Gammacor

Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

Gammacor
Untradeable
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General Information
Type	Pistol
Mastery Rank Requirement	2
Max Rank	30
Slot	Secondary
Trigger Type	Held
Utility
Accuracy	Very High
Ammo Max	240
Ammo Pickup	40
Ammo Type	Secondary
Disposition	●●●●○ (1.15x)
Fire Rate	12.00 attacks/sec
Noise Level	Alarming
Magazine Size	60
Reload Time	1.40 s
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Spread	0.00° (0.00° min, 0.00° max)
Normal Attack
16 ( 100%)
Total Damage	16 (100.00%  Magnetic)
Ammo Cost	0.5
Crit Chance	8.00%
Crit Multiplier	1.80x
Fire Rate	12.00 attacks/sec
Multishot	1 (16.00 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Punch Through	0.0 m
Range	25.0 m
Spread	0.00° (0.00° min, 0.00° max)
Status Chance	20.00%
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Incarnon Form
80 ( 100%)
Total Damage	80 (100.00%  Impact)
Accuracy	Very High
Ammo Cost	1
Crit Chance	14.00%
Crit Multiplier	1.80x
Fire Rate	1.00 attacks/sec
Forced Procs	Impact
Multishot	1 (80.00 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Punch Through	0.0 m
Spread	0.00° (0.00° min, 0.00° max)
Status Chance	22.00%
Projectile Speed	0.0 m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Trigger Type	Semi-Auto
Incarnon Form Radial Attack
660 ( 100%)
Total Damage	660 (100.00%  Cold)
Crit Chance	14.00%
Crit Multiplier	1.80x
Damage Falloff	No Damage Falloff: below 0.0 m (100%, 660 damage) Linear Falloff: between 0.0 m and 5.0 m (100% - 70%) Max Damage Falloff: over 5.0 m (70%, 462 damage)
Explosion Delay	1.2 s
Fire Rate	1.00 attacks/sec
Forced Procs	Cold
Multishot	1 (660.00 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Range	5.0 m
Status Chance	22.00%
Projectile Type	AoE
Trigger Type	Semi-Auto
Miscellaneous
Compatibility Tags	BEAM
Riven Family	Gammacor
Exilus Polarity
Introduced	Update 15.5 (2014-11-27)
Polarities
Sell Price	5,000
Variants	Gammacor  Synoid Gammacor
Vendor Sources
Article Categories
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CODEX

Designed to quickly vaporize minerals for content analysis, users discovered its powerful beam was equally efficient at dispatching hostiles.

The Gammacor is a Cephalon designed wrist-mounted laser that deals  Magnetic damage, making it ideal for tackling the Corpus. Although it is pinpoint accurate and relatively quiet, its limited range means that players will have to close the distance to get the most out of this weapon.

The Gammacor is a requisite ingredient for the  Heliocor.

Characteristics

• This weapon deals  Magnetic damage.
• Damage ramps up from 25% to 100% over 0.6 seconds when firing. After firing stops for 0.8 seconds, the damage decays back to 25% over 2 seconds.
• Comes with a polarity.

Advantages over other Secondary weapons (excluding modular weapons):

• Pinpoint accuracy.
  •  Magnum Force's accuracy penalty is minimal on this weapon.
• Reduced Noise Level.
• Consumes 0.5 ammo per tick of damage.
• Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
  • High magazine (60)
  • High ammo max (240)
  • High fire rate (12.00 attacks/sec)
• Incarnon Form (wiki attack index 2)
  • High magazine (60)
  • High ammo max (240)
• Incarnon Form Radial Attack (wiki attack index 3)
  • Above average active falloff slope (16.7m/%)
  • Above average reload speed (1.40 s)
  • High magazine (60)
  • Above average total damage (660)
  • Above average ammo max (240)

Disadvantages over other Secondary weapons (excluding modular weapons):

• Limited range of 25 meters.
• Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
  • Low crit chance (8.00%)
  • Very low total damage (16)
  • Below average disposition (●●●●○ (1.15x))
  • Below average crit multiplier (1.80x)
• Incarnon Form (wiki attack index 2)
  • Below average crit chance (14.00%)
  • Below average total damage (80)
  • Very low fire rate (1.00 attacks/sec)
  • Below average disposition (●●●●○ (1.15x))
  • Low crit multiplier (1.80x)
• Incarnon Form Radial Attack (wiki attack index 3)
  • Low crit chance (14.00%)
  • Low maximum falloff distance (5.0 m)
  • Very low fire rate (1.00 attacks/sec)
  • Below average status chance (22.00%)
  • Low crit multiplier (1.80x)

See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.

