Gara

• Gara thrusts her glass longsword with 5 / 6 / 8 / 10 meters range toward the aiming reticle, dealing 500 / 600 / 700 / 800 Puncture damage and knocking back all enemies within 0.75 meters radius from the blade. Holding the ability key instead sweeps the glass longsword from left to right in a 225° arc in front of Gara, dealing 500 / 600 / 700 / 800 Slash damage to all enemies within reach and bashing them away in a ragdoll state in the direction of the sweep.
• Thrust and sweep damage are affected by Ability Strength and certain mods:

  Base Damage × (1 + Damage Mods) × (1 + Elemental Mods) × (1 + Strength Mods)

  • As an example, with a maxed Pressure Point, Shocking Touch and Intensify, a rank-3 Shattered Lash will deal
    800 × (1 + 1.2) × (1 + 0.9) × (1 + 0.3) = 4,347.2 damage.
  • Mods affecting Puncture damage and Slash damage will only affect their corresponding physical damage type for Shattered Lash's thrust or sweep.
  • As Shattered Lash damage is not comprised of Impact damage, physical damage mods that affect Impact have no effect on Shattered Lash.
  • Shattered Lash is also affected by equipped melee mods including:
    • Damage (e.g. Pressure Point and Covert Lethality)
    • Elemental damage (e.g. Shocking Touch)
    • Augments (e.g. Bright Purity) and Rivens that add any of the aforementioned stats
  • Manticore's damage bonus applies to the ability.
  • Shattered Lash is not affected by the equipped melee weapon's stats and innate effects.
    • The only exceptions to this rule are:
      • Mire and its passive ability to grant +10% Toxin damage, which carries over to Shattered Lash. The toxin damage combines with any elemental damage from melee elemental mods.
      • Shattered Lash's damage is affected by Venka Prime's modified Melee Combo Counter.
• Glass longsword's range is affected by Ability Range, while blade knockback radius and sweep arc are not.
  • Sweep is not perfectly aligned in a straight line and is similar to a wave-like pattern, allowing Shattered Lash to hit enemies on a slightly higher terrain elevation than Gara past ~90°.
• Thrust and sweep casting speeds are affected by Natural Talent and Speed Drift.
• Glass longsword has innate punch through, bypassing entities, walls, and obstacles in the environment.
• Thrust direction is determined when quick cast is initiated. Glass longsword will generate from the initial position regardless of Gara's orientation and position during the cast.
• Sweep occurs around Gara's character model once the hold cast is initiated. On cast, Gara is reoriented toward the aiming reticle, but the glass longsword's path is predetermined by the sweep animation and cannot be redirected upward or downward.
• Enemies crystallized by Mass Vitrify are not affected by Shattered Lash's ragdoll and knockback effects.
• Casting Shattered Lash on the player's own Mass Vitrify glass barrier causes it to break and explode outward, dealing damage to enemies outside the barrier. Damage type of the glass barrier explosion is determined by Shattered Lash's thrust or sweep used to shatter the barrier.
• Shattered Lash's quick cast is a one-handed action that allows Gara to fire and reload weapons, as well as move and perform maneuvers during cast.
  • Hold cast is a two-handed animation that stops Gara's movement and other actions during cast.
• Can be cast while in midair.
• While ability is silent, it does not activate stealth multiplier.
• The glass longsword is visually summoned from Gara's left palm and does not possess a grip. Glass shards will constantly break away and fall from the blade as a visual effect, while the longsword fades into and out of existence for the duration of the thrust or sweep.
  • The longsword and its particle effects are affected by Gara's chosen Warframe energy color.
• Shattered Lash can damage enemies across the Rift Plane.
• Shattered Lash is affected by and can trigger Warframe Arcanes.

