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Combat Specialist

Combat Specialist

Complete 3 Sorties

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How to unlock the Combat Specialist achievement in Warframe - Definitive Guide

Sorties are daily events that refresh at noon EST. You must be Mastery Rank 4 and using a level 30 Warframe. Three random mission types, the first at level 50-60, then 60-80, and finally 80-100. The details of how sorties work are best left to the wiki.

http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Sortie

To paraphrase the important bits, ciphers cannot be used and endless modes have finite caps; 10 waves of a mobile operative for defense, 15 minute survival, 3 waves of interception, 1000 base cryotic. Each stage has a modifier to make it harder. Completing the entire sortie for a day and getting a reward from the table counts as one sortie complete.

SOLO RUNS
It is absolutely possible to solo sorties, though the difficulty is highly dependent on which missions are drawn. Endless missions and assassinations will prove tricky for the majority of players, and it is not recommended to solo these.

Additionally, the modifiers can cause problems if the mission is normally easy. Energy Reduction is a big one, as it cuts your energy to a quarter and similarly slashes the regen rate of Energy Siphon and Zenurik's pulse, which can be a wake-up call if you find yourself relying on permastealth Loki. Similarly, Eximus Stronghold will spawn more Energy Leech Eximus and can quickly drain you - the further on in the sortie this shows up, the more problematic it is.

THE KING AND QUEEN WARFRAMES
I've soloed sorties as well as played with one extra player, and I've gotten on just fine with two frames: Loki and Nyx. Naturally, the Prime versions are superior, but these have since been vaulted.

Loki
The permastealth build is listed in many solutions for a reason: once enemies can't see you, running through most objective missions is a breeze.
Aura: Energy Siphon
Efficiency: Streamline and Fleeting Expertise, both level 4/5
Duration: Continuity and Constitution maxed, Narrow Minded at level 7 or more.
Optional: Hushed Invisibility lifts the primary restriction against weapons by making every weapon silent. Coaction Drift increases

The goal is to make Invisibility cost as little as possible (12.5 energy) and generate 13 or more energy in that timeframe. For a solo player without Coaction Drift, Invisibility has to last 21.6 seconds - with Coaction Drift, 18.6 seconds.

Nyx
Nyx is the crowd control frame for a very good reason. With range and efficiency maxed out, Chaos and Absorb cover a very large area and can shut down points with ease. Chaos irradiates everything within a 60m radius (!) and gets enemies to fight themselves, while Absorb can be used to sit on a defense point and quickly toggled on and off to knock over enemies repeatedly with a 23.5m shockwave.

OTHER GREAT WARFRAMES
Any of these frames I'd only recommend in certain instances, and definitely not solo. Once again, if a Prime version exists, it's clearly superior, but not necessary.

Nova
Excellent on endless points with Molecular Prime, max out duration so the bubble expands for longer. Enemies are slowed down scaled to power strength and explode when killed. Ideal especially on Interception and Defense.

Frost/Vauban
Another good one for Interception, Survival, and Mobile Defense. Frost with the Chilling Globe augment has a chance to freeze enemies entering the shield, where Vauban with the Repelling Bastille augment can push enemies away from a target. Both fill the same role on a team, but since the Defense target moves around, they're less useful there.

Limbo
The king of distraction. Beefed up duration can result in a 60+ second Rift Walk - you can't hurt them, but they can't hurt you... but they can still see and target you, taking fire off teammates or letting you revive them with ease. Just keep in mind you can't interact with things while in the rift.

Nezha
This is technically cheating - Nezha is a sortie reward, and if you're lucky, you'll get his parts at the same time as this achievement. However, those parts are tradeable and obtainable beforehand. Nezha is a jack of all trades who can heal with Blazing Chakram and, with his augment Safeguard, Warding Halo can be cast on allies as a weak equivalent of Iron Skin, but importantly protects them from status effects.

STATUS MODS AND YOU
As the enemies are such high leveled, damage is not nearly as important as crowd control - their level doesn't matter if they can't hit you. Getting the right status effects on enemies will give you a much easier time, so focus on weapons with high status chance and mod them to 100%.

