Abilities

Abilities
Excalibur using his Slash Dash

Abilities are special skills that all Warframes, Archwings, and Necramechs possess, which are used to provide tactical advantages in battle by either affecting enemies directly or bolstering teammates in some manner. Every Warframe has a set of four unique Abilities that directly influence their gameplay and their role within a team. For example,  Frost's Abilities are based around slowing down enemies and blocking damage, making him more suited to a defensive role.  Nova, with her damage-oriented Ability set, is a good choice for offensive playstyles.

Most Abilities require Energy, which is spent every time an Ability is used. Warframes have only a limited Energy capacity, so Ability use must be carefully managed to prevent running out of Energy at critical moments. Energy costs vary between Abilities; in general the more advanced/powerful the Ability, the greater its Energy cost.

Controls

Main article: Key Bindings

Default Key Bindings

Platform	1st Ability	2nd Ability	3rd Ability	4th Ability
PC	1	2	3	4
PSN	R1  +	R1  +	R1  +	R1  +
XBX	RB  +	RB  +	RB  +	RB  +
Switch	R Button  + B	R Button  + Y	R Button  + A	R Button  + X

Types

Warframe Abilities are currently officially classified into four different types, according to their function: damage, buff & debuff, mobility, and perception. Certain Warframe Abilities can have two different classifications. For example, an Ability can be both a Buff/Debuff and a Damage type. Currently, the below the classification of powers is used to determine which Abilities are affected by certain enemies, such as Corpus Combas.

Damage

The most common Ability type, Damage Abilities primarily deal direct damage to enemies. They also typically have a secondary effect, such as applying a Status.

Main article: Abilities/Damage (edit)

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Last updated: Update 27.1 (2020-02-04)

Buff & Debuff

These Abilities are used to modify a unit's innate stats. Buff-type Abilities enhance a Warframe or their allies, while Debuff Abilities weaken or cripple enemies. Some Abilities can even perform both at the same time.

Main article: Abilities/Buff & Debuff (edit)

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Last updated: Update 27.1 (2020-02-04)

Mobility

Mobility Abilities enhance a Warframe's ability to travel between two points or allow them to reach normally inaccessible places.

Main article: Abilities/Mobility (edit)

View Mobility Powers List▾▾

Last updated: Update 27.1 (2020-02-04)

Perception

Perception Abilities are used to confuse or distract enemies, making them engage false targets or prevent them from seeing the player entirely.

Main article: Abilities/Perception (edit)

View Perception Powers List▾▾

Warframe	Abilities
Ash	Smoke Screen
Atlas	Tectonics
Banshee	Silence
Excalibur	Radial Blind
Excalibur Umbra	Radial Howl
Gara	Spectrorage
Inaros	Desiccation •  Scarab Swarm
Ivara	Prowl
Loki	Invisibility •  Decoy
Mirage	Prism
Nyx	Mind Control •  Chaos
Octavia	Metronome??
Revenant	Enthrall??
Saryn	Molt
Wisp	Wil-O-Wisp??
Wukong	Cloud Walker

Last updated: Update 27.1 (2020-02-04)

List of Abilities

Main article: Category:Warframe Abilities

Injectable

Main article: Helminth#Ability Replacement

Some abilities can be injected into other Warframes, replacing one of their abilities via the Helminth. These include:

Main article: Helminth/Unique Abilities (edit)

	ENERGY: 25 KEY hotkey	Empower Increase the strength of your next ability use. Metamorphosis: Tier 0 Infusion Costs: 18% Calx, 6% Pheromones, 6% Bile	Strength:N/A
			Duration:N/A
			Range:N/A
			Misc:+ 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 % (strength bonus) ∞ (bonus duration)

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• Expend 25 Energy to increase the Ability Strength of your next ability cast, granting it a 20% / 30% / 40% / 50% additive Ability Strength bonus. Empower lasts until the bonus applies to a different ability.
  • Energy cost is affected by Ability Efficiency.
  • Casting speed is affected by  Natural Talent and  Speed Drift.
  • Ability strength bonus is not affected by mods.
  • Empower's icon with the bonus percentage is displayed next to the shield and health indicators while active. Ability icon becomes greyed-out with an in-use animation.
• Empower's ability strength bonus is similar in function as the  Energy Conversion mod.
  • Single cast abilities instantly benefit from the bonus on cast.
  • Channeled and toggled abilities benefit from the bonus as long as the ability remains activated.
  • Cycled abilities such as  Minelayer and  Quiver only benefit from the bonus upon cast and will not apply the bonus during sub-ability selection.
• Cannot be recast while active. Empower does not affect itself.
• Casting Empower is a full-body animation that restricts movement and other actions.
• The Warframe visually initiates a fighting stance as energy radiates from its left hand. While Empower is active, a continuous energy pulse emits from the right shoulder.

	ENERGY: 50 KEY hotkey	Infested Mobility Increase your parkour velocity. Metamorphosis: Tier 0 Infusion Costs: 10% Calx, 14% Pheromones, 7% Bile	Strength:35 / 45 / 50 / 60 % (sprint speed bonus) 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 % (parkour velocity bonus)
			Duration:5 / 6 / 7 / 8 s
			Range:N/A

