Massive Affinity discrepancy

[Altissimus]

My wife and I played the same mission.  Here are the mission results.  

Please note the level of our melee weapons, and the affinity earned.  Please note that neither of us used our melee weapons at any point, other than to bust a pot or two.  She did use her Kulstar a bit, but even so the discrepancy there between secondary weapons is again absolutely vast.

Please can someone explain this MASSIVE discrepancy on affinity earned?

 

Edited July 14, 2016 by Altissimus
ETA - no affinity boosters used. The difference isn't double anyway.

[LSG501]

No Idea but could be a combination of taxi'd to higher level, shared affinity and a booster

[CrudShuzKong]

maybe you guys split up too far and stopped sharing affinity. if one of oyu gets a lot more kills during that time this will be the result.

[(PSN)iBoiz]

Thats how affinity works. You did the killing, xp was wasted on your already maxed gear.

[Llewellyn_Lionheart]

Based on the pictures you posted, the second player earned almost all of their affinity from shared affinity from the first player or from objective affinity because it's split pretty much 25% across the board, but they didn't pass any of it back to the other player, who has a wide variance in melee vs. secondary affinity. 

Affinity for your kills with a weapon: 50% to the weapon you used, 50% to the warframe
Affinity for your kills with a warframe: 100% to the warframe
Affinity from an objective, or shared affinity from another Tenno's kills via any method: even split across the warframe and all equipped weapons

If you are soloing, or you spend the mission outside of shared affinity range, the weapons you do not use will gain nothing, or almost nothing. 

[Altissimus]

7 minutes ago, LSG501 said:

No Idea but could be a combination of taxi'd to higher level, shared affinity and a booster

No booster, no taxi.

4 minutes ago, CrudShuzKong said:

maybe you guys split up too far and stopped sharing affinity. if one of oyu gets a lot more kills during that time this will be the result.

If I'm doing the killing, why is she getting the XP?  Especially if out of range?  Makes no sense.

2 minutes ago, (PS4)iBoiz said:

Thats how affinity works. You did the killing, xp was wasted on your already maxed gear.

We're talking about the melee weapons. There's a SIX TIMES difference.  How is the XP wasted on un-maxed weapons? They're also both the same level, interestingly.

[Ins.]

You've done most of the kills with your ember's WoF, which means 100% of the affinity you get form those kills goes to your maxed ember. Your wife got shared affinity.

[(PSN)iBoiz]

11 minutes ago, Altissimus said:

We're talking about the melee weapons. There's a SIX TIMES difference.  How is the XP wasted on un-maxed weapons? They're also both the same level, interestingly.

Read up under Acquisition

http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Affinity

In short, if you kill enemy with a gun 50% of the affinity goes towards gun and 50% towards frame. Teammate's frame gets 25% affinity and the remaining 75% is evenly split between weapons. Since you did most of the killing 50% of the affinity was wasted on frame and remaining 50% on the weapon you used to kill. Killing enemies with ability makes 100% of the affinity go towards the frame.

Edited July 14, 2016 by (PS4)iBoiz

[CrudShuzKong]

6 minutes ago, Altissimus said:

We're talking about the melee weapons. There's a SIX TIMES difference.  How is the XP wasted on un-maxed weapons? They're also both the same level, interestingly.

Alright, lesson time.

Affinity is awarded to whatever gets the kills. if you run solo, you will get most affinity on your melee weapon, if you just kill with melee and only on ember if you kill with ember. If another member is in your party and inside shared exp range (50m) then that guy gets ALL the exp you generate as well, but split across all his gear.

So what happened here is clear: you killed with your frame, so you got no affinity on your weapons, your wife did not do much killing so she got 1/4th of all the affinity generated for each weapon. @Llewellyn_Lionheart got the numbers too.

