What Exactly Does Affinity Do?

[Alvin]

I never understood what affinity does. On the tutorial is said it was like XP, but shouldn't it say 100 XP instead of affinity?

Or is affinity the only thing that can level up your main rank?

[pandasake]

Affinity is experience it just has different wording :P Also, affinity is used for all your weapons/warframes/sentinels (basically everything) :D  

[Rakuall]

Affinity is XP for warframes/weapons. Mastery points are XP for the account rank. I'm not sure exactly how the 100 Affinity orbs are applied to gear, but you need [(Next Rank)^2]x1000 Affinity for a warframe level, and x500 for gear. You get 200 Mastery for every warframe level and 100 for every weapon level. I'm too lazy to look up the amount needed for each mastery level, but all of this is on the wiki.

Edited April 12, 2013 by Rakuall

[SeventhFrost]

It's clear it's experience, but I haven't found someone able to say exactly how it applies to gear. From what I can guess, it probably either applies to all gear on you, or your warframe and equipped weapon, possibly your melee weapon on that scenario. Or it may only apply to warframe, or only to the equipped weapon. No real way to know, from what I've seen.

[Sontag]

I've gone a few missions where my pistol and melee didn't get any bonus XP, which I think is affinity. I think it's broken down between how much you use each weapon.

[Alvin]

Affinity is XP for warframes/weapons. Mastery points are XP for the account rank. I'm not sure exactly how the 100 Affinity orbs are applied to gear, but you need [(Next Rank)^2]x1000 Affinity for a warframe level, and x500 for gear. You get 200 Mastery for every warframe level and 100 for every weapon level. I'm too lazy to look up the amount needed for each mastery level, but all of this is on the wiki.

 

oooh right, does 100 affinity count as mastery xp as well? I don't know why they call it affinity and not XP. That just bothers me that affinity might mean something else.

and thanks all.

EDIT: Nvm, i gained 100 affinity, and I still needed 1100 mastery points left.

Edited April 13, 2013 by awesomealvin

[ex101]

the affinity orb looks like the energy orbs but there glowing