Kuva Seer

Grineer Weapons

Kuva Seer
Statistics
Mastery	15
Slot	Secondary
Type	Pistol
Trigger Type	Semi-Auto
Utility
Ammo Type	Pistol
Projectile Type	Projectile
Projectile Speed	200 m/s
Noise Level	Alarming
Fire Rate	2.5
Accuracy	16
Magazine Size	9
Max Ammo	27
Reload Time	2.3 s
Disposition	●●●○○ (0.95x)
Projectile Impact
26.2
68.1
36.7
32.75
Total Damage	163.75 ( 41.59%)
Projectile Type	Projectile
Projectile Speed	200 m/s
Fire Rate	2.5
Status Chance	33%
Crit Chance	21%
Crit Multiplier	1.9x
Explosion
17.25
69
Total Damage	86.25 ( 80%)
Projectile Type	AoE
Fire Rate	2.5
Status Chance	33%
Crit Chance	21%
Crit Multiplier	1.9x
Radius	2.3 m
Damage Falloff	100% damage to 0 m 70% damage past 2.3 m
Miscellaneous
Exilus Polarity
Polarities	None
Introduced	Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
Variants	Seer

CODEX

This variant pistol has higher fire rate and magazine capacity. Superior zoom capabilities plus projectiles have a small corrosive burst.

The Kuva Seer is the Kuva variant of the Seer Seer, with higher damage, critical chance, critical multiplier, status chance, fire rate, and reload speed, but with a significant drop to ammo reserves. It also uniquely fires Corrosive Damage Corrosive projectiles that burst on contact.

Characteristics

This weapon does primarily Puncture Damage Puncture and Corrosive Damage Corrosive damage.

Advantages:

• Innate Corrosive Damage Corrosive damage – effective against Ferrite Armor and Fossilized.
• High Puncture Damage Puncture damage – effective against armor.
• High critical chance.
• Very high status chance.
• Shots explode in a 2.3 meter radius upon impact with a surface or enemy.
  • Initial hit and explosion apply status separately.
  • Explosion does not need direct line of sight to deal damage and will penetrate walls.
• High zoom, excellent for long range.
• Very fast projectile speed.
• Can benefit from Fulmination Fulmination (Primed Fulmination Primed).
• Polarizing the weapon increases its max rank by 2, capping at rank 40 after 5 polarizations, granting the weapon additional mod capacity.
• Comes with an additional bonus Impact Damage Impact, Heat Damage Heat, Cold Damage Cold, Electricity Damage Electricity, Toxin Damage Toxin, Magnetic Damage Magnetic, or Radiation Damage Radiation damage, based on the Kuva Lich's progenitor Warframe, which increases the listed base damage of the weapon by 25%-60%.

Disadvantages:

• Innate Corrosive Damage Corrosive damage – less effective against Proto Shields.
• Low Impact Damage Impact damage – less effective against shields.
• Below average critical multiplier.
• Fairly slow reload speed.
• Projectiles have travel time.
• Explosion inflicts self-stagger.
• Explosion has linear damage falloff from 100% to 70% from central impact.
• Extremely low ammo capacity; requires just 3 reloads to fully deplete all ammo reserves.
• High zoom capabilities can make zooming in at close range a hindrance.
  • High zoom amplifies perceived recoil when aiming.

Comparisons:

• Kuva Seer, compared to Seer:
  • Higher base damage (163.75 vs. 101.01)
    • Lower  Impact damage (26.2 vs. 33.67)
    • Higher  Puncture damage (68.1 vs. 33.67)
    • Higher  Slash damage (36.7 vs. 33.67)
    • Higher  MinProgenitorBonus damage (32.75 vs. 0)
  • Higher total damage (163.75 vs. 101.01)
  • Higher critical chance (21% vs. 5%)
  • Higher critical multiplier (1.9x vs. 1.5x)
  • Higher status chance (33% vs. 13%)
  • Higher fire rate (2.5 round(s)/sec vs. 2 round(s)/sec)
  • Larger magazine (9 round(s) vs. 8 round(s))
  • Smaller max ammo capacity (27 round(s) vs. 210 round(s))
  • Faster reload time (2.3 s vs. 2.8 s)
  • Higher Mastery Rank required (15 vs. 0)
  • Lower disposition (0.95 vs. 1.5)
  • Higher average damage per shot (max Progenitor bonus if applicable) (249.21 vs. 103.54)
  • Higher burst DPS (max Progenitor bonus if applicable) (623.04 vs. 207.07)
  • Higher sustained DPS (max Progenitor bonus if applicable) (380.16 vs. 121.81)

Acquisition

Kuva Seer is obtained by vanquishing a Kuva Lich who generated with one equipped. After the Lich is vanquished it will be in the player's Foundry ready to claim.

While the weapon itself is not tradeable, a converted Kuva Lich generated with the weapon can be traded to another player. The trade is performed inside a Clan Dojo's Crimson Branch room, and the recipient must not have any active Lich. Once traded, the recipient must fight and vanquish the Lich to claim its weapon.