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• Expend 50 Energy to instantly increase sprint speed by 35% / 45% / 50% / 60% and parkour velocity by 15% / 20% / 25% / 30%, lasting for 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 seconds.
  • Energy cost is affected by Ability Efficiency.
  • Sprint speed and parkour velocity are affected by Ability Strength.
  • Duration is affected by Ability Duration.
  • Infested Mobility's icon with the sprint speed percentage is displayed next to the shield and health indicators while active.
• Cannot be recast while active.
• Casting Infested Mobility does not play an animation.
• The Warframe visually leaves a trail similar to  Volt's  Speed.
  • This ability is functionally different from Volt's Speed, however, as it only increases specifically sprinting speed, but not walking speed, therefore it does not speed up abilities that lock the warframe in a walking state, such as  Assimilate or  Mesa's Waltz.
  • However, because this ability also affects parkour speed, it can increase the speed of dodge maneuvers and their momentum. This means that while it does not affect walking speed, walking abilities such as  Ivara's  Prowl can still take advantage of the faster rolling speed to move faster without breaking the invisibility conditions.
• The effects from this ability can stack with similar speed boosting abilities while it is active, such as  Speed, as long as you are sprinting or performing parkour maneuvers.
  • The sprint speed buff stacks additively with other movement speed modifiers. For example,  Rush combined with Infested Mobility at max rank and 130% Ability Strength will increase the frame's sprint speed by 1 + 30% + (60% × 130%) = 2.08x
  • The multiplicative speed buff from  Volt's  Speed also multiplies the buff from Infested Mobility. For example,  Rush combined with Speed and Infested Mobility at max rank and 130% Ability Strength will increase the frames sprint speed by (1 + 30% + (60% × 130%)) × (1 + (50% × 130%)) = 3.432x
• This ability also affects dodge speed and momentum as dodging is considered a parkour maneuver
• Can be cast during  Hildryn's  Aegis Storm, increasing the dash distance, and is powered by shields instead of energy.

	ENERGY: 50 KEY hotkey	Master's Summons Heal your companion and call it to your side. Metamorphosis: Tier 0 Infusion Costs: 6% Oxides, 12% Calx, 5% Bile	Strength:N/A
			Duration:N/A
			Range:N/A
			Misc:25 / 50 / 75 / 100 % (health and shield restore) ∞ (teleport range)

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• Expend 50 Energy to instantly restore your Companion's Shield and Health points by 25% / 50% / 75% / 100% of their maximum capacity, while teleporting it to your side from any distance.
  • Energy cost is affected by Ability Efficiency.
  • Casting speed is affected by  Natural Talent and  Speed Drift.
  • Health and shield restore and teleport range are not affected by mods.
  • Instantly revives Kubrow, Kavat, Helminth Charger, MOA (Companion), Predasite, and Vulpaphyla dying in the bleedout state.
• Does not respawn dead companions.
• Does not affect Venari.
• If the player is airborne or away from solid surfaces, the companion will teleport to the nearest solid surface from the player's position.
• Casting Master's Summons is an upper-body animation that allows movement while restricting other actions.
• The Warframe visually lifts and clenches its right hand into a fist, creating a flash of light as the companion teleports nearby from within a combustion-like particle effect.

	ENERGY: 50 KEY hotkey	Rebuild Shields Instantly restore your shields. Metamorphosis: Tier 2 Infusion Costs: 14% Calx, 13% Pheromones, 24% Bile	Strength:N/A
			Duration:N/A
			Range:N/A
			Misc:25 / 50 / 75 / 100 % (shields restored) 12 s (cooldown)

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• Expend 50 Energy to restore your Shield points to 25% / 50 / 75 / 100% of maximum capacity, while triggering a 12 second cooldown before this ability can be cast again.
  • Energy cost is affected by Ability Efficiency.
  • Casting speed is affected by  Natural Talent and  Speed Drift.
  • Shield restore and cooldown are not affected by mods.
  • Remaining cooldown time is displayed on the ability icon during its countdown.
  • Shields are restored after the casting animation finishes.
• Does not restore shields to the Companion.
• Cannot be cast while shields are at maximum capacity or during cooldown.
• Casting Rebuild Shields is a full-body animation that restricts movement and other actions.
• The Warframe visually builds up energy in both hands and arms, as it crouches to spread the energy outward in a spiraling aura particle effect.

	ENERGY: 25 KEY hotkey	Perspicacity Your next hack will be automatic. Metamorphosis: Tier 3 Infusion Costs: 5% Oxides, 5% Pheromones, 15% Bile	Strength:N/A
			Duration:N/A
			Range:N/A
			Misc:25 / 50 / 75 / 100 % (hack chance) ∞ (chance duration)

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• Expend 25 Energy to grant yourself a 25% / 50% / 75% / 100% chance to trigger an auto-breach on the next hack. Perspicacity lasts until the player initiates a hacking minigame from consoles and other interactive Objects.
  • Energy cost is affected by Ability Efficiency.
  • Casting speed is affected by  Natural Talent and  Speed Drift.
  • Hack chance and chance duration are not affected by mods.
  • Perspicacity's icon with the hack chance percentage is displayed next to the shield and health indicators while active. Ability icon becomes greyed-out with an in-use animation.
• Cannot be recast while active.
• Casting Perspicacity is an upper-body animation that allows movement while restricting other actions.
• The Warframe visually brings its hands together while motioning a spherical shape, gathering energy that envelops the entire body once the motion is completed.
• Does work during Nightmare Mode missions and Sorties.

	ENERGY: 50 KEY hotkey	Energized Munitions Imbue your weapons with ammo efficiency. Metamorphosis: Tier 5 Infusion Costs: 5% Oxides, 15% Calx, 10% Synthetics	Strength:N/A
			Duration:3 / 3.5 / 4 / 5 s
			Range:N/A
			Misc:75 % (ammo efficiency)

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• Expend 50 Energy to improve all equipped weapons' Ammo Efficiency by 75% lasting for 3 / 3.5 / 4 / 5 seconds.
  • Energy cost is affected by Ability Efficiency.
  • Duration is affected by Ability Duration.
  • Ammo efficiency is not affected by mods.
• This ability reduces ammo usage to 1 after every 4 shots.
  • The way this works is by dividing the ammo cost so each shot consumes a quarter of the original, and keeps track of the fractions as well.
  • For weapons with a single-round magazine like the  Exergis, the round gets consumed after the 4th shot so such weapons can greatly benefit from the ability.
  • Arch-guns deployed via an Archgun Deployer are also fully affected by this, so such weapons with heavy ammo limits like a  Grattler can also greatly benefit from the ability.
  • For bows, an arrow is used every 4 shots, but it will still have a reload delay between each shot.
  • For weapons with a magazine-emptying alt fire burst like the  Nagantaka, the burst fire will fire as many shots as there were in the magazine at the time the burst was started, but will still consume 1 ammo after every 4 shots. So after the burst there will be ammo remaining, and the burst can be used again.

