Syndicates, open worlds and standing

A syndicate is a group that works with the Tenno. Help it and you earn standing. Standing is a currency: you spend it on mods, weapons, blueprints and cosmetics, and you need it to rank up. There are two kinds: six syndicates in the Relays that are at odds with each other, and many neutral syndicates, mostly in the open worlds.

The key terms in short:

Standing

A syndicate’s currency. Every syndicate has its own standing, and you cannot exchange it.

Daily cap

The most standing you can earn per day. It depends on your Mastery Rank.

Rank

Your level with a syndicate. Each rank unlocks new offerings. To rank up you sacrifice standing, credits and items.

Open world

A large, free-roam area with its own town as a hub, e.g. the Plains of Eidolon with Cetus.

Bounty

A chain of small tasks you take in a hub. It gives standing and rewards.

Sigil

A badge on your Warframe. Syndicates sell their own sigils for each rank.

Syndicate Medallions

Items you pick up in Syndicate missions and trade for standing at the Relay.

You cannot farm standing without limit. There is a daily cap that grows with your Mastery Rank:

• The six Relay syndicates share one common cap.
• Every neutral syndicate, such as the Ostrons or the Cavia, has its own cap. So you can max out several syndicates on the same day.
• Rewards from Syndicate missions and Syndicate Medallions do not count toward the cap.

Every syndicate has five ranks. Once you hit the maximum standing for your rank, you can rank up. You hand over all of that standing and pay a sacrifice of credits and items. With each promotion you pick one free gift from the new rank (Syndicate weapons are excluded).

This is what ranking up looks like with the Relay syndicates:

New rank	Standing needed	Credits	Also needed
1	5,000	30,000	2 resources, depending on the syndicate
2	22,000	50,000	1× Forma
3	44,000	100,000	1× Orokin Catalyst or Orokin Reactor
4	70,000	250,000	2× Aya
5	99,000	500,000	3× Aya

The open worlds work the same way, but their syndicates usually ask for things from their area, such as fish parts, gems or Toroids.

Every open world has a town as its hub, home to several syndicates. They are neutral: helping one never costs you anything with another.

How you earn standing there and what it buys:

Syndicate	How to earn standing	What you get
Ostron	Bounties from Konzu, fish, raw gems, Conservation, finished Zaws at Hok	Zaw parts, fishing and mining gear
The Quills	Turn in Sentient Cores like Sağlam Sentient Çekirdeği, turn in finished Amps	Amp parts, Operator Arcanes
Solaris United	Bounties from Eudico, fish, gems, Conservation, finished Kitguns at Rude Zuud, MOAs at Legs, Debt-Bonds at Ticker	Kitguns, MOA companions
Vox Solaris	Turn in Toroids like Calda Toroid, turn in finished Amps	Amp parts, Operator Arcanes and cosmetics
Ventkids	K-Drive tricks and races on the Orb Vallis	K-Drive parts and K-Drive mods
Entrati	Bounties from Mother, fish, gems, Conservation. You earn tokens and trade them to Grandmother for standing	Infested weapons, companions, mods
Necraloid	Turn in loot from the Isolation Vaults	Necramech parts and Necramech mods
The Holdfasts	Turn in Voidplumes like Void Tüyü Kanadı, bounties	Blueprints for the Zariman Incarnon weapons, Arcanes
Cavia	Turn in Voca like Gür Voca, bounties	Qorvex parts, decorations, one Archon Shard per week from rank 5
The Hex	Turn in Höllvania treasures (e.g. Big Bytes Pizza), bounties	Cyte-09 blueprints, Arcanes, cosmetics

• Rude Zuud is not a syndicate of her own but a Solaris United vendor in Fortuna.
• Vox Solaris only opens after the quests “Vox Solaris” and “The War Within”.
• Rank 5 with Vox Solaris needs a Crisma Toroid from the Profit-Taker.
• A Narmer Isoplast from Narmer bounties is worth 2,000 standing with the Quills or Vox Solaris. You need “The New War” for these.

These six syndicates have their rooms in every Relay. You earn standing by pledging to one of them at the Syndicate console on your Orbiter. From then on, part of the Affinity from every mission turns into standing. The catch: the six like and hate each other.

Example: earn 1,000 standing with Steel Meridian and Red Veil gains 500, New Loka loses 500 and Perrin Sequence loses 1,000.

1. 01

   Pick a syndicate

   Open the Syndicate console on your Orbiter and pledge to a syndicate. Buy its sigil so you show it too.

2. 02

   Play missions

   All Affinity you earn gives standing. An Affinity Booster therefore doubles it.

3. 03

   Do Syndicate missions

   From rank 1, each syndicate offers three Syndicate missions per day. They give a lot of standing and do not count toward the daily cap.

4. 04

   Collect Medallions

   Up to 8 Syndicate Medallions lie around in these missions. They are worth 500, 1,000 or 5,000 standing each and also skip the cap. Turn them in at the Relay.

Each syndicate has its own Syndicate weapons. They are modified versions of known weapons and (except for the melee ones) trigger a syndicate special effect when their meter is full:

Syndicate	Primary	Secondary	Melee
Steel Meridian	Vaykor Hek	Vaykor Marelok	Vaykor Sydon
Arbiters of Hexis	Telos Boltor	Telos Akbolto	Telos Boltace
Cephalon Suda	Synoid Simulor	Synoid Gammacor	Synoid Heliocor
Perrin Sequence	Secura Penta	Secura Dual Cestra	Secura Lecta
Red Veil	Rakta Cernos	Rakta Ballistica	Rakta Dark Dagger
New Loka	Sancti Tigris	Sancti Castanas	Sancti Magistar

Warframe augment mods are the main reason many players level syndicates. They change one of your Warframe’s abilities. Every Warframe is covered by exactly two syndicates. Popular examples are Greedy Pull for Mag, Vampire Leech for Trinity, Molecular Fission for Nova or Pilfering Strangledome for Khora.

• Cephalon Simaris in the Relay gives standing for scans with the Synthesis Scanner.
• Conclave is Teshin’s PvP syndicate.
• Nightwave is a rotating season with weekly tasks. Its standing works differently and has little to do with this guide.