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Sun Nov 04, 2018 9:31 pm

In short:
  1. From the menu, go to Communication, go to Friends
  2. click Add Friend and put:
    • For PC: BOM Tank
    • For XB: Fynvarrah & BOM Tank
    • For PS4: Fynvarrah & Spade115
    • For Switch:Spade115: SW-3412-3135-5534
  3. write something like "Gunslingers!" as the message
  4. Join the Gunslinger Gaming Discord (click here). Warframe gets frequent updates and we make important announcements in Discord. Late game content also (pretty much) requires voice chat for coordination. Joining Discord is strongly recommended, and in some cases required. Make sure you have a #Warframe tag; if you don't know how to apply one, ask a mod.

    The official clan name is GunslingerGaming

    After all of that is done and you've been invited,
  5. Craft your clan key; the blueprint should be waiting for you in your Foundry
  6. Wait 12 hours for your clan key to be built. Think of how fun it will be to wait hours or days to craft other things.
  7. claim your key out of the Foundry, and from Menus go to Communication, go to Clan, and you should be able to Enter DOJO
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It isn't required to be in the GS clan to play with your fellow GSer's, that's not how we roll. The DOJO however is full of blueprints for Warframes, Weapons, Gear, and Keys for special events, that you won't find anywhere else in the game. We have all this stuff because some people have spent a lot of time and resources researching it for all of GS, and we'd love to share it with you, so why not join the clan in game, and get into our DOJO?


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Sun Nov 11, 2018 4:59 pm

Mods are what give your weapons real damage. They also allow you to customize your weapons to fit your play style. There is no single correct way to mod any weapon, but this guide will hopefully explain where you should start with your mods. Once you know and understand the rules, you can break them.

If you have more questions, always check the Warframe Wiki: https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/WARFRAME_Wiki



General overview of the Weapon Stats

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Critical Hits
Critical Hit Chance (CHC) and Critical Hit Damage (CHD) are the same in this game as in many others. CHC is the percent chance your weapon has to score a Critical Hit, and CHD is the multiplier to determine the damage of the Critical Hit. On a Critical Hit, damage is calculated as

TotalDamage x CHD
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Status Chance
Status Chance determines the chance your weapon has to proc a status. For more info on status, see the wiki. For example if you were using a weapon with corrosive damage and you proc’d a status with a shot, your enemy would have their armor reduced up to 75% and would take more damage to whatever was beneath their armor, presumably flesh, killing them noticeably faster.

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Punch Through
It’s exactly what it sounds like: the distance a projectile will travel after it hits a target, before it will stop. This is an uncommon stat and is usually sidelined in favor of other mods/damage types, but it’s very useful on sniper rifles or rifles with high single-shot damage. Most weapons do not come with this stat; it must be added with a mod.

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IPS
IPS is how Impact, Puncture and Slash damage is abbreviated. These Physical Damage Types are usually the base damage types on weapons, but they are not the damage types that will give you the most damage. IPS mods are practically useless unless 90% of the weapons base damage comes from one of those stats. Math is explained later.

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Riven Disposition
You won't need to worry about this for a long time. Riven Disposition is an at-a-glance statistic displaying how "good" a Riven mod will roll for this weapon. Disposition is based on how much a weapon is used across all players in the entire game and the most popular weapons have low dispositions while the least-used weapons have higher dispositions. Weapons with low disposition are more likely to have Riven mods roll weaker stats, whereas weapons with high dispositions are more likely to have Riven mods roll strong stats with higher values.

Base Damage
This is not listed on your Weapon Stats, but it's your IPS all added up and it’s considered the base damage that your weapon can put out. It’s calculated as

Impact + Puncture + Slash



The Mods

These are listed in order of importance. 95% of the time, you will mod weapons this way, but once you know enough about modding you can change a weapons damage to fit how you like to play.

