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Dante Unbound has released a new endgame activity inWarframe, and it’s easily the hardest activity in the game. Deep Archimedea is a modernized take on Sorties that can be found in the Sanctum Anatomica. Players will need to juggle various debuffs and loadout restrictions as they complete a series of extremely difficult missions.
Completing these missions will award some of Warframe’s most sought-after items, including Tauforged Archon Shards and Legendary Melee Arcanes. If you find Netracells too easy and want to challenge your builds seriously, Deep Archimedea is the activity for you. This guide will cover everything you need to know about this new endgame activity, including drop tables and how to earn Research Points.
What Is Deep Archimedea?
Deep Archimedea is an endgame activity that functions identically to Sorties but with an opt-in difficulty system, similar toHades' Heat system. Each week, Necraloid in the Sanctum Anatomica will reveal three missions that must be completed in one sitting. Completing these missions will awardResearch Pointswhich add progress towards your next reward cache.
You can earn additional Research Points by enablingMission Parametersbefore you begin the Deep Archimedea run. These range from loadout restrictions to quadrupling your shield recharge delay. Adding more difficulty modifiers to your mission will yield additional rewards. And if you’re up for a massive challenge, you can toggle Elite Archimedea to earn even more rewards, including a guaranteed Legendary Melee Arcaneor Tauforged Archon Shard.
Deep Archimedea Mechanics
A Deep Archimedea run is similar to a Sortie, but there are three notable additions:
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How To Unlock Deep Archimedea
Once you reach Rank 5 with the Cavia Syndicate on Deimos, you can begin a Deep Archimedea run by speaking with Necraloid in the Sanctum Anatomica.You can find him directly above human Loid on the second floor of the hub area. Before jumping in, you can speak with Necraloid and check that week’s difficulty modifiers to decide if it’s worth your time.
Additionally,you must give uptwo Netracell clearsto access Deep Archimedea for the current week.This is why it is important to check all modifiers before you start. If the weekly parameters seem too daunting for your current arsenal, you can simply stick with Netracells for that week.
There are no restrictions on how many times you can complete Deep Archimedea each week. Reward payouts are limited, but you can replay the activity as much as you want. Keep this in mind if you want to test builds or attempt all three missions solo.
However, if you’re a veteran player who has optimal loadouts for most Warframes and weapons, Deep Archimedea isalwaysworth doing. If you can consistently clear Elite Archimedea with all restrictions, you’ll earn five rewards from this activity each week, one of which will be a guaranteed Legendary Melee Arcane or Tauforged Archon Shard.
Unlocking Elite Archimedea Difficulty
To unlock Elite Archimedea, you mustearn 25 Research Points during a Deep Archimedea run.Research Points are earned from your best Deep Archimedea run that week, so you’re able to’t farm the same mission multiple times to achieve this. Such a score will require you tomeet all loadout restrictions and enable all four personal debuffs.Complete a run with these modifiers, and you’ll permanently unlock Elite Archimdedea difficulty
Difficulty Modifiers
Each Deep Archimedea run has a multitude of modifiers calledParametersthat substantially increase the activity’s overall difficulty. These parameters come in three types:
Mission Restrictions
Mission Restrictions remain largely the same as their Netracell counterparts.Enemy HP is 150% higher than usual, increased by an additional 50% per squad member.This effectively gives the missionSteel Path scaling. Normal difficulty starts at Level 250, which is slightly higher than Steel Path’s toughest node: Circulus, Lua. Elite difficulty starts at Level 375.
Revives have also seen some major changes.If you die during Deep Archimedea, your team must slay a Void Angel to revive you.The Void Angel spawns dormant and does not have an Operator DPS phase. Bear in mind that each time you die, these Angels become exponentially tougher.If you die three times during the run, all future rewards are forfeit.You must restart the entire Deep Archimedea gauntlet to get any further rewards.
Mission Parameters
Each mission within the Deep Archimedea will have a series of modifiers that make it even tougher, similar to how Sorties work. These modifiers come in two forms:
Deviationsalways pertain to the mission type itself. For example, Disruption missions can roll with the Double Demolishers modifier, requiring you to kill two Demolysts per Conduit. An Exterminate mission might roll with a Deviation that makes Necramechs more common or limit all enemy types to melee units. Only one Deviation is active per mission type, regardless of difficulty.
Risk Variablesare similar to Sortie modifiers and make the entire mission harder. These modifiers only affect enemy units and do not affect your character directly. Some examples include on-death explosions for slain enemies, increased Eximus spawn rates, and giving all enemy units 50% of their max HP as Overguard. Up to one Risk Variable may appear on Normal Deep Archimedea; Elite difficulty rolls two variables instead.
Individual Parameters
This is the opt-in difficulty mechanic we mentioned earlier.You can earn additional Research Points by limiting your loadout and imposing self-debuffs.Necraloid will recommend three Warframes and three weapons from each category (Primary, Secondary, Melee). If you meet any of these parameters, you’ll earn extra Research Points during your Deep Archimedea clear.
Additionally, you can toggle fourpersonal debuffsbefore the start of your run. These modifiers can affect your shield regeneration, siphon your Energy throughout a mission, or disable your access to Operator powers entirely. As the name suggests,personal debuffs only apply to you, not your group.All active debuffs will persist for the entire Deep Archimedea run, but you’ll earn additional Research Points for each mission you clear.
Earning Research Points
Deep Archimedea’s elective difficulty system uses a reward mechanic called Research Points, a sort of tally system that awards loot caches based on how many points you earn that given week.Research Points are earned from your hardest Deep Archimedea clear.The more modifiers you have enabled, the more Research Points you’ll earn for each mission you complete.
Research Points arenotcumulative. Your score is based on your best Archimedea run of the week,noton total mission clears.
Rewards in this activity are broken up into loot caches that are awarded at certain Research Point thresholds. Your goal is to earn as many Research Points as possible during a single run to unlock all of these rewards. By default, you’ll want to reach 25 Research Points to unlockElite Archimedea difficulty, which will let you unlock the final set of rewards from this activity. You only need to unlock Elite difficulty once; it’s a permanent unlock.
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+13
+3 per item
+3 per debuff
Assuming that you meet all loadout restrictions and enable every personal debuff, you can earn27 Research Points on Normal difficulty and 37 on Elite.
Deep Archimedea Drop Tables
Before we cover the exact drop tables for Deep Archimedea, we need to explain how this mode’s reward structure works, as it’s slightly different from other Warframe activities. In Deep Archimedea,you unlock a reward for reaching a certain Research Point threshold.Some of these rewards are resource caches and have no drop pools, but most rewards are tagged as “Reward Pool.”
There are three Reward Pool rarities in Deep Archimedea, and each of them has a unique drop table:
In the drop tables section below, we have broken up the drop tables to match this rarity system. Bronze refers to the x5 and x10 Research Point caches, Silver refers to the x20 and x31 Research Point caches, etc.
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15%
10%
4.17%
13.13%
8.54%
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25%
16.67%
