Pupacyst

Infested Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

Pupacyst
Statistics
Mastery	7
Slot	Melee
Type	Polearm
Utility
Attack Speed	0.833
Range	2.7 m
Combo Duration	5 s
Block Angle	55°
Follow Through	60.00%
Disposition	●●●●○ (1.3)
Normal Attacks
139.0
145.0
Total Damage	284.0 ( 51%)
Crit Chance	13.00%
Crit Multiplier	1.5x
Status Chance	27.00%
Slam Attacks
Slam Impact	852.0
Radial Damage	284.0
Slam Radius	7.0 m
Heavy Attacks
Heavy Impact	1704.0
Wind-up	0.9 s
Heavy Slam	1420.0
Radial Damage	1420.0
Slam Radius	8.0 m
Other Attacks
Slide Attack	568.0
Miscellaneous
Polarities
Stance Polarity
Stances	Shimmering Blight () Bleeding Willow () Twirling Spire () Argent Scourge () (PvP Only)
Introduced	Update 23.10

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 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

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Patch History

Update 29.5

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

Update 26.0

• 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

• Introduced.

Last updated: Update 26.0