What makes a good riven? | Warframe 

This channel is so incredibly underrated great work you're probably the biggest reason I sticked to Warframe

If I were a bad riven, I wouldn't be sitting here discussing it with you now, would I?

BTW, your intro is absolute perfection. The music with the icon and the animation with the sound effect in the song. It's a masterpiece.

My God man every game needs a content creator like you, the care and depth in these guides is only outshined by how digestible you make all the info

epitaph is a tricky part as it can function as a: • aoe primer spam • slash convert oneshot • hybrid that primes for itself and other stuff, and slash convert oneshots for this I found a viral riven to be extremely useful to allow it to cover all 3 of these facets. plus the low disposition means stacking DPS related stats on the riven doesn't do much

I honestly still value direct damage on my bow weapons and their rivens, especially if it combos with another stat that is either generally good or benefits that specific bow. It’s nice to have just a bit of base damage before the arcanes start working on the steel path to help secure those first kills, especially if it replaces another mod or provides an essential utility

I think it really depends on the weapon as to what you want. For example on the MIGHTY SEER you want extra zoom. They're one of the best things in warframe imo but older weapons need to have vasty better rivens to make them good enough to meet the original purpose of rivens

I always appreciate the accurate and concise format your videos are in. It suits well to both new players and intermediate players. As someone who struggles to find a concise way to break down the fundamentals of the game to newer friends, this video will serve as a VERY useful tool in guiding them. Thank you 🙏🏻

Absolute gem of a channel. 4k+ hours and still learning thanks to this channel.

thank you for mentioning the other 3 uses for rivens, most riven dealers act like everything that isnt +multi +crit +crit -zoom are absolutely useless

Great guide but 1 thing you left out in many people’s opinion is that to fully outtake a low disposition weapon’s riven, you definitely need a Majorly non impactful negative, take for example a Rubico riven having low disposition, you can have damage, CC and then -reload etc, this can be countered by arcane momentum which you use the rubico prime for eidolons let’s say, having a negative will greatly increase a weapon’s original riven stats

I managed to get a god roll riven for the Nataruk: + crit damage, + multishot, -ammo maximum. Love getting that negative on infinite ammo/battery weapons.

If the disposition is lower than around 0.7 the main use of a riven mod is utility, getting toxin and cold + something else on the same mod to save room. Otherwise they are never worth using.

Remember people, don't buy 1 disposition mods. They'll cost you an arm and a leg, and improve the gameplay of the weapon by a fraction too small to notice in most cases.

Very good information, even with all the caveats - that's just because they're are so many unique cases like the Javlok throw dealing damage based on magazine capacity. The one thing I will say that was missed - an important note about +damage rolls: status proc damage per tic is often not modified by anything other than this stat. In other words many status builds will do more damage over all with +damage. Particularly slash. Since not even adding slash damage increases slash procs. Only +damage. This will likely never matter - I just thought it was information worth including.

With the addition of galvanized mods and weapon arcanes, a lot of my rivens got powercreeped and it now takes longer to roll for better stats.

If it works, it works. Range and speed on my Anku riven with additional combo and speed mods... Fastest weapon I have, the animations can hardly keep up, as it moves as fast as I can click. I'd say it's damage output is moderate, nothing past lvl120, but it's fun.

I have a Twin Kohmak riven with with fire rate and multishot. While its not the best riven its really fun to just spew tons of lead into the enemy. The true best riven is the one you have most fun with.

This video spent a lot of time on stats, but I think there are a few even more important factors. Disposition is everything. 0.5 disposition means you spend thousands on a riven that is probably not noticeably better on the meta weapon you are using. 1.5 is great, but lots of weapons are so abysmal that no modding can make it competitive. The real dream is an underutilized weapon that is actually fantastic. Dakra Prime is a great example. Its a top melee weapon even without a riven, but the disposition is surprisingly favorable (1.1).

