


You can’t just rely on life support drops from the Lotus in Survival, and you can only defend a drill for so long in Excavation. This lead to the other players having their ability to earn significantly cut down. This ends up causing a big issue for these missions.īy drawing enemies away, you get fewer chances to refill your oxygen or collect power cells for the excavation drills. The main reason for this is because when someone leaves like that, enemies will split from the main group to chase after them. The way these missions work, particularly the Survival mission, having a player split from the rest can affect the group’s ability to collect experience and materials. This is by far one of the biggest issues that spring up between players, as it causes issues to those trying to grind. Chances are if you ask anyone who’s played a decent amount of Warframe, they will have at least one story about someone trying to leave a mission within the first 5 minutes. As such, when you join up in one of these missions, you expect the rest of the team to be in for the long haul alongside you.

As you can imagine, joining up to these missions can be a fair commitment, and there’s always the risk of failing the mission and losing the materials and most of the experience you worked towards. Meanwhile, Excavation missions will average around 20-25 minutes. On average, Survival missions can range from around 15-20 minutes for beginners and around 40-45 minutes for the more experienced Tenno (though some people have reported runs going as long as 3 hours). One of the main reasons these missions tend to dominate when it comes to grinding is the number of time players can spend doing them. Survival missions focus on keeping oxygen levels up, while Excavation missions have the players getting power to drill machines and defending them. These endless missions give players the opportunity to continuously take down enemies and collect their materials at a steadily rising level until your team is no longer able to maintain the offensive. For most players, this will be done in either Survival or Excavation missions. Whether your leveling up gear, collecting materials, or just killing time, chances are if your playing Warframe you’re going to be spending a considerable amount of time mowing through enemies. Anyone who’s played Warframe is probably aware how prevalent the grinding aspect of the game is.