• Tap 1  for quick cast to thrust the glass sword where you aim, puncturing through all enemies in a line to inflict Puncture damage, knockdown and knockback. Thrust allows Gara to keep on the move, use Maneuvers, as well as fire and reload weapons.
• Hold the button for hold cast to sweep the sword, slashing all enemies in an arc to inflict Slash damage, body ragdoll and knockback. However, sweep locks Gara in place during cast.
  • Sweep is animation-locked and cannot be aimed upward or downward. However, because the sweep is in a wave-like pattern, it can hit enemies on a lower or higher terrain elevation than Gara depending on the troughs and crests of the wave. You can familiarize yourself with this pattern in Captura mode using the advance time function.
  • If enemies are standing on a higher elevation, use Aim Glide (default hold RMB  while in midair) and time your sweep to hit them with your blade.
• Modify your melee weapon with base damage, elemental damage, and Puncture and Slash damage to maximize potential damage for Shattered Lash. Depending on your preferred attack method (thrust or sweep) and enemies you will face, you can specialize in Puncture or Slash damage mods to take advantage of damage type bonuses against different factions.
  • Base damage, elemental damage, and physical damage from melee Riven Mods do affect Shattered Lash, further amplifying its damage potential.
• Use Splinter Storm on an enemy target to amplify Shattered Lash's damage on it.
• Cast Spectrorage on a cluster of enemies or in the enemy's path to cause them to gather inside the carousel, then use Shattered Lash to thrust at specific targets in a line or sweep the entire group away.
• Crystallize enemies using Mass Vitrify then attack them with Shattered Lash for increased damage.
  • Damage multipliers from Mass Vitrify and Splinter Storm can stack to produce even higher damage output for Shattered Lash.
• Create a Mass Vitrify barrier and strike it down with Shattered Lash, destroying it in an explosion of glass fragments that damage enemies on the outside of the barrier. Thrust or sweep determines the physical damage type the explosion damage will adopt, allowing you to adjust its damage potential against different factions.
  • Since the glass longsword has innate Punch Through, Shattered Lash can hit enemies standing outside the Mass Vitrify barrier, dealing damage from both the sword and the explosion to enemies in your reach.

Maximization is a form of specialization: mods may be blended to result in values that vary between the top-end limits listed here. Click any maximized link to learn how to build it.

• Maximized Ability Duration has no positive effects on this ability.
  • Reduces range to 3.4 meters.
• Maximized Ability Efficiency reduces cost to 6.25 energy.
  • Has no negative effects on this ability.
• Maximized Ability Range increases range to 28 meters.
  • Reduces damage to 320.
• Maximized Ability Strength increases damage to 3296.
  • Without Energy Conversion and Growing Power, increases damage to 2696.
  • Increases cost to 38.75 energy.

• Gara shatters her glass armor into a storm of razor-sharp fragments that encircles herself, an ally, or an enemy target on the aiming reticle within 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 meters, lasting for 10 / 14 / 18 / 22 seconds. The shard storm has a radius of 1 / 1.5 / 2 / 2.5 meters, within which enemies and Objects are dealt 100 / 150 / 200 / 250 damage per second and constantly pushed away from the center. When cast on self or allies, the target also receives 25% / 30% / 50% / 70% damage resistance to enemy attacks; when cast on enemies, the target also receives 15% / 20% / 25% / 35% increased damage vulnerability to weapons and abilities.
  • Damage per second, damage reduction and damage multiplier are affected by Ability Strength.
    • Damage per second is distributed between Impact, Puncture, and Slash.
    • Damage reduction caps at 90%, achievable with minimum 129% Ability Strength (ie. maxed Intensify equipped) at max rank.
    • Damage reduction affects Overshield, Shield and Health.
    • Damage multiplier affects Splinter Storm's damage per second, causing the affected enemy target to receive increased damage from the Splinter Storm around it.
  • Duration is affected by Ability Duration.
  • Range and radius are affected by Ability Range.
  • Casting speed is affected by Natural Talent and Speed Drift.
  • Eligible ally targets include Warframes, Companions, ability-summoned units, Invasion allied units, Syndicates Operatives, Rescue Hostages, Sortie Defense Operatives, Terminals, Cryopods, Excavators, Fomorian Power Cores, Kavor Defectors, Grineer Hacked Drones, Ostron Hostages and Eidolon Lure.
  • Enemies debuffed with Splinter Storm become immune to pushback and pull effects, including those of Splinter Storm, Ferrox and Tether Grenades.
• Splinter Storm's glass shards synergize with Gara's other abilities when used in tandem:

