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.
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 under 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. Their Grakata fires fast and can easily damage shields. All 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, Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. 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
- A good mission to find Lancer Synthesis as a Target is Mantle - Earth, a Capture Mission.
- 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.
- When hit by Titania's Tribute, Lancers produce the Dust buff.
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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 |
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 |
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 |
- Deploy Tusk Seeker Drones, which makes them extra dangerous.
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Patch History
Update 7.8 (2013-04-19)
- Grineer Lancers are now deployed with the Grakata assault rifle.