The Glaxion is a 
Corpus freeze ray which is the first primary weapon to feature 
Cold as its main damage type.
Characteristics
- This weapon deals Cold damage.
- Can use the Glaxion-exclusive
Photon Overcharge mod.
Advantages over other Primary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Pinpoint accuracy.
- Heavy Caliber's accuracy penalty is minimal on this weapon.
- Consumes 0.5 ammo per tick of damage.
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- High magazine (80)
- High ammo max (720)
- High fire rate (12.00 attacks/sec)
- High status chance (34.00%)
- Above average disposition (●●●●○ (1.30x))
Disadvantages over other Primary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Damage ramps up from 20% to 100% over 0.6 seconds when firing. After firing stops for 0.8 seconds, the damage decays back to 20% over 2 seconds.
- Limited range of 24 meters.
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Very low crit chance (8.00%)
- Below average reload speed (2.20 s)
- Very low total damage (26)
See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.
Comparisons:
Glaxion (Normal Attack), compared to 
Glaxion Vandal (Normal Attack):
- Lower base damage per projectile (26.00 vs. 29.00)
- Lower Cold damage ( 26 vs. 29)
- Lower
- Lower total damage (26 vs. 29)
- Lower base critical chance (8.00% vs. 14.00%)
- Lower base status chance (34.00% vs. 38.00%)
- Lower average damage per tap (28.08 vs. 33.06)
- Lower burst DPS (336.96 vs. 396.72)
- Lower sustained DPS (289.23 vs. 358.05)
- Smaller magazine (80 vs. 100)
- Less shots per magazine (160 vs. 200)
- Smaller max ammo capacity (720 vs. 800)
- Slower reload time (2.20 s vs. 1.80 s)
- Lower Mastery Rank required (8 vs. 12)
- Higher disposition (●●●●○ (1.30x) vs. ●●●●○ (1.25x))
- Lower base damage per projectile (26.00 vs. 29.00)
Comparisons:
- Glaxion (Normal Attack), compared to
Tenet Glaxion (Normal Attack):
- Lower base damage per projectile (26.00 vs. 34.00) (excluding any Progenitor bonus)
- Lower Cold damage ( 26 vs. 34)
- Lower
- Lower total damage (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (26 vs. 54.4)
- Lower base critical chance (8.00% vs. 20.00%)
- Lower base critical multiplier (2.00x vs. 2.20x)
- Lower base status chance (34.00% vs. 40.00%)
- Lower average damage per tap (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (28.08 vs. 67.45)
- Lower burst DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (336.96 vs. 809.47)
- Lower sustained DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (289.23 vs. 714.24)
- Smaller magazine (80 vs. 90)
- Less shots per magazine (160 vs. 180)
- Smaller max ammo capacity (720 vs. 810)
- Slower reload time (2.20 s vs. 2.00 s)
- Lower Mastery Rank required (8 vs. 16)
- Higher disposition (●●●●○ (1.30x) vs. ●○○○○ (0.60x))
- Lower base damage per projectile (26.00 vs. 34.00) (excluding any Progenitor bonus)
Acquisition
The Glaxion's blueprint can be researched from the Energy Lab in the dojo.
| Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
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 20,000 |
 Fieldron1 |
 Circuits550 |
 Cryotic2,500 |
 Forma1 |
Time: 1 Day(s) |
Rush:  35
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 Market Price: 175
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 Blueprints Price:15,000
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Energy Lab Research 3,000
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5,000 |
 Fieldron Sample5 |
Circuits 100 |
Cryotic 2,500 |
 Gallium1 |
Time: 3 Day(s) |
| Prereq: Amprex | |||||
 x1  x3  x10  x30  x100
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This weapon can be sold for 
7,500.
Notes
- The Glaxion is capable of freezing enemies solid with sustained fire if it kills them. Enemies will progressively turn icy blue (spreading from the point of contact), and eventually become completely solid upon death. Frozen enemies can then be shattered by other attacks. This only applies to normal enemies such as Lancers, Crewmen, and MOAs - Ospreys will simply explode upon death.
