Very new player- what's a good way to get Focus? (Madurai)

[ScorchedDay]

Hey.

So, I'm a fairly new player.
Just got done being astonished by Second Dream, otw to the Sedna Junction to unlock the War Within quest, Hidden Messages quest, and Patient Zero quest.

I picked Madurai as my Tenno Way(path?) and I got a lens on my maxed melee (a Galatine).
Except it's so slow to collect and gather Focus normally! At most I get about 70-200 Focus every mission...? Somewhere around that line.
Other posts I glance around on here seem a bit complicated with all sorts of terms and such that I think are for higher levels.

I have Excalibur, Limbo, and currently forging Loki, if that info helps.
How can I get a good, or at least decent farm for Focus? Anything would do- doesn't even have to be reaching the daily cap in 5 minute stuff.
Much appreciation to anyone to provides. I'll make sure to repay it back to newer players once I get on my feet.

[krc473]

Elite Onslaught is probably a good place to go for this. But make sure you are using the weapon if you are solo - affinity is only given to the weapon that kills. Frames get affinity regardless of what gets the kill, so they are a better choice.

• Sedna/Pluto work well enough too. You want an endless mission you enjoy, and just to go for as long as you like.

Edit: you can also use Eidolons. They drop items worth a decent amount of focus. 

Edited August 4, 2019 by krc473

[reaver894]

if you have a nice crowd killing frame and get another lens the likes of hydron are decent with affinity boosters, but ESO and eidelons tend to be best. Another option if you build your loki well enough and have the dagger mod that i cant remember the name of atm, another lens and stealth kills in adaro,never get caught and its like a 500% affinity bonus per kill and just put the lens on the dagger. will 1 hit kill anything

 

[ViciousTeletuby]

59 minutes ago, krc473 said:

Elite Onslaught is probably a good place to go for this. But make sure you are using the weapon if you are solo - affinity is only given to the weapon that kills. Frames get affinity regardless of what gets the kill, so they are a better choice.

• Sedna/Pluto work well enough too. You want an endless mission you enjoy, and just to go for as long as you like.

Edit: you can also use Eidolons. They drop items worth a decent amount of focus. 

The above is right, but to expand: do Cetus and Fortuna bounties to get more lenses, then put a lens on each warframe you use, then each weapon you use a lot. That way you get focus continuously as long as you stay within affinity range (usually 50m) of the players doing the killing. The game is more fun if you feel free to take the gear you want.

[ScorchedDay]

11 hours ago, krc473 said:

Elite Onslaught is probably a good place to go for this. But make sure you are using the weapon if you are solo - affinity is only given to the weapon that kills. Frames get affinity regardless of what gets the kill, so they are a better choice.

• Sedna/Pluto work well enough too. You want an endless mission you enjoy, and just to go for as long as you like.

Edit: you can also use Eidolons. They drop items worth a decent amount of focus. 

 

10 hours ago, ViciousTeletuby said:

The above is right, but to expand: do Cetus and Fortuna bounties to get more lenses, then put a lens on each warframe you use, then each weapon you use a lot. That way you get focus continuously as long as you stay within affinity range (usually 50m) of the players doing the killing. The game is more fun if you feel free to take the gear you want.

Thank you for these! I've noticed a massive spike in my Focus since I did a Fortuna bounty and put a Madurai lens on my Excalibur. 
Also, I'm sorry to say but- what do you mean by 'use Eidolons'?

[Zakkhar]

14 minutes ago, ScorchedDay said:

Also, I'm sorry to say but- what do you mean by 'use Eidolons'?

At night in Cetus you can hunt 3 massive Sentients called Eidolons. To face next one you need to capture the previous one.

https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Eidolon_Teralyst

https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Eidolon_Gantulyst

https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Eidolon_Hydrolyst

They drop many things, however in terms of Focus important ones are Brilliant Eidolon Shards and Radiant Eidolon Shards.

You can exchange those for focus in Focus Conversion section in your Focus tree screen. Brilliant is 25k focus and Radiant is 40k. Brilliants are needed for other stuff too, while Radiants are purely for focus conversion*.

*) also consumed to summon another Sentient after the previous was captured but that is irrelevant and complicates it unnecesarily.

