Cyanex

Sentient Weapons

Cyanex
Untradeable
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General Information
Type	Pistol
Mastery Rank Requirement	8
Max Rank	30
Slot	Secondary
Trigger Type	Auto / Mag Burst
Utility
Accuracy	1.8
Ammo Max	210
Ammo Pickup	20
Ammo Type	Secondary
Disposition	●●●○○ (1.00x)
Fire Rate	4.670 attacks/sec
Noise Level	Alarming
Magazine Size	11
Reload Time	2.20 s
Projectile Speed	24.0 m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Spread	55.00° (50.00° min, 60.00° max)
Projectile Impact
50 ( 100%)
Total Damage	50 (100.00%  Impact)
Ammo Cost	1
Crit Chance	8.00%
Crit Multiplier	1.40x
Fire Rate	4.670 attacks/sec
Multishot	1 (50.00 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Punch Through	0.0 m
Spread	55.00° (50.00° min, 60.00° max)
Status Chance	32.00%
Projectile Speed	24.0 m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Projectile Explosion
41 ( 100%)
Total Damage	41 (100.00%  Gas)
Crit Chance	8.00%
Crit Multiplier	1.40x
Damage Falloff	0.0 m (100%) - 0.7 m (80.00%)
Fire Rate	4.670 attacks/sec
Multishot	1 (41.00 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Punch Through	0.0 m
Range	0.7 m
Status Chance	32.00%
Projectile Type	AoE
Burst Mode
2.9 ( 4.03%)
30.2 ( 41.94%)
38.9 ( 54.03%)
Total Damage	72 (54.03%  Slash)
Accuracy	80
Ammo Cost	1
Burst Delay	0.0800 s
Burst Fire Rate	12.50 attacks/sec
Burst Reload Delay	0.21 s
Bursts Per Second	4.67 bursts/sec
Crit Chance	8.00%
Crit Multiplier	1.40x
Fire Rate	4.670 attacks/sec
Multishot	1 (72.00 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Punch Through	0.5 m
Spread	1.25° (1.00° min, 1.50° max)
Status Chance	32.00%
Projectile Speed	60.0 m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Trigger Type	Mag Burst
Miscellaneous
Compatibility Tags	PROJECTILE
Riven Family	Cyanex
Exilus Polarity
Introduced	Update 25.0 (2019-05-22)
Polarities	None
Sell Price	5,000
Users	Amalgam Machinist
Variants	Cyanex
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CODEX

Sentient tech merges with Corpus design to deliver this lethal sidearm. Fully automatic, it fires ricocheting, homing projectiles that release small clouds of Gas on impact. Alt-fire to release the entire clip without homing as a single burst.

The Cyanex is an Amalgam autopistol produced by the Corpus that incorporates Sentient technology in its design. It fires bouncing homing projectiles that deal damage, complemented by its high status chance allowing it to spread damage with its procs. Its Alternate Fire consumes the remainder of the magazine as a single automatic burst with deadly accuracy and low recoil, but without damage and the homing and bouncing properties. It can be researched from the Energy Lab in the dojo.

Manufacturing Requirements 📝 Edit blueprint requirements
20,000	5	8,750	250	1	Time: 12 Hour(s)
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Market Price: 175			Blueprints Price:15,000
Energy Lab Research3,000
7,500	30	300	2,250	10	Time: 3 Day(s)
					Prereq: Spectra
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Characteristics

This weapon deals primarily on its Primary Fire, and damage on its Alternate Fire.

