Fractured Blast

1 25	Fractured Blast Slash and stagger enemies with a crystal blast that inflicts Bleed. Enemies afflicted with this Status Effect have an increase chance of dropping Health and Energy Orbs. Introduced in Update 32.3 (2023-02-15)	Strength:250 / 300 / 400 / 500 Impact and Slash damage 50% health orb drop chance 20% energy orb drop chance
		Duration:N/A
		Range:14 m
		Misc: Impact and Slash statuses on hit
		Subsumable to Helminth

Info

Slice apart the wicked with stalactic spikes and shatter their remains into precious minerals. Citrine expends 25 Energy to flick a seeking cluster of crystal shards over a sight detection cone spanning 14 meters. Enemies struck by her crystals receive 250 / 300 / 400 / 500 Impact and Slash damage with guaranteed status effects. While afflicted with Slash status from this ability, affected enemies have a crystal hovering above their heads to indicate 50% Health Orb drop chance and 20% Energy Orb drop chance on death.
- Orb drop chances modded above 100% yield a guaranteed orb and a chance to drop a second orb.
- Drop chance percentage in decimals is rounded down to the nearest whole number in-game.
- Fractured Blast damages and breaks destructible Objects in the environment bypassing its line of sight restriction.

Ability Synergy:
- Increased Health Orb drop chance allows Citrine to strengthen her Geoluminesence Passive.
- Fractured Blast contributes kills and assists to increase Preserving Shell's damage reduction.
- If Citrine casts Fractured Blast while standing inside Prismatic Gem's aurora, the Impact and Slash status duration are extended, while the gem sweeps its beam to each impacted enemy individually in rapid succession to inflict one instance of damage and a set of status effects.
Can be recast while active. Slashing already affected enemies extends the orbs drop chance kill window.
Casting Fractured Blast is an upper-body animation that allows movement and Maneuvers while interrupting other actions.
Subsuming Citrine to the Helminth will offer Fractured Blast and its augments to be used by other Warframes.
- However, Subsumed Fractured Blast's damage is reduced to 125 / 150 / 200 / 250, Health Orb drop chance reduced to 25%, and Energy Orb drop chance reduced to 10%.

Tips & Tricks

- The increased Orb drop rate allows Citrine to effectively make use of Health Conversion, Energy Conversion, Equilibrium, Arcane Energize, Arcane Eruption, Arcane Pulse, and Arcane Blessing.
- Recast on already affected enemies to extend the time needed to kill them for orb drops.
- Use the damage numbers from Slash status to visually keep track of the enemies' whereabouts, even when hidden behind obstacles.
- Select bright energy colors to make the floating crystal indicator overhead more visible.
- Impact status interrupts the enemy's actions. Since Fractured Blast uses a quick upper-body animation, Citrine can use this brief moment of opportunity to immediately follow up with weapon attacks or other abilities.

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