This happens only once every two weeks and only for 48 hours. You have to wait for a special NPC called Baro Ki’Teer, the Void Trader, to appear in one of the Relays somewhere in the solar system. Now here’s the annoying part: you can’t actually spend your Ducats whenever you want. You’ll see the kiosks towards the middle of the main concourse, usually surrounded by other players. Look for the nodes on these planets called “Relays” and load in. Ducats can only be earned by selling Prime parts (see our Warframe Crafting guide linked above for details on how to get those) to special kiosks at public player spaces on Mercury, Venus, Earth, Saturn, Europa, Eris, and Pluto. They can only be purchased with a unique currency called Ducats. What’s irritating is that acquiring Primed Mods is a hefty mix of hard work and pure luck. For instance, the “Point Blank” Mod increases the overall damage of shotguns, whereas “Primed Point Blank” does the same thing except that it gives more damage than the standard version. Instead of buffing two statistics, however, Primed variants offer extra maximum oomph than more common Mods. Primed Mods are similar to their Nightmare counterparts in that they provide extra bonuses that normal Mods don’t. If you can, consider bringing one of the following frames: Nidus, Valkyr, Inaros, or Trinity. That makes Warframes that can self-heal, have large pools of hit points, and turn invincible incredibly useful for Nightmare Alerts. The downside is that these Alerts always have the “No Shields” modifier, plus up to one more. Which makes them a good way to get any such Mods you’re missing.

These Alerts tell you which Nightmare Mod you’ll earn for completing the mission. The one exception is the slightly rare occurrence of Nightmare Mode Alerts - even more time-limited events that pop up on the star map from time to time.

You won’t know what you worked so hard to earn until you’ve finished it.

Unfortunately, the Nightmare Mods you earn are usually random. So it’s usually best to play with other human beings to increase your odds of success. These can include taking away your Warframe’s shields, constantly leeching your health, and a whole lot more. Then, every eight hours, a mission will be randomly selected for Nightmare Mode.īesides just being harder, Nightmare missions come with modifiers that make them even trickier. To unlock that you first need to beat every single mission on said planet. To earn them, you need to play on “Nightmare Mode” - a higher-than-normal difficulty setting that’s available for one mission on each planet. This makes them incredibly useful and efficient since all equipment can only hold so many Mods at one time. Whereas most Mods only provide one bonus - like fire or toxic damage - Nightmare Mods offer two.

Warframe rifle dual stat mods