Cascadia Empowered

Cascadia Empowered
Tradeable
Max Rank Description
On Status Effect Deals an extra +750 damage matching the damage type of the Status Effect.
General Information
Type	Secondary
Rarity	Rare
Refreshable	✔️
Max Rank	5
Arcanes Required to Max	21
Trading Tax	8,000
Introduced	Update 31.5 (2022-04-27)
Drop Table Sources
Enemies 1x Void Angel 1.67% 1x Ravenous Void Angel 0.67% 1x Thrax Centurion 0.33% 1x Thrax Legatus 0.33%
Official Drop Tables
https://www.warframe.com/droptables

Cascadia Empowered is a Arcane Enhancement for Secondary weapons that deals a flat amount of damage based on Status Effect, matching the status's damage type.

Effect

Rank	Damage on status effect
0	250
1	350
2	450
3	550
4	650
5	750

Acquisition

Cascadia Empowered can be purchased from Cavalero for 7,500 Standing 7,500, requiring Rank 3 - Guardian with The Holdfasts. It can also be dropped by Thrax Centurion, Thrax Legatus, and Void Angels on the Zariman Ten Zero.

Item	Source	Chance	Expected	Nearly Guaranteed
	Thrax Centurion	0.33%	~ 299 Kills	2067 ± 689 Kills
	Thrax Legatus	0.33%	~ 299 Kills	2067 ± 689 Kills
	Void Angel	1.67%	~ 59 Kills	410 ± 136 Kills
	Ravenous Void Angel	0.67%	~ 149 Kills	1032 ± 344 Kills

All drop rates data is obtained from DE's official drop tables. See Mission Rewards#Standard Missions for definitions on reward table rotations.
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Farming Tips

• Thrax enemies are abundant in Mobile Defense and Void Cascade missions.
• The Zariman Arcane drop is considered as a mod drop, and is thus affected by The Steel Path and Mod Drop Chance Booster.

Notes

• Creates an extra instance of damage when proccing a status effect.
• More than 1 status proc on a single hit (>100% Status chance) will properly add extra damage, but will be displayed as a single damage number.
• Not affected by damage, element, physical,  Galvanized Shot stacks,  Synth Charge, or critical mods and bonuses.
• Affected by faction mods and bonuses once.
• Not affected by  Eclipse or  Garuda's passive.
• Triggers on  Toxin procs by  Toxic Lash.
• Doesn't trigger on  Void procs by  Xata's Whisper.
• Affected by Damage Vulnerability like  Sentient Wrath.
• Not affected by weakspots, but is affected by enemy damage reduction. For example, striking a Nox in the face will still have Cascadia Empowered's damage reduced by its body's damage reduction.
• Not affected by weapon falloff such as on shotguns and explosions.
• Can proc off of  Zenurik's  Temporal Shot bonus when used with  Seeking Talons.
• Affected by  Laetum's Devouring Attrition, which has a 50% chance to increase Cascadia Empowered's damage by 2000%, as its instance cannot crit.

Tips

• Indirectly affected by Fire Rate and Multishot mods.
• Unlike other secondary arcanes, Cascadia Empowered has no activation conditions, giving weapons more up-front damage to activate other conditional effects such as  Galvanized Diffusion.
• Most effective on weapons with high status proc rates (Status Chance per Pellet × Fire Rate × Innate Multishot × Explosions). In order of highest base burst proc rate, these include:
  •  Kompressa (8 on direct hits),  Twin Grakatas (6.6),  Kuva Brakk (6.5),  Catabolyst (5.2),  Kuva Nukor (5),  Tenet Cycron (4.8),  Gaze (4.7 with Flutterfire or Ramflare),  Twin Kohmak (4.6 at full spool),  Zakti Prime (4.2 on direct hits),  Quatz (4.1 on auto).
•  Seeking Talons causes all hits to proc  Slash, adding an extra instance of Cascadia Empowered to every hit from the secondary weapon, except for status ticks.

Patch History

Hotfix 31.6.4 (2022-07-14)

• Fixed the Cascadia Empowered Arcane buffs applying to Companion or Sentinel weapons.

Hotfix 31.5.8 (2022-05-11)

• Fixed Cascadia Empowered triggering Overwhelming Attrition.

Update 31.5 (2022-04-27)

• Introduced