Chroma/Main

"This is Chroma, an ancient legend, master of the elements."

- The Lotus

Release Date: March 19, 2015

The bestial avatar of the primal forces of nature, Chroma, confounds his foes and strengthens his allies with elemental caprice. Chroma was released in Update 16.

Component blueprints are awarded from progressing through The New Strange quest, which is acquired from Cephalon Simaris on any Relay. Completion of Stolen Dreams quest and Mastery Rank 5 is required to access the quest from Simaris.

Warframe Guides
See Category:Chroma Guides to read user-made guides on how to play this Warframe.

Trivia

 * Chroma was first revealed during Tennolive 2015 and hinted at during Devstreams 45 and 46.
 * The word Chroma means "Color" in Greek. His name likely refers to his unique gameplay mechanic that his selected energy color determines the elemental damage type dealt by his abilities.
 * His name may also refer to Chromatic Dragons from the popular role-playing game "Dungeons & Dragons", whose elemental affinities are, similarly, indicated by the color of their scales. This connection was hinted by Community Manager Rebecca Ford in livestreams prior to Chroma's unveiling.
 * Chroma is the second tallest Warframe due to his stature and the pelt he wears. Limbo is the tallest, especially because of his "top hat."
 * Chroma's Drac Helmet resembles a seahorse. Many species of seahorses are known as "sea-dragons or Greek dragons with there thin muzzles".
 * In certain languages, seahorses are also named in relation to "seadragons." For example, the Japanese term for seahorse is "tatsu no otoshigo" (竜の落とし子), literally meaning "illegitimate child of dragons".
 * Its appearance seems inspired by the Greek depiction of dragons, most notably the snout, which appears thinner in contrast to the typical European dragon. This is further backed by the fact that Chroma's name has a Greek origin.
 * Chroma is the second Warframe to have a separable part, the first being Limbo.
 * In Chroma's case, his outer pelt separates from his body during his 4th ability Effigy to create the sentry. Because the sentry's helmet design is determined by the cosmetic helmet selected for the Chroma warframe, this also reveals Chroma's "true" helmet which is not affected by the helmet selected.
 * Following the above notes, Chroma presumably wears his dragon-skin outer pelt like a hunter might do for animal skin.
 * Chroma is another in the line of heavily fan-requested warframes (such as Zephyr, Nova, and Mesa), with inspiration being drawn from a long-surviving thread on the Fan Concepts forum.


 * When equipped with Tonfa-type weapons (ex. Kronen), Chroma stores them on his back with the weapon's blades running nearly parallel each other, rather than diverging outward as with other Warframes. This currently makes Chroma the only Warframe to store Tonfas in this manner, and the second Warframe to have a unique holster style for a melee weapon, with the first being Nekros when stowing Dual Daggers.
 * Chroma has the second highest armor value of any Warframe at 350, surpassed only by Valkyr's 600.
 * Chroma is the first Warframe to require components from other Warframes to construct.
 * It is also the first Warframe whose blueprint uses a fourth Warframe component in the place of a resource like Orokin Cells or Argon Crystals.
 * Each one of the Warframe from which the components are derived - Saryn, Volt, Ember, and Frost - correspond to a single elemental type, and thus Chroma, which can use all 4 elements, can be said to have properties of each Warframe.
 * The increased credit drop chance from enemies killed by Chroma's 4th ability - Effigy - may be a reference to common legends of dragons hoarding gold.
 * On release, a bug allowed Chroma to double end of mission credit rewards for all allies on missions with no extraction, chiefly Defense and Interception. His release coinciding with a double credit weekend, with a credit booster more than 1.3 million credits was obtainable from The Law of Retribution. Removed in Hotfix 16.1.4.1.