Kuva Zarr

Grineer Weapons

Kuva Zarr
Statistics
Type	Launcher
Mastery	15
Slot	Primary
Trigger Type	Semi-Auto
Utility
Accuracy	100
Ammo Type	Sniper
Disposition	●○○○○ (0.60x)
Fire Rate	2.17
Noise Level	Alarming
Magazine Size	5
Max Ammo	15
Reload Time	4.8 s
Projectile Speed	? m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Cannon Mode Projectile
50
12.5
Total Damage	62.5 (80%)
Accuracy	100
Crit Chance	25%
Crit Multiplier	2.5x
Fire Rate	2.17
Multishot	1 (62.5 damage per projectile)
Status Chance	31%
Projectile Speed	? m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Cannon Mode Explosion
673
168.25
Total Damage	841.25 (80%)
Crit Chance	25%
Crit Multiplier	2.5x
Damage Falloff	100% damage up to 0 m 30% damage at 7 m 70% max reduction
Fire Rate	2.17
Multishot	1 (841.25 damage per projectile)
Range	7 m
Status Chance	31%
Projectile Type	AoE
Cannon Mode Cluster Bomb Contact
15
3.75
Total Damage	56.25 (80%)
Crit Chance	25%
Crit Multiplier	2.5x
Fire Rate	2.17
Multishot	3 (18.75 damage per projectile)
Status Chance	31%
Projectile Speed	? m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Cannon Mode Cluster Bomb Explosion
50
12.5
Total Damage	187.5 (80%)
Crit Chance	25%
Crit Multiplier	2.5x
Damage Falloff	100% damage up to 0 m 70% damage at 3 m 30% max reduction
Fire Rate	2.17
Multishot	3 (62.5 damage per projectile)
Range	3 m
Status Chance	31%
Projectile Type	AoE
Barrage Mode
15
25
10
12.5
Total Damage	625 (40%)
Accuracy	4.3
Crit Chance	37%
Crit Multiplier	2.5x
Damage Falloff	100% damage up to 20 m 2% damage at 40 m 98% max reduction
Fire Rate	2.17
Multishot	10 (62.5 damage per projectile)
Punch Through	1.6 m
Status Chance	9.7%
Projectile Speed	? m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Miscellaneous
Exilus Polarity
Internal Name	/Lotus/Weapons/Grineer/KuvaLich/LongGuns/Zarr/KuvaZarr
Introduced	Update 30.5 (2021-07-06)
Polarities
Variants	Zarr

CODEX

An even stronger Zarr cannon to meet the demands of Kuva Liches. With stronger explosive barrages, and long-range flak shots.

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 reserves, and the Barrage mode's damage and fire rate.

Characteristics

This weapon deals primarily  Blast damage.

Advantages:

• 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.
  • Innate  Blast damage – effective against Fossilized and Machinery.
  • 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),  Amalgam Furax Body Count, and  Cautious Shot.
• Barrage Mode fires a shotgun-like flak.
  • High  Puncture and good  Impact damage in Barrage mode – effective against armor and shields.
  • Innate 1.6 meter punch through.
  • Innate multishot of 10 pellets.
• Very high critical chance.
• High critical multiplier and status chance.
• Reloads one cannonball at a time, which can be interrupted at any point, allowing for planned reloading.
  • Reload time of 0.8 seconds for each cannonball, plus 0.75 seconds to begin/end reload.
• Can use the launcher-exclusive  Adhesive Blast mod.
• Innate three polarities.
• 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:

• Cannon Mode:
  • Innate  Blast damage – less effective against Ferrite Armor and Infested Sinew.
    • Damage cannot be increased with  Puncture or  Slash mods.
      • Physical contact with cannonballs deals only  Impact damage, while explosions themselves deal only  Blast damage, therefore the explosion does not benefit from any physical damage mods.
  • Explosion and bomblets inflicts self-stagger.
  • Explosion and bomblets have linear damage falloff from 100% to 30% from central impact.
  • Projectile has travel time with arcing.
• Small magazine size.
• Magazine must be reloaded one at a time before reaching full capacity.
• Extremely low ammo capacity; requires just 3 reloads to fully deplete all ammo reserves.

Comparisons:

• Kuva Zarr (Cannon Mode Explosion), compared to Zarr (Barrage Mode):
  • Higher base damage per projectile (841.25 vs. 80)
    • Lower  Impact damage (0 vs. 24)
    • Lower  Puncture damage (0 vs. 40)
    • Lower  Slash damage (0 vs. 16)
    • Higher  Blast damage (673 vs. 0)
    • Higher  MinProgenitorBonus damage (168.25 vs. 0)
  • Higher total damage (841.25 vs. 800)
  • Higher base critical chance (25% vs. 17%)
  • Higher base status chance (31% vs. 8.7%)
  • Higher average damage per shot (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (1,480.6 vs. 1,004)
  • Higher burst DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (3,212.9 vs. 3,012)
  • Higher sustained DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (1,042.07 vs. 926.77)
  • Lower fire rate (2.17 round(s)/sec vs. 3 round(s)/sec)
  • Lower multishot (1 projectile(s) vs. 10 projectile(s))
  • Larger magazine (5 round(s) vs. 3 round(s))
  • Smaller max ammo capacity (15 round(s) vs. 84 round(s))
  • Slower reload time (4.8 s vs. 2.25 s)
  • Less accurate (0 vs. 1.4)
  • Different polarities ( vs. )
  • Higher Mastery Rank required (15 vs. 7)
  • Lower disposition (0.6 vs. 1.15)

Acquisition

Kuva Zarr 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

• 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.
• Although the Kuva Zarr uses sniper ammo, it cannot be modified with  Sniper Ammo Mutation. Instead, it is uses  Rifle Ammo Mutation ( Primed). This also allows for rifle ammo pickups that provide 3 ammo each, instead of the default 60 ammo. All other ammo pickups match the mod rank of (Primed) Rifle Ammo Mutation, including sniper ammo pickups.
  • As an alternative,  Vigilante Supplies can be equipped not only to convert all ammo types to reload the Kuva Zarr, but also grant the chance for boosting critical damage especially since the cannon has a high critical chance stat than its standard counterpart.

• 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

Tips

•  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, she also increases a shot's damage up to twice with her Death's Gate passive as she loses HP. 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.
• Running a Warframe infused with  Energized Munitions is also practical on this weapon, as it allows for a far more number of shots for its magazine size.
• Because the Kuva Zarr sports a fairly larger magazine capacity compared to some of its other explosive counterparts (such as the  Kuva Bramma and  Kuva Tonkor) it is practically more efficient with ammo pickups, as the other weapons would immediately consume nearby pickups after merely using a shot.
  • In this regard, it shares this ammo pickup efficiency property with the  Kuva Ogris and the  Tenet Envoy.

Trivia

• The Grineer text on the side of the weapon reads "BOOM".

Media

Kuva Zarr, Weapon & Build Comparison

Kuva Zarr, Weapon & Build Comparison

Kuva Zarr Build - The Explosive Bombarder 2021 (Guide) - Warframe

Patch History

Update 30.5 (2021-07-06)

• Introduced.

See Also

•  Zarr, the normal counterpart of this weapon.