The Kuva Zarr is the Kuva variant of the 
Zarr, with drastic improvements to its critical chance, status chance, the Cannon mode's damage, fire rate, and explosion radius, and the Barrage mode's accuracy and removal of its range cap, with expense to its reload speed, ammo economy, and the Barrage mode's damage and fire rate.
Characteristics[]
- This weapon deals primarily
Blast damage. - Cannon Mode launches cannonballs that explode in a 7 meter radius on impact with a surface or enemy, then splits into 3 smaller bomblets that rain down on the point of impact.
- Pinpoint accuracy.
- Heavy Caliber's accuracy penalty is minimal on this weapon.
- Initial hit and explosion apply status separately.
- Explosion does not need direct line of sight to deal damage and will penetrate walls.
- Explosion can benefit from Firestorm ( Primed) and Cautious Shot.
- Pinpoint accuracy.
- Barrage Mode fires a shotgun-like flak.
- Reloads one cannonball at a time, which can be interrupted at any point, allowing for planned reloading.
- Reload time of 0.75 seconds for each cannonball, plus 0.5 seconds to begin reload and 0.55 to end.
- Innate three polarities.
- 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%.
- Valence Fusion can optionally change the resulting output damage type, and can upgrade the bonus increase (up to 60%).
- Polarizing the weapon increases its max rank by 2, capping at rank 40 after 5 polarizations, granting the weapon additional mod capacity.
- Listed Mastery Rank requirement is not enforced - the weapon may theoretically be obtained at any mastery rank by acquiring and vanquishing a Kuva Lich that has this weapon equipped.
Advantages over other Primary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Cannon Mode Projectile (wiki attack index 1)
- Above average crit chance (25.00%)
- High status chance (31.00%)
- High crit multiplier (2.50x)
- Cannon Mode Explosion (wiki attack index 2)
- Very high total damage (673)
- Above average status chance (31.00%)
- Above average crit multiplier (2.50x)
- Cannon Mode Cluster Bomb Contact (wiki attack index 3)
- Above average average number of procs per shot (0.93)
- Very high average number of crits per shot (0.75)
- Above average fire rate (2.17 attacks/sec)
- Cannon Mode Cluster Bomb Explosion (wiki attack index 4)
- High crit chance (25.00%)
- Above average average number of procs per shot (0.93)
- High average number of crits per shot (0.75)
- Barrage Mode (wiki attack index 5)
- No numerical advantages.
Disadvantages over other Primary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Cannon Mode projectiles have travel time with arcing.
- Small magazine size.
- Magazine must be reloaded one at a time before reaching full capacity.
- Extremely poor ammo economy.
- Extremely low ammo capacity; requires just 1 reload to fully deplete all ammo reserves.
- Only restores 1 unit of ammunition per ammo pickup.
- Explosion and bomblets inflicts self-stagger.
- Explosion and bomblets have a headshot multiplier of 1x and cannot trigger headshot conditions.
- Explosion and bomblets have linear Damage Falloff from 100% to 30% from central impact.
- Cannon Mode Projectile (wiki attack index 1)
- Very low reload speed (4.80 s)
- Low magazine (5)
- Below average total damage (50)
- Very low ammo max (5)
- Low fire rate (2.17 attacks/sec)
- Very low disposition (●○○○○ (0.65x))
- Cannon Mode Explosion (wiki attack index 2)
- Low maximum falloff distance (7.0 m)
- Very low reload speed (4.80 s)
- Very low magazine (5)
- Very low ammo max (5)
- Very low disposition (●○○○○ (0.65x))
- Cannon Mode Cluster Bomb Contact (wiki attack index 3)
- Very low reload speed (4.80 s)
- Very low magazine (5)
- Very low total damage (45)
- Very low ammo max (5)
- Very low disposition (●○○○○ (0.65x))
- Cannon Mode Cluster Bomb Explosion (wiki attack index 4)
- Below average active falloff slope (10.0m/%)
- Very low maximum falloff distance (3.0 m)
- Very low reload speed (4.80 s)
- Low magazine (5)
- Very low ammo max (5)
- Very low disposition (●○○○○ (0.65x))
- Barrage Mode (wiki attack index 5)
- Below average crit chance (37.00%)
- Below average maximum falloff distance (40.0 m)
- Below average magazine (5)
- Below average total damage (500)
- Below average ammo max (5)
- Below average average number of procs per shot (0.97)
- Below average status chance (9.70%)
- Below average disposition (●○○○○ (0.65x))
See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.
