So I decided to give this a go over the weekend since I keep seeing articles about it.
I leveled Excalibur and Trinity Prime to 30, got mastery 2, finished archwing and started building Rhino which finishes sometime on Wednesday which I'll swap to. Think I left off on Phobos being the last place I unlocked.
Is there a kind of default early game set of gear to look for due to mastery restriction? I'm currently using Braton / Furis / Dual Ether Swords. I already maxed Mk-Braton, Skana, Lato(?) and should I just be turning my duplicate mods into endo or is it better to try and combine for rare? Outside of speeding up the time gating for crafting is platinum useful if I don't care about buying a warframe flat out?
You'll need platinum to buy slots for additional warframes and weapons. I also tend to use it to purchase the orokin catalyts (I think that's what they are) for doubling mod capacity for war frames I really like. All of these things are pretty cheap at like 10-20 plat per item or slot.
Early game gear wise just level the weapons from the market that can be bought for straight credits with no blueprint, once those are done move to blueprints you can afford from the same area so by the time you're MR4 you can buy the Hek shotgun which will carry you through till Neptune/Pluto. At some point you'll want to join a clan for the access to weapon/frame research as it is the only thing they are really used for anymore, a lot of the best weapons are through that and Banshe/Volt/Zephyr/Wukong blueprints can be gotten through that for more MR exp.
Dupe mods you can do the transmute for some of the more rare gold mods like Condition Overload but for the most part just keep turning them into endo as it will be your biggest gate.
I'd agree if spores killing shit spread them, but having the only way to spread be via weapon/ally kills or her 3 is clunky as shit. After dumping a couple more forma into her and using her for a few days, I liked the old 'cast spores on molt and pop them with mutalist cernos' Saryn better.I finally chased down enough Nitain alerts to finish my Saryn Prime, that frame is broken as hell.
I'd agree if spores killing shit spread them, but having the only way to spread be via weapon/ally kills or her 3 is clunky as shit. After dumping a couple more forma into her and using her for a few days, I liked the old 'cast spores on molt and pop them with mutalist cernos' Saryn better.
She's fine for SO, but all the videos of her trivializing ESO seem to be from a time between the big revamp and thenerfrevamp part deux. I know some people rave about Pablo's frames but I find them all too busy, both in terms of buttons to press and things to keep track of and also the way that they tend to need every stat to function properly.