Charm allows the Smeeta Kavat to grant a random buff to its owner, indicated by a special icon next to its owner's health and shields.
Stats
Rank | Chance | Cooldown | Cost |
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0 | 7% | 30s | 0 |
1 | 14% | 29s | 1 |
2 | 21% | 28s | 2 |
3 | 28% | 27s | 3 |
List of Possible Buffs
The duration of the buffs below are for a fully-ranked Charm. When the player receives a buff (apart from Rare Resource), a charm icon will appear to the top right corner of the HUD, it will also display for a brief time what kind of buff it is. You can also determine which buff is currently active is by looking at said buff's duration.
Buff | Effect | Duration |
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Critical Chance Bonus | Sets critical hit chance to 200%, making all attacks orange critical hits. Also affects some Warframe powers. | 30s |
Energy Refund | Warframe power costs are refunded on cast. (Channelled abilities refund the initial cast, the effect also refunds any channel cost during those 10 seconds.) | 10s |
Doubled Pickups and Affinity | Any pickups collected or affinity earned are doubled. | 120s |
Instant Reload | Reload instantly once. | Until reload |
Reinforced Shields | Negates damage received from the next incoming hit. Additionally, awards 150 overshields. | Until hit |
Rare Resource | The Smeeta creates 1 instance of the current planet's rare resources for its owner. | N/A |
Average Time for a Buff Occurrence
The average time for a specific buff to occur is given by the formula
where mb is the average wait time and t is the cooldown indicated on the mod. So the mb for a Rank 3 Charm is:
6 * 27/0.28 = 578.5714
This means that for one specific buff to occur with a max rank mod, the average time to wait is therefore a bit longer than 9 and a half minutes.
Alternatively, given that there is a 4.667% for a given buff to occur at an interval, any given buff has a 51.17% chance of occurring at least once in 15 intervals, or 6 minutes and 40 seconds.
Notes
- The Rare Resource buff can spawn Argon Crystal drops.
- The Double Pickups and Affinity buff can proc and be followed by a Rare Resource buff, doubling the number of resources that are generated by the Smeeta Kavat.
- Buffs are stackable, they do not overwrite the first buff. 2 times or more Doubled Pickup/Affinity is possible, and the buff is multiplicative (2x>4x>8x>16x>etc.).
- Every 27s there is a 28% chance to receive a random buff out of 6 buffs, getting a Doubled Pickup Buff out of the 6 buff pool is 28% * 1/6 = 4.6667%, getting the buff twice in a row is 0.217% (4.667% * 4.667%), the duration of each buff is 120s (or 156s with Tek Enhance) which means at most there can only be 5 possible instances active at the same time. The chance of that is happening is 0.000022%.
- With Doubled Pickup/Affinity, Affinity Pickups are 4x multiplied (Because both multipliers affect them). Double affinity only applies once (think of it as the final multiplier that is applied at the very end).
- The Doubled Pickups bonuses can also increase the amount of Kuva or Void Traces rewarded, but only before the player receives them.
- Buffs durations can be extended using Tek Enhance.
- Reinforced Shields can trigger on frames without shields, but will not grant overshields to them. It can also trigger when at maximum Overshields on other frames.
- Reload buff will not trigger if no primary or secondary weapons are equipped.
Bugs
- Sometimes, Warframe powers are unaffected by the critical chance buff.
- While using Ivara and the Reload buff activates, the player can fire the Artemis Bow as if it had no draw time.
- At random times the mod will stop working for the rest of the mission.
- Due to the Orange critical hit chance buff setting your critical hit chance to 200%, weapons that have been modded with greater than 200% crit chance actually get reduced critical hit chance while the buff is active.
Patch History
Hotfix 25.3.3 (2019-07-16)
- Fixed Smeeta's instant reload buff not applying to battery weapons, it will now instantly recharge beam weapons.
Hotfix 22.17.4 (2018-04-13)
- (unlisted) Charm will now briefly display in the HUD the type of buff obtained.
- Fixed Smeeta’s Charm cooldown being removed if you were to Revive or be Revived.
Hotfix 22.13.3 (2018-02-21)
- Smeeta Kavat’s Charm Critical Chance and Energy recharge Buffs no longer apply to Operators.
Update 21.2 (2017-07-26)
- Fixes towards Smeeta Charm buffs not consistently applying to the Operator.
Hotfix 21.0.9 (2017-07-17)
- Operators are now affected by the Smeeta Kavat Mischief/Charm buffs.
Hotfix 19.11.1 (2017-02-16)
- Fixed Smeeta’s Charm precept buff giving Bows an unintended insane Fire Rate.
Update 19.1 (2016-11-25)
- Fixed Smeeta's Charm ‘Doubled Pickups and Affinity’ buff not working as intended and doubling a number of things that were unintended. It now properly doubles pickups: Resource, Health, Energy, Affinity, Credit and Ammo (previously it would).
Hotfix: The Silver Grove 1.2 (2016-09-02)
- Changed Smeeta's Charm ability, specifically the Resource related Charm, to give a single Resource pickup rather than a random stack of resources that may not be the appropriate size for the chosen Resource type.
Update: The Silver Grove (2016-08-19)
- Fixed an exploit with Smeeta's Charm ability.
Update: Specters of the Rail 0.0 (2016-07-08)
- Introduced.
Kavat | ||
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Species | Incubated | Adarza • Smeeta • Vasca • Venari |
Vulpaphyla | Sly • Crescent • Panzer | |
Enemy | Feral • Hyekka | |
Breeding | Kavat Genetic Code • Incubator Power Core | |
Cosmetics | Kavat Cosmetics | |
Genetics | DNA Stabilizer • Genetic Code Template | |
Mods | ||
Penjaga (Abilities) |
Adarza | Cat's Eye • Reflect |
Smeeta | Charm • Mischief | |
Vasca | Draining Bite • Transfusion | |
Sly | Survival Instinct • Sly Devolution | |
Crescent | Crescent Charge • Crescent Devolution | |
Panzer | Viral Quills • Panzer Devolution | |
Others | Fetch • Scavenge • Sense Danger • Territorial Aggression | |
Madurai (Offense) |
Bite • Flame Gland • Frost Jaw • Hunter Command • Hunter Recovery • Hunter Synergy • Maul • Pack Leader ( Prime) • Pounce • Sharpened Claws • Shock Collar • Swipe • Tek Assault • Tek Enhance • Venom Teeth | |
Vazarin (Defense) |
Link Fiber • Link Redirection • Link Vitality • Loyal Companion • Medi-Pet Kit • Shelter | |
Naramon (Utility) |
Animal Instinct ( Prime) |