Dragon Nikana

Farming plan

Dragon Nikana

Step-by-step guide

Everything you need to get it into your arsenal, in order.

Mastery Rank required: MR 8 Foundry time: 12h Total credits: 40,000
  1. Get the blueprint

    Buy the blueprint from the in-game Market for 30,000 credits.

    The built weapon also sells for 275 platinum on the Market (paid shortcut, not needed).

  2. Craft the sub-components

    • Nikana Foundry cost: 5,000 credits · Build time: 12h Forma — Earth / Cervantes (Caches) · 0.5% Alloy Plate ×200 · Argon Crystal ×3 · Oxium ×75
  3. Gather the resources

    • Argon Crystal ×1 Void Decays: halves every 24h outside the Void. Farm it the day you craft.
    • Oxium ×75 Dropped by Oxium Ospreys (Corpus) — plentiful in Corpus Defense/Interception.

    Total resource list (sub-recipes included)

    Total resource list (sub-recipes included)
    Alloy Plate: 200 (56%) Oxium: 150 (42%) Argon Crystal: 4 (1%) 354
    • Alloy Plate 200 · 56%
    • Oxium 150 · 42%
    • Argon Crystal 4 · 1%
  4. Craft it in the foundry

    Foundry cost: 5,000 credits

    Build time: 12h

    Claim it and equip it. Done, Tenno.

Visual plan: what to do and how long it takes
0h 12h 24h Nikana Nikana: 12h 12h Dragon Nikana Dragon Nikana: 12h 12h
  • Farming
  • Crafting (foundry)

Farming assumes a radshare squad for relics and the planner’s per-mission timings (estimated/derived, labeled on each page). The foundry runs on its own: you can play meanwhile.