Primal Fury

	4 10 +5/s	Primal Fury Summon the Iron Staff and unleash fury. Introduced in Update 17.12 (2015-11-25)	Strength:100 / 125 / 200 / 250 (damage)
			Duration:N/A
			Range:N/A
			Misc: 3.5 m (staff reach)

• Info
• Weapon
• Stance
• Augment
• Tips & Tricks
• Maximization
• Bugs

Info

• Wukong equips his legendary  Iron Staff as his melee Exalted Weapon. Normal attacks inflict 100 / 125 / 200 / 250 damage within 3.5 meters.
  • Damage is distributed between 68%  Impact damage and 32%  Slash damage.
  • Wall attacks inflict 167 / 208 / 333 / 417 damage.
  • Slide attacks inflict 214 / 267.5 / 428 / 536 damage.
  • Aerial attacks and slam attacks inflict 200 / 250 / 400 / 500 damage, and slam attacks inflict an additional 150  Impact damage within 3 meters.
• Attacks have a 2x critical multiplier, 25% critical chance, and 30% status chance.
• Damage is affected by  Ability Strength and most mods.
  • As an example, with a maxed  Pressure Point,  Shocking Touch and  Intensify, the normal attacks of a rank-3 Primal Fury will deal
    Base Damage × (1 + Damage Mods) × (1 + Elemental Mods) × (1 + Strength Mods) =
    250 × (1 + 1.2) × (1 + 0.9) × (1 + 0.3) = 1,358.5 damage.
  • The mods that affect  Iron Staff include:
    • damage (e.g.,  Steel Charge)
    • physical damage (e.g.,  Jagged Edge)
    • elemental damage (e.g.,  Shocking Touch)
    • faction (e.g.,  Smite Corpus)
    • Critical chance and critical multiplier (e.g.,  True Steel and  Organ Shatter)
    • Status chance (e.g.,  Melee Prowess and  Vicious Frost)
    • Attack speed (e.g.,  Fury and  Berserker Fury)
    • range (e.g.,  Primed Reach)
    • Tennokai (e.g.,  Dreamer's Wrath)
    •  Condition Overload
    •  Drifting Contact
    •  Healing Return
    •  Shattering Impact
      • While officially Set Mod bonuses do not affect Exalted Weapons (with the exception of the Sacrificial Mod Set), the Gladiator Mod Set can still apply if equipped on Melee and not on the Exalted Weapon itself.
  • Each melee attack adds to the Melee Combo Counter while radial damage from slam attacks do not.
  • Iron Staff can not be equipped with weapon augments (e.g.,  Justice Blades), class-specific mods (e.g.,  Covert Lethality), Melee Combo Counter Mods (except  Drifting Contact), Acolyte Mods (e.g.,  Blood Rush), or Amalgam Mods).
  • Riven Mods are not generated for Iron Staff.
  • The combo counter will reset when equipped with  Xoris.
  • Primal Fury's combo counter decay is affected by  Naramon's  Power Spike.
  • Radial damage from slam attacks diminishes with distance, does not have a critical chance, is not affected by the Melee Combo Counter, and will stagger enemies within range.
  • Ground finishers inflict 300% of the total modified damage from normal attacks. Prompted Finishers inflict 2400% of the total modified damage from normal attacks as  True damage.
    • The damage composition of a ground finisher is the same as a modified normal attack.
    • The finisher multipliers for both attacks are affected by  Finishing Touch.
• Ability Synergy: When activating Primal Fury with an active  Celestial Twin, the twin will also equip the Iron Staff.
• Primal Fury costs 10 Energy to activate, then consumes 5 energy per second while active and will remain active until Wukong's energy is depleted, or the ability is deactivated by pressing the ability key again.
  • Activation energy cost is affected by Ability Efficiency, and the energy drain is affected by Ability Efficiency and Ability Duration.
  • Wukong cannot replenish energy using  Energy Vampire,  Rally Point, Rift Plane's innate energy regeneration, Squad Energy Restores,  Energy Siphon,  Energy Nexus,  Dreamer's Bond, and/or  Wellspring while Primal Fury is active.
  • Energy Orbs, Orokin Void Death Orb's energy restores,  Rage,  Hunter Adrenaline,  Spellbound Harvest,  Arcane Energize, and  Emergence Dissipate's Energy Motes can still replenish Wukong's energy while Primal Fury is active.
  • Primal Fury's energy drain is not converted into shields by Augur Mods.
• While Primal Fury is active, Iron Staff is the only melee weapon Wukong can use. However, his other weapons and abilities can still be cast normally.
• Primal Fury comes installed with its own unique stance. Additional combos will be unlocked as Primal Fury increases in rank.
• The ends of Iron Staff have portions made out of energy.
  • These portions are affected by Wukong's energy color.
  • With the range bonus active, these portions are elongated.
• Primal Fury's attacks can damage enemies across the Rift Plane.

Weapon

Main article: Iron Staff

Iron Staff is  Wukong's and  Wukong Prime's signature Exalted Weapon, summoned by activating the ability  Primal Fury. The weapon exclusively uses the Primal Fury stance.

