Golden Instinct

	N/A 50	Golden Instinct Send out a short-lived Void Spark that is drawn toward the nearest Medallion, Ayatan Sculpture, rare crate, unscanned Kuria or unscanned Fragment. Introduced in Update 30.5 (2021-07-06)	Strength:N/A
			Duration:N/A
			Range:200m
			Subsumable to Helminth

• Info
• Tips & Tricks

Info

• Expend 50 Energy to summon a Void Spark for 5 seconds which seeks out the location of nearby Syndicate Medallions, Ayatan Treasures, Rare Storage Containers, Voidplumes, Zarium Accolades, Orokin Defixios, Voca, Sentient Cores and unscanned Kuria, Cephalon Fragments, Frame Fighter fragments, and Somachord fragments within 200 meters. Casting the ability triggers a 20 second cooldown before the next activation is allowed.
  • Cooldown can be lowered with  Lavos'  Transmutation Probe.
• If nothing is in detection range, the ability will not be used and show the message "AREA IS BARREN".
• Golden Instinct will not trigger on Sabotage caches.
• Golden Instinct will not trigger on Maroo's Weekly Mission's target Ayatan Sculpture, but may still trigger on other possible objects of interest in the same mission including other Ayatan Sculptures.
• Golden Instinct will not trigger on open Rare Storage Containers. Should a player stop getting Void Sparks without finding any items and after using a large area of effect or crate-breaking ability, it may mean a nearby Rare Crate has been opened.
• Alternatively, since Sentient Cores are considered "rare" enough to be detected, a previously detected core could have been picked up since, with no other detectable items on the map. With long enough Ability Range, Golden Instinct will detect cores that are too far away to be marked on the HUD, creating situations where the player may be unaware of a core dropped by Sentient killed by another Tenno far behind the player's position, yet Golden Instinct will mislead the player to believe there is something worth coming back for. It is therefore recommended to use  Vacuum/ Fetch and hoover up all the cores as soon as they drop from enemies to avoid "poisoning" the pool of detectable items, and to not stray too far from other players on Sentient-heavy maps.

Tips & Tricks

• Equipping  Narrow Minded on a Warframe with Golden Instinct can actually be a helpful option, as it greatly reduces the radius upon which the Void Spark can detect an item and thus reduce the area needed to cover to search for said item, as opposed to having a large range and then having a far larger area to search around.
  • A reduced Ability Range also allows a player to repeatedly try activating the skill until a detectable item is in actual range and conveniently close to look for, saving up Energy and possibly time.
• Golden Instinct can be paired with Orokin Eye support ability of the Parallax landing craft. It can be particularly effective if Ability Range of Golden Instinct is reduced to just below 150m of Orokin Eye: move through the map and repeatedly try to use Golden Instinct; once it detects something, immediately deploy Orokin Eye to pinpoint the location of the item.
  • This can also be done without a reduced Ability Range, but in that case the item might be out of range of Orokin Eye, wasting its use. However, multiple Tenno coordinating their use of Orokin Eye in different areas of the map after Golden Instinct with a large Ability Range confirms the presence of a rare item early in the mission can offset this and in most cases find it even faster. Keep in mind that on larger maps, default or lower Ability Range may be insufficient to detect anything without deviating from the main path, so this approach might be more effective overall.

Patch History

Update 32.3 (2023-02-15)

• Fixed the Golden Instinct being invisible when using the Titania Donann skin with default colors.

Hotfix 31.5.2 (2022-04-28)

• Fixed crash related to Helminth’s Golden Instinct ability.

Hotfix 31.0.3 (2021-12-17)

• Fixed the Helminth Ability ‘Golden Instinct’ not functioning for Somachords and Frame Fighter fragments.

Update 30.7 (2021-09-08)

• Made a few changes to the Helminth 15th Metamorphosis “Golden Instinct” Void Spark:
  • Doubled the Void Sparks lifespan
  • Increased the Void Sparks visibility
  • Increased start time of Golden Instinct

Update 30.5 (2021-07-06)

• Introduced.

See Also

• Helminth/Unique Abilities
• Helminth