Saxum Carapace

Saxum Carapace
Tradeable
Cannot be obtained from transmutation
📝 Update Infobox Data
Max Rank Description
+55% Armor +20% Health
General Information
Type	Warframe
Polarity	Vazarin
Rarity	Uncommon
Max Rank	5
Endo Required To Max	620
Credits Required To Max	29,946
Base Capacity Cost	4
Trading Tax	4,000
Introduced	Update 29.0 (2020-08-25)
Vendor Sources
Official Drop Tables
https://www.warframe.com/droptables

Saxum Carapace is a set mod that increases the armor and health of a Warframe.

Stats

Rank	Armor	Health	Cost
0	+9%	+3%	4
1	+18%	+7%	5
2	+28%	+10%	6
3	+37%	+13%	7
4	+46%	+17%	8
5	+55%	+20%	9

Set Bonus

This mod is part of a set, whose set bonus increases with each additional mod equipped from that set.

Saxum Set:  Lifted enemies explode on death, dealing X% of their max health as  Impact Damage in an X-meter radius.

Mods Equipped	Percentage of Enemy Health	Range
1	10%	4m
2	20%	8m
3	30%	12m

Drop Locations

Mission Drop Tables

Mission Type	Source	Rotations or Drop Table	Chance	Quantity	Avg. per roll	Star Chart Nodes
Necralisk Bounty	Necralisk Bounty Lvl 25-30 Final Stage	A	2.56%	1	0.0256	Cambion Drift/Necralisk, Deimos; talk to Mother
Necralisk Bounty	Necralisk Bounty Lvl 25-30 Stage 2	A	2.67%	1	0.0267	Cambion Drift/Necralisk, Deimos; talk to Mother
Necralisk Bounty	Necralisk Bounty Lvl 25-30 Stage 2	B	2.58%	1	0.0258	Cambion Drift/Necralisk, Deimos; talk to Mother
Necralisk Bounty	Necralisk Bounty Lvl 25-30 Final Stage	C	2.5%	1	0.025	Cambion Drift/Necralisk, Deimos; talk to Mother
Necralisk Bounty	Necralisk Bounty Lvl 25-30 Final Stage	B	2.5%	1	0.025	Cambion Drift/Necralisk, Deimos; talk to Mother
Necralisk Bounty	Necralisk Bounty Lvl 25-30 Stage 2	C	2.63%	1	0.0263	Cambion Drift/Necralisk, Deimos; talk to Mother

Enemy Drop Tables

Enemy	Drop Table Chance	Item Chance	Chance	Expected Kills	Quantity	Avg. per roll attempt
Deimos Saxum Rex	10%	22.11%	2.211%	45	1	0.02211

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

Patch History

Update 34.0 (2023-10-18)

Base vs Final Stats in Modding - Health / Energy / Shield / Armor Stat Overhaul

If you’ve spent any time invested in the deeper nuances of Modding, you may be familiar with “Warframe Math” - math that upon first glance doesn’t really make sense, but once you learn the inner workings of the game, it all comes together. While we can appreciate the value that complex systems offer to a certain subsect of players, there are other aspects of the game that should have clear and understandable outcomes. Namely: Shield, Health, Energy, and Armor Modding.

Pop quiz: what is 300 + 440%? If you answered 740, you may just be an Excalibur player.

Vitality (+440% Heath), Redirection (+440% Shields), Flow (+150% Energy), and Steel Fiber (+110% Armor) come with large modifier values that don’t seem to match their outcome in-game. This is because these Mods apply their multiplier to the base stats of the Warframe - i.e., the stats you have at Rank 0. In the Excalibur example, a Rank 30 Excalibur’s Health stat of 300 earns an additional 440 Health from max rank Vitality (+440% Heath) since it applies to his base rank Health stat of 100, resulting in 740 total health.

In this update, we have removed this obfuscation by having Health, Shield, Energy, and Armor Mods apply to the stats of Warframes at their current rank. Continuing our Excalibur example, instead of Vitality always applying to Excalibur’s base rank 100 Health, it would apply to his Health stat based on his rank - namely, the stat you can actually see in your Arsenal. If your Excalibur were Rank 30, his Health stat would be 300, which means Vitality’s multiplier would be calculated off of 300.

With previous Health and Mod values, additional adjustments are needed to make this revision work while maintaining game balance. By only changing where the multiplier applies, a Rank 30 Excalibur would receive an extra 1,320 Health from max rank Vitality, resulting in a total health stat of 1,600. This outcome is a significant buff, which is not the intention of this system change.

To remedy this, we approached this problem in two ways:

1 - We reduced the overall multiplier for Health, Shield, Energy, and Armor Mods.
Since these now affect Max Rank Warframe stats, these Mods need to scale differently to maintain the status quo. Additionally, we wanted these new values to be as clear and understandable to all players as possible! Here are a few examples of these value changes:

• Vitality: Reduced from +440% to +100% Health
• Redirection: Reduced from +440% to +100% Shield Capacity
• Steel Fiber: Reduced from +110% to +100% Armor
• Flow: Reduced from +150% to +100% Energy Max

Doing some quick math, this means that a Rank 30 Excalibur (300 Health) with a reworked Vitality Mod (+100% Health, applied to the final Health stat) would receive 300 extra Health, for a total of 600. That, in contrast, is a nerf, which we also don’t want to do.

So, our next step:

2 - We adjusted Warframe Health, Shield, Energy, and Armor values to keep the end result of the revised Mods as close to the original values as possible.

With this change, Excalibur’s Rank 30 Health stat is 370. With +100% Health from a max Vitality Mod, his resulting Health stat would be 740, which matches what it was originally.

While this path to the same result may seem a little complicated, the outcome matches our intention: we want players to be able to look at their Health, Shield, and Armor Mods, and be able to understand how they affect the stats they see in their Arsenal.

In addition to everything above, we also increased the base stat values for Warframes so that these revised Mods offer similar value for lower-ranked Frames. To do so, we reduced the amount of Health/Shield/Energy that Warframes earn per rank in half, and transferred the sum of that value to their base stats.

Warframe Mod Changes:

• Saxum Carapace: +55% Armor, +20% Health (was +60% Armor,+90% Health)

Update 30.7 (2021-09-08)

• Made the following changes to the Saxum Mod set:
  • The cooldown will now appear in the HUD.
  • Removed fall-off damage and increased the range to 4/8/12 metres.
  • Increased the knockback to enemies caught closer to the impact while heavily staggering enemies within range but further away from the explosion.
  • Also fixed issues with the Saxum mod set bonus not matching the in-game description: Lifted enemies explode on death and deal up to 30% of their max health as Impact damage.
• Fixed multiple issues with the Saxum Mod set:
  • Fixed the “Lifted enemies explode on death” effect not working when the full set is equipped.
  • Fixed non-melee attacks to proc the effect.
  • Fixed the effect from triggering on non-lifted enemies.
  • Fixed the damage type to correctly deal Impact damage.
  • Fixed a “buff” icon appearing in the HUD on activation.
  • Miscellaneous fixes for proc inconsistencies and stacking issues with other mods.

Update 29.5 (2020-11-19)

• Fixed the Saxum Mod Sets not being equippable on Exalted Melee.

Update 29.0 (2020-08-25)

• Introduced.