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  • How Focus Points Work
  • Earning Focus Lenses
  • Farming Focus
  • The Best Focus Farm

With the overhaul to Focus in Warframe'south Angels of the Zariman update, earning Focus Points has become more of import than always. Unlocking your Focus passives and abilities volition drastically increase your Operator's utility, damage output, and even buff your Warframe'southward effectiveness in combat.

Of course, unlocking an entire Focus school is quite the task. Millions of Focus Points are needed to unlock but one school, permit alone v. In this guide, nosotros'll be going over how Focus Points piece of work, how to go Focus Lenses, and cover some notable Focus farms to help y'all hit your daily Focus cap as hands equally possible.

How Focus Points Piece of work

Focus Points are obtained by using Focus Lenses on max-level Warframes and weapons. Lenses convert a portion of all Analogousness earned into Focus. The rarity of your Focus Lens determines how much of that Affinity gets converted. This also ways the amount of Affinity you lot earn impacts your Focus gains.

Without deviating too far from Focus, it's important to empathise how Affinity works before farming Focus. Killing enemies grants a varying amount of Focus based on what they were killed by. The table beneath showcases each scenario and Affinity breakdown.

Weapon Affinity is split amongst all weapons in your loadout. Bring fewer weapons into missions to funnel your Affinity into a specific Lens. Companions practice non detract from any Analogousness or Focus gains.

Kill Method Warframe Affinity Weapon Affinity
Warframe Ability Kill 100% 0%
Weapon Kill 50% 50%
Marry Kill 25% 75%

At that place are two additional ways of earning Focus: defeating Thrax enemies aboard the Zariman and converting Eidolon Shards. Thrax units grant ii,500 Focus when slain, regardless of Lenses or Affinity modifiers. Eidolon Shards convert to a flat rate (as explained below).

Lens Conversion Rates

Lenses convert Affinity into Focus at the post-obit rates:

  • Standard Lens: ane.25% conversion rate.
  • Greater Lens: 1.75% conversion charge per unit.
  • Eidolon Lens: 2.25% conversion rate.
  • Lua Lens: 3.25% conversion rate.

For case, if you have a standard Unairu Lens and gain 1,000 Affinity towards that item, you'd gain 12.5 Focus towards the Unairu schoolhouse. This is quite slow and non applied for reaching daily caps, then that'southward why Convergence Orbs exist.

Convergence Orbs

Convergence Orbs multiply all Focus gains by 10x for 45 seconds. In our previous instance, you'd gain 125 Focus towards Unairu instead, drastically improving your Focus gains. By maximizing your Affinity gains and using Convergence at the right time, you can earn tens of thousands of Focus in less than a minute.

Daily Caps

There is a limit on how much Focus you can earn each twenty-four hour period. All players can earn 250,000 Focus Points each solar day, with an boosted 5,000 Focus added to your cap per Mastery Rank. For case, an MR20 player could earn 350,000 Focus a twenty-four hour period. This daily cap resets each 24-hour interval at 00:00 GMT.

Eidolon Shards

The just other way of earning Focus in Warframe is past converting Eidolon Shards into Focus Points. Eidolon Shards tin can be obtained past defeating or capturing Eidolons roaming the Plains of Eidolon at nighttime. A much weaker shard called Synthetic Eidolon Shards also has a rare run a risk of dropping during Sanctuary Onslaught runs. Eidolon Shards practise non contribute to your daily Focus cap.

Eidolon Shards convert to the following values:

  • Synthetic Eidolon Shards: 5,000 Focus
  • Brilliant Eidolon Shard: 25,000 Focus
  • Radiant Eidolon Shard: 40,000 Focus

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Earning Focus Lenses

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You'll need Focus Lenses if you want to level any school through normal gameplay. Fortunately, there are a few means of earning Focus Lenses:

  • Complete open up world bounties.
  • Complete Zariman bounties.
  • Run Lua Disruption (Rotation C drop).
  • Trade with other players.
  • Purchase Lenses from the in-game market.

Open world bounties will grant varying Lens rarities. The harder the bounty, the stronger the Lens. Any non-standard Lens (excluding Greater Lenses from Zariman bounties) will drop as a blueprint, significant y'all'll demand to arts and crafts higher-tier Lenses. This requires multiple copies of the previous Lens rarity. Alternatively, you tin can obtain Lenses from other players or the in-game market.

