Hello c/Warframe!
First of all, I want to make a big shout out to @keegen@lemmy.zip , whose effort in writing the Weekly Warframe Revisited posts here are what got me back into the game recently.
I just crossed something like 120 hours played (across many different attempts to “get into” the game over the last 10 years), which I know is peanuts compared to many folks, but it’s a significant personal milestone. It’s very rare that any game holds my attention for that amount of time, though full disclosure compels me to state that, prior to this latest interaction with the game, I’d wager I didn’t make it more than 10 hours in any of my previous attempts.
So, thanks to Keegen and their work here. I’ll speak for all of my fellow lurkers (what are they gonna do, post something to correct me? I think it unlikely lol) by saying we appreciate the effort you’ve put into preventing this community from stagnating.
In an effort to contribute, do any of you have any moments you’d like to share where Warframe made you do your best 
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I’ll go first. Important to note 100+ playtime hours. I JUST discovered this week that the handful of mods I have in my inventory which affect multiple damage stats are rewards for Nightmare Missions. I’ve felt like my main frame’s power level had plateaued for some time, and routinely struggle to take on enemies in the 40-50 range on longer endless missions. Cue me learning that I’d been (intentionally) ignoring the mode which grants the exact sort of reward that breaks a build through to that tier of content, and cue my Picard impression.
Thank you, I appreciate that a lot! I’m really happy my weekly threads were what got you back into the game! I used to be a Reddit lurker myself but Lemmy and the Fediverse as a whole needs more content and I like this place and want it to continue so I forced myself to be more active. I can’t take credit for starting the Weekly Warframe idea (that honor goes to Selkie210 with the very first Weekly Warframe) but after they stopped posting them and no one else picked it up, I took up the mantle as I liked the idea. Here we are 2 years later, with all frames covered and going through revisits!
I have a pretty bad facepalm moment myself, I was a very impatient new player and with the very limited warframe and weapon slots you get I often sold both weapons and frames before getting them to rank 30 because I wanted to try out a new shiny thing I crafted instead. To this day I still have some weapons left at odd ranks like 16 or 29 on my profile that I need to re-craft and level up for mastery.
Oh man, the partially completed mastery would drive me nutty too. Thankfully, much of that pain has been ameliorated for me by virtue of having such an old, if mostly unused, account. Over the years it’s just accrued more and more slots through DE’s giveaways and what not. I think I’ve got 8 or 9 frame slots and close to 20 some odd weapon slots.
However, I’ve not ditched any frame I’ve acquired thus far, which means I’ve only got two slots remaining, and I’m going to have to make some hard calls about who gets retired. Thankfully, there are folks like you helping to translate how a frame is intended to be played, which is very helpful to a casual fan like myself.
Regarding selling stuff, this was a very delayed facepalm, but I finally hit an Endo bottleneck during this most recent period of activity, and i very much regret the hundreds of duplicate mods I sold for credits in past sessions over the years.
One thing regarding old frames, try to keep the base (non-Prime) versions until you unlock Helminth (if you didn’t already, ignore me if you did) from the Deimos syndicate. You can feed them to it instead and unlock one of their abilities for subsuming onto other warframes, much better than the few credits you would get for selling them and it saves you from having to re-farm them again.
Duly noted, had you not told me this, I likely would have axed Nyx or Ember in the next few days. I fear Octavia has spoiled me, because it’s so easy to just 1-2-3-4 and let the rollerball carry my lazy ass to victory. Hard to maintain the patience necessary to learn a new frame from scratch when I know I could be making big damage numbers happen elsewhere.