Flat Damage
Mods that increase your base damage by a %. This is easily seen on IPS stats and is calculated as

BaseDamage + (BaseDamage x FlatDamage%)

Multiple flat damage mods are additive, so they would be calculated as

BaseDamage + (BaseDamage x (FlatDamage% + FlatDamage%))

Multishot is technically a flat damage mod and increases the number of shots fired per trigger pull and is calculated as

BaseDamage + (BaseDamage x Multishot%)

or if you also have other flat damage mods on,

BaseDamage + (BaseDamage x FlatDamage%) + ((BaseDamage + (BaseDamage x FlatDamage%)) x Multishot% )

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The Point: Flat damage mods are the best way to increase the stats your weapon comes with, and are a huge boost to all the other damage mods you’ll use. Always use one or more, preferably a flat damage mod and a multishot mod at least.


Elemental Damage
Mods that add elements to your damage types, such as heat, cold, toxin and electricity. Elemental damage is calculated based on your IPS damages added together after Flat Damage mods

(BaseDamage + (BaseDamage x FlatDamage%)) x Elemental%

This damage is added on top of your IPS damage, which means that a 100% Cold Elemental mod would effectively double your weapons DPS, half of that damage turning to Cold.

Elemental mods can be combined in pairs to form new types of Elemental damage. For example, using a 90% Toxin mod and a 90% Electricity mod on the same weapon would give you 180% Corrosive damage. This would almost triple the DPS of your weapon with nearly 2/3 of damage turning to Corrosive.

The order in which you place these mods determines how the game recognizes what combinations are being used. Putting a Toxin mod next to an Electricity mod will give you Corrosive, but putting a Heat mod between them would give you Toxin+Heat=Gas and Electricity. Don’t accidentally give yourself gas (joke).

Different enemies take more or less damage from these elemental types. Check out the wiki for tables and tables worth of data to see what kills who the quickest.

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The Point: Using Flat Damage mods to increase your base stats gives a huge boost to Elemental mods which themselves can double or triple your DPS, so always put on those Flat Damage mods and then add the Elemental mods. Elemental mods by themselves are alright, but you’re wasting their potential without some Flat Damage mods as well.


IPS
This is the last damage type to consider, if you consider it at all. IPS mods all focus on one type of Base Damage, either Impact or Puncture or Slash. It’s not worth it to add an IPS mod unless one of these stats on your weapon deals at least 90% of the weapons total Base Damage, or if your weapon has only one of these damage types. The reason is that an IPS mod may say it gives you 30% more damage on a stat, but that’s just one stat, and the overall damage percentage can actually be much lower:

On a weapon with
Impact: 80
Puncture: 50
Slash: 20

With a +30% Impact Damage mod:

20 + 50 + (80 + (80 x 0.3)) = 174

You’ve increased your weapons Base Damage by 16% which ≠ 30%, and you’re using a mod slot that could be used for a Flat Damage increase. Say you used a max rank Serration mod instead, which gives 165% Flat Damage:

(20 + 50 + 80) + ((20 + 50 + 80) x 1.65) = 397.5

Or both a 30% Impact mod and a 165% Serration mod:

(20 + 50 + (80 + (80 x 0.3))) + ((20 + 50 + (80 + (80 x 0.3))) x 1.65) = 461.1

That 30% Impact mod is now worth 63.6 damage, or roughly a 13% damage increase. Ew. Let’s try with another weapon.

On a weapon with
Impact: 5
Puncture: 100
Slash: 5

With a 30% Puncture mod:

5 + (100 + (100 x 0.3)) + 5 = 140

You’ve increased your weapons Base Damage by 27%, nearly the full face value of that 30% Puncture mod. Here it is with a 165% Serration mod instead of a 30% Puncture mod:

(5 + 100 + 5) + ((5 + 100 + 5) x 1.65) = 291.5

And with both a 165% Serration and 30% Puncture:

(5 + (100 + (100 x 0.3)) + 5) + ((5 + (100 + (100 x 0.3)) + 5) x 1.65) = 371

So the 30% Puncture mod is now worth 79.5 damage, roughly a 21% damage increase.


The Point: IPS mods are almost never worth it, but some weapons lack Puncture damage, others lack Impact or Slash damage. If you have a weapon that only has one type of Base Damage, your IPS mods will be worth their face value (30% increase of one damage type is a flat increase of 30%). Otherwise, that 30% is more like 20% or 10%. In any case, one mod that does 165% damage increase to all IPS stats will always be a better investment than just one 30% damage mod for a specific damage type.


