Chroma

• Chroma unleashes a continuous stream of elemental energy in a cone 4 / 5 / 6.5 / 10 meters long that inflicts 100 / 125 / 150 / 200 Heat, Electricity, Toxin, or Cold damage per second with a 40% / 45% / 50% / 60% status chance.
  • Damage per second is affected by Ability Strength, while the status chance is not.
  • Damage bypasses obstacles in the environment and does not decrease with distance.
  • Damage type is based on Chroma's current elemental alignment which is determined by Chroma's energy color.
  • Cone length is affected by Ability Range, following the expression:
    10 × (1 + Ability Range)^1/3.
    • At max rank, with a maxed Narrow Minded the range would be reduced to 6.97 meters, while a maxed Overextended would instead increase it to 12.38 meters.
• Spectral Scream's damage can be boosted by the Fury aspect of Vex Armor.
• Spectral Scream drains 3 energy per second and will remain active as long as Chroma has energy. Spectral Scream will end if Chroma runs out of energy or if deactivated by pressing the ability key again (default 1 ).
  • Activation energy cost is affected by Ability Efficiency, and the channeling energy cost is affected by Ability Efficiency and Ability Duration.
  • Chroma cannot gain energy from Team Energy Restores or Energy Siphon for the duration of the ability. However, Chroma can still replenish energy using Energy Orbs, Energy Vampire, Orokin Void Death Orb energy restores, Rage and Hunter Adrenaline, and while in the Rift Plane.
• Chroma is able to cast abilities or maneuver just as freely with Spectral Scream active.
• The AoE cone is directed from the point of the animation as opposed to toward the crosshair. This means that diving rolls will divert the aim.
• The attack can only be aimed within 90 degrees to each side and 45 degrees above or below Chroma.
• A visual effect lingers after the cone of damage, dependent on element.

Main article: Afterburn

Afterburn is a Warframe Augment Mod usable in both PvE and PvP for Chroma's Spectral Scream that launches a single damaging elemental attack upon deactivating the ability.

• This ability can come in handy when used as a form of Crowd Control and can both be used as a damage ability, or with Heat or Electricity elemental damage creating a continuous crowd control stun.
• This ability can be used to resist knockdowns, making it usable for walking through corpus laser doors or shockwaves caused by MOA or death orbs.
• Rolling can be used to counteract the movement speed reduction and cover a large area in a short period of time.
• Having a Limbo with a high duration build on your team can be very useful, as Spectral Scream will be able to damage all enemies even while Chroma is in the rift. With a build with maximum efficiency, this will also cause Spectral Scream to cost no energy to use, while actually gaining energy at a minute rate.

Maximization is a form of specialization: mods may be blended to result in values that vary between the top-end limits listed here. Click any maximized link to learn how to build it.

• Maximized Ability Duration reduces channeling cost to 0.98 energy per second.
  • Reduces cone length to 6.98 meters.
• Maximized Ability Efficiency reduces activation cost to 2.5 energy and channeling cost to 0.75 energy per second.
  • Has no negative effects on this ability.
• Maximized Ability Range increases cone length to 14.09 meters.
  • Reduces damage to 80 per second.
• Maximized Ability Strength increases damage to 824 per second.
  • Without Energy Conversion and Growing Power, increases damage to 674 per second.
  • Increases activation cost to 15.5 energy and channeling cost to 6.41 energy per second.

• Chroma emits an aura that infuses himself and nearby allies with elemental energy as long as they remain within 6 / 8 / 10 / 12 meters, providing both offensive and defensive buffs. The aura lasts for 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 seconds.
  • Duration is affected by Ability Duration.
  • Aura radius is affected by Ability Range.
• Elemental Ward exhibits different effects depending on Chroma's current elemental alignment, determined by Chroma's energy color.

• Elemental Auras of any type from two or more Chromas do not stack, i.e. two Heat auras do not increase damage nor health values, and if you had both a Heat and Cold aura, only one of them would be active on allies, the first aura stays until you move out of range or it expires.
• Has a casting delay of 1 second. The animation interrupts movement and other actions.
• Elemental Ward cannot be recast while active.

Main article: Everlasting Ward

Everlasting Ward is a Warframe Augment Mod for Chroma that allows allies to retain Elemental Ward's effects upon moving out of its range, lasting for a percentage of Elemental Ward's remaining duration.

Stats

Maximization is a form of specialization: mods may be blended to result in values that vary between the top-end limits listed here. Click any maximized link to learn how to build it.

• Allies who enter, leave, then re-enter the radius of Heat-oriented Ward will not regain the buff on the same cast of Elemental Ward. This results in an empty space where the bonus health should have been, even if they took no damage at all.
  • This causes Medi-Ray and other healing abilities to attempt to heal the player, but if the player gets out of Elemental Ward's range, their health will return to normal again, wasting the health restored in the process.

