Garuda Prime Talons

Tenno Weapons

Garuda Prime Talons
Untradeable
General Information
Type	Exalted Weapon
Mastery	0
Slot	Melee
Utility
Block Angle	60°
Combo Duration	5 s
Attack Speed	1
Follow Through	80%
Range	2.2 m
Noise Level	Silent
Normal Attack
14
28
238
Total Damage	280 (85%)
Crit Chance	35%
Crit Multiplier	2x
Attack Speed	1
Noise Level	Silent
Status Chance	36%
Heavy Attack
Heavy Damage	1,400
Slam Damage	1,120
Radial Damage	1,120
Slam Radius	7 m
Wind-up	0.6 s
Slam Attack
Slam Damage	840
Slam Radius	6 m
Radial Damage	Impact 280
Slide Attack
Slide Damage	840
Miscellaneous
Exilus Polarity	None
Introduced	Update 31.3 (2022-03-28)
Polarities
Stance Polarity
Users	Garuda Prime
Vendor Sources

Garuda Prime Talons are  Garuda Prime's signature Claws, and the Primed variant of  Garuda Talons, sporting increased Damage and Critical Chance. Garuda Prime defaults to them when no other Melee Weapon is equipped.

Characteristics

Advantages:

• Normal Attack
  • Very high crit chance
  • Very high status chance
  • Very high damage

Disadvantages:

• Normal Attack
  • Low attack range

Comparisons:

• Garuda Prime Talons (Normal Attack), compared to Garuda Talons (Normal Attack):
  • Higher base damage per projectile (280 vs. 248)
    • Lower  Impact damage (14 vs. 19.84)
    • Lower  Puncture damage (28 vs. 54.56)
    • Higher  Slash damage (238 vs. 173.6)
  • Higher total damage (280 vs. 248)
  • Higher base critical chance (35.00% vs. 20.00%)
  • Higher average damage per tap (378 vs. 297.6)
  • Higher burst DPS (378 vs. 297.6)
  • Higher sustained DPS (378 vs. 297.6)

Notes

• As the user technically does not have a Melee Weapon equipped, Garuda Prime Talons cannot be used in missions requiring a Melee Weapon, such as Melee Only Sorties.
  • As the talons still count as merely a Weapon, not a Warframe Ability like the Exalted Weapons, they cannot be used in any other Weapon-restricted Sorties either.
  • This manifests via her talons not appearing in-game during such Sorties.
• If a Nightwave act requires only a ranged Weapon equipped, be it Primary or Secondary, Garuda Prime can use her talons to finish off enemies in melee and still complete the challenge.
  • If another act does require a Melee-only setup, she still has to equip another Melee Weapon.
• Similarly to Exalted Weapons, this Weapon:
  • can gain Ranks but does not contribute to Mastery Rank.
  • can damage enemies even inside  Limbo's Rift Plane.
  • does not affect equipped Weapon Affinity.
  • does not receive Riven Mods.
  • adds kill and assist stats to its Warframe owner (Garuda Prime in this case), as it does not have its own Codex entry.
• Unlike other Exalted Weapons, this weapon:
  • can equip Mods that scale based on the Melee Combo counter, such as  Blood Rush and the Gladiator Mod Set.
  • does not scale with strength mods on  Garuda Prime.

Trivia

• Garuda Prime Talons are the first Prime Exalted Weapon with different stats compared to its standard counterpart.

Patch History

Update 31.3 (2022-03-28)

• Introduced.

See also

•  Garuda Prime, the Weapon's user.
•  Garuda Talons, the base counterpart of this Weapon.
  •  Garuda, the user of the above Weapon.