Invasion Rewards: Same old chit?

[CazadorDeLobo]

There are hundreds upon hundreds of Karak Wraith, Dera Vandal etc on the market, and about 2 buy orders for either. I have a hunch without looking it up that these rewards have been in rotation for a very long time, and are rarely, if ever, swapped around with other Wraith weapons.

Is it time that new Wraiths or Vandals were added, and the existing ones made super rare?

[KAX]

Rotation rewards would help.

Would be a nice change of pace if ever 3 days or so the rewards swapped.

[Watermelons]

Originally posted by CazadorDeLobo:

and the existing ones made super rare?

That part is a bad idea, though replacing their place in the Invasion rewards tables would be great. But yeah they should make more Vandals and Wraiths. They said in the last devstream they wanted to make events more regularly since last year was unusually bad about it.

I liked the idea of Gorgon Wraith/Imperator Vandal locked behind the event replays of Razorback and Balor Fomorian, respectively. Unfortunately, the Imperator V has pitiful drop rates and the Gorgon Wraith is inversely way too easy to get.
They really should try and make regular repeats of many old events ( Anyone up for ye old Informant hunting? ), maybe make them more easily repeatable/grindable, and have them offer their old rewards but in parts, hence the repeatable grind since DE has to fit that where ever they can. Make the drop rates relatively even, not polarized like the aforementioned Invasion related Events. Maybe make some events drop more than one old weapon, since several events often led to their gameplay becoming outright new standard gamemodes/missions.

They could release a suite of new Vandals/Wraiths to replace the current ones in the Invasion tables if they don't want to make events for each and every one of them ( or god forbid split rewards like the Gradivus Dilemma ) or throwing them to Baro, because that would also suck.

Honestly though, I would mostly just like to see them reimplement many of the old Events into the current lore through Quests or something. For new players, since a lot of those old Events are basically just Warframe history despite often leaving lasting additions to the game as a whole. It isn't quite fair to new players to miss out on that lore, not to mention it leaves some things without context and therefore confusing.
If they were to implement old Events like this, maybe they could just make their old rewards ( or just their base blueprints ) drop and then have the ensuing repeatable Event missions drop the actual parts.

[CazadorDeLobo]

I'd enjoy if the invasion, crossfire, and defection modes/mechanics were all tied into each other, while existing defection nodes are removed from the standard star chart, only available as invasion missions and some nodes on Eris(due to it being overrun). But only if the AI pathing of allies gets fixed on infested tiles.

[CazadorDeLobo]

Originally posted by in:

Agree, adding more plat paywalls is a great idea and would totally benefit playerbase.

Lol wtf? Did you read the thread or just have a kneejerk reaction

[Nemund]

They dont need to replace them. Just reduce the drop rates of the other stuff a little and you have room in the rotation for multiple vandals.

[GunsForBucks]

Those of us with more time to kill need to keep in mind those who are casual and can't be here but for a few hours a week. It can take someone a long time to farm those already.

I don't mind the idea of making more weapons but adding to the drop pool of invasions I feel is a bad idea. Honestly I don't enjoy the invasions at all, beyond being buggy just being forced into the 3 mission cycle was annoying... hell I crafted my Felderon, Mutagen masses etc from the dojo BPs rather than do that. Paid plat for the frame rather than get those nav coordinates.

I do like the idea of adding in different missions for new weapons though.

[massgunner32]

We need more vandal weapons, the corpus side literally has two to offer compared to the several wraiths, i feel like they shoudn't have put so many with Baro ki'teer.