Drift Mod Introduction

Warframe offers 7 Drift mods that can be placed into the Exilus Mod Slot. Each of the seven mods provide two bonuses, some to significant Warframe Stats and others to lesser more recognized stats such as Aura Effectiveness and Parkour Velocity.

Due to the unique nature of these mods, Digital Extremes have linked their acquisition to specific tests on the moon of Lua located within Halls of Ascension. Lua can only be accessed once you have completed the “Second Dream” quest.

What & Where is Lua?

Lua is the Orokin Moon tileset located right of Earth on the Star Chart, it holds Corpus & Grinner and is unlocked upon the completion of the Second Dream Quest.

Principle Tests & Spawn Notice

The Seven Principles represent each of the Seven Drift Mods in the Game and are the tests you’ll need to complete to receive a copy of the allocated mods. As each principle represents a mod, the tests you will experience will reflect the mod you are targeting.

• Each test is located within its own room in the Lua tileset however these rooms are not predetermined or have have guaranteed spawns.
• Any mission on Lua can spawn a Principle test however certain gametypes have a higher chance to spawn a few.
• You may experience a mission with no tests or a test with multiple.
• The specific gametypes that can spawn these tests more often when applicable will be listed.

Endurance Drift

Endurance Drift (+15% Energy Max +12% Parkour Velocity) is awarded from its Principle test.
Direct Missions: Grimaldi – Mobile Defense or Plato – Crossfire Exterminate

The endurance principle requires the player to stand on a pressure plate in the centre of a large room for a lengthy duration whilst being bombarded with Orokin lasers. These lasers are located on each level of the room and can be disabled for a short duration by the player on the pad or by other players in your squad. Also keep in mind that within the pressure pad zone, all Warframe abilities are disabled.

Shooting the plate behind or around each laser will disable the laser for a short duration, thus reducing the amount of damage being dealt to the player on the pad.

While the test for the individual on the pressure pad is to survive, this individual or their squad members can monitor their progression via the the vertical pipe on the left side of the room, looking towards the hallway. This pipe fills up with water over the course of the test as long as the player remains on the pressure plate. Once the pipe has been filled to the brim, the pressure plate will turn into an elevator and lower you to a portal room.

Entering the portal will take you to the principle Reward Room where you can interact with the glowing object to receive the Endurance Drift Exilus Mod.

Gear Recommendations

As the endurance tests deals a constant flow of damage to the individual on the pressure pad, I suggest using Warframes with high shield and health values, those that utilise Warframe’s shield gating mechanic, using shield & health restores or your Operators manifested stealth form to complete the test.

Warframes: Inaros, Hildryn, Zephyr, Trinity & Grendel.
Operator: Complete The War Within Quest
Arcanes: Arcane Barrier

Stealth Drift

Stealth Drift (+18 Enemy Radar +12% Aim Glide/Latch Time) is awarded from its Principle test.
Direct Missions: Grimaldi – Mobile Defense or Plato – Crossfire Exterminate

The Stealth principle takes place in a long symmetrical room with multiple levels and requires the player to dodge countless lasers on their way to a portal plate, opposite to the starting location in the principle room. The test can be started by standing on the displayed plate.

When the test activates, multiple lasers will light up and spawn from the Orokin orbs at the centre & sides of room. Each orb will either rotate, raise or stagnate.

Two variants of the lasers will be active throughout the test.

• Yellow indicates standard Orokin Lasers that simply damage the player. These lasers do not affect the test upon interaction.
• The Blue Lasers are specific to the Stealth test and upon interaction, they will fail the test and close the portal.

Note: If the test fails, you’ll need to find the test again in another mission.

The test does not require stealth and therefor you can attempt to complete the test while in active play. If you stay in one place for too long, most importantly on the second floor hallways, the test will fail and a number of Grineer Rollers will spawn from the walls and target you.

The final test zone is located on the bottom floor of the room at the opposite end to where you start the principle test.

image of reward room.
Entering the portal will take you to the principle Reward Room where you can interact with the glowing object to receive the Stealth Drift Exilus Mod.

Gear Recommendations

• As the Stealth Test has no combat trial and is simply parkour and manoeuvrability, Warframes with location switching abilities like Loki or Nova can be used to traverse to one of the two doors in the concourse and then be used to bypass the final Orokin orb and finish the test with ease.
• If you are in a squad you can also have one player activate the test and another stand on the portal activation panel at the end of the test to bypass the laser dodging phase.
• Your Operator’s stealth dash ability can also be used to bypass the lasers in order to reach the portal zone.

Agility Drift

Agility Drift (Reduced Damage 12% while Airborne +6% Evasion) awarded from its Principle.
Direct Missions: Grimaldi – Mobile Defense or Plato – Crossfire Exterminate

The Agility principle takes place in a room with multiple entrances that converge on a circular hub with organ pipes of various heights. These pipes are used to scale the room after activating Orokin plates.

