#Warframe trading

[l1brarian1999]

Trading Tips

Warframe is unique in that you can genuinely buy almost everything without spending a penny.

Because Bought Platinum can be traded to players, it means you can make platinum by just playing the game more.

But trading is a complicated thing - you gotta deal with people.

So first and foremost, warframe.market Trade chat in game is... Fine but its fast, hard to deal with, and its hard to compare prices. So you need to be able to see what everyone's paying, what everyone's pricing. Warframe.market is a website where you can create an account, list your 'assets', and compare prices with a bunch of people to get an accurate and fair price (in most cases).

There's also the rather obvious tip - work on your Mastery Rank. More rank means more trades per day. When you're only able to do one or two trades in a day, you're more likely to go for big ticket items like weapons and such.

Here's a big one - find a market that works for you. For example, I can't stand selling Prime parts for some reason? I don't like hunting for that one piece to get a full set together, I don't like how the price tanked for everything ever since the Key-to-Relic change, and I don't like the two part grind of getting the relics, and then cracking them, but also needing to Radiant them. I do like selling mods though, since I find those by accident and it makes Transmutation worth a damn. I don't like selling Arcanes either, finicky.

If you wanna get the most out of trading, you gotta learn about Supply and Demand.

Some Primes are not actively available at all times, meaning there are times when the Supply is Limited, meaning you'll see the price raise.

Sometimes Warframes will get buffs or reworks and people might wanna give them a try, demand will go up, and the price will rise.

Sometimes the Developers (DE) will give out a Prime Warframe for completely free, the demand will plummet.

Remember the trade tax - Primed Mods need 1,000,000 credits to buy, for the trade tax. Each 'platinum' / legendary arcane needs 100,000 per rank.

When you're buying anything in a set, always check to see if its cheaper to buy the pieces individually rather than a full set - and vice versa, if buying a set is cheaper than buying individual pieces (especially with Arcanes)

Knowing what to sell is a difficulty in and of itself, and while the usual logic of 'whatever grind you like the most', that might not work for some folks. If all else fails, I recommend Prime Parts & Baro Ki'teer:

Crack Relics as much as possible, this is generally good advice as you'll be able to stock up on Forma Blueprints, and Prime Parts

Build Prime items you need first and foremost

Check any items worth 45 or 100 ducats on warframe.market, see if its worth plat. Use your own judgement here, I personally don't sell Prime Parts unless they're worth 10 plat or more.

Anything you don't use or sell, take to a relay and melt for Ducats. When Baro Ki'teer comes to town every other Friday, check for Mods first (i'll do a separate post about Baro). Mods tend to be the cheapest to buy and certain Primed Mods are big benefits to your collection. Once you've got an item for yourself, if you have leftover ducats and credits, you can buy a duplicate item to sell.

Say you somehow stocked up ludicrous credits and ducats, don't buy lots of the same item - diversify.

And here's the special sauce - hold onto that duplicate, don't sell right away. Once Baro Ki'teer leaves, the supply of those items becomes limited, and will steadily start trending upwards. Even if Baro comes back, because his stock cycles it might still be trending up, and will generally only go down once Baro brings it back. I like waiting a week before I put it up on .market.

If you're using warframe.market, and you know you're not trading / you've set your status as Offline, but someone messages you anyway asking to buy an item - don't sell. Usually people only message offline traders if the trader has a lower price than the online traders. I usually just say to them "Sorry, I'm not trading at the minute" and then block them.

If you're using warframe.market, people usually send a message that .market produces automatically, however, some sneaky folks may try to change the price there, hoping you won't notice. Per .market's T&Cs, you have five minutes to respond (not that most folks will wait that long) so check your profile and make sure that the price is right. If they've changed the price, that is proactively a violation of warframe.market's T&Cs and can - and should - be reported. They are not supposed to change or edit the message in any way, any negotiations should happen after they've sent the message.

Eventually, you'll get to a stage where you're getting plenty of duplicates, maybe a lot of rare mods. Its important to note that just because a mod is 'Rare' doesn't mean its 'rare'. If its easy for you to get, its easy for everyone else to get.

