Quanta

Corpus Weapons

Quanta
Statistics
Mastery	4
Slot	Primary
Type	Rifle
Trigger Type	Held
Utility
Ammo Type	Rifle
Projectile Type	Discharge
Projectile Speed	? m/s
Range	50 m
Noise Level	Alarming
Fire Rate	12
Accuracy	100
Magazine Size	60
Max Ammo	540
Reload Time	2 s
Disposition	●●●●● (1.40x)
Beam
10
Total Damage	20
Projectile Type	Discharge
Range	50 m
Fire Rate	12
Pellets	2 (10 damage per pellet)
Status Chance	24%
Crit Chance	16%
Crit Multiplier	2.2x
Ammo Cost	0.5
Cube (Shot by player)
600
Total Damage	600
Fire Rate	4
Status Chance	26%
Crit Chance	5%
Crit Multiplier	1.5x
Radius	6 m
Cube (Hits enemy)
100
Total Damage	100
Projectile Type	Projectile
Projectile Speed	? m/s
Range	15 m
Fire Rate	4
Status Chance	26%
Crit Chance	5%
Crit Multiplier	1.5x
Ammo Cost	10
Cube Explosion
150
Total Damage	150
Projectile Type	AoE
Status Chance	26%
Crit Chance	5%
Crit Multiplier	1.5x
Radius	0.5 m
Miscellaneous
Exilus Polarity
Polarities
Introduced	Update 14.1 (2014-07-30)
Variants	Quanta Vandal

CODEX

This weapon was designed to assist with the excavation of mineral deposits from large asteroids, but has been adapted for military purposes.

The Quanta is a  Corpus mining laser cutter used by Corpus Quanta Rangers and is the basis for the  Infested Mutalist Quanta Mutalist Quanta and Paracyst Paracyst weapons, although they share little in common aside from basic appearances and similarly functioning Alternate Fires. It features high Electricity Damage Electricity damage with perfect accuracy and an Alternate Fire mode which launches explosive energy cubes that detonate on contact with enemies and weapons fire or after a short period of time.

Characteristics

This weapon deals Electricity Damage Electricity damage on its Primary Fire and Blast Damage Blast damage on its Alternate Fire.

Advantages:

• Primary Fire shoots two concentrated continuous beams.
  • Innate Electricity Damage Electricity damage – effective against Machinery and Robotics.
  • Good critical chance.
  • Above average critical multiplier.
  • High overall status chance.
  • Innate multishot of 2 beams.
  • Pinpoint accuracy.
    • Heavy Caliber Heavy Caliber's accuracy penalty is minimal.
  • Tied with the Quanta Vandal Quanta Vandal for the longest reach of all range-limited weapons, 50 meters.
  • Consumes 0.5 ammo per tick of damage.
• Alternate Fire lobs a small cube. It explodes in 6 meter radius from contact, being shot at, or being left alone after 8 seconds.
  • Innate Blast Damage Blast damage – effective against Machinery and Fossilized.
  • Very high status chance.
  • Does not inflict self-stagger.
  • Initial hit and explosion apply status separately.
  • Explosion does not need direct line of sight to deal damage and will penetrate walls.
• Above average critical multiplier.
• Innate polarity.

Disadvantages:

• Primary Fire:
  • Innate Electricity Damage Electricity damage – less effective against Alloy Armor.
  • Damage ramps up from 30% to 100% over 0.6 seconds when firing. After firing stops for 0.8 seconds, the damage decays back to 30% over 2 seconds.
• Alternate Fire:
  • Innate Blast Damage Blast damage – less effective against Ferrite Armor.
  • Very low critical chance and critical multiplier.
  • Consume 10 rounds per shot.
  • Cubes have slow travel time and a limited range of roughly 15 meters.

Comparisons:

• Quanta (attack: Beam), compared to Quanta Vandal (attack: Beam):
  • Lower base damage (10 vs. 13)
    • Lower Electricity Damage Electricity damage (10 vs. 13)
  • Lower total damage (20 vs. 26)
  • Lower base critical chance (16% vs. 22%)
  • Lower base critical multiplier (2.2x vs. 2.4x)
  • Lower base status chance (24% vs. 45%)
  • Lower average damage per shot (max Progenitor bonus if applicable) (23.84 vs. 34.01)
  • Lower burst DPS (max Progenitor bonus if applicable) (286.08 vs. 408.1)
  • Lower sustained DPS (max Progenitor bonus if applicable) (238.4 vs. 359.56)
  • Smaller magazine (60 round(s) vs. 80 round(s))
  • Smaller max ammo capacity (540 round(s) vs. 560 round(s))
  • Slower reload time (2 s vs. 1.8 s)
  • Different polarities ( vs. )
  • Lower Mastery Rank required (4 vs. 10)
  • Higher disposition (1.4 vs. 1.35)

