Damage 2.0

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Damage (version 2.0) is a system that determines the damage done to a certain target by a given attacker. Damage results are modified by several mechanics – damage type modifiers (main content of this article), armor, critical hit bonuses, stealth bonuses, Warframe ability debuffs, body part modifiers, faction modifiers, and other sources of damage reduction – which are discussed below and on their respective pages.

All damage dealt by any weapon or ability belongs to a certain damage type, and every target has specific resistances and vulnerabilities to different damage types. In-game, enemy resistances and vulnerabilities can be seen in the player's Codex after scanning at least one enemy of a particular type or by aiming at an enemy using the Synthesis Scanner with the Data-Parse Widget. Exploiting enemy vulnerabilities and avoiding resistances by means of weapon selection and mod installation may significantly improve players' damage output.

Damage Display

Damage dealt from players to enemies is displayed on the HUD as numbers near the point of impact on an enemy. Damage dealt from enemies to players is displayed on the HUD both as a bent strip to indicate its direction of origin and as a reduction in shield or health hitpoints to indicate its quantity.

Each individual projectile or melee attack will display a single damage instance whose value is rounded to the nearest integer. Weapons with multiple projectiles like shotguns or rifles with Multishot will display a damage instance for each individual projectile. Weapons that fire continuously will display a damage instance at a constant rate depending on the fire rate of the weapon.

Damage indicators are color-coded using the following system (default UI colors):

• Damage appears by default in white (◼).
• Ability damage appears by default in purple (◼).
• Critical hits and stealth attacks are in yellow (◼).
• Orange crits, appear in orange (◼). These are stronger than yellow crits.
• Red crits, as their name suggests, appear in red (◼). These are stronger than orange crits.
• Damage against shields and overshields appears in blue (◼), regardless of other factors such as critical hits.
• Attempts to damage an invulnerable enemy appear in grey (◼).

Overview Table

These tables show damage type resistances and weaknesses of various Factions.

• All
• Grineer
• Corpus
• Infested
• Sentient
• Corrupted
• Tenno
• Murmur

Damage Type			Flesh	Cloned Flesh	Fossilized	Infested	Infested Flesh	Infested Sinew	Machinery	Robotic	Object	Shield	Proto Shield	Ferrite Armor	Alloy Armor	Indifferent Facade	Status
Physical	Impact		-25%	-25%					+25%			+50%	+15%				Stagger1)2)
	Puncture							+25%		+25%		-20%	-50%	+50%	+15%	+25%	–Damage
	Slash		+25%	+25%	+15%	+25%	+50%			-25%				-15%	-50%	-50%	Bleed
Primary Elemental	Cold				-25%		-50%	+25%				+50%			+25%		Slowdown
	Electricity								+50%	+50%					-50%	+25%	Tesla Chain Stun1)2)
	Heat			+25%		+25%	+50%						-50%				Burn DoT Panic1)2)3)
	Toxin		+50%		-50%				-25%	-25%		4)N/A	4)N/A				Poison: Toxin DoT
Secondary Elemental	Blast	Heat+ Cold			+50%			-50%	+75%					-25%			–Accuracy1)2)
	Corrosive	Electricity+ Toxin			+75%								-50%	+75%			–Armor
	Gas	Heat+ Toxin	-25%	-50%		+75%	+50%										Gas Cloud: Gas AOE DoT
	Magnetic	Cold+ Electricity										+75%	+75%		-50%		Amplified damage to shields Stops shield regen
	Radiation	Heat+ Electricity			-75%	-50%		+50%		+25%		-25%			+75%	+75%	Friendly Fire1) More damage to allies
	Viral	Cold+ Toxin	+50%	+75%		-50%			-25%							-50%	Amplified damage to health
Unique	True													4)N/A	4)N/A		-
	Void															+25%	Bullet Attract

• Flesh: Possessed by all Corpus humanoids, including humanoid Corpus bosses, Warframes, Specter (Tenno), Specter (Enemy) and Stalker. It is most damaged by the Infested faction.
• Cloned Flesh: Possessed by all humanoid Grineer and Corrupted of Grineer origin, including Corrupted Vor, all Grineer Archwing enemies and Locust Drone.
• Infested Flesh: Possessed by Undying Flyers, Volatile Runners, Mutalist Osprey, and Crawler-type enemies.
• Infested: Possessed by Juggernauts, Chargers, Runners, Leaping Thrashers, Leapers, and Deimos Therids.
• Infested Sinew: An Infested armor class possessed by the Hemocyte, most Deimos Infested enemies, and some Zealot enemies such as the Zealot Herald.
• Fossilized: Possessed by Ancient Disruptors, Ancient Healers, Toxic Ancients, Swarm-Mutalist MOAs, Tar-Mutalist MOAs, Boilers, Brood Mothers, Phorid, Lephantis, and Jordas Golem.
• Object: Possessed by Arc Trap, Explosive Barrel, Fan, Grate, Heat Generator, Infested Tumor, Mining Machine, Sensor Bar and Storage Containers.
• Alloy Armor: Possessed by Elite Lancers, Eviscerators, Bombards, Napalms, Grineer bosses, Corrupted Vor, Corrupted Lancers, Robotic Corpus bosses, Warframes and Stalker. It is most damaged by the Corpus faction.
• Ferrite Armor: Possessed by Lancers, Troopers, Seekers, Heavy Gunners, Commanders, all Grineer Archwing enemies, Corvette, Frigate, Carrier (Enemy), Gox, Locust Drone, all Grineer melee units, Corrupted Heavy Gunners, humanoid Corpus bosses, Specter (Tenno), Specter (Enemy) and  Rhino's  Iron Skin.
• Shield: Possessed by all regular Corpus units (except Locust Drone), Regulators, Grineer bosses, Orokin Drones, Corrupted Crewman, Corrupted Vor, Warframes, Specter (Tenno), Specter (Enemy). It is most damaged by the Grineer faction.
• Proto Shield: Possessed by all Corpus bosses, including Zanuka and Zanuka Hunter, Corpus Techs ,Nullifier Crewman, Corrupted Nullifier and Stalker.
• Machinery: Possessed by Rollers, Regulators and Latchers.
• Robotic: Possessed by all Corpus proxies (except Locust Drone), including proxy bosses like Ambulas and Zanuka.
• Indifferent Facade: Possessed by all all Murmur enemies.

