Buff & Debuff

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Buffs and Debuffs are effects that can positively or negatively affect a target. Some buffs and debuffs may present an icon right next to the player's health and shields. In-game, Blue icons denote buffs and red icons denote debuffs.

General Buffs

Name	Type	Target	Description
Damage Bonus	Buff	User/Ally	Additive damage increase is added before other calculations. Bonus acts like and stacks additively with damage mods such as Serration. Caused by: Chroma's Vex Armor Equinox's Metamorphosis Limbo's  Rift Torrent augment Mesa's Shooting Gallery Octavia's Amp Multiplicative damage increase is multiplied after certain calculations (like damage mods such as Serration). Caused by: Excalibur's  Furious Javelin augment Mirage's Eclipse and  Hall of Malevolence augment Rhino's Roar Wukong's  Iron Vault augment[citation needed]
Elemental Damage Bonus	Buff	Ally	Increases the damage of weapons and certain abilities. This bonus is multiplicative after damage mods such as  Serration, but before Elemental mods such as  Hellfire. The element bonus can combine with elements already present on the weapon (e.g. using  Fireball Frenzy on a weapon makes it deal ) or increase the elemental component of a secondary element if that is not innate (e.g. using  Shock Trooper on a weapon modded with increases the component on the weapon, if is innate, is added following the above rules). Elemental damage bonuses can be cast on Companions, Specters, Mind Controlled enemies, Shadows, Saryn's Molt, Loki's Decoy, Invasion Allies and Clones created from Blade Storm. Bonuses cannot be applied to allies suffering from a proc. Elemental damage bonuses are granted by:  Energy Field, adds  Fireball Frenzy, adds , adds  Freeze Force, adds  Shock Trooper, adds  Smite Infusion, adds  Venom Dose, adds
Corruption	Buff	All	Obtainable during Void Fissures, the effect varies for enemies and Tennos. Enemies: The target will be stunned temporarily, granting invulnerability during that time frame. Tenno: After collecting 10 Reactants, a buff will be randomly given to either the Warframe or a weapon. The buffed equipment will have a corrupted texture effect and emit lighting bolts for the duration of the buff. The buff duration is based on the tier of the Void Fissure, following the formula: Buff Duration = 30s × Mission Tier. Warframe: Two times multiplier to Ability Range and Strength. This affects the total value. For example, with a maxed  Intensify Ability Strength becomes (1 + 0.3) × 2 = 260% while the buff is active. Primary and Secondary Weapons: No Ammo will be consumed. Melee Weapons: Channeling cost is reduced to 1 point of Energy per enemy hit.
Arcane Enhancements	Buff	User	See Arcane Enhancement for more details.
Movement Speed Bonus	Buff	All	Movement Speed increase caused by: User only: Nezha's Fire Walker User & Ally: Nova's  Escape Velocity augment Octavia's Metronome Volt's Speed Zephyr's  Jet Stream augment Enemy: Nova's Molecular Prime if Ability Strength is below 70% Equinox's day form Rest & Rage
Attack Speed Bonus	Buff	User/Ally	Attack Speed increase caused by: Harrow's Penance Octavia's Metronome Valkyr's Warcry Volt's Speed
Eximus Aura	Buff	Enemy	(Mind controlled enemies and syndicate specters will grant bonus to allies) Arson/Caustic Eximus units project a fire resistance aura to their nearby allies, which nullifies all damage; this aura also extends to combined elemental damage and will nullify the damage of combined types utilizing it. Arctic Eximus units project a cold resistance aura to their nearby allies, which nullifies all damage; this aura also extends to combined elemental damage types and will nullify the damage of said combined type. Shock Eximus units project an electric resistance aura on their nearby allies which nullifies all damage. This aura also extends to combined elemental damage and will nullify the damage of said combined type. Venomous Eximus units project a toxin resistance aura to their nearby allies, which nullifies all damage, this aura also extends to combined elemental damage and will nullify the damage of said combined type.
Ancient Disruptor Aura	Buff	Enemy	(Mind controlled enemies will grant bonus to allies; note that some of the bonuses may not apply to players) Reduces damaged recieved from Warframe abilities by 90% Energy from Warframes are drained proportionally to the damage dealt by enemies under the aura Reduces crowd control effects of certain Warframe abilities (effect varies from ability to ability) Multiple Ancient Disruptor auras can stack, causing a greater reduction effect
Ancient Healer Aura	Buff	Enemy	(Mind controlled enemies will grant bonus to allies) Grants 90% damage reduction Status and knockdown immunity to all under the aura Damage done to protected allies will heal the Ancient Healer for up to 150% of its health
Mutalist Quanta's Orbs	External Buff	User/Ally	Shots fired through the Mutalist Quanta's infested orbs gain additional damage, critical chance and damage. Damage bonus stacks with the amount of stacks the orbs have when the shots go through them.
Volt's Electric Shield	External Buff	User/Ally	Shots fired through Volt's Electric Shield gain an additive 50% damage and have their critical damage multiplied by 200%. damage bonus stacks with the amount of shields while the critical chance boost does not.
Ember's Fire Blast	External Buff	User/Ally	Shooting through the Ember's Fire Blast flame ring grants +50% damage. This damage bonus does not scale with Ability Strength. The additional Heat damage is additive to elemental Mods and similar buffs. Shooting through multiple rings adds 50% damage for each ring.
Maneuver Bonus	Buff	User/Ally	Maneuver Bonuses caused by: User only: Loki's passive Wall Latch lasts 10 times longer (60 second duration) Mirage's passive +25% faster Bullet Jump speed +50% faster Maneuver speed Titania's passive +25% Bullet Jump distance While holding Telos Boltace 20% boost to Bullet Jump speed Increased Aim Glide duration and Wall Latch duration User & Ally: Titania's passive Bullet jumping also creates a trampoline that lasts 5 seconds and grants the Upsurge buff, giving the same +25% distance to Bullet Jump maneuvers performed in the area.

