Carving Mantis

Carving Mantis
Tradeable
Can be obtained from transmutation
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Max Rank Description
Strong slashes and quick stabs that keeps momentum forward.
General Information
Type	Dual Swords
Polarity	Naramon
Rarity	Rare
Compatibility Tags	DUAL_SWORDS_STANCE
Max Rank	3
Endo Required To Max	210
Credits Required To Max	10,143
Base Capacity Cost	-2
Trading Tax	8,000
Introduced	Update 22.0 (2017-10-12)
Vendor Sources
Official Drop Tables
https://www.warframe.com/droptables

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 Keres Prime ✓
•  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

Default Combos of Stance or Weapon (📝 Edit Stance Data)

Combo/Attack	Name	Attack Multipliers and Forced Procs						Avg Dmg Multi/s	Length @ 1.0 Attack Speed	Animation
Neutral (While Not Moving)	Rapid Incisions	200%  100%	300%	2x 300%	300%	200%	200%	487.2%/s	3.9s
Forward (While Moving)	Ambush Predator	100%	3x 100%	2x 100%	200%	300%		468.1%/s	2.4s
Forward Block (While Blocking & Moving)	Dire Courtship	2x 200%	2x 200%					666.7%/s	1.2s
Block (While Blocking)	Biting Mandibles	4x 100%	200%  200%	400%				489.8%/s	2.5s
Heavy (Heavy Attack)	Northern Coil*	2x 250%	2x 250%					303.0%/s	3.3s
Slide (While Sliding)	Trimming Flowers*	200%						166.7%/s	1.2s
Aerial (While In Air)	Red Soil*	200%	200%	2x 200%				347.8%/s	2.3s
Wall (While Wall Latching)	Weightless Steel*	300%						136.4%/s	2.2s
Finisher (On Knocked Down Enemy)	Mirrored Spike*	2x 800%						842.1%/s	1.9s
Slam (Looking At Ground While In Air)	Slam Attack*	200%						0.0%/s	2.2s
Default "Sweep" Attack •  360°/Spin Attack •  Direct and Radial Slam Attack •  Ranged Attack •  "Thrust" Attack View Full Legend Key Inputs  Basic Melee  (PC default LMB or E; XBX, PSN, and NSW default right button)  Heavy Attack (PC default MMB; XBX, PSN, and NSW default left trigger)  Block  (PC default RMB; XBX, PSN, and NSW default right trigger)  Forward Movement  (PC default W; XBX, PSN, and NSW default tilt up right thumbstick) Multipliers and Hits  200%  Attack does double damage   2x 100%  Attack hits twice  Forced Procs  Knockback  Weakened  Bleed  Inaccuracy  Knockdown  Lifted  Stagger  Ragdoll  Finisher (front, back, or ground)   Impair (PvP only)  Melee Attack Explanations A "sweep attack" is an arcing melee strike that intends to hit an enemy with the edge of the blade (the length of obround melee hitbox). A "thrust attack" is a melee strike that intends to hit an enemy with the tip of the blade (the rounded edge of obround melee hitbox). A "360/spin attack" is a sliding sweep attack that hits targets around the player (not always in a 360° arc, but is usually above 180°). A "direct slam attack" is a melee strike that hits a single target at the epicenter of a slam attack. Affected by the Seismic Wave mod. A "radial slam attack" is the area-of-effect component of the melee slam attack. Affected by the Seismic Wave mod. A "ranged attack" is any melee attack that launches a ranged projectile or can hit targets beyond melee range. View Full Legend Average Damage Multiplier per second only applies to single-target DPS calculations. Note that hits marked as "Radial Slam Attack" will not apply at the epicenter of a single target hit so these will not be accounted for in Avg Dmg Multi/s calculations. Combo animation lengths are approximate and are only accurate within a few tenths of a second. Each tile marking in stance preview gifs are 2m apart. Combos labeled with an asterisk (*) are shared between weapons within the same weapon type.

Drop Locations

Mission Drop Tables

Mission Type	Source	Rotations or Drop Table	Chance	Quantity	Avg. per roll	Star Chart Nodes
Cetus Bounty	Cetus Bounty Lvl 40-60 Final Stage	A	8.16%	1	0.0816	Plains of Eidolon/Cetus, Earth; talk to Konzu
Cetus Bounty	Cetus Bounty Lvl 40-60 Stage 4	A	5.41%	1	0.0541	Plains of Eidolon/Cetus, Earth; talk to Konzu
Cetus Bounty	Steel Path Cetus Bounty Lvl 100-100 Stage 4 of 5	A	5.41%	1	0.0541	Plains of Eidolon/Cetus, Earth; talk to Konzu
Cetus Bounty	Steel Path Cetus Bounty Lvl 100-100 Final Stage	A	8.16%	1	0.0816	Plains of Eidolon/Cetus, Earth; talk to Konzu

Enemy Drop Tables

Enemy	Drop Table Chance	Item Chance	Chance	Expected Kills	Quantity	Avg. per roll attempt
Mimic	30%	7.14%	2.142%	47	1	0.02142
Plains Commander	100%	0.5%	0.5%	200	1	0.005

Sourced from the official drop table repository. See Module:DropTables/data to edit on the wiki.

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)

Update 29.10 (2021-03-19)

• Removed the forced Impact proc from Rapid Incisions' third attack.
• Removed the forced Impact proc from the first hit of Rapid Incisions' fourth attack.
• Removed the forced Impact proc from Ambush Predator's fourth attack.
• Removed the forced Impact proc from Ambush Predator's fifth attack.
• Removed the forced Impact procs from Dire Courtship's first attack.
• Replaced the knockdown on Dire Courtship's second attack with an Impact proc.
• Removed the forced Impact proc from the first hit of Biting Mandibles' second attack.

Update 22.0 (2017-10-12)

• Introduced