I find that +Impact is a direct damage multiplier for Slash Conversion Weapons that run Hemorrhage or Internal Bleeding. There is an edge case for Mutualist Cernos, actually. To date, it's one of my biggest dps increasing Rivens solely because the +Impact makes it slash that much more reliably. Its Crit Chance isn't the greatest for Hunter Munitions, but you still want Hunter Munitions because the gas clouds can't slash without it. In this instance, the increased in +Impact on an already impact heavy weapon is not just a raw damage increase, it weighs the impact status chance to get consistent powerful bleeds because you get most of your viral from the Mutualist clouds rather than the actual arrows. Viral-Munitions from the weaker clouds will bleed out weaker enemies, while Internal Bleeding will bleed out heavy units. It's one of the only weapons that would run both because of how it works, and it's one of the few weapons that needs to save that much more space with a riven. +Impact still works to a lesser extent on certain weapons aside from that one. If they ever buff puncture, a +Puncture riven will be fine too, and I imagine the same principle would apply. As a forward thinking investor, I would advise any Puncture Heavy weapons to hold onto their +Puncture rivens, just in case.

The most important thing, as Keengineer said, is the purpose of the riven for the build of the weapon. Also if your riven can cover some slots for your other mod then it's really a win imo Like my main melee weapon have +range and +fanction dmg that make me can easily replace reach and bane mod for something else

I actually like having the damage on a riven because it makes the weapons more consistent. Because I really hate shooting something in steel path and it not dying until I have arcane stacks. For merciless weapons I like having a BIT of frontliaded damage to help kickstart me to the max. For dexterity weapons tho I agree.

I've found that status duration can be of particular value on secondaries more so than other weapon classes if your playstyle makes that stat feel helpful, because the normal mods for status duration are so bad (Two mods that each give 30%, compared to 100% on rifles and 110% on melee). I don't run it on my Ferrox riven, even though that's one of the few ways to increase the status reliability on the throw (since the status chance there is unaffected by status chance mods), simply because continuous misery gives me enough and I get more value out of having different positive stats on the riven. You could in theory make the same argument for shotguns, since lingering torment also only gives a meager 30% status duration bonus, but if you're running a shotgun you're typically not using that as a primer for another weapon in my experience. (Though of course, you might choose to do so with something like the Cedo or Phantasma.)

I rolled cold and toxin on an arca plasmor riven. That was a boon for my lazy af Profit Taker set up, which uses a tenet plasmor with magnetic damage as its element. If PT sheilds roll to that, viral or Radiation it's one shot and it auto rotates to the next element.

o shit, a new video, love your stuff!

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Rivens are something I never understood in this game, I do some rolling, get stats that I think are good, show it to my clan leader (a veteran), he says its trash, I roll again, rinse and repeat.

This vid especially needs to be pinned in many places as a reference to give people for when people ask for riven advice. Best thing you can do is just get em edumicated.

Thanks for the detail explanation I learn a lot about riven awesome video

Funny I've been asking around on reddit what makes a good riven since I'm still new to it and then you upload this.

No love for elemental rivens? Elementals are very good since most weapons need at least two of them, and since they have diminishing returns, it's a good choice over a second elemental mod. Also there is no galvanized elemental mod, which makes it a better choice than many +damage, +multishot of +crit chance rivens!

I searched for a league riven guide and got this instead no regrets

Hey! It's Apolesse! I just requested a video on this. You are amazing!

I've got such a weird riven for my vaykor marelok but I love it. It's got +slash,+crit chance, +damage to corpus, and -magazine capacity. You'd think magazine capacity on a pistol with a relatively low magazine anyway would be a bad thing, but nope. I've found simply putting primed Quickdraw on it actually results in me attacking faster with the riven on than I do with Primed Quickdraw+gunslinger combined. It's such a strange interaction but I love it. I don't get to nerd out about how weird and cool my marelok riven is very often, so I wanted to share it here and ask if anyone else has had some super wacky riven interactions with any other weapons. Rivens unlock so much weird stuff

Your videos are so great. Thank you for awesome content.

The best rivens are the ones that make weapons do things that they aren't really designed to do. My dread is a shotgun now! Sure, i could be boring af and roll if for cc and cd with - impact for max boring town. But I love it as a unlimited range 6 pellet shotgun with 2.5 meters of punch through.

