Warframe: The Archwing

The titular reward for this Quest, the Archwing, is a vital piece of Tenno equipment that allows any Warframe to fight and fly through space, as well as swiftly swim underwater. Each model of Archwing even comes with its own set of Abilities to allow you to determine your own playstyle!

Get Parts from Excavation Missions

You will need three constituent parts to construct your first Archwing: a Harness, Wings and Systems. Each of which comes from a specially marked Excavation Mission (which you may remember from Vox Solaris). You will need to defend and power Excavators by collecting and delivering Power Cells dropped by special Power Carrier enemies.

Keeping each Excavator powered and safe for 100 seconds will complete its dig and deliver a Reward. Note that during The Archwing Quest you only need to successfully defend one Excavator per Mission before exiting at the extraction point.

Craft Your Archwing

You must craft each component of your Odonata Archwing, as well as the Archwing itself, at your Foundry. Once it’s complete, you may take the battle to Councilor Vay Hek in your first Archwing Mission — automatically gaining access to free Archwing Weapons in the process. This will permanently unlock Archwing and Submersible Missions for play on various worlds.

Tips

Open-World Archwing

Excavator Tips

Prepare

Archwing Mods

Craft Your Archwing Launcher Segment

To use your Archwing in open Landscape areas, such as the Plains of Eidolon, you first need an Archwing Launcher Segment for your Orbiter. You can purchase this item directly from the Market for Platinum, or research and purchase its Blueprint from the Tenno Lab inside your Clan Dojo. Once this Segment has been crafted and installed, you can then craft an Archwing Launcher: a Gear Item that can be equipped in the Arsenal (just like a Codex Scanners). Select the item during any Mission in an open-world Landscape to activate the Archwing.

Excavator Tips

Each Excavator requires a total of four Power Cells to finish harvesting and any player that delivers a Power Cell contributes for the entire Squad.

Delivering a Power Cell to an Extractor will fully restore its shields. This is possible even after an Extractor has reached full power.

Once an Extractor’s power percentage reads “Power: Full” you simply need to wait for the timer to complete.

Bring a Strong Melee or Secondary Weapon!

Carrying a Power Cell will temporarily limit you to using your Secondary Weapon and Melee Weapon. Your Primary Weapon will be unavailable until you either drop the Power Cell or deliver it to an Extractor. Make sure your Secondary and/or Melee Weapons are up to snuff!

Get More Archwing Mods

You can obtain additional Archwing Mods by playing Archwing Missions. This will help power up your rig for later space-based Missions.

Next Steps

To reach the next Main Story Quest, Natah, you must actually progress through several more sections of the Star Chart to reach the world of Uranus. Since you must complete several of these in sequence, let’s take a moment to list all of the Junctions and their requirements.

The necessary locations include:

Phobos

Ceres

Jupiter

Europa

Saturn

Uranus

Phobos Junction

The requirements for this Junction are as follows:

Visit Maroo — you can find her in Maroo’s Bazaar on Mars
Refine a Void Relic once in your Orbiter — Play Bounties, Defense, Survival and other endless Missions for a chance to obtain Void Relics and complete Void Fissure Missions to find Void Traces
Open 3 Lith Void Relics — Select a Lith Void Fissure Mission from your Star Chart and choose a Lith Void Relic, then gather 10 Reactant and complete the objective; successfully collecting 10 Reactant on any Void Fissure Mission will also provide Void Traces you can use to refine Void Relics