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Deimos Saxum
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Saxum are bipedal, medium-sized assailants capable of short-ranged attacks and a powerful grand slam in melee.
General Information
Faction	Infested
Planet(s)	Deimos
Mission Type(s)	Cambion Drift
Tile Set(s)	Cambion Drift
Weapon(s)	Shoulder projectiles Slam Attack
Statistics
Affinity	-1
Health	800
Armor	70
Dmg. Reduction	14.49%
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Body Multipliers	Body with broken Femurs: 1.0x Body with unbroken Femur: 0.2x Broken Femurs: 2.0x First Femur: 1.0x Second Femur: 2.0x
Base Level	1
Level Scaling
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Selected Level	––
EHP	––
Steel Path EHP	––
Miscellaneous
Codex Scans	3
Introduced	Update 29.0 (2020-08-25)
Drops
Mod Drops	Lasting Sting 1.14%  Perpetual Agony 1.14% 15  Endo 1.14%  Fetch 0.33%  Volatile Quick Return 0.33% 50  Endo 0.33%  Condition Overload 0.02%  Volatile Rebound 0.02%  Defiled Snapdragon 0.02% 80  Endo 0.02%
Resource Drops	Region Resource 7.00%
Sigil Drops	Leaping Thrasher Sigil 5.00%
Other Drops	Leaping Thrasher Sigil
Official Drop Tables
https://www.warframe.com/droptables

CODEX

Saxum are bipedal, medium-sized assailants capable of short-ranged attacks and a powerful grand slam in melee.

The Deimos Saxum is a large bipedal  Infested enemy that resides in the Cambion Drift, Deimos.

Behavior

In addition to releasing projectiles from its shoulders that deal lingering area of effect, the Saxum can do powerful slams using its enlarged "belly".

The Saxum is immune to Status Effects until both its shoulders, called Femurs, are destroyed. This also removes its ability to launch controlled projectiles, forcing it to rely on melee attacks. However, doing so will cause its broken shoulders to endlessly spew  Corrosive bomblets that travel up to 15 meters from it until it dies. It will also take heavy damage over time in this state, effectively bleeding out. Given its extensive toughness otherwise, destroying its shoulder Femurs is in fact the easiest way to kill a Saxum.

After not taking damage for 10 seconds, the Saxum will start to regenerate 2% of max health per second.

Has immunity to  Viral status.

The Deimos Saxum has no "head" hitbox.

The Deimos Saxum Rex releases Deimos Tendril Drones from its shoulders, in addition of shooting projectiles.

Damage Reduction

Deimos Saxum possess Damage Reduction that scales depending on your weapon's DPS excluding critical hits. DPS is calculated by

$(\text{modded damage})\cdot(\text{modded fire rate})\cdot(\text{modded multishot})\cdot(\text{body part multipliers})$

Critical Hits are applied after the damage resistance is calculated. Additionally, the average DPS is calculated using all health/shield modifiers, other sources of damage reduction, and is quantized.

${ \text{Damage Multiplier} = \begin{cases} 1,\; & \text{DPS}_{Average} \leq 1000 \\ 0.8 + \frac{200}{\text{DPS}_{Average}},\; & 1000 < \text{DPS}_{Average} \leq 2500 \\ 0.7 + \frac{450}{\text{DPS}_{Average}},\; & 2500 < \text{Average DPS} \leq 5000 \\ 0.4 + \frac{1950}{\text{DPS}_{Average}},\; & 5000 < \text{Average DPS} \leq 10000 \\ 0.2 + \frac{3950}{\text{DPS}_{Average}},\; & 10000 < \text{Average DPS} \leq 20000 \\ 0.1 + \frac{5950}{\text{DPS}_{Average}},\; & 20000 < \text{DPS}_{Average} \end{cases} }$

Until both Femurs are destroyed, the main body possesses an additional 80% damage resistance. After destroying a Femur, the other one will take 2x damage. After destroying the other, both locations will take 2x damage.

For proc damage, critical hits are taken into account.

$\textbf{DPS}_{Proc} = (\text{proc damage}) \cdot (\text{critical multiplier if triggered}) \cdot (\text{modded fire rate}) \cdot (\text{modded multishot})$

Where the proc damage is the per tick damage of the corresponding proc, with health/shield/armor modifiers taken into account. Note that unlike the DPS controller for normal damage, the one for proc damage takes critical hits into account. For heat procs, the proc damage in the above formula is the accumulated value of all the previous heat procs.

${ \text{Damage Multiplier} = \begin{cases} 1,\; & \text{DPS}_{Average} \leq 1000 \\ 0.8 + \frac{200}{\text{DPS}_{Proc}},\; & 1000 < \text{DPS}_{Average} \leq 2500 \\ 0.7 + \frac{450}{\text{DPS}_{Proc}},\; & 2500 < \text{Average DPS} \leq 5000 \\ 0.4 + \frac{1950}{\text{DPS}_{Proc}},\; & 5000 < \text{Average DPS} \leq 10000 \\ 0.2 + \frac{3950}{\text{DPS}_{Proc}},\; & 10000 < \text{Average DPS} \leq 20000 \\ 0.1 + \frac{5950}{\text{DPS}_{Proc}},\; & 20000 < \text{DPS}_{Average} \end{cases} }$

Variants

• Deimos Saxum Rex

Deimos Saxum Rex	General		Drops
	Introduced	Update 29.0 (2020-08-25)	Mod Drops:  Saxum Thorax 7.588%  Saxum Carapace 2.211%  Saxum Spittle 0.201% Other Drops: Leaping Thrasher Sigil
	Mission	Cambion Drift, Assassination Bounty
	Weapon	Shoulder projectiles Slam Attack
	Codex Scans	3
	Statistics
	Fossilized	1200
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	Infested Sinew	200 (Armor)
	​+ ​+ ​++ ​‐‐
	Base Level	1

CODEX

Saxum Rex are larger, meaner Saxum and represent a considerably enhanced threat. How they achieve this evolution is unknown, but cannibalism is suspected.

Trivia

• Deimos Saxum was first revealed in TennoCon 2020 under the name Infested Femur.
• The Deimos Saxum Rex only appears as an assasination target in Cambion Drift Bounties.

Gallery

Patch History

Update 29.1 (2020-09-17)

• Fixed ability to apply Status Effects to the Deimos Saxum before Femurs have been broken. Femurs must be destroyed first before Status Effects will affect the Saxum.
• Fixed inability to spawn Deimos Saxum/Deimos Saxum Rex in the Simulacrum.

Hotfix 29.0.7 (2020-09-03)

• Fixed stacking Deimos Saxum FX for Clients - should be easier to see around these boys now!

Update 29.0 (2020-08-25)

• Introduced.