• Quanta (attack: Beam), compared to Mutalist Quanta (attack: Normal):
  • Lower base damage (10 vs. 25)
    • Lower Impact Damage Impact damage (0 vs. 2.5)
    • Lower Puncture Damage Puncture damage (0 vs. 15)
    • Lower Slash Damage Slash damage (0 vs. 7.5)
    • Higher Electricity Damage Electricity damage (10 vs. 0)
  • Lower total damage (20 vs. 25)
  • Higher base critical chance (16% vs. 2.5%)
  • Higher base critical multiplier (2.2x vs. 1.5x)
  • Higher base status chance (24% vs. 15%)
  • Lower average damage per shot (max Progenitor bonus if applicable) (23.84 vs. 25.31)
  • Higher burst DPS (max Progenitor bonus if applicable) (286.08 vs. 253.13)
  • Higher sustained DPS (max Progenitor bonus if applicable) (238.4 vs. 168.75)
  • Higher fire rate (12 round(s)/sec vs. 10 round(s)/sec)
  • Higher multishot (2 projectile(s) vs. 1 projectile(s))
  • Faster reload time (2 s vs. 3 s)
  • Higher Mastery Rank required (4 vs. 2)
  • Lower disposition (1.4 vs. 1.5)

Acquisition

The Quanta's blueprint can be researched from the Energy Lab in the dojo.

Manufacturing Requirements
25,000	7	1,000	7,000	1	Time: 24 hrs
					Rush: 35
Market Price: 150			Blueprints Price:15,000
Energy Lab Research 3,000
10,000	10	500	250	3	Time: 72 hrs
					Prereq: Prova
x1   x3   x10   x30   x100

This weapon can be sold for ‍7,500.

Notes

• The Quanta is only available from clan research in the Energy lab.
• When combining elements, the Quanta's Electricity Damage Electricity element is added last. This means if, for example, Cold Damage Cold and Toxin Damage Toxin damage mods were added, the elemental damage results would be Viral Damage Viral and Electricity Damage Electricity.
• Additional cubes generated by Split Chamber will follow a similar trajectory, however once they move far enough apart, they will likely collide with each other and bounce off in opposite directions. This effect can be avoided using Heavy Caliber Heavy Caliber at a high enough rank.
• Heavy Caliber will not affect the accuracy of the primary fire as badly as it does on other continuous weapons, but multishot will affect the secondary fire by launching the cubes at noticeably different angles.

Alternate Fire

• The Quanta has a secondary fire mode that lets it shoot cubes that travel up to 15 meters before stopping in mid-air.
  • Cube explosion deals Blast Damage Blast.
  • Cubes automatically explode 8 seconds after stopping in mid-air.
  • Cubes can bounce off environmental objects but will explode upon impact with enemies.
  • Cubes can be detonated by being fired upon by any weapon.
    • Cubes detonated this way deal bonus damage.
  • Unlike the Mutalist Quanta, there is no limit to how many cubes can be fired at any given time, being only limited by the amount of ammo in the magazine.
• If an element is combined with the Quanta's base Electricity Damage Electricity damage, the additional element can proc by itself during a cube explosion, ex. adding Heat Damage Heat to form Radiation Damage Radiation can result in the Cube dealing Heat Damage Heat proc. This happens because when the default Electricity Damage Electricity element is combined with other element to get a combined element, the combined element only works on the primary fire, but not on the explosion on the secondary fire.
• Punch Through mods modify the behavior of cubes. Instead of detonating on impact with an enemy, the cubes will pass through that enemy while still dealing its usual damage.
  • Cubes can also pass through any object without bouncing, with the distance penetrated dependent upon the punch-through distance of the current mod. In both cases, the cube will lose its punch-through behavior after it has traveled its slated punch-through distance through enemies or objects, regaining its ability to bounce off walls and detonate upon enemy contact.
• The cube's Blast Damage Blast damage element is retained even if additional elements are installed unto the weapon, giving it a chance to proc on explosions.
• Terminal Velocity Terminal Velocity will increase the flight speed of the cubes and the distance they travel before coming to a complete stop.
• Fire rate mods shorten the time between firing a cube.

