Talk:Lato Vandal/@comment-96.42.109.43-20180421185348/@comment-26279044-20180801162730

I feel like weapons should be compared to other weapons first without rivens. Good/decent rivens are difficult to obtain and are expensive, making it infeasible for everyone who has the same weapon to all have an at least decent riven for it. Not to mention the accessibility of the weapon. Lato Vandal has very poor drop rates and is a 200 plat sink if you aren't going to do the grind. Couple that with high riven cost (i have seen people try to sell 1k plat rivens for this) and the forma investment, it is arguably not worth it.

However, it only counts as MR fodder if you are not willing to put in that investment. If you are, you can get a pretty strong secondary weapon that competes with some of the stronger secondaries with low disposition. If not, you are unlikely to even see this weapon in your arsenal if you aren't going to grind ESO or throw 200 plat for it. Which likely means that by the time you obtain it, you are only really going to use it for MR points and then let it collect dust.