^{1) Does not affect Bosses. | 2) Does not affect Rollers, Regulators, Latchers or Osprey. | 3) Does not affect MOAs. | 4) The damage associated bypasses these secondary protections.}

Damage Type			Cloned Flesh	Ferrite Armor	Alloy Armor	Machinery	Status Effect
Physical Damage	Impact		–25%			+25%	Stagger[1][2]
	Puncture			+50%	+15%		–Damage
	Slash		+25%	–15%	–50%		Bleed[1]
Elemental Damage	Cold				+25%		Slowdown
	Electricity				–50%	+50%	Tesla Chain Stun[1][2]
	Heat		+25%				Burn DoT Panic[1][2]
	Toxin					–25%	Poison DoT[1]
Combined Elements	Blast	Heat +  Cold		–25%		+75%	–Accuracy[1][2]
	Corrosive	Electricity +  Toxin		+75%			–Armor
	Gas	Heat +  Toxin	–50%				Gas Cloud
	Magnetic	Cold +  Electricity			–50%		Amplified damage to shields Stops shield regen
	Radiation	Heat +  Electricity			+75%		Friendly Fire More damage to allies[2]
	Viral	Cold +  Toxin	+75%			–25%	Amplified damage to health
Unique Types	True			N/A[3]	N/A[3]		-
	Void						Bullet Attract

• Cloned Flesh: Refers to all humanoid Grineer units, including bosses and Corrupted Vor. Is also possessed by all Grineer Archwing enemies and Locust Drone.
• Ferrite Armor: Possessed by Lancers, Troopers, Seekers, Heavy Gunners, Commanders, all Grineer Archwing enemies and all Grineer melee units.
• Alloy Armor: Possessed by Elite Lancers, Eviscerators, Bombards, Napalms, Nox, Grineer bosses, Corrupted Vor and the Stalker.
• Machinery: Includes Rollers, Regulators, Latchers, Turrets, Tusk Thumpers, and some Grineer Empyrean enemies.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} Does not affect Machinery-type enemies.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4} Does not affect Bosses.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} The damage associated bypasses these secondary protections.

Damage Type			Flesh	Shield	Proto Shield	Ferrite Armor	Alloy Armor	Robotic	Status Effect
Physical Damage	Impact		-25%	+50%	+15%				1)3)Stagger
	Puncture			-20%	-50%	+50%	+15%	+25%	–Damage
	Slash		+25%			–15%	–50%	-25%	3)Bleed
Elemental Damage	Cold			+50%			+25%		Slowdown
	Electricity						–50%	+50%	3)Tesla Chain 1)3)Stun
	Heat				-50%				2)3)Burn DoT 1)2)3)Panic
	Toxin		+50%	4)N/A	4)N/A			-25%	3)Poison DoT
Combined Elements	Blast	Heat +  Cold				–25%			1)3)–Accuracy
	Corrosive	Electricity +  Toxin			-50%	+75%			–Armor
	Gas	Heat +  Toxin	-25%						Gas Cloud
	Magnetic	Cold +  Electricity		+75%	+75%		–50%		Amplified damage to shields Stops shield regen
	Radiation	Heat +  Electricity		-25%			+75%	+25%	1)Friendly Fire More damage to allies
	Viral	Cold +  Toxin	+50%						Amplified damage to health
Unique Types	True					N/A[1]	N/A[1]		-
	Void								Bullet Attract

• Flesh: Consists of all Corpus humanoids including bosses like The Sergeant and Alad V. Also includes Drahks, Hyekkas, the Stalker and the Tomb Protector.
• Shield: Is possessed by all regular Corpus units, Regulators, Grineer bosses and Corrupted Vor. Is not possessed by Locust Drone.
• Proto Shield: Possessed by every Corpus boss (including Zanuka), Nullifier Crewman, Corpus Tech, Sniper Crewman and the Stalker.
• Ferrite Armor: Possessed by Corvette, Frigate, Carrier (Enemy), Gox, Locust Drone, Humanoid Corpus bosses and Oxium Ospreys.
• Alloy Armor: Possessed by Bursas, Corpus Robotic bosses.
• Robotic: Refers to all Corpus robotics including robotic bosses like Ambulas and Zanuka. Is not possessed by Locust Drone.

^{1) Does not affect Bosses. | 2) Does not affect MOAs. | 3) Does not affect Ospreys. | 4) Bypasses shields}

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} The damage associated bypasses these secondary protections.

Damage Type			Infested	Infested Flesh	Fossilized	Infested Sinew	Ferrite Armor	Status Effect
Physical Damage	Impact							1)2)Stagger
	Puncture					+25%	+50%	–Damage
	Slash		+25%	+50%	+15%		–15%	Bleed
Elemental Damage	Cold			-50%	-25%	+25%		Slowdown
	Electricity							Tesla Chain 1)2)Stun
	Heat		+25%	+50%				Burn DoT 1)2)Panic
	Toxin				-50%			Poison DoT
Combined Elements	Blast	Heat +  Cold			+50%	-50%	–25%	1)2)–Accuracy
	Corrosive	Electricity +  Toxin			+75%		+75%	–Armor
	Gas	Heat +  Toxin	+75%	+50%				Gas Cloud
	Magnetic	Cold +  Electricity						Amplified damage to shields Stops shield regen
	Radiation	Heat +  Electricity	-50%		-75%	+50%		1)Friendly Fire More damage to allies
	Viral	Cold +  Toxin	-50%					Amplified damage to health
Unique Types	True					N/A[1]	N/A[1]	-
	Void							Bullet Attract

• Infested: Refers to Juggernauts, Chargers, Runners, Leaping Thrashers, Leapers, and Deimos Therids.
• Infested Flesh: Consists of Undying Flyers, Volatile Runners, Mutalist Osprey, and Crawler-type enemies.
• Fossilized: Possessed by Ancient Disruptors, Ancient Healers, Toxic Ancients, Swarm-Mutalist MOAs, Tar-Mutalist MOAs, Boilers, Brood Mothers, Phorid, Lephantis, and Jordas Golem.
• Infested Sinew: An Infested armor class possessed by the Hemocyte, most Deimos Infested enemies, and some Zealot enemies such as the Zealot Herald.
• Ferrite Armor: Possessed by Juggernauts, Juggernaut Behemoth, Deimos Tendril Drone, Jordas Golem, Mutalist Alad V and Phorid.

^{1) Does not affect Bosses. | 2) Does not affect Osprey enemies.}

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} The damage associated bypasses these secondary protections.

Damage Type			Flesh	Robotic	Ferrite Armor	Alloy Armor	Shield	Status
Physical Damage	Impact		-25%				+50%	1)3)Stagger
	Puncture			+25%	+50%	+15%	-20%	–Damage
	Slash		+25%	-25%	-15%	-50%		1)Bleed
Elemental Damage	Cold					+25%	+50%	Slowdown
	Electricity			+50%		-50%		Tesla Chain 1)3)Stun
	Heat							Burn DoT 1)2)3)Panic
	Toxin		+50%	-25%			4)N/A	1)Poison DoT
Combined Elements	Blast	Heat+  Cold			-25%			1)3)–Accuracy
	Corrosive	Electricity+  Toxin			+75%			–Armor
	Gas	Heat+  Toxin	-25%					Gas Cloud
	Magnetic	Cold+  Electricity				-50%	+75%	Amplified damage to shields Stops shield regen
	Radiation	Heat+  Electricity		+25%		+75%	-25%	Friendly Fire More damage to allies
	Viral	Cold+  Toxin	+50%					Amplified damage to health
Unique Types	True				4)N/A	4)N/A		-
	Void							Bullet Attract

• Flesh: Includes Brachiolyst, Condrix, Orphix, and humanoid Amalgam enemies.
• Robotic: Includes most Sentient drones.
• Ferrite Armor: Includes most Sentient drones.
• Alloy Armor: Includes Sentient bosses Teralyst, Gantulyst, Hydrolyst, and Ropalolyst.
• Shield: Includes most Sentient drones.

