Weapons - why cant we buy ones which are MR locked?

[Nijuu]

Was just thinking this morning and last night. Why are weapons locked from purchase behind MR ?
Notice. I said purchase - what made me wonder this, was a while ago i was wanted to buy (forgot which one it was) a weapon from Baro (whatshisname) , had the ducats, saw it was MR locked. Why do they do that?.
They could easily just allow people to buy those weapons but just stop them from building in foundry til they had required MR level.
I am assuming certain weapons offered by Baro only come around once in a while (i havent checked long enough but do they get rotated in and out, or some are unique one time only?)
Im not really that bothered but i am wondering about reasoning (and yes i enjoy collecting loot in this game lol).

Side question
Why arent standard weapons (which do not have a prime version), available as drops like WF parts etc?

[Shard of Manus]

Baro sells fully crafted guns, hence you can't by them. They always come back though. However, it'd be better to buy them and just have them locked in the arsenal.

Some weapons are dropped (their blueprints and sometimes parts) from enemies / bosses - e.g. Boar, Gorgon, Miter, Seer, Cronus etc.

Hunters (Stalker, Zanuka, Grustrag) all drop weapons. Invasions, Alerts, Tactical Alerts all have weapon rewards too.

EDIT: Sorry, alerts don't anymore. They're now bought for Nightwave Creds.

[Nijuu]

God. If i get another Gorgon blueprint ill scream....

[Cuthon]

The answer to your first answer is quite simple. There is no mastery rank requirement for using weapons. The mastery requirement applies to obtaining and crafting the weapon only. This is intentional because when DE added and raised Mastery requirements for a bunch of weapons, they wanted players who had already been using these weapons to be able to continue using them.

Don't worry too much about the weapons from Baro, they will all return in future visits, though not immediately.

As for your side question, there are a couple weapons that are drops. Seer from Vor, Gorgon from heavy gunners, Wraith and Vandal weapons from invasions, and weapons from all the assassins off the top of my head. But the thing is, all of these weapons are much harder to obtain than simply buying a blueprint from the market and crafting it. The reason more weapons aren't drops is because it is much worse to try to get them.

[Shard of Manus]

Originally posted by Nijuu:

God. If i get another Gorgon blueprint ill scream....

Free Credits for new players. Even old ones, if some day you find yourself without Credits because you forgot to farm for ages and ended up buying 20 Pedestal Primes and crafting some elusive ephemera... sell scrap BPs and voila, several hundred thousand Credits to keep you from filing for bankruptcy.

[Nijuu]

Originally posted by Shard of Manus:

Originally posted by Nijuu:

God. If i get another Gorgon blueprint ill scream....

Free Credits for new players. Even old ones, if some day you find yourself without Credits because you forgot to farm for ages and ended up buying 20 Pedestal Primes and crafting some elusive ephemera... sell scrap BPs and voila, several hundred thousand Credits to keep you from filing for bankruptcy.

My xxx pile of harrow chassis will help with that :)

[christopherbailey1967]

So's you don't go and blow your head clean off because you whipper snapper's don't know one end of the weapon from a hole in the ground!

[GunsForBucks]

Tennocon digital pack includes a special Baro room where you get to have access to everything he has ever sold.

It is in July I think so you have some time if you want to try then... but it cost $20

Typically you will see everything Baro has in about a 6 month cycle.

[No_Quarter]

Weapons are somewhat ranked by their combat effectivness by using Mr system.

Mostly on high end, like Mr12+ weapons are really strong and imo there is a logical reason why you are not able to get those before.

As for weapon blueprints, some drop from enemies, majority of blueprints can be found on market and in Dojo's labs while some are event weapons and invasion exclusives.

[No_Quarter]

Originally posted by GunsForBucks:

Typically you will see everything Baro has in about a 6 month cycle.

with most relevant things rotating in about 3-4 months, talking about prime mods ofc.