Pox

Infested Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

Pox
Statistics
Type	Thrown
Mastery	9
Slot	Secondary
Trigger Type	Auto
Utility
Accuracy	100
Ammo Type	Pistol
Disposition	●●●●○ (1.20x)
Fire Rate	2.08
Noise Level	Silent
Magazine Size	4
Max Ammo	20
Reload Time	1 s
Projectile Speed	? m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Spore Impact
50
Total Damage	50
Crit Chance	1%
Crit Multiplier	2x
Fire Rate	2.08
Multishot	1 (50 damage per projectile)
Status Chance	35%
Projectile Speed	? m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Poison Cloud
20
Total Damage	20
Crit Chance	0%
Crit Multiplier	1x
Damage Falloff	100% damage up to 0 m 100% damage at 3.6 m 0% max reduction
Fire Rate	1
Multishot	1 (20 damage per projectile)
Range	3.6 m
Status Chance	35%
Projectile Type	AoE
Miscellaneous
Exilus Polarity
Internal Name	/Lotus/Weapons/Infested/Pistols/InfProximityStars/InfProximityStars
Introduced	Update: The Silver Grove (2016-08-19)
Polarities

CODEX

These festering sacs of pus and gas burst violently on impact.

The Pox are a thrown  Infested weapon that, similar to the  Torid, releases a  Toxin cloud upon coming into contact with a surface or enemy, making it ideal for large groups or area denial. However, its low magazine size and ammunition reserves mean that players must be mindful of their ammo.

Characteristics

This weapon deals  Toxin damage.

Advantages:

• Third highest base damage of all throwing-type secondaries, behind  Castanas and  Sancti Castanas.
  • Innate  Toxin damage – effective against Flesh and bypasses Shields and Proto Shields.
• Spores explode in a 3.6 meter radius upon impact with a surface or enemy, lingering for 4 seconds while dealing continuous  Toxin damage.
  • Does not inflict self-stagger.
  • Initial hit and spore cloud apply status separately.
  • Explosion does not need direct line of sight to deal damage and will penetrate walls.
• Highest status chance of all fully automatic secondaries, and highest status chance of all throwing-type secondaries.
• Fast reload speed.
• Can benefit from  Fulmination ( Primed).

Disadvantages:

• Innate  Toxin damage – less effective against Robotic and Fossilized.
  • Damage cannot be increased with  Impact,  Puncture, or  Slash mods.
• Lowest critical chance of all throwing-type weapons.
• Tied with  Talons for second lowest magazine size of all throwing-type secondaries.
• Lowest fire rate of all throwing-type secondaries.
• Slow Projectile Speed, with heavy arcing.
• Cannot use thrown-exclusive mod  Concealed Explosives.

Acquisition

The Pox's blueprint can be researched from the Bio Lab in the dojo.

Manufacturing Requirements
30,000	4	6,500	1,200	2	Time: 24 hrs
					Rush: 35
Market Price: 175			Blueprints Price:15,000
Bio Lab Research 3,000
5,000	20	200	900	250	Time: 72 hrs
					Prereq: Dual Toxocyst
x1   x3   x10   x30   x100

Tips

• As the Pox explode on contact with surfaces instead of sticking to them, adding  Heat or  Electricity damage is recommended to keep enemies in the clouds for extended periods.
• The high status chance of the Pox, along with its innate  Toxin damage makes it an effective tool to reduce enemy armor via  Corrosive procs or amp other attacks with  Viral procs.
• This weapon performs especially well in corridors and cramped spaces where enemies are forced to cluster together, and the stacked gas clouds can make short work of them.
  • Pox users should be mindful about their ammo reserves when using this tactic, however, because they might find themselves ganged up by enemies while trying to pick up ammo drops.

Trivia

• Pox refers to a type of disease that is characterized by pustules or pockmarks that cover the whole body, examples of which include Chickenpox and Smallpox.
  • In earlier times, Pox may be used to refer to diseases in general, or a curse.

Media

Pox in Codex.

Torid VS Pox!