Advantages:

• Primary Fire launches homing projectiles.
  • High damage – effective against shields.
  • Innate damage – effective against Infested and Infested Flesh.
  • Homes in on enemies within 15° degrees.
  • Projectiles ricochet once and can bounce off of enemies.
    • This allows one to fire at a wall and kill an enemy behind cover, or kill two enemies with one shot, supplemented by its homing ability.
  • Projectiles explode in 0.5 meter radius on impact with a surface or enemy.
• Alternate Fire unleashes all remaining rounds in the magazine as a single full-automatic burst with increased fire rate.
  • High and damage; effective against health and armor.
  • Very high accuracy and low recoil.
  • Innate 0.5 meter Punch Through.
  • Benefits from magazine increasing mods to further increase the burst's damage.
• Very high status chance.
  • Can reach 100% status chance with  Scorch,  Frostbite,  Jolt, and  Pistol Pestilence.
  • Primary fire's innate damage produces clouds that inflict damage – effective against Flesh and Ferrite Armor and ignores Shielded and Proto Shields.
•  Magnum Force's accuracy penalty is minimal on this weapon.

Disadvantages:

• Primary Fire:
  • No or damage – less effective against armor and health.
    • Damage cannot be increased with and mods.
      • The physical contact projectile deals only damage, while explosion itself deals only damage, therefore the explosion does not benefit from any physical damage mods.
  • Innate damage – less effective against Flesh and Cloned Flesh. Furthermore, Toxic Ancient's aura provides 80% damage reduction to and 100% to .
  • Extremely low accuracy, although mitigated by its homing capabilties.
  • Homing ability of projectiles is hampered by a wide arc, and can often ignore close-range enemies unless aimed point-blank.
• Low magazine size for its fire rate; requires frequent reloading.
• Projectiles have travel time.
• Very low critical chance.
• Lowest critical multiplier of all secondary weapons in the game.
• Fairly slow reload speed.

Notes

• If Punch Through is equipped on the weapon, the Primary Fire projectile loses its homing capabilities after punching through an enemy.
• The Alternate Fire of the Cyanex will eject all of the remaining ammunition in the magazine in a single burst
  • If buffed with unlimited ammo such as from the Reactant Buff, the weapon will only fire its magazine amount at a time, with small delays between each trigger pull.
• The component of the Primary Fire's base damage is not considered for the proc damage calculations.

Tips

• Due to the pistol's tendency to run out of ammo very frequently it may be wise to use mods that increase reloading speed, such as  Quickdraw and  Stunning Speed.
• Equipping a Riven mod with a negative Projectile Speed stat greatly improves the gun's tracking capabilities.
• Equipping mods, such as  Pathogen Rounds or  Pistol Pestilence will greatly increase the status proc damage, even if other elements are added to form or .
• While the damage is fairly low per hit, the Cyanex is ideal for a  Condition Overload built melee weapon, and most especially the  Orvius as it can suspend an enemy and deal radial damage, which is boosted by the Cyanex's projectiles bouncing between all enemies. While it does not have the benefits of opening enemies up for stealth damage like the  Zakti the Cyanex can effectively apply status to much larger groups and in a shorter period, and thus apply more status procs to a group.

Trivia

• The weapon's name is very likely derived from Cyanide, a highly toxic chemical compound.
• The Cyanex and  Komorex are the only two Energy Lab Research weapons with a 12 hour build time.
• The codex description for the Amalgam Machinist, an enemy that uses this weapon, refers to the Cyanex as a "plasma assault rifle" despite being a pistol.

Media

Cyanex Homing Pistol - New Condition Overload Meta? (3 Forma)

Patch History

Update 25.8 (2019-10-01)

October 2019 Riven Disposition Change

• Cyanex: 1->0.85

Update 25.7 (2019-08-29)

• Fixed Cyanex’s Alt Fire not being affected by Fire Rate Mods.
• Fixed the Cyanex canceling heavy throw animations if your magazine is empty. As reported here: https://forums.warframe.com/topic/1123316-cyanex-glaives/

Hotfix 25.0.4 (2019-05-28)

• Removed self damage from the Cyanex.

Update 25.0 (2019-05-22)

• Introduced.

Last updated: Update 25.0 (2019-05-22)

See also

•  Komorex, the primary counterpart to this weapon.
•  Akarius, another secondary with homing projectiles.