• Casting Splinter Storm stops Gara's movement and actions.
• Can be cast on self when not aiming at an ally or enemy target.
• Can be cast on multiple targets while active.
• Cannot be cast on a target already affected by Splinter Storm.
• The newest active instance of Splinter Storm is tracked by the ability icon timer, including the instance on Gara herself.
• Splinter Storm buff on ally players appears as an icon with the timer below and percentage of damage reduction at the top-right, displayed beside the Shield and Health indicators on the affected players' HUD.
• Gara's glass armor becomes the shard storm around her target, changing her base model visually without the glass accents while Splinter Storm is active. When all existing Splinter Storms expire, Gara's glass reforms on her model immediately in a flash of light.
  • Glass fragments are affected by Gara's chosen Warframe energy color.
  • Even though Gara's armor is visually shattered if at least one Splinter Storm is active, Gara can still cast new Splinter Storms on new targets.

Main article: Mending Splinters

Gara is a Warframe Augment Mod for Gara's Splinter Storm that causes it to heal friendly targets it's applied to, with the healing being increased for every target (friendly or not) affected by Splinter Storm for a short time.

• Aim away from allies and enemies then press 2  to cast Splinter Storm on yourself. If aiming at a target, pressing the ability key will lock onto the target and apply Splinter Storm on it after the casting animation.
• Buff your team and the objective with Splinter Storm to drastically increase their durability. Apply on Companions when able to protect them and grant them a pushback aura to defend against melee enemies.
• Use Splinter Storm's damage resistance and pushback effect to enhance your team's melee combat effectiveness, allowing any ally to clear paths through crowded hallways and chokepoints blocked by enemies.
• Damage resistance applies to Overshields, Shields and Health, making rapid regeneration of these stats ideal for endurance.  Arcane Aegis,  Arcane Barrier,  Arcane Grace, Sentinel's Guardian mod, Raksa Kubrow's Protect mod, and Taxon's Molecular Conversion mod are great options to consider.
• Cast on an enemy to increase all damage against that target.
  • The pushback effect helps single out the enemy among a crowd for a direct line of gunfire.
  • Because of the pushback effect, melee weapons with short reach such as daggers and most melee ground finisher attacks can miss the intended target as it is moved away from Splinter Storm during the animation. Debuff a desired enemy with Splinter Storm to stop it from being pushed away, as well as enhancing damage against it.
• Splinter Storm also damages and breaks Objects in the environment, allowing for easy resource collection such as Iradite on the Plains of Eidolon. However, Explosive Barrels can also detonate if destroyed by the glass shards, therefore care should be taken when such objects are nearby.
  • Coincidentally, Splinter Storm offers great protection against enemy thrown grenades, causing them to detonate harmlessly against Tenno and applying its explosion damage against nearby enemies.
• Cast Mass Vitrify to simultaneously refresh your Splinter Storm to full duration. Any allies that touch the expanding molten glass will also have their Splinter Storms' timers refreshed, reducing overall energy costs for reapplying Splinter Storm on you and your allies and avoiding the prolonged casting animation locks.
• Stand next to Spectrorage's mirrors as enemies break them to stack additional damage onto Splinter Storm's damage per second.
  • This extra damage applies to you, your allies, and any enemies debuffed with Splinter Storm inside Spectrorage's carousel; extra damage remains as long as Splinter Storms remain active on the individual targets.
• Stand outside Mass Vitrify's glass barrier and destroy it using Shattered Lash, allowing you and your allies' Splinter Storms in range of the glass explosion to stack additional damage onto Splinter Storm's damage per second.
  • This extra damage applies to you and your allies only, and benefits from melee mods that apply to Shattered Lash, granting high damage amounts per explosion; extra damage remains as long as Splinter Storms remain active on the individual targets.
  • Depending on the thrust or sweep used to destroy the barrier, the physical damage type Splinter Storm absorbs will differ.
• When Gara's glass armor returns to her, it signals that no more Splinter Storms are active from you. Keep close attention to avoid accidentally exposing you and your team to more incoming enemy damage than potentially able to be resisted.

Maximization is a form of specialization: mods may be blended to result in values that vary between the top-end limits listed here. Click any maximized link to learn how to build it.

