Pupacyst

Infested Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

Pupacyst
General Information
Type	Polearm
Mastery	7
Slot	Melee
Utility
Block Angle	55°
Combo Duration	5 s
Disposition	●●●●○ (1.30x)
Attack Speed	0.833
Follow Through	60%
Range	2.7 m
Noise Level	Silent
Normal
139
145
Total Damage	284 (51.06%)
Crit Chance	13%
Crit Multiplier	1.5x
Attack Speed	0.833
Noise Level	Silent
Status Chance	27%
Heavy Attack
Heavy Damage	1,704
Slam Damage	1,420
Radial Damage	1,420
Slam Radius	8 m
Wind-up	0.9 s
Slam Attack
Slam Damage	852
Slam Radius	7 m
Slide Attack
Slide Damage	568
Miscellaneous
Exilus Polarity	None
Internal Name	/Lotus/Weapons/Infested/Melee/Staff/InfStaff/InfStaff
Introduced	Update 23.10 (2018-10-12)
Polarities
Stance Polarity

CODEX

A two-pronged attack; the bone-grafted cocoon at the tip of this polearm rends flesh, while the viral mass living within spreads itself into the wounds of each new victim.

The Pupacyst is an  Infested polearm that innately deals  Viral damage.

Characteristics

This weapon deals both  Viral and  Impact damage.

Advantages:

• Highest base damage of all polearms.
  • Innate  Viral damage – effective against Flesh and Cloned Flesh.
  • High  Impact damage – effective against shields.
• Decent critical chance.
• Very high status chance.
• Stance slot has polarity, matches  Shimmering Blight stance.
• Innate polarity.

Disadvantages:

• Innate  Viral damage – less effective against Machinery and Infested.
• No  Puncture and  Slash damage – less effective against armor and health.
  • Damage cannot be increased with  Puncture or  Slash mods.
• Tied with  Orthos and  Serro for the second lowest critical multiplier of all polearms, after  Cassowar.
• Tied with  Kesheg and  Guandao for the slowest attack speed of all polearms.

Acquisition

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

Manufacturing Requirements
30,000	5	8,750	2,250	1	Time: 24 hrs
					Rush: 35
Market Price: 150			Blueprints Price:50,000
Bio Lab Research 3,000
5,000	30	650	4,500	3,750	Time: 72 hrs
					Prereq: Embolist
x1   x3   x10   x30   x100

Tips

• The Pupacyst is an excellent anti-Corpus weapon as its innate  Viral damage increases damage done to the target's health but can also be modded to gain  Toxin damage to affect health, and  Magnetic damage to devastate shields.
• The slow attack speed can be mitigated by equipping  Fury ( Primed) alongside  Berserker Fury and  Gladiator Vice.

Trivia

• Although the Pupacyst's description claims that its tip "rends flesh", it has no  Slash damage whatsoever.

Bugs

• Pupacyst gains 7 damage to Spin Attacks for equipping Stance Mods.
  • This damage is affected by Mods.

Media

WARFRAME - Pupacyst Builds and Synergies

Warframe Pupacyst - 2 forma Build

Patch History

Update 29.5 (2020-11-19)

• Fixed the Pupacyst description calling it a “staff” instead of a “polearm” as intended.

Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)

• Damage increased from 90 to 284.
• Range increased from 1.5 to 2.7.
• Slam Attack increased from 90 to 852.
• Slide Attack increased from 193 to 568.
• Parry Angle set to 55.
• Follow Through reduced from 0.8 to 0.6.

Update 23.10 (2018-10-12)

• Introduced.

Last updated: Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)