Make Weapons Great Again, one faction at a Time!

[kaelvamp]

I was playing Borderlands the other day and reading about the weapons that will come in Borderlands 3. Then i saw something interesting that could be added in warframe and in some form already is on syndicates.
All weapons on Borderlands has its manufacturer so each "type" of weapon has a unique mechanic that is unique to the 1- Class of weapon and 2- its manufacturer.

Now the thing is, how can we make warframe's weapons great again?

The answer is Passives for each Weapon Class and Faction!
Looking at the Syndicates we already got something in those lines, the weapon passives for each syndicate is a nice thing to have,why stop there? Lets Expand on That!

Each faction should Have a Specific Passive on their weapons, and those passives should be divided into Classes.

 Lets say that greneer have a 5% of regaining a small  ammount of ammo on each reload (that cant be changed with mods or nothing, its just there) that passive will be on all greneer weapons. and in top of that each class got a small variation of X passive.
 
Like Assaut rifles got the % of ammo recover at reload but do a 10 point area corrosive damage on reload, or a 5 seconds chance to proc X element after a headshot kill, something on those lines.

Shotguns get the ammo recover and a small crit buff or icrease in status chance for 5 seconds.

The Possibilities are ENDLESS!


 

Edited August 23, 2019 by kaelvamp

[Mover-NeRo]

Something like :

https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Purity

https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Justice

https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Truth

etc... ?

 

[kaelvamp]

18 hours ago, Mover-NeRo said:

Something like :

https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Purity

https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Justice

https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Truth

etc... ?

 

something like that but better, like a major passive for all weapons that got a "faction" tag and so on, and on top of that one minor passive for each class of weapon.
as an exemple: greneer get 10% chance to proc of explosion on all weapons, that would be the major passive, and then the minor passive would apply on all weapon classes. Those being like the Riven ones, Rifles/Shotguns/Secundaries and Melee (zaws and kitguns dont need it because they already got arcanes)

better yet, faction specific arcanes! that would be even better... every weapon gets a arcane slot and the faction got specific arcanes that drop on high end missions... 

[(XBOX)KayAitch]

On 2019-08-23 at 9:19 PM, kaelvamp said:

All weapons on Borderlands has its manufacturer so each "type" of weapon has a unique mechanic that is unique to the 1- Class of weapon and 2- its manufacturer.
...

Each faction should Have a Specific Passive on their weapons, and those passives should be divided into Classes

Borderlands does this to give the different manufacturers personality: Maliwan have high status and fire rate, Jakobs have few shots and very high damage, Tedior have disposable weapons instead if reloads, etc

Borderlands didn't really have this in the first 1, it really came in Borderlands 2. They really needed to give weapons a bit more personality.

Initially faction weapons in Warframe mostly followed something similar - Grineer guns are low tech mechanical, high Impact, Punture or Heat; Corpus are high-tech energy, Impact or Electric; Infested are squishy biological high status Slash/Toxin/Viral.

That's fallen by the wayside a bit as the the game's gone on, but you can still tell at a glance what faction made most weapons.

The problem with faction passives is the huge range of weapons each faction now has. Anything significant is going to be OP for some weapon, anything minor enough to not do that nobody's going to care about.