	ENERGY: 50 KEY hotkey	Marked For Death Stuns an enemy; a portion of the next damage you deal to it will be dealt to all enemies around it. Metamorphosis: Tier 6 Infusion Costs: 15% Calx, 15% Synthetics, 50% Bile	Strength:35 / 45 / 60 / 75 % (damage)
			Duration:N/A
			Range:7 / 8 / 9 / 10 m (explosion range) 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 m (cast range)
			Misc:1 (max targets) ∞ (mark duration)

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• Expend 50 Energy to stun a single target on the aiming reticle within 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 meters, marking it for death indefinitely until the next hit from the caster or upon its death. 35% / 45% / 60% / 75% of the next damage instance including Critical Hit and Status Effects the user inflicts to target is then inflicted to all other enemies in direct line of sight and within 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 meters from the marked target; only 1 target may be marked for death at a time.
  • Damage portion is affected by Ability Strength. Damage portion cannot exceed 150%.
  • Energy cost is affected by Ability Efficiency.
  • Explosion strength is affected by Ability Strength.
  • Cast and explosion range are affected by Ability Range.
  • Max marked targets and duration are not affected by mods.
  • Marked For Death's ability icon becomes grayed-out with an in-use animation while active.
  • The marked target is also dealt damage from the explosion.
• Allies and companions can not set off the explosion of a marked target, only the original caster can.
  •  Sevagoth's Tombstone passive's ability  Consume does not set off the explosion of a marked target.
• The explosion damage is calculated after all other bonuses and reductions, except multishot, and is quantized. 35% / 45% / 60% / 75% of that damage is then dealt to enemies in range upon explosion. It is essentially a portion of the damage number that appears on-screen when damaging the marked target.
  • Bonuses include mods, buffs from outside sources, critical damage and finisher multipliers, body part multipliers, the  Viral/ Magnetic status effect, and the marked target's damage vulnerabilities from damage type modifiers.
  • Reductions include mods, debuffs from outside sources, damage reduction from the marked target's armor, and the marked target's damage resistances from damage type modifiers.
  • The final damage distribution is the same as the distribution of the modded weapon.
• Damage cannot exceed the target's remaining health/shield. For example, a target with 5 health receives 100 damage, but will only spread 5 damage to all other enemies.
• Casting Marked For Death is an upper-body animation that allows movement while restricting other actions.
  • The Warframe visually clasps its right hand while facing the target to tag it with an energy mark, stunning the target in place for a few seconds; the marked target visually emits a downward stream of energy while marked.

Tips & Tricks

Due to the health/shield gate, Marked For Death works more effectively when used against heavy-duty enemies such as Bombard, Corpus Tech, or Ancients.

A rapier finisher guarantees a  Slash proc on all affected enemies.

	ENERGY: 50 KEY hotkey	Expedite Suffering Hit enemies in a cone, affected enemies will have their Bleed and Toxin status removed and their remaining damage dealt in a burst. Metamorphosis: Tier 9 Infusion Costs: 10% Oxides, 37% Biotics, 30% Bile	Strength:1 x (damage multiplier)
			Duration:N/A
			Range:6 / 8 / 10 / 12 m
			Misc:45° (cone angle) 100 % (stagger on hit)

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• Expend 50 Energy to affect all enemies within 6 / 8 / 10 / 12 meters and a 45° angle cone in front of the caster. Enemies hit by Expedite Suffering while debuffed with active  Slash and  Toxin Status Effects will instantly receive the full damage from all damage ticks of the procs, multiplied by 1 times; status effects are removed after inflicting damage. If enemies without the two types of eligible status effects are hit by Expedite Suffering, they are only briefly staggered.
  • Energy cost is affected by Ability Efficiency.
  • Damage multiplier is affected by Ability Strength.
  • Range is affected by Ability Range.
  • Cone angle and stagger on hit is not affected by mods.

Tips & Tricks

Status duration mods increase the damage inflicted. This is a useful way to multiply damage on top of extra status change modifiers.

	ENERGY: 50 KEY hotkey	Parasitic Armor Sacrifice Shields to reinforce Armor for a period of time Metamorphosis: Tier 11 Infusion Costs: 50% Oxides, 20% Pheromones, 20% Bile	Strength:25 / 50 / 75 / 100 % (Shields to Armor conversion)
			Duration:10 s / 15 s / 20 s / 25 s
			Range:N/A

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• Expend 50 Energy to sacrifice 25% / 50% / 75% / 100% Shields, increasing Armor value by the total Shield capacity for 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 seconds.
  • Percent of armor gained is affected by Ability Strength.
  • Duration of kept armor is affected by Abliity Duration.
  • Armor gain is based on the current total Shield capacity
    • Shield capacity increase from any source (i.e.  Shield Charger,  Haven, and  Elemental Ward) can increase armor gain.
    • Current Shields or Overshields do not contribute to armor gain.
    • 100 Shields at 300% ability strength provides 300 armor.
• Disables regular shield regeneration.
• Can be recast to cancel early.
• Shield sacrifice triggers  Vex Armor

	ENERGY: 50 KEY hotkey	Hideous Resistance Grant yourself immunity to Status effects. Metamorphosis: Tier 12 Infusion Costs: 23% Calx, 45% Synthetics, 14.5% Bile	Strength:4 / 6 / 8/ 10 Charges
			Duration:N/A
			Range:N/A

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• Expend ? Energy to cleanse active Status Effects and become immune to subsequent statuses for ? seconds.
• Number of charges scales with Ability Strength
• Similar in function to Negation Swarm for  Inaros, the lack of duration makes it useful for low duration builds but, in turn, the lack of duration means being hit by an excessive amount of attacks will rapidly consume the charges.
• Does NOT remove status effects that were obtained during the casting animation.
• There is no grace period or delay between charge use, making them deplete rapidly sometimes.
• Cannot be recast while active.

