Mass Vitrify

	4 75 +3-5/s	Mass Vitrify Create an expanding ring of molten glass that slowly crystallizes enemies who enter. When the expansion is complete, the ring hardens to block weapons fire. The ring draws extra strength from the health and shields of crystallized enemies. Use Shattered Lash to smash the ring and send razor-sharp glass flying outward. Introduced in Update 22.0 (2017-10-12)	Strength:20% / 30% / 40% / 50% (Damage Vulnerability) 500 / 750 / 1000 / 1600 (ring segment base health) 500 / 600 / 700 / 800 (segment explosion damage) 5x (armor multiplier)
			Duration:2 / 2.25 / 2.75 / 3 s (expansion time) 10 / 12 / 14 / 16 s (effect duration)
			Range:2 m (ring initial radius) 3 m/s (ring expansion rate) 8 / 8.75 / 10.25 / 11 m (ring max radius) 8 / 10 / 12 / 15 m (explosion range)
			Misc: 3 m (ring initial height) 12 m (ring max height) 3 s (crystallization time) 12 (ring segments)

• Info
• Tips & Tricks
• Maximization
• Bugs

Info

• Gara expends 75 Energy and coats herself in a shell of hardened glass, becoming immobile and Invulnerable to damage as she unleashes a radial ring of molten glass that expands outward and downward. The molten glass ring's initial horizontal radius from Gara is 2 meters, which expands horizontally at a rate of 3 meters per second over 2 / 2.25 / 2.75 / 3 seconds, up to a maximum horizontal radius of 8 / 8.75 / 10.25 / 11 meters. Ring expansion initially drains 3 energy per second, which ramps up to 5 energy per second over the course of expansion. The molten glass ring's initial height is 3 meters high, which expands downward up to a maximum height of 12 meters.
  • Molten glass bypasses all entities, obstacles, and terrain as it expands.
  • When the molten glass ring is created, its base is aligned with Gara's feet to ensure that the initial ring height is about Warframe height.
  • Ring height expands downward much faster than ring horizontal radius, reaching full height before expansion time completes.
  • Initial casting animation and release animation are affected by casting speed, from mods such as  Natural Talent and  Speed Drift.
  • Can be recast while active to expand molten glass and create a new barrier. Only 1 barrier may remain active per player.
  • Molten glass, hardened glass, and crystal tint color and particle effects energy color are affected by Gara's chosen Warframe energy color.
  • If a Nullifier Crewman bubble touches the glass, it will end the ability prematurely if casting, and instantly shatter it without dealing any damage to surrounding enemies if already hardened. However, enemies hardened with glass will only harden prematurely if the nullifier touches them.
• Mass Vitrify's glass undergoes two distinct phases with diverse effects on Gara, allies, and enemies:

• Crystallization
• Barrier Formation

Crystallization

• Enemies that contact the molten glass are crystallized over 3 seconds, slowing in movement and attack speed until completely solidified in place for 10 / 12 / 14 / 16 seconds. Crystallized enemies receive 20% / 30% / 40% / 50% Damage Vulnerability. Each enemy crystallized contributes extra health to the barrier formation phase, based on a portion of their maximum Shields and Health.
  • Crystallize converted health is affected by both  Ability Strength and Armor mods such as  Steel Fiber equipped on Gara.
• If Gara or allies are affected by a  Radiation proc, allies may also be vitrified. This includes Sortie Defense Operatives, Syndicates Operatives, and Kavor Defectors in addition to fellow Tenno.
• On death, crystallized enemies shatter into glass with visual and sound effects.

Barrier Formation

• Upon pressing the ability key again (default 4 ), when maximum horizontal radius is reached, or when Gara runs out of Energy, Gara sheds her glass shell as the molten glass ring solidifies into a hardened glass barrier. The glass barrier lasts until all segments are destroyed or when Mass Vitrify is recast.
• The glass barrier consists of a circle made out of 12 individual segments, each possessing 500 / 750 / 1000 / 1600 base health, plus Gara's armor value multiplied by 500%. For each enemy affected by the crystallization phase, Mass Vitrify also converts a portion of their maximum shields and health into extra health for the glass barrier segments.
  • Barrier segment health uses the following expression:
    Modified Health = (Base Health + 5 × (Base Armor × (1 + Armor Mods) + Additional Armor)) × (1 + Strength Mods) + Absorbed Health
    • With a maxed  Steel Fiber and  Intensify a wall segment would have
      (1600 + 5 × (150 × (1 + 110%))) × (1 + 30%) = 4,127.5 Health before accounting for converted health from crystallized enemies (values resulting from intermediate calculations are rounded down to the nearest whole number).
  • Minimum Health added from each enemy affected by the crystallization phase is
    Health Added = (320 + 5 × (Base Armor × (1 + Armor Mods) + Additional Armor)) × (1 + Strength Mods)
  • Maximum Health added is
    Health Added = (Max Enemy Health + Max Enemy Shields) ÷ 10
    • Whichever formula results in a greater value is used for health added.
  • During the crystallization phase, the number of total crystallize converted health is displayed beside the shield and health indicators on the HUD, as a buff icon with the number of converted health below the icon.
  • The number of intact glass barrier segments is shown on the ability icon while at least 1 segment exists.
• When a segment's health is depleted, it explodes outward and damages all enemies for 250 / 300 / 350 / 400 damage in a range of 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 meters.
  • Explosion has a damage composition of 18.75%  Impact, 37.5%  Puncture, and 37.5%  Slash.
• Player and AI interaction with the glass barrier have notable differences:
  • Ally players, allied AI, ally weapon fire, and Warframe abilities can pass through unhindered. However, some friendly projectile-based weapons are deflected when striking either side of the wall, such as  Miter and  Arca Plasmor.
  • Some allies such as hacked Eidolon Lures and Sortie Defense Operatives cannot pass through.
  • Most enemies are blocked by the glass barrier from moving and attacking through it, including Kuva Clouds. However, most bosses and the Eidolon Teralyst can pass through unhindered.
  • Area of effect attacks (e.g., Shockwave MOAs and Bombards) and weapons with innate punch through (e.g. Tusk Grineer units) can hit through the glass barrier.

