Carving Mantis

Carving Mantis
Transmutable
Statistics
Introduced	Update 22.0
Type	Dual Swords
Polarity	Naramon
Rarity	Rare
Tradable	true
Trading Tax	8,000
Source(s)	Missions: Cetus Bounty (Steel Path) (100-100, 100-100) Cetus Bounty (40-60, 40-60) Enemies: Mimic 2.142% Plains Commander 0.5%

• Excalibur performing Rapid Incisions.
• Excalibur performing Ambush Predator.
• Excalibur performing Dire Courtship.
• Excalibur performing Biting Mandibles.

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Carving Mantis is a stance mod for Dual Swords type weapons. It combines strong slashes and quick stabs while keeping forward momentum.

Can be equipped on:

• Dark Split-Sword (Dual Swords)
• Dex Dakra
• Dual Cleavers ✓
• Dual Ether
• Dual Heat Swords
• Dual Ichor
• Dual Kamas ✓
• Dual Kamas Prime ✓
• Dual Keres ✓
• Dual Raza ✓
• Dual Skana ✓
• Dual Zoren
• Nami Skyla ✓
• Nami Skyla Prime ✓
• Prisma Dual Cleavers ✓
• Twin Basolk
• Twin Krohkur ✓

✓ denotes weapon with matching Stance polarity

Combos

Combo Name	Button Combination						Length	Avg Dmg Multi/s
Rapid Incisions	200% 100%	300%	300%	300%	200%	200%	3.9s	410%/s
Ambush Predator	100%	3x 100%	2x 100%	200%	300%		2.35s	468%/s
+
Biting Mandibles	4x 100%	200% 200%	400%				2.45s	490%/s
+
Dire Courtship	2x 200%	2x 200%					1.2s	667%/s
( +  ) +
Northern Coil	2x 250%	2x 250%					N/A	N/A%/s
(Heavy Attack)
Trimming Flowers	200%						N/A	N/A%/s
(While Sliding)
Red Soil	2x 200%	200%	2x 200%				N/A	N/A%/s
(While In Air)
Weightless Steel	300%						N/A	N/A%/s
(While Wall Latching)
Mirrored Spike	2x 800%						N/A	N/A%/s
(On Knocked Down Enemy)
360° Attack    Slam Attack    Ranged Attack
View Full Legend Key Inputs  Basic Melee  (PC default LMB or E)  Heavy Attack  (PC default MMB)  Block  (PC default RMB)  Forward Movement  (PC default W) Multipliers and Hits 200%  Attack does double damage  2x 100%  Attack hits twice  Exclusive Procs   Impact or Stagger    Knockdown    Lifted    Ragdoll    Front, Back, or Ground Finisher    Impair (PvP only)  Shaded rows are combos shared across all stances of the weapon type.

Notes

• Many of the attacks do bonus  Slash damage.
  • The last 5 attacks of Rapid Incisions do 25% bonus  Slash damage.
  • Every attack of Ambush Predator except the first two hits of the second attack do 25% bonus  Slash damage.
  • The first and third attack of Biting Mandibles do 25% bonus  Slash damage.

Trivia

• Dire Courtship may be a reference to a female Praying Mantis' tendency to decapitate its mate.

Media

Warframe - All Melee 3.0 Combos (Part 3 of 3)

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Update 29.10

• (Undocumented) Removed various forced procs.