I was reading Warframe reddit threads about opinions on the setup of Cavia standing, and I saw an opinion that was taken as a given that I disagree with. People said that it’s easier to max daily standing with Necralisk and Z****** than with Cetus and Fortuna, because the token system lets you bank a week’s worth of standing in one go and then cash in the standing limit of tokens day by day.

The point I want to make isn’t applicable to Cavia, but on that one technical point, I disagree. It’s easier to max standing with Cetus than with Necralisk. Now, I say this being at rank 4 with Necralisk and rank 3 with Ostrons, but that’s only because I like the infested better than the grineer (And I had to get a necramech for New War). In terms of ease, Cetus wins.

Today I put on a podcast, went out to the plains at night, and maxed my daily standing in 20 minutes. I did so through conservation. The place was crawling with vasca kavats and other animals. It was easy. I didn’t have to pause my podcast to look through menus, I didn’t have to wait for dialogue, I didn’t have to run out timers with extractors or Latrox. I just shot two dozen animals and went home. Also, that’s even with it being harder than normal because my right click is on the fritz.

Conservation is as easy on the drift as it is on the plains. Easier, actually, because infested tend to get close and personal real quick and then stop spawning, while Grineer are constantly patrolling and shooting you from a distance. But on Deimos, conservation doesn’t reward standing directly. You have to trade tags in to Son, and you can only get so many tags at once. After that, you have to wait. You can’t just bang out all your standing in one go, you get a slow drip feed of standing tokens. On Deimos, it’s more efficient to just run missions for Mother. But in Cetus, you can mostly ignore the bad guys and get your daily standing done inside half an hour.