Crafting & Confusion

[Marvene]

I have recently began building a lot of weapons, and came across a weapon known as twin basolk, which requires dual zoren, atomos and two control modules, ive had a prebuilt atomos with a potato and forma, and brought another atomos for the twin basolk, i upgraded the new atomos to rank 30 and than went to make the dual basolk, but when i came to building it i couldnt differe between the forma atomos and one without any upgrades. Help???

[SurrealEdge]

There's no way to tell the two apart once you've chosen to max both. You only need the component weapons in the creation of a weapon that requires it, no additional leveling required.

Sadly, you goofed there.

[(PSN)theelix]

This is EXACTLY why we don't level items we're going to put into crafting requirements. Because you CAN'T tell. 

[Marvene]

What if i want to sell, cause also in the inventory there is no sign :/

[FrostedMike]

You didn't have to rank it up. If you want to tell the diffrence just put a forma on the one you want. This is your payment for ranking it up with no resone.

[blackheartstar_pc]

Why did you max level the second one you knew you were not going to be keeping? Especially if you already had one with a Catalyst and Forma in it? Now I'm the one confused. As mentioned above just drop a second Forma on the one you already upgraded.

Edited August 24, 2017 by blackheartstar_pc

[(PSN)TONI__RIBEIRO]

Easy fix put a forma on the trash one so it goes back to rank 0 

[Gamma745]

1 minute ago, (PS4)TONI__RIBEIRO said:

Easy fix put a forma on the trash one so it goes back to rank 0 

But he may not want to waste a Forma on something he doesn't want to keep. How about on the potatoed one?

[(PSN)TONI__RIBEIRO]

6 hours ago, Gamma745 said:

But he may not want to waste a Forma on something he doesn't want to keep. How about on the potatoed one?

1 forma or built another atomos, either way is not too hard to solve this.

[MagPrime]

6 hours ago, Marvene said:

I have recently began building a lot of weapons, and came across a weapon known as twin basolk, which requires dual zoren, atomos and two control modules, ive had a prebuilt atomos with a potato and forma, and brought another atomos for the twin basolk, i upgraded the new atomos to rank 30 and than went to make the dual basolk, but when i came to building it i couldnt differe between the forma atomos and one without any upgrades. Help???

Being able to put notes on weapons, having the customized colors from your loadout appearing on the selection screen or even allowing us to preselect which weapon we want to use for future crafting would be nice.

Or even a little notice saying that the weapon doesn't have to be max rank.

 

2 minutes ago, (PS4)TONI__RIBEIRO said:

1 forma or built another atomos, either way is not too hard to solve this.

True, but it would be nice to have a solution that removes the need to waste resources.

[VirtualViolet]

Idk why anyone would assume you have to use a max rank weapon as a component of another weapon.

[(PSN)TONI__RIBEIRO]

7 hours ago, VirtualViolet said:

Idk why anyone would assume you have to use a max rank weapon as a component of another weapon.

Nowhere in the game states that you don't, might be confusing for newer players.

[(PSN)Unstar]

A lot of Tenno in this thread seem to be coming down on OP, as if it's their fault this happened.  That's pretty unreasonable.

The game provides no indication of whether a weapon used as a blueprint component needs to be leveled or not.  Some games have crafting systems where you have to max out gear before it can be used in a recipe; some games don't.  Whichever one you assume, you've got a 50% chance of being wrong.  And odds are, you'll expect Warframe's system to play like the other games you've played before it.

In addition, can we at least be honest that if we're pointing fingers, those fingers should be pointed at DE?  I don't want to diminish the amazing game that DE has made (and continues to make better and better) but this is a failing on the part of the crafting UI.  It's a minor failing that won't affect most players, and thus I wouldn't expect to see a fix for it anytime soon when there are bigger fish to fry, but it is a failing nonetheless.

[(PSN)theelix]

12 hours ago, (PS4)Unstar said:

A lot of Tenno in this thread seem to be coming down on OP, as if it's their fault this happened.  That's pretty unreasonable.

The game provides no indication of whether a weapon used as a blueprint component needs to be leveled or not.  Some games have crafting systems where you have to max out gear before it can be used in a recipe; some games don't.  Whichever one you assume, you've got a 50% chance of being wrong.  And odds are, you'll expect Warframe's system to play like the other games you've played before it.

In addition, can we at least be honest that if we're pointing fingers, those fingers should be pointed at DE?  I don't want to diminish the amazing game that DE has made (and continues to make better and better) but this is a failing on the part of the crafting UI.  It's a minor failing that won't affect most players, and thus I wouldn't expect to see a fix for it anytime soon when there are bigger fish to fry, but it is a failing nonetheless.

We're not blaming OP, it's a common mistake. I've even gone to support for putting in a Viper into a Twin Viper that I meant to keep. At a point I got tired of waiting and just leveled the Viper I meant to put into the cake. 

At a point, it's a sympathy laugh. Support could reasonably bring the weapon back, and take another one in compensation rather than erasing 24 hours of work.