Mastery Rank
General
- there are currently 35 account mastery ranks in the game.
- most weapons/frames require a minimum Mastery Rank (MR). At level 16 you have access to 99% of content.
- maxing to 30/30 an item gives you the maximum mastery for your account.
- think about maxing "trash" items whose blueprints only cost a few credits and that you will want to throw away later to free up a slot
- build as many weapons and warframes as possible to level up mastery, you can throw away the easiest to obtain
- do NOT throw away your non-prime frames directly, farm helminth on Deimos first, you will need to feed it your non-prime frames
- you can build an item in advance and pick it up from the foundry much later
- consult Farm for the resources and XP needed for your new frames & weapons
Mainly unlocks:
- Quests (rank 3, 4, 5, 6)
- Trading (rank 2)
- Syndicates (rank 3)
- Sorties (rank 5)
- access Kuva Liches and Corpus Liches as well as their weapons (rank 5)
- purchase Helminth Segment (rank 8)
Each rank also unlocks:
- +1 trade max
- +50 void traces max threshold
- +500 daily syndicate reputation max
- +5000 daily focus max
Blueprints / Blueprints
The crux of the matter. Many sources of acquisition, always have items in construction in your foundry to regularly increase your Mastery.
/!\ Some blueprints require other weapons. Do NOT throw away a non-prime weapon until you've checked the list above!
- market: the market in your orbiter gives access to lots of weapons, even if the price is shown in plats, click on it and buy the plan/blueprint in credits. Some basic weapons can be bought already built for credits
- dojo: joining a clan gives access to different labs and a lot of weapons and some warframes. Think about doing Invasions to obtain rare resources for some weapons.
- boss: all bosses drop frame plans or even weapon plans, think about doing them multiple times to get all necessary plans
- reputation: syndicates have reputations that will give you access to weapons and parts
- open-worlds: special syndicates asking to do bounties / bounty missions in open worlds, bounties drops and reputations offer lots of weapon and frame plans