Comparisons:

•  Gammacor (Normal Attack), compared to  Synoid Gammacor (Normal Attack):
  • Lower base damage per projectile (16.00 vs. 20.00)
    • Lower  Magnetic damage ( 16 vs. 20)
  • Lower total damage (16 vs. 20)
  • Lower base critical chance (8.00% vs. 20.00%)
  • Lower base critical multiplier (1.80x vs. 2.00x)
  • Lower base status chance (20.00% vs. 28.00%)
  • Lower average damage per tap (17.02 vs. 24)
  • Lower burst DPS (204.28 vs. 288)
  • Lower sustained DPS (179.2 vs. 253.74)
  • Smaller magazine (60 vs. 80)
  • Less shots per magazine (120 vs. 160)
  • Smaller max ammo capacity (240 vs. 400)
  • Faster reload time (1.40 s vs. 1.80 s)
  • Less polarities ( vs. )
  • Lower Mastery Rank required (2 vs. 7)
  • Higher disposition (●●●●○ (1.15x) vs. ●●●○○ (1.10x))
  • No innate Entropy effect

Acquisition

The Gammacor's blueprint can be purchased from the Market. Alternatively, it can be acquired from completing the Uranus to Neptune Junction.

Manufacturing Requirements 📝 Edit blueprint requirements
20,000	Alloy Plate 2,500	Plastids 650	Circuits 400	Argon Crystal 2	Time: 12 Hour(s)
					Rush: 45
Market Price: 200			Blueprints Price:35,000

Notes

• The Gammacor's beam when fired does not immediately hit at its maximum range, instead it takes around half a second to extend to its maximum range, and will maintain that range as long as the weapon is being fired. The beam retracts when the weapon stops firing.

Incarnon Genesis

• Upon completion of The Duviri Paradox and Angels of the Zariman, and unlocking The Steel Path, players can earn  Gammacor Incarnon Genesis from The Circuit's Steel Path to place on their Gammacor with the help of Cavalero in the Chrysalith. This Incarnon Genesis form grants it evolutions to a transformation and newfound strength.
  • Alternatively, the Gammacor Incarnon Genesis can be bought from Cavalero for 120 Platinum 120, complete with the resources used in its installation. This purchase can only be made once.

Evolution

This section is transcluded from Gammacor Incarnon Genesis § Evolutions. To change it, please edit the transcluded page.

• Installing the Gammacor Incarnon Genesis requires 20  Pathos Clamps, 70  Ueymag, and 80  Lamentus.
• When installed, the first Evolution tier is unlocked. The following Evolution tiers, their requirements for unlocking them, and their related perks, are shown below;
  • Each challenge additionally grants 5,000 affinity to the weapon, affected by Affinity Boosters.

Evolution I

• Weakpoint hits charge Incarnon Transmutation; Alt Fire transmutes. Switching back will expend any remaining charge.
• Fires projectiles that pull enemies into a  Cold Damage explosion.
  • Incarnon Form shoots semi-automatic projectiles that deal guaranteed  Impact proc on direct impacts, then pulls and staggers enemies within 5 meters for 1.2 seconds before exploding, inflicting pure 760  Cold damage with a guaranteed  Cold proc on the explosion. However it has significantly slower Fire Rate and the explosion possesses Damage Falloff from 100% to 70% from central impact.
• Mode switching is not instantaneous and has an animation equal to the weapon's reload speed.
• Incarnon Form is activated by filling the Incarnon Transmutation gauge that appears under the reticle by achieving weakpoint hits and then pressing the Alternate Fire button. 15 weakpoints will completely fill the gauge. A full gauge is not required to activate Incarnon Form.
  • Charges do not generate on the backpacks of most MOA variants, or vulnerability spots generated by  Sonar or  Detect Vulnerability in places other than actual weakpoints.
  • Weakpoints on corpses or Invulnerable targets do not build charges.
  • As a Continuous Weapon, Multishot applies a damage multiplier rather than extra damage instances, and thus does not assist in charging.
• Instead of drawing ammunition from its reserves, the Gammacor's Incarnon Form uses a separate "magazine" with each charge producing 1 rounds to a maximum of 15. Once all ammunition is expended, the Gammacor reverts to its normal form.
  • Incarnon Form's magazine is not affected by mods.
  • Incarnon Form is not affected by Ammo Efficiency (such as  Energized Munitions).
  • Charges and Incarnon Form persists through all activities, such as holstering, bleedout, or being disarmed. However, charges and Incarnon Form are removed upon death.
• Swapping to and from Incarnon Form will fully reload the normal form's magazine.

