[Another new Excal player in need of help]

Hi everyone.

I’m a brand new player, and I’m completely overwhelmed.

So far, this game is awesome, but I have 4 years worth of min/maxing threads, weapon choices, mods etc to sift through on Google and try as I might I can’t make heads nor tails of it. Every thread I read about ‘best Excal builds’ pretty much gives me an end game setup that I’m a long way off OR says to level some survivalist mods until you find your play style.

Now then, let me try and help everyone to help me - I know a play style I’d like to work towards from the off.

I’ve taken the general advice of ‘start with Excal’, and I love him. In other looter/shooters the roles I LOVE playing an up close shotgun style warrior and being a bringer of DPS. I like to melt hordes and am typically aware enough of knowing when to get up close and when to sit back. Not quite a glass cannon build, I do like to be able to take a bit of I make a mistake, but certainly more focused on dishing out the pain and being highly aggressive.

To that end, can anyone help me focus on the right primary, secondary and melee weapons to start levelling from the word go. Also, which mods should I focus on getting to achieve my desired play style for both my Warframe and weapons?

I understand this will be a huge work in progress, but I’m led to believe this Warframe is fine through to and including high endgame, so I’m going to stick with it until I’ve got a very high level build and have learnt loads more about the game before I start worrying about other warframes and weapons.

Thanks in advice for your kind help!

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Edit: WOW! 25 minutes in and some absolutely fantastic replies, thank you so much. Clearly I’ve stumbled into a game with a brilliant community and that’s just increased my interest in the game even more.

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