Warframe: Hitting mastery rank 30 and what to do next

After the release of Nezha Prime, players were able to reach the True Master rank. What happens then and where do we go from here in Warframe?

I’ve been playing Warframe since Hydroid was the newest frame. Do mind, I said Hydroid, not the prime version. This was around mid-2014, so at the time of writing this article, it has been over six years. I’ve seen Warframe before the liset was a thing, before open worlds existed, and when Vay Hek was the biggest villain in the game’s lore.

Mastery rank back then was just for bragging rights and being able to craft the Dragon Nikana, before all the benefits that came with it. Eventually, mastery rank mattered; your standing caps were raised, allowing you to gain additional rep per day for syndicates and focus.

Your mastery rank went hand-in-hand with weapon and warframe levels, meaning you have starting level points for new items you acquire. For example, if you’re a MR 15 player and craft a new weapon, even if it’s unranked, you’ll have the mod capacity for it as if it was already at 15.

I had my mindset to hit the highest rank possible so I can have the most mod capacity out from a new weapon right from the get-go. But with it came some eventual burnouts along the way. Usually, when I hit the cap in mastery, I would use the excess resources and time playing the game to revisit weapons that I may have gotten a riven for, help people out, or try hounding my friends to try the game out and play with them.

Eventually, the big 3-0 was coming for players like myself who completed literally everything in the game. This means owning and maxing out all warframes to level 30, leveling all weapons including the event ones, the Baro Ki’Teer prisma weapons, the kuva weapons, prime weapons, zaws, and kitguns.

This also means having all the companions, like MOAs, sentinels, kavats, kubrows, the new Deimos companions, and the infested kubrow. I have conquered the star chart, even again on the Steel Path; I grinded my way through a few hefty hours of Empyrean just to max out my intrinsics. As of November 1, I’m a true master, awaiting what lies next in these teased “Legendary Ranks”. The most important questions now are:  What happens when I hit rank 30? What happens next? What do I do? Where do I go from here?

When you hit MR 30, you get some cool goodies and benefits. These goodies are 30 riven slots, 3 Umbra forma, 15 loadout slots, additional raises for my daily standing and void trace slots. I also received these “True Master” items like an exclusive chat emoji, emote, and a sumdali. The emote is decent and somewhat reminds me of the respawning animation, the chat emoji is impractical on console, and the sumdali is basically a hood ornament for your landing craft. What caught my interest the most, however, is gaining the ability to cast Relay Blessings. There are six different blessings to choose from: affinity, credit, resource drop chance, damage, health, or shields. Basically, catch me on void trader weekends to cast resource drop chance blessings!

So, what happens next? I’m basically doing what I said in regards to hitting the mastery cap, now with more benefits. Where I am right now only really lets me create my own end game of sorts whether it’s fighting Steel Path eidolons, doing endurance survival runs, selling my prime and rare mod inventory in the trade chat, and going for god roll rivens. I’m giving back to the community to an extent, and I’m eagerly awaiting what’s next for Warframe, including the Deimos Arcana update and highly anticipated New War, Duviri Paradox, and so forth.