Carmine Penta

Corpus Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

Carmine Penta
Statistics
Mastery	6
Slot	Primary
Type	Launcher
Trigger Type	Active
Utility
Ammo Type	Sniper
Projectile Type	Projectile
Projectile Speed	20 m/s
Noise Level	Alarming
Fire Rate	2.7
Accuracy	100
Magazine Size	10
Max Ammo	40
Reload Time	2.5 s
Disposition	●●●●○ (1.25x)
Grenade Impact
75
Total Damage	75
Projectile Type	Projectile
Projectile Speed	20 m/s
Fire Rate	2.7
Multishot	1 (75 damage per projectile)
Status Chance	10%
Crit Chance	10%
Crit Multiplier	2x
Grenade Detonation
350
Total Damage	350
Projectile Type	AoE
Range	4 m
Fire Rate	2.7
Multishot	1 (350 damage per projectile)
Status Chance	10%
Crit Chance	10%
Crit Multiplier	2x
Damage Falloff	100% damage up to 0 m 50% damage at 4 m 50% max reduction
Miscellaneous
Exilus Polarity	None
Polarities	None
Introduced	Update 29.10 (2021-03-19)
Variants	Penta Penta Secura Penta Secura Penta
Internal Name	/Lotus/Weapons/Corpus/LongGuns/GrenadeLauncher/CarminePenta

CODEX

Enveloped in deep red composite enamel, this Penta variant features a higher fire-rate and over-sized magazine.

The Carmine Penta is a special variant of the Penta Penta grenade launcher, featuring a higher fire rate and doubled magazine size.

Characteristics

This weapon deals primarily Blast Damage Blast damage.

Advantages :

• Innate Blast Damage Blast damage – effective against Machinery and Fossilized.
  • Physical contact with grenades deal Impact Damage Impact damage.
• 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 Heavy Caliber's accuracy penalty is minimal on this weapon.
• Can use the launcher-exclusive Adhesive Blast Adhesive Blast and Firestorm Firestorm mods, as well as the Penta-exclusive Tether Grenades Tether Grenades and Napalm Grenades Napalm Grenades mods.

Disadvantages:

• Innate Blast Damage Blast damage – less effective against Ferrite Armor.
  • Explosion damage cannot be increased by mods that add Slash Damage Slash, Impact Damage Impact or Puncture Damage Puncture damage.
• 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 Adhesive Blast mod which will make the grenades stick to any surface.
  • Tether Grenades 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):
  • Higher burst DPS (1,039.5 vs. 385)
  • Higher sustained DPS (620.6 vs. 256.67)
  • Higher fire rate (2.7 round(s)/sec vs. 1 round(s)/sec)
  • Larger magazine (10 round(s) vs. 5 round(s))
  • Larger max ammo capacity (40 round(s) vs. 20 round(s))
  • Lower disposition (1.25 vs. 1.35)

• Carmine Penta (Grenade Detonation), compared to Secura Penta (Grenade Detonation):
  • Higher base damage per projectile (350 vs. 300)
    • Higher Blast Damage Blast damage (350 vs. 300)
  • Higher total damage (350 vs. 300)
  • Lower base critical chance (10% vs. 26%)
  • Lower base status chance (10% vs. 26%)
  • Higher average damage per shot (385 vs. 378)
  • Higher burst DPS (1,039.5 vs. 756)
  • Higher sustained DPS (620.6 vs. 441)
  • Closer ending damage falloff distance (4m vs. 6m)
  • Lesser max damage reduction at ending falloff distance (0.5x vs. 0.6x)
  • Higher fire rate (2.7 round(s)/sec vs. 2 round(s)/sec)
  • Larger magazine (10 round(s) vs. 7 round(s))
  • Larger max ammo capacity (40 round(s) vs. 28 round(s))
  • Different polarities (None vs. )
  • Lower Mastery Rank required (6 vs. 12)
  • Lower disposition (1.25 vs. 1.3)
  • Lack of an innate Sequence effect

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.

Source	Chance	Expected	Nearly Guaranteed
Main Blueprint	6.06%	34 – 35 Rotation B Caches	133 ± 37 Rotation B Caches
Barrel	6.06%
Receiver	6.06%
Stock	6.06%

All drop rates data is obtained from DE's official droptables.

Expected refers to total number of attempts a player can expect to need in order to receive at least one of each drop associated with the respective values.
Nearly Guaranteed refers to the total number of attempts a player needs to obtain a 99%, 99.9%, and 99.99% probability to receive at least one of each drop associated with the respective values.
^{For more detailed definitions and information on how these number were obtained, visit here.}

Manufacturing Requirements
20,000	1	1	1		Time: 12 hrs
					Rush: 35
Market Price: N/A			Blueprints Price:N/A

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

How it looks with every magazine mod equipped

Carmine penta as it appears in the aresnal

Warframe Carmain Penta

Carmine Penta Skins Edit

Shock Camo

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 Penta, the original version.
• Secura Penta Secura Penta, the Perrin Sequence custom version.