Nukor

Grineer Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

Nukor
Untradeable
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General Information
Type	Pistol
Mastery Rank Requirement	4
Max Rank	30
Slot	Secondary
Trigger Type	Held
Utility
Accuracy	Very High
Ammo Max	210
Ammo Pickup	20
Ammo Type	Secondary
Disposition	●●●●● (1.45x)
Fire Rate	10.00 attacks/sec
Noise Level	Alarming
Magazine Size	50
Reload Time	2.00 s
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Spread	0.00° (0.00° min, 0.00° max)
Normal Attack
22 ( 100%)
Total Damage	22 (100.00%  Radiation)
Ammo Cost	0.5
Crit Chance	3.00%
Crit Multiplier	4.00x
Fire Rate	10.00 attacks/sec
Multishot	1 (22.00 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Punch Through	0.0 m
Range	25.0 m
Spread	0.00° (0.00° min, 0.00° max)
Status Chance	29.00%
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Miscellaneous
Compatibility Tags	BEAM
Riven Family	Nukor
Exilus Polarity
Introduced	Update 14.5 (2014-08-28)
Polarities	None
Sell Price	5,000
Users	Nightwatch Seeker
Variants	Kuva Nukor  Nukor
Vendor Sources
Article Categories
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CODEX

Creates and focuses a high-frequency field of microwaves, literally cooking the target from within.

The Nukor is a  Grineer sidearm that fires a microwave-like frequency beam that inflicts  Radiation damage, boasting an extreme critical multiplier is heavily offset by its almost nonexistent critical chance. It also has a unique status effect called  Microwave that enlarges enemy body parts.

Characteristics

• This weapon deals  Radiation damage.
• Can inflict a unique status effect called  Microwave, enlarging the body part that was shot at.
• Damage ramps up from 30% to 100% over 0.6 seconds when firing. After firing stops for 0.8 seconds, the damage decays back to 30% over 2 seconds.

Advantages over other Secondary weapons (excluding modular weapons):

• Second highest critical multiplier of all weapons in the game, behind  Kuva Nukor.
• Pinpoint accuracy.
  •  Magnum Force's accuracy penalty is minimal on this weapon.
• Consumes 0.5 ammo per tick of damage.
• Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
  • High magazine (50)
  • Above average ammo max (210)
  • High fire rate (10.00 attacks/sec)
  • High status chance (29.00%)
  • High disposition (●●●●● (1.45x))
  • Very high crit multiplier (4.00x)

Disadvantages over other Secondary weapons (excluding modular weapons):

• Limited range of 25 meters.
• Pulsing weapon effect blocks the reticle, making it harder to make consistent headshots with the weapon shooting at moving targets.
• Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
  • Very low crit chance (3.00%)
  • Low reload speed (2.00 s)
  • Very low total damage (22)

See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.

Comparisons:

•  Nukor (Normal Attack), compared to  Kuva Nukor (Normal Attack):
  • Higher base damage per projectile (22.00 vs. 21.00) (excluding any Progenitor bonus)
    • Higher  Radiation damage ( 22 vs. 21)
  • Lower total damage (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (22 vs. 33.6)
  • Lower base critical chance (3.00% vs. 7.00%)
  • Lower base critical multiplier (4.00x vs. 5.00x)
  • Lower base status chance (29.00% vs. 50.00%)
  • Lower average damage per tap (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (23.98 vs. 43.00)
  • Lower burst DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (239.8 vs. 430.08)
  • Lower sustained DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (199.83 vs. 341.40)
  • Smaller magazine (50 vs. 77)
  • Less ammo cost per shot (0.5 vs. 1)
  • More shots per magazine (100 vs. 77)
  • Lower Mastery Rank required (4 vs. 13)
  • Higher disposition (●●●●● (1.45x) vs. ●○○○○ (0.50x))
  • Lower range (25m vs 29m)

Acquisition

The Nukor's blueprint can be researched from the Chem Lab in the dojo.

