Adaptation

Adaptation
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Max Rank Description
When Damaged: +10% Resistance to that Damage Type for 20s. Stacks up to 90%.
General Information
Type	Warframe
Polarity
Rarity	Rare
Max Rank	10
Endo Required To Max	30,690
Credits Required To Max	1,482,327
Base Capacity Cost	2
Trading Tax	8,000
Introduced	Update 23.10 (2018-10-12)
Vendor Sources
Official Drop Tables
https://www.warframe.com/droptables

Adaptation is a Warframe mod that grants damage resistance to the last damage type received, stacking up to 90% resistance.

Stats

Rank	Damage Resistance	Duration	Maximum Resistance	Cost
0	+5%	10s	90%	2
1	+5.5%	11s	90%	3
2	+6%	12s	90%	4
3	+6.5%	13s	90%	5
4	+7%	14s	90%	6
5	+7.5%	15s	90%	7
6	+8%	16s	90%	8
7	+8.5%	17s	90%	9
8	+9%	18s	90%	10
9	+9.5%	19s	90%	11
10	+10%	20s	90%	12

Notes

• Due to the nature of damage resistance, the mod's effect stacks multiplicatively with other sources of damage reduction, including, but not limited to:
  • Armor damage mitigation
  • Ancient Healer aura damage mitigation
  • Warframe Abilities granting damage mitigation
• And stacks additively with other resistance mods and effects, like Blessing.
• , , , , , , , , , , , , and  damage types stack their respective resistances separately, and will have different icons in the status bar.
• One attack from one source of damage can only increase one resistance type.
• If multiple damage types from different sources are dealt to the player, a separate instance of the buff will stack for each respective damage type.
  • For example, if there are two enemies, one of which deals  damage while the other deals  damage to the player, two different damage resistance buffs will be seen, each representing the two damage types the player was dealt. So a stack of up to 90% damage resistance can be achieved for both the and damage.
• The resistance type given by an attack will reflect the highest damage component of an attack.
  • For example, if you are hit by one bullet dealing 15 , 15 , ​​​​​​30 ​ damage - you will receive a 10% ​ damage resistance with Adaptation at rank 10.
  • Follow up attacks will grant additional resistance to that damage type and will refresh the duration.
  • Enemy weapons seem to almost always differ from the actual weapon; A normal Heavy Gunner for example will only give resistance as the Gorgon she wields deals mostly Impact. However, despite the Arid Heavy Gunner variant using the same weapon, she will only ever grant resistance.
    • In many cases, this results in most enemies of one mission only giving you consistent adaptations to two damage types at a time, rather than all three physical damage types. This means for the most part, you will always receive full damage from one IPS.
    • Because of this, it is difficult to determine the actual damage type makeup of enemy weapons, as they can differ even if they are using the same weapon.

Tips

• It may be beneficial not to rank up this mod on Warframes which can afford to take multiple hits already, as the mod cost is minimal when at rank 0. As the maximum attainable resistance remains the same regardless of the mod's rank, the only benefit from ranking it up is the rate at which the resistances are gained and the duration of each stack. The difference is that from rank 0 to rank 10 the resistance % per attack and the duration both double, though the mod cost increases by 10.
• This mod is most effective on naturally durable frames such as  Valkyr,  Chroma,  Oberon,  Inaros,  Nidus, and  Atlas, or frames with damage reduction abilities such as  Nova's  Null Star,  Trinity's  Link and  Blessing,  Nekros's with  Shield of Shadows,  Mesa's  Shatter Shield,  Gara's  Splinter Storm, and  Baruuk's Restraint and  Serene Storm.
  • The damage resistance does affect shields. Frames with naturally high shields such as  Harrow and  Hildryn can take advantage of the recharging capability of shields, their high capacity, and the damage resistance to repeatedly weather fire from large numbers of enemies.
  • Reinforcing buffer abilities like  Rhino's  Iron Skin or  Nezha's  Warding Halo are not affected by the damage resistance granted by this mod.
    • In the case of Nezha's Warding Halo, Adaptation will only reduce the 10% damage taken to shields and health that is not prevented by Warding Halo, but will not reduce damage taken to Warding Halo itself. This can help to serve as a damage buffer for when Warding Halo expires.
• This mod appears to prevent, or give a chance to prevent, status effects from the damage types that the user has accumulated resistances to. Requires testing.
• Can be combined with  Antitoxin to become heavily resistant to , however high amounts of at higher levels will still instantly kill the player even if also equipped with  Toxin Resistance.
• Can be combined with  Flame Repellent,  Insulation,  Lightning Rod,  Diamond Skin, to provide complete immunity to those respective elements at a full stack.

Trivia

• The effects of this mod are similar to the Sentient's damage adaptation ability, but with some differences:
  • This mod's damage resistance takes effect immediately upon receiving damage, while the Sentient's take effect upon reaching certain health thresholds.
  • This mod's damage resistance gradually builds up to 90%, while the Sentient's max out instantly at 95%.
  • This mod can have all damage types resisted simultaneously, while the Sentient's can only have up to a maximum of five resistances.

Bugs

• When  damage from  procs is taken,  adaptation is granted. This, however, is a visual placeholder for True Damage adaptation, and still applies as normal.
• Some enemy attacks will instantly max your resistance to 90% to that damage type, such as a Heavy Gunner hitting you with her weapon when you get close, or her ground slam.

Media

Adaptation Mod Is Good...When It Actually Works

Gladiator Ember With Fire IMMUNITY Using Adaptation (NO Arcanes)

Patch History

Hotfix 23.10.7 (2018-10-24)

• Fixed script error resulting in black icons to appear in place of HUD buffs when the Adaptation Mod is equipped.

Hotfix 23.10.5 (2018-10-18)

• More fixes towards the Adaptation Mod sometimes making players invincible.

Hotfix 23.10.4 (2018-10-16)

• Fixed the Adaptation Mod sometimes making players completely invincible.

Update 23.10 (2018-10-12)

• Introduced.

Last updated: Hotfix 23.10.7 (2018-10-24)