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 |
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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 |
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Mars | Spear | Defense | 8 - 13 | Grineer Settlement |
- Drekar Lancer
Target | Planet | Name | Type | Level | Tile Set |
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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.
- 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 | General | Drops | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Introduced | Undetermined | 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% Other Drops: Tree Green Pigment | ||
Tileset | Grineer Settlement | |||
Weapon | Grakata / Sheev | |||
Codex Scans | 20 | |||
Statistics | ||||
Cloned Flesh | 100 | |||
+ + +++ ‐ ‐‐ | ||||
Ferrite Armor | 100 | |||
++ +++ - - | ||||
Affinity | 50 | |||
Base Level | 1 |
Frontier Lancer | General | Drops | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Introduced | Undetermined | 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% | ||
Tileset | Grineer Forest | |||
Weapon | Grakata / Sheev | |||
Codex Scans | 20 | |||
Statistics | ||||
Cloned Flesh | 100 | |||
+ + +++ ‐ ‐‐ | ||||
Ferrite Armor | 100 | |||
++ +++ - - | ||||
Affinity | 50 | |||
Base Level | 1 |
Drekar Lancer | General | Drops | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Introduced | Update 17.0 (2015-07-31) | 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% | ||
Tileset | Grineer Sealab | |||
Weapon | Grakata / Sheev | |||
Codex Scans | 20 | |||
Statistics | ||||
Cloned Flesh | 100 | |||
+ + +++ ‐ ‐‐ | ||||
Ferrite Armor | 100 | |||
++ +++ - - | ||||
Affinity | 50 | |||
Base Level | 1 |
Kuva Lancer | General | Drops | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Introduced | Update 19.0 (2016-11-11) | 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% | ||
Tileset | Kuva Fortress | |||
Weapon | Kohm / Sheev | |||
Codex Scans | 20 | |||
Statistics | ||||
Cloned Flesh | 100 | |||
+ + +++ ‐ ‐‐ | ||||
Ferrite Armor | 100 | |||
++ +++ - - | ||||
Affinity | 50 | |||
Base Level | 1 |
Tusk Lancer | General | Drops | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Introduced | Update 22.0 (2017-10-12) | 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% | ||
Tileset | Plains of Eidolon | |||
Weapon | Hind / Sheev | |||
Codex Scans | 20 | |||
Statistics | ||||
Cloned Flesh | 100 | |||
+ + +++ ‐ ‐‐ | ||||
Ferrite Armor | 100 | |||
++ +++ - - | ||||
Affinity | 50 | |||
Base Level | 1 |
- Deploy Tusk Seeker Drones, which makes them extra dangerous.
Nightwatch Lancer | General | Drops | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Introduced | Undetermined | Mod Drops: | ||
Tileset | Tactical Alert | |||
Weapon | Grinlok / Sheev | |||
Codex Scans | 20 | |||
Statistics | ||||
Cloned Flesh | 100 | |||
+ + +++ ‐ ‐‐ | ||||
Ferrite Armor | 100 | |||
++ +++ - - | ||||
Affinity | 50 | |||
Base Level | 1 |
Lancer Survivor | General | Drops | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Introduced | Update 29.0 (2020-08-25) | Mod Drops: | ||
Tileset | Cambion Drift | |||
Weapon | Karak | |||
Codex Scans | 20 | |||
Statistics | ||||
Cloned Flesh | 1000 | |||
+ + +++ ‐ ‐‐ | ||||
Ferrite Armor | 100 | |||
++ +++ - - | ||||
Base Level | 1 |
- These are friendly units, spawned along with Garv during Cambion Drift Bounties.
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Patch History[]
Update 31.0 (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.