Manufacturing Requirements 📝 Edit blueprint requirements
30,000	Detonite Injector 2	Morphics 2	Salvage 5,500	Forma 1	Time: 1 Day(s)
					Rush: 35
Market Price: 150			Blueprints Price:15,000
Chem Lab Research3,000
5,000	Detonite Ampule 10	Salvage 550	Morphics 2	Rubedo 115	Time: 84 Hour(s)
					Prereq: Detonite Injector
x1   x3   x10   x30   x100

Notes

• Nukor can proc an invisible Status Effect called  Microwave that causes the part of the enemy hit to become larger.
  • Microwave procs have infinite duration, but the visual effect does not.
  • Microwave counts as an individual status for  Condition Overload,  Galvanized Aptitude,  Galvanized Savvy, and  Galvanized Shot.

Tips

• There are several ways to make use of the Nukor's high critical damage by adding flat critical chance bonuses:
  • An Adarza Kavat with  Cat's Eye can give your weapons an additive 60% boost to critical chance.
  • Likewise, Smeeta Kavat's  Charm can guarantee orange crits as one of its possible effects.
  • Using the Secondary Fire of the  Mutalist Quanta and afterwards firing the Nukor through the orb adds a flat +25% critical chance, in addition to +25% critical damage and extra  Electricity.
  •  Harrow's  Covenant can add up to +50% additive crit chance, or +200% on headshots, after absorbing enough damage.
  • A fully ranked  Arcane Avenger has a 21% chance upon receiving damage to grant +45% flat critical chance.
  •  Secondary Enervate can gradually increase the Nukor's critical chance until a set number of tier 2/orange/big critical hits.
• With a maxed  Primed Target Cracker and  Hollow Point, the Nukor can achieve a critical damage multiplier of 10.8x, the highest critical damage multiplier value achievable outside of red crits.
  • It is however ill-advised to use Hollow Point if attempting a critical damage build due to the Nukor's extremely low critical chance.
• The Nukor's short range, high accuracy and cone of fire means that  Magnum Force can be used to provide additional damage without severe penalty.
• The Nukor can be made into an effective anti-Sentient weapon by adding  Corrosive damage which, in combination with its innate  Radiation damage, allows the Nukor to deal extra damage against Sentients while stripping their armor with Corrosive status effects.

Trivia

A Heavy Gunner trapped in  Vauban's  Bastille, with her head expanded by a Nukor.

• This is the first known manufactured Grineer energy weapon and the second gun to deal pure radiation damage, the first being the  Detron.
  • The  Seer is technically the first Grineer energy weapon, as its projectiles appear to be energy; as well when reloading the magazine, an energy-like substance appears to discharge. Though there is the possibility that these projectiles could be superheated materials.
  • The Seer is also composed of Orokin technology, and not actually made by the Grineer entirely; this can bring to question whether or not the Grineer possessed the technology and/or know how to create an energy source or if it was simply salvaged from the Orokin tech.
• As a microwave beam weapon, the Nukor could be considered a maser - such devices work similar to lasers, but using lower frequency microwave radiation.
  • The name itself is likely a nod to 'nuking', a term used to refer to cooking/reheating food or drink using a microwave oven.
• As the Nukor is being fired, its magazine will rotate and its front encasing will slowly open up. This can be assumed to be a method of cooling the weapon as it heats up during operation. 
• The aimed body part of the target inflates in size as the target is damaged, as demonstrated by the picture above, identical to the effect of  Peculiar Growth. This also works on bosses and other Warframes in PvP.
• Enemies killed by the Nukor dissolve in a fashion similar to  Nova's  Molecular Prime, however this effect is purely visual and corpses can still be  Desecrated.
  • If said enemies had been killed by Nukor damage and sliced in half, the corpses will reappear.
• Oddly, the Nukor has two separate energy colors when used with its default palette, being orange for the weapon energy colors themselves and blue for its radioactive beam and warped circles.
  • This however changes when the user is applying their own energy color and will apply the single color to both.
• Previously, the Nukor's beam was treated as a source of AoE damage (such as an explosion) from point of contact of the Nukor's beam, allowing it to penetrate Shield Lancer's shields (not to be confused with Punch Through).

Media

Nukor in Codex.

The enlargement of body part also works on bosses.

This is just getting silly now

It also works on Warframes.