Lua Disruption is notable since it drops the blueprint for Lua Lenses, the strongest Lens type in Warframe. They're difficult to craft but give the most amount of Focus out of any Lens.

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Farming Focus

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Optimal Focus farms revolve effectually maximizing your Affinity gains and using the best Focus Lenses you own. Since higher-tier Lenses are hard to come by, most players stick to using a Warframe and a single weapon to funnel their Analogousness gains into their good Lenses.

As for which activities are good for Focus farming:

  • (Elite) Sanctuary Onslaught
  • Eximus Stronghold Sorties
  • Adaro, Sedna
  • Hunting Eidolons
  • Zariman Missions

Sanctuary Onslaught

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Sanctuary Onslaught is an endless activity found under the "Syndicate" tab of your Star Chart UI. This mode throws your team against a swarm of enemies that continuously spawn in small tiles. Each wave you brainstorm will also actuate a Convergence Orb automatically with an escalating Focus multiplier, scaling up to 16x more Focus. The Elite variant is slightly harder but spawns far more Eximus targets, giving you even more Affinity that tin be converted into Focus Points.

Eximus Stronghold Sorties

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Eximus units requite more Analogousness than whatever other enemy in Warframe, so any Sortie with the Eximus Stronghold modifier can yield cracking Affinity and Focus gains. Sortie missions that revolve effectually killing hordes of enemies—Survival, Exterminate, and Disruption—are the best for this. Since Sortie missions and modifiers change daily, this farm shouldn't be relied on.

Adaro, Sedna Stealth Farming

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If you aren't interested in farming Sanctuary Onslaught, you lot tin can use Warframe'southward stealth multiplier mechanic to rack up an absurd amount of Focus in a short period. The Adaro node on Sedna is an Exterminate mission on a elementary Grineer tileset. You'll play equally Equinox, using the Pacify ability to put enemies to sleep. You can use a melee or silent AoE weapon to rapidly kill everyone, edifice a stealth multiplier. This grants 500% more than Affinity, affecting your Focus gains too. There'due south no limit to this farm and is quite fast once you master it.

Eidolon Hunts

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Eidolon Hunts require good gear, a decent Amp, cognition on how the fight works, and it must exist nighttime in the Plains. A group is highly recommended for this strategy, merely you can solo all three Eidolons with exercise. This farm involves completing a "Tridolon," capturing all three Eidolons in a unmarried run. You'll proceeds Eidolon Shards from each articulate, an detail y'all can catechumen into Focus Points. Shards do not affect your daily Focus cap.

Zariman Missions

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All Thrax enemies aboard the Zariman grant 2,500 Focus for your currently-equipped school when slain, regardless of Lenses or Affinity boosts. If you desire to make slow all the same steady progress towards Focus, farming content in the Zariman is an option.

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The Best Focus Subcontract

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The best Focus farm in Warframe is Elite Sanctuary Onslaught, followed closely by stealth farming in Adaro, Sedna. Aristocracy Sanctuary Onslaught narrowly beats it for the scaling Convergence Orb multiplier and abundance of small tilesets. However, if yous tin can't farm Elite Sanctuary Onslaught or lack a DPS Warframe, farming enemies on Adaro is a cracking mode of earning Focus.

Here'south what you lot'll need for Elite Sanctuary Onslaught:

  • A DPS Warframe
    • Saryn
    • Mirage with Explosive Legerdemain
    • Volt
    • Harrow with Thermal Sunder
  • Melee Weapon
  • Smeeta Kavat (optional)
  • Affinity Booster (optional)

Identify your best Lens onto your Warframe and another Lens onto your melee weapon. The Smeeta Kavat can double your Affinity gains periodically through its Charm buff. Finally, the Affinity Booster doubles all Analogousness earned, doubling the amount of Focus you'll receive. For your Focus school, Naramon is solid; Affinity Fasten increases your Affinity gains on all melee weapons. However, if your build needs an Energy source, run Zenurik instead. Your DPS Warframe should build for equally much range and damage equally possible. For Warframes like Saryn, Ability Range matters far more than.

Equally for the farm itself, yous'll enter Elite Sanctuary Onslaught and kill every bit many enemies as possible. The first 45 seconds of each wave will have immense Focus gains, so utilise that period to impale every bit many enemies as possible. When the enemies get too tough, leave and restart the activeness. Teammates can make this farm even faster by debuffing enemies, giving you Energy, or helping you impale enemies. With practiced tiles, y'all should exist able to achieve your Focus cap in an hour.

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