^{1) Does not affect Ospreys, Drones. | 2) Does not affect MOAs. 3) Does not affect Corrupted Vor. | 4) The damage associated bypasses these secondary protections.}

Damage Type			Cloned Flesh	Flesh	Ferrite Armor	Alloy Armor	Shield	Proto Shield	Robotic	Fossilized	Status
Physical Damage	Impact		-25%	-25%			+50%	+25%			1)3)Stagger
	Puncture				+50%	+15%	-20%	-50%	+25%		–Damage
	Slash		+25%	+25%	-15%	-50%			-25%	+15%	1)Bleed
Elemental Damage	Cold					+25%	+50%			-25%	Slowdown
	Electricity					-50%			+50%		Tesla Chain 1)3)Stun
	Heat		+25%					-50%			Burn DoT 1)2)3)Panic
	Toxin			+50%			4)N/A	4)N/A	-25%	-50%	1)Poison DoT
Combined Elements	Blast	Heat+  Cold			-25%					+50%	1)3)–Accuracy
	Corrosive	Electricity+  Toxin			+75%			-50%		+75%	–Armor
	Gas	Heat+  Toxin	-50%	-25%							Gas Cloud
	Magnetic	Cold+  Electricity				-50%	+75%	+75%			Amplified damage to shields Stops shield regen
	Radiation	Heat+  Electricity				+75%	-25%		+25%	-75%	Friendly Fire More damage to allies
	Viral	Cold+  Toxin	+75%	+50%							Amplified damage to health
Unique Types	True				4)N/A	4)N/A					-
	Void										Bullet Attract

• Cloned Flesh: Includes Corrupted Lancer's, Corrupted Butcher's, Corrupted Bombard's, Corrupted Heavy Gunner's and Corrupted Vor's health.
• Flesh: Includes Corrupted Crewman's and Corrupted Nullifier's health.
• Ferrite Armor: Includes Corrupted Heavy Gunner's and Corrupted Butcher's armor.
• Alloy Armor: Includes Corrupted Lancer's, Corrupted Bombard's and Corrupted Vor's armor.
• Shield: Includes Orokin Drone's, Fusion Drone's, Corrupted Crewman's and Corrupted Vor's shield.
• Proto Shield: Includes Corrupted Nullifier's shield.
• Robotic: Includes Corrupted MOA's, Fusion Drone's and Orokin Drone's health.
• Fossilized: Includes Corrupted Ancients' health.

^{1) Does not affect Ospreys, Drones. | 2) Does not affect MOAs. 3) Does not affect Corrupted Vor. | 4) The damage associated bypasses these secondary protections.}

Damage Type			Tenno Flesh	Tenno Armor	Tenno Shield	Status
Physical Damage	Impact				–50%	1)Stagger
	Puncture				–50%	–Damage
	Slash				–50%	Bleed
Elemental Damage	Cold				–50%	Slowdown
	Electricity				–50%	Tesla Chain
	Heat				–50%	Burn DoT
	Toxin				2)N/A	Poison DoT
Combined Elements	Blast	Heat +  Cold			–50%	–Accuracy
	Corrosive	Electricity +  Toxin			–50%	–Armor
	Gas	Heat +  Toxin			–50%	Gas Cloud
	Magnetic	Cold +  Electricity			–50%	Amplified damage to shields Stops shield regen Energy Drain
	Radiation	Heat +  Electricity			–50%	–Accuracy Friendly Fire More damage to allies
	Viral	Cold +  Toxin			–50%	Amplified damage to health
Unique Types	True			2)N/A		-
	Void				–50%	Bullet Attract

• Tenno Flesh: Applies to all Warframes, Operators and Railjacks (Tenno).
• Tenno Armor: Applies to all Warframes, Operators and Railjacks (Tenno).
• Tenno Shield: Applies to all Warframes, Operators and Railjacks (Tenno).

^{1) Does not affect the Tenno. | 2) The damage associated bypasses these secondary protections, but in the case of  Toxin damage, it has -50% damage modifier against  Hildryn when she has overshields.}

Damage Type			Indifferent Facade	Ferrite Armor	Infested	Machinery	Status Effect
Physical Damage	Impact					+25%	Stagger[1][2]
	Puncture		+25%	+50%			–Damage
	Slash		-50%	-15%	+25%		Bleed[1]
Elemental Damage	Cold						Slowdown
	Electricity		+25%			+50%	Tesla Chain Stun[1][2]
	Heat				+25%		Burn DoT Panic[1][2]
	Toxin					-25%	Poison DoT[1]
Combined Elements	Blast	Heat +  Cold		-25%		+75%	–Accuracy[1][2]
	Corrosive	Electricity +  Toxin		+75%			–Armor
	Gas	Heat +  Toxin			+75%		Gas Cloud
	Magnetic	Cold +  Electricity					Amplified damage to shields Stops shield regen
	Radiation	Heat +  Electricity	+75%		-50%		Friendly Fire More damage to allies[2]
	Viral	Cold +  Toxin	-50%		-50%	-25%	Amplified damage to health
Unique Types	True			N/A[3]			-
	Void		+25%				Bullet Attract

• Indifferent Facade: Possessed by non-mechanical Murmur enemies.
• Ferrite Armor: Possessed by Rogue Culverins and Rogue Arcocanids.
• Infested: Possessed by Rogue Arcocanids.
• Machinery: Possessed by Rogue Culverin.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} Does not affect Machinery-type enemies.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4} Does not affect Bosses.
3. ↑ The damage associated bypasses these secondary protections.

Damage Types

Every weapon, ability or method of dealing damage is classified as one or more types of damage. Through mods or abilities, further types of damage can be added to attacks.

When multiple damage types are present on an attack, all of them will deal their respective amounts independent of each other, but only one damage number calculated from the combined value of the damage types will show.

With each shown damage value, there is also a chance of a Status Effect occurring; the likelihood of which type of damage this Status Effect is based on depends on the percent distribution of the damage types on the weapon.

Physical Damage

Most weapons' base damage is made up of a combination of three physical damage types: Impact, Puncture, and Slash. The overall physical damage of any given weapon is the sum of Impact, Puncture, and Slash damage. This is sometimes referred to as IPS.

Although most weapons have varying proportions of Impact, Puncture, and Slash, some weapons (such as the  Glaxion or  Phage) can have no physical damage at all. Other weapons (like the  Plinx or  Tysis) can deal a combination of physical and elemental, or combo elemental damage.

Unlike elemental, or combo elemental damage types which can be added via mods, physical damage cannot be added to weapons already lacking them. Weapons that do not have one or more components of physical damage are not affected by the respective Impact, Puncture, or Slash mods.

General damage increasing mods such as  Serration affect all the base damage types of a weapon. Additionally, Faction Damage Mods such as  Expel Grineer also affect damage as a total damage multiplier against the faction in question.

Primary Elemental Damage

Elemental Damage can be applied on top of a weapon’s base damage depending on what Elemental Mods are applied. There are four primary Elemental Damage types: Heat, Cold, Electricity, and Toxin.

A single primary Elemental Damage type can be applied alone, but if a second primary Elemental Damage type is introduced they will combine into a secondary Elemental Damage type.

Secondary Elemental Damage

Creating these secondary elements requires mixing two primary elements together.

