[Chose Mag, please help!]

1 minute ago, SamMitter said:

Hey, first of all congrats on choosing MAG, I chose her as my starter, now I am taking her to uranus (my last opened planet.) She is one of the best frames, and her damage delaing capacity can rival some big boys. 

I would be glad to give you some help, please let me know, what or how can I help you.....You can PM me too. 

my first advice to you is to watch 'how to mag' video on youtube. I personally liked Ashisogi Tenno's one.

In my primary opinion, you should increase her shield asap, as that will help your longevity in lower levels. use the mod [redirection]. If you dont have it, please pm me here or in game (I use same name in-game as well), I will send you some mods. 

 

Lastly, You are not stupid... learn to play her, you can rain damage on enemy

I can assure you, you can play with mag to clear the star chart defense and survival of T3 without much problem. (albeit with a team)

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Also a very good way to rank up your frame is to do some defense mission. In earth, Koba is the best one. If you have not opened it yet, send me a in game friend request tomorrow, I will taxi you.

 

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20 minutes ago, (NSW)YeetBoye said:

I'm a new player, and I picked up warframe about two weeks ago because, hey, it's free.

I made a mistake though.

Before playing i decided to keep as much of the game a mystery as I could.

Including what first frame to choose. 

I chose mag, like an idiot. What's worse, I chose the Paris and Kunai, and the Skana.

I'm stuck in a rut, can't get new weapons, can't play Venus levels. I need major help. I run Flow, Vitality, Continuity, Enemy Sense, Stretch, and Diamond Skin. Please help me!

Hey, first of all congrats on choosing MAG, I chose her as my starter, now I am taking her to uranus (my last opened planet.) She is one of the best frames, and her damage delaing capacity can rival some big boys. 

I would be glad to give you some help, please let me know, what or how can I help you.....You can PM me too. 

my first advice to you is to watch 'how to mag' video on youtube. I personally liked Ashisogi Tenno's one.

In my primary opinion, you should increase her shield asap, as that will help your longevity in lower levels. use the mod [redirection]. If you dont have it, please pm me here or in game (I use same name in-game as well), I will send you some mods. loose the diamond skin, it wont give you much help.

Your 1st ability is great. I will also try to give you one intensify mod. your PULL will kill a bunch of the enemies at one go. you dont even need to use your weapons.

Lastly, You are not stupid... learn to play her, you can rain damage on enemy

[What type of player are you]

I am mostly new to the game, so I have lot more on my plate.. 🙂

But  so far few of my favorites are,

1) Survival (and defense)

2) fissure defense (getting prime parts and earning plats)

3) roaming in plains or Vallis

 

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5 hours ago, (XB1)GameNerd300 said:

Magnetize satisfies my inner sadist. Especially when used on a mob or powerful enemies (ones that don't cancel the ability) That would normally be a major problem. See a heavy gunner? Pop a magnetize bubble and watch her shoot herself to death! bwahahahaha!

truly said bro..... till now, I have not fired a single bullet towards the solar rail spectres....

I use it on heavy gunners, scorch, Nox, saturn six fugitives  to name some....

 

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Also the bubble has the nice feature of bursting out with the damage already dealt to it  by allies. so ultimately the total damage dealt doesnot go to waste. One more use of Magnetize which I do is in rescue on the wardens. it kills them rather smoothly, without raising the alarms.

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On 2019-04-15 at 7:55 AM, DroopingPuppy said:

Yeah, my main frame is Volt, but it doesn't means I didn't play Mag at all. Actually I use Mag as high level grineer specialist, that easily tear aparts even 100+ level grineer heavies.

I don't fond on Magnetize but it has uses on solo play with shotguns - I don't use it on co-op because it is uncontrollable without an augment and usually end up with blocking your teammate's bullets. But if you need to survive and killing is not the main objective, you may cast it. Although it is usually sucks.

