Garuda Talons

Orokin

Weapons

Garuda Talons

Untradeable

📝 Update Infobox Data

General Information

Max Rank

30

Utility

Normal Attack

19.84
( 8%)

54.56
( 22%)

173.6
( 70%)

Heavy Attack

Heavy Slam Attack

Slam Element

Forced Procs

Slam Radius

7.0 m

Slam Attack

Slam Radius

6.0 m

Slam Element

Forced Procs

Slide Attack

Slide Element

Same damage type distribution as Normal Attack

Miscellaneous

Introduced

Update 24.0 (2018-11-08)

Users

Garuda

Vendor Sources

Article Categories

CODEX

These nasty things come out when Garuda forgoes a melee weapon.

Garuda Talons are Garuda's signature Claws inflicting high Slash damage, with very high Status Chance. Garuda defaults to them when no other Melee Weapon is equipped. In most respects they are a normal Weapon and not an Exalted Weapon, but they do share some characteristics with the latter.

Characteristics[]

This weapon deals primarily Slash damage.
Innate and polarities.

Advantages over other Melee weapons (excluding modular weapons):

Highest Status Chance of all Claws.
Highest range of all Claws.
Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- High total damage (248)
- Very high status chance (36.00%)

Disadvantages over other Melee weapons (excluding modular weapons):

Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Low attack range (2.20 m)
- Very low disposition (××××× (0.00x))

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

Comparisons:

Garuda Talons (Normal Attack), compared to Garuda Prime Talons (Normal Attack):
- Lower base damage (248.00 vs. 280.00)
  - Higher Impact damage ( 19.84 vs. 14)
  - Higher Puncture damage ( 54.56 vs. 28)
  - Lower Slash damage ( 173.6 vs. 238)
- Lower total damage (248 vs. 280)
- Lower base critical chance (20.00% vs. 35.00%)

Notes[]

As the user technically does not have a Melee Weapon equipped, Garuda 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 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 in this case), as it does not have its own Codex entry.
- does not benefit from the Puncture or Cold status critical bonuses.
- can not be duplicated; additional copies of Garuda inherit the original weapon, along with all polarities and build/appearance configurations.
- can not equip Melee Arcane Enhancements.
- can not damage Arbitration Shield Drones.
Unlike other Exalted Weapons, this weapon:
- can equip Melee Combo Counter Mods, Acolyte Mods (e.g., Blood Rush), or Amalgam Mods (e.g., Amalgam Organ Shatter).
- does not scale with strength mods on Garuda.
Equipping Blending Talons on Garuda herself also grants a direct effect on Garuda Talons, with 100% additional combo count chance when striking enemies with Bleed procs at max mod rank.

Tips[]

Because Garuda Talons can damage enemies even while she is in the Rift Plane, Garuda synergizes well with Limbo's Banish to provide her virtually indefinite invulnerability while unleashing havoc.

Trivia[]

Unlike other Claw Weapons, Garuda Talons are prehensile, as shown during her idle animations.
Garuda Talons is currently the only Exalted Weapon whose Prime variant has different stats to its standard counterpart, the latter being a direct upgrade.
Garuda Talons were called "Garuda's Talons" prior to Update 31.3 (2022-03-28).

Garuda Talons Skins

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Patch History[]

Update 33.6 (2023-07-27)

Fixed Rauta’s melee combo counter increase not applying with Garuda’s Talons equipped as your melee weapon.
Fixed Mods sometimes not applying to Garuda’s Talons in Duviri.

Update 33.0 (2023-04-26)

Fixed Garuda being unable to perform Melee Finishers with her Talons in missions that disable Melee weapons.

Update 32.0 (2022-09-07)

Fixed being unable to use Garuda’s Claws on Railjack after dying in Archwing.

Hotfix 31.3.1 (2022-03-29)

Fixed inability to use Garuda’s Talons if a Host migration occurred.
Fixed Garuda Talons moving when hovering on/off color swatches in the Arsenal.

Update 31.3 (2022-03-28)

Fixed Garuda Talons not retaining skin details/textures in Arsenal preview.
(Undocumented) Renamed from Garuda’s Talons to Garuda Talons.

Update 31.2 (2022-03-16)

Fixed Garuda’s Talons not retaining Skin details/textures outside of the Orbiter. As reported here: https://forums.warframe.com/topic/1240713-garuda-talon-skins-not-showing/#comment-11971610
- Also fixed her Talons not retaining skin details/textures in the preview of Garuda in the Arsenal.
Fixed previewing Garuda skins in the Arsenal not updating her Talons until you equip the skin.
Fixed Garuda’s left hand Talon not using the proper animations for many abilities and idle animations. As reported here: https://forums.warframe.com/topic/1286041-suspected-script-error-with-garudas-talons-animation/#comment-12330935

Update 29.5 (2020-11-19)

Fixed Gladiator Mods (Vice, Might, Rush) not stacking or applying the increased set bonus to Critical Chance per combo multiplier when they are applied to Garuda's Talons (only applies when Talons are the single equipped Melee).
Fixed Blood Rush and Weeping Wounds not applying to Garuda's Talons (only applies when Talons are the single equipped Melee).
Fixed the Carnis, Jugulus, and Saxum Mod Sets not being equippable on Exalted Melee.

Hotfix 29.1.1 (2020-09-18)