Limbo

• Limbo unleashes a wave of Rift energy toward the aiming reticle. Banish's wave envelops a 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 meters long area within a truncated cone, which begins with a base of 5 meter radius and a ?° spread angle. All enemies and allies caught in the wave's extent are banished out of Limbo's current plane of existence. If Limbo is in the material plane, only material-bound targets will be banished into the Rift plane for 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 seconds; if Limbo is in the Rift, then only Rift-bound targets will return to the material plane.
  • Duration is affected by Ability Duration.
  • Wave distance is affected by Ability Range.
  • Cone initial radius and spread angle are not affected by mods.
  • Wave bypasses obstacles in the environment and does not require line of sight with targets.
  • Cast animation of 0.7 seconds is not affected by Natural Talent or Speed Drift.
• Banish exhibits various effects when applied to ally or enemy targets:

• Banish cannot target Companions and static mission objectives (such as Cryopods and Excavators).
  • However, it does affect some bosses such as Jackal with diminishing effectiveness on duration, as well as Sortie Tenno operatives, Rescue targets, and Assassins (such as Zanuka and The Grustrag Three).
• Casting Banish is a One-Handed Action that can be done while performing many actions without interrupting them, including reloading, charging, shooting, maneuvering, and while on a zipline.
• Cannot be cast without at least 1 target on the same dimensional plane as Limbo, and within the wave's area of effect.

Main article: Haven

Haven is a Warframe Augment Mod for Limbo that makes Banish restore a portion of an injured ally's health.

Rank	Health Restored	Cost
0	10%	6
1	15%	7
2	20%	8
3	25%	9

• Before casting Banish, remind yourself which dimension you are currently in, either the material plane or the Rift plane. Banish only works on eligible targets that exist in the same dimension as you, and pushes them into the opposite dimension.
• Enemies will be damaged and knocked down by Banish, allowing you and teammates to dispatch them with melee ground finisher attacks.
• Ally Warframes will be pushed alongside nearby enemies into the opposite dimension if caught in Banish's area of effect. This enables ally players to immediately use weapon attacks on banished enemies that need to first recover from knockdown.
  • Rift-bound Warframes will regenerate energy per second and become immune to incoming enemy attacks from the material plane. However, their weapon attacks cannot affect material-bound enemies, they cannot collect Pickups unless inside a Cataclysm, and cannot interact with most objects.
  • To avoid confusion, give a friendly reminder to fellow players that they can perform a dodge (default Shift ) to end their Banish buff and exit the Rift.
• Use Rift Walk (default Shift ) after casting Banish to enter the opposite dimension, allowing you to attack banished enemies with your weapons.
• Toggle on Stasis before casting Banish. Enemies banished into the Rift plane while Stasis is active will immediately freeze in suspended animation, as they are receiving Banish's knockdown effect which will resume animation once Stasis ends.
  • Use this method to add a delayed crowd control effect to Rift-bound enemies, buying you time to recast Stasis or kill them before they fully recover from the knockdown.
• Cast Rift Surge on rift-bound enemies, then push them with Banish's wave while you are in the Rift plane. Surged enemies will discharge their Rift energy to radially banish themselves and nearby material-bound enemies into the Rift. Repeat this ability combo to continuously draw enemies into the Rift while you stay safe inside its protection.
• While you are in the Rift plane, cast Banish on enemies inside a Cataclysm to damage and knockdown your targets for additional crowd control. Those enemies will remain Rift-bound due to Cataclysm, allowing you to immediately strike them down with your weapons.
• Banish a Rescue target to protect him/her from harm while you head toward extraction.
• Can be used on Loki's Decoy, Saryn's Molt or Chroma's Effigy to make them immune to damage from enemies that are not in the Rift plane.
  • Can also be cast on Shield Osprey specters, which is very useful considering that Shield Ospreys often will simply wander into groups of enemies and die rather quickly, and because the shield link works through the Rift plane.

Maximization is a form of specialization: mods may be blended to result in values that vary between the top-end limits listed here. Click any maximized link to learn how to build it.

• Maximized Ability Duration increases duration to 76.5 seconds.
  • Reduces wave length to 11.9 meters.
• Maximized Ability Efficiency reduces cost to 6.25 energy.
  • Reduces duration to 10 seconds.
• Maximized Ability Range increases wave length to 98 meters.
  • Reduces damage to 100.
• Maximized Ability Strength increases damage to 1030.
  • Without Energy Conversion and Growing Power, increases damage to 842.5.
  • Increases cost to 38.75 energy.
  • Reduces duration to 18.13 seconds.

