x S x CD. You can also add Vital Sense to make the CD multiplier bigger. B x S x (CD x VS).

Now not every gun is the same, some don't have good crit stats. Some have no status effects. Sometimes there's other gimmicks or mechanics that benefit from stats you wouldn't think - like magazine capacity.

[tricksywizard]

On the Eighth Day of Tennobaum the Lotus gave to me… Eight Mods a-Melting!

Seven Sudas Singing!

Six Glyphs a-Spraying!

FIVE MASTERY RANKS!

Four Cloning Clems!

Three Teshins!

Two Kuva Floods!

And a Prime Frame in the Foundry!

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[trollytenno-blog]

Open the Mod Flood Gates...... Mods been a Touchy Subject for the Devs.. With pure damage mods and where stand in the game. All i have to say is I'm glad that decision is not up to me. But..... As long as you have a goto mod they don't have to change. The Meta thrives. I got Beef with the META Skill may have some conflict of interest with it A good thing to do and maybe 1 day flood with mods Im talking about.... " i don't know what mod to use" kinda good thing Like the energy conversion type mods But they still play it safe with str8 stat mods Like steel fiber. Dual stat mods might come into play again Like xx% Armor/Duration/Rang + when energy full gain xx% Health/Shield/Strength Or Minus xx% energy and no cost of channel attacks /Crit Chance Or when you have, Have more Shield than Health or Vice Versa you get some type of buff This Will Shake things up , I would like to see it

[toxaspot-wf]

Trick or treat!

Here have some flame repellant

[kupa-konstruct]

I keep forgetting about Peculiar Audience. We really just let DE having a manic lil girl laugh in our ears huh?

[reiyd-blog]

“Mandatory Mods”

So I’m watching the Devstream and Scott mentioned the Braton’s stats leveling up as an example of a way to get rid of mandatory mods, like Serration. Now, I don’t know how far they intend to take this, but I’ve had that idea for a while now. As you become more skilled with the weapon(rank it up), I honestly think that it’s stats should grow. For example, By rank 30, it should get a 165% increase to it’s base damage, like having a maxed Serration it. That frees up a slot, gets rid of the biggest “Mandatory Mod”, and makes your weapons actually get better as you rank them up. Not to mention, they could finely tune specific weapons to level certain stats as they rank up. Perhaps even give Formas the capability to increase certain stats as you rank it back up to Rank 30 after Forma-ing it.

As for Multi-shot, make it based on chance. Either it’s a chance that it shoots more rounds, a chance that it consumes ammo, or both. There are plenty of ways to go about it that don’t include nuking the entire mechanic and nerfing it into the ground. Not that increasing ammo consumption would do that, but for a lot of guns it would be incredibly irritating.