Exodia Contagion

Exodia Contagion is an Arcane Enhancement for Zaws that unleashes a projectile of Infested energy upon performing an aerial melee attack while aim gliding after a bullet jump or double jump.

EffectEdit

Rank	Damage (after 30m)	Explosion radius
0	100%	10m
1	200%	10m
2	300%	10m
3	400%	10m

AcquisitionEdit

Can be bought from Nakak during Operation: Plague Star for 5,000‍5,000 + 1,500‍1,500 each upon reaching the rank of Defender with Operational Supply.

NotesEdit

Upon performing a mid-air attack while Aim Gliding after bullet jumping or double jumping., an infested projectile will be launched towards the player's target.
- Two projectiles can be launched before touching ground by bullet jumping, launching a projectile, then double jumping and launching a second projectile.
The damage, critical chance, critical damage of the projectile is affected by the weapon's base stats and mods.
- The stats of the Zaw's Strike are counted twice for base stats of the projectile.
  - For example, base stats for a Zaw built from Sepfahn, Laka and Vargeet II Jai: 444 damage, 32% status chance, 54% critical chance and 4.0x critical damage.
- Bonus critical chance on slide attack mods such as Maiming Strike or Riven Mods do not affect the critical chance of the projectile.
Has multiple damage instances; projectile direct-hit, explosion, direct-hit DoT and finally the second explosion (5 seconds after the first explosion).
- Projectile direct-hit does 33% Impact, 33% Puncture, and 33% Slash damage.
- The explosion does 100% Viral damage.
- The direct-hit DoT does 100% Blast damage.
- The second explosion does 100% Impact damage.
Direct hits on enemies makes the projectile stick to them, dealing damage and inflicting a forced Impact proc each second for 4 seconds, after which it explodes on the 5th second.
The projectile can proc Berserker.
The projectile can be launched with a heavy attack by sliding in the air while heavy attacking. It does not gain any additional damage when launched in this way.
- The effects of Killing Blow do apply, as do any crit mod that has a x2 bonus on heavy attacks. (e.g. True Steel)
- Windup speed shortens the attack animation, but the projectile itself will always launch at the same time.
- Mods that give buffs "on heavy attack" ( Life Strike, Dispatch Overdrive), only work on a direct-hit with the projectile. The explosion and DoT does not.
The damage from the projectile is affected by stealth damage multipliers.
The damage of the projectile is increased after traveling 30 meters, indicated by a small burst of energy at that point. The amount of increase depends on the rank of the Arcane.
The projectile can be controlled by Ivara's Navigator ability, but the projectile will disappear in the air a few seconds after hitting an enemy or Volt's Electric Shield if the ability is still in use.
- If controlled by Navigator, the projectile will not gain the damage bonus after traveling 30m.
The projectile will not be redirected by Mag's Magnetize ability.
The damage can't be increased with Madurai's Void Strike.
The speed of the projectile is affected by attack speed mods and buffs. The base attack speed of the Zaw has no influence on the projectile speed of Exodia Contagion.
Projectile hits do not count towards the Melee Combo Counter.
The projectile is not affected by range mods.
The range of the explosion is an 8 meter radius.
- The projectile is affected by gravity, but is otherwise not range-limited.
Trading tax scales with rank:
- Rank 0: 100,000‍100,000
- Rank 1: 300,000‍300,000
- Rank 2: 600,000‍600,000
- Max Rank: 1,000,000‍1,000,000

TriviaEdit

The projectile launched takes on the appearance of the Zaw's Strike, which will embed itself on the first surface it hits before disappearing after a few seconds.
- If a skin is equipped, it will take on the appearance of the full weapon (minus the sheath for Nikanas).
Installing this arcane (or Exodia Epidemic) on a Zaw will give the Zaw's Links an infested visual appearance.
Unlike other Exodia Arcanes, Exodia Contagion depicts a symbol, instead of inscription.
Prior to Update 24.6, Exodia Contagion was purchasable as a blueprint with the following requirements to build:

Manufacturing Requirements
7,500	5	10	800	3	Time: 1 hrs
7,500	5	10	800	3	Rush: 10
Market Price: N/A			Blueprints Price: 500 + 1,500‍1,500

BugsEdit

Occasionally the projectile will not disappear after the second explosion.

MediaEdit

Patch HistoryEdit

Hotfix 27.4.2

Fixed Exodia Contagion’s projectiles being invisible when a Skin is equipped.

Update 27.4

Fixed Exodia Contagion projectiles ignoring Limbo’s Rift status of enemies/the player, letting it hit enemies across the Rift.
- This allowed for Limbo to attack from a position of invulnerability, where normally damage cannot cross the Rift unless it’s a Warframe ability of some kind. We intentionally did not fix this until after the Scarlet Spear event, but it is a bug.
Fixed Volt's Shield causing Exodia Contagion's projectile to never explode.

Update 27.3

Fixed Exodia Contagion not triggering if your weapon is out of Ammo.

Update 24.6

Replaced Arcane Blueprints with Arcanes in Operational Supply Offerings meaning that Arcanes no longer need to be built.
- Players that had previous Arcane Blueprints in Inventory were crafted on patch login for free.

Update 24.4

Exodia Contagion now requires you to be Aim Gliding to launch the Infested energy projectile.

Update 22.20

Exodia Contagion’s Infested projectile 30 meter damage multiplier now also takes into account your combo multiplier.

Update 22.19

Fixed Exodia Contagion's interaction with Covert Lethality, resulting in the +100 damage being applied to the projectile damage multiplier instead of the base projectile damage.

Update 22.6

Fixed the range increase from Iron Vault scaling with Exodia Contagion.

Update 22.4

Fixed Ivara’s Navigator causing Exodia Contagion projectiles to get stuck floating in the air.
Fixed not being able to control Exodia Contagion projectiles with Ivara’s Navigator (enjoy, DK).

Update 22.3