Evolution II

• Unlock Challenge: Complete a solo mission with this weapon equipped.
• Perk 1: Sage's Resolve:
  • Increase Damage by +10.
  • With Channeled Ability Active: +25% Multishot.
• Perk 2: Infused Shots:
  • Increase Damage by +6.
  • On 50 Energy Spent: Increase Damage by +5 for 10s. Stacks up to 4x.

Evolution III

• Unlock Challenge: Kill 100 enemies with this weapon's Incarnon Form.
• Perk 1: Evolved Autoloader:
  • +50% Magazine Reloaded/s when Holstered
• Perk 2: Moonrise Velocity:
  • +8 Range
• Perk 3: Extended Volley:
  • Increase Magazine Capacity by +40.

Evolution IV

• Unlock Challenge: Kill 30 enemies while airborne.
• Perk 1: Critical Parallel:
  • Increase Critical Chance by +20% (Gammacor) / +10% (Synoid).
  • Increase Critical Damage Multiplier by +0.2x.
• Perk 2: Survivor's Edge:
  • Increase Critical Chance by +12% (Gammacor) / +6% (Synoid).
  • Increase Status Chance by +10% (Gammacor) / +6% (Synoid).
• Perk 3: Elemental Balance:
  • Increase Status Chance by +20% (Gammacor) / +10% (Synoid).

Tips

•  Ruinous Extension can aid in extending the short range of this weapon.
• As the Gammacor already deals  Magnetic innately, it can accept other combination elemental damage types that use  Electricity or  Cold damage as a base.
  • Resultingly, Gammacor can be fitted with  Corrosive damage for anti-Grineer. With shield and armor degradation status effects, such a Gammacor would be extremely effective against both Grineer and Corpus bosses, as well as being able to strip Grineer Eximus Overguard.
• The innate polarity can somewhat limit elemental modding potential, thus making it a less desirable polarity for elemental modding. If you wish to focus more on elemental damage, then it is recommended to either ignore the polarity or use Forma to turn it into a more suitable polarity.

Trivia

• Unlike most secondary weapons, the Gammacor is worn like a gauntlet on the Warframe's right arm.
  • However, Warframes will still extend their right index finger as if they're holding a single pistol. Idle animations will also play as though the Gammacor is a single pistol.
• This is the second weapon (along with its Synoid variant) released that has an innate  Magnetic damage (with the first being the  Velocitus), but is the first to ever be used for general gameplay, as opposed to being limited to Archwing missions.
• The metallic structure (the primary part on the color setting) has a purplish tint.
• The circular holograms expand as the weapon is being fired.
• The weapon's design suggests that it may have originally been a device created by Cephalon Simaris, due to its aesthetic similarities to other devices in his employ like the Synthesis Scanner, which appears to use the same parts.
  • This is furthered by the fact that the Codex states that it was "Designed to quickly vaporize minerals for content analysis."

Media

Gammacor in Codex.

Gammacor & Synoid Gammacor - 15.5.4

Warframe Syndicates Gammacor &. Synoid Gammacor thequickdraw

Gammacor Skins

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Day of the Dead
Naberus

Day of the Dead II

Patch History

Update 38.0 (2024-12-13)

• Fixed Wall Latching with the Gammacor resulting in breaking their weapon holsters.

Update 34.0 (2023-10-18)

• Fixed Gammacor being incorrectly rotated in Teshin’s Cave.

Update 30.5 (2021-07-06)

• Fixed Gammacor beam offsets when riding a K-Drive.

Update 30.3 (2021-05-25)

• Fixed arm cannon type (Gammacor) reticle area being blocked by a part of Zephyr Harrier's shoulder element.

Hotfix 30.0.7 (2021-04-22)

• Added updated wrist-mounted weapon animations (ie Gammacor).
  • Also fixes weird wrist angled animations.

