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Seeking Talons

Charge to expand the targeting area, release to send Garuda’s talons careening toward each target in area. Surviving enemies are prone to bleeding.


Introduced in Update 24.0 (2018-11-08)

AbilityStrengthBuff Strength:150 / 200 / 250 / 300 (DmgSlashSmall64 Slash damage)
75% (DmgSlashSmall64 Slash status chance)
AbilityDurationBuff Duration:10 s
AbilityRangeBuff Range:N/A

Misc: 2 m (talon knockback radius)
60 m (range)
25° (min charge size)
95° (max charge size)
8 (projectiles)

Info

  • Garuda expends EnergyOrb100 Energy to channel her sanguine blood beneath herself as her talons quiver in anticipation, as a whirlwind of flying talons spanning a 2 meter radius encircles her. Enemies pierced by Garuda's talons will receive AbilityStrengthBuff150 / 200 / 250 / 300 DmgSlashSmall64 Slash damage and be pushed away from Garuda.
  • Channeling the talons expands a focus ring indicating the ranged area of effect of the ability. Initial field of view angle is 25 degrees, which can expand up to 95 degrees when fully charged; the range of ability can expand up to 60 meters based on the charge time. Upon release, Garuda unleashes 8 flying talons as homing projectiles, piercing through all enemies who are within the focus ring and in line of sight.
    • Tapping the ability will automatically unleash the talons once fully charged. Holding the ability will sustain the whirlwind around Garuda until released, allowing her to aim carefully to maximize the talons' potential.
    • Each enemy will always be pierced at least once by the projectiles. However, they can also be pierced multiple times in a single skill use.
      • For an example, using Seeking Talon on a single enemy will damage said enemy 8 times in quick succession.
    • Garuda is Invulnerable while casting the ability until it is fully charged.
  • Enemies damaged by the flying talons are marked with Garuda's symbol for AbilityDurationBuff10 seconds. Attacking marked enemies with weapons and abilities grants a AbilityStrengthBuff75% chance to cause a DmgSlashSmall64 Slash Status Effect.
    • Marked enemies will still receive status effects from other sources in addition to the DmgSlashSmall64 Slash proc (if a weapon's status chance triggers and hits an enemy affected by Seeking Talons, the weapon's status will still be applied, the DmgSlashSmall64 Slash proc is then added, resulting in the enemy receiving 2 status effects at the same time).
    • Status chance is capped at 100%, achievable with 134% AbilityStrengthBuff Ability Strength.
    • All sources of damage are capable of inflicting DmgSlashSmall64 Slash Status Effect. This includes, but not limited to: weapons, damage from abilities, special damaging effects from mods (Mod TT 20px Concealed Explosives, Mod TT 20px Thunderbolt, Mod TT 20px Thermagnetic Shells, etc.) and Syndicate procs.
    • Weapons do not need to have innate Slash damage in order to inflict DmgSlashSmall64 Slash Status Effect.
    • Marking of enemies will include special enemies such as Stalker.
    • DmgSlashSmall64 Slash statuses applied due to the mark are considered to be forced status procs and cannot stack with other sources of forced DmgSlashSmall64 Slash statuses such as Mod TT 20px Hunter Munitions or Mod TT 20px Internal Bleeding. However forced DmgSlashSmall64 Slash statuses can stack with a weapon's innate status chance.
  • Garuda cannot perform parkour Maneuvers (except for rolling and sliding) or general interactions while channeling this ability. However, she can still move.
  • Can be cast while airborne, causing Garuda to hover for a few seconds.
    • Garuda will leap a short distance upward upon release, causing the targeting ring to shift.

Augment

BlendingTalonsMod
Main article: Blending Talons

Blending Talons is an Warframe Augment Mod for GarudaIcon272 Garuda's SeekingTalons130xWhite Seeking Talons that grants it the ability to create an area of effect explosion around Garuda as well as giving her GarudaTalons Garuda Talons (GarudaPrimeTalons Prime) a passive that grants it additional combo count upon hitting enemies affected by DmgSlashSmall64 Slash procs.

Blending Talons

Tips & Tricks

  • This ability has a long casting and recovery animation. However, this can be bypassed by casting Seeking Talons while airborne.
    • Holding aimglide while releasing Seeking Talons will allow Garuda to hover after leaping and cancel the falling part of her animation. This does not work when used on the ground.
      • While aimgliding, Garuda can continue staying airborne by recasting Seeking Talons again or charge and throw her DreadMirror130xWhite Dread Mirror's Dread Heart.
      • Each cast while airborne raises Garuda to be higher off the ground. Ground slams can be used to return back to ground level quickly to maintain mobility.
    • Using melee immediately after releasing Seeking Talons while airborne can also be used to cancel the recovery animation. The recovery animation for this will be longer than if holding an aimglide, but is more useful for congested tilesets.
    • A side effect of being above enemies while casting this ability is that it is able to hit headshots, making use of its increased damage multipliers, as well as Sharpshooter's Bounty and any Decree that activates on headshot in Duviri.
  • As Seeking Talons bypass the need to have enemies within vision, bringing a companion equipped with a mod that detects enemies in the radar map (such as Mod TT 20px Animal Instinct) will help Garuda in finding the most number of enemies that can be hit without having to actually see them.
  • Due to the forced Slash proc caused by Seeking Talons, it synergizes particularly well with weapons that have high damage burst potential such as the KuvaZarr Kuva Zarr or TenetEnvoy Tenet Envoy to unleash heavy DmgTrueSmall64 True damage per hit.
    • The forced Slash proc is also effective against SentientFactionIcon Sentient enemies, as True damage bypasses their adaptive damage resistance.
  • Equipping Mod TT 20px Blending Talons gives Garuda the potential to mark her symbol on more enemies than her standard charged up ability by deliberately running in the midst of the crowd and using short-tap Seeking Talons.
  • Using DreadMirror130xWhite Dread Mirror's Blood Ball into enemies hit by Seeking Talons will essentially do a very high scaling slash nuke, scaling further with a Primer.

Maximization

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