I learned how good viral was the other day but didn't know that you usually pair it with heat, good to know, thanks! I just watched some videos on modding and searched a bit and I feel I have a much better grasp now, at least for weapon modding.

you can always go to overframe.gg and see what people are suggesting

Yeah found out about this site a couple days ago, have been using it as a general guide for my frame builds. I saw a bunch of people saying the builds from ninjase are considered very good, so that's what I've been looking at. I mostly lack frame specific mods.

This means that if you can get taxi'd by someone on a later railjack mission you'll unlock a bunch of tier 3 parts and be set, but if you do it entirely on your own it's a fairly miserable and prolonged grind.

I see, I'll probably just ask my friend to do a few Railjack missions with me or I'll just use the matchmaking to join a crew.