I like this video of slow projectile Riven, because is literally a spectacle of bullets in slow motion and fill a camp XD

Don't forget about negative multishot. It's great for "meme rivens"

hell yeah another kengineer video

I have a lot of rivens (over 60) from which only one is my fav, a glaive riven with cc, cd and -attack sperd. That shit is insanely good

I think for the best possible riven is it must have 3 positives that focused stats that works with the weapons primary build while it's negative can effect 1 of 2 thing 1 can take away from a stat that can be easily rebuilt 2 can take away a stat that's useless to the weapon like crit weapon don't have much use for status

You forgot the fifth way to use a Riven: Memes. Zita Wup is very good at this.

I got a zaw riven with 200% impact and I use shattering impact with it. Currently 2 hits to completely strip acolyte armor and it’s not fully ranked yet

Me realizing that i don't need a riven to make a good build on weapon (there are exceptions) and for some reason i get almost god rolls when i'm bored, the worst part i don't use rivens

Vectis and Grakata are 2 oddball.

Multi shot always makes me say "that's 65 percent more bullet per bullet" cause I'm old and boring.

I got a huge combo duration increase for my vastilok that I use on baruuk

Ah reminds me of the days when I played with my soma prime and its riven, poor soma prime how the game has changed.

My personal favorite kind of riven is meme ones. Like increased fire rate on my prisma grakata

please post videos only how to play solo disruption like you did in this

Edge case for +Impact: Hemorrhage. If a weapon is barely failing to meet the requirements to run Hemorrhage, a +Impact riven CAN be useful, but this is only on secondaries.

Can there be negative magazine capacity on a Vectis riven?

this is cool and all, but how do I calculated the riven values onto the functional values, ie riven for kohm with +100% crit chance and +80 heat and I put it on the kuva kohm what stats would I get

Grineer dmg on rivens is one of the best stats bcz of most people go vs grineer missions at high level missions

Direct damage is one of the best stats to have on an Eidolon hunting sniper like rubico prime or Vectis prime. Direct damage only loses value where arcanes and galvanized mods/CO take over.

I have a God Roll Serro riven, +CC +CD +DMG and -CC on slide. Only 1 roll. I think that would count as a good riven.

Faction damage negative is a harmless one for stat stick rivens.

im interested in buying a bad riven with 0 re-rolls for cheap for my main weapon and the re-roll it until i get a good one. is that worth it?

They made some changes to cold and puncture and apparently puncture is now a decent choice on crit weapons

I've got a Riven that at base has +5.6% reload speed, +9.7% critical damage and +16.1% critical chance (re-rolled 3 times), and it goes on my vasto prime...I just don't know what to do with it

I recently pulled a fulmin riven with tox, damage, -ammo max(you know, that thing the fulmin doesn't have). It's a great roll with only 1 problem... that ammo max affects my secondary ammo. Not a problem really 20% is nothing for most weapons and nothing on the fulmin itself.

Got lucky getting +ammo, dmg,multi and -zoom on akarius riven

Luck/Plat and lots of red chili.

Hi... I'm kinda a vet player (2015-2019) i stopped playing around Dec 2019 and started playing again this month , i know how riven work and it's mission but i kinda forgot how to get a veiled riven also.... What's riven sliver how do you get it? And what to do about it to make it into an riven mod

-Damage -Crit chance -Crit Damage +Zoom

my firerate and reload riven on my twin vipers is one of the most op mods in the game

try and rolling a "godroll" utility riven, for example +mag size, +reload speed, +fire rate any- for an already good weapon, some guns fell so fucking good with this type of utility.

Been looking for a utility riven for the azima for my saryn for 2 years now. Finding a +Magazine/+Multishot/+Punch/-Fire Rate has been impossible. It's wild how many people give me crap for specifically looking for that roll. 😕 I wanna spread spores while eating pizza rolls don't judge me.

I have a Guandao riven with AS/CD/RANGE and negative chance for combo. People say the the beg is bad but in my own use it's barely noticeable while stacking and completely a nonissue when at 12x

Someone told me the polarity and MR effect the possible rolls on a riven, is that true? Like, for example, they said a Madurai polarity of atleast MR 10 is worth going for, and that my Vazarin polarity with MR 8 is useless. I kinda wanna believe it, because I'm nearly 300 rolls in, and no god roll.

I have this one ogris riven with status chance, damage and electricity is that good?

