Heavy Gunner

Grineer

Heavy Gunner

High damage minigun.

General

Tile Set

Grineer Asteroid
Grineer Galleon
Grineer Shipyard
Orokin Moon

Type

Ranged

Weapons

Abilities

Seismic Shockwave

Statistics

Dmg. Reduction

62.5%

‍++ ‍+++ ‍− ‍−

Level Scaling

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Selected Level

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Effective Health

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Miscellaneous

Codex Scans

3

Mod Drops

0.5691%
0.5691%
0.5691%
15 Endo 0.5691%
0.3318%
50 Endo 0.3318%
0.0303%
80 Endo 0.0303%

Heavy Gunners are cybernetically-enhanced female Grineer heavy infantry armed with Gorgon machine-guns. Identified by their taller, thinner frame and female voice, Heavy Gunners are capable of laying down suppressing fire to support their teammates. If left unchecked, they can tear through players' shields and health very quickly, especially on Warframes with lighter armor.

Tactics[edit | edit source]

With their Gorgon their damage output gets high after ramping up, therefore it is advised to take cover when they are at their peak fire rate and attack them while they are reloading or just started shooting.
Heavy Gunners seldom fight their targets alone. One Heavy Gunner usually fights alongside a Lancer, a Shield Lancer, a Bombard, or another Gunner, allowing the Heavy Gunner to take time spooling her weapon as their targets face those with a greater threat.
When getting close, she will do a radial blast attack, knocking down her enemies within a short radius. She can initiate this attack even while being knocked down or stunned with a crowd control elemental like Electricity, so melee combat with the Heavy Gunner can prove difficult and sometimes frustrating, with you knocking them down, while they are still able to knock you down with their attack. Although they can use this ability repeatedly, there is a very long delay before it can be used again.
The Tusk variant found in the Plains of Eidolon wielding a Tusk Grattler is much more dangerous than normal. They have very good accuracy and the damage output of this weapon is extreme once it is firing at full rate, being able to drop even well-upgraded Tenno in seconds. The area of effect of the weapon can bypass some barriers like Volt's Electric Shield so make sure you're far enough away from the impact point to be protected from damage. Against these gunners, the best tactic is to kill them first before they know you're there.

Farming Locations[edit | edit source]

These are based on opinions and may not be 100% true. These should be viewed as advice for finding the enemies until better facts are proven.

Normal Heavy Gunner

Planet	Name	Type	Level	Tile Set
Mercury	Elion	Capture	7 - 9	Grineer Asteroid
Mercury	Caloris	Rescue	6 - 8	Grineer Asteroid
Ceres	Lex	Capture	14 - 16	Grineer Shipyard
Sedna	Rusalka	Sabotage	32 - 36	Grineer Galleon
Mars	Ara	Capture	10 - 12	Grineer Settlement

Tips[edit | edit source]

Despite being a "heavy" unit, Heavy Gunners have Damage/Ferrite Armor like the lighter Lancers and Troopers. While this makes their armor less resistant, they also aren't susceptible to increased damage from Radiation, making them a higher threat for players specializing in that damage.
After Update 10.5, the Heavy Gunner can be seen reloading her Gorgon. Use this as an opportunity to attack as the reload time of the Gorgon is normally slow.
Weapons that can deliver a knockdown such as the Obex can be extremely effective, as with all heavy units, due to the fact that it can knock down the unit, making it vulnerable to any attack, including finishers.

Variants

General		Miscellaneous
Introduced	Undetermined
Tileset	Grineer Settlement	Codex Scans	3
Weapon	Gorgon Sheev	Other Drops	Gorgon Blueprint 1%
Statistics		Mod Drops	Blunderbuss 0.5691% Magazine Warp 0.5691% Slip Magazine 0.5691% 15 Endo 0.5691% Shell Compression 0.3318% 50 Endo 0.3318% Decisive Judgement 0.0303% 80 Endo 0.0303%
Cloned Flesh	300
+ + +++ ‐ ‐‐
Ferrite Armor	500
++ +++ - -
Affinity	500
Base Level	8

