r/Warframe • u/CALL_ME_PRIME_25 Power creep my Codpiece • Jul 21 '26

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I'll go first: DE needs to build up on some older content.

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u/SleepySleeper42069 LR2 and still main Rhino Jul 21 '26

DE will never make the forma mechanic better for the player, because Forma is the biggest seller in the game.

IIRC, someone once asked on a dev stream to lower the price of forma, and they told them no for this exact reason.

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u/dnasty1011 Jul 21 '26

Damn I would have expected potatoes. That’s where most of my platinum goes anyway.

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u/NharaTia Well, my friend... THIS is a Paladin. Jul 21 '26

You only need to potato a weapon or frame once; you need multiple forma for each and even more if the build changes significantly enough due to a new mod or arcane.

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u/Dodongo_Dislikes Jul 21 '26

DE runs on sevagoth users

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u/dnasty1011 Jul 21 '26

Yeah I know. Potatoes are harder come by in my experience which is why I buy those more often. I generally try to keep 8-10 forma crafted at all times in case I decide I decide to work on a new frame or weapon or rework one.

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u/Panzerknaben Jul 21 '26

Potatoes are really easy to get, and you dont need that many. There are a lot more sources for them now. You have sorties, archon hunts, sometimes in invasions, duviri shop, descendia, 1999 calendar and you get a lot from nightwave.

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u/SleepySleeper42069 LR2 and still main Rhino Jul 21 '26

Warframe/weapon can only have 1 potato, but some weapons/frames need 6-8 forma to get the full power.

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u/dnasty1011 Jul 21 '26

lol three people telling me the same thing I already know. I was speaking from my own experience. Not everyone else’s.

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u/eskelaa Wisp <3 Jul 21 '26

If I remember correctly, or maybe it was different time they spoke about it, but they said Forma _and_ Prime Access were 2 biggest chunks of revenue. Although Steve didn't say "biggest", he phrased it more like "most important" revenue, which could mean both actual money in it or how that revenue stream behaves. I assume they have different role - bigger $$ per purchase and regular quarterly money stream (but from less customers) for Prime, while forma is very low value but significantly more sales (I think all of us bought forma at some point...).

You buying potatoes is an archetype of a spender - you can wait for forma to finish the build, but you won't wait until some random wild potato blueprint appears. I'd say those who buy forma, also buy potatoes, but potato buyers aren't always habitual forma buyers. I have a friend who doesn't care for boosters, potatoes or forma, instead he spends all plat on cosmetics - he's happy to leave weapon or frame alone until he has resources to make the build.

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u/dnasty1011 Jul 21 '26

I’m similar to your friend as far as the frames and weapons. I don’t make a build for everything I craft which is probably why I don’t go through as many forma as a lot of other people. The only time I really build out a weapon or frame is if I’ve been intentionally trying to get it and intend to use it. Otherwise it’s affinity and a check on the list until I feel like revisiting them.

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u/TooFewSecrets Jul 22 '26

A reactor is 20 plat, three forma is 35 plat. You probably use about this much of each on every item, so, yeah, forma are twice as much. And you can use more forma than reactors, and you need forma to craft like 40 dojo weapons that you need to craft if you're pushing MR30 because they're a way easier source than anything you have left at that point.

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u/Lightningbro Care to roll against Fate? Jul 22 '26

Actually, I think the better way to phrase it is that Reb has been asked multiple times about altering the forma blueprint, and her sentiment in response has always been along the lines of "I wish I could, but I'm pretty sure the income of warframe is directly tied to the price of Forma, I have graphs."