 

Warframe Preview - PC Update 14.5

Warframe Nukor, Dreams Can Come True! thequickdraw

A look at Warframe Nukor

Warframe Nukor

Warframe Nukor (Microwave Ray) Build Guide

Warframe Nukor Pro Builds 3 Forma Update 14.5

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Can I Has Buff The Nukor (Warframe)

NUKOR - A HARROW EXPERIENCE 4 forma - Warframe

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Warframe - All Grineer Weapon Reloads in 2 minutes (2012 - 2019)

Nukor Skins

Edit

Day of the Dead
Seasonal

Daybreak

Lunaeus

Nightwatch

Patch History

Update 38.0 (2024-12-13)

• Fixed script error caused by the Microwave Status Effect VFX.

Update 35.0 (2023-12-13)

• Fixed weird behavior with the Nukor’s enlarging effect on enemy limbs.

Update 32.0 (2022-09-07)

Ammo Changes

We understand the power fantasy of these weapons is very popular for some, so our first approach was to keep them powerful, but limit how often they can be used by making changes to ammo pick-up.

Ammo Pickup Overrides
The following weapons now have ammo pickup overrides, meaning they gain less from picking up ammo. This mostly applies to AoE weapons, in hopes that players will become more deliberate with their aim to make the most of their Ammo pools. The following lists the specific ammo pick up overrides per weapon category.

Secondary Weapon Ammo Pick Up Overrides

20 Ammo per Pick Up:

• Nukor

Update 22.14 (2018-03-01)

• Fixed Beam weapons not being able to damage enemies (alive but in a ragdolled state) when being affected by certain 'crowd control' Abilities.
• Damage now ramps up over 0.6 seconds and after moving off target there is a delay of 0.8 seconds before it starts to decay over 2 seconds.
• All Beam weapons now start their Damage ramp up at 20% (instead of 10%).
• The Multishot chance should now apply more consistently with Beam weapons.
• Fixed Beam weapons continuously firing when quick Meleeing.
• Nukor ammo capacity reduced to 60 in Conclave.

Hotfix 22.13.4 (2018-02-22)

• Increased the Beam weapon Damage ramp up time from 0.8 to 1 second.
• Fixed Beam weapon Damage ramp up not happening per target.

Hotfix 22.13.3 (2018-02-21)

• Perfect accuracy and high fire rate is balanced by limited range and damage ramping up from 10% to 100% over 0.8 seconds when firing and decays back to 10% over 1 second after stopping.
• Damage changed from 32 Radiation per sec to 22 Radiation per tick.
• Fire Rate increased from 5 to 10.
• Status chance increased from 20% per sec to 29% per tick of damage.
• Critical chance increased from 1% to 3%.
• Range increased from 20m to 25m.
• Ammo consumption decreased from 1.0 to 0.5 per tick of damage.
• Aimed Zoom reduced from 2.23x to 1.7x.

Update 22.0 (2017-10-12)

• Fixed poor optimization on weapons like the Nukor.

Hotfix 21.0.7 (2017-07-13)

• Fixed the Nukor creating a ton of FX if it kills something while it's been paused by Harrow's Condemn ability.

Update 20.0 (2017-03-24)

• Fixed a rare script error with the Nukor.

Update 19.5 (2016-12-22)

• Nukor's magazine capacity reduced from 50 to 35 in the Conclave.

Update: The Index Preview (2016-10-20)

• Nukor is now available for use in the Conclave!

Update 17.1 (2015-08-12)

• Nightwatch skin added.

Hotfix 16.5.6 (2015-05-19)

• Fixed coloring on Nukor.

Update 14.8 (2014-09-24)

• Fixed an issue where Orokin Shield Drones would rotate onto their sides when shot by the Nukor.

Update 14.6 (2014-09-11)

• Tweaked the sound effects of the Nukor pistol.
• Improved the performance of the Nukor on low end computers.

Hotfix 14.5.2 (2014-09-03)

• Fixed the magazine drop animation not playing properly on the Nukor.

Hotfix 14.5.0.2 (2014-08-28)

• Tweaked Nukor's sound effects.

Update 14.5 (2014-08-28)

• Introduced.

Last updated: Hotfix 23.10.1 (2018-10-12)

See Also

•  Kuva Nukor, the Kuva Lich counterpart of this weapon.