Update 28.0 (2020-06-11)

• Fixed arm mounted Secondaries (Gammacor) not playing custom idle animations. As reported here: https://forums.warframe.com/topic/1082719-arm-mounted-secondaries-broken-animation-thigh-holster-problem/

Update 25.8 (2019-10-01)

October 2019 Riven Disposition Change

• Gammacor: 0.9->0.95

Update 22.14 (2018-03-01)

• Fixed Beam weapons not being able to damage enemies (alive but in a ragdolled state) when being affected by certain ‘crowd control’ Abilities.
• Damage now ramps up over 0.6 seconds and after moving off target there is a delay of 0.8 seconds before it starts to decay over 2 seconds.
• All Beam weapons now start their Damage ramp up at 20% (instead of 10%).
• The Multishot chance should now apply more consistently with Beam weapons.
• Fixed Beam weapons continuously firing when quick Meleeing.

Hotfix 22.13.4 (2018-02-22)

• Increased the Beam weapon Damage ramp up time from 0.8 to 1 second.
• Fixed Beam weapon Damage ramp up not happening per target.

Hotfix 22.13.3 (2018-02-21)

• Perfect accuracy and high fire rate is balanced by limited range and damage ramping up from 10% to 100% over 0.8 seconds when firing and decays back to 10% over 1 second after stopping.
• Damage changed from 50 Magnetic per sec to 16 Magnetic per tick.
• Fire Rate increased from 5 to 12.
• Status Chance increased from 5% per sec to 20% per tick of damage.
• Critical chance increased from 5% to 8%.
• Critical Damage increased from 1.5x to 1.8x.
• Reload reduced from 2s to 1.4s.
• Range increased from 20m to 25m.
• Magazine size increased from 50 to 60.
• Max Ammo increased from 210 to 240.
• Ammo consumption decreased from 1.0 to 0.5 per tick of damage.
• Aimed Zoom reduced from 2.23x to 1.6x.
• Minor tweaks to reload timing on Gammacor.

Hotfix 19.11.2 (2017-02-17)

• Fixed the Gammacor expanding when holstered and sprinting.

Update 19.5 (2016-12-22)

• Gammacor magazine size reduced from 100 to 30 in Conclave.

Update 19.4.2 (2016-12-20)

• Fixed Holster appearing on the ground between the feet of Cephalon Suda Operatives wielding Gammacors.

Update: The Index Preview (2016-10-20)

• Gammacor series can now be used in Conclave!

Update: Specters of the Rail 0.0 (2016-07-08)

• Fixed the Right Dendra forearm guard clipping through arm mounted weapons like the Gammacor.

Hotfix 18.8.2 (2016-04-13)

• Decreased the rumble amount on controllers when continuously firing the Gammacor.

Update 17.8 (2015-10-21)

• Fixed an issue with the Gammacor holsters using the wrong energy color.

Hotfix 17.0.2 (2015-07-31)

• Made some adjustments to audio FX on the Gammacor.

Hotfix 16.0.2 (2015-03-21)

• Fixed visual issue with Gammacor where weapon would open while holstered after melee or a quick roll.

Update 15.7 (2014-12-17)

• Fixed the Ruinous Extension Mod not being compatible with the Gammacor.

Hotfix 15.5.8 (2014-12-05)

• Fixed the non-Syndicate Gammacor being a tradeable weapon.
• Fixed Gammacor's laser not appearing when fired.
• Fixed issue with Gammacor caused by using the Barrel Diffusion, Lethal Torrent and Seeker Mods all at once.

Hotfix 15.5.6 (2014-12-02)

• Fixed Gammacor's beam visual effect persisting when using melee during a slide.
• Fixed Gammacor's continuous fire sometimes using default energy color when players stop running while shooting.

Hotfix 15.5.5 (2014-12-01)

• Increased damage dealt in beam per second.
• Increased fire rate of beam.
• Reduced ammo consumption.
• Gammacor Damage: Now 50 Magnetic.
• Gammacor Status/Second: 5%.
• Gammacor Magazine: 50.
• Gammacor Crit Multiplier/Chance: 1.5x/5%.

Hotfix 15.5.2 (2014-11-27)

• Made additional tweaks to Gammacor firing sounds.

Hotfix 15.5.1 (2014-11-27)

• Made various sound tweaks to Gammacor shots.
• Added new hip fire poses to the Gammacor.
• Fixed an issue with the Gammacor appearing in the codex as a duplicate ‘Lato’ entry.

Update 15.5 (2014-11-27)

• Introduced.

Last updated: Hotfix 22.20.6 (2018-05-24)

See also

•  Synoid Gammacor, the Cephalon Suda custom version.