Polarize is always surprise me that able to kill the enemy by itself, not only strips their armor. Its damage after cracking armor kills the enemy have weird mechanism if I remember correctly.

Crush's overshield seems good on the survival(not the mission type). Although shield is unaffected by armor level but you will know that more shield is much better than nothing. In my experience it is not so good to use it and hold the enemy without an argument, though. It requires that to bind the enemy, otherwise only stops the enemy while you are casting and it doesn't helps further gunplay.

Although I am quite new, I do like to suggest you something, you can experiment. I dont use shotgun playstyle as well too. I think you can use magnetize in quite a few ways, fist of all in solo missions, or with friends, there are some heavy enemy type, which takes up a few bullets or so. use your magnetize on them, and forget about them. 

I would like to mention at this, a co-op tactics, me and my friend use. My friend uses excal or rhino, and likes to melee a lot. whereas I nrmally likes to keep my distance, and finish them off. whenever I see a heavy gunner, or Nox, or scorch type enemy, who are very potent and can kill you if you give them the time, I just give hom a heads up, and put bubble on them. that gives him time and luxury to take out swarming minnows.  

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On 2019-04-15 at 7:16 AM, DroopingPuppy said:

Well, the topic is focused on picking Mag as the starter, I don't think that it is meaningful at all.

I do think that Mag is quite playable on endgame, but starting warframes means they are expected to be quite usable even without any mods for mastery rank 0 players. We don't talk about her endgame settings, in the first place. Also, I do use her on the endgame grineers, so don't think that I am disagrees about the settings of her against endgame grineers - I just want to ensure that endgame level is out of topic.

I would like to disagree with you in few cases. As a player who started and maxed her out very recently(still using her on saturn, uranus runs too); I would like to add, you are quite right about the vulnerabilities in 1st few rank. This is due to the fact of her low armor and low energy and locked abilities upto rank 3 or 5 . but if you sustain that, her arsenal is great. as @DatDarkOne mentioned, pull is quite powerful. It can easily one shot kill more than on enemy.  I dont use 4th ability much, coz once u unlock 2nd and 3rd, that will be it for grineer and corpus respectively. 

Though I would like to add one thing, I think, supplementing MAG with good weapons is necessary. 

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5 hours ago, Benour said:

Mag is top tier and hella fun to play. Just bads think shes bad. Magnetize is amazing (the amount of projectiles i can shoot in bubble with my rivened mara detron is INSANE, all the projectiles spinning around... just glorious). If you fight infested just slap augment for her 4 and no infested is gonna move, ever. 

Also made her look like army killer cyborg with tennogen/wolf armor and my coloring. Love her! 

Oh only gripe is her survivability kinda, but you should be spamming and CC everything with counter pulse augment or even her 1 or 4 anyway. Also i have ready this tank mag (arcane guardian/energize vitality/QT/pflow and adaptation which work on shields) have to test her on some endurance arbitration. 

I totally agree with you. in open fire situation she is bad, but using her abilities, u can make sure, tht she doesnot get into such situation

 

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BTW MAG fans here,

if you want to play together sometime, I us the same name in game as well,send me a request.... it will be fun to play together.

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On 2019-04-11 at 11:13 AM, DatDarkOne said:

Dang It. I like this Tenno.  Respectfully requesting knowledge from us on how to get better with his chosen frame.  

I use a somewhat similar setup to what @MagPrime uses.  I add in the Counter Pulse augment and use a battlefield control strategy using al of her powers equally.  This does require having some form of enemy radar to work best.  I use Animal Instinct on either my kavat or sentinel.  

Thanks to some chats with MagPrime and @(PS4)Crixus044, I've created and experimented with a solo Mag build that uses a Gas Daikyu fired into a Magnetize bubble.  A combo which is shockingly powerful.  

Thanks fellow tenno.... 🙂

I normally dont use Crush a lot.  coz i think if you dont have quite a crowd around u, it is waste.

pull  is obviously the all rounder,often even as support. My friend uses Excalibur, and loves to charge head on, and sometimes I help him out with pull, if he gets to crowded. polarize is the handiest in corpus defense.