• Pressing Jump after you’ve been launched by an Organ will increase your height.
• The test will fail and need to be restarted (can be attempted multiple times in one mission) if you touch the ground.

The Organ pipes can be opened by shooting the glowing Orokin plates located on the walls. As shown above, the first plate to activate the test is located above the lowest and first two pipes. Shoot the plate and the two pipes will open.

Upon entering, after a second or so, the player will be launched into the air, to which they have to shoot the second orokin plate on the left side of the first pad to open the next organ, located on the same side.

From the second organ you’ll need to look to the right side of the first plate and shoot the plate located nearby, this will open three organs. You’ll want to aim for the third and highest.

The fourth organ will require you to shoot two plates on the opposite side of the room behind orokin decorations to open the next organ that is located above and next to the third organ.

At this stage the organ order is simple and clear however the plates are not.
Looking from the fourth organ to the centre of the room, a plate will appear in front of you. This plate will unlock the fifth organ that is next to said plate.

The 6th and final plate is located opposite to your new location (5th Organ) and activation it will open the final and highest organ pipe in the room. Enter the pipe and upon being launched you’ll need to jump and it will launch you into the now opened hole in the roof where the Agility Test’s portal lies.

Entering the portal will take you to the principle Reward Room where you can interact with the glowing object to receive the Agility Drift Exilus Mod.

Gear Recommendations

As the Agility test requires precision and in air manoeuvrability from the player, it’s highly recommended to use Warframes & Weapons that can assist you in doing such things, e.g. Zephyr’s Passive, Operator Dashes…

Warframes: Zephyr, Ivara Zipwire or Titania Razorwing
Operator: Complete The War Within Quest
Weapons: Automatic or Beam

Coaction Drift

Coaction Drift (+15% Aura Strength +15% Aura Effectiveness) is awarded from its Principle test.
Direct Missions: Grimaldi – Mobile Defense or Plato – Crossfire Exterminate

The Coaction principle takes place within a four entrance room with a lower rock floor, surrounding tunnels, multiple hanging platforms and a top floor orokin construction that at first glance is inaccessible. The test can start once you stand on a glowing plate in front of the orokin doors and hanging platforms.

When standing on the aforementioned glowing plate, a number of orokin discs will move and float to create a platform in front of you. When these discs form a platform, a player must continue to stand on the plate while another user or the player in a different form (operator, spectre etc.) stands on the hanging platform, as shown above with the use of my operator. Doing so will lift the covers off the orokin construction’s corner plates.

As you did with the previous step, you’ll want the first player to stand on the 2nd plate and the third player to stand on the now 3rd plate. This will activate the next step of unlocking the lower level tunnels.

The following process will need to be repeated for each corner of the Orokin Construction.
With this corners tunnel unlocked, the first player needs to stand on the 3rd plate and the second player must go through the now unlocked door and stand on the lit up plate.

The next plate is located within the tunnel on its lower level and can be accessible via a drop down zone at the edge of the tunnel. This will be the final plate you need to activate for the first corner.
Note: This process must be repeated another 3 times at the remaining corners to progress.

When all corners have had their pads activated the player/s can make their way to the lower level of the room and a path into the construct will be available via Vertical Orokin pads.

Within the construct is a square room with four plates at each corner. Each pad must have either a player or spectre standing on them to unlock the final gate above this room that will allow you to enter the portal room.

Entering the portal will take you to the principle Reward Room where you can interact with the glowing object to receive the Coaction Drift Exilus Mod.

Gear Recommendations

• The Coaction drift principle while built to be completed with a squad, can be completed solo via the use of Spectre placements or the Operator on plates that require player placement.
• You must be using different spectre types otherwise the active spectre will be replaced by the newly cast spectre of the same type.

Speed Drift

Speed Drift (+12% Sprint Speed +15% Casting Speed) is awarded from its Principle test.
Direct Missions: Copernicus – Capture Mission

The Speed Principle takes place in a hallway that is designed unlike any other room in the Lua Tileset. You can identify the room easily by its Orokin Laser and Shockwave Orb room at its centre.

Within this room are two orokin plates that glow blue above each door. One of these plates must be shot in order to start the test.

As shown above, prior to entering & after exiting the laser plate and knockdown room there will be two doors. These doors will not open until the player shoots the orokin plates within the aforementioned centre room.

Once shot, one of the two doors on each side will open allowing the player to climb a small stairwell with a pressure plate and door at the top.

Above the door and plate in this room are orokin segments. While the player stands on the pressure plate, these three segments will merge and unlock the door, starting the timer for the test.
Depending on the door opened, you’ll be met with a different test each requiring the player to reach the end of the path before time runs out:

• Test 1: Agility – Ice

This test requires the player to make their way through hallways riddled with ice floors & pop up barriers that can stop and slow you in your tracks if not avoided. After reaching the final room with descending stairs, shoot the glowing orokin plate above the door. This will increase the height of the pillar in the centre room.