General		Miscellaneous
Introduced	Undetermined
Tileset	Grineer Forest	Codex Scans	3
Weapon	Gorgon Sheev	Other Drops	Gorgon Blueprint 1%
Statistics		Mod Drops	Blunderbuss 0.5691% Magazine Warp 0.5691% Slip Magazine 0.5691% 15 Endo 0.5691% Shell Compression 0.3318% 50 Endo 0.3318% Decisive Judgement 0.0303% 80 Endo 0.0303%
Cloned Flesh	350
+ + +++ ‐ ‐‐
Ferrite Armor	500
++ +++ - -
Affinity	500
Base Level	1

General		Miscellaneous
Introduced	Update 17.0
Tileset	Grineer Sealab	Codex Scans	3
Weapon	Gorgon Sheev	Other Drops	None
Statistics		Mod Drops	Melee Prowess 1.1616% Pressure Point 1.1616% Piercing Step 0.3384% Shotgun Savvy 0.3384%
Cloned Flesh	350
+ + +++ ‐ ‐‐
Ferrite Armor	500
++ +++ - -
Affinity	500
Base Level	8

General		Miscellaneous
Introduced	Undetermined
Tileset	Kuva Fortress	Codex Scans	3
Weapon	Drakgoon Sheev	Other Drops	None
Statistics		Mod Drops	True Steel 2.529% Warm Coat 2.529% 15 Endo 2.529% Expel Grineer 1.106% Tactical Pump 1.106% Sovereign Outcast 0.201%
Cloned Flesh	300
+ + +++ ‐ ‐‐
Ferrite Armor	500
++ +++ - -
Affinity	500
Base Level	8

Have no eximus variant.

General		Miscellaneous
Introduced	Undetermined
Tileset	Plains of Eidolon	Codex Scans	3
Weapon	Tusk Grattler Kohmak Sheev	Other Drops	None
Statistics		Mod Drops	True Steel 2.529% Warm Coat 2.529% 15 Endo 2.529% Expel Grineer 1.106% Tactical Pump 1.106% Sovereign Outcast 0.201%
Cloned Flesh	300
+ + +++ ‐ ‐‐
Ferrite Armor	500
++ +++ - -
Affinity	500
Base Level	1

General		Miscellaneous
Introduced	Update 25.7
Mission	Olympus Kelpie Tamu	Codex Scans	3
Weapon	Gorgon	Other Drops	50 Kuva 100% (Kuva Fortress)
Statistics		Mod Drops	Bane of Grineer 3.75% Cleanse Grineer 3.75% Expel Grineer 3.75% Smite Grineer 3.75%
Cloned Flesh	2000
+ + +++ ‐ ‐‐
Ferrite Armor	200
++ +++ - -
Affinity	???

Trivia[edit | edit source]

Prior to Update 11.0, all Grineer heavy units (Heavy Gunners included) used to sport shields. Update 11 removed these shields in favor of improved armor, largely making shields a Corpus-exclusive technology.
Interestingly, the Leech Heavy Gunner Eximus is the only Grineer unit to have an inverted armor styling, this being purple as her base armor design color with faint lime accents, as opposed to faint lime with purple accents.
As with most Drekar units, the Drekar variant of the Heavy Gunner wears a kerchief that covers the lower half of her face in lieu of a mask, unlike the other Heavy Gunner variants.
- Drekar Heavy Gunners were also more prone to dropping resources and mods compared to other Heavy Gunner variants, on top of dropping Orokin Cells along with their regular drops. This was rectified in Update 17.3.
The Tusk Corps Heavy Gunner is armed with the Grattler, thus being the first ground enemy equipped with an Archwing Weapon. They will only use this weapon at long range, however, and will switch to the Kohmak sidearm for medium and close-range engagements.
The Arid and Frontier variants deals mostly Slash as opposed to Impact with their camo Gorgons, as shown by Adaptation.

Media[edit | edit source]

Heavy Gunner Codex.
Comparison between Heavy Gunner in Space and Arid Heavy Gunner in Settlement.
Heavy Gunner in Space.
Arid Heavy Gunner in Settlement.
Frontier Heavy Gunner.
Grineer Heavy Gunner.
A Grineer Heavy Gunner in combat.
Demolisher Heavy Gunner

Patch History[edit | edit source]

Hotfix 29.2.4

Fixed Tusk Heavy Gunners doing unintended extreme amounts of damage.

Hotfix 29.0.7

Fixed Heavy Gunners unintentionally having almost triple their Armor since Heart of Deimos. This change accidently occurred when changing Garv’s Armor value as they use the same back end. As reported here!

Vanilla

Introduced.