• Chroma enters a state of primal rage, gaining Scorn when shields are hit and Fury when health is damaged.
  • Scorn increases Chroma's armor by 0.5% / 0.625% / 0.75% / 0.875% for every point of shields lost up to a maximum of 200% / 250% / 300% / 350%.
  • Fury increases Chroma's weapon bonus damage by 2% / 2.25% / 2.5% / 2.75% for every point of health lost up to a maximum of 200% / 225% / 250% / 275%.
  • Scorn, Fury, and conversion percentages are linearly affected by Ability Strength.
  • Scorn and Fury are additive bonuses stacking with the Warframe's armor and weapon's damage mods respectively.
    • E.g., with Intensify, Steel Fiber and maximum Scorn at rank 3, Chroma's armor will be at:

      Base Armor × (1 + Armor Mods + Scorn Modifier × (1 + Strength Mods)) =

      350 × (1 + 1.1 + 3.5 × (1 + 0.3)) = 2,327.5 (instead of 735 without the ability).

    • E.g., with Intensify, Serration and maximum Fury at rank 3, a weapon with 100 base damage will be at:

      Base Damage × (1 + Damage Mods + Fury Modifier × (1 + Strength Mods)) =

      100 × (1 + 1.65 + 2.75 × (1 + 0.3)) = 622.5 (instead of 265 without the ability).

      • Note that when calculating mod bonuses, elemental mods are calculated after damage mods and Fury's modifier.
  • Scorn and Fury are tracked from 0% to their maximum increase in the HUD next to Chroma's shield and health indicators.
    • Scorn and Fury will gradually increase each time shields or health are hit until they reach their maximum percentages. 400 shield points must be lost to maximize Scorn, and 100 health points must be lost to maximize Fury.
  • Hits on overshields count towards Scorn accumulation.
  • Shield drain from a Hijack payload counts towards Scorn accumulation.
• The effects of Vex Armor last for 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 seconds.
  • Duration is affected by Ability Duration,
• Allies within a radius of 8 / 10 / 15 / 18 meters receive Vex Armor's effects.
  • Range is affected by Ability Range.
  • Multiple Chromas' Scorn and Fury buffs will stack together.
• Vex Armor is a one-handed action. As such, it can be used while performing various maneuvers and actions without interruption.
  • Vex Armor can be recast while active, retaining the existing buffs.
• The ability has a casting animation time of 0.75 seconds.

Main article: Vexing Retaliation

Vexing Retaliation is a PvE Warframe Augment for Chroma that makes Vex Armor detonate an area-of-effect attack upon receiving 150 incoming damage, dealing procs on enemies.

• Explosive self-damaging weapons such as Ogris, Castanas, and Stug can allow you to damage yourself to gain Scorn and Fury while Vex Armor is active.
• Equipping a rank 4 or higher Vigor mod will allow you to maximize Scorn armor bonus without requiring shields to recharge, as well as provide additional health.
• Using an electric element Elemental Ward will allow you to maximize the Scorn armor bonus without having to equip any mods increasing your shields.
• Equipping a Decaying Dragon Key to lower your shields can increase the likelihood of health damage at the loss of some of the Scorn Armor bonus due to the reduction of your shields.
• Using Energy to Shield conversion mods, like Brief Respite and Augur mod set effect, to generate shields/overshields when casting Vex Armor will help you maximize the Scorn armor bonus without having to equip any mods increasing your shields.

Maximization is a form of specialization: mods may be blended to result in values that vary between the top-end limits listed here. Click any maximized link to learn how to build it.

• Maximized Ability Duration increases duration to 76.5 seconds.
  • Reduces range to 6.12 meters.
• Maximized Ability Efficiency reduces cost to 18.75 energy.
  • Reduces duration to 10 seconds.
• Maximized Ability Range increases range to 50.4 meters.
  • Reduces maximum armor bonus to 140% (490 Chroma's armor) and maximum damage bonus to 111%
• Maximized Ability Strength increases maximum armor bonus to 1442% (5047 Chroma's armor) and maximum damage bonus to 1134%
  • Without Energy Conversion and Growing Power, increases maximum armor bonus to 1179.5% (4128.25 Chroma's armor) and maximum damage bonus to 927.75%
  • Increases cost to 116.25 energy.
  • Reduces duration to 18.13 seconds.
• With Steel Fiber, Armored Agility and Gladiator Aegis at max rank increases Chroma's armor to 3675.
  • Adding Maximized Ability Strength to this increases Chroma's armor to 15141.

