The Ignis is a 
Grineer flamethrower used by Grineer Scorch and Hyekka Masters. The Ignis releases a long reaching continuous spray of flames in a frontal area of effect, making it exceptionally useful for handling large crowds, albeit at the cost of high ammo usage and a fixed range.
Characteristics[]
- This weapon deals
Heat damage. - The zone of impact or maximum beam range has a spherical blast radius of 3 meters, allowing it to hit multiple enemies at once.
- Can benefit from Firestorm ( Primed) and Amalgam Furax Body Count.
- This explosion doesn't inflicts self-stagger, and has no falloff.
- Can benefit from
Advantages:
- Pinpoint accuracy.
- Heavy Caliber's accuracy penalty is minimal on this weapon.
- Beam has a thickness of 0.15 meters, largest beam thickness of all continuous weapons.
- Innate infinite punch through against bodies.
- Consumes 0.5 ammo per tick of damage.
- Normal Attack
- Very high magazine
- Above average effective fire rate
- High max ammo
- Above average status chance
Disadvantages:
- Damage ramps up from 35% to 100% over 0.6 seconds when firing. After firing stops for 0.8 seconds, the damage decays back to 35% over 2 seconds.
- Limited range of 20 meters.
- Innate punch through does not apply to surfaces, requiring punch through mods.
- (bug?) Multishot has no effect on the radial damage.
- Normal Attack
- Low crit chance
- Low damage
- Very low disposition
Comparisons:
- Ignis (Normal Attack), compared to Ignis Wraith (Normal Attack):
- Lower base damage per projectile (33 vs. 35)
- Lower Heat damage (33 vs. 35)
- Lower
- Lower total damage (33 vs. 35)
- Lower base critical chance (11.00% vs. 17.00%)
- Lower base critical multiplier (2.0x vs. 2.5x)
- Lower base status chance (27.00% vs. 29.00%)
- Lower average damage per tap (36.63 vs. 43.92)
- Lower burst DPS (293.04 vs. 351.4)
- Lower sustained DPS (278.20 vs. 339.84)
- Smaller magazine (150 vs. 200)
- Smaller max ammo capacity (750 vs. 800)
- Slower reload time (2 vs. 1.7)
- Lower Mastery Rank required (5 vs. 9)
- Higher disposition (●○○○○ (0.60x) vs. ●○○○○ (0.55x))
- Lower range (20 meters vs 27 meters)
- Lower base damage per projectile (33 vs. 35)
Acquisition[]
The Ignis's blueprint can be researched from the Chem Lab in the dojo.
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Rush:  35
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Chem Lab Research 3,000
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This weapon can be sold for 
7,500.
Notes[]
- The Ignis' hit detection is composed of two parts:
- A perfectly accurate central beam that reaches up to 20 meters. This beam has a 0.15-meter thickness, unlike other beam weapons whose beams are very narrow.
- A 3-meter spherical radius that appears at the zone of impact or maximum range.
- Sinister Reach only affects the beam range, not the beam thickness and the area of effect.
- Firestorm only affects the area of effect, not the beam thickness and the beam range.
- When combined with other elemental mods, such as Cold, it will no longer deal the original fire damage, losing its high bonus versus Light Infested (+50%). Thus, it is advised to add Toxin damage to create Gas damage to kill Light Infested. Add Electricity + Toxin to create Corrosive damage, and add Cold to create Blast damage to kill Heavy Infested.
- As of Hotfix 11.3.3 (2013-12-13), the fire rate is affected by mods.
- Shade's Ghost can activate even if the Ignis is being fired, so long as the fire key is held down upon Ghost's activation.
- The Ignis' spherical AoE can destroy rockets launched from a Bombard's Ogris.
- The Ignis can deal headshots and target enemy weakspots.
Tips[]
- Hellfire and Wildfire apply Heat damage to the weapon. They do not act like base damage mods, but rather stack with the innate Heat damage of the weapon.
- Adding Corrosive, Magnetic, or Gas in addition to Heat damage makes the Ignis very effective versus Grineer / Corpus / Infested, though less effective against Corpus Proto Shields.
- It is a wise idea to equip a long-ranged weapon in your secondary slot when using the Ignis.
- It is unwise to have Specters equip this gun as they only fire on targets when they are ~10m away from them.
