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Energy of a Warframe is used mainly to power abilities and melee channeling. All Warframes have 4 abilities that at base, cost up to 100 energy to cast. Every Warframe has their own energy-pool with varying capacities depending on the types and costs of their various abilities, with the exception of HildrynIcon272 Hildryn who has no energy but draws from her shield pool instead. For channeling, energy is used to provide bonus damage and other effects such as Mod TT 20px life steal, and to enable parrying while blocking which will nullify all incoming damage, reflect some damage back, and open up melee attackers for finishers, but will drain energy on every blocked attack.

Like health and shields, a Warframe's energy capacity scales with their rank and through the use of mods or buffs. It is also worth noting that the words "power" and "energy" are often used interchangeably by members of the community.

Increasing Energy Capacity

Mods

These are the mods currently available in the game. It is worth noting that Mod TT 20px Flow and Mod TT 20px Primed Flow cannot be used in the same build.

Formula For Modded Energy Capacity

These mods increase the energy capacity of a Warframe following the following formula:

So as an example taking Volt Prime with 200 base energy and 300 max energy he will have:

  • With Mod TT 20px Flow:
  • With Mod TT 20px Primed Flow:
  • With Mod TT 20px Primed Flow and Mod TT 20px Endurance Drift:

Buffs

The only buff currently available to increase energy capacity is Cephalon Suda's Entropy effect. Entropy will release an AoE radial attack 25m around the player, dealing 1000 Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage and applying the Magnetic Status Effect to enemies in range reducing their shields. It will also restore 25% of the player's base Energy, and provide a (base) Energy boost of +25% for 30 seconds.

Arcane Helmets

These are retired helmets that in the past used to grant increased energy capacity to their respective Warframes

Warframe Starting Energy In a Mission

Formula

Upon loading into any mission, each Warframe has a fixed amount of energy that they start with. This amount of energy is calculated based on the Warframe's free mod capacity and a base value specific for each Warframe (differs even between normal and prime variants). The formula followed is:


Table of Initial Energies

The initial energy of a Warframe is given from the following table. Do note that this table is currently still under construction and it is still unknown whether these values are calculated off some other attributes or simply fixed parameters for each Warframe. This area of research is still very actively pursued.

View Initial Energy of Rank 30 Warframes at 0 Mod Capacity List
Warframe Energy Pool
AshIcon272 Ash ??
Ash Prime 50
AtlasIcon272 Atlas 50
BansheeIcon272 Banshee 100
Banshee Prime 125
ChromaIcon272 Chroma 75
EmberIcon272 Ember 75
Ember Prime 75
EquinoxIcon272 Equinox 100
ExcaliburIcon272 Excalibur 50
Excalibur Prime 100
FrostIcon272 Frost ??
Frost Prime 50
GaraIcon272 Gara 75
HarrowIcon272 Harrow 50
HydroidIcon272 Hydroid ??
Hydroid Prime 100
InarosIcon272 Inaros 50
IvaraIcon272 Ivara 75
LimboIcon272 Limbo 100
LokiIcon272 Loki 100
Loki Prime 125
MagIcon272 Mag 50
Mag Prime 50
MesaIcon272 Mesa 50
MirageIcon272 Mirage ??
Mirage Prime 125
NekrosIcon272 Nekros 50
Nekros Prime 75
NezhaIcon272 Nezha 125
NidusIcon272 Nidus 50
NovaIcon272 Nova 50
Nova Prime 150
NyxIcon272 Nyx 100
Nyx Prime 150
OberonIcon272 Oberon ??
Oberon Prime 150
OctaviaIcon272 Octavia 100
RhinoIcon272 Rhino 50
Rhino Prime 50
SarynIcon272 Saryn ??
Saryn Prime 100
TitaniaIcon272 Titania 50
TrinityIcon272 Trinity ??
Trinity Prime 125
ValkyrIcon272 Valkyr ??
Valkyr Prime 100
VaubanIcon272 Vauban ??
Vauban Prime 100
VoltIcon272 Volt 50
Volt Prime 125
WukongIcon272 Wukong 50
ZephyrIcon272 Zephyr 50

Effective Energy Capacity

Casting Effective Capacity

Similarly to how one can define the concept of "effective health" by weighting the number of hit-points with the corresponding damage reduction, one can also define the concept of casting effective energy capacity by weighting the energy capacity using the Ability Efficiency factor:

Since casting efficiency is currently capped at 175%, the highest possible upper-bound for the casting effective energy capacity is:

Toggle Effective Capacity

Since the efficiency of toggle abilities depends also on the duration, in that case the formula becomes:

For the case where no energy is recovered and a constant rate of energy drain, one can also consider the effective toggle duration as follows:



Due to the definition of the terms, there are many ways in-which the formula for effective toggle duration can be expressed.

Apart from toggle duration, this can be used to work out the effective duration granted per energy pick up.

Examples

Suppose a Prowl130xWhite Prowling IvaraIcon272 Ivara has a modded drain of 0.25 energy/sec. An orb of 50 energy would provide:

Considering the same Ivara with full energy pool of 744 capacity, she can remain in prowl for:

Restoring Energy

In missions, there are various ways to restore energy:

  • Energy can be picked up during a mission from Blue Orbs. Blue Orbs dropped by enemies restore 25 energy, while containers drops will restore 50 Energy.
  • The Aura Mod TT 20px Energy Siphon slowly restores energy for all players. A squad running multiple Energy Siphon auras allow for faster energy recovery.
  • HarrowIcon272 Harrow's Thurible130xWhite Thurible grants players inside the aura a variable amount of energy from kills made by Harrow, depending on how long the ability was charged and whether the enemies were killed by body shot or headshot.
  • TrinityIcon272 Trinity's EnergyVampire130xWhite Energy Vampire allows Warframes to regain energy through the four energy pulses the target releases.
  • LimboIcon272 Limbo's Rift Plane slowly restores energy for all players within it.
  • OctaviaIcon272 Octavia's Inspiration passive slowly restores energy over time for all players that were near Octavia when she cast an ability.
  • Team Energy Restores are consumables that grant Energy to nearby teammates in varying amounts, up to 400 total.
  • Weapons triggering an Entropy (Syndicate: Cephalon Suda) effect restore 25% of the player's base energy, and provide a base energy boost of +25% for 30 seconds.
  • Weapons triggering a Blight (Syndicate: Red Veil) effect restore 25% of the player's base energy, and provide a base movement speed boost of +10% for 30 seconds.
  • Zenurik Focus:
    • Energy Pulse passively restores additional energy over time on picking up blue orbs.
    • Energizing Dash creates a dome on Void Dash that restores energy over time for all Warframes that walk through it.
  • Notable mods that affect energy generation:
  • Arcane Enhancements:
    • ArcaneEnergize Arcane Energize has a chance to replenish energy for the user and nearby allies on picking up blue orbs.
    • ExodiaBrave Exodia Brave restores energy on melee channeling kill.

Mods

It is important to note that on most occasions, toggle abilities disable energy generation from team abilities, consumables, or passive regeneration methods

Using Energy as Health

Mods

These mods stop lethal damage by allowing hits to drain your energy after your health is depleted in exchange for occasionally staggering the player

Notes

  • These mods synergize extremely well with Mod TT 20px Rage and Mod TT 20px Hunter Adrenaline since all the health drained before taking lethal damage would ensure that there is enough energy for the mods to consume.


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