Quassus

Tenno

Weapons

Quassus

Untradeable

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General Information

Max Rank

30

Utility

Normal Attack

27.6
( 12%)

46
( 20%)

156.4
( 68%)

First Heavy Attack - Ethereal Daggers

76
( 40%)

114
( 60%)

Projectile Type

Projectile

Second Heavy Attack - Ethereal Daggers

152
( 40%)

228
( 60%)

Projectile Type

Projectile

Heavy Attack

Heavy Slam Attack

Slam Element

Forced Procs

Slam Radius

6.0 m

Slam Attack

Slam Radius

5.0 m

Slam Element

Forced Procs

Slide Attack

Slide Element

Same damage type distribution as Normal Attack

Miscellaneous

Default Upgrades

Introduced

Update 29.0 (2020-08-25)

Sell Price

5,000

Variants

Vendor Sources

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CODEX

Flick away the enemy with this heavy warfan. The Quassus scatters ethereal daggers that are even more deadly accurate when wielded by Xaku.

The Quassus is Xaku's signature warfan, possessing high damage and critical chance along with throwing ethereal daggers from Heavy Attacks that proc Slash, with these daggers being more accurate in Xaku's hands.

Characteristics[]

This weapon deals primarily Slash damage.
Stance slot has polarity, matching Slicing Feathers and Votive Onslaught stance.
Heavy Attacks throws a horizontal spread of ethereal daggers, with each dagger doing 76 base damage.
- The first heavy attack throws 12 daggers, each with a 2.5x damage multiplier; the second heavy attack in sequence throws 6 daggers, each with a 5x damage multiplier,
- Damage of the daggers are affected by mods.
- Daggers are considered a heavy attack. Their damage will scale from the combo counter and mods such as Killing Blow.
- Daggers have a guaranteed Slash proc.
- Daggers have innate 2 meter Punch Through.
- Dagger damage does not diminish with distance.
- Have travel time.
- Cannot use Thrown Melee mods Combo Fury, Power Throw, Quick Return ( Volatile), Rebound ( Volatile), and Whirlwind.
- Multiple projectile hits from one attack against a single enemy may occasionally get merged into a single "instance" of the attack and Bleed proc, reducing the effectiveness of per-hit mods like Relentless Combination.
- Daggers are subject to gravity and are substantially inaccurate over long distances, with vertical deviation being especially apparent.
  - When wielded by Xaku, accuracy is greatly increased, with both vertical and horizontal deviations almost completely eliminated. The base spread of the daggers is unaffected.

Advantages over other Melee weapons (excluding modular weapons):

Guaranteed Slash procs on the thrown daggers.
Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- High crit chance (30.00%)
- Above average total damage (230)
First Heavy Attack - Ethereal Daggers (wiki attack index 2)
- Very high average number of procs per shot (12.12)
- Very high average number of crits per shot (3.6)
- High total damage (2,280)
- High attack speed (2.00x animation speed)
- High crit chance (30.00%)
Second Heavy Attack - Ethereal Daggers (wiki attack index 3)
- Very high average number of procs per shot (6.12)
- Very high average number of crits per shot (1.8)
- High total damage (2,280)
- High attack speed (2.00x animation speed)
- High crit chance (30.00%)

Disadvantages over other Melee weapons (excluding modular weapons):

Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Very low attack speed (0.83x animation speed)
- Very low attack range (1.70 m)
- Very low status chance (12.00%)
- Low disposition (●●●○○ (1.00x))
First Heavy Attack - Ethereal Daggers (wiki attack index 2)
- Below average attack range (1.70 m)
- Very low status chance (1.00%)
- Below average disposition (●●●○○ (1.00x))
- Below average crit multiplier (2.00x)
Second Heavy Attack - Ethereal Daggers (wiki attack index 3)
- Very low status chance (2.00%)
- Low disposition (●●●○○ (1.00x))
- Below average crit multiplier (2.00x)

See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.

Acquisition

The Quassus's blueprint can be obtained from Tier 5 Cambion Drift Bounties.