Elemental Damage is applied in addition to a weapon's physical damage types.

Weapon Damage = (Impact + Puncture + Slash) + (Elemental Damage Types)

Note that a primary elemental damage type that has been combined into a secondary type will no longer be dealt to the weapon's targets, nor its status effect will be applied to the targets either. For example, a weapon dealing Blast damage that is created by combining Cold + Heat will no longer deal Cold damage or cause its Freeze effect, nor Heat damage or its Ignite effect to this weapon's targets.

Modding

Elemental Damage Combinations are made by following a mod placement hierarchy. This hierarchy is from closest to top left (first to be considered) to the bottom right (last to be considered) on the mod layout. Innate weapon elemental damages are considered the very last in any hierarchy, with one exception: some Kuva and Tenet weapons from Kuva Liches or Sisters of Parvos are capable of having two base elemental damages (one from the weapon, one from the Valence damage of the Progenitor Warframe that made the Lich/Sister). In these cases, whichever of the two primary elements comes first in this element order - Heat > Cold > Electricity > Toxin, or "HCET" for short - will be placed second to last in the element combine order, while the other primary element will be placed last in the combine order.

However, a weapon's innate elemental damage can be forced into a different position in the hierarchy (and thus be combined into a secondary element earlier) if the player has equipped a mod of the same element as the innate element. As well, when using multiple mods with the same element, the first position that element is placed in establishes its hierarchy and where it's combined.

For example, putting  Stormbringer on the top left slot of an  Amprex will change the position of its innate Electricity damage from last in hierarchy to first in hierarchy. Similarly, placing  Thermite Rounds earlier in the hierarchy before placing  Hellfire will still count the Heat damage where it was first placed.

A weapon's innate elemental damage will contribute to elemental combinations, as long as the combination has been established earlier in the hierarchy. It can also combine with the last uncombined elemental mod in the hierarchy to form a secondary element.

For example: when modding a weapon with Electricity such as the  Prova or the  Lecta, then adding Cold, Toxin, and Heat in 1, 2 and 3 respectively get: Viral (Cold + Toxin) and Radiation (Heat + Electricity).

In the case of Riven Mods where there is more than one elemental stat present, the hierarchy priority will be given to the last elemental stat listed on the Riven mod. For example, a Riven mod with a bonus of +100% Electricity damage first and +90% Toxin damage last, will enable the Toxin damage to combine with an elemental mod higher up in the hierarchy, and the Electricity damage will combine with an elemental damage type lower in the hierarchy. If no other elemental damage mods are present, the elements on the Riven mod will combine with itself.

Weapons with innate secondary elements such as  Ogris (Blast),  Penta (Blast),  Stug (Corrosive),  Nukor (Radiation) and  Detron (Radiation) will always have that damage type, regardless of mods used. On weapons like these, basic elemental damage mods will combine and function independently of the innate secondary elements, as basic elements cannot combine with a weapon's already combined innate damage type. Kuva Lich Weapons and Tenet Weapons will follow this behavior too. For example, a  Tenet Detron (Radiation) can come with an additional Electricity Progenitor damage bonus that will not add onto the innate Radiation damage.

Possible Combinations

Except for weapons with innate secondary elemental damage, it is impossible to add more than two elemental damage types on a single weapon, because there are only four types of primary elemental damage and every two types of primary damage will be automatically combined into a secondary type. Because of this mechanic, the following combinations of added elemental damage are possible on a single weapon:

Unique Damage

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These damage types are unique as they are not available as base damage types for any typical weapons nor can they be added through mods.

Damage Type	Damage Type Internal Name	Description	Status Effects	Status Effect Internal Name
Finisher	DT_FINISHER	A damage type that can be applied through finishers. Ignores armor's damage reduction and has neutral modifiers.	N/A	N/A
Void	DT_RADIANT	A damage type that can be used by the Operator after completing The War Within or by players controlling the Warframe  Xaku. It possesses special properties and effects against Sentient enemies while being neutral to all health/shields/armor classes except for Indifferent Facade, which takes 25% more damage from Void damage.	Bullet Attract: A 2.5 meter radius field will be centered around where target is shot at for 3 seconds, redirecting all bullets and projectiles to its center.	PT_RADIANT
Tau	DT_SENTIENT	A damage type unique to the energy attacks of Sentients.	N/A	N/A
Cinematic	DT_CINEMATIC	A damage type that can be applied through Slash procs. Ignores armor's damage reduction and has neutral modifiers.	N/A	N/A
Shield Drain	DT_SHIELD_DRAIN	A damage type that can be applied through certain Warframe abilities.	N/A	N/A
True	DT_HEALTH_DRAIN	A damage type that can be applied through certain Warframe abilities and some weapons. Only applies to health and overguard, and bypasses armor's damage reduction.	N/A	N/A
Energy Drain	DT_ENERGY_DRAIN	Applied by Magnetic procs and Ancient Disruptor's aura. Drains energy equal to the damage dealt. Unaffected by most sources of Damage Reduction.	N/A	N/A
Suicide	DT_SUICIDE	Special damage type applied by typing /kill?	N/A	N/A
Physical	DT_PHYSICAL	Possibly a generic wrapper class for physical damage.	N/A	N/A
Base Elemental	DT_BASE_ELEMENTAL	Possibly a generic wrapper class for primary elemental damage.	N/A	N/A
Compound Elemental	DT_COMPOUND_ELEMENTAL	Possibly a generic wrapper class for secondary elemental damage.	N/A	N/A
Any	DT_ANY	Unknown	N/A	N/A
Invalid	DT_INVALID	Unknown	N/A	N/A

Empyrean

Empyrean gamemode and Railjacks use a slightly altered system of the currently existing damage system. Archguns and Archmelees deal 90.91% (10/11) reduced damage to space enemies (or 9.09% of its arsenal damage) while Railjack Armaments and Tactical mods deal their full listed damage to them before accounting for hit point resistances and vulnerabilities.

Primary physical and elemental damage types have different status effects against space enemies outlined in the chart below. Secondary elemental damage types (Blast, Corrosive, Gas, Magnetic, Radiation, and Viral) do not have altered status effects and cannot proc against space enemies, but Archguns and Archmelees modded for secondary elementals will still increase total damage.

This system does not apply to on-foot enemies, such as Ramsled boarding parties, and Crewship and Points of Interest personnel, who will take damage and status as per normal.

Conclave-Specific (PvP)

Main article: Conclave#Damage Mechanics

Status Effect

Main article: Status Effect

A Status Effect, also known as proc, is an additional effect that may be triggered at random by a hit from a weapon, while Status Chance is the probability that a hit will inflict a Status Effect. Each damage type has a unique Status Effect associated with it.

It is a common misconception that status effects determine the damage type dealt to the enemy when in fact a weapon will always (with every shot) deal any elemental and physical damage installed, regardless of the corresponding status triggering or not. In other words, status chance/effects are independent from the actual damage types dealt.

Damage Over Time

Damage over Time (DoT) is a type of damage dealt to targets over a duration. Throughout the duration, a target will take "ticks" of damage periodically. These ticks of damage will sum to be the total damage dealt over the duration, which is the value described when referring to DoT.