- Combustion Beam can also be equipped to the Ignis, causing enemies to deal damage on death to other nearby enemies. This aids in crowd control and quicker elimination of weaker and closely-grouped enemies.
- Sinister Reach can also be equipped on the Ignis, greatly increasing the range of its central beam. This will also move the spherical AoE forward by the same distance.
- The radius of the spherical AoE can be increased with Firestorm.
- Due to its nature of AoE, this weapon is particularly effective against destructible projectiles.
- Adding Heavy Caliber as a second Serration results in an increase of damage. The reduction of accuracy will cause the beam to slightly waver, which is a negative for most weapons, but is arguably a benefit for the Ignis as the effective AoE spread will widen slightly.
- The loss in accuracy is small enough that the central beam will still land headshots consistently at maximum distance, even with Sinister Reach equipped.
- The loss in accuracy is small enough that the central beam will still land headshots consistently at maximum distance, even with
- The Ignis is designed to deal with crowds, spreading low damage but hitting all enemies in range, where most other weapons (besides explosive dealing AoE weapons) are single or multi-target. In other words, the larger the crowd, the better the weapon becomes at distributing damage compared to most other weapons.
Trivia[]
- Ignis is Latin for "fire".
- Prior to Update 17.8 (2015-10-21), the Ignis' appearance was simply a modified Grakata.
- Oddly it wasn't just the appearance, as the update that changed the model and reload animation of the Ignis made the Grakata reload as if it was the Ignis.
- The Ignis was first shown in the Devstream 5.
- The volume of fuel the Ignis carries would be impossible in the real world using today's technology, as the duration of continuous fire of the entire magazine lasts far longer than actual flamethrowers. This implies that the fuel used (possibly derived from Detonite) is extremely efficient.
- The front portion of the barrel heats up through continuous firing of the weapon, visible after roughly 25 units of ammo has been expended.
- Changing the default Heat damage of the Ignis modifies the visual effects of the flame released depending on the new element: Blast damage causes the barrel to emit sparks, Radiation damage generates bolts of electricity within the flame, and Gas damage changes the flame into a thick cloud.
- In earlier builds, this change overrode any color customizations to the Ignis' flame color.
Media[]
Ignis in Codex as of Update 17.8.
The Ignis' appearance prior to Update 17.8.
Heavy Caliber Example. Main "Stream" will wobble.
Heat: Regular scorching flames.
Blast: A stream of crackling orange and blue flames.
Radiation: Produces an cyan electrical stream.
Gas: Sprays a thick cloud of sickly-colored gas.
Ignis, as shown when equipped in the arsenal
Warframe - All Grineer Primaries - Weapon Animations & Sounds (2012 - 2019)
Warframe - All Grineer Weapon Reloads in 2 minutes (2012 - 2019)
Ignis Skins
Patch History[]
Update 31.6 (2022-06-09)
- Fixed crash related to the Ignis’ fire tracing.
Update 31.5 (2022-04-27)
- Fixed incorrect icon sizing for the following icons:
- Ignis
Update 27.2 (2020-03-05)
- Fixed Ignis’ Energy color appearing defaulted in reflections when in mission.
Update 25.7 (2019-08-29)
- Converted materials to PBR on the Ignis.
Hotfix 25.4.3 (2019-07-26)
- Made a micro optimization to Ignis effect scripts.
Hotfix 25.0.8 (2019-05-31)
- Fixed the Ignis Energy color persisting as default.
Update 22.14 (2018-03-01)
- Fixed Beam weapons not being able to damage enemies (alive but in a ragdolled state) when being affected by certain ‘crowd control’ Abilities.
- Damage now ramps up over 0.6 seconds and after moving off target there is a delay of 0.8 seconds before it starts to decay over 2 seconds.
- All Beam weapons now start their Damage ramp up at 20% (instead of 10%).
- The Multishot chance should now apply more consistently with Beam weapons.
- Fixed Beam weapons continuously firing when quick Meleeing.
- Fixed missing fire FX when using the Ignis/Ignis Wraith with Blast Damage.
Hotfix 22.13.4 (2018-02-22)
- Increased the Beam weapon Damage ramp up time from 0.8 to 1 second.
- Fixed Beam weapon Damage ramp up not happening per target.
Hotfix 22.13.3 (2018-02-21)
- Perfect accuracy and high fire rate is balanced by limited range and damage ramping up from 10% to 100% over 0.8 seconds when firing and decays back to 10% over 1 second after stopping.
