New Weapons Every Two Weeks, Why No New Warframe Powers?

[Genoscythe]

So, we are getting new weapons to grind up for more mastery every two or three weeks, and a ton at every update. Well, most people may know that about 70% of those weapons are useless downgrades to other weapons and will not be used again after being leveled to 30.

 

This results that we have a huge, and  mean HUGE set of weapons now, but all warframes are still limited to 4 powers, which, in my humble opinion, is kinda lame.

 

So, instead of giving us new weapons, why is there not a new power set for a frame here and there? This would make frame builds a bit more interesting and make us not all feel like we play an exact copy of another frame. Also, giving support powers to tanks or defensive powers to attackers would make us feel a bit less like being forced to take a role when playing a certain frame.

 

Well, we might have to wait for that maybe until DE has finally balanced all warframes.

 

This, of course would have to be limited, so the powers would need tiers (1-4) and you can always only have one power of each tier equipped. So, for example, we would have to choose between an offensive 4th skill for excalibur (radial javelin) or some other "ultimate" (for example some suppoerting ability).

 

Tl;dr? We have lots of weapons but only 4 powers per warframe, more powers instead of weapons would make things cooler.

[Volt_Cruelerz]

While I rather like the implementation, this still has the balance concerns typically associated with adding more abilities per warframe to the game.

[Slurmageddon]

Powers are a LOT more complicated than weapons This is a cool idea in theory but in practice, thinking up, working out, balancing, coding, establishing the mechanics for new frame powers every major update is a challenge. 

To try coming up with even one new power every two to three weeks is not realistically do-able.

[Scheifen]

Powers are a LOT more complicated than weapons This is a cool idea in theory but in practice, thinking up, working out, balancing, coding, establishing the mechanics for new frame powers every major update is a challenge. 

To try coming up with even one new power every two to three weeks is not realistically do-able.

 

it could also theoretically be done, but only if the powers were reskinned clones of other frame powers, rather than all new ones. which would defeat the purpose because clones are lame. at least unique weapons have slightly unique flavors. 

[Slurmageddon]

it could also theoretically be done, but only if the powers were reskinned clones of other frame powers, rather than all new ones. which would defeat the purpose because clones are lame. at least unique weapons have slightly unique flavors.