Rivens

What are these weird purple mods that tell you to do something first you may ask? Read on to find out.

These are very special mods that you can put on specific weapons.

You will get your very first riven mod after completing, “The War Within” quest.

These require you to do a certain challenge in order to unlock them.

Like with weapons and frames, these mods do have a Mastery Rank requirement that is attached in order to use them. The highest they can go up to is Rank 16 with the lowest being Rank 8.

The weapon that the riven is unveiled for is completely random and tied to a certain class of weapons shown on the veiled riven

• Rifle riven mods unveiled will be a weapon based off of that weapons class. For example, you may unveil a Braton riven because it is a rifle.

Veiled riven mods can be put on any weapon of its class until it is unveiled. You can only put it on the weapon that the mod is tied to.

You can use Kuva to roll the attribute bonus’ of the riven until you get the desirable stats to better empower effectiveness of your weapon.

You can only have a certain amount of rivens in your inventory, at which you have either purchase more slots with platinum, dissolve additional riven mods, or be locked out of Sorties until you have the room for more.

I’d consider riven mods in Warframe as a form of gambling as it really tests your luck. These are really meant more for the later stages of the game as they can really push weapons to a whole new level of power depending on the bonus’.

Riven Challenge Tips

Unveiled rivens require that you do a challenge in order to unveil them. These are completely random and thus vary in difficulty. Here are some tips that may help with certain challenges.

• For rivens that require you to kill Dargyn pilots before they hit the ground, you will need to go into the Plains of Eidolon during the day time. There will be Dargyn pilots that will get on their Dargyn and start flying around shooting at you once alerted.
  • This challenge is very easy with Ash as his first ability (Shuriken) will home in on them. Use this to take out their aircraft to make the pilot fall, and throw more shurikens as they are falling to kill them mid-air.
• For rivens requiring you to scan synthesis targets without using any abilities or traps, you will need to talk to Cephalon Simaris in a relay in order to activate the daily synthesis task. Locations of certain targets may be found here.
  • As synthesis targets tend to move around a lot if they detect you, scanning them without using abilities or traps will be difficult. One way to bypass this would be an invisible frame like Ivara. Just make sure that you are invisible BEFORE you encounter the synthesis target.
  •  Another way to do this challenge is to simply get near the synthesis target and bullet jump away from them as they will be knocked down, leaving you a small window of opportunity to scan them with ease.
  • Do be careful as Synthesis targets blend well with other groups of enemies. You can tell them apart if they have a blueish aura/outline/color scheme to them. They are also a bit tougher to kill than normal enemies that look like them.

For various other types of riven challenges, refer to this guide. Once again, riven challenges come in many different forms which would take me forever to cover in this guide. In addition, there are also many different ways to complete riven challenges.

Conclusion

I’ve covered what I can in this guide. Hopefully, this will help make your Warframe journey easier.

• One important tip is to make use of the Warframe wiki, which will give all of the information you may need to tackle whatever obstacle you encounter in the game.
• One last tip to help you get the hang of Warframe is to watch Youtubers who cover the game. My recommendations would be to check out Brozime, iFlynn, LifeOfRio, and AnnoyingKillah.

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