chuckdm

This is a question I've asked in many games I play. For example, in WoW, there's actually explanations for this (fun fact: all Alliance mail is delivered by Gnomish Teleporters!) A lot of games don't put much thought into their mail system, but I have to assume Warframe does. We've got two kinds of mail, obviously: messages with attachments and messages with no attachments. I have questions for each. For the mail with no attachments, how do individuals like Vay Hek have access to it? If the mail system is Tenno controlled, would we not naturally block messages from enemy leaders? Does Ordis filter this stuff for us? Is Vey Hek sending us tons and tons of spam and what we see are just the select few messages Ordis lets through? Or do you mean to tell me that Vay Hek actually respects the sanctity of our inboxes under normal circumstances? For the parcels (mail with physical attachments, like weapons or catalysts, attached) how are these items transported? Is there a network of rail agents that just deliver packages? Are these individuals Tenno aligned or independent? Are they like Maroo? Assuming they are like Maroo, what guarantee do we have that the Corpus or Grineer don't decide to mail us a bomb? Also, are these items actually prebuilt, or does Ordis just receive a blueprint and auto-fabricate them for us? In theory, couldn't one of these bad guys send us a defective gun blueprint and Ordis could manufacture us something that would blow up in our faces when we try to shoot it? Anyhow, just figured I'd ask. Would love to see this addressed on a stream at some point.

...or they COULD just remove any unlock requirement for the adapters in the Market altogether since it doesn't make any sense for there to be one...

Anyhow, marked this as the answer because, apparently, this is the answer. The adapters require Steel Path unlocked. Hopefully DE will add a note about this to the update 36 patch notes so that nobody else falls into this particular pit.

Thank you for the offer and I may take you up on it some day, though as I mentioned elsewhere, it's not that I can't clear the remaining nodes, it's that I do not find them fun or enjoyable and therefore simply don't want to. I also have no interest in Steel Path itself, so the "reward" for clearing the map is nonexistent for me, personally. Basically I would be grinding my way through 7 nodes (checked, it's 7 exactly) to unlock a feature I would never use so that I am granted the privelage of spending another 20 platinum...all so that the 315 platinum I already spent doesn't go to waste. Understandably, I would hope, this is not a possible future use of my time that excites me. Fun fact: when I cleared the old Jordas Golem (back before it was a regular node) it was just me and one other IRL friend, and I was using a rank 10 Elytron with no forma. I didn't die a single time. Archwing stuff is actually some of my favorite content in the game, with this one and only exception.

The adapter was not for sale in the market in update 35. It went for sale in the market in update 36. If someone was on hiatus when update 35 dropped, if someone simply didn't engage with the content that drops the adapters since then, or probably a few other instances, then someone might not be aware of the precise mechanics required to unlock the adapters for purchase. Since the only reason to purchase the adapter is so that it can be applied to a secondary weapon, it is reasonable to assume that 1) someone interested in buying an adapter is very likely also going to buy a weapon (maybe from the market, maybe not) and therefore will be spending platinum on a weapon under the assumption that they can buy the adapter, only to discover later that they cannot, and 2) said weapon, like the Kompressa, might be absolute mastery fodder that is solely being bought for use with an arcane that makes it viable. Simply put, why wouldn't they mention it? DE's patch notes are usually very thorough. This seems like relevant information since the vast majority of the items on the market do NOT require an in-game activity to unlock their purchase. Other than the Archgun Deployer I can't name anything else in the game where you can buy it in the market but it is useless until you play specific content. This is a rare exception, and therefore noteworthy.

I didn't say I couldn't. I said I do not WANT TO. It is a game. It is supposed to be FUN. When a part of a game is not fun, but the remainder is, I skip the part that isn't fun. And what I was doing was the other 97% of the game that I consider fun, obviously. I did not read the Update 35 notes because I was on hiatus when Update 35 dropped. The Update 36 notes say nothing about a Steel Path requirement.

No, I do not have Steel Path unlocked. The update notes say nothing about unlocking Steel Path in order to buy the adapter from the market. Neither does the wiki. It's very odd that I can buy a Nechramech from the market despite never having visited the Necralisk, but I can't buy an arcane adapter without unlocking Steel Path, even though all of my frames, primary weapons, and both my Amps have them. I am hopeful this is a mistake or oversight or bug. If this is intended, DE should've said that in the patch notes.

Because I neither like those specific nodes (mission types I don't enjoy) nor do I believe I will enjoy Steel Path. For a lot of people, maybe even a majority of people, challenge = fun. I am not one of those people. I like my video games easy. Not Mercury easy, but still easy. My favorite missions in the game are all on Saturn, including the Ruk fight, who is my favorite boss - specifically because you need nothing but good aim to defeat him. No fancy mechanics, no invulnerability phases, just good aim. By contrast, the Jordas Golem - which I completed before it was added as a regular node, and thus have not "completed" even though I actually have - is an absolute nightmare. I would rather pull out my own fingernails with rusty pliers than ever clear that node, EVER. That's one of the 7 or 8 I've not cleared and never will. Anyhow, I went ahead and took a leap of faith and bought a Cascadia Empowered from another player, thinking perhaps the problem was I couldn't see the adapter because I had no Arcanes to slot with it. No dice, adapter still isn't in the market or anywhere else. Guess I blew 315 platinum on nothing. Hopefully this is just a bug and DE will fix it. The Kompressa is a lot of fun, wish it was functional but without the arcane it falls off really hard.

There is no arcane slot visible in the Arsenal for Secondary Weapons unless you have at least 1 adapter in your inventory. Alas, I've never gotten one so I don't have the icon. EDIT: Screenshot. I also checked under "Actions" and nothing there about Arcanes either.

Sadly, neither of these methods work. Any other ideas?

I want to buy a Secondary Arcane Adapter. I'm not doing Steel Path because there's about 7 nodes on the star chart I literally never intend to complete. This shouldn't be an issue because the latest update says we can now buy them in the market, yet when I search it or browse the various categories, I cannot find it for sale. Can someone tell me the specific category to look under? MR23 (actually MR25 but after 14 failures I gave up on the MR23 test for good) so if there is any sort of MR requirement for it, I should be beyond it. I'm out of ideas. PLEASE tell me I don't have to unlock Steel Path to buy this thing, else I spent 120 plat on a Kompressa for nothing :(