The Ceramic Dagger is a dagger with the highest attack speed of all single daggers coupled with good status chance, but has otherwise low stats and deals no 
Slash damage.
The Ceramic Dagger can be sold for 
5,000.
Characteristics[]
- This weapon deals primarily
Puncture damage. - Stance slot has polarity, matching Stinging Thorn and Pointed Wind stance.
Advantages over other Melee weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Grants a 10% Movement Speed bonus when held (i.e. melee mode or quick melee).
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- High disposition (●●●●● (1.43x))
Disadvantages over other Melee weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Very low crit chance (10.00%)
- Low total damage (140)
- Low attack range (1.80 m)
- Below average status chance (20.00%)
- Very low crit multiplier (1.50x)
See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.
Acquisition[]
The Ceramic Dagger's blueprint can be bought from Nightwave Offerings. Note that the offerings are on a 7-day rotation, and this weapon may not be available on a succeeding appearance.
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 15,000 |
 Gallium4 |
 Ferrite500 |
 Alloy Plate500 |
 Polymer Bundle600 |
Time: 12 Hour(s) |
Rush:  25
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 Market Price: N/A
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Notes[]
- When equipped without a Stance mod, the Ceramic Dagger adds a 4th lunging stab to its normal attack combo, which propels the Warframe a good distance forward, which is useful in catching up to moving enemies. It also has a 100% chance of inflicting Slash bleed proc. This effect is lost if one uses the Pointed Wind stance, which replaces the lunge with a sweeping slash.
- If the lunge lands behind an unalerted enemy, a stealth attack will be performed instead.
Incarnon Genesis[]
- Upon completion of The Duviri Paradox and Angels of the Zariman, and unlocking The Steel Path, players can earn Ceramic Dagger Incarnon Genesis from The Circuit's Steel Path to place on their Ceramic Dagger with the help of Cavalero in the Chrysalith. This Incarnon Genesis form grants it evolutions to a transformation and newfound strength.
Evolution[]
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- Installing the Ceramic Dagger Incarnon Genesis requires 20 Pathos Clamps, 70 Dracroot, and 80 Connla Sprouts.
- When installed, the first Evolution tier is unlocked. The following Evolution tiers, their requirements for unlocking them, and their related perks, are shown below;
- Each challenge additionally grants 5,000 affinity to the weapon, affected by Affinity Boosters.
Evolution I[]
- Reach 6x Combo and then Heavy Attack to activate Incarnon Form.
- Incarnon Form sends forth spectral daggers during Heavy Attacks.
- Heavy Attack in Incarnon Form will fire a flurry of 2 spectral daggers towards the crosshair that explode on impact.
- Direct hits of spectral daggers inflict damage split into 10% Impact, 33.33% Puncture and 56.67% Slash.
- Deals 350 total damage, unaffected by initial +Dmg increase on Evolution 2.
- Critical Chance, Critical Damage and Status Chance are the same as the base weapon.
- Direct hits can headshot.
- Direct hits of spectral daggers and explosions are affected by universal base damage sources like Vigorous Swap, Holster Amp, Arcane Arachne, Vex Armor and Amp.
- Each explosion inflicts pure Heat damage, with a forced Impact proc.
- Deals 350 total damage, unaffected by initial +Dmg increase on Evolution 2.
- Critical Chance, Critical Damage and Status Chance are the same as the base weapon.
- Explosions have a 5m radius with ?% falloff, unaffected by Range mods such as Reach.
- Explosions are silent.
- Explosions cannot headshot.
- Explosion damage is not affected by Condition Overload.
- Direct hits of spectral daggers inflict damage split into 10%
- +100% Melee Damage
- +25% Sprint Speed
- +25% to Bullet Jump
- Heavy Attack in Incarnon Form will fire a flurry of 2 spectral daggers towards the crosshair that explode on impact.
- Incarnon Form lasts for 180 seconds or until death.
Evolution II[]
Unlock Challenge: Complete a solo mission with this weapon equipped.
- Perk 1: Gun and Blade:
- Increase Damage by +100.
- On Primary Kill: +1 Initial Combo. Stacks up to 100x.
- Initial Combo Increase stacks shows as a buff, which lasts permanently throughout the mission but are lost on death.
- Maximum stacks allows Ceramic Dagger to activate Incarnon Form, without building any additional combo.
- Perk 2: Breacher's Opportunity:
- Increase Damage by +120.