Remember Transmutation. Transmutation is where you take four mods, and trade them for a random mod. The Rarer the mods you put in, the more likely it is to be a Rare mod. So say if you've got 12 Power Throws, you can transmutate 3 times and you might get a mod back that is actually worth something. I get a fair bit of my plat this way because it allows me to get mods that would otherwise be annoying to get. I don't know which mods, and I usually get common mods that aren't worth much, but way I see it I'm trading Endo and Credits into Plat at an extremely bad rate, but that's fine because I have plenty of both of those, and always want more plat.

I'll add more here if I think of them.

[cocoaberrycake]

Any tenno out there that uses trade to get their platinum, care to share their tips for large inventory management as a seller?

See, I come from the land of auction houses. You list the thing in there, you wait, and in a few days or hours you get the money in your inbox. A quiet, hassle-free experience for the less socially-apt.

But Warframe is a profoundly social game. It’s built around community and you have to talk to people to trade things. No use arguing against that, it is what it is.

Now. I have a lot of items that I could trade (prime parts, mods and whatnot), but the sole thought of putting the items on the market page and instantly receiving 100s of whispers from different buyers really stresses me out. I tried it a year ago and after the 10th trade I was so exhausted that I never did it again. I was receiving, like, 3 messages per minute from people wanting to buy different things (and I have to double check the items' names every time since my game is in spanish and the market message is in english, so yeah, it is a very nerve-wracking process).

The biggest put off for me is that trade is incompatible with actually playing the game. Whenever you want to trade, you have to log in and sit in front of your computer screen doing nothing but waiting for messages. Because if you receive one and don't answer in 2 seconds or less, you lost the buyer. The fact that I have to literally set a time to play sell things to people one-on-one instead of playing a game is shocking to me.

So, yeah, if you have any tips on how to manage trading dozens of items without losing your mind, I'd love to hear them.

[ign1ted-ember]

I get that they're just tryna make plat like me but do ya have to spam this shit over and over it doesn't let anyone else advertise their shit

[zeebuoy]

Anyone else can't trade? Hell I can't even form a party before going into a node for some reasons the party will explode.

(I swear if I hear someone ask about eMR2, or 2FA again..........)

[kaiserouo]

i just wanna see drifter and stalker daddy it shouldn't have to be this hard to do

[space-ninja-fashion-show]

I'm not coherent enough to articulate this properly but

People get used to the Warframes, who to them are the Tenno. They're powerful and alien and instruments of war, but people get used to them. They come and go and swarm in common areas. They sell fish and chase kuakas and arm themselves with the best that the vendors can offer. One can almost forget, sometimes, the unspeakable things they do out on their missions

And then the children start appearing. The Actual Tenno. And where the flesh-metal warmachines were something to warm up to, these have faces. Young, average, human faces. Children so powerful, so monstreous, that they could command Warframes and fight a war. Some hurt for them and others are terrified

And oh, how painful it must be, to be regarded as a friend when wielding a body built for war and yet have those same people recoil from you when they see you as a child

[casualdadcore]

Screenshots of despair

[alteredsu]

Tell me something that makes you happy ?

Bdsm cat dommy mommy khora *-*

[melanodis]

every time someone says warframe is pay to win another blood vessel in my brain pops

[kazoracht]

I've got three liches with the toxin ephemera in a row. How.

[upsidedownsmore]

uh forgot to mention here but two days ago I UNLOCKED EVERY FIT SKILL IN RING FIT LETS FUCKING GO BAYBEEEEEEE

[cocoaberrycake]

Welp, I’m definitely out of plat and my prime part inventory is reaching overwhelming levels of full… I don’t think I can delay it anymore: it’s time to muster up courage to trade all the dupes (and there are a lot).

(Preparing myself mentally to receive dozens of messages from different players all at once).

[ritasanderson]

Selling random shit to other people in warframe or as I call it roleplaying as daddy Parvos

[phenmor]

save me volt raijin... save me

[kaiserouo]

WHY DIDN'T I KNOW THIS THING EXISTS IN THIS WORLD

imo i like the version w/o the eyes a little bit more

[gonkaccino]

of course. of course I would go for the one character who requires one of a handful of conversations to set the WillDate flag. Of course none of these conversations would trigger for me, not even the QuincyWingman one. I've pored over the flowcharts, cross-referencing the convos I've had vs the ones that set specific flags, and confirmed that none of mine have been capable of setting the WillDate flag, and none of the chosen options would lead to a NoDate flag, meaning the game really did just fuck me out of this.

tl;dr if Lettie likes you too much you can't date her. incredible.