For example, when an ability is described to deal 600 damage per tick and it ticks twice per second, it means the ability will deal 1,200 damage per second. Or more concisely, the ability has a DoT of 1,200.

Tick rates vary across DoT sources. In the example above the tick rate was 2s^-1, which is a common rate for DoT from Warframe abilities. But in the case of a Bleed DoT, damage ticks 6 times over a 6 second duration. This results in a tick rate of 1s^-1, and the same applies to all DoT from Status Effects. If the tick rate does not divide into the total duration evenly, the total number of ticks dealt is rounded down. For example, with a tick rate of 2s^-1 and a total duration of 3.4s, the first tick will occur at 0 seconds, with each subsequent tick occurring every 0.5 seconds until 3 seconds have passed. The last tick occurs here because the 3.4 second duration ends before the next tick can occur at the 3.5 second mark. As such, the total number of ticks that occurred is 7. More generally, this can be expressed as:

${\displaystyle { \text{Total Ticks} = \lfloor \text{Tick Rate} \times (\text{Duration} - \text{Delay Time}) \rfloor + 1 }}$

Altering the total duration does not affect the tick rate of the DoT, it will only affect the total number of ticks dealt, and in turn, the total damage dealt. For example, at base Slash procs have a tick rate of 1s^-1 and a duration of 6 seconds. If the duration is increased to 7.8s, the total number of ticks then becomes floor(1 × (7.8 - 1)) + 1 = 7.

For the sake of damage calculation, DoT will hit enemy torsos or their torso-equilvalent. The targeted Enemy Body Parts will differ from enemy to enemy, but DoT will be affected by any damage multipliers on the enemy's torso. Note that any DoT will still inherit the headshot multiplier bonus if the initial shot that procs the DoT damages the enemy's head.

Damage Calculation

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Include a more nuanced look at damage when accounting for status chance and status effects that increase damage dealt and/or reduce target's armor

The following explains how a certain amount of damage of one type turns into actual inflicted damage to a target, considering type modifiers and armor. Faction modifiers, body part modifiers, critical hit and stealth modifiers, as well as Warframe debuffs, are disregarded for now, since all of these are independent of damage types.

Quantization

Dealing damage is quantized. Meaning, rather than the damage being applied smoothly, physical and elemental damages round to the nearest multiple of 1/16th of their attack's base damage, before being multiplied further.^[1][2] This is likely done for performance reasons since damage values are calculated and relayed between clients in real-time. Rather than communicating a lengthy integer of each element's value, only one "Total" integer along with short representative multiples of 1/16th need to be communicated.

${\displaystyle { \text{Quantum} = \text{Modded Base Damage} \div 16 } }$

For each damage type that a weapon deals, the base damage for that damage type will first be divided by the quanta, rounded to the nearest whole number, and finally multiplied by the quanta. This quantized value will be used in the mission's damage calculations. The final damage seen by in-game damage pop-ups are further rounded to a whole number.

${\displaystyle {{\text{Quantized Damage Type Value}}=({\text{Total Damage Type Value}}\div {\text{Quantum}}\quad ({\text{Rounded to nearest whole number}}))*{\text{Quantum}}}}$

1. For example, if you have a weapon with a listed damage distribution of 30 Impact, 30 Puncture, and 40 Slash, the total damage is 100.
2. The value of a quantum will then be 100 ÷ 16 = 6.25.
3. The amount of Impact damage dealt by the weapon will then be 30 ÷ 6.25 = 4.8 rounded to the nearest whole number, multiplied by the quantum: 5 × 6.25 = 31.25. This process is applied to Puncture and Slash as well, yielding 31.25 and 37.5 respectively.
4. As such, when damaging a Charger, which has a +25% bonus to Slash damage due to having Infested health, the total damage dealt to the Charger will then be 31.25 + 31.25 + 37.5 × (1 + 25%) = 109.375 (the game will display the rounded value of 109).

• Note that while in this case the weapon's total damage after the conversion remained the same (at 100), mixed-type weapon damage is frequently gained or lost by the conversion.

Damage mods such as  Hornet Strike, Faction mods such as  Bane of Grineer, and any other multipliers only multiply final quantized values and do not affect the quanta or damage composition.

If a physical or elemental mod is applied, their bonuses are also quantized.

1. The value of the example quanta will still be 100 / 16 = 6.25. Elemental and Physical bonuses do not affect the quanta.
2. If  Maim was used, for example, the Slash bonus calculates seperately using the base portion of slash, and adds to the total: round( 40 × 1.2 ÷ 6.25 ) × 6.25 = 50.
3. The damage distribution would then be 31.25 Impact, 31.25 Puncture, and 37.5 + 50 = 87.5 Slash.
4. Elemental bonuses calculate using the full base damage, are rounded to the nearest 1/16th of the base damage and added to the total.
5. Elements formed by a sum of mods and bonuses quantize their sum alone. For example, if 90% Cold combined with 90% Toxin, or 90% modded Radiation combined with 90% of  Smite Infusion, these types would count seperately as a sum of their final element (180% Viral, or 180% Radiation), each rounded to the nearest 1/16th of base damage, and finally added to the quantized total.

• Applying the math fully:  Nagantaka Prime with  Cryo Rounds,  Malignant Force,  Hellfire,  Piercing Caliber and Gas  Valence Formation in that order deals:
  • Quantum (Q) =  173 ÷ 16 = 10.8125
  • Elemental and Physical Quantization:
    • round[ ( (  90%  Cold +  60% Toxin ) × 173 ) ÷ Q ] × Q = 259.5 Viral
    • round[ (  90% Heat × 173 ) ÷ Q ] × Q = 151.375 Heat
    • round[ (  120% Puncture × 15.6  Base Puncture ) ÷ Q ] × Q = 21.625 Puncture
    • round[ (  200% Gas × 173 ) ÷ Q ] × Q = 346 Gas
  • Base Quantization:
    • round[ 1.7 Impact ÷ Q ] × Q = 0 Impact
    • round[ 15.6 Puncture ÷ Q ] × Q = 10.8125 Puncture
    • round[ 155.7 Slash ÷ Q ] × Q = 151.375 Slash
  • Total: 0 Impact + 10.8125 Puncture + 151.375 Slash + 259.5 Viral + 151.375 Heat + 21.625 Puncture + 346 Gas = 940.6875 Damage
    • Note that the Impact value of Nagantaka Prime is so low that it will not register during attacks, rounding to 0 in the process.
    • Applying  +Damage,  +Faction or any other non-elemental bonus multiplies both the base value of rounding numerator and Quanta of rounding denominator, and therefore is a simple multiplier to any quantized total.

Trivia

• Hitscan weapons do not quantize against object health such as Nullifier Bubbles and Zephyr Tornadoes. Projectiles however will be quantized. This characteristic has been used to determine damage compositions not disclosed in-game, so they can be presented here in the wiki.

Unarmored Enemies

Against unarmored enemies or when applying True damage, the formula is simply:

${\displaystyle { \text{Inflicted Damage} = \text{Starting Damage} (1 + \text{Health-type Modifier}) } }$

• Inflicted Damage (ID) is the final damage result of a particular damage type.
• Starting Damage (SD) is the initial damage value of a particular damage type, modded or not.
• Health-type Modifier (HM) is the damage modifier against that health type (may be shields or health).