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• Ability Synergy:
  • If Gara strikes her own Mass Vitrify glass barrier with  Shattered Lash's glass longsword, the barrier is shattered and destroyed in an explosion of glass fragments that inflicts Shattered Lash's damage and 500 / 600 / 700 / 800 damage to all enemies within 8 / 10 / 12 / 15 meters from the barrier's exterior surface, as well as all enemies inside the barrier.
    • Explosion has a damage composition of 18.75%  Impact, 37.5%  Puncture, and 37.5%  Slash.
    • Explosion is radial and not dependent on the direction Gara strikes Mass Vitrify with Shattered Lash. Gara must strike a currently intact part of the barrier, but the explosion will occur even around broken segments.
  • Casting Mass Vitrify will also refresh the duration of  Splinter Storm on Gara, as well as any affected allies that contact the molten glass during its expansion.
  • If Mass Vitrify's barrier is destroyed by  Shattered Lash and Splinter Storm is within the explosion radius of the barrier, 50% of the glass fragments' damage is permanently added to Splinter Storm's damage per second until its duration expires.
    • Absorbed damage can stack from repeated Mass Vitrify explosions inside Splinter Storm's radius.
    • Splinter Storms on Gara herself and allies can absorb damage from Mass Vitrify's explosion, while storms on affected enemies do not.
  • Gara's Passive allows casting abilities to have a 15% chance to  Blind enemies within 12 meters for 10 seconds, exposing them to Melee Finisher attacks. Blind chance increases by 20% until the blind triggers.

Tips & Tricks

• • While Mass Vitrify is a potent defensive tool, Gara players can convert it into an offensive tool by investing in Ability Range and Efficiency, to increase the effective range of the resulting shrapnel explosion and reduce casting cost for repeated use. Equipping a melee damage boosting Arcane such as  Arcane Blade Charger,  Arcane Fury,  Arcane Arachne and Mods like  Steel Charge and  Vigorous Swap can further power up the resulting shrapnel explosion from Shattered Lash's damage, boosted by melee weapon mods like  Proton Snap,  Boreal's Contempt, and  Nira's Contempt, Syndicate mods  Blade of Truth,  Justice Blades, and  Toxic Blight, Corrupted Mods  Spoiled Strike and  Corrupt Charge, also Melee damage buffs from Melee weapons like the  Lesion synergizing with Mass Vitrify.
    • For this offensive purpose, Gara players can opt to eschew Ability Duration to either further augment Range and Efficiency (by, for example, equipping  Fleeting Expertise) or to increase Ability Strength. As this may entail reducing the effectiveness of either  Spectrorage or  Splinter Storm, Helminth may replace one of them for a damage-increasing ability such as  Rhino's  Roar,  Mirage's  Eclipse,  Mesa's  Shooting Gallery, Helminth exclusive  Empower. Arcanes like Molt Augmented,  Molt Vigor and  Pax Bolt Operator abilities  Sling Strength and  Hardened Wellspring and Archon Shard  Crimson Archon Shard can augment Shattered Lash's base damage which, in turn, will also increase Mass Vitrify's shrapnel explosion.

• • A defensive play style with Gara can be effective taking into consideration that Mass Vitrify scales with enemy armor values. The more enemies caught inside the ring, the stronger the glass walls and effectively CC'ing a large area. This can be strong enough to stop very high level Demolisher and Acolytes if enough enemies are vitrified inside the ring. The Armor value of Mass Vitrify is displayed with an icon onscreen, and can be boosted with Armor boosting Arcanes  Arcane Ultimatum,  Arcane Tanker, Arcane Guardian, Operator Focus skill  Stone Skin Helminth ability  Parasitic Armor,  Chroma's Cold  Elemental Ward and  Vex Armor,  Oberon's  Renewal synergy with  Hallowed Ground,  Wukong's  Defy, Mods like  Mecha Pulse.
    • Synergizes well with  Magus Anomaly to bring in a group of enemies to vitrify and build stronger walls. Scaling infinitely. Perfect for choke points.

• • Enemies Vitrified, take 50% more damage from all sources.

• • Mass Vitrify will refresh Allies  Splinter Storm timers if they are passing through while Mass Vitrify is cast.

Maximization

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Bugs

• Casting Mass Vitrify in the air often delays the effect of refreshing Splinter Storm's duration until Gara lands on the ground, or if done from extreme heights, not refresh it at all.
• Interrupting the expansion quickly after casting might sometimes result in a "fake" barrier which does not block damage and can not be detonated with Shattered Lash. This can also occasionally happen without voluntarily stopping the expansion.
• Operators that come into contact with the ring while it's expanding are slowed down.

See Also

•  Gara