The second Sentient Warframe, Caliban, brings a variety of alien abilities to battle for the Tenno.
Caliban isn’t the hardest frame to get, both in terms of time or resources, but he won’t be a simple pick-up either. Expect to spend a minimum of just over three hours to a maximum of several days getting everything needed (depending on your luck and your resource hoard).
Getting Caliban’s components
Like the vast majority of frames (we’re looking at you, Equinox), Caliban has only four main parts: his Chassis, his Systems, his Neuroptics, and his main blueprint. His main blueprint can be purchased from the marketplace for 50,000 Credits, but his other parts require more time and effort.
You’ll need to clear the questThe New Warbefore you’re able to even start. You’ll need aRailjackand aNecramechto start the quest, as well as having completed the questPrelude to War. You’ll also needupwards of four hoursto complete it. We took about five hours to complete The New War while skipping most cutscenes and playing poorly.
After clearing The New War, you’ll find that a new bounty type calledNarmer Bountieswill appear inCetusandFortunaat certain times. Narmer Bounties will appear on Cetus while this village is indaytime. Additionally, Narber Bounties will appear in Fortuna while Cetus is innighttime.
The Narmer Bounty will be locked in a certain rotation for the duration of Cetus' time as day or night (so one and a half hours for day, fifty minutes for night). It has an A, B, and C rotation, all with set rewards.Caliban’s Systems Blueprint is on Rotation A, his Chassis on Rotation B, and his Neuroptics on Rotation C.
At minimum, since you’ll need to wait for Cetus' day/night cycle, you’ll have to wait for between three and four hours to get all three parts — and that’s only if it swaps between all three rotations with no repeats.
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Building Caliban
Constructing Caliban is arguably just as annoying as getting his components. To fully build Caliban, you’ll need:
Of all of these, the player is least likely to have the Anomaly Shards and the Narmer Isoplasts.
Narmer Isoplastsare obtained by doingNarmer Bounties, just like Caliban’s components, but are not limited to a specific rotation. Just keep doing Narmer Bounties and you’ll get enough Isoplasts eventually. We recommend doing Cetus Narmer Bounties when possible as they seem to go faster overall.
Anomaly Shardsare a rare resource gotten by clearing aMurexduring aGrineer-controlled Veil ProximaRailjack mission. Murex’s will appear as red flashing nodes. Kill 20 Sentients aboard the Murex and you’ll get a single Anomaly shard. However, if you have aresource boosteror aSmeeta Kavat with Charm, you may get multiple Anomaly Shards at once.
Other than those, there are a few resources that are remote but not difficult to gain. You may even have most of them already. If not, then the Warframe Wiki is your best friend.
For general information on getting new frames, go check outHow To Obtain New Warframes In Warframeon Pro Game Guides!