• Maximized Ability Duration increases duration to 67.32 seconds.
  • Reduces cast range to 10.2 meters and ability radius to 0.85 meters.
• Maximized Ability Efficiency reduces cost to 12.5 energy.
  • Reduces duration to 8.8 seconds.
• Maximized Ability Range increases cast range to 84 meters and ability radius to 7 meters.
  • Reduces damage to 100 per second, damage vulnerability to 14%, and damage reduction to 28%.
• Maximized Ability Strength increases damage to 1030 per second, damage vulnerability to 144.2%, and damage reduction to 90%.
  • Without Energy Conversion and Growing Power, increases damage to 842.5 per second, damage vulnerability to 117.95%, damage reduction does not change.
  • Increases cost to 77.5 energy.
  • Reduces duration to 15.95 seconds.

• Gara summons a perpetually spinning carousel of 4 / 6 / 8 / 12 spectral mirrors at the targeted location within 100 meters. Enemies within 4 meters from the mirrors are enticed to move inside the carousel and attack a chosen mirror upon seeing their own reflections. Each mirror will break upon receiving 500 / 600 / 700 / 800 damage and release it as spectral energy back to the attacker. When 2 / 3 / 4 / 6 mirrors are broken, the carousel collapses in an explosion inflicting 800 / 1,000 / 1,200 / 1,500 damage to all enemies inside the ring. Spectrorage lasts for 10 / 14 / 18 / 22 seconds or until all mirrors break from collapse.
  • Mirror and collapse damage are affected by Ability Strength.
    • Damage is distributed between Impact, Puncture, and Slash.
    • Mirror damage is only applied against the enemy that breaks the mirror. Collapse damage applies to all enemies inside Spectrorage and diminishes with distance from the center.
  • Number of mirrors, collapse threshold, and charm radius are affected by Ability Range, while cast range is not.
    • The carousel expands or shrinks with the total amount of mirrors spawned on cast.
  • Duration is affected by Ability Duration.
  • Casting speed is affected by Natural Talent and Speed Drift.
  • The carousel rotates clockwise constantly, which causes enemies targeting specific mirrors to turn and follow them.
  • Mirrors have a higher Threat Level than players. Enemies within the carousel will ignore players as long as there are intact mirrors remaining.
  • Mirrors do not have collision and will phase through objects, walls, players, and AI.
  • Mirrors can path up and down terrain where elevation difference exists.
• If a Spectrorage mirror shatters inside Splinter Storm's radius, 50% of the mirror's damage is permanently added to Splinter Storm's damage per second until its duration expires.
  • Mirror damage from Spectrorage is affected by Ability Strength, while the percentage absorbed is not affected and is capped at 50%.
  • Absorbed damage can stack from multiple mirrors breaking inside Splinter Storm's radius.
  • Splinter Storms on any targets can absorb damage from Spectrorage mirrors.
  • Splinter Storm does not absorb damage from Spectrorage's collapse explosion.
• Casting Spectrorage stops Gara's movement and other actions.
• Can be recast while active. Only 1 carousel of mirrors may remain active per player.
• Can be cast while in midair.
• Cannot be cast without a valid horizontal surface within cast range as well as directly on or below the aiming reticle.
• Spectral mirrors appear as collections of floating glass fragments that emanate energy toward the center of the carousel.
  • Upon breaking, the mirrors release their energy while they remain floating in motion.
  • Mirrors and their energy color are affected by Gara's chosen Warframe energy color.

Maximization is a form of specialization: mods may be blended to result in values that vary between the top-end limits listed here. Click any maximized link to learn how to build it.

• Maximized Ability Duration increases duration to 67.32 seconds.
  • Reduces number of mirrors to 4, collapse threshold to 2, and charm radius to 1 meters.
• Maximized Ability Efficiency reduces cost to 18.75 energy.
  • Reduces duration to 8.8 seconds.
• Maximized Ability Range increases number of mirrors to 34, collapse threshold to 17, and charm radius to 11 meters.
  • Reduces mirror health and damage to 320 and collapse damage to 600.
• Maximized Ability Strength increases mirror health and damage to 3296 and collapse damage to 6180.
  • Without Energy Conversion and Growing Power, increases mirror health and damage to 2696 and collapse damage to 5055.
  • Increases cost to 116.25 energy.
  • Reduces duration to 15.95 seconds.