• Limbo halts all enemies in the Rift, freezing them in suspended animation for 8 / 10 / 12 / 15 seconds. Additionally, enemy weapon hit-scan gunfire, projectiles, and beams in flight within the Rift cease to move for the duration. While active, the Rift is able to contain 300 enemy weapon fire objects before it becomes unstable; exceeding this limit will end the ability prematurely to resume all Rift-bound enemy activity.
  • Duration is affected by Ability Duration.
  • Weapon fire object limit is not affected by mods.
  • While active, Stasis affects all enemies that enter the Rift at any time, regardless of distance from Limbo.
  • Cast and deactivation animations of 1 second, are affected by Natural Talent and Speed Drift.
• Upon deactivation by pressing the ability key again (default 2 ), expiration, being dispelled, or reaching the limit, all Rift-bound enemies will resume their actions prior to Stasis, while all suspended objects will resume movement depending on priority:
  • All hit-scan bullets are released simultaneously.
  • Projectiles fly towards their set trajectory one by one, rather than simultaneously, by order of creation.
  • Beams appear to stretch into rectangular shapes if created during Stasis, and shrink toward the center once Stasis is deactivated while doing no damage (requires further testing)
  • Manual deactivation can be performed during other actions, such as reloading, shooting, casting abilities, sliding, while knocked-down or even during bleedout.
• Stasis can be activated and deactivated, regardless of whether Limbo is in the Rift or not.
• If there are multiple Limbo players on a squad, Stasis will not deactivate until either the weapon fire object limit is reached or the latest Stasis instance ends.
• As the number of suspended objects approaches the limit, the Rift will visually distort and ripple with increasing intensity before Stasis ends prematurely.
• For more information on Rift-related attributes, see the Rift Plane article.

• Status Effects inflicted upon enemies are indefinitely frozen while under Stasis.
  • Slash, Toxin and Gas damage procs still ticks even when under Stasis. This allows status DoTs to infinitely ticks until the enemy dies/the ability ends.
• Activating Stasis before banishing enemies is an effective way of protecting yourself whilst in the Rift.
• Having Stasis active while your Cataclysm is active, will prevent you from taking any damage from new enemies that enter your Cataclysm's radius.
• Synthesis targets and Feral Kavats can be put in Stasis, making it a lot easier to scan them.

Maximization is a form of specialization: mods may be blended to result in values that vary between the top-end limits listed here. Click any maximized link to learn how to build it.

• Maximized Ability Duration increases duration to 45.9 seconds.
  • Has no negative effects on this ability.
• Maximized Ability Efficiency reduces cost to 12.5 energy.
  • Reduces duration to 6 seconds.
• Maximized Ability Range has no positive effects on this ability.
  • Has no negative effects on this ability.
• Maximized Ability Strength has no positive effects on this ability.
  • Increases cost to 77.5 energy.
  • Reduces duration to 10.88 seconds.

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The effects of Stasis held by one Limbo cannot be deactivated by a different Limbo. If two different Limbos activate their Stasis, deactivating the one cast second will not resume action of suspended targets.

• Limbo produces a surge of Rift energy in a 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 meters radius around him, charging all Rift-bound enemies in range for 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 seconds. Surged enemies that leave the Rift plane will discharge their Rift energy, ending their surge and resulting in a radial banishment; the enemy whose surge is discharged from and any material-bound enemies within 3 / 4 / 4 / 5 meters are forced into the Rift plane for 6 / 10 / 14 / 18 seconds.
  • Surge and banish durations are affected by Ability Duration.
  • Surge and banish radii are affected by Ability Range.
  • Cast animation of 1 second is affected by Natural Talent and Speed Drift.
• Killing a surged enemy will transfer its charge to a nearby enemy within 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 meters in the material plane. Enemies banished by the effect of Rift Surge will be knocked-down and take 300 Impact transitional damage upon entering or leaving the Rift plane.
  • Surge transfer range is affected by Ability Range.
  • Rift transitional damage is not affected by mods.
• Limbo does not need to be in any particular plane to activate Rift Surge, but at least one enemy must be in the Rift and within range to cast it.
• Cannot be recast unless an unaffected enemy enters the Rift and comes within cast range.
• For more information on Rift-related attributes, see the Rift Plane mechanic.

Main article: Rift Torrent

Rift Torrent is a Warframe Augment Mod for Limbo's Rift Surge that increases Limbo's damage while in the Rift Plane for each enemy affected by Rift Surge.

Rank	Damage Bonus	Cost
0	15%	6
1	20%	7
2	25%	8
3	30%	9

• Rift Surge is designed to keep enemies sealed inside the Rift by extending their Banish duration, as well as provide a way for Limbo to bring new enemies into the Rift without endangering himself by returning to the material plane.
• The following techniques and occurrences can trigger Rift Surge's banish effect on charged enemies:
  • Recast Banish on banished enemies, causing them to momentarily leave the Rift plane.
  • Banish's debuff duration ends on affected enemies.
  • Rift Surge's banish debuff duration ends.
  • Detonating Cataclysm to expose enemies inside it to the material plane.
  • Enemies exiting Cataclysm by moving through its boundaries.
• Casting Banish on a surged enemy in the Rift will allow you to take nearby enemies into the Rift as well, instead of having to exit the Rift or cast Cataclysm.
  • It's usually beneficial to have Stasis active before new enemies come in, so that you don't take unnecessary damage from the newly banished enemies.

Maximization is a form of specialization: mods may be blended to result in values that vary between the top-end limits listed here. Click any maximized link to learn how to build it.

