Pax Seeker

Pax Seeker
Tradeable
📝 Update Infobox Data
Max Rank Description
On Headshot Kill 4 projectiles burst from the enemy and seek the heads of nearby enemies
General Information
Type	Kitgun
Rarity	Rare
Refreshable	✔️
Incompatibility Tags	OPERATOR_SUIT
Max Rank	3
Arcanes Required to Max	10
Dissolution	24
Trading Tax	8,000
Introduced	Update 24.0 (2018-11-08)
Vendor Sources
Vendors Rude Zuud (Rank 5: Old Mate)  10000 for x1
Official Drop Tables
https://www.warframe.com/droptables

Pax Seeker is an Arcane Enhancement for kitguns that, on headshot kill, releases homing projectiles that inflicts 50%  Puncture and 50%  Slash damage.

Effect

Rank	Bolts
0	1
1	2
2	3
3	4

Acquisition

Can be bought from Rude Zuud for 10,000 Standing 10,000 per arcane upon reaching the rank of Old Mate with Solaris United. Like all arcanes, Pax arcanes come fully built at Rank 0.

Notes

• In order to activate the effect of Pax Seeker, the enemy must be headshot killed by the Kitgun, and not any damage-over-time status effect such as  Slash.
• These homing projectiles deal a considerable amount of damage, which can help in killing a group of enemies.
  • Damage for individual projectiles seem to depend on mods equipped to the Kitgun, including Multishot mods, damage mods, elemental mods and Critical Hit mods.
  • Projectile damage benefits from buff abilities, like  Rhino's  Roar,  Mirage's  Eclipse and  Harrow's  Covenant. In particular, Eclipse affects projectiles' damage twice.
  • Projectile damage also benefits from  Primary Merciless/ Secondary Merciless,  Primary Deadhead/ Secondary Deadhead and  Primary Dexterity/ Secondary Dexterity, as well as  Galvanized Aptitude/ Galvanized Shot (dependent on how many status conditions the projectiles' target has instead of the initial target).
  • While a Kitgun may gain 50% extra damage when shot through  Volt's  Electric Shield, however, damage for the resulting projectile is not affected, meaning it will be equal to those of a shot without Electric Shield.
• A projectile can be controlled using  Ivara's  Navigator.
• Kills made by these projectiles count as Pistol kills, which can be used to complete Nightwave Tasks.
  • The projectiles also aims for the head, which can be used for Riven Challenges and Nightwave Tasks.
• Homing projectiles can target and damage enemies across the material plane and Rift Plane.
• Because the projectiles aim for enemies' head dealing a large amount of damage, Pax Seeker can easily trigger Primary Deadhead/Secondary Deadhead and  Galvanized Scope/ Galvanized Crosshairs.
• Each projectile guarantees an  Impact proc, which can benefit from the  Internal Bleeding/ Hemorrhage.
• Status chance mods affect the projectiles, which can proc  Slash,  Puncture, and any status the modded weapon may inflict.
• The projectiles will disappear if they hit a wall or ceiling; this combined with their upwards emergence and slow homing can make the projectiles struggle to hit enemies in tight interior spaces.

Tips

• As Pax Seeker's projectiles always aim for the head, it greatly benefits from  Harrow's  Covenant, which grants a x4 critical chance bonus for headshots (additive 200% flat critical chance at maximum).
  • However, headshot kills by Pax Seeker's projectiles won't count for  Lasting Covenant.
  •  Harrow's  Thurible also gains energy from projectiles' kills as if they're non-headshot.

Trivia

• Inscription on Pax Seeker is Solari Language, reading "Seek".

Patch History

Update 32.0 (2022-09-07)

• Fixed Titania’s Razorflies triggering the effect of the Pax Seeker Arcanes.

Update 31.6 (2022-06-09)

ARCANE STAT CHANGES PER RANK

We’ve adjusted the values of older Arcanes with the goal of making lower rank Arcanes more viable, and more desirable while collecting as a result. In short, there are three stats that each Arcane tends to have (speaking generally) -- for example, a percentage chance, a stat buff, and the duration of the buff.

Certain Arcanes increase all of these stats per rank (making them scale exponentially), but we are changing it so that only one stat is affected by rank (making it scale linearly). The other stats will now be at the max-rank value regardless of the Arcane Rank, thereby buffing lower-rank Arcanes as a result.

Pax Seeker

On Headshot Kill: 100% (was 25%) chance for 1/4 projectiles burst from the enemy and seek the heads of nearby enemies.

• Now that the chance is guaranteed, the new description is “On Headshot Kill: 1/4 projectiles burst from the enemy and seek the heads of nearby enemies.”

Hotfix 28.2.1 (2020-08-01)

• Fixed Pax Seeker not triggering on equipped Primary Kitguns.

Update 28.1 (2020-07-08)

• Fixed Pax Seeker being able to be activated by weapons/abilities other than the Kitgun it's installed on (sometimes resulting in a script error).

Hotfix 25.1.1 (2019-06-06)

• Fixed Pax Seeker bolts appearing default Energy colour for Clients.

Hotfix 24.1.2 (2018-11-29)

• Fixed Pax Seeker activating on Warframe Exalted Ability Weapons (i.e. Titania Razorwing, Mesa Regulators).
• Fixed Pax Seeker projectiles and Phantasma’s Alt Fire ignoring Nullifier bubbles.

Update 24.1 (2018-11-22)

• Changed the Pax Seeker Arcane projectile from 100% Impact Damage to 50% Puncture/50% Slash. This also fixes the Pax Seeker's projectile taking Damage Mods into account twice.

Update 24.0 (2018-11-08)

• Introduced.

Last updated: Update 24.7 (2019-04-10)