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 after bullet-jumping or double-jumping, an infested projectile will be launched towards the player's target.
- Jumping after falling off a ledge counts as a double jump, allowing you to launch a projectile with only a single, non-bullet jump jump.
- Achieving the requirements of the Exodia Contagion will decrease the angular range of Slam Attacks down to roughly 15 degrees, allowing the projectile to be tossed at lower angles.
The damage, critical chance, critical damage of the projectile is affected by the weapon's base stats and mods.
- The damage is divided into two parts, one is the impact damage, and the other is the damage caused by the explosion.
  - Particularly, damage of the projectile is affect by Covert Lethality's "+100"damage.
- Bonus critical chance on slide attack mods such as Maiming Strike or Zaw Riven Mods do not affect the critical chance of the projectile.
- Hits do not increase or benefit from the combo counter, similar to thrown melee weapons.
- The damage from the projectile is also affected by stealth damage multipliers.
- The infested projectile is capable of inflicting a Viral proc, in addition to any other status effects on the equipped Zaw.
The Infested projectile can Stick to enemies and surfaces for 5 seconds.
- When attached to an enemy, it deals Damage per second for 5 seconds, exploding on the 5th second, dealing damage to enemies within about 15 meters.
Regardless of statistics, Exodia Contagion has a small chance to cause a Blast proc.
The infested projectile will do self-damage, but will only apply Viral procs and elemental base damage from the Zaw's strike.
The infested projectile is inter-planar, being able to damage enemies regardless of plane.
- The projectile is not affected by Limbo's Stasis and will do damage to enemies outside the Rift.
- However, the projectile will still do self damage to Limbo even when he is inside the Rift.
The projectile can be controlled by Ivara's Navigator ability.
The projectile will not be redirected by Mag's Magnetize ability.
For each tier of Exodia Contagion, the infested projectile's damage is increased after traveling 30 meters, indicated by a small burst of energy at that point.
The projectile is not affected by range mods.
The projectile's traveling speed is affected by attack speed mods.
- The projectile is affected by gravity, but is otherwise not range-limited.
- The projectile can proc Berserker charges, although they do not count towards the Melee Combo Counter.
- Upon using Volt's Speed ability, the projectile will receive significantly increased traveling speed with barely noticeable drop off.
Channeling will affect direct hits with the infested projectile and will trigger Dispatch Overdrive if an enemy is killed, though kills from the projectile's explosion will not. Despite this, direct hits with the infested projectile will not drain any energy while channeling.
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.
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

MediaEdit

Patch HistoryEdit

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