Lancer

Grineer

Lancer
General Information
Faction	Grineer
Planets	Earth Mercury Mars Ceres
Type	Ranged
Weapons	Grakata /  Sheev
Abilities	Plasma Grenade
Statistics
Affinity	50
Cloned Flesh	100
--  -  +  +  +++
Ferrite Armor	100
Dmg. Reduction	25%
-  -  ++  +++
Base Level	1
Level Scaling
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Selected Level	––
EHP	––
Steel Path EHP	––
Miscellaneous
Codex Scans	20
Drops
Mod Drops	Pressure Point 1.14%  Heavy Trauma 0.01%  Vitality 1.14%  Heated Charge 0.33%  Diamond Skin 0.33%  Streamline 0.01%  Iron Phoenix 0.01% 80  Endo 0.01%
Resource Drops	Region Resource 7.00%
Other Drops	Olympus Blue Pigment

SYNTHESIS IMPRINT

The smashing is like music.

PFFT, CRACK.

My machine’s striking pin rams the rock in front of me. A rush of bits crumbles from the rock and rolls over my boots. I see glinting in the rubble. I like it when it shines, it means I’m serving well. I thrust my shovel in, its plasma blades slicing clean through the chunks. It vibrates, so I switch on its inducer and the shiny bits clink on. Then I throw them into the sorter and jump out of the way of the next strike.

PFFT, CRACK.

More rumble, more shining. This is a good day. All of us, shovelling to the beat of the machines. Only a fraction of a cycle left on this rock, days really. I keep thinking: What will the next rock be like?

PFFT, CRACK.

The Outer Terminus has many rocks. Good rocks, I like it here. I shovel again and jump out of the way of the next smash.

PFFT…

The machines stop and it goes dark. Why have the machines stopped? Why is it dark? A voice reverberates all around, a thundering whisper:

“MERELY FRAMED”

The rock shakes like never before. Gravel rains in the darkness. I choke on the dust and struggle to find my balance on the shifting ground. The voice booms again. It is in the air. It is in the rock. It is in my head.

“MERELY SHAPED THEY ARE CALLED”

My ears ring like sirens. Then I hear new smashing, it is coming from down the tunnel. Not rhythmic smashing, not the music, something else and I do not like it. There are other voices too, screaming voices. They make me think of the way we scream when there is an accident, when one of us gets caught in a sorter. There is much screaming. The voice grows louder.

“THERE WAS NO THEIR MOTHER”

Out of the darkness a new light rounds the distant corner and shines down the tunnel. Our lights do not look like this. It is apart of something big and it moves wildly. Running? Yes, running through our line. Our machines fly up and then slam back down. Miners are smashed and crushed into tiny pieces. I am scared.

I am angry. Why is this happening? Is that an Orokin? No, we serve the Orokin. The Orokin are golden. This is something else. I pick up my shovel.

“THERE WAS NO THEIR FATHER”

The light is close now. I find my footing and grip my shovel like I do when I chip ore. The light sends a machine flying at me. I jump but I am too slow. It crashes into my chest and pins my legs to the floor. I try to breath but I cannot breathe. I look up and the light charges toward me. I raise my shovel just before it tramples into me. There’s a clink. The light catches itself on my shovel’s blade, forcing the shovel’s butt deep into the hard ground. The light explodes under its own force. All is black.

For a moment there is silence. I pull on the shovel but it is wedged between the ground and that thing. Then, the shovel pulses like it does when I strike a shiny chunk of ore, without thinking, I flick on the shovels inducer. The voice screams. Everything shakes. I like hearing this scream, I do not know why. I use everything I have left to force the shovel in deeper. The thing reels back. I can feel it running. It is running away.

Everything goes quiet again, so I close my eyes.

***

“Over here. I found one,” a wave of pain rushes through my chest, my eyes dart open. There’s a light, I try to get out of the way but I cannot move. The light shouts, “hurry, he’s not going to last very long.”

I try to talk, but a new voice speaks instead, “Doesn’t matter, if he can survive that, then they want his sample for the next batch.”

They are lifting me onto something. I catch glimpses of shimmering gold.

“This is a bad idea. I mean, would you trust a Grineer soldier?” The figure presses something into my arm and I want to sleep again.