In between each hallway are a number of Slowly closing doors that represent the time left for the test. When these doors close it results in a test fail however, these doors will trick you into believing a failure has occurred throughout the test by closing prematurely. Just wait a second or two and the doors will open again allowing you to continue.

• Test 2 – Agility – Knockdown

This test replaces the above ice floors with Orokin Knockdown orbs. The pop up barriers & closing doors remain in place and once again the player must shoot the orokin plate at the end of the hallway. The player can shoot the plates off the top of each orokin orb to stop the knockdown pulses from occurring to make the test easier.

Once both plates have been activated and each test completed, a pillar will raise in the centre room that the player can climb, jump etc. their way to the top of. Atop this pillar is the portal room to the Speed Drift mod.

Entering the portal will take you to the principle Reward Room where you can interact with the glowing object to receive the Speed Drift Exilus Mod.

Gear Recommendations

The Speed Principle has a rare room and you’ll spend more time attempting to find the room over completing the test, therefor the Warframe selection for speedrunning missions coincides with the selection recommended for the test.

• Warframes Limbo Rift, Atlas, Volt, Gauss, Titania Razorwing or Wukong Cloudwalker
• Operator: Complete The War Within Quest
• Mods: Rapid Resilience

Cunning Drift

Cunning Drift (+12% Slide -30% Friction +15% Ability Range) is awarded from its Principle test.
Direct Missions: Grimaldi – Mobile Defense or Plato – Crossfire Exterminate

The Cunning Principle takes place in a large open room with four pillars around its test zone. The room features stairwells going down and up along its edges that converge at the test’s level.

The Cunning Test requires the player to disable four pillars of energy by dodging blasts from an Orokin Drone, this test can be initiated by destroying two caps holding water within the geometry.

By releasing the water on both sides of the test room, the centre of the test area will start to pulsate blue and emit a gold particle effect, that can be entered to start the test.

Upon entering the gold effect, an Orokin Drone will emerge and start to rotate around the test room based on your current location. This drone has no health value and cannot be killed. The drone utilises a charged laser strike on the player.

The goal of the test is to use the drones lasers to cut the energy travelling through each of the four pillars in the room. To do so you’ll need to destroy a small plate behind each pillar and then stand atop a now erected tower.

Standing on this tower will cause the drone to move to the closest position, behind the pillar and facing towards the blue energy seeping side. As shown above the drone will start to charge its laser at which point you need to wait for the last possible second and then jump as the laser strike has been cast. Doing so will cause the strike to hit the pillar thus severing the connection.

Once a pillar has had its energy cut, the Drone will teleport to the centre of the room and start to cast one out of its two attacks.

• Mortar Strikes:This attack is cast like a mortar, firing energy explosions towards random positions.
• Tornado Pull:This attack causes the player to be pulled into the centre of the room with the Drone while causing damage.

You must sever all four pillars using the aforementioned method in order to complete the test.

The cunning principle test will be complete once the final pillar has been struck by the Orokin drone, at which point the test zone will emit more particle effects, indicating that the elevator is ready to use.

Entering the portal will take you to the principle Reward Room where you can interact with the glowing object to receive the Cunning Drift Exilus Mod.

Recommendations

• Due to the simplicity of the Cunning Principle test, the only recommendation I can provide is to replay the Second Dream quest, if you are having bad luck spawning the room, as guarantees the spawn of the test room.

Power Drift

Power Drift (+15% Ability Strength +30% Chance to resist knockdown) awarded from its Principle test.
Direct Missions: Grimaldi – Mobile Defense or Plato – Crossfire Exterminate

The Power Principle takes place in a circular room with ornate pillars and platform in the centre, this room has multiple exits and entries via two stairwells and a long hallway. Within the main circular room there are four orbs embedded into the wall on its outer rim.

In front of each orb is an outlined zone of gold. The Power principle requires players to stand within these zones for a short duration while the allocated orb zaps your energy (indicated by a blue connected beam) A squad of players can .

Each beam activates once you enter the outlined zone and will zap 50 energy from your existing energy pool. If the player has no energy the beam will not activate. Once the energy has been zapped, the beam will end and you must move to the next orb and zone.

Once each beam has been charged and activated the centre platform will open and a stairwell will begin will lower downwards to the portal room.

Entering the portal will take you to the principle Reward Room where you can interact with the glowing object to receive the Power Drift Exilus Mod.

Gear Recommendations

The Power Principle is one of the simplest tests, taking place within the same room and it only requires energy to be completed. As such if you equip your Warframe with energy generation and storage mods and then gather up energy prior to starting the test, the test will be a breeze. The player can also utilise their Operator’s energy pool rather than their Warframes.

• Mods:Flow, Primed Flow, Energy Siphon, Endurance Drift & (later) Preparation.
• Arcanes:Arcane Energize
• Operator: Complete The War Within Quest

Conclusion & Other Guides

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This concludes the guide for the Drift Mods, Acquisition & Principle Test guides.

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