Once upon a time, I had a primed mod I wanted to level but I had almost no Endo or sculptures. Bought a baker's dozen of full anasas for about 20p and was able to top off the mod in a few minutes of trading. Not something I'd normally recommend, but if you have more plat that patience it's not the worst option.
It is true that maxing out mods isn't critical. The sweet spot for 10 rank mods before it gets nuts is rank 8. The cost for ranks 9 and 10 are pretty step.
I can see the scenario but that's just me. *shrug*
As already mentioned, it's because the BPs are easy to get. I had a bunch stockpiled from when I stopped playing, but I quickly burned through those making weapons from the dojo and formaing new weapons that I liked. I get one out of the space oven every 24 hours and use it instantly, although I only have a handful more weapons to make so they'll start stockpiling a bit before I start putting more formas on things I like again.
Twin Kohmak took three formas to make for example, and without knowing if I'll like it I won't spend plat on it. Catalysts and reactors come up so infrequently that I'll buy them when I want to use them.
Which is a shame since they used to be more frequent with the Gift of the Lotus and the events that would have them.
Dps gain from potato is in the realm of 75-100%.
From a single Forma, maybe 5-10%.
I have more Forma crafted than I actually intend to use, like 20+ Forma sitting there waiting for a frame/wep im interested in minmaxing.
Yea i started to do the same thing once i was comfortable plus i have a bunch of bps now. I usually have one cooking every day.
Thank you for all of the advice, everyone!
I get the feeling that maybe I'm being too impatient with the game? It's just frustrating to me because I feel like dead-weight on a lot of missions right now and I think it's primarily to do with my gear, and more specifically, my mods.
It's nice when you're leveling a frame that has a lot of utility early on, but I was leveling Ivara yesterday and I was a piece of paper that could, at best, get a guaranteed rez off during stealth. Otherwise I was either dead, or in stealth trying to get crits while desperately avoiding AoEs.
Having high level survivability mods would be a huge help early on for the fragile frames.
If that's the case i say concentrate more on getting the mods needed and endo to level them.
If you want to survive then level the health (Vitality) and armor (Redirection) mods as far as you can plus ensure your frames have those on them before anything else. You can level the armor one (Steel Fiber) as well but chances are the first 2 will be better for what you want to do.
Also once your mastery is higher the game will allow you have a certain amount of capacity available from the beginning so you can slot your mods to help with leveling.
What i usually do is go to low level planets and solo them until i'm at level 10 (which is where all abilities are unlocked), then i'll try to hang with pugs to get the extra XP.
I didn't think of buying statues for Endo. I may do that just to get 'caught up'.
I have a statue and tons of ayatan stars but wasn't sure where I got the statue or how to use the stars. I'll look that up now.
well considering they were speaking Portuguese to one another I'm not sure communication would have helped, lol. I'm not 100% sure if I lost the relic or not because I had stacks of them, but I could've sworn I lost at least one of them.
I'm not sure where on the UI I can see the status of their relics but I'll try and see next time.
Oh...
I forgot about that possibly happening lol.
For the UI: Check the top right of the screen where you would see your health and armor along with your companions (sentinel, kubrow, kavat) health/armor. If you press the z key you will see the same stats for every member in the group appear. On fissure missions you'll see a number in front of the user that goes up to 10 which indicates the amount of reactant they have collected.
For the statues its located in the mods section of the ship along with the options to infuse endo, sell etc. You will see a button to the far right labeled Ayatan sculptures and in there you'll see all the sculptures and stars you have.
To add stars select the statue and click on the areas where a star can be added and the game will prompt you to add them, providing you have the amount necessary. You can rotate the statue to find the other areas and see it animate once all the stars have been added to it
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