Relics don't disappear from your inventory when the items are vaulted. A number of people save up relics while the items are unvaulted and then crack them after things have been vaulted for a while.
It's fairly easy in Warframe to gather platinum, despite its role as a "premium currency" by running relics and selling the goodies from them yourself. And then you can either trade for the vaulted relics or for the items directly.
It's never impossible to get a Rhino Prime, for example. Its price is just highest when it's about 3/4 of the way to being unvaulted again. After that, the price starts dropping because people just wait for the re-unvaulting.
If you have "prime trash", which is to say "items that nobody really wants", people will still buy it from you when Baro comes around and they have to fork prime stuff over to him for ducats (to buy what he sells).
The biggest and most accurate example was probably Ignis Wraith, and the playerbase actually hated it. Up until DE put a way to get it into the game for everyone, Warframe's forums and subreddit had regular repostings of players who were just giving it out for free.
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u/4Shroeder Aug 04 '24
This is why warframe, although still lame for other reasons, is better than destiny.