After reading this, I feel like I've teleported into the future where everyone speaks in an unintelligible new dialect. XD

haha yeah it's weird but I think I can explain it. have you played any MMO's to late stage endgame? rivens kind of act like the loot for that in warframe, but it's kind of different because of how modular the game is. Normally the arcane enhancements/masterwork/infinity-plus-one-sword tier of weapons in a common mmo are kind of fixed to the weapon in question with a scant few modifiers if you can slot gems or whatever in them. In warframe this status is conferred upon a modular component called a "riven mod" completely separate from the weapon, and is only usable for that build of weapon; this is kind of great in that once you get this mod you can collect resources to re-roll the "riven mod's" stats an unlimited number of times. How good the stats might be are determined by "disposition". what the developer did was tilt the disposition significantly for the second time (in like, 4 months I think?) making some people's riven arguably not worth the mod slot in some cases; this is a little frustrating seeing how this is one of the few endgame aspects, and spits on people's time investment seeing as how it can take a long time to gain that god-roll. Also it's mostly a PvE game, what are the enemies going to stop playing if we one shot them too many times? lol

anyways, it does kind of hurt the progression aspect. there was a very specific high DPS riven I wanted to get my hands on for a specific sniper rifle which they made kind of a dull proposition. also people might pay the equivalent of 1,000+ USD for one of these mods, so I think the devs should really consider how that effects people like that too.

This is why I don't use rivens for the most part. XD I try for prime damage mods and forma the shit out of everything. XD

I mean sometimes they can be fun when you think outside the box and go past the "cc+dmg+multi or GTFO" meta. For instance, I got a strun wraith riven with anti-corpus faction damage(80%), pure damage, and a negative ammo curse I think. because of how gas procs interact with the anti-faction modifier, and because it's easy to get the strun over 100% status chance, it absolutely shreds corpus infantry and light robotics, like 2 shotting level 160 corpus techs. it's an absolute room clearer when I get max range nidus to put them all in a ball conveniently causing them all to get tagged by the gas proc's AoE. I wish there were more opportunities to develop more specialized rivens like that, and maybe more stats that are less tied to big numbers (ie. punch through doesn't need to be super high to be useful; maybe blast radius, wall bouncing, alt fire, ect. could give more low disposition options).

of course failing all that yeah just shove primed mods in there.

Lol well the only decent riven I've even gotten is for dual ethers, and it's like status chance and massive lightning damage on it. Makes them hit a lot harder than they used to.. But eh.

you see and i see

They buffed my beautiful boys, Tonkor and Penta though!

On a more serious note, I got hit hard by the Dispo changes as well, but c'est la vie.

I'm afraid of the melee changes. Most of mine are melees.

Also the only one I was afraid of was Gaze, and that didn't get touched. I feel for those that did though.

I tried to make the gaze work, the crit build is ok, but would need to arc or have a wider beam to stand up to the other kitguns, the status build was even worse, was hoping to build a gas proc monster but the base damage is just not there

It's good with the arcane that makes headshots spawn thingies that hit other heads. That's at least in my experience though.

I only use atterax and opticor (normal). the atterax is 0.5 so it can't get any lower but the opticor is 1.15 which I think is to high for a weapon that good (please dont nerf it DE). i don't use secondary anymore but i did use twin grakatas and i have a riven for it but im still not going to use it due to its insane ammo consumption. I only sell rivens veiled because it sells much quicker and i don't have to worry about bad weapons or kuva.

Yeah I got an atterax riven too. Slide crit and combo duration which is nice considering it’s a significant DPS boost and strong utility with naramon. Scoliac wins out because of disposition though, perfectly spacing to hit enemies 25m away is fun; I want to roll it for even more range but my instincts are screaming not to in light of how some of the other weaps got fucked.

Good riddance.
Some shit rivens i have might go up in price a bit.

Maybe they will, I don’t think the dispo change helps the bad weaps too much though, I had a really good prisma gorgon roll with ludicrous crits but hunter munitions wasn’t getting it done. the mod team seems to really pick favorites though; the Mara detron and kohm, the devteam is like “muh 100% status build” while sparing them the nerf stick. mean while my arca plasmor can no longer hit 100% status with my riven but that’s totally fine lol