Does Riven disposition change actively?

[_Azeizel]

Apologies if the title is somewhat misleading. Anyways, suppose the Burston Prime became somewhat popular along the lines of current popular weapons, would its disposition change to reflect that? Or more specifically to what caused this question, will the Dragon Nikana disposition change in the future? 

[p3z1]

Pretty sure riven disposition scales based on weapon stats, and not popularity (as what was stated somewhere).

To answer your question, it won't change, unless their stats change.

Edited July 15, 2017 by p3z1

[RyuhoTheDragon]

Riven disposition is dependant on both stats and overall popularity. De can and have actively nerfed and buffed some rivens, But all those changes are show in the patch notes.

[Fiftycentis]

4 minutes ago, p3z1 said:

Pretty sure riven disposition scales based on weapon stats, and not popularity (as what was stated somewhere).

To answer your question, it won't change, unless their stats change.

more used weapons have worst rivens (usually because they also have better stats than other weapons), but some weapons with good stats but not so used have spectacular rivens

on the op question: riven dispositions changes are announced in hotfix/update notes, so you'll know when something will change

[Trichouette]

9 minutes ago, p3z1 said:

Pretty sure riven disposition scales based on weapon stats, and not popularity (as what was stated somewhere).

No, the riven disposition depends on "how much the weapon is played by the whole community", that was said by the devs when they started trying to nerf some rivens.

Rivens are sometimes updated according to their current use in game, that's why all weapons start with 3/5 disposition and then reach 1 if too much used or 5 if nobody's using it.

[Husla]

I dont think ive seen any riven disposition changes. They can however buff/nerf a weapons stat directly. Anything they do showed be said in updates/hotfixes.

[DeckChairVonBananaCamel]

riven disposition scales entirely on how popular a weapon is. And the disposition will change with the latest weapon trends.
That being said, weapons with better stats tend to have more users and that, in turn, affects disposition. So changes to a weapon's stats tend to have an effect on rivens, but indirectly.

And in case you were wondering, the stats of an existing riven change with the disposition too. A bit of an unrealistic example but if you have a kraken that is made godlike by a riven and everyone starts to cotton on to the fact that the kraken is a riven champion, then your godlike riven will actually decrease as everyone starts to use the weapon.

[Xolgys]

it doesnt change actively, only if DE decides to increase/decrease it for a weapon. its basically a multiplier to balance rivens for stronger/weaker weapons. its not a dynamic random stat its fixed for every weapon. soma for example has a weak disposition with a 0.51 multiplier, meaning every stat is multiplied by that (around about). meaning it can have really really low stats like around 35% elemental damage. other rivens like for vulkar can have dmg of 310%+ because of the high multilpier that high disposition basically is. but these only change when DE decides to, its a fixed property of every weapon roughly describing how high the stats on a riven for it can potentially be.

[13QZXXTTX]

Popular weapon uses will sooner or later be the undoing of Rivens, right now some weapon's Riven disposition is aOK, but that was before the RIvens were introduced. 

Nowadays, Rivens need to be looked at, just more thoughts on how much the Percentage give (30% damage is *****). It can be some thing when DE get around to it. I do not agree Rivens balancing is done.

Currently, OLDER weapons are more viable, (some get really good Stats Boost with Better Disposition, but it does leave some rarely used weapon with lower disposition with question-able % percentage (50% damage???).

Why Buff some lower disposition Riven? 

Spoiler

It might be possible that the Plain of Eidolons will be a great challenging fields, but some weapon Rivens are not worth bringing at this point.

TLazy;DR 

Not every Rivens is worth the Upgrade and Modding, still better than nothing. But can also decline "popular" uses when certain weapons give different changes.

Here to Damage 3.0, and we are ever close to an near-perfect state of balanced weapons.(Mainly PvE contents, PvP is another matter).

PS Sorry in advance, Bad English and hoped my points got through.

[Xzorn]

DE hasn't actively changed any Deposition due to popularity changes since they added Disposition.

They have changed a Riven's Disposition because a new variant of the weapon was released.

Personally I would be less worried about Disposition changes and more worried about the weapon "Balance" changes since those are what will completely ruin your rolls. ie Simulor was crit viable and the best Riven was a crit based one. Now it's not. 45 wasted rolls. Paracyst was not crit viable, now it is. Basically any time they change a weapon's Crit or Status values they're potentially wasting a player's time.

Disposition isn't really based on anything but a whim. The claims it's popularity fall apart when a weapon like Zenistar (300 day login) has Faint disposition. The claims that it's based on stats also fall apart when weapons like Sicarus, Dragon Nikana and Tipedo have Strong Disposition. There's no consistency.

Actively changing Riven Disposition because the weapon became popular would be contrary to the supposed purpose of the system since nerfing it's stats would make it less used again. It's a fairly stupid concept.