History ThatOneSidequest / Warframe

* Grendel, Lotus on a BIKE Grendel. Getting his blueprints requires you to get three keys from Arbitrations, which require you completing ''every'' node in the game. The keys lead to three missions-- an Excavation mission, a Defense mission, and a Survival Mission-- which guarantees you the part if you complete it. However, each of these missions has the "No Mods Mode" modifier-- as in, the mods you apply to your Warframe and Weapons don't work at all. No damage mods, no range mods, no utility mods ''nothing''. Not even [[spoiler:Operator Mode]] works! And did we mention that the missions have enemy levels 40-60?

* One of the Nightwave challenges involves going three consecutive rounds on [[ThatOneLevel The Index]] without letting the enemy team score. While the AI on the Index is thankfully fairly braindead, if they score just ''one'' point, you're SOL and have to start all over again. It's gotten to the point where people are asking DE to remove this challenge from the Nightwave rotation.

* Prior to Update 30.3, the Limbo Theorem was an incredibly annoying quest. It required you to build each component of Limbo before the quest could progress, and every time you loaded into your Orbiter while that part was being crafted, Ordis [[CaptainObvious would remind you that a part was being crafted]]. This happened whenever you logged in, came back from a mission, came back from the Dojo... it was ''interminable'', hearing the same voice line from Ordis every time you loaded in. The aforementioned update made it so that crafting the blueprint wasn't necessary, just acquiring it was enough. What's more, Update 34.0 reduced the crafting time for each part to one minute.

** Special mention must go to ranking up with Vox Solaris. In addition to the [[RareRandomDrop Toroids]] needed, you also require three different Systems items. Where do you get these items? The Profit-Taker bounties, which are only unlocked upon maxing out Solaris United, gating progression behind another syndicate. [[FromBadToWorse That’s only one hard gate progressing with this syndicate has]]. The aforementioned bounties have the systems in a loot table at the end of each bounty. While the Gyromag Systems are common and will eventually drop, the Atmo Systems needed for Rank 3 are uncommon. How uncommon? 10% drop rate in every bounty. And the loot tables are *very* diluted.

** With the Exumus rework making them immune to crowd control as long as they possess Overguard, there's a particular Riven challenge that's now all but impossible: "Complete a Level 30 or Higher Defense Mission Without The Defense Target Taking Damage". Before the rework, Limbo could just put a Catclysm bubble around the objective and cast Stasis before slaughtering them, but now, Exumus units are immune to both the Rift ''and'' Stasis.

* Fortuna launched with bonus objectives in its bounties that you could complete for additional rewards. These were added onto Cetus bounties in 2019, and they suck. The enemy spawn rate on the Plains has always been wonky, making it difficult to complete some bonus objectives like luring an assassination target out in under a minute.
* On launch, Bounties on the Zariman Ten-Zero were loathed by players due to a GameBreakingBug that made it impossible to extract from the mission, meaning that you would miss out on not only bounty rewards, but on the Voidplumes needed to rank up with the Holdfast syndicate, plus any rewards you got from doing the endless missions on the Zariman. While this was eventually fixed, it took over a ''month'' past launch to do so, and the Zariman still has a reputation as being a buggy mess even compared to the open worlds on launch.
* One of the Nightwave challenges involves going three consecutive rounds on [[ThatOneLevel The Index]] without letting the enemy team score. While the AI on the Index is thankfully fairly braindead, if they score just ''one'' point, you're SOL and have to start all over again.

* On launch, Bounties on the Zariman Ten-Zero were loathed by players due to a GameBreakingBug that made it impossible to extract from the mission, meaning that you would miss out on not only bounty rewards, but on the Voidplumes needed to rank up with the Holdfast syndicate, plus any rewards you got from doing the endless missions on the Zariman. While this was eventually fixed, it took over a ''month'' past launch to do so, and the Zariman still has a reputation as being a buggy mess even compared to the open worlds on launch.

* Fortuna launched with bonus objectives in its bounties that you could complete for additional rewards. These were added onto Cetus bounties in 2019, and they suck. The enemy spawn rate on the Plains has always been wonky, making it difficult to complete some bonus objectives like luring an assassination target out in under a minute.

* Fortuna launched with bonus objectives in its bounties that you could complete for additional rewards. These were added onto Cetus bounties in 2019, and they suck. The enemy spawn rate on the Plains has always been wonky, making it essentially impossible to complete some bonus objectives like luring an assassination target out in under a minute.