Edited July 14, 2016 by CrudShuzKong

[Keiiken]

If ember was running around with WoF on killing everything then most of affinity earned goes to frame.
Chroma gets benefit of shared affinity split evenly between frame and all weapons.

http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Affinity

Edited July 14, 2016 by Keiiken

[Llewellyn_Lionheart]

7 minutes ago, Altissimus said:

No booster, no taxi.

If I'm doing the killing, why is she getting the XP?  Especially if out of range?  Makes no sense.

We're talking about the melee weapons. There's a SIX TIMES difference.  How is the XP wasted on un-maxed weapons? They're also both the same level, interestingly.

Look at the amount of focus that the first player gained on their warframe vs. their weapon. It looks like that person did nearly all of the killing in the entire mission with warframe powers, giving the other player full shared affinity, split 25%, but preventing themselves from gaining nearly anything but focus. 

Also, just look at the scoreboard and not just the affinity. Altissimus did 87% of the damage and outkilled the other player 6 to 1. If that was the player with the Ember, this is assuredly the cause.

Edited July 14, 2016 by Llewellyn_Lionheart

[TrickshotMcGee]

3 minutes ago, Altissimus said:

How is the XP wasted on un-maxed weapons? They're also both the same level, interestingly.

If you don't use the weapons, and the other person doesn't kill much, then the weapons that don't get kills don't get much affinity. 

[Inarticulate]

You got 3,946 Focus points (which is equivalent to somewhere between 37,581 and 315,680 affinity depending on how long you spent in Convergence and whether the lens is greater or not) on your Ember and only a small amount of affinity on your other gear, so I assume a large chunk of your 87% damage dealt was from World on Fire. World on Fire, being a Warframe ability, gives 100% of its kill affinity to the Warframe and 0% of its kill affinity to your other equipment. The affinity gain on your Akvasto and Fang are from shared affinity from your wife.

Your wife was probably benefiting a lot from shared affinity (considering 13% damage dealt), which gives 25% of its affinity to the Warframe and the remaining 75% of its affinity split evenly across all weapons. Your wife did a lot less damage than you, which means she benefited a lot more from shared affinity than you did.

Edited July 14, 2016 by Inarticulate

[VKhaun]

4 minutes ago, Altissimus said:

We're talking about the melee weapons. There's a SIX TIMES difference.  How is the XP wasted on un-maxed weapons? They're also both the same level, interestingly.

Affinity is split differently depending on who kills the target and with what.

Kills with your warframe abilities send 100% of the affinity earned to the equipped warframe. Ember got a ton of kills with the frame. Probably running World on Fire. All this affinity went entirely to the Ember warframe and did not help Fang at all.

KIlls by your allies are split between your frame and weapons. Chroma mostly did not get kills but stayed in XP range of Ember, so Chroma's shared affinity from Ember's kills is evenly distributed. Gram got an even share with Kulstar, .Soma Prime (still gets a share even though it's maxed) and the Chroma warframe.

http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Affinity

Acquisition

Warframes and weapons gain Affinity for several types of actions, detailed below. Unless specified otherwise, all Affinity gained uses the same split: 25% of the amount goes to your Warframe and 75% of the amount is divided evenly among all equipped weapons (25% each for three, 37.5% each for two, or the full 75% if only one is equipped).

    Kill an enemy. Each enemy grants a specific amount of Affinity. If killed with a Warframe ability, all of the Affinity goes to the Warframe. If killed with a weapon, half goes to the Warframe and half to the killing weapon.
        Be near an allied Tenno when they kill an enemy. When within 50 meters of an ally when they kill an enemy, you gain the same total Affinity, split according to your own weaponry. This doesn't reduce the Affinity gained by the killing player, and doesn't reduce the Affinity gained by other nearby allies. This does not apply to Archwing mode as it has much larger ranges for shared affinity. 
    Use a Warframe ability. Affinity equal to the base energy cost, in most cases.
        As Update 15.8, it is still bugged. User sometimes gains no affinity from ability use.