Ferrox

Corpus Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

Ferrox
Statistics
Type	Speargun
Mastery	14
Slot	Primary
Trigger Type	Charge
Utility
Accuracy	16.7
Ammo Type	Rifle
Disposition	●●●●○ (1.15x)
Fire Rate	1.33
Noise Level	Alarming
Magazine Size	10
Max Ammo	540
Reload Time	1.8 s
Projectile Speed	? m/s
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Charged Shot
35
245
70
Total Damage	350 (70%)
Charge Time	0.5 s
Crit Chance	32%
Crit Multiplier	2.8x
Fire Rate	1.33
Multishot	1 (350 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Punch Through	1.5 m
Range	300 m
Status Chance	10%
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Area Attacks
100
Total Damage	100
Crit Chance	32%
Crit Multiplier	2.8x
Damage Falloff	100% damage up to 0 m 60% damage at 3.6 m 40% max reduction
Fire Rate	1.33
Multishot	1 (100 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Range	3.6 m
Status Chance	10%
Projectile Type	AoE
Spear Throw
35
5
10
Total Damage	50 (70%)
Charge Time	0.5 s
Crit Chance	4%
Crit Multiplier	2x
Fire Rate	1
Multishot	1 (50 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Reload Time	2 s
Status Chance	33%
Projectile Speed	? m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Trigger Type	Charge
Attraction Field
150
Total Damage	150
Crit Chance	4%
Crit Multiplier	2x
Fire Rate	0.5
Multishot	1 (150 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Status Chance	50%
Projectile Type	AoE
Miscellaneous
Exilus Polarity
Internal Name	/Lotus/Weapons/Corpus/LongGuns/Spears/Railgun/CorpusRailgun
Introduced	Update 19.13 (2017-03-09)
Polarities
Users	Derim Zahn

CODEX

Discharge a rail of ionized death or throw the Ferrox like a spear and create a localized field of attraction no enemy can escape from.

The Ferrox is a  Corpus Speargun introduced and wielded by Index broker Derim Zahn. The primary fire features a charged thin beam that deals high damage, complimented by its high critical stats. Its Alternate Fire tosses the Ferrox as far as 50 meters, creating an  Electricity field where it lands and pulls enemies towards it.

Characteristics

This weapon deals primarily  Puncture damage on its primary fire and  Impact damage on its alt-fire.

Advantages:

• Primary Fire charges and shoots thin beams.
  • High  Puncture damage – effective against armor.
  • Beams are hitscan and do not have projectile travel time, despite the animation.
  • Very high critical chance and critical multiplier.
  • Innate 1.5 meter punch through.
  • Shots explode in a 3.6 meter radius after reaching maximum punch through distance.
    • Initial hit and explosion apply status separately.
    • Explosion does not need direct line of sight to deal damage and will penetrate walls.
    • Explosion can benefit from  Cautious Shot.
  • Very fast charge speed.
  • Vaporizes enemies on kill, making it good for stealth when silenced.
• Alternate Fire throws the Ferrox, creating a field dealing  Electricity damage and pulling enemies within 10 meters toward the Ferrox every 2 seconds.
  • Innate  Electricity damage – effective against Machinery and Robotic.
  • High  Impact damage – effective against shields.
  • Very high status chance.
  • Consumes no ammunition.
• Reloads 33% of the magazine per second while deployed or holstered.
• Very ammo efficient.
• Innate and polarities.

Disadvantages:

• Primary Fire:
  • Low  Impact damage – less effective against shields.
  • Low status chance.
  • Explosion inflicts self-stagger.
  • Explosion has linear damage falloff from 100% to 60% from central impact.
  • Explosion range cannot be increased with  Firestorm ( Primed) and  Amalgam Furax Body Count.
  • Shoots thin lasers, thus requiring precise aiming.
  • Cannot fire with a partial charge.
  • The weapon fires as soon as it has reached a full charge which can lead to premature firing.
• Alternate Fire:
  • Innate ​ Electricity​ damage – less effective against Alloy Armor.
  • Extremely low critical chance.
  • Once thrown, the player will not be able to use it until it is either picked up or when it returns to the player's hands after 10 seconds if quick thrown or 30 seconds if charged thrown.
  • Thrown spear has travel time.
  • The electricity field created by throwing has a flat 50% status chance that cannot be increased using mods.

