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"Your target is an aberration of twisted flesh. Put the thing out of its misery."

Phorid is an Infestation w Infested Boss only found when an Invasion takes over the Assassination mission of a Planet. After players defeat it and reach the extraction point, they will receive either a NyxIcon272 Nyx Neuroptics, Chassis, or Systems blueprint upon mission completion. Upon death, Phorid has a chance of dropping rare resources of the planet it appears on.


Appearance[]

Phorid is a larger, stronger version of the standard Charger, with bright blue nodes all over its body. Despite its massive size, it is as fast or even faster than the already agile Chargers, and a single melee swipe from it will deal a large amount of damage.

Attacks[]

  • Claw Swipe
    • Phorid's primary form of attack. Phorid will run up and swipe at the player, with each swipe dealing 300 DmgImpactSmall64 Impact damage, scaled by enemy level.
  • Sonic Scream
    • Phorid stands still and lets out a scream, distorting the screen and dealing 20 ticks of 10 DmgImpactSmall64 Impact damage over 2 seconds.
  • Spine-Strike
    • Phorid launches a cluster of yellow homing bolts that deal 225 DmgToxinSmall64 Toxin damage, scaled by enemy level. The bolts home in on their target, but are destroyed on impact with terrain and objects.
  • Health Regen
    • Phorid will slowly regenerate health after not being attacked for a short duration.

Taunts[]

Phorid, like other bosses, has unique taunts. Here is a list of them:

  • "(Revoke the frailties of flesh. Let us in.)"
  • "(We are the vessel through which immortality is achieved. Assimilate, [player name].)"

Bugs[]

  • Killing Phorid as it is casting Sonic Scream will cause the screen distortions to stay even after its normal duration.
  • Sometimes (due to an unknown cause) Phorid's walking/movement animation will not be played.

Notes[]

  • According to the Lotus, a spy cell (presumably one of her operatives) had gone missing while exploring Phorid's lair, hence the call for its assassination.
    • At first Lotus claims she has no idea what attacked her recent scouts which is why you are being sent to kill whatever it is, but after hearing the Phorid's screams, she identifies the monster and describes in great detail how to survive against Phorid.

Trivia[]

  • No matter what faction you are siding with, the tileset will always be the Grineer Asteroid
  • Phorid was formerly the boss of Eris and was located in Naeglar. Update 11.0 (2013-11-20) ultimately changed the ruling faction of Eris to the Corpus and now is reverted to the Infested as of Update 14.0 (2014-07-18). Update 11 also changed much of the mechanics of Phorid's fight.
    • Prior to Update 11, Phorid's melee swipes could knock the victim down, and its scream attack would constantly stagger all players for its duration. These qualities were removed to reduce player frustration.
    • Update 11 also altered Phorid's arena by removing most, if not all, of the obstacles in the center of the field, likely to prevent pathfinding exploits.
  • Phorid shares its name with a family of flies that have a pronounced hump on their thorax, much like Phorid itself.
  • Very rarely, like General Sargas Ruk, Phorid will "double-drop" mods, although it is purely a visual glitch and the second mod is a resource.
  • Although Phorid shares its model with the Charger, Phorid does not possess a head hitbox.

Patch History[]

Update 20.5 (2017-05-17)

  • Phorid's portrait will now be displayed when viewing Invasion battle details instead of generic Infestation image.
  • Fixed Phorid Assassination requiring Animo Beacons/Judgment points when occupying Hades/Merrow.

Update 20.2 (2017-04-12)

  • Fixed Phorid visually flickering when approached.

Update 19.0 (2016-11-11)

  • Fixed Phorid occupied nodes still showing the underlying bosses.

Hotfix: Specters of the Rail 0.11 (2016-07-19)

  • Fixed Assassination Sortie missions not working for key-based boss fights (Phorid, Lephanits, Mutalist Alad V).

Hotfix 19.6.1 (2017-01-13)

  • Changed Eris Junction task from "Defeat Phorid in an infested outbreak", to "Find and Defeat LEPHANTIS in DERELICT".

Update 18.13 (2016-05-27)

  • Fixed Phorid having duplicate entries in the Codex.

Hotfix 18.4.3 (2016-01-27)

  • Fixed an issue with Radial Blur staying active on players after enemies who can cause blur are killed (Phorid, etc).

Hotfix 17.6.2 (2015-10-08)

  • Reduced the effectiveness of crowd control abilities against Phorid.

Hotfix 15.13.7 (2015-02-10)

  • Fixed End of Mission rewards showing as incorrect for Invasions (particularly Phorid drops giving wrong Warframe parts).

Hotfix 15.0.7 (2014-10-28)

  • Fixed an issue with Phorid bolts damaging Limbo whilst Rift Walking.

Hotfix 12.4.1 (2014-03-06)

  • Fixed Nyx parts not being received at mission end with Phorid.

Update 11.5 (2013-12-19)

  • Fixed Phorid level not loading.

Update 11.3 (2013-12-12)

  • Infestation "outbreaks" will occur at random, with a downtime of 12 – 36 hours between attacks. When a node is under Infested threat, battlefront aggressively moves to all adjacent nodes if invasion isn't successfully defended within a matter of hours. Outbreaks continue to spread until reaching a boss node, which leads to Phorid appearing and occupying that boss's node until the invasion is defeated!

Hotfix 11.2.1 (2013-12-06)

  • Fixed missing Phorid Diorama.

Hotfix 10.1.2 (2013-09-24)

  • Adjusted Phorid's drop rate chances to match other bosses

Update 8.3 (2013-07-04)

  • Fixed Phorid not attacking crouched players.

Update 6.0 (2013-01-29)

  • Introduced.

Last updated: Hotfix 24.1.5 (2018-12-13)

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