Warframe Voidplume Pinion Guide – How to Farm Voidplume Pinions

Warframe Voidplume Pinion Guide - How to Farm Voidplume Pinions

The Voidplume Pinion is just one of several new, special drops introduced in the Warframe “Angels of the Zariman” update. These are effectively Syndicate Medallions: items that you turn in to the Holdfasts faction for more Standing. Standing acts as both currency and XP — allowing you to purchase items from Zariman NPCs and rank up to gain greater access to their stock. This should be old hat to anyone who’s played Warframe for a while. The Plains of Eidolon, Fortuna, and Deimos all work the same way. But a new zone means new items and new places to find them. Hence the need for a guide! Let’s take a look in our guide to farming Voidplume Pinions in Warframe.

You can find the Voidplume Pinion in much the same place as any other type of “Voidplume” on the Zariman. This is sort of a hybrid zone in Warframe: mixing elements of both normal mission types and the open-world regions listed above. You can select bounty missions from the NPC named Quinn in the “Chrysalith” social hub. This will send you to a particular map with a specific objective. On top of that objective are the bounties, which basically act as secondary objectives for bonus rewards. These can be anything from “collect 20,000 credits” to “kill 250 enemies.” They’re rarely complex or hard.

These bounties will be most players’ primary source of Voidplumes. Low-tier Voidplumes can also be found scattered on the ground, exactly like Syndicate Medallions during Syndicate missions. There are eight of those scattered in every Zariman mission and you can find the faster with skills like Loot Detector.

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That’s not what we’re here for, though. We want a Voidplume Pinion or two. These are the highest tier of Voidplume in Warframe so far. They can be exchange for a whopping 5,000 Holdfast Standing. Though we highly recommend that you do not spend Voidplume Pinions on Standing. Not when just 10 Voidplume Down (the most common item of this type) will get you the same thing. Specific Voidplumes are also necessary for crafting and ranking up. You need 15 Voidplume Pinions to craft the Incarnon weapons Phenmor and Praedos, for example. That’s 15 Voidplume Pinions each. If you get a Voidplume Pinion, hold onto it until you’re certain you won’t need it later. You can get plenty of Standing from the low-tier drops.

What you need to find the high-tier items are Void Angels. These boss enemies appear in a variety of missions on the Zariman. In particular, one spawns at the end of every “Void Armageddon” mission. These tend to drop Voidplume Quills in our experience — still a useful item, but not what we’re looking for exactly. Thankfully there is a second type of Void Angel. These appear as dormant “statues” in Zariman bounty missions. We have thus far only encountered them in Exterminate and Void Flood missions but have no reason to believe they can’t spawn during other types of bounties. And so far they have always dropped a Voidplume Pinion on death. The level of the bounty doesn’t seem to matter, either, despite Pinions being the most potent type of this item. The dormant Void Angels dropped them at the lowest level of bounty as well as higher ones.

For reference, these also seem to sport the title of “Void Angel” instead of the weaker “Ravenous Void Angel.” You can take a peek at their dormant state in the picture below.

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Like any other hidden objective in Warframe, you will probably have better luck finding the angels with a group of four players on the hunt together. This isn’t because the dormant Void Angels are especially hard. They do have more health than the standard variants: three health bars instead of two and more damage absorbing orbs to destroy during the puzzle phases. The mechanics for fighting them otherwise seem identical to the boss you battle in the Angels of the Zariman story quest. Even so, it helps to have more players searching for the unmarked statues in the game map.

Once you find a dormant Void Angel, interact with it. This causes it to rise up and become hostile. Battle the angel as you would any other. When it dies, the Voidplume Pinion will drop on the ground beneath where you fought it. Interact with that to pick it up (remember that all Voidplumes require you to manually collect them with the interact button and aren’t picked up automatically).

The only other method we’ve found for somewhat regularly farming Voidplume Pinions is by hunting down a Zarium Accord. Similar to the low-tier Voidplumes, this is an item found on the ground in Zariman missions. It emits a high, rhythmic humming sound when you get close. Though it doesn’t exactly pop off the screen visually. It’s a golden key that you pick up and hold in one hand (which temporarily limits you to only using your melee weapon and sidearm). With the Zarium Accord in hand, you need to seek out Cephalon Melica: the ship’s computer that you may remember from cutscenes in “The New War.”

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Pictured: a Zarium Accord

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Pictured: Cephalon Melica

You can see both the Zarium Accord and Melica in the images above. Note that Melica will mark herself on your map — using the lilac symbol shown in the second image — but only up to a point. You may want to mark her with a waypoint to make sure you don’t lose track of her. At least if you don’t already have the Zarium Accord. The lilac marker seems to disappear from the in-game map if you walk too far away. If you do already have the key, however, great! You can give it to the Cephalon. She’ll dispense a Voidplume as a reward. This is not guaranteed to be a Voidplume Pinion, unfortunately. Though she does seem to always provide at least some kind of mid- or high-level Syndicate item.

That’s really all there is to it! This is the most consistent way we’ve found to farm Voidplume Pinions thus far. The weaker Void Angels may also be able to drop them, but the hidden boss method seems far more consistent for the time invested in the boss fight. Hopefully this helps you get your hands on the Voidplume Pinion supply you need for those Incarnon weapons. Best of luck!

Author: Deann Hawkins