Acquisition

The Ferrox's blueprint can be researched from the Energy Lab in the dojo.

Manufacturing Requirements
30,000	5	30,000	35,000	1	Time: 24 hrs
					Rush: 35
Market Price: 150			Blueprints Price:15,000
Energy Lab Research 3,000
10,000	800	550	3,500	500	Time: 72 hrs
					Prereq: Amprex
x1   x3   x10   x30   x100

This weapon can be sold for 7,500 Credits 7,500.

Notes

• The Ferrox' alternate fire throws the weapon itself at the target, and upon landing on a surface arcs of electricity will emit from the Ferrox and chain to enemies within 10 meters, dealing 150  Electricity damage every 2 seconds with a moderate chance to proc. Enemies under this effect will also be passively dragged towards the Ferrox.
  • The damage's tick rate is affected by fire rate mods.
  • Multishot, critical damage, critical chance, and status chance have no effect on this mode. The only way to boost this alternate mode is through elemental damage, pure damage increases, faction damage mods, and fire rate.
• The Ferrox automatically teleports back to the player 30 seconds after being thrown, or until the player manually picks the Ferrox back up again.
  • Throwing the weapon does not consume ammo, however at least 1 ammo is required to perform the throw.
• The Ferrox' alt-fire has a maximum throwing range of ~50m (though it may be displayed as slightly less due to the forward movement of the player when throwing the weapon).
  • The arc Ferrox will take when thrown is affected by both the angle of the throw as well as how much the throw was charged.
  • Throwing distance can be increased with flight speed modifiers (e.g.  Terminal Velocity and  Zephyr's  Jet Stream Augment).
  • Unlike the  Javlok, the Ferrox' alt-fire will not self-stagger its user when thrown too close.
• If the Ferrox is silenced using  Hush,  Hushed Invisibility, or  Banshee's passive ability, its alt-fire will not alert enemies when dragging and dealing damage to them.
• Enemies killed by the primary or damage from the secondary attack will vaporize, similar to channeled kills by melee weapons. This makes it very suitable for stealth, as long as the weapon is silenced or  Hushed Invisibility is used.
  • This only occurs if the enemy was the last in the line of a primary shot. If a Ferrox shot kills multiple enemies at once due to punch-through, not all targets will be vaporized.
• It is not recommended to install  Heavy Caliber as the accuracy will greatly deviate leading to inaccurate shots, however, it is one of the few ways to maximize the damage of the alt-fire tether, which is unaffected by accuracy.

Tips

• This weapon's high critical chance and critical multiplier makes critical builds using  Point Strike and  Vital Sense very good options.
• When applying additional elements to the Ferrox, its alt-fire will proc them periodically; as with other weapons with an elemental base,  Electricity will be applied last if there are two or more other elements modded for, unless an  Electricity mod is included in the order.
•  Tactical Reload will still have an effect while the spear is out after the alt-fire is used, so it's possible to do seamless reloads this way.
• The Ferrox' alt-fire is very useful as a crowd control tool in Survival missions, as its tethering arcs may stun enemies with  Electricity procs and also pull them together in a close bunch.
  • It is further amplified on corridors where enemies pass through frequently.
  • Grenade-type secondary weapons such as  Angstrum and  Kulstar, thrown secondaries with  Concealed Explosives, and weapons that chain between targets like the  Atomos are good choices when using the Ferrox in this manner.
  • This will also assist squadmates with launcher-type primaries such as  Zarr and  Tonkor, as well as any weaponry with  Gas procs.
• The Ferrox' alt-fire is affected by fire rate mods making it tick more often.
• The tether mode is useful for grouping up enemies for the use of quickly charging up  Rhino's  Ironclad Charge augment mod.
  • It is also good for grouping enemies up for a  Condition Overload modded  Orvius, as the weapon's explosion will hit most enemies in range.

Trivia

• The bodies of enemies killed by this weapon disintegrate in a manner similar to channeled Melee kills.
• Has the same aesthetic as the  Ohma tonfas and Quaro armor set.
• The name Ferrox seems to be a mix of the Latin words Ferox, meaning "savage" or "fierce", and Ferrum, meaning "iron".

Media

Ferrox in the Codex.