• Gara coats herself in a shell of hardened glass, becoming immobile, invulnerable to damage, and immune to Status Effects as she unleashes a radial ring of molten glass that expands outward and downward. Ring expansion occurs over 3 seconds, initially draining 3 energy per second which ramps up to 5 energy per second over the course of expansion. The molten glass ring's initial horizontal radius from Gara is 2 meters, which expands up to a maximum horizontal radius of 8 / 8.75 / 10.25 / 11 meters. The molten glass ring's initial height is 3 meters high, which expands downward up to a maximum height of 12 meters.
  • Initial horizontal radius is affected by Ability Range, while initial and maximum ring heights are not.
  • Maximum horizontal radius is affected by both Ability Range and Ability Duration.
  • Expansion time is affected by Ability Duration.
  • Activation energy cost is affected by Ability Efficiency only, while initial and final energy drain per second are affected by both Ability Efficiency and Ability Duration.
  • Molten glass bypasses all entities, obstacles, and terrain as it expands.
  • When the molten glass ring is created, its base is aligned with Gara's feet to ensure that the initial ring height is about Warframe height.
  • Ring height expands downward much faster than ring horizontal radius, reaching full height before expansion time completes.

• Mass Vitrify's glass undergoes two distinct phases with diverse effects on Gara, allies, and enemies:

• Mass Vitrify's molten glass ring and hardened glass barrier synergize with Gara's other abilities when used in tandem:

• Initial casting animation and release animation are affected by casting speed, from mods such as Natural Talent and Speed Drift.
• Can be cast while in midair.
• Can be recast while active to expand molten glass and create a new barrier. Only 1 barrier may remain active per player.
• When the barrier duration expires, the glass barrier shatters harmlessly into fragments that float away upward.
• Molten glass, hardened glass, and crystal tint color and particle effects energy color are affected by Gara's chosen Warframe energy color.
• As with most abilities, if a Nullifier Crewman bubble touches the glass, it will end the ability prematurely if casting, and instantly shatter it without dealing any damage to surrounding enemies if already hardened. However, enemies hardened with glass will only harden prematurely if the nullifier touches them.

Maximization is a form of specialization: mods may be blended to result in values that vary between the top-end limits listed here. Click any maximized link to learn how to build it.

• Maximized Ability Duration increases expansion time to 9.18 seconds, vitrify duration to 48.96 seconds, and reduces channeling cost to 0.98 energy per second.
  • Reduces initial radius to 0.68 meters, maximum radius to 3.74 meters, and explosion range to 2.72 meters.
• Maximized Ability Efficiency reduces activation cost to 18.75 energy and channeling cost to 0.75 energy per second.
  • Reduces expansion time to 1.2 seconds and vitrify duration to 6.4 seconds.
• Maximized Ability Range increases initial radius to 5.6 meters, maximum radius to 30.8 meters, and explosion range to 22.4 meters.
  • Reduces segment health to 1140, damage vulnerability to 20% and explosion damage to 320.
• Maximized Ability Strength increases segment health to 11742, damage vulnerability to 206% and explosion damage to 3296.
  • Without Energy Conversion and Growing Power, increases segment health to 9604.5,damage vulnerability to 168.5% and explosion damage to 2696.
  • Increases activation cost to 116.25 energy and channeling cost to 6.41 energy per second.
  • Reduces expansion time to 2.18 seconds and vitrify duration to 11.6 seconds.
• With Steel Fiber, Armored Agility and Gladiator Aegis at max rank increases segment health to 4100
  • Adding Maximized Ability Strength to this increases segment health to 16892

• Casting Mass Vitrify in the air often delays the effect of refreshing Splinter Storm's duration until Gara lands on the ground, or if done from extreme heights, not refresh it at all.
• Interrupting the expansion quickly after casting might sometimes result in a "fake" barrier which does not block damage and can not be detonated with Shattered Lash. This can also occasionally happen without voluntarily stopping the expansion.
• Operators that come into contact with the ring while it's expanding are slowed down.