- Damage increased from 27 Heat per sec to 33 Heat per tick of damage.
- Fire Rate decreased from 10 to 8.
- Status Chance increased from 25% per sec to 27% per tick of damage.
- Critical chance increased from 5% to 11%.
- Flame passes through all avatars damaging them but will now be stopped by level geometry and require Punch Through Mods to penetrate.
- Aimed Zoom reduced from 2.23x to 1.2x.
- Ignis and Ignis Wraith are now usable in Conclave.
Update 22.1 (2017-10-25)
- Fixed Ignis (and similar weapons) being able to damage friendly Gara's Spectrorage mirrors.
Hotfix 20.4.6 (2017-05-11)
- Fixed continuous weapons (Ignis, etc) getting extreme Range when used in Limbo’s Stasis.
Hotfix 20.2.3 (2017-04-19)
- Fixed continuous weapons (Ignis, etc) receiving extreme Range when used with Limbo’s Stasis.
Hotfix 20.0.7 (2017-03-30)
- Fixed a crash when firing the Ignis while in Limbo’s Stasis.
Update 20.0 (2017-03-24)
- Fixed the Ignis firing FX sometime not showing up if you tap the fire button.
Hotfix 19.11.5 (2017-02-28)
- Ignis flame FX and the transition of Ignis’ flame particles fading on ceasefire has been visually improved!
Update 18.8 (2016-04-06)
- Fixed Hush and Hushed Invisibility not applying to the Ignis.
Update 18.5 (2016-03-04)
- Slightly adjusted the Ignis’ audio FX.
Hotfix 18.3.1 (2016-01-14)
- Fixed an improper fire visual FX that would appear on the Ignis in the Arsenal.
Hotfix 18.2.2 (2016-01-07)
- Fixed the Ignis model not looking properly when the weapon is stolen from the Drahk Master and placed on the ground.
Update 17.9 (2015-10-28)
- The Ignis will now char the corpses of enemies slain.
Update 17.8 (2015-10-21)
- The Ignis has received a visual overhaul and has received the following stat changes:
- Increased fire range.
- Increased innate multishot effect.
- Added 2m punchthrough.
- Increased clip size and total ammo capacity.
Hotfix 16.0.4 (2015-03-23)
- Increased the brightness of flames produced by the Ignis.
Hotfix 13.7.1 (2014-06-12)
- Improved the performance of the Ignis visual effects.
Update 13.3 (2014-05-14)
- Fixed an issue with the Grakata and Ignis not properly aiming if the player attempted to aim while in the middle of a reload animation
Update 12.3 (2014-02-27)
- Fixed Ignis not using energy colour.
Update 11.6 (2014-01-08)
- Changed logic that determines visual representation of damage mods on continuous-fire weapons (eg: Synapse, Ignis, etc).
Update 11.0 (2013-11-20)
- Fixed issue that allowed spectators to fire the Ignis and Flux rifle while spectating in Conclave.
Update 10.4 (2013-10-16)
- Changed Ignis’s default colour to represent realistic fire, not white flames.
Hotfix 10.3.2 (2013-10-10)
- Fix for Flux Rifle and Ignis not being able to damage reactor cores or Orokin death orbs.
Update 10.3 (2013-10-09)
- Fixed continuous fire AoE weapons (Ignis, Embolist) from hitting the same target multiple times per shot when in ragdoll.
- Fixed weapons that played reload sounds twice (Ignis, Grakata, Embolist)
- Fixed Ignis and other weapons causing Pickups to go crazy if they had not come to rest in Conclave duels.
Update 10.2 (2013-09-27)
- Fix for Ignis and other weapons causing Pickups to go crazy by flying off the map if they had not come to rest.
Update 9.5 (2013-08-09)
- Added custom reload sounds for Strun, Dera, Supra, Gorgon, Ignis, Grakata, Acrid, Kraken, Hek, and Lex.
- FX tweaks to Ignis.
Hotfix 8.1.2 (2013-06-13)
- Fixed Ignis and Flux Rifle showing a clip size of 1.$ in the arsenal.
Update 8.0 (2013-05-23)
- Introduced.
See also[]
- Grineer Scorch, the Grineer unit that uses this weapon.
- Ignis Wraith, the Wraith variant of this weapon
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