Ferrox as shown in the Asenal

Warframe Update 19.13 New FERROX Corpus Spear Gun First Look

Warframe ALL Javlok Animations! (For SpearGun Weapons)

Ferrox BUFFED! Is The Tether Good Now? (3 Synergies)

Warframe - All Corpus Primaries - Weapon Animations & Sounds (2012 - 2019)

Warframe - All Corpus Weapon Reloads in 1 minute (2012 - 2019)

Ferrox Skins Edit

Renuntio

Patch History

Hotfix 27.2.2 (2020-03-06)
Reduced the following AoE weapons Radial Damage Falloff from central impact that were all previously 90%:

• Ferrox: 40%

Update 27.2 (2020-03-05)

Self Damage Changes

We are getting rid of Self Damage and replacing it with something else: instead of Self Damage, it’s now ‘Stagger’. This change completely removes the chance of killing yourself, and instead now creates scenarios where you will interrupt yourself - or ‘Stagger’ - to varying degrees if you aren’t careful.

The degrees of Self-Interrupt start with a small stumble all the way to full knockdown depending on how close you are to the center of explosion. Any Mods referring to Self Damage will be converted to acknowledge Stagger.

With this Self-Interrupt system, we have added dozens of new recovery animations that harness a ninja-like recovery experience. By pressing ‘Jump’ at the correct time, you can execute a ninja-skill-based knockdown recovery to ALL in-game knockdowns. This ninja recovery window is indicated by a glowing FX on your Warframe.

In addition to Self Damage being removed, some of the more powerful AOE weapons without Self Damage presently will have the Stagger added, but it should only be noticeable in cases of extreme inaccuracy on the player’s part. The Weapons include:

• Ferrox

In the original Dev Workshop, we said:
As a result of this overall systemic change, Weapons with Stagger will be getting approximately a 20% buff in Damage, with any weapons with AOE receiving a 50% Radial Damage Falloff from central impact.

This is no longer accurate after continued testing. What we are doing now is:

No damage buffs have been added, but any weapons with AOE are receiving ~20% increase in Radius. Additionally, AOE weapons are receiving a 90% Radial Damage Falloff from central impact. This means on the very outer section of the explosion Radius 10% of the Damage will be dealt. Tactics will be deadly - aim true, Tenno.

Why: Several players brought up the history of the Tonkor and we want to make sure we ship this change in a place that’s conservative in its starting point from a balance perspective. The complete removal of Self Damage does change the pace of destruction with some of the game’s most powerful weapons, so we want to make sure we can iterate upwardly instead of releasing a bonanza of explosions with no other choices.

Update 25.5 (2019-07-31)

• Fixed broken functionality if the Ferrox is the only weapon equipped and you pick up Ammo while it’s been thrown.

Update 25.1 (2019-06-05)

• Fixed seeing a large beam of light FX when firing the Ferrox with Mirage’s Hall of Mirrors active as reported here.

Hotfix 25.0.4 (2019-05-28)

• Returned the Ferrox Primary Fire Damage to it’s previous value of 350.

Update 25.0 (2019-05-22)

• 33% of clip reloaded every second when Spear is deployed. This allows for a more fluid use of all the Gun Spear mechanics.
• Added 100 Impact damage with 3m area-of-effect at end point of Primary fire.
• Increased Alt Fire's tether range from 6m to 10m.
• Increased tether's Status Chance from 33% to 50%.
• Increased tether's Damage pulse from every 5 secs to every 2 secs.
• Quick throw auto recall timer reduced from 20 to 10 secs.
• Charged throw auto recall timer increased from 20 to 30 secs.

Update 22.12 (2018-02-09)

• Mastery Rank increased from 7 to 14.
• Critical chance increased from 30% to 32%.
• Critical damage increased from 2.5x to 2.8x.

Hotfix 19.13.1 (2017-03-10)

• Increased the amount of the Ferrox pull force to prevent enemies from meleeing out of the tether.
• Fixed Clients being able to throw multiple Javloks and Ferroxs which are then unable to be picked back up.
• Fixed a script error when throwing the Ferrox.

Update 19.13 (2017-03-09)

• Introduced.

See also

• Derim Zahn, a broker in The Index that uses this weapon.
•  Ohma, a Tonfa-type weapon that shares the same theme.