I want to preface this by saying that I will admit that I personally don't have any interest in Riven mods, myself. While I like the idea of them, as a means of breathing new life in less popular weapons, with the way it's implemented in the game, there's just way too much RNG and aggravation to make them worthwhile, for me. First, I have to hope it's for a weapon that I might actually use and then I got to hope it has halfway decent stats. I'm aware that one can use Kuva to re-roll Rivens in the hope of getting something slightly better, but that's just another grind with no guarantee you'll actually get something better. There's also just buying a Riven mod for a weapon I might use, but just going by the prices I've seen in Trade chat, any Riven mod with halfway decent stats would likely cost me more platinum than I've ever had at one time. Now, I did unveil one of the first Riven mods I ever got, just to see how the whole process works, and managed to get a Riven for a weapon I could not use at the time (the Ferrox), have no real interest in using now that I can, and even if I did, the stats are apparently not all that great. So, it's currently burning a hole in my pocket, since even selling the cruddy thing would take battling through the walls of text in Trade chat.
Now, with all that being said, I had been using Warframe Market to sell every other Veiled Riven mod I got either as a Sortie reward or through the Gift of the Lotus, since completing the War Within and unlocking them all the way back near the end of Spring. They actually served as a slow but steady source of platinum income for me for quite some time...until roughly around the time that summer ended. Ever since then, I have only been able to sell Veiled Melee Riven mods, and have a small stockpile of Veiled Pistol and Rifle Riven Mods that are slowly eating up my Riven Capacity. I know you can purchase additional Riven Mod slots, but it seems a poor investment to buy a means to hold more of something I want to be rid of.
So my main question is: what happened? Why are people no longer interested in buying Veiled Riven Mods, at least for Pistol and Rifle? And why are people still interested in Melee Riven Mods? As someone who just started playing Warframe this year, I'm afraid I still don't quite yet have a complete grasp of this game's meta and how it effects the player-run economy. I know it can't have been the recent disposition changes, because the sudden lack of interest in Riven mods started much sooner than that. Unless there were some people who already knew they were coming, and the rest of the economy learned via association? Or, since the decrease in interest seemed to occur around the end of summer, was it mainly new or ignorant schoolkids that were buying them off me?
Like I said, I'm gonna be running out of Riven capacity soon, so I may end up having to do something drastic to make room for the Melee Riven mods that are still actually selling, either by offering the unsold Veiled Riven mods at a price that's drastically lower than what they are currently going for on the Market or by just dissolving them completely if not even that works. It still seems kind of like a waste for something that did appear to have some sort of value to other people previously, which is why I decided to come here and ask first before I resorted to any of that.
TL;DR: Anyone want some super cheap Veiled Pistol or Rifle Riven mods? /s
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Shiroi-Tsuki
I want to preface this by saying that I will admit that I personally don't have any interest in Riven mods, myself. While I like the idea of them, as a means of breathing new life in less popular weapons, with the way it's implemented in the game, there's just way too much RNG and aggravation to make them worthwhile, for me. First, I have to hope it's for a weapon that I might actually use and then I got to hope it has halfway decent stats. I'm aware that one can use Kuva to re-roll Rivens in the hope of getting something slightly better, but that's just another grind with no guarantee you'll actually get something better. There's also just buying a Riven mod for a weapon I might use, but just going by the prices I've seen in Trade chat, any Riven mod with halfway decent stats would likely cost me more platinum than I've ever had at one time. Now, I did unveil one of the first Riven mods I ever got, just to see how the whole process works, and managed to get a Riven for a weapon I could not use at the time (the Ferrox), have no real interest in using now that I can, and even if I did, the stats are apparently not all that great. So, it's currently burning a hole in my pocket, since even selling the cruddy thing would take battling through the walls of text in Trade chat.
Now, with all that being said, I had been using Warframe Market to sell every other Veiled Riven mod I got either as a Sortie reward or through the Gift of the Lotus, since completing the War Within and unlocking them all the way back near the end of Spring. They actually served as a slow but steady source of platinum income for me for quite some time...until roughly around the time that summer ended. Ever since then, I have only been able to sell Veiled Melee Riven mods, and have a small stockpile of Veiled Pistol and Rifle Riven Mods that are slowly eating up my Riven Capacity. I know you can purchase additional Riven Mod slots, but it seems a poor investment to buy a means to hold more of something I want to be rid of.
So my main question is: what happened? Why are people no longer interested in buying Veiled Riven Mods, at least for Pistol and Rifle? And why are people still interested in Melee Riven Mods? As someone who just started playing Warframe this year, I'm afraid I still don't quite yet have a complete grasp of this game's meta and how it effects the player-run economy. I know it can't have been the recent disposition changes, because the sudden lack of interest in Riven mods started much sooner than that. Unless there were some people who already knew they were coming, and the rest of the economy learned via association? Or, since the decrease in interest seemed to occur around the end of summer, was it mainly new or ignorant schoolkids that were buying them off me?
Like I said, I'm gonna be running out of Riven capacity soon, so I may end up having to do something drastic to make room for the Melee Riven mods that are still actually selling, either by offering the unsold Veiled Riven mods at a price that's drastically lower than what they are currently going for on the Market or by just dissolving them completely if not even that works. It still seems kind of like a waste for something that did appear to have some sort of value to other people previously, which is why I decided to come here and ask first before I resorted to any of that.
TL;DR: Anyone want some super cheap Veiled Pistol or Rifle Riven mods? /s
And if not, why not?
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