Tips

• The Quanta's cubes will detonate if exposed to weapons fire, including explosions from other nearby cubes. This can be used to create a chain detonation by launching multiple cubes within explosion range of each other, then shooting one of them to detonate all the cubes.
• Cubes will immediately explode when impacting Blunts, Bulwarks, Decoy Decoys, Molt Molts and Ramparts, allowing players instantly deal high amounts of damage.
• The innate polarity matches Cryo Rounds Cryo Rounds.

Trivia

• Unlike the Mutalist Quanta Mutalist Quanta, the weapon's arms do not rotate when firing, and instead both ends are used to emit two laser beams that meet together at the reticle.
  • As it was originally intended as a mining tool, it is likely that the laser emitters would not have aimed at the same point, but instead cut around a location, with the arms rotating to cut out mineral hotspots in the shape of a cone. As a weapon, however, there would be little use for this level of articulation. Aiming the lasers at a single point alone would be enough for a weapon. As such, the rotation would not be needed.
• The Quanta fires two beams at once. If a Riven Mod with more than -50% multishot is installed, the bottom beam stops firing.
• This is the only weapon that can equip both Sinister Reach Sinister Reach and Terminal Velocity Terminal Velocity.
• Despite the Quanta being the original Corpus version of the weapon, it was introduced into the game after the Mutalist Quanta.
• Its default colors are the same as the Mutalist version, although only the Primary, Secondary and Energy affect its colors.
• The Quanta is used by Quanta Rangers in Corpus Archwing missions.

Media

• The Quanta as it appears in the Codex.
• Quanta as it appears in the arsenal

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Tenno Reinforcements - Quanta

Warframe - All Corpus Primaries - Weapon Animations & Sounds (2012 - 2019)

Quanta Skins Edit

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Patch History

Hotfix 27.2.2 (2020-03-06)

• Fixed the Quanta not having the new ‘Status’ calculations. It also has multiple fire iterations and are valid for large Status Chance like Shotguns received at their base to address the new Status logic.

Update 27.2 (2020-03-05)

Greater than 100% Status having meaning

Shotguns have a unique Role here based on a very patch-work history with how they interact with Status Chance. A Shotgun that shoots 99% Status Chance would give you 35% (roughly) status per pellet. 100% Status Gives you 100% Status per pellet. This huge jump in performance happens with just a 1% gain - why? Well, to answer that we have to look at our choice to make what the UI conveys reality. It would feel broken to shoot a Shotgun with 100% Status and not see a perfect spread of Effects. In reality, to make Status consistent we have to treat Shotguns as a special case.

Shotguns as a special case means we have buffed the Status Chance of all Shotguns by x3 or greater. The UI now behaves to show the reality that you are determining Status Chance per pellet.

Update 25.8 (2019-10-01)

October 2019 Riven Disposition Change

• Quanta: 1.25->1.35

Update 25.7 (2019-08-29)

• Fixed the Quanta and Quanta Vandal alt fire cube explosion sound no longer playing.

Update 22.17 (2018-03-28)

• More Visual Effect intensity changes to reduce visual noise from Quanta energy cube explosions.

Update 22.14 (2018-03-01)

• Fixed Beam weapons not being able to damage enemies (alive but in a ragdolled state) when being affected by certain ‘crowd control’ Abilities.
• Damage now ramps up over 0.6 seconds and after moving off target there is a delay of 0.8 seconds before it starts to decay over 2 seconds.
• All Beam weapons now start their Damage ramp up at 20% (instead of 10%).
• The Multishot chance should now apply more consistently with Beam weapons.
• Fixed Beam weapons continuously firing when quick Meleeing.

Hotfix 22.13.4 (2018-02-22)

• Increased the Beam weapon Damage ramp up time from 0.8 to 1 second.
• Fixed Beam weapon Damage ramp up not happening per target.

Hotfix 22.13.3 (2018-02-21)

• Perfect accuracy and high fire rate is balanced by limited range and damage ramping up from 10% to 100% over 0.8 seconds when firing and decays back to 10% over 1 second after stopping.
• Damage changed from 220 Electricity per sec to 20 Electricity per tick.
• Fire Rate increased from 1 to 12.
• Status Chance changed from 10% per sec to 16% per tick of damage.
• Critical chance increased from 10% to 16%.
• Critical Damage increased from 2.0x to 2.2x.
• Alt Fire Explosion Radius increased from 5m to 6m.
• Alt Fire Explosion Damage increased from 400 to 600.
• Ammo consumption decreased from 1.0 to 0.5 per tick of damage.

See also

• Quanta Vandal Quanta Vandal, the Vandal variant of this weapon.
• Mutalist Quanta Mutalist Quanta, the hybrid Infested version of this weapon.
• Paracyst Paracyst, the fully Infested version of this weapon.