The Plasma Sword is a Tenno sword specializing in 
Electricity damage.
This weapon can be sold for 
5,000.
Characteristics[]
- This weapon deals primarily
Slash damage. - Stance slot has polarity, matching Iron Phoenix and Rising Steel (Conclave only) stance.
Advantages over other Melee weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Very high disposition (●●●●● (1.48x))
Disadvantages over other Melee weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Slowest attack speed of all swords; tied with Karyst Prime, Sheev and Pathocyst for the slowest attack speed of all melees.
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Below average crit chance (18.00%)
- Very low attack speed (0.67x animation speed)
- Low status chance (18.00%)
See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.
Acquisition[]
The Plasma Sword's blueprint can be bought from Nightwave Offerings. Note that the offerings are on a 7-day rotation, and this weapon may not be available on a succeeding appearance.
| Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
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 20,000 |
 Orokin Cell1 |
 Ferrite500 |
 Salvage450 |
 Polymer Bundle50 |
Time: 12 Hour(s) |
Rush:  25
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 Market Price: N/A
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 Blueprints Price:N/A
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Trivia[]
- The plasma sword uses the smaller model of the pre-update 11 Gram but with a different color scheme.
- Before Update 13.0 (2014-04-09), the Plasma Sword dealt Physical damage like most melee weapons. It now deals Electricity damage, making it the fourth melee weapon to do so after the Amphis, Prova, and Lecta.
Media[]
Plasma Sword in the Codex.
New Default Colour
Warframe Plasma Sword Build Guide Melee 2.0
Plasma Sword Skins
Patch History[]
Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
- Mastery Rank increased from 0 to 4.
- Damage increased from 35 Electricity to 200 (34 Impact, 12 Puncture, 88 Slash, and 66 Electricity).
- Range increased from 1 to 2.5.
- Status Chance increased from 15% to 18%.
- Critical Chance increased from 15% to 18%.
- Slam Attack increased from 70 to 600.
- Slide Attack increased from 75 to 200.
- Parry Angle set to 55.
Update 17.2.4 (2015-08-26)
- Conclave: The Plasma Sword now has had its Status chance increased to 100% and its damage reduced to compensate.
Update 17.2 (2015-08-19)
- Plasma Sword can now be used in Conclave.
Update 10.3 (2013-10-09)
- Fixed missing elemental FX for Plasma sword.
Update 8.0 (2013-05-23)
- Introduced.
Last updated: Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