Buff & Debuff Icons

Name	Icon	Type	Target	Source(s)
Ability Strength		Buff	User	Energy Conversion •  Growing Power
Ability Duration		Buff	User	???
Ability Range		Buff	User	???
Accuracy		Buff	User	Guided Ordnance •  Narrow Barrel •  Targeting Subsystem
Berserker		Buff	User
Bleeding Key		Debuff	User	Equipping a Bleeding Dragon Key in the Gear slot
Bullet Jump		Buff	User	???
Corruption		Buff	User	Obtaining 10 Void Traces in a Void Fissure
Critical Hit Chance		Buff	User	Argon Scope •  Cat's Eye •  Hydraulic Crosshairs
Critical Damage Multiplier		Buff	User	Bladed Rounds •  Sharpened Bullets •  Shrapnel Shot
Decaying Key		Debuff	User	Equipping a Decaying Dragon Key in the Gear slot
Energizing Dash		Buff	User/Ally	Entering ring of energy created from player with Energizing Dash active
Extinguished Key		Debuff	User	Equipping an Extinguished Dragon Key in the Gear slot
Forte		Ability Buff	User/Ally	Octavia's Metronome ability
Furious Javelin		Ability Buff	User	Excalibur's Furious Javelin augment
Hobbled Key		Debuff	User	Equipping a Hobbled Dragon Key in the Gear slot
Inspiration		Passive Buff	User/Ally	Octavia's passive
Invigorated		Buff	User	Critical hits dealt by Hirudo
Iron Renewal		Buff	User/Ally	Warframes affected by Oberon's Renewal while standing on Hallowed Ground
Shock Trooper		Ability Buff	Ally	Volt's Shock Trooper augment
Speed		Ability Buff	User/Ally	Volt's Speed ability
Tenno Affinity		External Buff	Any Warframe	Nearby squadmates
Upsurge		External Buff	User/Ally	Titania's passive

Debuffs

Name	Type	Target	Description
Transference Static	Debuff	User	Occurs when the Operator suffers fatal damage. Depletes all of the Warframe's shields while taking 10% of their current health as damage. This debuff lasts for 45 seconds and additional Static will not refresh the timer, only stacking on top of it, up to 4 times.
Suspended	Debuff	Enemy	The target stays in a ragdoll state and it is unable to move. Caused by: Hydroid's Tentacle Swarm Inaros's Sandstorm Nezha's Divine Spears Rhino's Rhino Stomp Titania's Spellbind and Lantern (in both cases the target is suspended midair) Vauban's Vortex Zephyr's Tornado
Paralyzed	Debuff	Enemy	The target is stuck in a particular position. Caused by: Harrow's Condemn Vauban's Bastille
Frozen, Petrified, Vitrified	Debuff	Enemy	The target is unable to move, every previously active Status Effect is paused and it is impossible to apply new ones while this effect persists. Caused by: Atlas  Path of Statues Petrify Rumblers' initial cast Frost Cryogenic passive. Freeze's direct hit. Snow Globe if the target is inside the bubble when the ability is activated.  Chilling Globe augment. Avalanche Gara Mass Vitrify's expansion phase. Limbo Stasis
Eximus Aura	Debuff	Enemy	(Mind controlled enemies and syndicate specters will grant debuff to enemies of the Tenno) Arctic Eximus units project a aura that emits a status effect to nearby enemies, slowing their movement and attack speed. Shock Eximus units project an aura that emits a status effect to enemies within a 5 meter radius, with enemies within a 2 meter radius taking damage at a steady rate. Venomous Eximus units project a aura that emits a status effect to enemies within a 10 meter radius, inflicting a 8 second status effect that deals damage over time Energy Leech/Parastic Eximus units can drain players' energy within 15 meters at a rate of 5s−1 (does not stack)