Item	Source	Chance	Expected	Nearly Guaranteed
Blueprint	Steel Path Necralisk Bounty Lvl 100-100 Final Stage / A	43.48%	~ 2 Stages	12 ± 4 Stages
Blueprint	Steel Path Necralisk Bounty Lvl 100-100 Final Stage / C	43.48%	~ 2 Stages	12 ± 4 Stages
Blueprint	Steel Path Necralisk Bounty Lvl 100-100 Final Stage / B	43.48%	~ 2 Stages	12 ± 4 Stages
Blueprint	Steel Path Necralisk Bounty Lvl 100-100 Stage 4 / A	22.22%	~ 4 Stages	27 ± 9 Stages
Blueprint	Steel Path Necralisk Bounty Lvl 100-100 Stage 4 / C	22.22%	~ 4 Stages	27 ± 9 Stages
Blueprint	Steel Path Necralisk Bounty Lvl 100-100 Stage 4 / B	22.22%	~ 4 Stages	27 ± 9 Stages
Blueprint	Necralisk Bounty Lvl 40-60 Final Stage / A	43.48%	~ 2 Stages	12 ± 4 Stages
Blueprint	Necralisk Bounty Lvl 40-60 Final Stage / C	43.48%	~ 2 Stages	12 ± 4 Stages
Blueprint	Necralisk Bounty Lvl 40-60 Final Stage / B	43.48%	~ 2 Stages	12 ± 4 Stages
Blueprint	Necralisk Bounty Lvl 40-60 Stage 4 / A	22.22%	~ 4 Stages	27 ± 9 Stages
Blueprint	Necralisk Bounty Lvl 40-60 Stage 4 / C	22.22%	~ 4 Stages	27 ± 9 Stages
Blueprint	Necralisk Bounty Lvl 40-60 Stage 4 / B	22.22%	~ 4 Stages	27 ± 9 Stages

All drop rates data is obtained from DE's official drop tables. See Mission Rewards#Standard Missions for definitions on reward table rotations.
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Manufacturing Requirements 📝 Edit blueprint requirements
20,000	Devolved Namalon 60	Spinal Core Section 15	Scintillant 5	Seriglass Shard 1	Time: 12 Hour(s)
20,000	Devolved Namalon 60	Spinal Core Section 15	Scintillant 5	Seriglass Shard 1	Rush: 35
Market Price: 190			Blueprints Price:N/A

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

Heavy
(Heavy Attack)

Quassus Heavy (unofficial)

2x 250%

12x 250%

500%

6x 500%

N / A

Default "Sweep" Attack • 360°/Spin Attack • Direct and Radial Slam Attack • Ranged Attack • "Thrust" Attack

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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.

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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.

Notes[]

Warfan slams hit twice.
- Second hit of a heavy slam will use the stats of a normal slam.
The amount of knives thrown by the heavy attack is affected by Octavia's Metronome's Opera multishot buff.
Jet Stream can be used to increase the speed of the daggers.
As it is a melee attack, all four of Mirage's Hall of Mirrors throw their own full set of knives with each heavy attack.

Trivia[]

Quassus means "Shaking" in latin.
The Quassus was designed by Kedemel.

Media[]

Patch History[]

Update 29.5 (2020-11-19)

Fixed the Quassus and Gunsen gaining different Melee combo counters on first hit with the Slicing Feathers Stance. They will both have the same 3 combo counter hits now.

Hotfix 29.2.1 (2020-10-01)

Fixed the Quassus leaving you "unarmed" after using heavy attacks.

Hotfix 29.1.1 (2020-09-18)

Fixed issue that stopped Pressure Point and its derivatives from not applying to Quassus Heavy Attack projectiles.

Hotfix 29.0.8 (2020-09-10)

Increased Heavy Attack projectiles from 35 to 76
- Also fixed Quassus Heavy Attack projectiles being slowed down to 15% of their original speed after punching through an enemy.
Reduced horizontal spread of projectiles
- Quassus throws 12 projectiles with a pretty wide horizontal spread, spreading the Damage across multiple targets. Individual damage was not where we wanted it. Increasing it over 100%, narrowing the spread and making sure it will hit additional targets after passing through, increases its lethality to intended levels.

Hotfix 29.0.2 (2020-08-26)