The Carmine Penta is a special variant of the 
Penta grenade launcher, featuring a higher fire rate and doubled magazine size.
Characteristics[]
This weapon deals primarily 
Blast damage.
Advantages :
- Innate
Blast damage – effective against Machinery and Fossilized.
- Physical contact with grenades deal Impact damage.
- Physical contact with grenades deal
- Grenades explode in 4 meter radius on impact with a surface or enemy.
- Initial hit and explosion apply status separately.
- Explosion does not need direct line of sight to deal damage and will penetrate walls.
- Pinpoint accuracy.
- Heavy Caliber's accuracy penalty is minimal on this weapon.
- Can use the launcher-exclusive Adhesive Blast and Firestorm mods, as well as the Penta-exclusive Tether Grenades and Napalm Grenades mods.
Disadvantages:
- Innate Blast damage – less effective against Ferrite Armor.
- Low critical chance and status chance.
- Grenades have slow travel time and heavy arcing.
- Explosions can cause self-stagger.
- Can only have five grenades out at once.
- Extra projectiles generated by Multishot will count towards the limit of five live grenades.
- Slow reload speed.
- Grenades have a high bouncing capability which makes it hard to stack on a desired spot.
- Can bounce off teammates or companions, potentially causing self stagger.
- This can be countered with the Adhesive Blast mod which will make the grenades stick to any surface.
- Tether Grenades counters this, with the additional benefit of keeping a tethered enemy from leaving the blast radius.
- Draws from the rare sniper ammo pool.
Comparisons:
- Carmine Penta (Grenade Detonation), compared to Penta (Grenade Detonation):
- Equal base damage, but different composition:
- Higher burst DPS (1039.5 vs. 385)
- Higher sustained DPS (620.59 vs. 256.66)
- Higher fire rate (2.7 vs. 1)
- Larger magazine (10 vs. 5)
- Larger max ammo capacity (40 vs. 20)
- Lower disposition (●●●●○ (1.25x) vs. ●●●●● (1.35x))
- Carmine Penta (Grenade Detonation), compared to Secura Penta (Grenade Detonation):
- Higher base damage per projectile (350 vs. 300)
- Higher Blast damage (350 vs. 300)
- Higher
- Higher total damage (350 vs. 300)
- Lower base critical chance (10.00% vs. 26.00%)
- Lower base status chance (10.00% vs. 26.00%)
- Higher average damage per tap (385 vs. 378)
- Higher burst DPS (1039.5 vs. 756)
- Higher sustained DPS (620.59 vs. 441)
- Closer max damage falloff distance (4.0m vs. 6.0m)
- Lesser max damage reduction at ending falloff distance (50.00% vs. 60.00%)
- Higher fire rate (2.7 vs. 2)
- Larger magazine (10 vs. 7)
- Larger max ammo capacity (40 vs. 28)
- Lower Mastery Rank required (6 vs. 12)
- Lower disposition (●●●●○ (1.25x) vs. ●●●●○ (1.30x))
- No innate Sequence effect
- Higher base damage per projectile (350 vs. 300)
Acquisition
This weapon's blueprints and components can be obtained from Pluto Proxima or Veil Proxima Corpus-controlled Abandoned Derelict Caches in Empyrean missions. All parts can be traded between players.
| Item | Source | Chance | Expected | Nearly Guaranteed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Blueprint |
Pluto Proxima Resource Caches / B | 6.06% | ~ 16 B Caches | 110 ± 36 B Caches |
| Blueprint |
Corpus Veil Proxima Resource Caches / B | 6.06% | ~ 16 B Caches | 110 ± 36 B Caches |
 Barrel |
Pluto Proxima Resource Caches / B | 6.06% | ~ 16 B Caches | 110 ± 36 B Caches |
| Barrel |
Corpus Veil Proxima Resource Caches / B | 6.06% | ~ 16 B Caches | 110 ± 36 B Caches |
 Stock |
Pluto Proxima Resource Caches / B | 6.06% | ~ 16 B Caches | 110 ± 36 B Caches |
| Stock |
Corpus Veil Proxima Resource Caches / B | 6.06% | ~ 16 B Caches | 110 ± 36 B Caches |
 Receiver |
Pluto Proxima Resource Caches / B | 6.06% | ~ 16 B Caches | 110 ± 36 B Caches |
| Receiver |
Corpus Veil Proxima Resource Caches / B | 6.06% | ~ 16 B Caches | 110 ± 36 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[]
- Although it features twice the magazine size of the regular Penta, only a maximum of five grenades can be active.
- Grenades will immediately explode when they hit Blunts, water surface, puddles from Tar Mutalist MOA or Bulwarks
Media[]
Warframe Carmain Penta
Carmine Penta Skins
Trivia[]
- Carmine refers to a bright red pigment derived from various insects.
- This weapon used to be exclusive to WARFRAME (China), through a rebate program after purchasing at least ¥1 worth of Platinum. It has been available to the global build since Update 29.10 (2021-03-19).
Patch History[]
Update 29.10 (2021-03-19)
- Introduced.
See Also[]
- Penta, the original version.
- Secura Penta, the Perrin Sequence custom version.
