Quick Thinking

Quick Thinking
Tradeable
Can be obtained from transmutation
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Max Rank Description
Drains Energy to stop Lethal Damage with 240% Efficiency.
General Information
Type	Warframe
Polarity	Vazarin
Rarity	Rare
Max Rank	5
Endo Required To Max	930
Credits Required To Max	44,919
Base Capacity Cost	4
Trading Tax	8,000
Introduced	Update 10.0 (2013-09-13)
Vendor Sources
Official Drop Tables
https://www.warframe.com/droptables

Quick Thinking is a mod that uses the Warframe's residual energy pool as an emergency buffer to prevent death whenever a player drops to 2 Health.

Stats

Rank	Efficiency	Additional damage reduction	Multiplier on incoming damage	Cost
0	40%	-150%	x2.5	10
1	80%	-25%	x1.25	11
2	120%	16.667%	x0.833	12
3	160%	37.5%	x0.625	13
4	200%	50%	x0.5	14
5	240%	58.333%	x0.41667	15

Effective Health applied with Quick Thinking

Energy	Effective Health
	R0	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
100	40	80	120	160	200	240
150	60	120	180	240	300	360
175	70	140	210	280	350	420
225	90	180	270	360	450	540
262.5	105	210	315	420	525	630
300	120	240	360	480	600	720

Drop Locations

Mission Drop Tables

Mission Type	Source	Rotations or Drop Table	Chance	Quantity	Avg. per roll	Star Chart Nodes
The Circuit	Tier 4 The Circuit (Normal)	A	1.49%	1	0.0149	Accessed through Duviri's The Circuit gamemode
The Circuit	Tier 6 The Circuit (Normal)	A	1.03%	1	0.0103	Accessed through Duviri's The Circuit gamemode

Enemy Drop Tables

Enemy	Drop Table Chance	Item Chance	Chance	Expected Kills	Quantity	Avg. per roll attempt
Corrupted Ancient	3%	1.01%	0.0303%	3300	1	0.000303

Sourced from the official drop table repository. See Module:DropTables/data to edit on the wiki.

Notes

• Stacks with  Gladiator Finesse for a total of 300% efficiency.
• The Warframe's Armor and any sources of damage reduction will still reduce incoming damage and as such, the amount of energy drain.
• While under the effects of Quick Thinking (2 HP and losing energy instead), strong hits will cause the Warframe to stagger. Be wary, as repeated strong hits can effectively stun-lock you in place until you die. Weak hits will not induce this effect.
  •  Pain Threshold drastically reduces the stagger duration, allowing one to avoid being stun-locked.
  • A max rank  Primed Sure Footed will not affect the stagger.
• Damage taken while Quick Thinking is in effect does not count as taking Health damage; as such,  Rage and  Hunter Adrenaline do not convert incoming damage into energy, and  Vex Armor and  Vexing Retaliation do not trigger their effects.
• Quick Thinking has the lowest priority of all death prevention effects, such as  Nidus' or  Wukong's passives or  Phoenix Renewal. Only after all other means of preventing lethal damage are exhausted, Quick Thinking will start draining energy.
• If a single attack is sufficiently strong enough to kill in one strike (i.e. damage value in excess of the total available health after armor damage reduction, plus the possible energy-converted buffer), the player will instead enter bleedout immediately and not lose any energy. This is to avoid wasting energy, as the player would've been killed regardless.
• Ability Efficiency has no effect on the amount of energy lost while under the effects of Quick Thinking.
• Will not work on  Hildryn or  Lavos since they do not have energy capacity.
• Will not work on Sevagoth's Shadow if triggered by his passive. Its health will be reduced to 0 HP and the player will die. It works as normal when summoned with his  Exalted Shadow ability.
• Will not work if player is in Operator mode while channeled abilities are active.

Tips

• Using  Flow or  Primed Flow is more or less a necessity to take full advantage of Quick Thinking.
• Using Zenurik school's  Wellspring is very useful for keeping your energy and thus your effective health up.
•  Energy Siphon aura can also help regain lost energy.
• This mod is a good defense against damage that bypasses shields such as  Toxin damage, which can take down a player by surprise.
• Quick Thinking works exceptionally well with  Trinity, as she can spam  Energy Vampire for an endless supply of energy.
•  Baruuk( Prime),  Chroma Prime,  Ivara Prime,  Saryn Prime,  Volt Prime,  Wisp( Prime) and  Yareli are all tied for second-largest energy pools at max rank after  Garuda Prime. Utilizing  Primed Flow alongside Quick Thinking will allow them to reach 850 energy, which can grant up to 2,040 extra EHP.
  • With Garuda Prime, who has the largest energy reserves with 360 at max rank, the equivalent extra EHP is at 2448.
•  Desecrate helps recover health and energy orbs, and the mod itself works well with  Nekros because of this.
• This mod also works well with  Limbo due to the Rift Plane's ability to restore energy, as well as his increased energy pool.
•  Magnetic procs, such as those from an Ancient Disruptor or Sensor Bar, will drain 90 energy over 3 seconds, rendering this mod useless should the frames energy be at or below 90 when the proc occurs and sufficient energy is not restored before reaching 0. Also,  Rage and  Hunter Adrenaline will not replenish energy if a portion of health is lost during a  Magnetic proc.
•  Garuda can make good use out of Quick Thinking due to her third ability  Bloodletting which allows her to restore up to 40% energy by sacrificing HP, which can in turn be restored by  Blood Altar.
•  Gyre can benefit from Quick Thinking as an added failsafe as she regains Energy by maintaining  Cathode Grace active.
• Slotting  Azure Archon Shards for extra Energy will make Warframes deceptively durable with Quick Thinking.

Trivia

• Prior to Update 11.1 (2013-11-27), it could be combined with  Rage, to convert energy to health for your Warframe many times in a row with 96% efficiency.

Patch History

Update 31.5 (2022-04-27)

• Fixed Quick Thinking damage ejecting players from Yareli’s Merulina.
  • This also fixes getting kicked off other vehicles when you are at 2hp and take any damage (even shield only) despite having Quick Thinking equipped.

Update 21.3 (2017-08-02)

• Reduced the frequency that Quick Thinking can stagger lock a player. This is actually undoing a bug fix where Quick Thinking wasn't staggering players as often as it was intended to, but this is the new intention now! Essentially Quick Thinking is back to the way it was pre Update 21.

Update 17.10 (2015-11-04)

• Fixed the Quick Thinking Mod not properly taking damage reduction into account before removing energy from a Client.

Hotfix 14.6.1 (2014-09-11)

• The 14.6.0 fix resolves issues where Rage + Quick Thinking gave effective permanent invulnerability because energy was being added to pool that was never dealt to player. With this change in mind, the combination of Rage and Quick Thinking may seem less efficient as before due to no longer giving effective invulnerability. The scope of this change is being monitored to ensure the usefulness of these Mods as a combination.

Hotfix 14.0.8 (2014-07-24)

• Fixed Quick Thinking not working as described or intended.

Update 11.6 (2014-01-08)

• Increased stagger threshold and made stagger only occur on big hits instead of on accumulated damage; this should prevent situations where Quick Thinking would save you only to let you get knocked down and killed again.

Update 11.1 (2013-11-27)

• Reduced effectiveness of the interaction between Rage/Quick Thinking mods to prevent indefinite immortality in all game modes.
• The Quick Thinking mod no longer saves you from suicide damage.

Update 10.3 (2013-10-09)

• Added missing mod card image for Quick Thinking.

See Also

• Attributes
•  Gladiator Finesse, another mod with the same functionality.