Exodia Contagion

Exodia Contagion
Tradable
Information
Type	Purchasable
Trading Tax	100,000 (Rank 0) ‍100,000 (Rank 0)
Introduced	Update 22.3
Rarity	Legendary
Sources	Nakak during Operation: Plague Star Daughter during Nights of Naberus

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.

Effect

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

Acquisition

• Can be bought unranked from Nakak during Operation: Plague Star for 5,000‍5,000 + 1,500‍1,500 each upon reaching the rank of Defender with Operational Supply.
• Can be bought unranked from Daughter during Nights of Naberus event for 50 Mother Tokens each.

Mechanics

• 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 the ground by bullet jumping, melee attacking during aim glide, then double jumping and melee attacking during aim glide again.
    • Chroma's Dragon's Flight passive can allow for a third projectile to be launched, using his additional jump prior to another melee attack during aim glide.
• Base projectile damage, critical chance, critical damage, and status chance depends on the Zaw's Stat and equipped mods on the Zaw.
• Has multiple damage instances; projectile direct-hit, explosion and direct-hit DoT
  • Projectile direct-hit does 2x the Zaw's damage, with a damage distribution of 33% Impact, 33% Puncture, and 33% Slash damage.
  • The explosion does 5x the Zaw's damage, with a damage distribution of 100% Viral damage.
  • The direct-hit DoT does 1x the Zaw's damage, with a damage distribution of 100% Blast damage.
• Explosion has a forced Impact proc.
• 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 proc  Shattering Impact on a direct hit, however it will not proc on the explosion.
• 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 not apply, same with any crit mod that has a 2x bonus on heavy attacks. (e.g.  True Steel) (this statement might be incorrect, some limited testing seems to indicate these effects do apply when launched in this way.)
  • Windup speed does not shorten the attack animation.
• 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.

Notes

• 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

Trivia

• 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
					Rush: 10
Market Price: N/A			Blueprints Price: 500 + 1,500‍1,500

Bugs

• Occasionally the projectile will not disappear after the second explosion.

Media

• Exodia Contagion projectile take shape as a Zaw's strike.
• Exodia Contagion visuals when a skin is equipped on the respective melee weapon

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Patch History

Update 29.5

• Fixed Exodia Contagion no longer inheriting base critical chance, critical damage, and status chance from equipped Zaw.
• (Undocumented) fixed clients not dealing Blast damage on the initial explosion.

Update 28.3

• (Undocumented) Projectile does not inherit base critical chance, critical damage, and status chance stats from equipped Zaw. Now has a fixed 20% critical chance and 2.0x critical multiplier. Projectile no longer explodes on final tick.

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.

Hotfix 24.0.7

• Fixed Zaws not applying negative damage modifiers to projectiles launched from the Exodia Contagion Arcane.

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

• Introduced

Last updated: Update 22.19