Route 1: Dual Stat
Each weapon type has four mods of 60% elemental damage and 60% status chance, one for each element. They are found as follows:
Heat/Cold: Spy missions. All three vaults must be successfully hacked to get a chance at these. Melee mods are found in spy missions between Earth and Ceres, Cold-Rifle and Heat-Shotgun are on Jupiter, Europa, Saturn, and Lua, and everything else is found from Uranus onwards.
Electricity: Event only. Baro Ki'teer occasionally sells them, but only appears every two weeks and may not have the mods.
Toxin: Corrupted Vor in the Void. Vor will spawn in Void missions above level 40 and will drop one of the four mods each time.

Route 2: Multishot
Multishot adds a percentage chance to fire two rounds at once with no change in ammo consumption. Getting Multishot up and over 100% will double your status chance by sheer volume. This has no use on melee, naturally.

The primary mods are Split Chamber for rifles, Hell's Chamber for shotguns, and Barrel Diffusion for secondary. These are possible rewards for high level endless missions, defined as anything on Uranus and onwards. Secondaries also have the alert-only mod Lethal Torrent, which increases multishot and fire rate.

HIGH STATUS WEAPONS
Compiling a list of weapons, as some of the modifiers limit the weapons you can bring. These are suggestions based on status chance and elements; this is not a definitive list of greatness. Event weapons and vaulted weapons are excluded, but Primes are fair game.

I'll include the status percentage first, plus any notes I feel are important.

ASSAULT RIFLES
Braton Prime - 20%, my preferred option, very solid rifle
Grakata - 20%, very ammo inefficient
Burston Prime Prime - 15%, burst fire, possible syndicate weapon through Arbiters

SHOTGUNS
Hek - 25%, able to get 200% multishot solely out of Scattered Justice, highly recommended
Boar - 20%, full auto shotgun
Tigris Prime - 30%, pure damage
Sancti Tigris - 25%, easier to get than Tigris Prime, syndicate radial explosion

SNIPERS
Vectis - 30%, single shot magazine, excellent use of Charged Chamber
Any sniper will do, just don't expect to actually use it.

BOWS
Mutalist Cernos - 45%, fires its own toxin projectile, can easily leave gas clouds everywhere
Dread - 20%, high base crit chance can be built above 100% crit chance, major slash damage
Paris Prime - 20%, the puncture equivalent of Dread

SECONDARY/PISTOL
Pox - 35%, creates toxin clouds, my preferred secondary when built with Toxin, Gas, or Viral
Vaykor Marelok - 35%, mini rifle in secondary, syndicate weapon, excellent choice
Synoid Gammacor - 20%, not as strong as it was, still an excellent choice for Corpus

MELEE
Lesion - 30%, easy to get to 100%, passive ability increases attack speed and toxin damage on status effect, highly recommended
Lacera - 45%, base electricity damage, great range
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09 Nov 2016 05:12