Edited August 4, 2019 by Zakkhar

[(PSN)fdbsanchez]

well since you already farmed loki on neptune, you should be able to get equinox and put a sleep build (mod for duration and put on calm and frenzy if u have it) and put a lens on your melee weapon and just put everyone to sleep (2nd ability on night form). undetected kills grant you extra affinity so you will get more focus other than just killing them while they see you. so get equinox (beware she needs 8 parts to craft, and it takes a minimum of 1 week to get her right after farming her) Also, i recomend doing this farm on adaro one ceres

Edited August 5, 2019 by (PS4)fdbsanchez

[Lolacrayola]

ESO with a Madurai lens to max out Void Strike.

Void Strike is an infinitely stacking damage multiplier that works on operator amps and thus can be used to one shot Eidolon shields. To do that you need a crit amp so I would run Teralyst bounties and pick up all the sentient cores to rank up the Quills syndicate. Quill Onkko in Cetus sells operator amp parts. Buy the following parts: Shraksun scaffold, Lohrin Brace and either Schwaak prism or Rahn prism. I prefer Rahn but if you want to get the focus farm up and running sooner, Schwaak is fine because the prism is only used to dump unused Void Strike stacks by firing into the ground.

With Void Strike you can become a shield breakers in the Teralyst/Gantulyst/Hydrolyst Eidolon hunt, colloquially known as Tridolon hunts. 3 out of 4 players in a Tridolon group will be shield breakers. These are typically Trinity, Volt and Harrow. Harrow is the easiest and most chill of the 3 to play but is the most annoying to farm because one of his blueprints is a single digit percent drop from defection missions.

This is a good primer on how to prepare for tridolon hunts: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eY6ZZUbLoZwFDmf1WgdOMnM_bjG8ooqV_osHCCxu3Yw/preview#

I would watch a youtube guide so you can see how the fight mechanics work. I would also watch POV videos so you can see how each role plays optimally and try to copy that as best as you can.

Eidolons drop brilliant and radiant eidolon shards. Brilliant shards are worth 25k focus exp and radiant shards are worth 40k focus exp. If you can manage 2 sets of tridolons in 1 cetus night cycle, you will get 320k focus exp from shards and this focus gain ignores the daily cap.

Edited August 5, 2019 by Lolacrayola

[RealJustBoo]

It sounds like your current progress is about were I was just at. Forget Elite Sanctuary. Look at just Onslaught Sanctuary (non-elite). Look up the rules first as it's typically WF Weird. It's compact (easy to find baddies), full of enemies and pops Focus constantly.

REMEMBER: You have to run at least TWO rounds to get your reward.

Now, other than increasing my 'pool' I wonder what I'm supposed to do with this Focus? I currently have a Pool of 12 and +110K Focus. Do I just keep 'spending' it on my Pool?

Edited August 5, 2019 by RealJustBoo
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[Lolacrayola]

You can spend it on your pool. To completely max out the Madurai focus tree (minus Void Radiance) and have all the waybounds enabled you need your focus pool to be about 162. To max out every focus tree you need your focus pool to be around 172 to 177. But early on its not necessary to expand your focus pool to be that large. I would spend it on getting Void Strike first and if you run out of capacity, add to your focus pool. Don't spend any points on Void Radiance other than to unlock Void Strike. All it does is make void mode more expensive for no benefit in eidolon hunting. Then go for the key waybounds like Void Flow (Zenurik), Void Siphon (Zenurik), Enduring Tides (Vazarin) and Mind Sprint (Naramon). Then go back to Madurai to max Blazing Dash and Meteoric Dash.

When you have the above, your operator will be quite tanky with arcanes like Magus Vigor/Husk. You will be able to spend lots of time in void mode to stack your Void Strike damage multiplier and you will be able to dash pretty far and pretty often to move around quickly. You will also be able to kill voms and charge lures without spending Void Strike stacks. You don't need anywhere near 170 focus pool to get to this point. Everything beyond that is gravy.

The cool thing about making your operator stronger is that it becomes very useful outside eidolon hunting too. You can move through regular missions very quickly with void dash, heal your warframe while switching in and out of operator with arcanes such as Magus Elevate. You can use Magus Lockdown to deal damage that scales with enemy level which is very useful in high level scaling modes like Arbitrations where you can 2 shot level 500 enemies as easily as you can level 50 enemies.

Edited August 5, 2019 by Lolacrayola

[Symbiont]

get more lenses, upgrade them. put them on every frame/weapon you frequently use. get a booster and play the game at your pace with an occasional eidolon capture attempt. you'll get there.