- Even if the weapon is modified to have a non- Cold damage type (such as
Blast damage), the Glaxion will still freeze foes solid if it kills them. - Amusingly, it can freeze enemies with
Heat damage effects upon death, this effect is merely visual. - Whether or not they display frozen visuals, enemies killed by the Glaxion create two corpses due to the "shatter" death animation (though the extra corpse may not be visible.)
- Even if the weapon is modified to have a non-
- When combining elemental mods, the Glaxion's innate Cold damage is added last.
- The weapon requires a fair amount of Cryotic, obtained from Excavation missions, to build. This is probably due to the fact that the weapon fires an icy beam, with the Cryotic possibly fueling its ammunition.
Tips
- Enemies that are frozen solid will take at least 1 hit of damage from any source to be destroyed regardless on how much damage it is dealt. This can block powerful enemy projectiles such as Napalm and Bombard shots.
- Frozen corpses remain solid for 3 seconds before deteriorating which takes 5 seconds.
- Some enemy abilities still remain in effect while deteriorating such as a Nullifier Crewman's bubble, which will start to grow back while deteriorating.
Trivia
- The Glaxion is the first weapon to deal pure Cold damage.
- Concept art for the Glaxion was first seen in Devstream 22 alongside concepts for what would eventually become the
Grinlok, 
Marelok, and 
Attica. - The revolver-style cartridges on the Glaxion's body spin during firing, though the magazine is the small (battery) box behind the trigger
- Additionally, the Glaxion's barrel telescopes back and forth rapidly during firing, and collapses inward when holstered.
- Enemies who die by the weapon are frozen solid, much like Frost's
Avalanche ability, and shatter when hit by any weapon. This effect persists even if the Glaxion's Cold damage has been changed into another element.
- If frozen bodies are left alone for five seconds, the ice will thaw into nothingness.
- Glaxion bears similarity to the French word glaçon, meaning "ice cube" or "icicle".
- Corpus Targets sometimes use this weapon, along with a
Snow Globe shield from Arctic Eximus enemies. - The Glaxion's energy-syphoning beam is visually similar to the Proton Pack's proton stream from the Ghostbusters film series.
Verglas is a sentinel version of this weapon with identical stats.
Media
Glaxion in Codex.
A Corpus Crewman frozen solid using the Glaxion
Glaxion in Arsenal
Glaxion Skins
Patch History
Update 31.1 (2022-02-09)
- Converted the following weapons when used by enemies to PBR:
- Glaxion
Hotfix 30.6.1 (2021-08-10)
- Fixed Glaxion beam FX issues when used by Corpus enemies from a distance away.
Update 22.14 (2018-03-01)
- Fixed Beam weapons not being able to damage enemies (alive but in a ragdolled state) when being affected by certain ‘crowd control’ Abilities.
- Damage now ramps up over 0.6 seconds and after moving off target there is a delay of 0.8 seconds before it starts to decay over 2 seconds.
- All Beam weapons now start their Damage ramp up at 20% (instead of 10%).
- The Multishot chance should now apply more consistently with Beam weapons.
- Fixed Beam weapons continuously firing when quick Meleeing.
Hotfix 22.13.4 (2018-02-22)
- Increased the Beam weapon Damage ramp up time from 0.8 to 1 second.
- Fixed Beam weapon Damage ramp up not happening per target.
Hotfix 22.13.3 (2018-02-21)
- Perfect accuracy and high fire rate is balanced by limited range and damage ramping up from 10% to 100% over 0.8 seconds when firing and decays back to 10% over 1 second after stopping.
- Mastery Rank increased from 6 to 8
- Damage increased from 16.6 Cold per sec to 26 Cold per tick
- Fire Rate decreased from 20 to 12
- Status Chance changed from 35% per sec to 34% per tick of damage
- Critical chance increased from 5% to 8%
- Reload Time decreased from 1.5 secs to 2.2 secs
- Magazine size decreased from 300 to 80
- Max ammo lowered from 1500 to 720
- Ammo consumption decreased from 1.0 to 0.5 per tick of damage
- Aimed Zoom reduced from 2.23x to 1.8x
Hotfix 20.7.2 (2017-06-15)
- Adjusted the force feedback when firing with a controller.
Update 14.5 (2014-08-28)
- Introduced.
See also
- Glaxion Vandal, the Vandal counterpart.
- Tenet Glaxion, the Tenet counterpart.
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