Published , by Aidan O'Brien
Published , by Aidan O'Brien
Tellurium in Warframe is an important but hard-to-get resource. It will only drop from very specific missions and activities that could make it quite time consuming to farm. The good news is there is a little trick to make life much easier, making grabbing this usually rare resource a breeze.
The best place to farm for Tellurium in Warframe is at the Ophelia mission on Uranus. This is a Survival mission, and because it is a Submersible variant, it counts as an Archwing mission. The reason this is important is that all enemies in Archwing missions have a chance to drop Tellurium when they are killed.
We don't want to run an actual Archwing mission due to the fact that they normally have lower enemy counts, and many people don't actually enjoy those missions very much. So, by playing Ophelia, we have a mission that plays out as a standard Survival, with all the enemy spawns that this entails, and each one has a chance to drop some of the resources we need. Perfection.
The reason why Survival missions are considered one of the best ways to farm anything in Warframe is because of some advanced techniques that take advantage of how these missions work. There is a lot to this, so I will break it all down for new players below.
It's pretty simple, but it's a method that the community has been using for years now to speed up the farming of certain resources. The good news is that every time some Tellurium drops, it will be marked on your screen with a waypoint, making it impossible to miss. It helps to bring a Smeeta Kavat, should you have one, as the Charm bonus can provide you with increased loot.
You can also purchase Boosters in the in-game store for Platinum if you wish. These will increase your resource drop rates or double your loot pickups, depending on what you buy. The double loot will also stack with the Smeeta Charm and can result in a lot of resources if you are lucky.
And that's it. Like much of Warframe, the best results are less about where you do something and more about how you do something. Don't forget, with Warframe: 1999 on the way at the end of the year, it is likely we'll need a lot of varied resources to build the new Warframes and weapons that are on the way, so we might as well get some farming done now.