56 Comments
Same here, just completed a sortie, got the reward at the end, but zero percent on the tracker.
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By ctsoxfan on 24 Jan 2018 19:31
I'm just gonna take mine down, yours is a lot more detailed +1. If people can get their hands on a Rage mod Valkyr is a good choice for certain things as well because of her Hysteria ability, I play her all the time on PC. Only thing is I don't feel like she's very good for anything defensive or Interception if you're alone.
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By ThaDevilzHand on 09 Nov 2016 12:09
Umm bud I would say These are not the king and queen warframes. Loki I will say yes for rescue mission and spy missions, but otherwise than that he is useless. For example a mbd? You would want a mirage or just a frost along with the synoid simulor. I have soloed sorties many times as I am mr 19 so I am just saying. Plus any weapon and frame can be a king and queen, you just have to mod them right
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By Achvement on 09 Nov 2016 15:19
And Devilz man I have seen many people that play Vallkyr on interception and destroy. It is possibly because I am ev trinity -1 duration build so I can m giving them tons of energy and overshields. All a valkyr basically needs is the energy to stay alive. Feel free to run with me later today if you want to run the sorties as I might already be done with them
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By Achvement on 09 Nov 2016 15:22
I also need to grab some other prime warframes so I might be on the game for a little bit today then I will head back over to infinite warfare to finish that.
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By Achvement on 09 Nov 2016 15:23
Also for your loki build to have him last longer in stealth. Go buy prime flow and Prime continuity and get your narrow minded to max. If you can't do this then you should probably forma your character some more.
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By Achvement on 09 Nov 2016 15:27
My go to for most missions is Mirage w/ Synoid Simulor. Loki, like Freak said, for rescue and spy. If I can't use my Simulor for assassinations, I use Banshee. Need a team for her though, as she's extremely squishy. If anybody needs help with this, feel free to hit me up.
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By Jarheadwayne on 09 Nov 2016 15:35
Yeah banshee with sonar is op
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By Achvement on 09 Nov 2016 15:40
I don't know if you have ran a extraction, but with a banshee, ev trin, Vauban, and nova I went very far. Lol have you ever seen enemies at 2500 lvl? Also yes if anyone needs help today just shoot me a message on xbox. Sorties are always easy to beat. Plus jarheadwayne I pick nova for assassinations and pick the tonkor equals one shot with my set up.
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By Achvement on 09 Nov 2016 15:44
You don't need a frost useless on extractions
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By Achvement on 09 Nov 2016 17:07
Loki useless in anything other than Rescue and Spy? Did they remove Radial Disarm since I stopped playing?
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By The Allslayer on 09 Nov 2016 18:08
No, I am just saying he would not be a suitable run and gun warframe compared to other warframes like mirage and ash
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By Achvement on 09 Nov 2016 18:13
Also equinox with maim
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By Achvement on 09 Nov 2016 18:14
Anyone else still on 33% after doing 2 Sorties?
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By The Allslayer on 09 Nov 2016 18:57
yes i'm stuck at 1. i did the sortie today and yesterday and the game said each time 1/3 sortie completed
i dont understand why i'm not 2/3
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By MrKetosky on 09 Nov 2016 19:01
and the tracking for the syndicate mission is still 3/10, normally i'm at 6/10
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By MrKetosky on 09 Nov 2016 19:03
Syndicate mission tracker is stuck at 80 % for me, 1st one today counted, next 2 didn't.
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By T1TANMONKEY on 09 Nov 2016 19:52
I'll see when i get home you might have to complete all 3.. They are easy to complete today.. I don't see why anyone would have a problem with any of them smile
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By Achvement on 09 Nov 2016 21:24
13 syndicate missions and it finally unlocked, time to see if the sortie tracker moves.
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By T1TANMONKEY on 09 Nov 2016 21:34
You have to complete all 3 sorties for it to count 1 time.. so it will take a total of 3 days
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By Achvement on 09 Nov 2016 23:50
Yeah we know... yesterday plus today is 2. Still 33%.
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By The Allslayer on 10 Nov 2016 00:32
Achvmnt Freak, that is why I mentioned Nyx as the secondary. Loki is useless on MBD, yes... but as I mentioned, Chaos+Absorb and no one can touch the point. As I mentioned in the guide, with those two, I've soloed non-endless sorties, mainly because I like getting a party for endless.

I considered adding Mirage to the list, but I find that a good pure damage build leaves her incredibly squishy; seems like my experience is an outlier, though.
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By Geoffistopheles on 10 Nov 2016 02:34
I just picked mirage for everything considering the rescue mission when the hostage went down every 2 secs i got annoyed with that and Falcon is that all you have? You don't have a ember, mirage, equinox or ash for exterminate
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By Achvement on 10 Nov 2016 13:22
So, just got the achievement, and will say that the last 3 sorties had no Defense... made things super easy. Just cheesed things with either Loki or Nova. The last Rescue was a piece of cake, I was Loki with a random Nova along, he slowed everything down, the prisoner didn't even get hit on the way out!
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By Shadow 00 Fox on 11 Nov 2016 18:55
I did two sorties some months back and got to 66%.

I did two sorties, this week and last, and have not got the achievement.