	ENERGY: 50 KEY hotkey	Voracious Metastasis Consume Energy to heal yourself and grant matching Energy to each ally. Metamorphosis: Tier 13 Infusion Costs: 12.5% Calx, 35% Biotics, 25% Synthetics	Strength:200 / 300 / 400 / 500 (health restored)
			Duration:16 / 14 / 12 / 10 s
			Range:N/A
			Efficiency:50 (energy restored, equal to cost)

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• Expend 50 Energy to self-heal by 500 Health points over the course of 10 seconds. Allies within Affinity Range receive a total of 50 energy over the course of the same duration.
  • Energy cost is affected by Ability Efficiency - energy restored is negatively affected by Ability Efficiency.
  • Amount healed is affected by Ability Strength.
  • Total duration is affected by Ability Duration.
  • Unaffected by Ability Range - range is equal to Affinity Range.
    • The extended affinity range in Railjack missions does not apply.
• Total Health and energy restored are not affected by Ability Duration - Voracious Metastasis will restore the same total amount regardless of duration.
  • If it restores 500 health and 50 energy with a duration of 10 seconds, it will restore 50 health and 5 energy per second. If that duration is reduced to 5 seconds, it will restore 100 health and 10 energy per second.
  • This means Voracious Metastasis will restore more health and energy per second with lower Ability Duration.
• There is a bug where, if you enter a Nullifier's bubble, this ability may stop working altogether.
• Like all Helminth abilities, subsuming this ability onto  Hildryn will cause Hildryn to spend ×10 shields instead of energy.
  • While the description says the energy granted matches the energy consumed, the ability will still grant energy to allies on shield consumption (1 energy per 1 shield spent)
• Subsuming this ability onto  Lavos will not allow him to grant energy to allies, as he cannot spend energy.

Tips & Tricks

This ability is incredibly effective on Hildryn as she can quickly restore any spent shields via  Pillage, and assuming her Ability Efficiency is unmodified she generates up to 500 energy for her allies; for reference the highest base Energy Capacity on any Warframe is 300, and with  Primed Flow and  Endurance Drift installed this is increased to 880.

This is a vital alternate option to consider vs  Saryn's  Molt paired with  Regenerative Molt. The two abilities have an identical Energy Cost and sum total heal amount. While Molt also gives a decoy and a brief speed boost, Voracious Metastasis can give you the self heal without having to spend a Mod slot to do it.

	ENERGY: 50 KEY hotkey	Sickening Pulse Emit a pulse that adds stacks to Status Effects already afflicting enemies, except Bleed, Heat or Toxin effects which are duplicated with fresh timers. Metamorphosis: Tier 14 Infusion Costs: 25% Synthetics, 30% Pheromones, 45% Bile	Strength:N/A
			Duration:2 s (expansion duration)
			Range:5 m / 6 m / 7 m / 8 m (pulse initial radius)
			Misc:? / ? / 6 / 20 m/s (expansion distance per sec) 10 status stacks / 1 status stack ( Heat,  Slash, and  Toxin)

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• Expend 50 Energy to emit a radial pulse with an initial radius of 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 meters, which follows as an aura and rapidly expands outward by ? / ? / 6 / 20 meters per second over a duration of 2 seconds. All enemies in direct line of sight touched by this pulse have 10 new stacks of each active Status Effect currently affecting them.  Heat,  Slash, and  Toxin status procs instead add 1 new status proc with a full timer for the damage of all respective procs combined.
  • Damaging procs created by this ability do not take elemental mods for their respective proc type into account with the exception of  Heat.
  • For  Heat procs only one stack is added but for the combined damage of all active  Heat procs, and the timer of all  Heat stacks is refreshed (normal behaviour when new  Heat stacks are applied)
  • For  Slash and  Toxin only one stack is added that does the combined damage of all the respective active procs not caused by this ability.
  • For  Electricity and  Gas, ten stacks are added, with each proc in the stack doing combined damage of all the respective active procs not caused by this ability.
• Energy Cost is affected by Ability Efficiency.
• Range is affected by Ability Duration and Ability Range.
• Status duration is not affected by Ability Duration.
• Number of new stacks is not affected by Ability Strength.
• Can not be recast while the Pulse's Aura is active.
• New stacks do not take status-duration modifiers from mods (e.g.  Continuous Misery) into account.
• New stacks do take status-duration modifiers from Warframe abilities and passives (e.g. Lavos' passive) into account
• New stacks only have factions mods (e.g.  Bane of Grineer) applied once instead of twice, with the exception of  Heat.

Tips & Tricks

Good in conjunction with abilities and weapons that can apply low amounts of status stacks to a big group of enemies. e.g. Cedo alt-fire.

Repeated usage with heat procs escalates the damage exponentially.

Lower duration limits range but allows for more frequent casting, allowing for faster stacking of heat procs.

Bugs

When all originally applied slash/toxin procs ended and only copies from this ability are active the new copies only deal 1 damage per tick.