* The Waverider quest you need to complete to unlock Yareli is widely disliked for turning ''Warframe'' into ''VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater'', requiring you to rack up increasingly ludicrous trick point combos on your K-Drive to complete the requirements. Adding insult to injury, Yareli herself is considered one of the worst Warframes ever released. At [=TennoCon=] 2023 DE revealed they were going to be going over some of the more frustrating quests, with Rebecca highlighting Waverider in particular as one that many people ''still'' hadn't been bothered (or able) to finish.

* Hydroid must be farmed from fighting Vay Hek, who's one of the most annoying bosses to fight.

** Special mention must go to ranking up with Vox Solaris. In addition to the [[RareRandomDrop Toroids]] needed, you also require three different Systems items. Where do you get these items? The Profit-Taker bounties, which are only unlocked upon maxing out Solaris United, gating progression behind another syndicate. [[FromBadToWorse That’s only one hard gate progressing with this syndicate has]]. The aforementioned bounties have the systems in a loot table at the end of each bounty. While the Gyromag Systems are common and will eventually drop, the Atmo Systems needed for Rank 3 are uncommon. How uncommon? 10% drop rate in every bounty. And the loot tables are *very* diluted.

* The Waverider quest you need to complete to unlock Yareli is widely disliked for turning ''Warframe'' into ''VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater'', requiring you to rack up increasingly ludicrous trick point combos on your K-Drive to complete the requirements. Adding insult to injury, Yareli herself is considered one of the worst Warframes ever released.

* Jordas Precept, an otherwise rather mundane quest that unlocks the Atlas warframe, has an infuriating progression stopper in an item of Pherliac Pods. You need to craft them to progress further, and the components to do so can only be obtained by killing Infested Juggernauts. Finding a Juggernaut is not difficult, if a bit tedious (especially if you do not succeed in luring it out when you get the opportunity - since you can only lure Juggernaut out once per mission, if you did not succeed you effectively wasted the whole mission if you came for the sole purpose of fighting the Juggernaut), fighting it can be very hard as an entry above attests, but the main problem comes from its' drop rates. First, Juggernaut is guaranteed to drop one of the four components needed to craft it, but only one, and if RNG hates you you can spend a long time trying to get the component that you're missing. And finally and most importantly, besides the component you need to obtain ''the blueprint'' for crafting - it also drops from Juggernauts, but is not guaranteed to do so, and in fact has a rather low (~10%) chance to drop. What this all results in is a very time-consuming endeavour not unlike panning river sand for gold, that has you fight a very powerful enemy with very slim chances of getting what you need, in between all other things that can go wrong on any mission. Fortunately, if you happened to have some pods before you started the quest you can just use those, but if not - brace yourself for a very long grind. Thankfully, subsequent updates have made farming for the components somewhat easier due to "lesser" Juggernauts now spawning in Infested Disruption missions and randomly encountered in the Cambion Drift. While these are still fairly difficult, they're still nowhere near as painful as a normal Juggernaut.

* Hidden Messages, the quest which provides the blueprints for the Mirage Warframe, requires you to solve three riddles. However there is no indication of what to do with the answers, leaving the player to realize that they're the names of the mission location where they must go. After each mission another piece of Mirage must be crafted, taking 12 hours a piece, and a full 36 hours in total to complete the quest unless the player wants to spend the platinum to rush each.

* Baruuk is a frustrating combination of the previous two examples. Requiring Rank 3 and 4 with both Vox Solaris and Solaris United respectively, forcing players to put in twice the work by farming Toroids while doing bounties to raise their Solaris United standing.

* Getting the blueprints and parts to build prime weapons and Warframes take even longer. Requiring you to farm Void Relics by running missions with a high chance of dropping them in hopes of getting the ones you need. While some parts are more common and easily acquired, each build has one or two parts which are much rarer and harder to get. In these cases relics must be refined with Void Traces from completing Fissure missions to increase the chances of yielding the desired item. Taking around 4 or 5 missions on average to get the traces needed to fully refine a single relic. Even after all of this the parts are still not guaranteed, and it all comes down to a random roll.

