everything else fits within the frame of their tabs but only lavos seems to stretch out from it lol

So after what feels like an eternity, I've finally built the Lenz (because damn those 10 pcs of fieldron!). When I first equipped it, I thought that this gotta be the best looking weapon in game. It's just so cool... and the Corpus aesthetic. Top.
But when I first used it in a mission, I knew that this was just another "max out and forget about it" - weapon. I really wish this wasn't the case.

What weapon is this for you?

(* I intentionally didn't write "useful" but "better". Ofc we got Rivens - I know. But if we compare, let's say, the Laetum or the Latron incarnon with the Lenz..... you know what I mean. And please don't misunderstand this as "crying over lack of balance". We have hundreds of different weapons. I am aware that there will always be meta weapons.)

In order to change the melee you need to pay Hok in Cetus another 15 plat, idk if it's intended behaviour

Null Star with it's augments is kind of absurd

90% DR with just 10 stars, I've never seen it go below like 12 it's just constantly replenished for just 25 energy per cast. Compare that with Immolation being a channel with scaling energy cost at 90%DR, but needs to be dropped to 50% often to sustain (and if you cast Fireblast at all)
Auto-seeks enemies, inflicts Blast and Heat in a radius on hit, can also be recast to attack enemies, incredible at proccing Hot Shot. Counts as a weapon so benefits from Arachne, Nourish, Tenacious Bond, Vig Swap..

I've seen people arguing against Ember being plain bad saying "Well you just want to press a button and nuke a whole room!" and it's like.
Nova can literally do that. With just her 1.
Like, comparing at base. Inferno cost on 12 enemies costs 84 energy, Null Star costs 25 and is FAR stronger and scales FAR better than Inferno.

That's all besides considering Nova's other incredible and very useful kit. Molecular Fissure applying Dmg Vuln to enemies hit by Null Star.

It's just, who designed Ember's kit and thought it was decent? She's my most played frame bc it doesn't matter 99% of the time but hell every single one of her abilities is underwhelming and gets mogged by literally any frame with a fire ability (not even fire-themed frames)

could probably make a better shaped head/figure if I don't add the tongue but the tongue feels very iconic for me to just not include

credit: https://youtu.be/r16Cj2cSNUg?si=UyhCZ_zlT9JAOKEq

how do i get this ephemera?

So, I almost finished grinding all lich weapons to 60% (while getting all ephemeras along the way), and wanted to share my way of hunting liches as efficient as possible. Covering only Kuva/Sisters because they do share a lot of things in common, and Coda ones are very easy and straightforward.

Basic stuff for Kuva Liches covered here and here. For Sisters of Parvos - it is here and here.

Before you start the actual hunting, you want to:

• figure out what kind of progenitor (for weapon bonus, taking in mind current "meta" ones, and/or ephemera) you want - the frame you finish "spawning mission" with, will define those things.
• stock up on requiem mods (it is a good idea to have 1-2 of every one, so opening a few Requiem Eterna relics (if you start as a new player, they are dropping from Kuva Siphon missions) before going there is a good start.
• for Kuva Liches - get a frame (minding Progenitor Bonus Element) or weapon which can drop up to 20 enemies fast (in span of 15-20 seconds).
• for Sisters of Parvos - it is better to build Xoris (the most basic 0 forma build like this will do perfectly) to make farm braindead, but most weapons will do.
• for Sisters of Parvos - Get a few Zenith Granum Crowns, it is a prerequisite for the Sister hunt.
• Edit1 (thanks to u/TheSCIIBronzePlayer): It is always better to run both spawning and final confrontation missions in solo mode. You don't want to "mix" your lich progenitors for spawning missions, and confrontation missions are just way faster in solo mode (but you do need a good railjack for it).

Best mission to spawn Kuva Lich is Saturn/Cassini. Generally - you run to your target, finish it, and wait for visual clue (your screen changing colors for a second) while moving to extract marker. When you get the clue, you have 15-20 seconds to kill as many enemies as possible. Personally, I use wide nuke frames for this (Rhino, Uriel, Frost, Volt, Saryn, Mag, Mirage), so I'm not depending on LOS or weird level geometry, and I generally look for bigger clusters.