Notes

• As with all Kuva and Tenet weapons, the player does not have to meet the Mastery Rank displayed to obtain this weapon. It can simply be claimed from the foundry after the Kuva Lich or Sister carrying it has been vanquished.
• The weapon will have a prefix of the name of the Lich/Sister it was acquired from (e.g. Odizrigg Agekk Kuva Kohm).
• The weapon's max rank caps at 40 after 5 polarizations (max rank increases by 2 per Forma added).
  • Additional polarizations can be added when the weapon reaches its new max rank at that polarization level.
  • Each additional rank also gives 100 Mastery Rank experience, giving 4,000 points in total at level 40.
  • Mod capacity scales with the additional ranks, and can reach a total of 80 at rank 40 with an Orokin Catalyst installed.
    • Without an Orokin Catalyst, the max is 40. Combined with the five polarized mod slots required to reach that point, an Orokin Catalyst might not be required to finish modding the weapon.
    • After polarizing a weapon, any additional mod capacity above 30 (60 with an Orokin Catalyst) will not take effect until the weapon's rank reaches 31 and above.
      • Legendary Mastery Rank increases the minimum mod capacity for such weapons, without the weapon needing to be rank 31 and above. For example, Legendary 1 increases the minimum capacity to 31 (62 with an Orokin Catalyst).
• Comes with an additional bonus damage stat, dependent on the Warframe that summoned the Lich/Sister.
  • This bonus stat ranges between 25%-60%, and is randomly generated by the Lich/Sister. It can be brought up to its maximum value with Valence Fusion using another copy of the weapon.
  • This bonus stat is considered a modded damage type that is added after all other elemental mods, and will combine with the weapon's primary element type if it has one. The order heirarchy will set the weapon's primary element as second to last, and the Valence element as last, which can be subsequently shifted based on the order of the equipped mods.
    • For example, if the weapon innately has Cold Damage Cold, using a Toxin Damage Toxin progenitor Warframe will change the weapon's base element to Viral Damage Viral.
    • However, if the weapon is modded with only Heat Damage Heat, the innate Cold Damage Cold will combine into Blast Damage Blast instead, with Toxin Damage Toxin as a leftover.
    • If modded with Heat Damage Heat and Electricity Damage Electricity, the weapon becomes Radiation Damage Radiation (modded Heat Damage Heat + Electricity Damage Electricity) and Viral Damage Viral (base Cold Damage Cold + bonus Toxin Damage Toxin).

*Note that the Primed and Umbra versions of a Warframe share the same element (including altered, exalted, spectral or enhanced forms such as Atlas using Rumbled, Titania in Razorwing, or Sevagoth's Shadow).

Patch History

Hotfix 27.2.2 (2020-03-06)
Reduced the following AoE weapons Radial Damage Falloff from central impact that were all previously 90%:

• Kuva Seer: 30%

Update 27.2 (2020-03-05)

Self Damage Changes

We are getting rid of Self Damage and replacing it with something else: instead of Self Damage, it’s now ‘Stagger’. This change completely removes the chance of killing yourself, and instead now creates scenarios where you will interrupt yourself - or ‘Stagger’ - to varying degrees if you aren’t careful.

The degrees of Self-Interrupt start with a small stumble all the way to full knockdown depending on how close you are to the center of explosion. Any Mods referring to Self Damage will be converted to acknowledge Stagger.

With this Self-Interrupt system, we have added dozens of new recovery animations that harness a ninja-like recovery experience. By pressing ‘Jump’ at the correct time, you can execute a ninja-skill-based knockdown recovery to ALL in-game knockdowns. This ninja recovery window is indicated by a glowing FX on your Warframe.

In addition to Self Damage being removed, some of the more powerful AOE weapons without Self Damage presently will have the Stagger added, but it should only be noticeable in cases of extreme inaccuracy on the player’s part. The Weapons include:

• Kuva Seer

In the original Dev Workshop, we said:
As a result of this overall systemic change, Weapons with Stagger will be getting approximately a 20% buff in Damage, with any weapons with AOE receiving a 50% Radial Damage Falloff from central impact.

This is no longer accurate after continued testing. What we are doing now is:

No damage buffs have been added, but any weapons with AOE are receiving ~20% increase in Radius. Additionally, AOE weapons are receiving a 90% Radial Damage Falloff from central impact. This means on the very outer section of the explosion Radius 10% of the Damage will be dealt. Tactics will be deadly - aim true, Tenno.

Why: Several players brought up the history of the Tonkor and we want to make sure we ship this change in a place that’s conservative in its starting point from a balance perspective. The complete removal of Self Damage does change the pace of destruction with some of the game’s most powerful weapons, so we want to make sure we can iterate upwardly instead of releasing a bonanza of explosions with no other choices.

Hotfix 26.0.7 (2019-11-14)

• Fixed Kuva Lich weapons that do damage on both impact and explosion (Kuva Ogris, Kuva Ayanga, etc) doing significantly less overall damage than expected. This was due to the Elemental bonus only being applied to the "on impact" of the projectile itself and not the explosion.

Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)

• Introduced.

Last updated: Hotfix 26.0.7 (2019-11-14)

See Also

• Seer Seer, the normal counterpart of this weapon.