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Light and nimble, the twin blades of this polearm will swoop and slice through throngs of hardened foes.

The Cassowar is a TennoIcon Tenno polearm with among the highest attack speed and status chance of all polearms, but has the lowest critical chance and critical multiplier of any polearm.

Characteristics[]

Advantages over other Melee weapons (excluding modular weapons):

  • Tied with the Orthos Prime for the fastest attack speed of all polearms.
  • Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
    • High attack speed (1.17x animation speed)
    • High attack range (3.00 m)
    • Above average status chance (28.00%)
    • Above average disposition (●●●●● (1.35x))

Disadvantages over other Melee weapons (excluding modular weapons):

  • Third lowest base damage of all polearms, after Orthos Orthos and Tonbo Tonbo.
  • Lowest critical chance and critical multiplier of all polearms.
  • Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
    • Very low crit chance (6.00%)
    • Below average total damage (188)
    • Very low crit multiplier (1.40x)

See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.


Acquisition[]

The Cassowar's blueprint can be researched from the Tenno Lab in the dojo.


Manufacturing Requirements
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Credits
20,000
Forma Forma
1
Rubedo Rubedo
1,000
Salvage Salvage
5,700
Oxium Oxium
150
Time: 12 Hour(s)
Rush: PlatinumLarge 35
MarketIcon Market Price: PlatinumLarge 180 Blueprint2 Blueprints Price:Credits15,000
Tenno Lab ResearchClanAffinity643,000
Credits
10,000
Gallium Gallium
2
PolymerBundle Polymer Bundle
1,500
Rubedo Rubedo
975
Ferrite Ferrite
3,150
Time: 3 Day(s)
Prereq: Anku
Ghost Clan x1   Shadow Clan x3   Storm Clan x10   Mountain Clan x30   Moon Clan x100

Can be sold for Credits64 5,000.

Tips[]

  • Can be built for status and Mod TT 20px Condition Overload to boost its damage output.
  • Cassowar's high attack speed allows it to proc statuses quickly.

Trivia[]

  • The name Cassowar could be based on the Cassowary, a large flightless bird native to the tropical forests of New Guinea (Papua New Guinea and Indonesia), nearby islands, and northeastern Australia. Cassowary is considered as one of the most dangerous birds in the world as it can be quite aggressive if provoked and can inflict serious or even fatal wounds to humans.
    • The Cassowar's high attack speed ties in to the Cassowary's high running speed.
    • The Cassowar's blades slightly resemble the shape of the Cassowary's head.

Gallery[]

Media[]

Cassowar Skins

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Patch History[]

Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)

  • Damage increased from 70 to 188.
  • Slam Attack increased from 140 to 564.
  • Slide Attack increased from 156 to 376.
  • Parry Angle set to 55.
  • Follow Through reduced from 0.8 to 0.6.

Update 22.6 (2017-12-07)

  • Fixed polearms clipping on some Warframes when using the standard holster position.

Hotfix 22.4.1 (2017-11-24)

  • Fixed being able to use Guandao Rivens on the Cassowar.

Update 22.4 (2017-11-23)

  • Introduced.

Last updated: Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)

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