Kachow!

Basically a riven with good synergy, and RELATIVELY good stats. There is no definite answer.

Enjoying it.

The Market Though This is all good to know but the problem is convincing the Market of these things as well I can have an excellent Riven but no one wants to buy because everyone still thinks anything that's not Dam/MS is garbage....

Dang, what was that rubico build??

weapons have trade-offs. A good riven counteracts those negative aspects of the trade-offs, so it depends on the weapon. At least that is my strategy.

I'm just too lazy to find a good riven lol

I had a "fuck the Corpus" Gaze Riven for my first ever roll. It was status, toxin damage, and Corpus damage. I asked a friend if it was good and his response was "No. Give it to me."

This is a question that is often asked and rarely gets a solid answer: "Do rivens get higher stats when the mastery rank requirement of a riven is higher?" or it does not have to do with stats at all and it is only a mastery requirement?

What is a primer? Is it a prime version of the weapon?

The video was fantastic but I think you severely undersold the uses of getting an element or firerate. Typically you want a firerate mod and 99% of the time you also want at least one elemental mod. A riven can completely replace that mod to help make the desired combination while ALSO adding a good chunk of damage through crits, damage, faction, or multishot on top of doing what the replaced mod would have already. As im sure you know this I simply wanted to state that the importance of this cannot be ignored and your video largely failed to address it. It doesn't detract from the rest of the advice however.

Concerning status chance and therefore its damage.... is reaching 100% enough?

I have one locked, dont even know what it does 😅😓😢

Anyone totally know ALL OF THIS…but still watches these videos just incase?

Beats me idk how to get Rivens

didnt talk about status duration on rivens, literally shaking and crying rn

Just got a cedo riven with cold, toxin, multi shot -status duration. Any good?

a bit off topic but i have a question... where has seeker volley been moved? i farmed earth pretty well,then after 20 hours ,decided to scan the ships to see what i could get,because i wasnt getting what i wanted. only to find that the kosma ships dont drop seeker volley. scanning ships in my arkwing is kinda stupid.how come you guys didnt bitch to de about that? now im a johnny come latley and ...all the info is wrong. as for rivens...i roll them until they do something i want them to do.sometimes a riven that i might consider not gud,turns out to be very very gud. i try them out. for example i thought that negative travel speed on my cedo riven was bad.and i tried to compensate by upping my time with a mod.while building it out with forma.i had to remove that travel speed mod.when i put it back i noticed that my disc was actually doing less dmg.because it was going too fast. and it only cost me 250 p. if i have 2 dmg modifiers on and a negative,im happy. would i like crit crit dmg or a element on my bubonico riven? tea i guess but 30 rolls in and im not getting it.gonna have to settle,on two dmg modifiers and a negative. cheers if someone knows bout the seeker volley thing.send me a mess plz.

At 9:00 how is he using both the epitaph and the Glaive Prime??? I've never seen that before

Hi ken! Can u make a video about the galvanized status mods? Like galv aptitude. Its bugged right now and on some weapons it does multiplicative damage. I wouldd really love to know if just stacking base damage mods like serration is better than crit or bane mods

Nice

Meanwhile im using a stupid riven on my sarofang, combo chance, combo duration, initial combo lmaooo odd weapon means odd riven

Two years later I came by for a refresher only to disregard the video because I like my racist Sporathrix riven 😂

I always thought -zoom was harmless but one time i rolled it on a pretty good riven otherwise, and I hated it. Don't remember what weapon it was now, but I remember it threw off the whole feel of it and made the weapon feel awful. So I re-rolled and now if I get -zoom I refuse to keep it.

That's easy. If it increases your kps, it's good. If it doesn't, reroll that shit.

What makes a riven good, is exactly the type of build you are going for.

eidolon guide pls ;-;

I don’t wanna sound like I’m promoting but you price check my atterax riv for me in my latest, no on ps5/4 knows

I don't find this information helpfull much it seems like basic knowledge.I would rather know when i look at riven what is the main stat on that weopn I should be trying to roll for ie is it a status weapon is it a crit weapon .I was told to look at the highest stat on the weapon and go for that.Aint nonone taking in game so its hard to find any help.