Fun
At this point it’s all about the weapon you’re using. Maybe it has a slow rate of fire; slap on a mod to increase it. Maybe it takes forever to reload; use a mod to decrease that time. Maybe you have a special mod that is weapon specific. If your weapon has low Critical Hit Chance but higher Status Chance, see how high you can get that Status Chance, or if the opposite is true then stack Critical Hit Chance and Damage. Go nuts.

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Capacity
Mod Capacity is like a pool of points on a weapon that mods will draw from; when your capacity hits 0, you can’t add anything else to it.

You can see a weapons capacity in the upper left. The capacity increases as you level a weapon up: a level 30 weapon will have a base capacity of 30. This can be doubled by installing an Orokin Catalyst, so a level 30 weapon would have a maximum capacity of 60. The capacity on melee weapons can be further increased using Stances: special mods that influence how you attack with a melee weapon.

When you level up mods, they will take up more capacity. It is very easy to fill the capacity of a non-catalyzed weapon to 30 using just one or two mods. To make more space, you can polarize mod slots using forma, which will half the cost of a mods capacity when both slot and mod share the same polarity.

Important: You can only polarize the slot of a max level weapon. When you polarize a slot, the weapon level is reset to 0 and you will have to level it up again. You do not gain experience from leveling this weapon again.

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After using forma to polarize a few slots, you can fill your weapons mod slots with some powerful mods bringing your weapon damage, way way up

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I hope that this is at least a little helpful for anyone new to modding their weapons in Warframe :)
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We also have a Xbox Warframe clan.
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We also have a Xbox Warframe clan.
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Wed Nov 14, 2018 11:14 pm

@DrNiggle Its all good. Can you hook me up with the clan? Want to be able to hang with you GSers when I get a chance to play.
Feel free to add me on Discord: Daarkwind#6497.
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Thu Nov 15, 2018 12:13 am

Sure thing; I made a post about how to get in: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=134
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Thu Nov 15, 2018 10:52 pm

Thanks @DrNiggle
Feel free to add me on Discord: Daarkwind#6497.
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Sun Nov 18, 2018 4:27 am

Heya, welcome back to Warframe!

What is your preferred playstyle? There are stealth frames, glass cannons, healer/support, gun focused, melee focused, really whatever you want. There are tons of ways to play. For your early "main" frame, Excalibur is great as DrNiggle suggested, he was my first frame and carried me through a decent bit the star chart before I switched mains. He's a good jack of all trades type frame, decent DPS, decent survivability. Rhino is great if you find yourself a little squishy and you really want to just not die, but you'll be relying on guns. I really liked Valkyr and mained her for a while early on, she's a lot of fun if you're in a mood to be more frenetic and hack and slash enemies to pieces. I'll also second Niggle's mention of Nezha, he was my favorite frame for a long time and is still at the top of my most used frames list even though I don't use him often anymore.

But all that said, your decision now doesn't really matter in the long run. You'll blow through the star chart and the main plotline before you know it. That's when the real game begins. This is when you've finally collected the top tier mods like augments, nightmare, corrupted, set, and primed mods. Now you can actually start pushing these warframes to their real potential for high level content like Sorties, Arbitration, Eidolons, and relic endurance runs. That's when you've got nearly 20 frames to pick from, and each one has a specific purpose. Some get used more than others but you don't really consider any one frame a "main" anymore, just what you're using for the thing you're doing now.

And then there's also the prime frames...

So the point is, don't get too locked into any one warframe for too long. I got through the star chart and main story quest with Excalibur, then Valkyr, and finally Nezha once he was researched in the clan. But while I progressed I was also grinding warframe parts from each planet's boss, and building them and leveling them along the way. This is important for two reasons; it gives you a chance to learn how they work and explore other ways to play, and it builds your MR. As an aside, do the same thing with weapons. Find a few that you like and make them nice and powerful, but don't stop building and leveling weapons.
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Sun Nov 18, 2018 4:32 am

I work night shift so I'm getting online usually around 5am ET. Anyone else work a weird shift, or live in Asia/Oceania?
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