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[deoloth]

My clan has pretty much gone inactive so my brother and I might be looking for a clan soon if that does not change.

[BlackFlyme]

Ah, I guess I'll have to see if the clan dojo has researched it yet. I can't seem to enter the dojo though. I have a clan key, but it says I'm not a high enough rank to enter without another person already in the dojo.

[Aklyon]

Ah, I guess I'll have to see if the clan dojo has researched it yet. I can't seem to enter the dojo though. I have a clan key, but it says I'm not a high enough rank to enter without another person already in the dojo.

I didn't even know that was a thing. I don't see why 'can enter dojo whenever' would need rank.

[Flying Dice]

My advice in that situation would be to find a clan that isn't run by tossers. 

[inteuniso]

Ah, I guess I'll have to see if the clan dojo has researched it yet. I can't seem to enter the dojo though. I have a clan key, but it says I'm not a high enough rank to enter without another person already in the dojo.

I am really glad I promoted you to Officer status today. I should probably also edit the ranks -_-

[frostshotgg]

I picked this up recently and have been enjoying it a lot, although finding squads for missions to grind through getting planets' missions is miserable. I'm stalled out midway through Saturn because some of these missions are just impossible to solo and nobody shows up to squad after 10 minutes of waiting.

On another note, how hard is it to get the Dread Blueprint off the Stalker? It's a neat weapon but it seems pretty hard to kill.

[BlackFlyme]

You have to beat Stalker for there to be a chance of a blueprint dropping. The stalker flees at low health, which can make finishing it difficult, but it will still have a chance to drop a rare mod or other item. I've only gotten one blueprint off it, which was a dread. Though I've only ever killed it a couple times.

The grind will get a bit easier as you rank up and get access to better equipment. Finding a squad for some areas is a major pain though.

[Aklyon]

Not all of his mods are rare either. (molten impact, y u drop so often from him?)

[frostshotgg]

Follow up question: I've been marked by him, but I've played quite a bit since being marked and he hasn't show up yet. Does he only show up on particular missions, or have I just been unlucky?

[Aklyon]

Randomly shows up, preceded by flicking and a message or two by him. Same as the other assasins and the evil perrin moa attack squad.

[BlackFlyme]

He's got a pretty low chance of spawning. According to the wiki, it's something like this:

Spawn Chance = 1.5% + (0.5% × P); P = Number of Cell members.

Not sure what Cell Members means though. Might be how many people are in the party?

[frostshotgg]

Huh, that is pretty low. I guess I'll see if I can find a party of Stalker hunters at some point then. No way am I paying $60 for one blueprint.

[Aklyon]

I got it by accident, to be honest. Playing stuff, suddenly stalker, a success later and me and this other guy end up pretty dang excited we got a dread.

[Flying Dice]

Just play normally, there's not much point hunting him until you've got the gear to insta-gib him.

As for soloing: You pretty much need squadmates for Defense and Mobile Defense missions, barring a handful of builds that require you to have a fully outfitted set of specialized gear that you need planetary progression (or loads of plat) to get in the first place. Your best bet is to get a Loki, mod for power duration, efficiency, and reserves, get Energy Siphon, and stealth your way through everything.

Loki's top-tier for a reason: enemies don't target you when you're invisible, and Radial Disarm hard-counters a lot of nasty stuff. Better still, a Loki's the ideal way to spend your starter plat + a little extra: 75p gets you a Loki from the marketplace with a potato already installed (meaning that the actual cost of the frame is 55p) -- it's the only thing apart from potatoes that's worth buying on the market.

I specifically avoid recommending Rhino because he's so easy to play. A lot of bad players turn him into a crutch, never learn to play without facetanking, and then can't pull their weight in the endgame when he falls off. Learning to play with a super-squishy frame vastly improves your skills because you'll either learn or keep dying over and over.

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On another note, look into this. He hasn't updated it for the latest changes yet, but it's still mostly accurate (and the Synoid Gammacor continues to be beast anyways) and gives you a very good idea of what to aim for. Some of the God-tier and Tier 5 list items are discontinued, Primes, Syndie gear, &c. that you're not going to get without spending plat or getting to mid-late game, but some like the Marelok, Galatine and Vectis are available and easy to make pretty much right off the bat, even if you don't have a clan, don't play Void missions, don't play Invasions, &c.

[Aklyon]

If you don't want to be stealthy with Loki (I haven't played as him, but I've seen plenty of good loki do as well as FD says), then get Oberon or Valkyr built for sturdiness. The former has a team heal and generally is well rounded with higher than average armor (which still won't keep you alive if you don't get out of the way of the flying death, but it'll give you a bit more of a chance to do so compared to excal or other normal-armor-or-lower frames), though he's harder to put together than before. Put together one of the casters like Mag or Nova if you don't get a Loki for the squishy-practice.
The latter requires getting to Themisto (and a good deal of power duration/efficiency w/ steel fiber and vitality wouldn't hurt), but can survive a crapton of things without hysteria on, and nearly anything away from a nullifier with it on. Good for emergencies and survival extraction, good in general if you know when not to rely on hysteric invincibility, terrible if you dislike melee weaponry.

I'd second the rhino avoid. Also get a pair of Aklex, I had a reccomendation to do so from someone in this thread before and they are a spectacular secondary to have on hand if you don't have the rep or the palt for a synoid gammacor.