To make it independent from the amount of base damage:

${\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}{\text{Damage Modifier}}&=1+{\text{Health-type Modifier}}\\{\text{Inflicted Damage}}&={\text{Starting Damage}}\times {\text{Damage Modifier}}\end{aligned}}}$

• Damage Modifier (DM) is the total damage modifier. An amount of damage of that type (SD) against that enemy will then always be multiplied with this factor (DM).

Armored Enemies

Against armored enemies, the formula is:

${\displaystyle { DM = \frac{300}{300 + AR(1 - AM)}(1 + AM)(1 + HM) } }$

Where in addition to the previous definitions, AM is the damage modifier against the armor type and AR is the target's armor after all reductions from debuffs (e.g.  Corrosive Projection, Corrosive procs, and  Terrify).

Note that from the formula above damage type modifiers directly affect the value of the armor as well as damage. Positive armor modifiers will reduce the effective armor by the percentage value, which is commonly thought of as that damage type essentially ignoring some of the armor. Conversely, negative armor modifiers will increase the effective armor by the magnitude of the percent value. Because of this, damage values see larger changes from armor than intuition may lead one to think since both the damage itself is affected as well as the damage mitigation caused by armor. So in many cases, it is more important to consider armor modifiers before health modifiers.

It is important to emphasize that type modifiers against armor work in two ways here:

• Mitigate or enhance a percentage of the target's armor (represented by AR(1 - AM) in the above equation)
• Increase or decrease the damage dealt in the same way as a type modifier against the hit points would do (represented by (1 + AM))

Practically speaking, this means that Corrosive damage is only reduced by 25% of a target's whole Ferrite Armor and the base damage is increased by +75%. The formula also causes a massive difference between a medium and a large reduction: 75% reduction (¼ original armor) is essentially twice more than 50% reduction (½ original armor). Thus, having the damage type with the highest appropriate bonus is far more important against armored than unarmored targets.

Comparing Damage Type Modifiers on Armored Enemies

Since certain damage types can ignore armor while being reduced by them, a simple (1 + HM) × (1 + AM) calculation yields incorrect results. For example, the following damage type pairings deviate from that simplified calculation (ignoring status effects):

• Against ferrite-armored cloned flesh (e.g. Heavy Gunner):
  • Corrosive (+75% against Ferrite Armor) always surpasses Viral (+75% against Cloned Flesh).
  • Puncture (+50% against Ferrite Armor) surpasses Viral (+75% against Cloned Flesh) above 120 armor.
• Against alloy-armored cloned flesh (e.g. Bombard):
  • Radiation (+75% against Alloy Armor) always surpasses Viral (+75% against Cloned Flesh).
  • Puncture (+15% against Alloy Armor) surpasses Heat (+25% against Cloned Flesh) above 342 armor.
  • Cold (+25% against Alloy Armor) always surpasses Heat (+25% against Cloned Flesh).
  • However, neither Puncture (+15% against Alloy Armor) nor Cold (+25% against Alloy Armor) ever surpass Viral (+75% against Cloned Flesh).

This just shows that one cannot easily compare damage type modifiers against an armor class to those against health classes, and those against armor are, at similar values, considerably more effective especially when fighting high-level enemies (since armor scales with enemy level).

${\displaystyle { benefit_{AM} = \frac{2 + \frac{300}{AR}}{\frac{1 + \frac{300}{AR}}{AM} - 1} = AM + \frac{AR(1 + AM)}{300 + AR(1 - AM)}AM } }$

Exact relative damage bonus (i.e. benefit) of a non-zero armor modifier at a given target net armor value.

The relative damage bonus due to a damage type's armor modifier against armored health compared to no modifier can be quantified using the above expression. This is only defined for armor values greater than 0 because at 0, the armor type of the target is lost, such that the effect of the damage type's armor modifier is lost as well. Hence, the benefit (relative damage bonus) of the armor modifier at 0 armor is always 0.

${\displaystyle { \lim_{AR\to \infty} (benefit_{AM}) = \frac{2}{\frac{1}{AM} - 1} = \frac{2AM}{1 - AM} } }$

Limit for the benefit as armor approaches infinity (300/AR term resolves to 0).

An interesting property of this benefit function is that, while one would intuitively assume the benefit of the armor modifier gets always greater the greater the target's armor, this benefit actually converges against a limit as armor approaches infinity if the armor modifier is smaller than one (which is true for all damage types against all armor types with the sole exception of True damage). Since this limit is only determined by the armor modifier of the damage type itself, it is a practical metric to gauge the relative effectiveness of damage types for long endless missions.

Below is a table of the actual values for all currently implemented armor modifiers, illustrating the growing returns of greater armor modifiers, which may be compared to the behavior of  Corrosive Projection aura stacking.

Generalized Damage Modifier

A generalized version of the damage modifier formula is:

${\displaystyle { DM = \frac{300}{300 + AR(1 - AM)}\prod_i^k(1 + M_i) }}$

Generalized damage modifier formula for a specific damage type. The term following the capital pi operator (Π) simply means that this is a product, so all these bonuses stack multiplicatively. The notation replaces (1 + M₁) × (1 + M₂) × ... .

AR is still the target's armor after all debuffs (e.g.  Corrosive Projection, Corrosive procs, and  Terrify) have been applied, how these debuffs work is explained on the Armor page. AM is the damage type modifier against the armor class for a specific damage type. M_i for all indices i are all independent modifiers that are active, stacking multiplicatively with each other and are relative increases in damage (e.g. 2.5x damage would be represented as +150% or +1.5x). These include, but not limited to:

• Damage type modifiers against armor and health type
• Critical hit modifier (on average: critical chance × critical damage multiplier)
• Stealth bonus (only on normal attacks, the special melee stealth attacks are classified as Cinematic damage type and disregard armor)
• Enemy body part and hit zone modifiers (e.g. headshots)
• Damage multipliers against a particular faction from Faction Damage Mods,  Sentient Scalpel, or  Roar
• Damage multipliers from certain damage buffing Warframe abilities like  Eclipse (all independent of each other)
• Damage multipliers from certain mods like  Synth Charge and  Charged Chamber (all independent of each other)
• Damage multipliers from certain Warframe passives like  Garuda's or  Vauban's (all independent of each other)
• Damage multiplier from Sniper Rifle's shot combo counter
• Damage multiplier from Melee Combo for heavy attacks
• Damage multipliers from Stance combos
• Damage multiplier based on the Follow Through stat of melee weapons
• Damage multiplier from Unairu Wisp and  Virtuos Fury
• Damage multiplier from Void Strike
• Damage Falloff
• Special damage resistances that scale based on theoretical damage per second
• Sources of damage vulnerability like  Molecular Prime and  Detect Vulnerability (all independent of each other)
  • Includes Viral or Magnetic procs

In the case of enemies who have both shields and armor, damage to shields is not mitigated by armor. Lastly, when Toxin damage is applied to a shielded target, generally the damage is applied directly to its health, not shields (i.e. it bypasses shields). Some special enemies like Treasurer or Hounds cannot have their shields bypassed with Toxin damage however.