• Chroma sheds his outer pelt, imbuing it with elemental energy to sprout wings and converting it into a stationary floating sentry with 1000 / 2000 / 4000 / 8000 health. The sentry will attack all enemies within 20 meters with a continuous stream of elemental energy, dealing 100 / 200 / 300 / 400 Heat, Electric, Toxin, or Cold damage per tick. The sentry is capable of unleashing a radial attack that inflicts 200 Heat, Electric, Toxin, or Cold damage to enemies within 5 meters. The sentry can also unleash a radial roar to temporarily stun enemies within 30 meters.
  • Sentry health and continuous damage are affected by Ability Strength, while the radial attack damage is not.
  • Effigy's elemental breath attack does 5 ticks of damage within 1 second making the base damage per second 2000.
  • Damage type is based on Chroma's current elemental alignment, determined by Chroma's energy color.
    • Heat damage is effective against Cloned Flesh, Infested, and Infested Flesh, but less effective against Proto Shields.
    • Heat status effect deals 50% of Effigy's base damage per tick over 7 ticks in 6 seconds. Ignited enemies will also panic and flail around for a brief period.
    • Electricity damage is effective against Machinery and Robotics but less effective against Alloy Armor.
    • Electricity status effect chains 50% of Effigy's base damage to surrounding enemies in a small area of effect. Shocked enemies will also be briefly stunned.
    • Toxin damage is effective against Flesh and Ferrite Armor and bypasses Shielded and Proto Shields, but is less effective against Machinery, Robotics, and Fossilized.
    • Toxin status effect deals 50% of Effigy's base damage per tick over 9 ticks in 8 seconds. Toxin damage bypasses shields and is able to directly affect health. Multiple instances of the Toxin DoT stack on the same target for increased damage over time.
    • Cold damage is effective against Alloy Armor, Shielded, and Infested Sinew, but less effective against Infested Flesh and Fossilized.
    • Cold status effect reduces a target's movement speed and fire/attack rate by 50% over a duration of 6 seconds.
  • Enemies affected by the close-range radial attack are ragdolled.
  • Sentry attack range, stun radius, and knockback radius are not affected by Ability Range.
• Enemies killed by the sentry have a 15% / 30% / 45% / 60% chance to drop additional credits.
  • All Credits that drop within 10 meters of the sentry yield 25% / 50% / 75% / 100% additional credits.
    • The range is not affected by mods.
  • Technically increases credits income by 3.75% / 15% / 33.75% / 60% while the Sentry is active.
  • Credit chance and credit bonus are not affected by Ability Strength.
• While Effigy is active, Chroma can fight in his lightened form, gaining 20% movement speed but with a 50% armor reduction.
  • Speed bonus and armor reduction are not affected by Ability Strength.
  • The armor reduction is a multiplicative penalty that's applied to Chroma's total armor (e.g., with a maxed Steel Fiber and Intensify, Chroma with Vex Armor at full capacity will have his armor lowered to 350 × (1 + 1.1 + 3.5 × 1.3) × 0.5 = 1,163.75 when Effigy is activated).
• Effigy drains 10 energy per second while active, and will deactivate if Chroma runs out of energy, sentry health is depleted, or if manually deactivated by pressing the ability key again (default 4 ).
  • Activation energy cost is affected by Ability Efficiency, and the channeling energy cost is affected by Ability Efficiency and Ability Duration.
  • Chroma cannot gain energy from Team Energy Restores or Energy Siphon for the duration of the ability. However, Chroma can still replenish energy using Energy Orbs, Rage and Hunter Adrenaline, Orokin Void Death Orb energy restores, Energy Vampire, and while in the Rift Plane due to Limbo's ability.
• When deactivated, Chroma can teleport his pelt from anywhere onto himself. This will stop movement and interrupt any action Chroma is doing, such as reloading, leaving a player vulnerable.
  • When deactivated while sliding, Chroma's pelt will be reapplied to him without triggering the animation, even if the player immediately cancels his slide.
• Both the initial cast and the return of Chroma's pelt will cease any actions as they are a two-handed ability.

Main article: Guided Effigy

Guided Effigy is a Warframe Augment Mod for Chroma's Effigy that allows him to control the Effigy, dealing rapid damage to enemies in its path and stunning enemies at the destination.

• The sentry usually unleashes its roar a few seconds after deploying. This allows you to quickly deploy the sentry for a temporary stun to all nearby enemies.
• The pelt can be Banished, preventing damage from non-banished enemies while still being able to damage all enemies normally.
• The pelt gains shields from the Shield Osprey Eximus Specter.

Maximization is a form of specialization: mods may be blended to result in values that vary between the top-end limits listed here. Click any maximized link to learn how to build it.

• Maximized Ability Duration reduces channeling cost to 3.27 energy per second.
  • Has no negative effects on this ability.
• Maximized Ability Efficiency reduces activation cost to 12.5 energy and channeling cost to 2.5 energy per second.
  • Has no negative effects on this ability.
• Maximized Ability Range has no positive effects on this ability.
  • Reduces damage to 160 per tick and health to 3200.
• Maximized Ability Strength increases damage to 1648 per tick and health to 32960.
  • Without Energy Conversion and Growing Power, increases damage to 1348 per tick and health to 26960.
  • Increases activation cost to 77.5 energy and channeling cost to 21.38 energy per second.