Morphics are one of the rare resource components in Warframe, here’s how you can get some more of them, or outright farm them if you need to.
How and where to get more Morphics in Warframe
Morphics are available as a rare resource on a number of different planets throughout Warframe. Specifically, you can expect to find them on Mercury, Mars, Phobos, Europa, and Pluto.
This means that any time you take a mission in one of these areas, you might well find some Morphics. As a rare resource, they tend to turn up less frequently than something like scrap, but they do still appear all over the place. That might mean they turn up when you break a container. Or sometimes they will drop when you kill an enemy.
Like all resources, Morphics can also spawn and be found as a resource deposit.
These deposits are known specifically as Morphic Stabilizers when found in missions and marked.
Rare resource deposits specifically tend to be rare as well, as you may expect. You should encounter them a few times a mission provided you explore all the rooms available, however. If you do manage to find any during your missions, you should break them open by damaging them. This will cause them to drop their respective resource, being Morphics in this case.
Missions do typically contain a handful of these rare resource deposits each. That means it can be well worth seeking them out if you’re low on a specific resource that happens to be native to the planet you’re on at the time.
Morphics do tend to be one of the more commonly found rare resources in the game, however, so there’s a good chance you’ve encountered all of these methods of obtaining Morphics before. Though if you did manage to use your entire collection up at once, it can take a while to restock it passively just playing these planets alone.
How to farm for Morphics
So, if you really need Morphics, quickly and in large amounts, where do you go?
There are quite a few options for this fortunately enough. Morphics tend to be easier to farm than other rare resources, and they are present on a fairly good number of planets.
Dark Sector Survivals for Morphic farming in Warframe
For just about any resource farming in Warframe, Dark Sector missions are a common choice for much of the playerbase. Among the Dark Sector missions available, Survival is often the most commonly chosen for this purpose. Mars has a mission node known as “Wahiba” that provides precisely that, a Dark Sector Survival mission.
This is worth a try for teams trying to farm in particular, as it requires less coordination for multiple players to set up in an area in a Survival mission and simply farm the enemies as they spawn. Additional players will also increase the enemy count, thus increasing the number of possible drops. As a bonus, bring along loot-boosting effects such as drop rate boosters, Nekros, Hydroid and the like.
Here is an example of the rewards from a 15m or so solo test of this very mission. This is without a drop-rate boost, or any loot-enhancing Warframes, just using Nidus. With the net reward of 6 Morphics for this level of time investment is decent, it’s certainly not ideal. Bear in mind, the mission will likely do better as a team rather than solo though.
A full team would be ideal for this method, as it brings along both more loot boosting effects as well as more enemies to kill. As a solo player, you’d find more Morphics simply exploring the level than enemy drops will give for your time investment – this is because Infested, the enemies you’ll encounter in all Dark Sector missions, have a lower than usual drop rate based around the fact they’re meant to swarm you. So to farm them for anything, you need to kill relatively larger than normal amounts.
So what becomes the best alternative for solo players, given Dark Sector Survivals clearly aren’t it?
Mars Exterminate runs
This will be a bit of a surprise method to some, as playing a long survival mission is the resource farming method by default for a huge portion of the playerbase. It is in many cases, outdated, however. With various updates, changes and just generally with how drop rates work, some missions have overtaken that method entirely.
Specifically in this case, the Grineer exterminate mission, Hellas, on Mars.
While this mission consists of very low-level Grineer, they are not the focus of this particular method. You’ll have to kill them to complete the mission, but they’re not the way we’ll find our Morphics.
No, to find Morphics quickly on Hellas the best method is using a loot radar type mod – Animal Instinct on a companion for example will work well. Any type of loot detection will do, however. How does that help us get Morphics for the Warframe grind though, if the enemies aren’t dropping them?
It’s quite simple. The Morphic Stabilizers shown earlier will now appear marked as a container on your radar thanks to the mod. On top of that, Hellas itself is on a relatively simple tileset, where it’s easy to explore the entire mission without missing a room. But the important part here is the time investment and return in Morphics, as it is with all things in Warframe.
My test run as a solo player by comparison? 8 Morphics, you can easily see here that this mission got me more in total. What you might have missed though, is it did so in a third of the time, just 5 minutes. This makes it quite clear that if you want to quickly run a mission to farm Morphics for something you want to craft; Hellas, Grineer Exterminate on Mars is probably one of the best options you can find.
You don’t really need to break every container either for this method. You can just use the radar to check them all until you find stabilisers. Of course, breaking every container you find also has a nice side benefit of netting you a decent amount of salvage per run as well, which is often consumed by crafting extremely quickly.