	ENERGY: 50 KEY hotkey	Golden Instinct Send out a short-lived Void Spark that is drawn toward the nearest Medallion, Ayatan Sculpture, rare crate, unscanned Kuria or unscanned Fragment. Metamorphosis: Tier 15 Infusion Costs: 25% Oxides, 25% Biotics, 25% Synthetics	Strength:N/A
			Duration:N/A
			Range:200m

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• Expend 50 Energy to summon a Void Spark for 5 seconds which seeks out the location of nearby Syndicate Medallions, Ayatan Treasures, Rare Storage Containers, Voidplumes, Zarium Accolades, and unscanned Kuria, Cephalon Fragments, Frame Fighter fragments, and Somachord fragments within 200 meters. In addition to the energy cost requirement, casting the ability triggers a 20 second cooldown before the next activation is allowed.
  • Energy cost is affected by Ability Efficiency.
  • Range is affected by Ability Range.
  • Duration is not affected by mods.
  • Cooldown can be lowered with  Lavos'  Transmutation Probe.
• If nothing is in detection range, the ability will not be used and show the message "AREA IS BARREN".
• Golden Instinct will not trigger on Maroo's Weekly Mission's target Ayatan Sculpture, but may still trigger on other possible objects of interest in the same mission including other Ayatan Sculptures.

Tips & Tricks

• Equipping  Narrow Minded on a Warframe with Golden Instinct can actually be a helpful option, as it greatly reduces the radius upon which the Void Spark can detect an item and thus reduce the area needed to cover to search for said item, as opposed to having a large range and then having a far larger area to search around.

Strength Mods	Duration Mods	Range Mods

Main article: Helminth#Subsumable Abilities (edit)

