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How to Get More Forma in Warframe

By: Adam
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level 12 forma bundle in nightwave

Forma, one of the resources you’ll need an absolutely absurd amount of in Warframe. Here’s how to get more Forma, as you’ll likely need it.

Forma is, as a simple fact, one of the most heavily used items in Warframe.

You will need to use it to optimize mod polarities of Warframes, Weapons, companions and more. Some craftable items actually use Forma in their own recipes. You can’t even think about building a Clan Dojo with your friends unless you have a small mountain of it to donate – and I know that from experience.

So where and how can you find more Forma, given you’ll need so many?

Collecting Forma from Warframes Battlepass; Nightwave

Nightwave is the battle pass style system Warframe uses. Complete challenges that are assigned to you on a daily (or weekly) basis, and earn progress in the system. Every so much progress, you get a level up. Each level has its own set reward, and about a tenth of the Nightwave act levels will typically award you with Forma.

Fortunately, these levels award Forma bundles, specifically. That means you get 3 at once, each time. This isn’t a huge amount given the sheer number of Forma you’ll ultimately need, but it is a good chunk extra given the 3 total bundles available means access to 9 of it for free, in each and every new Nightwave act.

Forma bundle level 7 of Nightwave Warframe
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All you need to do to obtain them is earn enough points to progress to the levels in the Nightwave act that have them as their set rewards – currently, those are levels 7, 12 and 27.

Farming Forma blueprints using Relics in Warframe

After the easy and obvious ones are out of the way, we can turn to another system to farm what we need. You can farm for plenty of Forma blueprints via the use of Relics, assuming you have the relics to farm with.

Forma as a possible relic reward in Warframe
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Ideally for farming Forma, you’ll want to be playing with a team of 4 total players in Warframe. A full team means more players opening relics at once, which will increase your Forma chances. Even if the other players aren’t trying to find Forma themselves, many relics will have Forma as a common or uncommon filler reward, so they might get it as a round reward anyway.

You only need one player to find a Forma reward for you all to be able to select it. Plus, many void relic farmers will be happy to have someone trying to find Forma with their own relics join in, as then most rounds will have a Forma option to choose in case their own relics fail to provide what they want, a fairly common event in Warframe.

Bear in mind any Forma you select during this will be in Blueprint form, however. You’ll still need to craft each and every drop you get here in your Warframe Foundry to actually get your Forma. Still, having a backlog of Forma blueprints to slowly craft through is very useful.

Recommendations for farming relics and void missions

The void mission I personally find fastest for opening relics tends to be excavation. Other missions such as Survival are explicitly time-locked, or like Defence are effectively time-locked due to gaps in rounds and slow enemy spawns in each wave.

Excavation is not without flaws, however. Other players can mess up the deployment and potentially cause rounds to end before someone has enough void reactant to crack open a relic. That will mean missing out on that round only though, not the entire mission. I’d advise you to focus on reaching ten void reactant immediately the moment a new round begins each time, that way you probably won’t be set back if a teammate makes a big mistake while you’re not in a position to grab enough reactant, as you’ll gather enough quite quickly.

As for the relics to use, you want ones with common slot Forma to make it easy to find. You should not be using enhanced relics here at all. This is because Forma is typically a common or uncommon reward. Enhancing relics makes these less likely in favour of increasing the rare drop odds.

Of course, you can still get the uncommon and rare drops even with a basic relic. If you do encounter that, I’d suggest taking them instead of a Forma. Rare items are just that, rare. While Forma is relatively common and easy to farm for. Finally, don’t be afraid to pick a teammate’s reward when a round ends. Warframe actually rewards players when another player picks their reward – and it doesn’t stop anyone else taking it as well.

Buying Forma Bundles with Warframe Platinum

And now to the obvious though potentially controversial option. You may personally prefer to avoid the premium options in games. However, I would suggest you hear me out, as you may not be very familiar with Warframes online economy in that case.

When you farm Forma blueprints in void missions, you may well get other items drop. If you farm enough void missions, you will unavoidably gain some rare items sooner or later. These can be sold in either trade chat or external tools like Warframe Market using player trading.

Store-bought forma bundle
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Platinum acts as the default trading currency online in Warframe. Actively chasing prime parts of similarly limited items is a common activity for many players, purely to then convert it into platinum using player trading. After platinum is obtained through trading, it can be used to buy just about anything else available in the game. It functions as the main currency of both the in-game store and online player trading.

If you list your various void mission rewards on either Warframe market or through the in-game trade chat, you’ll find yourself amassing platinum over time. You can then use this to buy Forma directly from the store to obtain it quickly. Be aware however that if you do use platinum to buy Forma, you should absolutely get the bundle deal.

Individual Forma cost 20 platinum each, while a triple pack of Forma is only 35 each. This means if you have enough to buy 2 Forma, you can buy a three-pack instead for significantly better value. And if you don’t? Maybe consider saving up till you do, it’s a much better deal.

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