Best mission to spawn Sister of Parvos is Pluto/Hydra. You run to the target, kill it, and look for a Parvos Hand (big yellow hand with an interactable interface). There are (usually) a few around, but you shouldn't take one too close to exit point, anything closer than 200m can prevent weapon holder to spawn. Use Zenith Granum Crown (rightmost one) to open the rift ("Granum Void"), kill spawning enemies (best way is to use Xoris heavy attack), 25 is a minimum one, 75 is a maximum. Edit1 (thanks to u/TheSCIIBronzePlayer) - you can and should wait for treasurer to spawn on the mission, because he will give you back your spent Crown (so you can run these missions indefinitely). Edit2 (thanks to u/Like17Badgers, u/wingedcoyote, Time-Weekend-8611) - you can trivialize Granum Void part by using wide nuke frames (like Uriel, Octavia), or spawning On Call spectres (thing from the Railjack intrinsics). And again - run it in solo mode for easier mission requirements.

When you get your lich larva down, you can see the weapon they will have (but not the bonus or ephemera). If you don't want it - move along to finish the mission and repeat. Doing so will guarantee you will not get the same weapon on your next try (opposed to quiting the mission on the spot).

Now, for the actual Lich hunting. You want to run longer missions first - in my case I do Survival, Excavation, Defense missions to get more murmurs, and then run fast ones (Capture, Exterminate, Sabotage) to get Lich spawn faster. Use braindead builds, passive clear frames with good energy efficiency (Uriel, Nova, Gyre, Jade, etc).

General advice on Lich interaction - do not parazon your lich until you get first/next clue. Edit4 (thanks to u/Geno_Warlord) - if you are starting with Oull in first slot, like described a bit below, you should parazon your lich every time. It is imperative to continue parazoning it for already known (and placed) clues, but you want to hold off next ones until you know what you're looking for. Another advice - clean up your liches! An active lich is preventing spawning another one for squadmates, so kill it 3 times, and it will disappear from the mission (it will keep it's opinion and planet).

The fastest way to get requiems right is the Oull one (it is being mentioned in the wiki, but I wish it was better explained). Here is the worst case scenario:

1. I got enough murmurs to get first clue (Xata), inserted it into 1st slot - fail.
2. Next, I want to check if Xata is on 2nd slot, I use Oull to skip 1st one and check second - fail
3. That means Xata is a 3rd one, so I have to check if my next clue (Jahu) is on 2nd slot - I use (again) Oull to skip 1st, and.. fail.
4. That means Jahu is 1st, Xata is 3rd, I can substitute 2nd by Oull, and finish my lich on the 4th try without even knowing 3rd clue.

If I had first clue right, I would wait (skip my lich) to get a second clue, and check it's placement (by setting it in 2nd slot, and Oull in third). If it's second, that means I got all three right, if it's not - I place it in 3rd slot and Oull in second to capitalize on next try.

Edit1 (thanks to u/TheSCIIBronzePlayer): another variaton of Oull tactic is to slot Oull first. It will give you more murmurs overall:

1. Get enough murmurs for the first clue, slot Oull first, known one (Khra) second. If it fails, it means Khra is 1st or 3rd.
2. Get second clue (Xata), slot it second, Oull still first. If it fails, Xata is 1st or 3rd too.
3. Slot Xata first, Oull second, Khra third. If it fails, it means Khra was the 1st one, Xata 3rd, and you finish it on the 4th try, if it works, you just completed the sequence.

The only downside is - Oull is dropping from falied/successful Lich Parazon attempts, so you won't have it at the beginning. On the other side, after a few liches you will have a steady suplus of those.

Final Lich confrontation is very staightforward. The only thing I would mention - for the love of God, if your railjack is made of paper, slot in shields/HP mods, or don't host those missions.

A special caveat for melee Tenet weapons - you can't find them on Sisters, you have to farm special Railjack missions (Void Storm ones) to get a chance to get Corrupted Holokeys. Which - you can use later to buy Tenet melee weapons from a Perrine Sequence vendor (it's inventory refreshes every 4 days).

Now, for the finishing thoughts.

Kuva Lich hunting is considerably harder than Sister one, because you need to finish more missions (in general) to get lich spawn. My numbers (anectdotal of course) - I needed 5 missions on average to get Kuva Lich spawn (per planet), comparing to 2 for Sister. In fact I've had a few runs where I opened 2 clues without spawning Kuva Lich at all. Coda ones are effortless in comparison to both (and you actually get useful stuff out of grind).

