Kuva Seer

Grineer Weapons

Kuva Seer
Statistics
Type	Pistol
Mastery	15
Slot	Secondary
Trigger Type	Semi-Auto
Utility
Accuracy	16
Ammo Type	Pistol
Disposition	●●●○○ (1.00x)
Fire Rate	2.5
Noise Level	Alarming
Magazine Size	9
Max Ammo	27
Reload Time	2.3 s
Projectile Speed	200 m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Projectile Impact
26.2
68.1
36.7
32.75
Total Damage	163.75 (41.59%)
Crit Chance	21%
Crit Multiplier	1.9x
Fire Rate	2.5
Multishot	1 (163.75 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Status Chance	33%
Projectile Speed	200 m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Explosion
17.25
69
Total Damage	86.25 (80%)
Crit Chance	21%
Crit Multiplier	1.9x
Damage Falloff	100% damage up to 0 m 70% damage at 2.3 m 30% max reduction
Fire Rate	2.5
Multishot	1 (86.25 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Range	2.3 m
Status Chance	33%
Projectile Type	AoE
Miscellaneous
Exilus Polarity
Internal Name	/Lotus/Weapons/Grineer/KuvaLich/Secondaries/Seer/KuvaSeer
Introduced	Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
Polarities	None
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, 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 projectiles that burst on contact.

Characteristics

This weapon does primarily  Puncture and  Corrosive damage.

Advantages:

• Innate  Corrosive damage – effective against Ferrite Armor and Fossilized.
• High  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 ( 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,  Heat,  Cold,  Electricity,  Toxin,  Magnetic, or  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 – less effective against Proto Shields.
• Low  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 (Projectile Impact), compared to Seer (Normal):
  • Higher base damage per projectile (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 base critical chance (21% vs. 5%)
  • Higher base critical multiplier (1.9x vs. 1.5x)
  • Higher base status chance (33% vs. 13%)
  • Higher average damage per shot (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (249.21 vs. 103.54)
  • Higher burst DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (623.04 vs. 207.07)
  • Higher sustained DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (380.16 vs. 121.81)
  • 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 (1 vs. 1.5)

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 damage stat, dependent on the Warframe that summoned the Lich/Sister.
  • This damage 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 base damage type that is added after all elemental mods.

  View detailed explanation about element merging  ▾▾

• • If the weapon innately has a primary element type ( Heat,  Cold,  Electricity,  Toxin) AND has a different primary element as its bonus stat, the elements on the weapon will combine in a unique way: Whichever of the two primary elements comes first in this element order -  Heat >  Cold >  Electricity >  Toxin, or "HCET" for short - will be placed second to last in the element combine order, while the other primary element will be placed last in the combine order. This order can be subsequently shifted based on the order of the equipped mods.
  • For example, if the weapon innately has  Cold, using an  Electricity progenitor Warframe to add base  Electricity damage to the weapon will change the weapon's base element to  Magnetic.
    • Because  Cold comes before  Electricity in the HCET element order,  Cold will be placed second to last in the element combine order, and  Electricity will be placed last.
    • If the weapon is then modded with only  Heat, the elements will be arranged in the order  Heat,  Cold,  Electricity, resulting in the weapon having  Blast +  Electricity. If the weapon is instead modded with only  Toxin, the elements will be arranged in the order  Toxin,  Cold,  Electricity, which will create  Viral +  Electricity.
    • If modded with  Electricity and  Heat, the  Electricity will be moved earlier in the combine order due to now being a modded element, so the new combine order will be  Electricity,  Heat,  Cold, resulting in  Radiation +  Cold. If modded with  Heat and  Toxin, the combine order will be  Heat,  Toxin,  Cold,  Electricity, resulting in  Gas +  Magnetic.

HCET Damage Priority Results

Bonus Element + Modded Element / Innate Element	Innate  Heat ( Tenet Spirex)	Innate  Cold ( Tenet Envoy)	Innate  Electricity ( Tenet Agendus)	Innate  Toxin
Bonus  Heat + Modded  Cold	-	-	Blast +  Electricity	Blast +  Toxin
Bonus  Heat + Modded  Electricity	-	Radiation +  Cold	-	Radiation +  Toxin
Bonus  Heat + Modded  Toxin	-	Gas +  Cold	Gas +  Electricity	-
Bonus  Cold + Modded  Heat	-	-	Blast +  Electricity	Blast +  Toxin
Bonus  Cold + Modded  Electricity	Radiation +  Cold	-	-	Magnetic +  Toxin
Bonus  Cold + Modded  Toxin	Gas +  Cold	-	Viral +  Electricity	-
Bonus  Electricity + Modded  Heat	-	Blast +  Electricity	-	Radiation +  Toxin
Bonus  Electricity + Modded  Cold	Blast +  Electricity	-	-	Magnetic +  Toxin
Bonus  Electricity + Modded  Toxin	Gas +  Electricity	Viral +  Electricity	-	-
Bonus  Toxin + Modded  Heat	-	Blast +  Toxin	Radiation +  Toxin	-
Bonus  Toxin + Modded  Cold	Blast +  Toxin	-	Magnetic +  Toxin	-
Bonus  Toxin + Modded  Electricity	Radiation +  Toxin	Magnetic +  Toxin	-	-

*Note that the Primed or Umbra version of a Warframe share the same element

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, the normal counterpart of this weapon.
•  Tenet Spirex, the Tenet equivalent pistol.