Warframe	Subsumable Abilities	Applicable Augments	General Gameplay Role	Notes	Secretions For Subsuming	Secretions For Injecting	Experience Gained per Injection
Ash	Shuriken	Seeking Shuriken	Armor Strip	—	Calx 50%  Pheromones 77%  Bile 80%	Oxides 51%  Biotics 38%  Synthetics 17%	848
Atlas	Petrify	Ore Gaze	Crowd Control Farming	Petrified enemies do not drop Rubble.	Oxides 75%  Synthetics 57%  Bile 80%	Calx 19%  Biotics 19%  Pheromones 60%	784
Banshee	Silence	Savage Silence	Damage Debuff	—	Biotics 80%  Pheromones 54%  Bile 80%	Oxides 52%  Calx 22%  Synthetics 23%	776
Baruuk	Lull	Endless Lullaby	Crowd Control	—	Oxides 51%  Synthetics 79%  Pheromones 80%	Calx 33%  Biotics 58%  Bile 10%	808
Caliban	Sentient Wrath	N/A	Crowd Control Damage Debuff	—	Calx 71%  Synthetics 71%  Pheromones 72%	Oxides 47%  Biotics 14%  Bile 37%	?
Chroma	Elemental Ward	Everlasting Ward	Support	Elemental Ward versions of the ability are determined by the chosen Warframe Primary Emission Color.	Calx 80%  Synthetics 48%  Pheromones 80%	Oxides 32%  Biotics 34%  Bile 31%	776
Ember	Fire Blast	Healing Flame  Purifying Flames	Crowd Control Armor Strip Healing	Armor reduction per cast is capped at 75%, achievable with Ability Strength of 100% at max ability rank. Healing Flame heals for 25 health for each enemy hit. Heal amount is affected by Ability Strength.	Calx 80%  Biotics 49%  Bile 80%	Oxides 18%  Synthetics 18%  Pheromones 59%	760
Equinox	Rest & Rage	Calm & Frenzy	Crowd Control Damage Debuff	Rest or Rage versions of the ability are determined by the chosen Warframe Primary Emission Color.	Oxides 80%  Biotics 62%  Bile 64%	Calx 16%  Synthetics 15%  Pheromones 72%	824
Excalibur	Radial Blind	Radiant Finish	Crowd Control	—	Biotics 80%  Pheromones 52%  Bile 80%	Oxides 50%  Calx 27%  Synthetics 24%	808
Frost	Ice Wave	Ice Wave Impedance	Crowd Control	—	Calx 68%  Synthetics 70%  Pheromones 70%	Oxides 11%  Biotics 61%  Bile 30%	816
Gara	Spectrorage	Spectrosiphon	Crowd Control Energy Restore	—	Calx 77%  Biotics 55%  Bile 80%	Oxides 28%  Synthetics 27%  Pheromones 49%	832
Garuda	Blood Altar	N/A	Healing	—	Calx 71%  Synthetics 71%  Pheromones 72%	Oxides 47%  Biotics 14%  Bile 37%	784
Gauss	Thermal Sunder	Thermal Transfer	Crowd Control Nuking Damage Buff	Deals damage as if at 50% battery; 225/300/375/450  Cold damage. 450/600/750/900  Heat damage.	Oxides 46%  Pheromones 80%  Bile 80%	Calx 50%  Biotics 15%  Synthetics 35%	800
Grendel	Nourish	Hearty Nourishment	Damage Buff Healing	Does not have a swallowed enemy requirement, as other Warframes cannot cast  Feast. Self heal and provides Nourish Strike buff only. Self heal formula omits swallowed enemy level and scales only with Ability Strength.	Oxides 53%  Biotics 80%  Synthetics 80%	Calx 33%  Pheromones 16%  Bile 50%	792
Gyre	Coil Horizon	N/A	Damage CC	N/A	Calx 67%  Biotics 73%  Pheromones 71%	Oxides ?%  Synthetics ?%  Bile ?%	?
Harrow	Condemn	Tribunal	Crowd Control Shield Restore	Other Warframes cannot benefit from the Tribunal augment, due to their inability to cast  Penance and  Thurible.	Oxides 80%  Calx 56%  Pheromones 80%	Biotics 20%  Synthetics 62%  Bile 20%	816
Hildryn	Pillage	Blazing Pillage	Armor Strip Shield Restore	Costs 50 Energy instead of 150 Shields. Does not generate shields for  Inaros and  Nidus. Other Warframes cannot benefit from the Blazing Pillage augment, due to their inability to cast  Haven.	Calx 54%  Biotics 74%  Pheromones 80%	Oxides 52%  Synthetics 26%  Bile 24%	816
Hydroid	Tempest Barrage	Corroding Barrage	Crowd Control Armor Strip	—	Oxides 79%  Calx 80%  Synthetics 51%	Biotics 36%  Pheromones 34%  Bile 32%	816
Inaros	Desiccation	Desiccation's Curse	Crowd Control	—	Calx 73%  Biotics 80%  Bile 53%	Oxides 17%  Synthetics 14%  Pheromones 70%	808
Ivara	Quiver	Empowered Quiver  Power of Three	Stealth	Tap-cast for Cloak, hold-cast for Noise. Sleep and Dashwire arrows not available. Tap/hold cast inversion in Settings menu still applies.	Calx 67%  Biotics 73%  Pheromones 71%	Oxides 17%  Synthetics 71%  Bile 12%	800
Khora	Ensnare	N/A	Crowd Control	—	Oxides 67%  Calx 70%  Synthetics 68%	Biotics 61%  Pheromones 18%  Bile 18%	776
Lavos	Vial Rush	N/A	Damage Buff Crowd Control	Costs 0 energy with a 5 second cooldown. Base ability does not include hold-cast to imbue the next ability cast with  Cold damage.	Calx 77%  Biotics 55%  Bile 80%	Oxides 28%  Synthetics 27%  Pheromones 49%	832
Limbo	Banish	Rift Haven	Crowd Control	Base ability includes hold-cast to cancel the ability, releasing all affected targets from the Rift.	Oxides 48%  Synthetics 80%  Pheromones 80%	Calx 30%  Biotics 62%  Bile 10%	816
Loki	Decoy	Deceptive Bond  Savior Decoy	Crowd Control	—	Oxides 53%  Pheromones 80%  Bile 80%	Calx 59%  Biotics 18%  Synthetics 18%	760
Mag	Pull	Greedy Pull	Crowd Control	—	Oxides 72%  Calx 71%  Synthetics 68%	Biotics 21%  Pheromones 23%  Bile 61%	840
Mesa	Shooting Gallery	Muzzle Flash	Damage Buff Crowd Control	—	Oxides 80%  Calx 80%  Biotics 48%	Synthetics 35%  Pheromones 51%  Bile 15%	808
Mirage	Eclipse	Total Eclipse	Damage Buff Damage Reduction	Limited to 1 damage buffing ability per Warframe. Base damage bonus reduced to ?%/?%/?%/150% and damage reduction capped at 75%.	Oxides 67%  Calx 72%  Bile 68%	Biotics 50%  Synthetics 34%  Pheromones 16%	800
Nekros	Terrify	Creeping Terrify	Armor Strip Crowd Control	—	Oxides 80%  Biotics 80%  Pheromones 52%	Calx 15%  Synthetics 12%  Bile 71%	784
Nezha	Fire Walker	Pyroclastic Flow	Status Cleanse Movement Speed	—	Oxides 68%  Calx 68%  Synthetics 68%	Biotics 34%  Pheromones 34%  Bile 33%	808
Nidus	Larva	Larva Burst	Crowd Control	Base radius reduced to 5.33/6/6.67/8m.	Biotics 80%  Pheromones 80%  Bile 80%	Oxides 80%  Calx 31%  Synthetics 10%	968
Nova	Null Star	Neutron Star	Damage Reduction	—	Oxides 80%  Biotics 69%  Synthetics 63%	Calx 22%  Pheromones 18%  Bile 58%	784
Nyx	Mind Control	Mind Freak	Crowd Control Support	—	Oxides 80%  Biotics 80%  Bile 49%	Calx 32%  Synthetics 32%  Pheromones 30%	752
Oberon	Smite	Smite Infusion	Crowd Control Damage Buff	—	Calx 80%  Pheromones 49%  Bile 80%	Oxides 14%  Biotics 80%  Synthetics 13%	856
Octavia	Resonator	Conductor	Damage Crowd Control	—	Calx 80%  Biotics 60%  Bile 73%	Oxides 34%  Synthetics 36%  Pheromones 32%	816
Protea	Dispensary	Repair Dispensary	Healing Energy Restore	Base duration reduced to 5/7.5/10/12.5 seconds.	Calx 58%  Biotics 80%  Synthetics 74%	Oxides 21%  Pheromones 23%  Bile 60%	832
Revenant	Reave	Blinding Reave	Healing Shield Restore Invulnerability	—	Oxides 80%  Calx 80%  Bile 55%	Biotics 35%  Synthetics 32%  Pheromones 34%	808
Rhino	Roar	Piercing Roar	Damage Buff	Limited to 1 damage buffing ability per Warframe. Base damage bonus reduced to 2%/9%/15%/30%.	Oxides 80%  Biotics 80%  Pheromones 80%	Calx 37%  Synthetics 12%  Bile 77%	1008
Saryn	Molt	Regenerative Molt	Crowd Control Healing	—	Biotics 80%  Pheromones 80%  Bile 52%	Oxides 14%  Calx 46%  Synthetics 35%	760
Sevagoth	Gloom	—	Crowd Control Healing	—	Calx 77%  Biotics 55%  Bile 80%	Oxides 28%  Synthetics 27%  Pheromones 49%	832
Titania	Spellbind	Spellbound Harvest	Crowd Control Status Cleanse	Spellbound Harvest augment grants 50 shields if used on  HildrynConfirmation needed	Oxides 63%  Calx 80%  Bile 66%	Biotics 16%  Synthetics 12%  Pheromones 70%	784
Trinity	Well Of Life	Pool of Life	Healing Crowd Control	Base ability includes heal over time over large radius. Percentage of damage dealt to the target converts into area healing.	Oxides 50%  Synthetics 80%  Bile 80%	Calx 38%  Biotics 17%  Pheromones 52%	856
Valkyr	Warcry	Eternal War	Attack Speed Buff Crowd Control	Base attack speed bonus reduced to ?%/?%/?%/30%.	Oxides 72%  Biotics 68%  Pheromones 68%	Calx 30%  Synthetics 59%  Bile 10%	792
Vauban	Tesla Nervos	Tesla Bank	Crowd Control	—	Oxides 48%  Calx 80%  Biotics 80%	Synthetics 52%  Pheromones 23%  Bile 23%	784
Volt	Shock	Shock Trooper	Crowd Control Damage Buff	—	Oxides 80%  Biotics 48%  Pheromones 80%	Calx 31%  Synthetics 10%  Bile 61%	816
Wisp	Breach Surge	Critical Surge	Damage Crowd Control	Other Warframes cannot benefit from the Critical Surge augment, due to their inability to cast  Reservoirs.	Oxides 45%  Synthetics 80%  Bile 80%	Calx 23%  Biotics 26%  Pheromones 51%	800
Wukong	Defy	N/A	Invulnerability Armor Bonus Status Cleanse	Armor bonus capped at 750.	Synthetics 80%  Pheromones 80%  Bile 80%	Oxides 30%  Calx 62%  Biotics 29%	968
Xaku	Xata's Whisper	N/A	Damage Buff	Limited to 1 damage buffing ability per Warframe.	Oxides 53%  Calx 80%  Bile 80%	Biotics 19%  Synthetics 22%  Pheromones 57%	784
Yareli	Aquablades	Surging Blades	Crowd Control Damage	—	Calx 60%  Pheromones 60%  Bile 60%	Biotics 36%  Pheromones 34%  Bile 32%	800
Zephyr	Airburst	Airburst Rounds	Crowd Control Damage Buff	Base ability includes tap-cast for wind vacuum, hold-cast for wind explosion.	Oxides 80%  Biotics 80%  Bile 47%	Calx 33%  Synthetics 14%  Pheromones 47%	752