* Farming any Warframe can become this, depending on the requirements. For example, Mesa - which requires 30 missions, ''at minimum'' (9 for a full set of the nav coordinates you need to farm the boss once, repeat 3 times. 3 for the number of times you need to farm) to achieve.

* Exaggerated with Vauban Prime, who has ''all of his parts'' marked as "rare" in relics, meaning you either have to group up and radshare with a group to get a chance at them or pray to God that you don't run out of relics before you get the parts you need. That's not even going into the actual building requirements, of which you notably need '''20''' nitain, 7000 Oxium and 9000 Cryotic to fully build.

* The Glast Gambit, the quest line you need to complete to unlock the Nidus Warframe, is considered by many to be by FAR the worst Warframe quest in the game, if not the worst mission in the game, if only for the sheer amount of time and credits that needs to be invested to complete it and the uncertain nature of each match.
* Getting the parts for Nidus is no walk in the park either. They only drop from the Infested Salvage mission, a tedious endless mission found on Eris which has pitiful rewards-- a potential reward after four rounds is ''80 Endo'' (you can likely pick up double that from dead enemies in the mission), along with some 'rare' mods that most players will probably have two or three copies of by that point in the star chart.
* Hidden Messages, the quest which provides the blueprints for the Mirage Warframe, requires you to solve three riddles. However there is no indication of what to do with the answers, leaving the player to realize that they're the names of the mission location where they must go. After each mission another piece of Mirage must be crafted, taking 12 hours a piece, and a full 36 hours in total to complete the quest unless the player wants to spend the platinum to rush each.
* Jordas Precept, an otherwise rather mundane quest that unlocks the Atlas warframe, has an infuriating progression stopper in an item of Pherliac Pods. You need to craft them to progress further, and the components to do so can only be obtained by killing Infested Juggernauts. Finding a Juggernaut is not difficult, if a bit tedious (especially if you do not succeed in luring it out when you get the opportunity - since you can only lure Juggernaut out once per mission, if you did not succeed you effectively wasted the whole mission if you came for the sole purpose of fighting the Juggernaut), fighting it can be very hard as an entry above attests, but the main problem comes from its' drop rates. First, Juggernaut is guaranteed to drop one of the four components needed to craft it, but only one, and if RNG hates you you can spend a long time trying to get the component that you're missing. And finally and most importantly, besides the component you need to obtain ''the blueprint'' for crafting - it also drops from Juggernauts, but is not guaranteed to do so, and in fact has a rather low (~10%) chance to drop. What this all results in is a very time-consuming endeavour not unlike panning river sand for gold, that has you fight a very powerful enemy with very slim chances of getting what you need, in between all other things that can go wrong on any mission. Fortunately, if you happened to have some pods before you started the quest you can just use those, but if not - brace yourself for a very long grind. Thankfully, subsequent updates have made farming for the components somewhat easier due to "lesser" Juggernauts now spawning in Infested Disruption missions and randomly encountered in the Cambion Drift. While these are still fairly difficult, they're still nowhere near as painful as a normal Juggernaut.
* Sands Of Inaros is easier than other Warframe quests, but can still be a pain. For one, you have to "build" the quest with a blueprint that can be bought from Baro Ki'Teer, who only shows up once every two weeks, and the blueprint requires [[ScrappyMechanic Nitain Extract]]. After you unlock the actual blueprint for Inaros, you do three [[MassMonsterSlaughterSidequest Mass Monster Slaughter Sidequests]] of one of three random mobs per blueprint-- the enemies for the Neuroptics and Chassis blueprints are relatively common, but for the systems, you have to find one of three rare mobs: either a Denial Bursa, A Grineer Manic, or a Juggernaut. The last one is especially frustrating-- Juggernauts only show up once per mission, and you have to kill Infested ''very'' quickly to get them to show up. This has been slightly mitigated due to the Infested Disruption mission adding Demolisher Juggernauts, which count towards kills for the purpose of this quest.