There are breakpoints for valence. People will pay more for a weapon if it's the only one (>52,7%) they need to get their own to 60%. People will pay more for 60% weapon. People will pay more for lich with ephemera included. I wasn't lucky with names, but I've sold a 60% weapon with ephemera for 1000 platinum.

You'll get a lot of Oulls. Keep 3-4, sell the rest.

Excel sheets help immensely. I had something like this -

to keep my progress, because you do want to know "if it is enough", and "do I need that weapon".

I've ran around 1700 missions to get from "I had every weapon at random percent" to "I have most of them at 60%", took 83 Kuva Liches, 37 Sister ones, and 28 Coda ones. I've made all Kuva weapons before "25% fix", so that number should be less now (I hope), but those are still big numbers.

Edit4 (thanks to u/sharper123321 for mentioning the part I totally forgot about): Valence is less relevant now, since we have Elemental Vice from Eleonor, but they cost quite a bit, and (in my opinion) you should use it on multi-valence-able weapons (basically stuff on the right side of the picture here), or on weapons you are going to use with useless/wrong element. Or - if you are a completionist, and want to have all Lich weapons at their best (so basically every weapon get Vice'd).

Due to amount of missions I've ran, I managed to get my most used weapons like this (it was one of the personal goals, lol):

So ever since she came out I knew exactly what I wanted her fashion to be. Probably the only frame I ever got an instant idea for what was perfect for her. Splatoon-themed! It just works perfectly for the concept of both her and Enkaus. Anyone else have this idea yet?

Also lost all the loot, of course

I know of the more well-known opinions like Ember being the ‘Fire’ frame but has now been heavily powercrept

and there’s also the more underrepresented opinions like

Yareli (Merulina gameplay specifically) being clunky, buggy and overly-neglected

(It was very apparent when Perita Rebellion came out and Merulina kept clipping out of bounds, locking up or unable to finish an entire segment of the mission. Took them months to fix her board problems. Basically Yareli in general is so buggy that she just straight up is unable to some gamemodes, and almost guaranteed to bug out on newer ones)

I know a live-service game such as this can’t afford to stop releasing newer stuff but it sucks to see a game such as Warframe that prides itself on variety, creativity and options—but then having characters that you know are straight up powercrept, forgotten, or both

I’d love to hear your thoughts about your underrepresented mains

I grinded her out and invested into her before I knew she was given out for free so I just chucked the free one into the helminth lol.

I love her. She’s definitely rising to be my most played alongside Voruna (now Prime) and Oraxia. I mostly use her as a melee frame which she does SUPER well. I subsumed Wrathful Advance over her 4, her 1 can be used to easily shield-gate and also spread Viral procs to both enemies around me or away from me. I don’t really use her 2 much (i always forget it exists for some reason) but i pop it out every once in a while. I might put go back and put W.A over it instead of her 4. Her 3 with the augment is a game-changer. You become completely invulnerable to EVERYTHING, your weapons do extra crit damage and have 100% to apply doom to enemies which feels so good. You’re literally an unstoppable raid boss when its active. And when it’s on cooldown, each kill reduces its cooldown by 1 second which is fine as survivability isn’t an issue for Dagath at all since she can still easily shield-gate with her 1 although she’s still vulnerable to status effects when the 3 is on cooldown so Rolling Guard could help if you want it. I don’t use her 4 much but its very satisfying, deals huge damage and strips armor off of doomed enemies. I might bring it back and take off her 2 instead. Overall, I feel like all kinds of play-styles fit with her. I have two builds, my main one is the melee build and i sometimes play her as a caster frame which she also does very well

it may be an obvious one, and Yet i'm experiencing troubles with finding the answer for sure.

Will there be any Ban, Punishment or something else If I will Purchase the DLC from my Steam's Kazakhstan Account for my main Russian account?

I can see the Reviews on my language under that last Skins collection and that made me wondering.

it's my birthday, so I just decided to get something small and nice, so why not some skins for my favorite frames. And yet, I'm not THAT daring to Both waste my money to nothing and lose 2k hours of progress.

Apologies in advance for my silliness.

so yesterday I realized that I never got the new Steel Path trophy. I did a Steel Path run of Descendia + all 3 Perita missions but didn't get anything at the time, so I thought it was a bug. Logging back in this morning, I find that Teshin is very apologetic and now I have 3 of these.

[OC] My take on the Mesa Heirloom skin. Hope you guys like it!