Ability Mods

Warframes Abilities can be affected by five types of modification: Ability Duration, Ability Efficiency, Ability Range, Ability Strength, and Casting Speed. With the proper combination of mods and gear Abilities can obtain a maximized value (see Power Mods and Abilities).

Ability Duration

Main article: Ability Duration

Modifies the Duration of Warframe Abilities and the Energy cost of toggled Abilities. Hover over each Ability to see how its stats are affected.

—In-game Description

These mods affect how long a Warframe Ability lasts.

Mods that affect Ability Duration positively:

 Augur Message

 Constitution

 Continuity

 Narrow Minded

 Nira's Hatred

 Primed Continuity

Maximized at +221% with a negative effect of -66% Ability Range. Note that  Continuity and  Primed Continuity are mutually exclusive; the maximized value assumes the use of Primed Continuity.

Ability Efficiency

Main article: Ability Efficiency

Modifies the Energy cost of Warframe abilities. The minimum Energy cost is 1/4 of the Base value.

—In-game Description

These mods affect how much a Warframe Ability costs to cast. Ability Efficiency has a hard cap of 75%. For example, an Ability which costs 100 Energy cannot be reduced below 25 Energy.

Mods that affect Ability Efficiency positively:

 Boreal's Hatred

 Fleeting Expertise

 Streamline

 System Reroute

 Pax Bolt

Maximized at +105% (or +135% with an active Pax Bolt buff) with a negative effect of -60% Ability Duration. The 75% hard cap mentioned above means it is more efficient to combine a fully-leveled Fleeting Expertise with Boreal's Hatred in the same build, unless also utilizing a mod that decreases Ability Efficiency, such as  Blind Rage, or minimizing the drain of channeled Abilities with as few mods as possible.

Ability Range

Modifies the Range of Warframe Abilities and the Energy cost of toggled Abilities. Hover over each Ability to see how its stats are affected.

—In-game Description

These mods affect the radius and targeting range of Warframe Abilities.

Mods that affect Ability Range positively:

 Augur Reach

 Cunning Drift

 Energy Amplifier

 Overextended

 Stretch

Maximized at +180% with a negative effect of -60% Ability Strength.

Ability Strength

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Modifies the Strength of Warframe Abilities and the Energy cost of toggled Abilities. Hover over each Ability to see how its stats are affected.

—In-game Description

These mods and Arcanes affect the damage and the potency of Warframe Abilities (such as Banshee's  Sonar and Energy restored by Trinity's  Energy Vampire).

Mods & Arcanes that affect Ability Strength positively:

 Amar's Hatred

 Augur Secrets

 Blind Rage

 Energy Conversion

 Growing Power

 Intensify

 Morphic Transformer

 Power Donation

 Power Drain

 Power Drift

 Primed Morphic Transformer

 Transient Fortitude

 Umbral Intensify

 Pax Bolt

In the arsenal, Power Strength is maximized at +285% (equipping all Umbral mods) with a negative effect of -55% Ability Efficiency and -27.5% Ability Duration.

In-game, without any additional Warframe ability buffs or effects, Power Strength is maximized at +465% (equipping all Umbral mods,  Energy Conversion,  Pax Bolt, and if all players in a squad equip  Growing Power). With the Helminth Invigorations, Power Strength is maximized at +665% (equipping all of the above mods/Arcanes).

Using  Empower can raise this cap by 50%, but only for the next ability cast, and Empower cannot stack with itself nor benefit from mods aside from Ability Efficiency. The same way,  Power Drain can provide an additional 50% bonus for the next ability cast after performing a Mercy kill.

The total power strength can then be doubled by a corruption buff from opening Void Relics, which multiplies your total strength by 2. Bringing it up to +1630%.

The theoretical max Power Strength for any Warframe (except  Volt,  Excalibur and  Frost because of their Arcane Helmets, and  Ember,  Nidus, and  Protea because of their passives) will be +10,862.0% taking into account +80% Power Strength from  Equinox's  Peaceful Provocation and 5.8x Power Strength multiplier from  Nidus'  Parasitic Link with an Invigoration and a corruption buff on both the warframe and Nidus.

