Mid-Game

So you’ve gotten the hang of the mechanics of the game and now you’re progressing from planet to planet. Now what?

You might have noticed by now that the enemies get tougher with every mission that you complete in each planet. If you’ve reached a point where you cannot complete a mission, then you reached the mid-game stage. This is usually when you unlock Jupiter or Saturn.

• This where weapons will perform very poorly if they have little to no mods or mods that aren’t upgraded enough.
• Enemies will be around level 20 and will start having better defenses, and reinforcements to give you a more difficult time.

In this stage, you should focus less on unlocking as much of the star chart as possible and more about mods to better empower your frames/weapons.

• This is where you need to consider what frames and weapons will perform the best with some investment to them.
• If you’ve been using Rhino to get through the difficult missions, then you may want to consider getting an Orokin Reactor to increase the amount of mod capacity for him. This will also allow you to upgrade your mods to better empower your abilities and survivability.

You should also focus on completing the quests accessible to you as they will reward you with items that are useful and possibly required in order to progress through the game.

• Some quests are optional, but I would recommend completing them regardless as they award certain items which may help you get past the missions which you may struggle with
• The list for the most important quests and how to complete them can be found here.

Depending on your Mastery Rank you may have access to certain weapons that can be powerful without too much investment. Some weapons that I recommend to get include:

• Tigris (Mastery Rank 7) - This is a duplex trigger shotgun that will do a lot of damage against enemies with the right setup, but will also be strong enough to tackle whatever gets in your way in the mid-game.
• Hek (Mastery Rank 4) - Another powerful shotgun early on, especially if you get the Scattered Justice augment for it. The augment will increase its multishot by 200 percent, which is a huge damage spike when paired with other mods.
• Lesion (Mastery Rank 7) - A Slash focused polearm that has an innate Toxin effect that can be combined with other elementals. This will decimate enemies even with a little bit of mod investment to it.

Leveling Weapons and Frames

Weapons and frames will have to be leveled a few times in order to fit the mods that make it perform to its potential, however leveling them during the mid-game can be tedious depending on how much of the star chart you’ve unlocked

• Helene on Saturn is a great place to level weapons/frames for those who don't have access to Sedna yet. This is a defense mission with a relatively small map. I recommend playing this with other players as the enemies killed by other players will award affinity to your frames/weapons needed to rank up.
• Hydron on Sedna will be better for leveling weapons/frames since it’s the same as Helene on Saturn, but with higher level enemies meaning more affinity. However, Sedna is one of the last planets unlocked and houses tough Grineer enemies which will overwhelm ill prepared players.
• Once you’ve gotten a few frames and weapons well modded you may progress through the star chart at your own pace. You should have at least a few weapons and frames that you can fall back on to get through the difficult missions.

Void Relics and Primes

Void relic missions are missions where you can crack relics that may award you with prime parts. You may do these whenever you want, but keep in mind that you may not be able to craft the prime parts as most of them require a high Mastery Rank. Prime Warframes and weapons are typically the best gear you can get as they have minor stat upgrades as opposed to their normal counterparts.

There are 4 tiers of Void Relics that you get from completing certain missions throughout the star chart:

• Lith aka Tier 1 - These are the most common and accessible.
• Meso aka Tier 2 - Second most common and accessible
• Neo aka Tier 3 - Less common than Lith and Meso, but somewhat accessible
• Axi aka Tier 4 - The least common of all and also the most difficult as these types of void relic missions are high leveled (around level 40-50.)

Most primed weapons/frames will have relics from most, if not all 4 tiers of Void Relic missions that you will have to complete in order to get all of the parts needed to build it. Axi relics/parts tend to be the most expensive as they are the least common to get.

Try and run void relic missions that are quick or can be repeated without extracting. Good examples are Capture, Interception, Defense, Excavation, and Exterminate.

• Let the enemies turn golden, indicating that they are corrupted. In this state, they can drop void traces which you need to crack the relic.

You may sell primed warframe/weapon parts for platinum. I only recommend selling spare parts of primed frames/weapons that you already built and ranked up to 30.

There are kiosks in most of the relays located throughout the star chart in which you can sell spare prime parts for Ducats which you will need to buy primed mods from Baro Ki’Teer aka the Void Trader.

• Keep in mind that the Void Trader only comes every other week and the items/mods he brings will be different.
• Mods that I recommend you get ASAP would be the primed versions of mods that give more damage to weapons such as Primed Pressure Point.
• Some primed mods that I recommend you DON'T get include primed ammo mutation because you won't be using them much in most builds.
• Don't get the primed mods that give damage against a certain faction  (Example: Primed Expel Grineer/Corpus/Infested/Corrupted) right away. Prioritize these after you get the other mandatory/useful mods.