[OLD] Enemy level scaling explained | Warframe

WARNING: THE LEVEL SCALING HAS CHANGED AS OF THE JADE SHADOWS UPDATE IN JUNE 2024. This video remains live as a historical record.

What's the difference between level 1 and 15? Here's the answer to that and more about level scaling, with the pithy math bits made simple!

For help on beating those increasing levels:

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[RoboMuskVsLizardZuckerberg]

"effective" HP
Corrosive Viral sastus: I'm going to end this Clones whole carrier

[Nick-jtnb]

I like how Octavia's highest dps can just be listed as infinite

[TheMadLumberman]

I've been playing for a number of years got about 3k hrs in game. Just discovered your channel...love it. Highest lvl I've seen is right about 5000, but thats only cause I got bored...cause I have the attention span of a goldfish. Love the content keep it up, you've earned a veteran sub for life

[wilcd]

Last night I ran solo steel path grineer survival for an hour with Oberon. Compared to other factions, lvl 200+ grineer steel path enemies scale Wayyyy up in EHP. I was quite surprised at how tough enemies such as nox were starting to get

[pratypulse]

I love this video. As a new Tenno, ever since completing Pluto and barely making it through Sedna, I've been pretty disheartened coz my damage was just not enough to combat level 35+ enemies. Guess I gotta focus on maxing mods so I can start tackling upto level 80-90

P.S. : Ambulas boss was living hell with only excalibur doing anything to them

[dandy]

Very informative, while also very clear and understandable video. Interesting stuff, love the content

[selcukylmaz]

Every game needs a content creator like you I just started to game and this is very important information great job

[titangeldeluxe]

another banger like usual
i can see personally that u put a lot of effort into making these analysis videos so keep up the good work 👌

[innocentiuslacrim]

This was a great explanation of how the levels work. I learned a lot from this video on what I can expect at higher levels and how I need to prepare my frames. Thanks.

[ryzzhan]

"warframe never explains how difficult a lev..." just make that everything. DE does a REALLY bad job of explaining ANYTHING about their own game. if it wasn't for content creators like you we would've been boned and struggling to find stuff our ourselves.

[Jes]

This is excellent information, I've always preached the idea of weapon usefulness/effectiveness is dictated on this simple idea to kill an enemy within a single magazine: max weapon with no mods can it kill a level 30? If yes, increase level by 30 then add mods, can it kill? If yes, add 30 levels and potato and if it can kill then increase by 30 again with a full build. Once you can get to easily taking out level 120s with your fully built weapon then you will be fine in what I consider the beginning of endgame. My usual test subjects are a level 120 Corrupted heavy gunner and a level 120 Corrupted bombard, since these are some of the most common elite units you encounter.

[agrihonoberjorn]

What I learned from this
The greniir are the problem
Hell almost always the problem

[sebastianforster]

Just saw your video on viral vs corrosive as well and although there was nothing really new for me in there i have never looked at the actual numbers since they removed the exponential growth of the enemy scaling. Very nice video with nice explanations on the numbers keep it up man :)

[MagikarpMan]

How Do people find the time to stay more than 1 hour in endless missions?

[TebbleTV]

Really good video even if others have done similar this really helps to better visualize it on a chart. Definitely deserves way more views.

[garypinholster]

By the time I watch this video I was Mastery Rank 12 so yeah I have a few mod stocked up but I'm still learning from your videos I've been watching them you're doing an awesome job man keep it up

[turtlepowerftw]

I picked up warframe for the first time a little over a month ago and thank god for content creators. I remember being so confused why I wasn’t killing things then took to YouTube and now I have a decent grasp on what I need to do for what I’m doing. The game is so fun I can’t believe I never played it sooner. But man there should be tons of tutorials for new players to learn like abilities and how to kill each faction and they’re weaknesses. On the other hand learning what to do from YouTube or wiki and implementing them is pretty fun too

[Alymissy]

hi, i like your guides. im mr 14 and i already knew some of the things you're saying, but in every video you give in depth information that isn't really accessible unless you look into it but makes understanding the game easier
ty for making these guides and keep up the good work

[srlopez]

so basically if I want to do Steel path with very few thinking take octavia

[traior]

What'd the Graph look like if DE hadn't changed the Armor Scaling ?