Rivens as Arcanes

[(PSN)Volend-]

So hear me out, I believe rivens should be changed over to Arcanes like the ones for our zaws. 

I understand what the original goal was for Rivens, but I believe they can have more impactful uses, effects that add abilities to our weapons.

For example, the Ignis Riven Arcane would give it an alt fire that shoots a glob of fire that sticks around for a few seconds with a slight boost to status chance.

With all the nerfs and buffs to Rivens as they are, it just seems like they are more of a hassle for both player and devs to deal with. This change would accomplish 2 things.

1- they would make older weapons revitalized and add unique perks to them, enhancing their "niche" so to speak.

2- Players won't have to worry as much about nerfs due to the rivens focusing on unique abilities and none randomized buffs.

And don't worry you market tycoons, this change would not hurt nor lower your rivens value, we will need to rank them up just like any other Arcane. Meaning people will need multiples of the same Arcane, so you might be making more plat.

Anyway, of course a new means of farming them would have to be implemented. And I understand that it would be a ton of work reworking the rivens, having to come up with unique changes to them like the fire glob.

But believe me, this would be an incredibly healthy change to Warframe. These Riven Arcanes would give more motivation to grind for them, they would better impact how we use the weapons instead of just simply buffing them.

Think it over Devs, I'm eager to read your thoughts.

[Lazarow]

This sounds like augments in arcane slot. We can have both I guess but that would be too powerful, weapons are good enough with just rivens but if they can add augments in form of arcanes that are balanced for current meta and make old weapons good enough then they could do good

[BLI7Z]

Yes please, add arcanes for every weapon. Not all of us want to or like to use Zaws and Kitguns, and would be nice to have some more personalization in terms of mechanics without losing too much damage as with swaping mods. 

[(XBOX)ShadowBlood89]

riven, arcanes an augments were orginally part of the same system DE thought up but were later separated into there own systems.
What your asking is ot take a step back on there own chocies, along with cause balance issues. 
Then there is the issue that a arcane has a set stats so it would make DE have to change how arcanes would work for your suggestion

[(PSN)Volend-]

On 2019-07-15 at 2:20 PM, (XB1)ShadowBlood89 said:

Then there is the issue that a arcane has a set stats so it would make DE have to change how arcanes would work for your suggestion

Not really, these arcanes are different, they are Riven Arcanes. They are not like the ones for our warframes.

[(PSN)Volend-]

 

On 2019-07-15 at 2:20 PM, (XB1)ShadowBlood89 said:

riven, arcanes an augments were orginally part of the same system DE thought up but were later separated into there own system
What your asking is ot take a step back on there own chocies, along with cause balance issues.

Taking a step back isn't always a bad thing, sometimes we have to step back to see the bigger picture.

Regardless, the balancing wouldn't be much of an issue, the buffs to statuses, if any, would be small. The main reason for the change is to add unique adaptions to the existing weapons. Like my Ignis example.

Each weapon would only have 1 arcane slot, and the only thing that could go into it would be the specific Riven Arcane for it. Very much like how Destiny 2 has Masterworks for their exotic weapons.