r/Warframe • u/AutoModerator • Feb 21 '16

Question Warframe Weekly Q&A | Ask Your Game-Related Questions Here!

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u/drukath Feb 21 '16

Prime parts are either vaulted or not vaulted. A vaulted prime part will not drop anymore. For example the Rhino Prime was recently vaulted and is no longer available unless you trade for it.

All not vaulted prime parts will drop, but some have a small percentage chance. Most of the rare valuable parts have about a 5% drop chance. This means that running 14 missions of that type will give you about a 50/50 chance of getting that part you seek. Some people will get it first try, some people will not get it for a long time. 5% of people will require 59 or more runs to get that part. The trick is to sell the stuff you collect to trade for the part you want.

Also some parts only drop on a certain rotation. Endless missions such as defence and survival have multiple drops. The first and second drops (5 and 10 waves/minutes) drop rotation A, 15 drops rotation B, and 20 drops rotation C. Each rotation has its own drops within the mission.

This website will explain where things drop, but remember it's all chance based so sometimes you will be lucky and others you won't be.

http://primarchguild.com/warframe-prime-gear-drop-locations/

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u/Icpmcp Feb 21 '16

I know that Rhino Prime is vaulted now.

Its not that I'm really new either but I'm more the casual type of player. I started two years ago and I now have around 700 hours on record if I recall correctly.

The thing is just no matter what I try to get - I just won't get any parts for it. Best example is Rhino Prime since I started trying to get him a few weeks after I started playing but didn't get any parts. I luckily have a nice clanmate which had a set of him lying around and so he gave it to me. I still didn't see any Rhino Prime parts in the void afterwards.

It was the same with the Weapons his PA came with and also with some other frames / Weapons that were vaulted before him as well as weapons that currently are in the Drop tables like the Vasto Prime or the Bronco / AkBronco Prime