The new voice laughs, “Do we have any other choice?”

Lancers are the most basic and prevalent form of Grineer infantry. They wield  Grakatas and occasionally throw Plasma Grenades. Although mostly inaccurate with their grenade throws, they can easily down a Warframe caught in the blast. Their armor is blue-green in color.

Farming Locations

These are based on opinions and may not be 100% true. These should be viewed as advice for finding the enemies until better facts are proven. For endless missions, Lancer spawns will be replaced with Elite Lancers the longer you play.

Lancer

Target	Planet	Name	Type	Level	Tile Set
	Mercury	Elion	Capture	7 - 9	Grineer Asteroid
	Mercury	Odin	Interception	6 - 11	Grineer Galleon
	Mercury	Caloris	Rescue	6 - 8	Grineer Asteroid
	Mercury	Pantheon	Exterminate	6 - 8	Grineer Galleon
	Saturn	Cassini	Capture	21 - 23	Grineer Galleon

Arid Lancer

Target	Planet	Name	Type	Level	Tile Set
	Mars	Spear	Defense	8 - 13	Grineer Settlement

Drekar Lancer

Target	Planet	Name	Type	Level	Tile Set
	Uranus	Ariel	Capture	25 - 27	Grineer Sealab

Behavior

• Lancers possess the most generic combat tactics performed in the game. Shoot-and-run, cover-and-flank, and utilizing covers are the basis of these Lancers.
  • They will most often fire their weapon in bursts, unlike their Corpus counterpart Crewman.
• Lancers will occasionally take cover and blind-fire at their targets, albeit with suffered accuracy; (a) if ever their cover is half of their standing height, almost completely covering most of their weak spots, (b) if standing near a post or an end of a wall, they will rotate their weapons sideways, hiding most of their bodies until moving sideways reveals them.
• They occasionally throw grenades, and when behind cover there is an increased likelihood they will throw one.
• They are the most likely enemies to carry a Blunt pack, a device that provides the Grineer units additional cover whenever the environment is too open to hide from attacks.
  • The Blunt pack spawning is shared along with the Elite Lancer.

Tips

• Lancers can be somewhat difficult enemies for new players soloing. They are somewhat resilient due to their Ferrite Armor and their  Grakata fires fast. This put together means that when a squad of several Lancers come from an alarm, they can overwhelm the newest players. To deal more damage,  Puncture based weapons and mods can be useful, as can aiming at the head. Playing slower, using cover, learning maneuvers, and interrupting enemies activating alarms can help, as can finding a squad.

Notes

• Elion and Odin on Mercury seem to be good missions to find normal Lancers to farm their Pigments. Beware of them reaching level 15 in Odin though, as they will start spawning as Elite Lancers at that point.
• These units will be replaced by Elite Lancers once the level has reached 15.

Trivia

• Before Update 7.8 (2013-04-19) Lancers wielded  Bratons.
• On Halloween, only in Update 10.6 (2013-10-30), their heads were replaced by angry pumpkins with a glowing orange light inside, even though Tyl Regor claims that the Grineer have not celebrated Halloween in millennia.
• During Winter, in Update 11.5 (2013-12-19), Lancers are donned with antlers as a celebration of the Christmas season.

Variants

• Arid Lancer
• Frontier Lancer
• Drekar Lancer
• Kuva Lancer
• Tusk Lancer
• Nightwatch Lancer
• Lancer Survivor

Arid Lancer	General		Miscellaneous
	Introduced	Undetermined
	Tileset	Grineer Settlement	Codex Scans	20
	Weapon	Grakata /  Sheev	Other Drops	Tree Green Pigment
	Statistics		Mod Drops	Pressure Point 1.1382%  Vitality 1.1382%  Diamond Skin 0.3318%  Heated Charge 0.3318%  Heavy Trauma 0.015%  Iron Phoenix 0.015%  Streamline 0.015%  Endo 0.015%
	Cloned Flesh	100
	​+  ​+  ​+++  ​‐  ​‐‐
	Ferrite Armor	100
	​++  ​+++  ​-  ​-
	Affinity	50
	Base Level	1

