Athodai is a Tenno hand-cannon that shoots long-ranged laser beams, with an Alternate Fire function that discharges all ammo to burst-fire in a short-ranged cone. Headshot kills with the primary fire increase the weapon's fire rate and grant infinite ammo, but locks out the Alternate Fire.
Characteristics[]
- This weapon deals primarily
Heat damage. - Primary Fire shoots fully automatic rounds.
- Headshot kills with primary fire trigger the Overdrive buff, increasing fire rate by 100% and Ammo Efficiency by 100% for 8 seconds.
- Overdrive buff increases recoil and disables Alternate Fire for its duration, and cannot be refreshed.
- Headshot kills with primary fire trigger the Overdrive buff, increasing fire rate by 100% and Ammo Efficiency by 100% for 8 seconds.
- Alternate Fire shoots a cone of energy, ejecting all remaining ammunition in the magazine in a quick burst.
- Pinpoint accuracy.
- Innate 2 meter Punch Through.
- Cone has a thickness of 2 meters.
- Prevents zoom.
- This prevents the buffs from Hydraulic Crosshairs and Sharpened Bullets from affecting this mode as a result.
- This prevents the buffs from
- Innate polarity.
Advantages:
- Primary Fire tied with Plinx for the fourth highest critical chance of all secondaries, behind Akbolto Prime, Knell Prime and a fully charged Epitaph.
- Normal Attack
- Very high crit chance
- Above average damage
- Alt-Fire
- Second highest effective fire rate behind Kuva Kraken
- Above average magazine
- Second highest effective fire rate behind
Disadvantages:
- Alternate Fire has a limited range of 12 meters.
- Alternate Fire consumes 1 ammo per damage tick instead of 0.5, unlike most other continuous weapons.
- Extremely low ammo capacity; requires just 2 reloads to fully deplete all ammo reserves.
- Normal Attack
- Below average effective fire rate
- Very low max ammo
- Low reload speed
- Very low status chance
- Low disposition
- Alt-Fire
- Low max ammo
- Low disposition
Acquisition
Athodai was acquired by watching TennoCon 2020 on WARFRAME's Twitch with a Twitch-linked account for 30 consecutive minutes, between 12:30 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. ET, on August 1st, 2020. It comes with a free weapon slot and pre-installed Orokin Catalyst.
- Due to thousands of players reporting missing Twitch drops, on August 6th, 2020 Athodai was distributed to all players if they were logged in to WARFRAME during TennoCon 2020, regardless if they watched the streams or not.[1] This resulted in some players receiving two Athodai.
Athodai's blueprint and components are now available in Venus Proxima Abandoned Derelict Caches in Empyrean missions. All parts can be traded between players.
| Item | Source | Chance | Expected | Nearly Guaranteed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Blueprint |
Venus Proxima Resource Caches / B | 6.45% | ~ 15 B Caches | 103 ± 34 B Caches |
 Barrel |
Venus Proxima Resource Caches / B | 6.45% | ~ 15 B Caches | 103 ± 34 B Caches |
 Receiver |
Venus Proxima Resource Caches / B | 6.45% | ~ 15 B Caches | 103 ± 34 B Caches |
All drop rates data is obtained from DE's official drop tables.
See Mission Rewards#Standard Missions for definitions on reward table rotations.
Drop chances are rounded to two decimal places, following the official drop tables repository.
Expected means a player can expect to obtain at least one of a drop every N attempts on average.
Nearly Guaranteed refers to the total number of attempts a player needs to obtain
a 1 in 10^2,3, and 4 probability not to have recieved a single drop (99%, 99.9%, and 99.99% probability to have received at least one drop).
The combined probability of multiple drops is 1 - ((1-A%) * (1-B%) * ...) (add drops in same rotation)
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Notes[]
- Overdrive buff grants 100% increased fire rate and allows it to consume no ammo while firing, but increases recoil and disables the Alternate Fire feature. The buff lasts for 8 seconds.
- The buff triggers only on headshot kills, and not other weakspots, such as the backpacks of most MOA variants. Similarly, shooting weakspots generated by either Sonar or Detect Vulnerability in places other than heads will have no effect either.
- Overdrive's fire rate buff is multiplicative to all other fire rate increases, such as Gunslinger, Lethal Torrent, Gauss's Redline, or Wisp's Haste Reservoirs.
- Duration cannot be refreshed.
- Overdrive takes precedence over Arcane Pistoleer, preventing the Arcane from triggering.
- The buff triggers only on headshot kills, and not other weakspots, such as the backpacks of most MOA variants. Similarly, shooting weakspots generated by either
- The Alternate Fire ejects all of the remaining ammunition in the magazine in a single burst.
- Because of this fact, increasing the magazine size of the weapon such as with Slip Magazine and using recoil reduction mods like Steady Hands can help to make its damage output more consistent and reliable.
- Alternate Fire can be interrupted (preserving the ammunition left in the magazine) by rolling or quick melee.
- Alternate Fire will not function under the effects of any ammo efficiency or infinite ammo buff (Energized Munitions Overdrive, Arcane Pistoleer, Reactant Buff), instead firing a single round.
- Because of this fact, increasing the magazine size of the weapon such as with
Tips[]
- Hydraulic Crosshairs and Secondary Deadhead pairs well with the primary fire's Overdrive buff.
Media[]
Patch History[]
Hotfix 31.0.3 (2021-12-17)
- Fixed the Athodai having the wrong firing sound. As reported here: https://forums.warframe.com/topic/1290701-athodai-has-the-wrong-sound-after-update/
Update 30.6 (2021-08-04)
- Fixed inability to equip the Secondary Deadhead Arcane on the Athodai.
Hotfix 29.10.3 (2021-03-23)
- Fixed inability to Trade the Athodai Blueprint and its components.
Update 29.10 (2021-03-19)
- Find the Athodai Blueprint and its respective parts on new Corpus Railjack Orokin Shield Derelicts!
Update 29.0 (2020-08-25)
- Updated Athodai’s description to indicate that “headshot KILLS trigger Overdrive”.
Update 28.3 (2020-08-12)
- Fixed the Athodai Alt Fire only draining the Magazine down by 24 Ammo (the default) rather than drain the Magazine to 0 as intended when equipped with Magazine capacity increase Mods.
