
It is highly recommended that you upgrade your favorite Warframes and weapons with an Orokin Reactor/Orokin Catalyst in order to make them as powerful as possible.Īll mods have a certain "polarity" which is displayed with a symbol in the upper right corner of the mod next to the capacity drain number. However, you may double the mod capacity by installing an Orokin Reactor or Orokin Catalyst respectively these can be rewarded from special missions and can also be bought for Platinum at the market. A rank 30 (max) warframe/weapon will have a a mod capacity of 30. Notice that as you upgrade a mod, it will also drain more of your mod capacity when equipped.Įach Warframe and weapon has a certain mod capacity, that is usually the same as the rank of the warframe/level or your Mastery Rank whatever is highest. As an example the Pressure Point mod at rank 0 will give you 20% extra melee damage - when fully upgraded to rank 5 it will however give you 120% extra melee damage as displayed in the image to the right.

Mods can be updated to make it stronger (more on how to do that below) - at the bottom of the mod are a number of dots, as you upgrade the mod these dots will turn light blue to display the current rank of the mod. You can use the Codex on your Orbiter to see all the available mods and where they drop - or you can search the Warframe Wiki. The Void Trader Baro Ki'teer will also sell some random Primed or dual-stat mods when he visists a relay station. If you have unlocked Lua there are also some special Drift mods to be acquired by completing the random Halls of Ascension challenge rooms. Riven mods can be rewarded from the daily Sortie, some dual-stat mods can only be aquired from Nightmare Mode missions, Orokin Derelict missions, Sortie (Riven mods). Mods drops from enemies when running your missions however some mods only drop on special missions e.g.

Syndicate mods) may only be compatible with a specific Warframe. Most Warframe mods may be used on all warframes but others (e.g.

Sniper Rifle), Shotgun, Pistol and melee mods. Mods are usually divided into Warframe, Rifle (incl. In the beginning you only have a few weak mods but as you progress through the Star Chart you will acquire more mods including some more powerful mods. Mods are used to improve the stats of your weapons and Warframes.
