Talk:Riven Mods/@comment-34733210-20190226214848/@comment-2600:6C5E:1D80:1501:3DAE:FED3:6EB5:C1C7-20190610072157

So, the statements here aren't incompatible.

Rivens are meant to balance weaker weapons, and make them capable of high level play. Read: Kohm with 100% status is an absolute beast but by default just depressing (insert your example here). The initial policy was to put out riven dispositions to do this, so they didn't have content going to waste.

The end result was some pretty broken rivens, and correspondingly high prices. DE then compounded the issue of fair trade by not sharing any data. A market with no regulations is ripe for profiteers.

Now, they've back-pedaled. The riven dispositions are based upon usage, not relative power. More use friendly weapons (Arca Plasmor vs. Arbitration drones) are getting nerfed, rather than those with power. This leads to the meta being a down shift in overall power, because any meta builds will be murdered by their power being siphoned off if they're used. That isn't balancing the game, but capping potential power behind frustrating usage scenarios.

I think this would be less of a problem if DE could ever figure out scaling, but they've entirely missed that point. Exponential curves make broken powers and weapons necessary, but removing these broken weapons without fixing the scaling is a way to alienate the community. If they'd introduced a riven report (instead of being done by outside entities who saw the riven market going to hell), fixed the scaling (S-curves are our mathematical friend), and then brought this riven policy it'd be a three step win to making this game better. Instead they attacked the symptoms (broken weapons), while leaving the underlying disease (broken scaling) intact. DE needs to get their crap together, because I agree with the OP. 1000+ days to 300+ days are where most of my friends list hovers. With that long of a lapse between the last logins it's very likely that they aren't coming back. So we're clear, that's back when void keys were used and Loki Prime's original release was ongoing.