Final Calculations

Modded Stats

${\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}{\text{Modded Stat}}={\text{Base Stat}}\times (1+{\text{Stat Bonuses}})\end{aligned}}}$

Basic formula for calculating modded stats (e.g. critical chance) with the exception of accuracy, reload time, and charge time.

${\displaystyle \begin{aligned} \text{Modded Stat Time} = \frac{\text{Base Stat Time}}{(1 + \text{Stat Speed Bonuses})} \end{aligned} }$

Formula for calculating modded reload time and charge time.

Total Damage

The damage numbers displayed in the in-game arsenal calculate total weapon damage as such:

${\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}{\text{Arsenal Total Damage}}&={\text{Base Damage}}\\&\quad \times [1+{\text{Elemental Bonuses}}\\&\qquad +{\text{Unmodded Impact Distribution}}\times {\text{Impact Bonuses}}\\&\qquad +{\text{Unmodded Puncture Distribution}}\times {\text{Puncture Bonuses}}\\&\qquad +{\text{Unmodded Slash Distribution}}\times {\text{Slash Bonuses}}]\\&\quad \times (1+{\text{Damage Bonuses}})\\&\quad \times [{\text{Base weapon multishot}}\times (1+{\text{Multishot Bonuses}})]\end{aligned}}}$

This arsenal damage is the average non-crit damage per shot, without Faction Damage Bonus.

For melee weapons, remove multishot from the equation. It does not include Stance damage multipliers.

Theoretical total inflicted damage against an enemy can be calculated as such (ignoring quantization for simplification):

${\displaystyle {{\text{Total Inflicted Damage}}={\text{SD}}_{1}\times {\text{DM}}_{1}+...+{\text{SD}}_{N}\times {\text{DM}}_{N}}}$

Where SD represents the modded value of a particular damage type and DM represents the damage modifier for a particular damage type using the generalized damage modifier formula.

Gun Damage Per Second

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Burst-fire and mag-burst attacks (not simultaneous burst like  Quartakk which can be treated like semi-auto weapons) have a more complicated DPS calculation

When comparing the performance of non-melee weapons, it may be useful to calculate their theoretical damage per second (DPS) (without accounting for status effects) using the following formulas:

${\displaystyle {{\text{Normal Shot}}={\text{Total Damage}}\times [1+(\lfloor {\text{Modded Crit Chance}}\rfloor \times ({\text{Modded Crit Multiplier}}-1))]}}$

In the case where modded critical chance is over 100%, the lowest crit tier possible will be considered a normal shot. (e.g. if a weapon has 250% crit chance, the 100% for an orange crit will be considered a normal shot)

Note that ${\displaystyle \lfloor \qquad \rfloor}$ denotes a flooring function (rounding down)

${\displaystyle {{\text{Critical Shot}}={\text{Total Damage}}\times [1+(\lceil {\text{Modded Crit Chance}}\rceil \times ({\text{Modded Crit Multiplier}}-1))]}}$

In the case where modded critical chance is over 100%, the next crit tier possible will be considered a critical shot (e.g. if a weapon has 250% crit chance, the 50% for a red crit will be considered a critical shot)

Note that ${\displaystyle \lceil \qquad \rceil}$ denotes a ceiling function (rounding up)

${\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}{\text{Average Shot}}&={\text{Total Damage}}\times (1+{\text{Modded Crit Chance}}\times ({\text{Modded Crit Multiplier}}-1))\end{aligned}}}$

The average damage dealt on a single button input if all projectiles hit an enemy.

${\displaystyle { \begin{aligned} \text{Effective Fire Rate} &= \frac{ 1 }{ \text{Modded Charge Time} + \frac{ 1 }{ \text{Modded Fire Rate} } } \end{aligned} } }$

The lower the Fire Rate, the more delay between charge shots. If attack is not a charge trigger type (charge time is 0), then effective fire rate equals modded fire rate.

${\displaystyle { \begin{aligned} \text{Number of Shots Per Magazine} &= \frac{ \text{Modded Mag Size} }{ \text{Ammo Cost Per Shot} } \end{aligned} } }$

Not all weapons consume one ammo per shot; this is to account for cases such as Continuous Weapons

${\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}{\text{Average Burst DPS}}&={\text{Avg. Shot}}\times {\text{Effective Fire Rate}}\end{aligned}}}$

${\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}{\text{Average Sustained DPS}}&={\text{Avg. Burst DPS}}\times {\frac {\text{Number of Shots Per Mag}}{{\text{Effective Fire Rate}}\times {\text{Modded Reload Time}}+{\text{Number of Shots Per Mag}}}}\end{aligned}}}$

For the  Vectis and  Vectis Prime specifically, one (1) should be subtracted from the denominator to account for their lack of a reload delay.

For  Epitaph specifically, ignore Modded Reload Time since it draws ammo directly from the full ammo pool similar to bows, but does not "reload" between shots like them.

Assumes that damage ramp up is at max for Continuous Weapons.

Reload time is in seconds.

Reload time includes reload delay which is more prevalent for Battery Weapons. Reload delay for most weapons are negligible if not non-existent.

Melee Damage Per Second

When comparing the performance of melee weapons, it may be useful to calculate their theoretical damage per second (DPS) (without accounting for status effects) using the following formulas:

${\displaystyle {{\text{Normal Hit}}={\text{Total Damage}}\times [1+(\lfloor {\text{Modded Crit Chance}}\rfloor \times ({\text{Modded Crit Multiplier}}-1))]}}$

In the case where modded critical chance is over 100%, the lowest crit tier possible will be considered a normal hit. (e.g. if a weapon has 250% crit chance, the 100% for an orange crit will be considered a normal shot)

Note that ${\displaystyle \lfloor \qquad \rfloor}$ denotes a flooring function (rounding down)

${\displaystyle {{\text{Critical Hit}}={\text{Total Damage}}\times [1+(\lceil {\text{Modded Crit Chance}}\rceil \times ({\text{Modded Crit Multiplier}}-1))]}}$

In the case where modded critical chance is over 100%, the next crit tier possible will be considered a critical hit (e.g. if a weapon has 250% crit chance, the 50% for a red crit will be considered a critical shot)

Note that ${\displaystyle \lceil \qquad \rceil}$ denotes a ceiling function (rounding up)

${\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}{\text{Average Hit}}&={\text{Average Combo Damage Multiplier}}\\&\qquad \times {\text{Total Damage}}\times (1+{\text{Modded Crit Chance}}\times ({\text{Modded Crit Multiplier}}-1))\end{aligned}}}$

The average damage dealt on the first enemy hit by melee attack, not accounting Follow Through

See individual stance pages for average combo damage multipliers or go to Stance#Comparison

${\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}{\text{Average DPS}}&={\frac {{\text{Avg Hit}}\times {\text{Modded Attack Speed}}}{\text{Base Combo Length}}}\end{aligned}}}$

See individual stance pages for average base combo lengths or go to Stance#Comparison

Damage Over Time

${\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}{\text{Modded Damage}}&={\text{Modded Base Damage}}\\&\qquad \times {\text{Modded Multishot}}\\&\qquad \times (1+{\text{Faction Damage Bonuses}})\end{aligned}}}$

Total modded damage calculations used for DoT ignores elemental and physical damage bonuses.