But what I love is Magnetize.  They should rename it death bubble.. put it on toughest one, like the heavy gunners. and drink ur coffee. Just to give an example, yesterdat=y when opening jupiter junction, I have not fired a bullet. used the death bubble on the specter, and just hung back. 😉

 

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On 2019-04-11 at 4:55 AM, (PS4)ArtPrince17 said:

Started with her. She's seen some ups and downs but was never bad (by the way, was around during the really early stages of the game, seen most of it). When I started due to the limited amount of mod variety and special mods you can obtain, I made an all around build that carried me throughout the entire Starchart. Mag isn't the absolute best at everything, but she's really good in long run survivals, locking down and defending areas, and scaling. Focus on range and a bit in strength with relatively high efficiency. Magnetize and Polarize are your best friends. Lock down points with Magnetize and debuff enemies while buffing your team with Polarize. Pull is great quick CC and can yield energy orbs on kills. Crush is also good CC and can also deal decent damage and restore shields while granting overshields (if you don't know, overshields are shields that can be generated that can bypass the cap on your normal shield values, usually under special conditions). She's very well rounded. Also, consider investing in her augments. They are all good with 2 standouts, Magnetizing Disarm and Counter Pulse.

You're a brave soul for starting with Mag. Keep playing with her and you'll know all the ins and outs.

thanks man... I think I have got quite the hang of playing with her now. She is aleady maxed. And I use her abilities quite like u r saying

actually i am kinda feel good, when I see, the tactics I figured out, through trial and error, of using her; actually matches other veteran guys. 😉

cheers guys. 

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Just now, (XB1)Thy Divinity said:

Punch through, punch through, and punch through.  As long as you have punch through you won't need a sniper. 

Shields and health will have much less value the further you get into the game.  With Mag, I use a bit of range, low duration, and a lot of power with the Counter Pulse augment for extra CC + shield/armor strip.  You can get by just fine with a maxed vitality if you use your bubbles and Polarize correctly.

Completely agree with you. magnetize is brilliant. and for those any enemies coming too close to my comfort, Pull is there. 

about weapon, my dex sybaris is doing pretty good job, good range and i modded some corrosive and blast damage and very high crit chance. and the extra shield helps me to line up good shots. 

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I nrmally play slowly. try to take to take out as many of enemies as possible(barring defense or survival). But I use my powers very often too, specailly pull. Magnetize is best for defenses i think, use it over the tough guys, or a group of them. will kill themselves. 

Right now, I am using sybaris, it has good range. still gives me enough chance of using abilities.

  

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9 minutes ago, MagPrime said:

I like to utilize a short duration Magnetize build on newer Mags.  Helps with the incoming damage a lot, and since you can drop 4 bubbles at once, it really helps.

Depending on the faction, I'd go with a health increase simply because her Crush grants overshields to herself and everyone in range of the ability. 

I focused on increasing shield and health. i dont like to engage in closeup, and the extra shields means a few extra sec to line up sniper shots...

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Hi guys,

Although not at all new to the genre, I am playing the warframe for a month only, so a newbie basically. And I have reached my first goal of building my 1st frame. So i decided to come back and talk something about my starter MAG.

When I started, I saw a lots of bad press for MAG, still chose her, as I thought it was well-suited to my play style. and after reaching MR5 and clearing upto Jupiter (still early in the game, i know😉), I think, I took good decision. She is not good at taking damage, true; can be a little complicated, but once i got past first few missions, and understood how to use her powers, she's a perfect damage dealer. In survival or defense, even when playing with others with better frames, I still deal a hefty damage everytime. 

I think her main problem is to identify the strength and weakness, early in the game, as a complete newbie. So I thought of asking you guys, who has taken her up as starter, how they started, their build and playing style...and have a little chats amongst us. 😊