Talk:Weapons/@comment-7645613-20141201173833/@comment-25626910-20141207182023

Another way would be to make weapons degrade over total mission time. I remember when I played Runescape back in 5th grade there was some sets like that. The equipment would slowly lose stats the more time you spend in combat, and would get more expensive to restore the more degraded it is. At full degradation (14 hours if I remember right?) it would become completely unusable and cost a pretty solid amount of cash to repair, although for most players at that level the money was no issue.

For Warframe, I would imagine you'd have this sort of degradation to be a lot longer, maybe over 50 hours of mission time. So every 30mins spent in missions with that weapon it would degrade by 1% and lose a small amount of stats. Concept-wise, I'd think of maybe some Infested weapons with living tissue that needs to grow back, or a Grineer launcher that melts itself.