Warframe POX Setup 2x Forma (TSG Update 1)

Warframe Pox, Explosive Paper Airplane Testicles - 4 Forma thequickdraw

Warframe Leveling - Pox Episode 1

POX FART CLOUDS - Build for Champions Riven build - Warframe

Warframe - All Infested Weapon Reloads in 30 seconds (2013 - 2019)

Pox Skins Edit

Tarock

Patch History

Hotfix 27.4.4 (2020-05-07)

• Fixed for missing adhere and explosion sounds for the Pox.

Update 27.4 (2020-05-01)

• Fixed the Pox Damage over Time applying self-damage.

Hotfix 27.3.9 (2020-04-07)

• Fixed the Pox missing its AoE Gas cloud.

Hotfix 27.3.8 (2020-04-02)

• The Pox has been given explosion FX tweaks for visual and performance improvement.

Hotfix 27.2.2 (2020-03-06)
Reduced the following AoE weapons Radial Damage Falloff from central impact that were all previously 90%:

• Pox: 50%

Update 27.2 (2020-03-05)
Disclaimer: Despite patch notes saying that the Pox will have self-stagger, it actually doesn't due to gas clouds not being 'explosions'.

Self Damage Changes

We are getting rid of Self Damage and replacing it with something else: instead of Self Damage, it’s now ‘Stagger’. This change completely removes the chance of killing yourself, and instead now creates scenarios where you will interrupt yourself - or ‘Stagger’ - to varying degrees if you aren’t careful.

The degrees of Self-Interrupt start with a small stumble all the way to full knockdown depending on how close you are to the center of explosion. Any Mods referring to Self Damage will be converted to acknowledge Stagger.

With this Self-Interrupt system, we have added dozens of new recovery animations that harness a ninja-like recovery experience. By pressing ‘Jump’ at the correct time, you can execute a ninja-skill-based knockdown recovery to ALL in-game knockdowns. This ninja recovery window is indicated by a glowing FX on your Warframe.

In addition to Self Damage being removed, some of the more powerful AOE weapons without Self Damage presently will have the Stagger added, but it should only be noticeable in cases of extreme inaccuracy on the player’s part. The Weapons include:

• Pox

In the original Dev Workshop, we said:
As a result of this overall systemic change, Weapons with Stagger will be getting approximately a 20% buff in Damage, with any weapons with AOE receiving a 50% Radial Damage Falloff from central impact.

This is no longer accurate after continued testing. What we are doing now is:

No damage buffs have been added, but any weapons with AOE are receiving ~20% increase in Radius. Additionally, AOE weapons are receiving a 90% Radial Damage Falloff from central impact. This means on the very outer section of the explosion Radius 10% of the Damage will be dealt. Tactics will be deadly - aim true, Tenno.

Why: Several players brought up the history of the Tonkor and we want to make sure we ship this change in a place that’s conservative in its starting point from a balance perspective. The complete removal of Self Damage does change the pace of destruction with some of the game’s most powerful weapons, so we want to make sure we can iterate upwardly instead of releasing a bonanza of explosions with no other choices.

Hotfix 25.0.4 (2019-05-28)

• Fixed the Pox not dealing radial Damage over time when its projectile lands on the ground or otherwise not on an enemy.

Hotfix 22.16.2 (2018-03-16)

• Pox will no longer play Hit Notification sounds on Damage over Time ticks.

Update 22.12 (2018-02-09)

• Mastery Rank increased from 6 to 9.
• Direct impact damage increased from 50 to 77.
• Improved projectile trail FX.

Update 20.4 (2017-05-04)

• Fixed the Pox diorama being aggressively zoomed in.

Hotfix 20.0.2 (2017-03-24)

• Tweaked the max number of Pox projectiles Limbo can create in Stasis to 20 before Stasis becomes unstable and closes.

Hotfix 19.11.3 (2017-02-17)

• Fixed constant pulsing of the crosshair from Pox DOT.

Update 19.0 (2016-11-11)

• Fixed the Pox not changing its orientation when thrown.

Hotfix: The Silver Grove 2 (2016-08-22)

• Fixed a poor Pox throwing animation when holding a datamass.
• Fixed a black mesh appearing on the Pox in the Arsenal.

Update: The Silver Grove (2016-08-19)

• Introduced.

Last updated: Hotfix 23.10.8 (2018-10-25)