I feel that it is glitched.
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By MrNoLuckFox on 10 Dec 2017 22:45
Yeah it seems that this is one of the cheavs that glitched after the plains update....hopefully they will patch this in the next update...
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By Psycosuicidal on 11 Dec 2017 23:00
Yeah. Would be nice! lol.
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By MrNoLuckFox on 14 Dec 2017 22:47
Welll...after last update...still broken...
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By Psycosuicidal on 19 Dec 2017 18:11
Any news on this?
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By MrNoLuckFox on 27 Dec 2017 19:44
Stuck at 66% as well.
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By MONKEBOI86 on 02 Jan 2018 19:04
yeah I've completed 3 sorties and have 0.0 completed
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By spikeylizard on 02 Jan 2018 22:43
Same here, my achievement is bugged out. I've completed 3 sorties now
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By Skullys33 on 04 Jan 2018 19:53
I have completed 5 sorties and achievement is at 0%. Just commenting to get notification for updates
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By on 06 Jan 2018 17:19
One of these days I'll 100% this game. Shame this is the only achievement that bugged out.
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By UTDerk23 on 22 Jan 2018 19:03
i completed 3 sortie now got the reward every day from the reward pool but no achievement
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By Razor8674 on 23 Jan 2018 10:37
Doing sorties every day for rewards. I completed one today after new update. Progress still at 0%. Looks like they didn't patch it
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By on 23 Jan 2018 17:28
So played after update and completed my "3rd" sortie. Still no achievement :(
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By MONKEBOI86 on 23 Jan 2018 17:33
Same, still not fixed after this update :( hopefully we see a fix soon
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By Skullys33 on 24 Jan 2018 14:43
Same here. Has anyone done all 3 sortie missions with the same team?
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By Slavikk on 26 Jan 2018 20:15
Slavikk, I've done at least 15 now and almost all with the same few people. Still hasn't tracked anything for me.
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By Skullys33 on 01 Feb 2018 04:31
Dang, that sucks. Its my last achievement for this game too.
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By Slavikk on 01 Feb 2018 17:26
5 days of sorties completed....zero achievement progress for me either. Add me to the list of disgruntled fans.
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By ICE Faux Pirate on 05 Feb 2018 16:57
Has anyone started a Warframe forum post? If so please add the link so we can all start posting in it and bring this to DE's attention en mass.
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By ICE Faux Pirate on 05 Feb 2018 16:58
DE's completely nerfing Ember and Banshee soon now .... I'm getting disillusioned with Warframe
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By Shadow 00 Fox on 05 Feb 2018 18:49
Just completed a Sortie and it seems that the update (22.10.1) has fixed the achievement tracker, I just went from 0-33%, previous sorties never registered.
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By DeltaGunnz on 07 Feb 2018 06:32
Nice! Ill be home soon and test it as well. Will leave another comment with my findings.
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By Slavikk on 07 Feb 2018 20:48
It's patched. Today after sortie my tracker moved to 33%
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By on 07 Feb 2018 21:12
Yep. Sitting at 33% myself as well.
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By Slavikk on 07 Feb 2018 22:14
Yep. Sitting at 33% myself as well.
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By Slavikk on 08 Feb 2018 00:21
Hey everyone!! Can confirm it seems to be fixed. Just got the cheevo today. Finally completed this game...at least until the next DLC lol.
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By MONKEBOI86 on 08 Feb 2018 20:01
Could have put that you need to complete the War Within Quest aswell
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By DeathBomMB007 on 29 Jul 2018 15:22
If you fail the final mission of a sortie you will get progress to this allowing you to continually fail
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By DaOverUnder on 14 Feb 2020 03:20
I wouldn't stress about your build too much. I did sorties at MR 8 with matching level gear and got matched with ultra dudes many of whom were MR Legendary. The only hard part was keeping up with them.
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By Gilbert Prime on 12 Feb 2023 21:30
Extractions, 3000 level. laugh My Nova Prime with Synoid Simulor killing most everything, a really good frost on the team who understood the bubbles, and a couple others levelling up.. laugh I'm interesting in grouping up with good players for this though. I've never really figured out how to customize my stuff to take out level 80+ quick enough.
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By Shadow 00 Fox on 09 Nov 2016 16:54
Looking for people to do the sorties. I have a loki with invisibility and a rhino prime for exterminate missions.
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By FalconGR LIVE on 10 Nov 2016 08:00
Solo'd today's sorties with my Loki Prime, 221% duration. The Sabotage was too simple. Rescue was annoying. Interception, a Nova with super slow joined in, was hilariously easy. Wish they were all like this! Synoid Simulor killed everything!
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By Shadow 00 Fox on 10 Nov 2016 08:04
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