${\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}{\text{Base Avg DoT}}&={\text{Modded Damage}}\\&\qquad \times (1+{\text{Faction Damage Bonuses}})\\&\qquad \times {\text{Total Ticks}}\end{aligned}}}$

Without accounting multipliers of specific DoT.

${\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}{\text{Avg Slash DoT}}&=0.35\times {\text{Base Avg DoT}}\\{\text{Avg Electricity DoT}}&=0.5\times (1+{\text{Electricity Bonuses}})\times {\text{Base Avg DoT}}\\{\text{Avg Heat DoT}}&=0.5\times (1+{\text{Heat Bonuses}})\times {\text{Base Avg DoT}}\\{\text{Avg Toxin DoT}}&=0.5\times (1+{\text{Toxin Bonuses}})\times {\text{Base Avg DoT}}\\{\text{Avg Gas DoT}}&=0.5\times {\text{Base Avg DoT}}\end{aligned}}}$

Individual calculations for each DoT proc. Keep in mind Slash DoT deals Cinematic damage, ignoring armor.

${\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}{\text{Total Avg DoT}}&=({\text{Slash DoT}}\times {\text{Slash Distribution}})\\&\qquad +({\text{Electricity DoT}}\times {\text{Electricity Distribution}})+\dots \\&\qquad +({\text{Gas DoT}}\times {\text{Gas Distribution}})\end{aligned}}}$

Multiply each DoT with the respective damage distribution (i.e. damage type / total damage) and add them together

${\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}{\text{Normal Total Avg DoT}}&={\text{Total Avg DoT}}\\&\qquad \times [1+(\lfloor {\text{Modded Crit Chance}}\rfloor \times ({\text{Modded Crit Multiplier}}-1))]\end{aligned}}}$

In the case where modded critical chance is over 100%, the lowest crit tier possible will be considered a normal shot. (e.g. if a weapon has 250% crit chance, the 100% for an orange crit will be considered a normal shot)

Note that ${\displaystyle \lfloor \qquad \rfloor}$ denotes a flooring function (rounding down)

${\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}{\text{Crit Total Avg DoT}}&={\text{Total Avg DoT}}\\&\qquad \times [1+(\lceil {\text{Modded Crit Chance}}\rceil \times ({\text{Modded Crit Multiplier}}-1))]\end{aligned}}}$

In the case where modded critical chance is over 100%, the next crit tier possible will be considered a critical shot (e.g. if a weapon has 250% crit chance, the 50% for a red crit will be considered a critical shot)

Note that ${\displaystyle \lceil \qquad \rceil}$ denotes a ceiling function (rounding up)

${\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}{\text{Avg Total Avg DoT}}&={\text{Modded Status Chance}}\\&\qquad \times {\text{Total Avg DoT}}\\&\qquad \times (1+{\text{Modded Crit Chance}}\times ({\text{Modded Crit Multiplier}}-1))\end{aligned}}}$

Accounting for critical hits, non-crits, and status chance for an average of total DoT averages.

Lifetime Damage

Lifetime damage is a derived damage stat that is based on the total amount of damage that a weapon can deal before it depletes its ammo reserve. Melee weapons, Battery Weapons or rechargable weapons, and Exalted Weapons (assuming Energy is always restored) will deal infinite damage over their in-game use since they are always available and are not reliant on ammo pickups or Squad Ammo Restores.

${\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}{\text{Average Lifetime Damage}}&={\text{Average Shot}}\times {\text{Number of Shots Per Magazine}}\times (1+{\frac {\text{Modded Maximum Ammo}}{\text{Modded Magazine}}})\end{aligned}}}$

The average total damage dealt by a weapon without switching weapons or replenishing ammo.

Enemy Damage Scaling

Main article: Enemy Level Scaling

The formula enemy damage scales at is as follows:

${\displaystyle \text{Damage Multiplier} = 1 + 0.015\times(\text{Current Level} - \text{Base Level})^{1.55}}$

Increasing Base Damage

• Primary
• Secondary
• Melee
• Archgun
• Archmelee

 Amalgam Serration

 Blaze

 Heavy Caliber

 Serration

 Point Blank

 Primed Point Blank

 Vicious Spread

 Arcane Rise

 Arcane Primary Charger

 Arcane Rage

 Primary Deadhead

 Primary Dexterity

 Primary Merciless

 Primary Plated Round

 Augur Pact

 Eximus Advantage

 Hornet Strike

 Magnum Force

 Arcane Awakening

 Arcane Precision

 Cascadia Flare

 Secondary Deadhead

 Secondary Dexterity

 Secondary Merciless

 Pressure Point

 Primed Pressure Point

 Sacrificial Pressure

 Spoiled Strike

 Arcane Blade Charger

 Arcane Fury

 Primed Rubedo-Lined Barrel

 Rubedo-Lined Barrel

 Sabot Rounds

 Cutting Edge

Financial Stress debuff

 Arcane Arachne

 Theorem Demulcent

Decreasing Base Damage

Having equipped an Extinguished Dragon Key reduces damage by 75%.

 Frail Momentum

 Hollow Point

Being affected by Puncture proc

 Shrapnel Rounds

 Vile Acceleration

 Anemic Agility

Media

Visual Effects

References

See Also

• Category:User_Research_(Damage)

Patch History

Damage Mechanics Edit
Offense		Attack Speed • Buff & Debuff • Critical Hit • Damage (Faction Damage Bonus, Positive Type Modifier, Quantization) • Damage Falloff • Damage Reflection • Enemy Body Parts • Fire Rate • Multishot • Punch Through • Status Effect
Defense		Armor • Damage Attenuation • Damage Reduction • Health (Healing) • Invulnerability • Negative Damage Type Modifier • Overguard • Shield
Damage Types
Physical (IPS)		Impact •  Puncture •  Slash
Elemental	Primary (HCET)	Heat •  Cold •  Electricity •  Toxin
	Secondary	Blast •  Corrosive •  Gas •  Magnetic •  Radiation •  Viral
Special		Tau •  True •  Void
Hidden/Internal		Cinematic • Energy Drain • Shield Drain
Status Effects
Physical		Knockback •  Weakened •  Bleed
Elemental	Primary	Ignite •  Freeze •  Tesla Chain •  Poison
	Secondary	Detonate •  Corrosion •  Gas Cloud •  Disrupt •  Confusion •  Virus
Special		Status Vulnerability •  Bullet Attractor
Effect Only		Big Stagger •  Disarmed •  Impair (PvP only) •  Knockdown •  Lifted •  Microwave •  Parried •  Ragdoll •  Silence •  Sleep •  Slow •  Stagger •  Stun
Shield, Armor, and Health Classes
Tenno		Tenno
Grineer		Grineer • Kuva Grineer
Corpus		Corpus • Corpus Amalgam
Infested		Infested • Infested Deimos
Corrupted		Orokin
Sentient		Sentient
Narmer		Narmer
Zariman		Zariman
The Murmur		The Murmur
Techrot		Techrot
Scaldra		Scaldra
Miscellaneous		Hit Points • Object • Overguard
Calculating Bonuses