Concerning Void Relics

[Hawk_of_the_Reborn]

My clanmate and I was doing some relic runs last night while having discussion about Warframe and how its mechanics work in general. Then it hit me, How do Relics work compared to the old keys? I know back when the keys were used for the void, that only the Host's key was the one to be consumed, should the mission be successfully completed.

How does this work for Relics, now that players have considerably more control on what they can choose as a reward once extracting. Do I have to choose somebody else's relic reward of that mission in order to 'save' my key and use it later?

I ask this because I've used up a lot of relics in which I only had less than a handful of or just only one in quantity, and it is having me resort to hoping I could find a Hieracon run for like 2 hours with a chance of getting one of that relic I need in order to have a chance at being rewarded with that one Prime part I'm looking for to complete a set for. This is even more if it's a Prime part which is a rare one for a particular Relic, such as Fragor Prime handle or Saryn Prime Chassis

[Xebov]

If you collect the 10 reactants so your relic got opened and you extract the relic is used up. Its not important if anyone choose your reward or not. You basically use up 1 relic per try.

[SarcasticShepard]

No, when you use a relic and pick a reward, your relic is consumed.

That said, you can increase your odds of getting a low drop by refining the particular relic to increase the chances and then run with a cell who are all doing the same thing to that same relic.

[Manyc]

No can do.

Every person that collects 10 reactant on the mission gets their relic open, if you don't open yours for some reason (extracting with 8 reactants collected) you won't get yours open but won't get to chose from all available either.

Whichever who chose, what is open, opened remains and is lost if not selected.

[Hawk_of_the_Reborn]

Ah, well that's sort of a bummer. Thanks for the info though.