- On Shield Break: Increase damage by +80 for 8s.
Evolution III[]
Unlock Challenge: Activate this weapon's Incarnon Form 6 times in a mission.
- Perk 1: Orokin Reach:
- Increase Range by +1.
- Perk 2: Adept Reflexes:
- +20 Initial Combo.
- Perk 3: Rogue Readiness:
- On Kill: 40% chance to instantly reload Primary and Secondary weapons.
Evolution IV[]
Unlock Challenge: Kill 20 unalerted enemies with a Finisher Attack.
- Perk 1: Red Right Hand:
- On First Attack With Primary Equipped: Increase Critical Damage Multiplier by +2x.
- First attack from quickswap melee deals bonus critical damage.
- On First Attack With Primary Equipped: Increase Critical Damage Multiplier by +2x.
- Perk 2: Absolute Dominion:
- Increase Status Chance by +30%.
- Perk 3: Absolute Valor:
- Increase Critical Chance by +30%.
Trivia[]
- Prior to Update 22.20 (2018-05-17), the Ceramic Dagger shared its model with the Cronus, only scaled down and with a much lower-resolution texture. It was eventually given a similar-but-unique model that resembles a scaled-down Scimitar in shape.
- The blueprint used to drop from Jupiter's boss J3-Golem, however this method of obtaining the blueprint is no longer available.
- Ironically, despite having a curved blade that would be ideal for slashing, the Ceramic Dagger deals mainly Puncture and no Slash damage.
Media[]
Pre-U22.20 appearance
Ceramic Dagger Skins
Patch History[]
Hotfix 35.5.1 (2024-03-27)
- Fixed Ceramic Dagger Incarnon’s Gun and Blade Evolution Perk using the wrong description and Breacher’s Opportunity being blank.
Update 33.6 (2023-07-27)
- Fixed being able to self-stagger using the Ceramic Dagger Incarnon heavy attack.
Hotfix 33.0.7 (2023-05-09)
- Fixed Ceramic Dagger’s Incarnon Evolution II upgrades “Gun and Blade” and “Butcher’s Opportunity” not applying their damage bonuses.
Update 33.0 (2023-04-26)
- In this update, the following weapons (including all of their variants, such as MK-1, Vandal, Prime, etc.) are eligible to be upgraded with Incarnon Genesis. We are planning on adding more eligible weapons in the future!
- Melee:
- Ceramic Dagger
- Melee:
Hotfix 31.6.1 (2022-06-09)
- Fixed Innodem being able to equip Ceramic Dagger Rivens.
Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
- Damage increased from 35 to 140.
- Range increased from 1 to 1.8.
- Status Chance increased from 10% to 20%.
- Critical Chance increased from 5% to 10%.
- Slam Attack increased from 70 to 280.
- Slide Attack increased from 75 to 280.
- Parry Angle set to 45.
- Follow Through increased from 0.3 to 0.9.
Hotfix 22.20.3 (2018-05-18)
- Scaled the Ceramic Dagger to a more reasonable size. Ceramic Dagger-But-Long-Like-A-Sword didn’t have a nice ring to it.
Update 22.20 (2018-05-17)
- The Ceramic Dagger has received a new look! Previously it was identical to the Cronus.
Hotfix 18.6.3 (2016-03-23)
- Fixed an issue causing dagger weapons to endlessly loop its equip animation.
Update 18.5 (2016-03-04)
- Increased the damage of daggers and their Stances in Conclave.
Update 17.3 (2015-09-02)
- The Ceramic Dagger can now be used in Conclave.
Update 17.0 (2015-07-31)
- Fixed Radiation damage effects on daggers lingering after the proc has expired.
Update 15.13 (2015-02-05)
- Fixed Ceramic Dagger's weapon trail not quite lining up with the blade.
Hotfix 13.1.2 (2014-04-25)
- Tweaked a number of Dagger parry sound effects.
Hotfix 5.4.1 (2013-01-18)
- Fix elemental effects not showing on many crafted Daggers.
Update 5.2 (2013-01-04)
- Dagger attack animations have been improved.
Vanilla (2012-10-25)
- Introduced
Last updated: Hotfix 35.5.1 (2024-03-27)
See Also[]
- Cronus, a similar weapon in terms of design.
- Ceramic Dagger Incarnon Genesis, the Incarnon power-up for the Ceramic Dagger.