Comparisons:
- Kuva Zarr (Cannon Mode Explosion), compared to Zarr (Cannon Mode Explosion):
- Higher base damage per projectile (673.00 vs. 175.00) (excluding any Progenitor bonus)
- Higher Blast damage ( 673 vs. 175)
- Higher
- Higher total damage (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (1,076.8 vs. 175)
- Higher base critical chance (25.00% vs. 17.00%)
- Higher base status chance (31.00% vs. 29.00%)
- Higher average damage per tap (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (1480.6 vs. 219.62)
- Higher burst DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (3212.90 vs. 366.77)
- Higher sustained DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (1042.06 vs. 162.82)
- Farther max damage falloff distance (7.0 m vs. 4.0 m)
- Greater max damage reduction at ending falloff distance (70.00% vs. 50.00%)
- Higher fire rate (2.17 attacks/sec vs. 1.67 attacks/sec)
- Larger magazine (5 vs. 3)
- More shots per magazine (5 vs. 3)
- Smaller max ammo capacity (5 vs. 60)
- Smaller ammo pickup count (1 vs. 9)
- Slower reload time (4.80 s vs. 2.25 s)
- More polarities ( vs. )
- Higher Mastery Rank required (15 vs. 7)
- Lower disposition (●○○○○ (0.65x) vs. ●●●●○ (1.15x))
- Higher base damage per projectile (673.00 vs. 175.00) (excluding any Progenitor bonus)
Acquisition[]
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Notes[]
- Though the Kuva Zarr's Barrage Mode deals less damage than the Barrage Mode of the standard Zarr, any elemental Lich bonus of at least 29% will bring the Kuva Zarr's Barrage damage above that of its counterpart.
- Navigator can control both the main cannon projectile as well as the bomblets.
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| Element | Progenitor Warframe* |
|---|---|
 Impact
|
 Baruuk  Dante  Gauss  Grendel  Rhino  Sevagoth  Wukong  Zephyr
|
 Heat
|
 Chroma  Ember  Inaros  Jade  Kullervo  Nezha  Protea  Vauban  Wisp "Temple" wasn't found in Module:Warframes/data
|
 Cold
|
 Frost  Gara  Hildryn  Koumei  Revenant  Styanax  Titania  Trinity
|
 Electricity
|
 Banshee  Caliban  Excalibur  Gyre  Limbo  Nova  Valkyr  Volt
|
 Toxin
|
 Atlas  Dagath  Ivara  Khora  Nekros  Nidus  Oberon  Saryn
|
 Magnetic
|
 Citrine  Cyte-09  Harrow  Hydroid  Lavos  Mag  Mesa  Xaku  Yareli
|
 Radiation
|
 Ash  Equinox  Garuda  Loki  Mirage  Nyx  Octavia  Qorvex  Voruna
|
*Note that the Primed or Umbra version of a Warframe share the same element
Tips[]
- The weapon's low ammo economy can be mitigated with Rifle Ammo Mutation ( Primed)/ Vigilante Supplies, Ammo Drum, and/or Carrier's Ammo Case.
- Garuda equipped with Blood Forge synergizes extremely well with this cannon, as not only does she reload shots extremely fast via Bloodletting and thus greatly increasing the weapon's overall DPS, her Death's Gate passive racks up extremely fast with the massive kills or assists the cannon mode causes. She should have a ready means to recover HP quickly, however, either via deploying a nearby Blood Altar or infusing herself with Sevagoth's Gloom.
- As an optional failsafe, Quick Thinking and/or Gladiator Finesse can be equipped to soak up some damage with gained energy from Bloodletting.
- As an optional failsafe,
- Running a Warframe infused with Energized Munitions is also practical on this weapon, as it allows for a far greater number of shots than its otherwise limited magazine size.
Trivia[]
- The Grineer text on the side of the weapon reads "BOOM".
Media[]
Kuva Zarr, Weapon & Build Comparison
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Kuva Zarr , as shown in the arsenal
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Kuva Zarr, Weapon & Build Comparison
Kuva Zarr Build - The Explosive Bombarder 2021 (Guide) - Warframe
Kuva Zarr Skins
Patch History[]
Update 32.0 (2022-09-07)
- Ammo Changes
We understand the power fantasy of these weapons is very popular for some, so our first approach was to keep them powerful, but limit how often they can be used by making changes to ammo pick-up.
Ammo Pickup Overrides
The following weapons now have ammo pickup overrides, meaning they gain less from picking up ammo. This mostly applies to AoE weapons, in hopes that players will become more deliberate with their aim to make the most of their Ammo pools. The following lists the specific ammo pick up overrides per weapon category.
Primary Weapon Ammo Pick Up Overrides
1 Ammo per Pick Up:
- Kuva Zarr
Many weapons have also had their maximum ammo capacity adjusted.
Primary Weapons:
- Kuva Zarr: From 15 to 5
- Headshot Damage Changes
During playtesting, the ammo changes alone weren’t enough to significantly change things for AoE weapons. So instead of tightening these values to be overly restrictive, we chose to address other factors that make these weapons so strong, such as headshot damage.
Our approach here is two-fold, to reduce the impact of headshots for AOE weapons, but to also make precision headshots pack a larger punch overall.
- Radial damage no longer gains extra headshot damage or triggers headshot conditions.
- This is primarily targeted at the Ignis Wraith - as a “flamethrower” weapon, it’s hard to imagine a blanket of elements being precise enough to target weak points specifically. Explosive projectiles themselves can still land headshots, so there is still a reason to aim with most weapons for maximum damage.
Update 30.5 (2021-07-06)
- Introduced.
See Also[]
- Zarr, the normal counterpart of this weapon.
