Transmute.

[xenapan]

What works:

1) acts as a gold sink

2) gets rid of useless duplicates

3) RNG trolls you some more.

 

What doesn't work:

 

http://youtu.be/k_LxHLskaQA

 

 

So lets make this... slightly useful for players. and.. at least a little more interesting. So here are 3 ideas as to how transmute could be implemented.

 

a) make it accumulate when it gives you stuff you dont want. After a transmute you can accept or reject the resulting mod into a pool. The higher the value of cards in the pool, the better quality the resulting cards are.

 

b) let players set a goal.  (e.g. I set mine to diamond skin) every transmute increases the bar by %. When the bar is filled, I get the mod.

 

c) instead of dropping 1 mod. It gives you more choices. After 3 transmutes, it opens up a second slot to choose from. Now every subsequent transmute will show 2 mods instead of 1. Picking either mod will reset the slots to 1 (you will have to do another 3 transmutes to open the second slot again). 9 transmutes after the second slot opens a third slot opens. etc. Every 3 slots (past the original first) that are opened, also lets you lock OUT a specific class of mods. e.g. warframe, rifle, sentinel, pistol, etc. (remember opening the first 2 slots alone requires 12x transmutes. thats 48 mods + 144k credits. the third slot alone would require 3x that. and all the slots close once you pick a mod)

Edited August 11, 2013 by xenapan

[AriaOfOurs]

Just transmuted four Revenge mods for the sentinel.

Got a Revenge mod.

 

Good thread. Would love to see this stuff implemented.

Edited August 12, 2013 by DeceitfulShade

[The_Markie]

Well, what can I say?

 

ggwp

[Hixlysss]

In my opinion transmute should give us random and already leveled mods. Not high level, but mods with say one or two ranks.

[Adianoeta]

How about a Salvage system that produces Fusion Cores instead?

 

https://forums.warframe.com/index.php?/topic/93825-salvage-instead-of-transmute/

 

Doesn't have to be exclusively Salvage - I can see that some players would like to get a specific Rare mod out of Transmute, so your thoughts could be utilized for the core Transmute function.  Whatever the case, Transmute is pretty useless right now.