Frontier Lancer	General		Miscellaneous
	Introduced	Undetermined
	Tileset	Grineer Forest	Codex Scans	20
	Weapon	Grakata /  Sheev	Other Drops	None
	Statistics		Mod Drops	Pressure Point 1.1382%  Vitality 1.1382%  Diamond Skin 0.3318%  Heated Charge 0.3318%  Heavy Trauma 0.015%  Iron Phoenix 0.015%  Streamline 0.015%  Endo 0.015%
	Cloned Flesh	100
	​+  ​+  ​+++  ​‐  ​‐‐
	Ferrite Armor	100
	​++  ​+++  ​-  ​-
	Affinity	50
	Base Level	1

Drekar Lancer	General		Miscellaneous
	Introduced	Update 17.0 (2015-07-31)
	Tileset	Grineer Sealab	Codex Scans	20
	Weapon	Grakata /  Sheev	Other Drops	None
	Statistics		Mod Drops	Pressure Point 1.1382%  Vitality 1.1382%  Diamond Skin 0.2211%  Heated Charge 0.2211%  Mobilize 0.2211%  Heavy Trauma 0.0201%  Streamline 0.0201%  Endo 0.0201%
	Cloned Flesh	100
	​+  ​+  ​+++  ​‐  ​‐‐
	Ferrite Armor	100
	​++  ​+++  ​-  ​-
	Affinity	50
	Base Level	1

Kuva Lancer	General		Miscellaneous
	Introduced	Update 19.0 (2016-11-11)
	Tileset	Kuva Fortress	Codex Scans	20
	Weapon	Kohm /  Sheev	Other Drops	None
	Statistics		Mod Drops	Pressure Point 1.1382%  Vitality 1.1382%  Diamond Skin 0.3318%  Heated Charge 0.3318%  Heavy Trauma 0.015%  Iron Phoenix 0.015%  Streamline 0.015%  Endo 0.015%
	Cloned Flesh	100
	​+  ​+  ​+++  ​‐  ​‐‐
	Ferrite Armor	100
	​++  ​+++  ​-  ​-
	Affinity	50
	Base Level	1

Tusk Lancer	General		Miscellaneous
	Introduced	Update 22.0 (2017-10-12)
	Tileset	Plains of Eidolon	Codex Scans	20
	Weapon	Hind /  Sheev	Other Drops	None
	Statistics		Mod Drops	Pressure Point 1.1382%  Vitality 1.1382%  Diamond Skin 0.3318%  Heated Charge 0.3318%  Heavy Trauma 0.015%  Iron Phoenix 0.015%  Streamline 0.015%  Endo 0.015%
	Cloned Flesh	100
	​+  ​+  ​+++  ​‐  ​‐‐
	Ferrite Armor	100
	​++  ​+++  ​-  ​-
	Affinity	50
	Base Level	1

• Deploy Tusk Seeker Drones, which makes them extra dangerous.

Nightwatch Lancer	General		Miscellaneous
	Introduced	Undetermined
	Tileset	Tactical Alert	Codex Scans	20
	Weapon	Grinlok /  Sheev	Other Drops	None
	Statistics		Mod Drops
	Cloned Flesh	100
	​+  ​+  ​+++  ​‐  ​‐‐
	Ferrite Armor	100
	​++  ​+++  ​-  ​-
	Affinity	50
	Base Level	1

Lancer Survivor	General		Miscellaneous
	Introduced	Update 29.0 (2020-08-25)
	Tileset	Cambion Drift	Codex Scans	20
	Weapon	Karak	Other Drops	None
	Statistics		Mod Drops
	Cloned Flesh	1000
	​+  ​+  ​+++  ​‐  ​‐‐
	Ferrite Armor	100
	​++  ​+++  ​-  ​-
	Base Level	1

• These are friendly units, spawned along with Garv during Cambion Drift Bounties.

Media

Lancer Codex

A Grineer Lancer.

A masked Grineer Lancer.

A Lancer holding a Lato.

Frontier Lancer variant

Frontier Lancer Codex complete

Closeup look of a Grineer Lancer's face, FPS bug.

Videos

Olympus Blue Pigment Farm Dojo Colors (Warframe)

Patch History

Update 31 (2021-12-15)

• Increased back away distance for Grineer Lancers finding cover, so that they can shoot for longer.

Update 7.8 (2013-04-19)

• Grineer Lancers are now deployed with the Grakata assault rifle.