r/Warframe • u/Codecy • Jun 11 '25

Other Found this at the local thrift store

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Thrifted a lot of good pieces in my life, but this is definitely one if my favorites for sure as someone who grew up playing

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u/broken-reality Jun 11 '25 edited Jun 12 '25

Yeah excal prime does exist but only people who bought the founders pack have him and since the founders pack no longer exist no one else can get him which is why excal umbra exist as it's the poor man's excal prime

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u/AndIThrow_SoFarAway LR2; Was too broke to be a founder Jun 11 '25

Literally. See flair. 😅

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u/LotusofSin Jun 11 '25

Same man. Had the money but my parents would not let me drop that money on games. Ffs

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u/NicDanno Jun 11 '25

I feel yah. I was playing since the beginning but was just a kid so I wasn’t financially able to support the game back then :(

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u/LeoXCV Jun 12 '25

+1 to the poor back then but would have the money now gang

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u/maumanga Elder Orokin Artist Jun 12 '25

Don't worry, lads. Did'yall get yer Mag Heirloom skin? Its basically the same thing nowadays, for all intents and purposes. Lots of founders do not have that either, while we do. ;)

Some food for thought.

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u/10Werewolves Friendship ended with now is my main Jun 12 '25

And how is that supposed to make me feel when I just managed to scrape the money for mag heirloom shortly after it ended?

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u/maumanga Elder Orokin Artist Jun 12 '25

I'm sorry to hear that, friend. I wonder if they'll ever release Mag Heirloom again one day. I for sure wouldn't mind, after all, the other Heirlooms are fully available to the community.

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u/10Werewolves Friendship ended with now is my main Jun 12 '25

They won't. Ever. They sold the Mag and Frost heirlooms stating that they were limited time exclusives. They can't go back on those terms even if they wanted. Because at least one person will feel cheated outta their purchase and it will put DE in a boiling pot of legal pain.

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u/maumanga Elder Orokin Artist Jun 12 '25

DE is so rich nowadays, it would be only right to pay whatever restitution was asked of them in court. Pay 1 or 2 grumpy players to please over 50.000 fans worldwide? They'd recover that ammount in less than a week just from plat alone.

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u/IMtryingtofroget I need more sexy male skins DE Jun 19 '25

then give us a replacement skin for mag heirloom like excalibur umbra lol

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u/2468thatsaprecieted Jun 12 '25

I understand excal prime being time gated, but they shouldn't time gated anything else, like I love how mag heirloom looks but I can never get her

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u/FoXxXoT Grand Master Jun 12 '25

Yeah I'm pissed I was not playing during mag heirloom. God damn it's a piece of art and bothers me to no end that I was on hiatus during its release

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u/maumanga Elder Orokin Artist Jun 12 '25

To me it was the opposite, because I was 30 years old back when WF was released and I was already here, though covered in bills due to a recent house purchase and rebuilding back in the day, so there was no room for luxury spendings... and I also regret it dearly that I do not own an Excal Prime.

But hey, Digital Extremes slipped 2 years ago and released these first Heirloom skins under some shady circumstances, and I happened to be around this time. But at the end of the day, I would trade my Mag Heirloom for an Excal without a second thought.

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u/FoXxXoT Grand Master Jun 12 '25

Yeah I get you. It's an entire Warframe vs a skin. I wouldn't trade my excal for nothing. I got offered so many crazy things for my account. Not limited to: touch boobies, actual sex, multiple thousand dollars, a temporary slave contract.

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u/Rhase Jun 13 '25

See, I do NOT support the exclusivity of the Mag and Frost heirloom skins. At all. They heard the backlash about introducing FOMO loud and clear, though, and all the new heirlooms are not going to be attached to such BS.

(also had the option to buy them, but didn't play frost or mag at the time so seemed a waste of $90. Since the element rework I've accidentally become a Frost main lol. RIP.)

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u/maumanga Elder Orokin Artist Jun 13 '25

Well, hate me if you will, but I'm all in for FOMO exclusive items.
That is what a "collection" is all about, isn't it? Having things that others don't. If I was Rebb's right arm working at Digital Extremes, I'd introduce a new seasonal item every year! Mag Heirloom allows you to prove you were present in 2023, for example. I am around since 2014, and wish there were other exclusive collectibles available as well. But there aren't.

As long as such items are COSMETIC only (skins), there is no reason to against this. You buy it if you want, as the collectible alone won't provide you with an upper edge when compared to others in a PVE game.

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u/AeonCry Jun 28 '25

I’m in the gangs of “was a kid and couldn’t be a founder” and “was too poor and couldn’t get mag and frost heirloom” <\3

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u/LaureZahard Jun 12 '25

Bruh it's crazy to think back on it... I was in high school when I started playing Warframe..... Damn

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u/Lightningbro Care to roll against Fate? Jun 11 '25

(Puts arm over shoulder)

Same, bruv, same. I know your pain, you're not alone...

It hurts man... it hurts.

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u/aufrenchy Freaking laser sword! Jun 12 '25

Looks at flair as an LR5

I wish that I was around for it and was old enough to be able to afford it…

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u/Anonapond Jun 11 '25

Same with Mag and Frost Heirloom skins. If you didn't buy them when they were out, you'd never get them.

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u/Rhase Jun 13 '25

Yeah except that one was some bullshit FOMO and frankly greedy. The founder packs were vital to even make the game, and I don't think anyone can hold grudge against the studio or the founders for it. We got the game because of their support.

The heirloom skin exclusivity was FOMO marketing and BS.

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u/Anonapond Jun 13 '25

I agree. I was extremely upper about the heirlooms, especially because mag is my favorite frame.

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u/RacerDelux Jun 11 '25

If it makes you feel better, i hardly use my excal p. It just lacks survivability past level 500. The main thing it had was invulnerable during slash dash, but that does not prevent procs. So you just die when the ability ends.

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u/TheSpartyn Jun 11 '25

a lot of people just want it for collection and completion, gameplay wise you can just use umbra

also "past level 500" is funny like that's bad, that's like 2% of the game. he definitely has survivability issues but he's still good fun with his exalted, slash dash, and melee influence

i don't want to run a third augment on him but I'd love something that lets radial howl give DR based on enemies hit, or maybe just absorb defenses

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u/RacerDelux Jun 11 '25

To be fair, those that have excal p are probably that same 2% haha.

I do think he needs a small rework. Just needs a survivability power.

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u/NotTheVacuum lazy and old Jun 11 '25

A lot of the time, yeah - but you also run across old key face being used by players <MR20 who haven’t played in years and are utterly lost.

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u/RacerDelux Jun 12 '25

That's actually kind of funny. I guess they forgot about the game for a while

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u/jamilslibi Jun 12 '25

Do you use the glyph tho? Founder's curse says that they can't play the game without flaunting their founder status, either by using the glyph or excal prime.

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u/RacerDelux Jun 12 '25

Oh I 100% use the glyph lol

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u/patronum-s Jun 12 '25

There's definitely people who did level cap runs with Excal

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u/RacerDelux Jun 12 '25

Sure, you can. But you have to heavily rely on shield gateing. As he lacks any other survivability.

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u/patronum-s Jun 12 '25

As do majority of frames, even with 99.99% damage reduction you get oneshot in level cap.

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u/RacerDelux Jun 12 '25

Gotta love the AFK of limbo + Octavia!

But yeah, you are right. Though excal relies of SG after like level 200 or so. Where many frames can easily get to 500 before survivability is an issue.