• Maximized Ability Duration increases surge duration to 76.5 seconds and banish duration to 55.08 seconds.
  • Reduces surge range to 8.5 meters and banish radius to 1.7 meters.
• Maximized Ability Efficiency reduces cost to 12.5 energy.
  • Reduces surge duration to 10 seconds and banish duration to 7.2 seconds.
• Maximized Ability Range increases surge range to 70 meters and banish radius to 14 meters.
  • Has no negative effects on this ability.
• Maximized Ability Strength has no positive effects on this ability.
  • Increases cost to 77.5 energy.
  • Reduces surge duration to 18.13 seconds and banish duration to 13.05 seconds.

• Limbo brings a dimensional nexus into existence that bridges the Material and Rift planes, forming a sphere of swirling void energy with an initial radius of 10 / 12 / 14 / 16 meters centered around the location on the aiming reticle over unrestricted range. The sphere continuously shrinks over a duration of 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 seconds to a final radius of 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 meters before collapsing on itself.
  • Radius reduction per second is affected by Ability Duration and Ability Range and uses the following formula:
    Reduction = 2 × Base Radius × (1 + Range Mods) ÷ (3 × Base Duration × (1 + Duration Mods))
  • Initial and final radius are affected by Ability Range.
  • Cast animation of 2 seconds is affected by Natural Talent and Speed Drift.
  • The sphere will be created wherever the reticle is aiming when the casting animation finishes, allowing time before then to fine-tune the sphere's placement.
• Cataclysm will collapse when deactivated manually by pressing the ability key again (default 4 ), its duration expires, it is dispelled, or by coming in contact with a nullifying field (Nullifier Crewman, Isolator Bursa).
• Cataclysm exhibits various effects on allies, enemies, and objects within its influence.

• Cataclysm's sphere void energy is affected by Limbo's chosen energy color.

Main article: Cataclysmic Continuum

Cataclysmic Continuum is a Warframe Augment Mod for Limbo that extends Cataclysm's duration for every enemy killed inside it.

Rank	Duration Bonus	Cost
0	0.3s	6
1	0.5s	7
2	0.7s	8
3	1s	9

• Because Cataclysm prevents enemy fire outside the sphere from damaging objects inside it, this ability can be used as an alternative to Snow Globe in protecting Defense, Mobile Defense and Excavation objectives.
  • Power Cores can be picked up and delivered to Excavators safely, all within the Cataclysm.
• Kuva Guardians will remain in the material plane, even inside a Cataclysm, while retaining their Keshegs.
  • This can help in Kuva Siphon missions to ignore them completely, or disarm them through the Rift since Operator powers work across planes.
• While Cataclysm can be used to protect an objective or team members from harm directly, it is also possible to manage ranged threats by surrounding them with the skill instead of the players, then eliminating them individually as they are revealed by the shrinking sphere.
  • Generally, this is disadvantageous when facing high concentrations of melee enemies, as it effectively provides them cover from the team until outside the sphere.
    • Allies can be Banished so they can attack enemies within Cataclysm without them needing to go inside it.
  • Using Cataclysm in this way is most effective when enemies are in open spaces or stationary. In particular, Corpus MOAs and the heavy units from several factions exhibit the tendency to stand in the open and fire while relatively stationary, leaving them vulnerable to this technique.
    • Stasis can also be activated to keep enemies inside the Cataclysm.
  • This method offers an alternative means of managing scattered groups of enemies without denying the use of datamasses in Mobile Defense, since players in the Rift cannot interact with consoles, even if they are carrying a datamass.
• When debating whether to emphasize Duration or Range mods in a Cataclysm-oriented build, consider that the Range will often dictate the "effective duration" of the ability, since it can often become smaller than is useful in the latter stages of its duration.
  • Narrow Minded is a mod to consider carefully before equipping at high level, since it will not only decrease the maximum size of the sphere, but also the minimum size. This is especially important since Narrow Minded will also serve to prolong the skill's later stages in which it has shrunken considerably and may be less useful.
    • This mod can also be highly advantageous when size is of less importance than duration, such as screening Defense, Mobile Defense, or Excavation missions objectives from harm.
  • Since Range mods improve both the initial AND final range of the skill, it is possible to create a Cataclysm which never becomes too small to fight inside before it ends naturally, never requiring an early recast.
• The darkest black energy color from the Smoke color palette can greatly increase visibility within the sphere.
• Cataclysm can break loot containers over a large area, and building for range and efficiency is very effective for activities such as farming resources in the Plains of Eidolon.

Maximization is a form of specialization: mods may be blended to result in values that vary between the top-end limits listed here. Click any maximized link to learn how to build it.

• Maximized Ability Duration increases duration to 91.8 seconds.
  • Reduces initial radius to 5.44 meters and final radius to 1.7 meters.
• Maximized Ability Efficiency reduces cost to 25 energy.
  • Reduces duration to 12 seconds.
• Maximized Ability Range increases initial radius to 44.8 meters and final radius to 14 meters.
  • Reduces damage to 200.
• Maximized Ability Strength increases damage to 2060.
  • Without Energy Conversion and Growing Power, increases damage to 1685.
  • Increases cost to 155 energy.
  • Reduces duration to 21.75 seconds.