* [[ScrappyMechanic Riven unveiling quests]] are essentially an entire ''genre'' of these. Clear a high-level survival where you aren't allowed to kill anything? Finish at least three waves of a high-level Intercept where you are only allowed to use a sniper rifle and forbidden from having your feet leave the ground? Or maybe you'd enjoy a challenge where you have to get twenty stealth kills with a shotgun ''in a row'' '''without your feet ever touching the ground.''' Name a horrible, hair-pullingly infuriating combination of requirements, and odds are Rivens will have you covered.
** Exaggerated if you acquire a Riven with the challenge "Complete a level 30 or higher Exterminate mission without being detected (Including an additional random modifier)". At first, this seems like a relatively simple StealthBasedMission until you discover that "Detection" means ''If the enemy becomes even slightly suspicious''. If any enemy anywhere at all hears a stray gunshot, sees a dead body, or catches the slightest glimpse that you are there, the challenge fails. And more often then not you will encounter large groups of enemies spread out just enough that killing them all simultaneously is impossible, forcing you to wait extensive periods of time for them to seclude themselves from the others and have enough time for their body to disappear before it's spotted. Sometimes the AI will glitch, locking them in place so you never get a solid opening to attack. The challenge can also include modifiers such as [[FromBadToWorse having an extinguished dragon key equipped, dramatically reducing the damage you deal]]. Players will generally throw rivens like this away simply because ''nobody will even take them for free''. Ironically, you can literally complete the challenge by just doing ''absolutely nothing'' if you play with a group - the challenge only depends on whether or not ''you'' have been detected.
* Ranking up with either the Quills or Vox Solaris. Either one's standing can only be increased by trading in resources, Eidolon Shards for the Quills, and Toroids for Vox Solaris, both of which can take quite some time to acquire. Requiring players to hunt Eidolons on the plains, lengthy affairs which will not reward any shards if they are failed. Or search caves and kill enemies at high alert levels on Orb Vallis and hope to get lucky.
** On that note, actually building the amps needed to make farming for Quills rep much more bearable is an exercise in tedium, requiring tens and upwards of 100 [[{{Unobtainium}} Cetus Wisps]] for each Quills amp, which notoriously only spawn in 5-10 at a time throughout the ''whole'' Plains map every time you enter, requiring a specialized build to make the farm feasible. You'll have to put up with 2 loading screens each time you want to refresh the wisp spawns and depending on your computer, could make it absolutely ''painful''. Thankfully, Cetus Wisps count as resources for the purpose of Resource Boosters and Smeeta's Charm, so you can wait until you earn a booster and grind until you get what you need. You also earn the option to buy Cetus Wisps directly from Onkko, but only in the final rank of the Quills by which you probably won't need it anymore '''OR''' from Nakak during the rare Plague Star event, but she'll have so many limited items available, you might not be able to buy the Wisps until you've gotten everything else you want.
** Special mention must go to ranking up with Vox Solaris. In addition to the [[RareRandomDrop Toroids]] needed, you also require three different Systems items. Where do you get these items? The Profit-Taker bounties, which are only unlocked upon maxing out Solaris United, gating progression behind another syndicate. [[FromBadToWorse That’s only one hard gate progressing with this syndicate has]]. The aforementioned bounties have the systems in a loot table at the end of each bounty. While the Gyromag Systems are common and will eventually drop, the Atmo Systems needed for Rank 3 are uncommon. How uncommon? 10% drop rate in every bounty. And the loot tables are *very* diluted.

* The Waverider quest you need to complete to unlock Yareli is widely disliked for turning ''Warframe'' into ''VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater'', requiring you to rack up increasingly ludicrous trick point combos on your K-Drive to complete the requirements. Adding insult to injury, Yareli herself is considered one of the worst Warframes ever released.

* Ash's blueprints are only dropped by Grineer Manics, high level enemies who only have a small chance of spawning, with an equally slim chance of dropping any loot.

** On that note, actually building the amps needed to make farming for Quills rep much more bearable is an exercise in tedium, requiring tens and upwards of 100 [[{{Unobtainium}} Cetus Wisps]] for each Quills amp, which notoriously only spawn in 5-10 at a time throughout the ''whole'' Plains map every time you enter, requiring a specialized build to make the farm feasible. You'll have to put up with 2 loading screens each time you want to refresh the wisp spawns and depending on your computer, could make it absolutely ''painful''. Thankfully, Cetus Wisps count as resources for the purpose of Resource Boosters and Smeeta's Charm, so you can wait until you earn a booster and grind until you get what you need. You also earn the option to buy Cetus Wisps directly from Onkko, but only in the final rank of the Quills by which you probably won't need it anymore '''OR''' from Nakak during the bi-annual Plague Star event, but she'll have so many limited items available, you might not be able to buy the Wisps until you've gotten everything else you want.