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• This weapon deals primarily  Impact damage.
• Innate and two polarities.
• Combo counter resets when equipped with  Xoris.

Advantages:

• Very high critical chance.
• Highest status chance of all Exalted Melee Weapons.
• Long reach.

Disadvantages:

• Requires energy to activate and keep active.
• Damage isn't affected by the combo counter.
• As an Exalted Weapon, it cannot benefit from, nor contribute to the set bonus of any Set Mods (excluding the Sacrificial Mod Set; the Gladiator Mod Set can still apply if equipped on Warframe or Melee, and not on the Exalted Weapon itself).
• Cannot equip Melee Combo Counter Mods (except  Drifting Contact), Acolyte Mods (e.g.,  Blood Rush), or Amalgam Mods (e.g.,  Amalgam Organ Shatter).
• Cannot equip Melee Arcane Enhancements.

Stance

Main article: Primal Fury (Stance)

Primal Fury is a unique Stance exclusive to  Iron Staff that can only be acquired and used by activating  Wukong's fourth ability,  Primal Fury. This Stance overrides the Stance on any currently equipped melee weapon for as long as Primal Fury remains active.

Combos

Default Combos of Stance or Weapon (📝 Edit Stance Data)

Combo/Attack	Name	Attack Multipliers and Forced Procs				Avg Dmg Multi/s	Length @ 1.0 Attack Speed	Animation
Neutral (While Not Moving)	Falling Oak Buster	4x 100%	400%	2x 100%    100%   300%    2x 100%		500.0%/s	3.2s
Forward (While Moving)	Spinning Crash Technique	100%	100%	4x 100%	200%	214.3%/s	2.8s
Forward Block (While Blocking & Moving)	Cyclone Lightning Strike	200%	300%			263.2%/s	1.9s
Block (While Blocking)	Rolling Boulder Rush	3x 100%    200%   100%	200%	200%	2x 100%   200%	151.9%/s	4.0s
Heavy (Heavy Attack)	The Way	500%	500%			N / A	N / A
Slide (While Sliding)	Crushing Reach	100%				N / A	N / A
Aerial (While In Air)	Deadly Circle	200%	200%			N / A	N / A
Wall (While Wall Latching)	Guiding Plank	166%				N / A	N / A
Finisher (On Knocked Down Enemy)	Wide Dispatch	1000%				N / A	N / A
Slam (Looking At Ground While In Air)	Slam Attack	200%				N / A	N / A
Default "Sweep" Attack •  360°/Spin Attack •  Direct and Radial Slam Attack •  Ranged Attack •  "Thrust" Attack View Full Legend Key Inputs  Basic Melee  (PC default LMB or E; XBX, PSN, and NSW default right button)  Heavy Attack (PC default MMB; XBX, PSN, and NSW default left trigger)  Block  (PC default RMB; XBX, PSN, and NSW default right trigger)  Forward Movement  (PC default W; XBX, PSN, and NSW default tilt up right thumbstick) Multipliers and Hits  200%  Attack does double damage   2x 100%  Attack hits twice  Forced Procs  Knockback  Weakened  Bleed  Inaccuracy  Knockdown  Lifted  Stagger  Ragdoll  Finisher (front, back, or ground)   Impair (PvP only)  Melee Attack Explanations A "sweep attack" is an arcing melee strike that intends to hit an enemy with the edge of the blade (the length of obround melee hitbox). A "thrust attack" is a melee strike that intends to hit an enemy with the tip of the blade (the rounded edge of obround melee hitbox). A "360/spin attack" is a sliding sweep attack that hits targets around the player (not always in a 360° arc, but is usually above 180°). A "direct slam attack" is a melee strike that hits a single target at the epicenter of a slam attack. Affected by the Seismic Wave mod. A "radial slam attack" is the area-of-effect component of the melee slam attack. Affected by the Seismic Wave mod. A "ranged attack" is any melee attack that launches a ranged projectile or can hit targets beyond melee range. View Full Legend Average Damage Multiplier per second only applies to single-target DPS calculations. Note that hits marked as "Radial Slam Attack" will not apply at the epicenter of a single target hit so these will not be accounted for in Avg Dmg Multi/s calculations. Combo animation lengths are approximate and are only accurate within a few tenths of a second. Each tile marking in stance preview gifs are 2m apart. Combos labeled with an asterisk (*) are shared between weapons within the same weapon type.

Augment

Main article: Primal Rage

Primal Rage is a Warframe Augment Mod for  Wukong that increases the critical chance of  Primal Fury with every kill, up to a maximum of 150%. The additional critical chance gradually falls off after  Wukong stops killing for 5 seconds.

Primal Rage

Tips & Tricks

• It is preferable to use  Steel Charge over  Growing Power when modding for pure damage as the former adds more damage to Primal Fury than the latter.
  • Even with Steel Charge equipped, using  Power Drift will provide a larger increase in damage than  Coaction Drift.

Maximization

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Bugs

• (Needs further research) At times, Celestial Twin may cease using Iron Staff and default to its normal weapon behavior. Reactivating Primal Fury will not correct this state, though resummoning the Twin might.

See Also

•  Wukong