Here Comes the Pain: Warframe Damage Guide

What kinds of damage can I deal in Warframe?

Warframe’s damage system isn’t as simple as just bigger numbers equaling more kills. The game boasts a complex system with over a dozen distinct damage types, each with unique characteristics. Beyond the usual physical damage, Warframe features eleven elemental damage types. These are further categorized into Physical (Impact, Puncture, Slash) and Elemental (Cold, Electricity, Heat, Toxin, Void, Blast, Corrosive, Gas, Magnetic, Radiation, and Viral).

Understanding these different types and their specific effects is crucial for effective combat strategy. This understanding is essential for choosing the right weapons and abilities.

What are the most effective damage types against Grineer, Corpus, and Infested enemies?

Enemy resistances vary greatly. While general trends exist, precise effectiveness is tied to specific enemy types within these factions, not the faction as a whole. For example, Grineer often possess different health classes. Some Grineer are resistant to Slash damage, but susceptible to Corrosive damage. The same principle applies to Corpus and Infested. A weapon effective against one Grineer type might be useless against another. Therefore, a deeper understanding of enemy weaknesses is needed.

A simple rule of thumb: Corrosive, Radiation, and Puncture damage works well against Grineer. Corpus are vulnerable to Magnetic, Electric, Toxin, and Cold damage. Infested are typically weaker to Slash, Heat, Gas, and Corrosive.

What are Status Effects?

Status Effects, often called “procs,” are extra effects triggered by weapon strikes or abilities. These effects are separate from the base damage inflicted. Each damage type has a chance to trigger a specific Status Effect, influenced by the weapon’s Status Chance. Crucially, a weapon can deal significant damage without triggering a Status Effect.

Moreover, only one proc can be triggered per strike or projectile. This means a weapon could apply a Slash proc followed by a Corrosive proc in successive hits, but not both from a single hit.

What Status Effects are associated with the different damage types?

• Impact: Knockback, staggering the target for one second.
• Puncture: Weakened, reducing target damage by 30% for six seconds.
• Slash: Bleed, dealing additional damage over time for six seconds.
• Elemental: Each elemental type typically has its own proc; some are more prominent than others.

Understanding Status Effects is vital for maximizing damage output and exploiting enemy vulnerabilities.

How do critical hits work in Warframe?

Warframe’s critical hit system involves a Critical Hit Chance and a Critical Damage Multiplier. These metrics determine the probability of a critical hit and the extra damage inflicted if it occurs. A weapon can achieve over 100% Critical Hit Chance, ensuring every hit has a critical component. Critical hits are also graded; an orange critical hit deals more than a regular critical hit, and a red critical hit deals more than an orange one.

By boosting Critical Hit Chance beyond 100%, you can essentially ensure every attack results in a critical hit, exponentially increasing your damage, especially on high-caliber weapons.

Doing Damage

The depth of the Warframe damage system is remarkable, encompassing various damage types, status effects, and critical hits. Mastering this complex interplay of factors will greatly enhance your combat performance and significantly increase your damage output.

This guide is a starting point. Deep investigation into individual weapons, abilities, and enemy vulnerabilities is key to mastering the art of dealing damage in Warframe.