Amalgam Alkonost

Corpus

Amalgam Alkonost
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The full realization of the grotesque partnership between Alad V and the Sentients. This unit can upgrade organic allies by capturing them and birthing neuro-carnivorous memes directly into their brain stems, thereby super-charging their fighting capacity and resilience.
General Information
Faction	Corpus
Planet(s)	Jupiter
Tile Set(s)	Corpus Gas City
Type	Ranged
Abilities	Neuro-Carnivorous Enhancer (captured allies)
Statistics
Affinity	-1
Shield	300
-  -  ++  ++  +++
Robotic	650
-  -  +  +  ++
Body Multipliers	Head: 1.0x
Base Level	1
Level Scaling
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Selected Level	––
EHP	––
Steel Path EHP	––
Miscellaneous
Codex Scans	3
Introduced	Update 25.0 (2019-05-22)
Drops
Mod Drops	Aero Periphery 5.48%  Motus Signal 3.30%  Proton Pulse 3.30%  Aero Vantage 0.87%  Motus Impact 0.87%  Proton Jet 0.87%  Motus Setup 0.15%  Proton Snap 0.15%
Resource Drops	Region Resource 7.00%
Official Drop Tables
https://www.warframe.com/droptables

CODEX

The full realization of the grotesque partnership between Alad V and the Sentients. This unit can upgrade organic allies by capturing them and birthing neuro-carnivorous memes directly into their brain stems, thereby super-charging their fighting capacity and resilience.

The Amalgam Alkonost is a Corpus Amalgam. Fully converted into a Sentient, this unit can latch onto their organic allies and inject enhancers directly into their brain, boosting their offense and defense prowess.

Tactics

Alkonosts can enhance nearly any humanoid Corpus unit, including those that it would never encounter within the Gas City. Enhanced units will fully regain all their health and shields after the injection, and gain drastically improved movement speed and greatly increased damage resistance. They also manifest a blue aura, and if their helmets are shot off, it will reveal that their facial skin is melted, which exposes their red fleshy muscles. Alkonosts are also immune to status effects and certain Warframe abilities.

Eligible targets are listed below. Anything italicized refers to targets Alkonosts cannot encounter in regular gameplay:

• Almost all Crewmen (Normal, Detron, Elite, Nullifier, Prod, Sniper, Tech, Overtaker, Plasmor, Trencher) and their tileset variants;
• Combas and Scrambuses;
• Orb Vallis Targets (Cestra Target, Sniper Target, Supra Target, Trencher Target);
• Heist Targets (Armaments Director, Sentient Research Director, Vivisect Director);
• Select Index brokers (Jad Teran, Pelna Cade, Ved Xol, Armis Ulta, Dru Pesfor, Rana Del); and
• Corrupted Nullifiers, which can spawn during Void Fissures, but not Corrupted Crewmen.

Damage Reduction

Amalgam Alkonosts possess Damage Reduction that scales depending on your weapon's DPS excluding critical hits. DPS is calculated by

$(\text{modded damage})\cdot(\text{modded fire rate})\cdot(\text{modded multishot})\cdot(\text{body part multipiers})$

Critical Hits are applied after the damage resistance is calculated. Additionally, the average DPS is calculated using all health/shield modifiers, other sources of damage reduction, and is quantized.

${ \text{Damage Multiplier} = \begin{cases} 1,\; & \text{DPS}_{Average} \leq 1000 \\ 0.8 + \frac{200}{\text{DPS}_{Average}},\; & 1000 < \text{DPS}_{Average} \leq 6000 \\ 0.7 + \frac{800}{\text{DPS}_{Average}},\; & 6000 < \text{Average DPS} \leq 10000 \\ 0.5 + \frac{2800}{\text{DPS}_{Average}},\; & 10000 < \text{Average DPS} \leq 30000 \\ 0.2 + \frac{11800}{\text{DPS}_{Average}},\; & 30000 < \text{Average DPS} \end{cases} }$

Proc Damage uses the same formulas where average DPS is defined as :

$\textbf{DPS}_{Proc} = (\text{proc damage}) \cdot (\text{critical multiplier if triggered}) \cdot (\text{modded fire rate}) \cdot (\text{modded multishot})$

Notes

• An Alkonost affected by  Mind Control will not attempt to upgrade anyone, and simply fire at its enemies.
  • A captured and upgraded Corpus can also be Mind Controlled, giving you a stronger unit. However they will often choose to take cover more than engage enemies.
• It is possible for Amalgam Alkonosts to spawn as Eximus units, albeit very rarely due to their already rare spawn rate in most missions.
  • These forms include Energy Leech Eximus, Guardian Eximus and Blitz Eximus.

Trivia

• Alkonost is the name of a mythological creature of Slavic folklore, a woman-headed bird, similar to the Sirens of Greek mythology.
• While almost entirely converted into a sentient form it still retains some of the original host used for conversion, shown by a single Crewman helmet (whether it includes a head or not is unknown) at the very top of the creature, and the host's gloves.
• Alkonosts can be seen in various pools in the Sentient Ship tileset.

Media

• Alkonosts forming in the pools on the Sentient Ship.

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Patch History

Hotfix 25.0.8 (2019-05-31)

• Boosted Drop Chance of Hexenon from Amalgams to ~7.7%

Hotfix 25.0.4 (2019-05-28)

• Reduced Rare Resource drop chance from 50% to 7% from Amalgam as seen here.
• Removed the Amalgam Alkonosts Armor and gave it a slight Health boost.
• Fixed Rivens that are capable of hitting negative Damage via Critical Multiplier resulting in insta-killing enemies that have innate Damage resistance (Amalgam Alkonost). They will now properly take 0 Damage from a negative Critical Multiplier weapon, the same way regular enemies do.

Hotfix 25.0.3 (2019-05-24)

• Removed Amalgams spawning on Jupiter > Themisto due to narrative/lore confusion.

Update 25.0 (2019-05-22)

• Introduced.