• To achieve this,  Equinox must first cast  Pacify & Provoke then  Nidus' cast  Parasitic Link on any Warframe.
•  Volt's theoretical max Power Strength will be +10,978.0% if under the above effects with Arcane Volt Storm Helmet equipped.
•  Frost's (with Arcane Frost Squall Helmet equipped),  Excalibur's (with Arcane Excalibur Pendragon Helmet equipped) and  Nidus' theoretical max Power Strength will be +11,036.0% if under the above effects.
•  Protea's theoretical max Power Strength will be +12,022.0% if under the above effects with her passive active while  Ember has no limit other than the number of enemies she can apply a  Heat status effect to.

Last updated: Hotfix 31.0.10 (2022-01-20)

Casting Speed

These mods affect the casting speed of Warframe Abilities (such as  Nekros'  Shadows Of The Dead or  Mag's  Crush).

The calculation for casting time is (Base Time) ÷ (1 + Speed Bonus).

Mods that affect Ability Casting Speed positively:

 Natural Talent

 Speed Drift

 Savior Decoy

Maximized at +65% (or +115% for  Decoy) casting speed to cast the ability at 60.61% (or 46.51% for Decoy) of its base cast time.

Ability Ranking

Since Update 15.0 (2014-10-24), Warframe Abilities unlock and rank up with affinity. Maximum Rank for Abilities is Rank 3.

Warframe / Archwing / Necramech Rank	Ability and Rank
	First Ability	Second Ability	Third Ability	Fourth Ability
Unranked	Unranked	Locked	Locked	Locked
3	Unranked	Unranked	Locked	Locked
5	Unranked	Unranked	Unranked	Locked
7	Rank 1	Unranked	Unranked	Locked
10	Rank 1	Unranked	Unranked	Unranked
12	Rank 1	Rank 1	Unranked	Unranked
14	Rank 2	Rank 1	Unranked	Unranked
16	Rank 2	Rank 1	Rank 1	Unranked
18	Rank 3	Rank 1	Rank 1	Unranked
20	Rank 3	Rank 1	Rank 1	Rank 1
22	Rank 3	Rank 2	Rank 1	Rank 1
24	Rank 3	Rank 2	Rank 2	Rank 1
25	Rank 3	Rank 2	Rank 2	Rank 2
27	Rank 3	Rank 3	Rank 2	Rank 2
28	Rank 3	Rank 3	Rank 3	Rank 2
30	Rank 3	Rank 3	Rank 3	Rank 3

Notes

• The majority of Warframe abilities with duration or changes to the user/enemies will be canceled if the player falls into a pit (e.g.  Shadows Of The Dead,  Invisibility, and  Iron Skin).

Patch History

Update 25.6 (2019-08-08)

• Added numerous Warframe Ability Augment stats to the Ability Screen. We debuted this with Wukong’s rework, and you will now be able to directly see the Stat changes associated with Augments on the Abilities!

Hotfix 25.5.2 (2019-08-02)

• Fixed the Warframe Ability screen breaking if a given Warframe didn't have any Ability hints.
• Fixed the width of the Passive button textbox on the Warframe selection screen being too small for some languages, resulting in text wrapping awkwardly.

Hotfix 25.5.1 (2019-08-02)

• Fixed missing Warframe Ability Tips section when playing Warframe in Korean and Russian.

Update 24.6 (2019-04-04)

Warframe “In Air” Ability Changes

Right now, there are certain powers that just cannot be cast in the air. Some of those powers are easy to address, and we simply remove the restriction. A full breakdown can be found here in the Developer Workshop: https://forums.warframe.com/topic/1079249-dev-workshop-cannot-cast-in-the-air-friend-or-foe/

• Removed "cast on ground" requirements for the following Warframe abilities:
  • Trinity Well of Life
  • Trinity Energy Vampire
  • Trinity Link
  • Frost Avalanche
  • Atlas Tectonics
  • Mag Crush
  • Chroma Effigy
  • Loki Radial Disarm
• Additionally, the following abilities require ground to activate, but can now be cast in the air and will do a melee-esque slam to the ground:
  • Rhino Stomp
  • Banshee Sound Quake
  • Oberon Hallowed Ground
  • Khora Strangledome
  • Nidus Virulence
  • Harrow Condemn

Update 22.20 (2018-05-17)

• Updated several ability stat descriptors to make them clearer:
  • Standardized format across all Warframe ability descriptions.
    • E.g. Range (Meters) # to Range #
    • E.g. “Health over Time #” to “Health / Sec #”
  • Added units of measurement to the abilities where appropriate - M (meters), S (seconds), % (percentage), X (multiplier), etc.
  • Converted decimals to whole numbers (e.g. Equinox’s Rest & Rage Wakeup Health Threshold has been changed from 0.5 to 50% for max rank).
  • Changed “Range” to “Radius” for several Warframe abilities.

Update 17.5 (2015-10-01)

Warframe Changes

Toggled Abilities and Energy Drain: The following adjustments have been made to Abilities that can toggle on or off with the intention of making each Ability more rewarding to use in a wider range of scenarios. We will continue to monitor the balance of all Toggled Abilities after launch.

• Duration Mods now have an effect on toggled Abilities.
  • For example: Mods that added 100% duration will make a 10 Energy drain become a 5 Energy drain.
• Drain-Per-Second and other adjustments has been made on the following Toggled Abilities:
  • Chroma’s Spectral Scream now drains 3 Energy.
  • Chroma’s Elemental Ward’s Electric elemental discharge effect is now affected by range Mods instead of strength Mods.
  • Chroma’s Elemental Ward Poison holster and reload speed are now affected by duration Mods instead of strength Mods.
  • Ember’s World on Fire now drains 3 Energy and has had its maximum duration removed.
  • Equinox’s Rest & Rage has had its base range doubled.
  • Hydroid can now recast Tempest Barrage and Tentacle Swarm with no cooldown.
  • Nyx’s Chaos no longer has a cooldown, and enemies affected by Chaos cannot be stunned by additional casts.
  • The minimum energy cost of an Ability cannot go below 25% of the base cost.