Spores

	1 25	Spores Inflict a target with a pox of Corrosive spores. Spread spores to nearby enemies by destroying them or killing their host. The longer the Spore spreads, its damage will increase. Introduced in Update 7.0 (2013-03-18)	Strength:4 / 10 / 14 / 20 (spore damage) 2 / 2 / 3 / 3 (initial spores) 2 / 2 / 3 / 3 (spread spores)
			Duration:6 / 8 / 10 / 12 s
			Range:30 / 40 / 50 / 60 m (cast range) 8 / 10 / 12 / 16 m (spread radius)

• Info
• Augment
• Tips & Tricks
• Maximization
• Bugs

Info

• Saryn infects a target within 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 meters with 2 / 2 / 3 / 3 virulent spores. Each spore inflicts 4 / 10 / 14 / 20 damage per second over a duration of 6 / 8 / 10 / 12 seconds. If a spore is popped, 25 damage with a 100% status chance is dealt within 8 / 10 / 12 / 16 meters, and 2 / 2 / 3 / 3 spores are transmitted to each affected enemy.
  • Spore damage and burst damage are affected by Power Strength.
  • status effect reduces a target's current and maximum health by 50% for 7.5 seconds. Duration-based status effects are prolonged due to Saryn's passive.
  • Burst damage bypasses obstacles in the environment and does not diminish with distance.
  • Duration is affected by Power Duration.
  • Spores will not inflict reduced ticks of damage for non-integer durations (e.g., if Spores' duration is 18.6 seconds, there will be no reduced damage tick for the final 0.6 seconds).
  • Cast range and spread radius are affected by Power Range.
  • Spores will burst at a reduced spread radius if the infected target dies. (Roughly half of the regular spread range)
• If an infected enemy is being damaged by a proc, popping a spore on that enemy will also spread damage to surrounding enemies. The spore will have 25% of the initial base damage that triggered the proc added to its burst damage as damage with a 100% status chance for and effects.
  • Damage percentage is affected by Power Strength.
  • status effect deals 50% of the burst damage as damage per tick over 11 ticks in 10 seconds. Duration-based status effects are prolonged due to Saryn's passive.
  • If multiple procs are damaging an infected enemy, the initial base damage that triggered each individual proc will be combined when a spore's burst damage is calculated.
  • As an example, with a maxed Hornet Strike, Intensify, and a pistol that inflicts 35 base damage, a single proc from this pistol on an infected enemy will increase a spore's burst damage to (25 + 0.25 × 35 × (1 + 2.2)) × 1.3 = 68.9. If the infected enemy is being damaged by ten procs from the same pistol, the spore's burst damage will be increased to (25 + 0.25 × 10 × 35 × (1 + 2.2)) × 1.3 = 396.5.
  • Only one spore on the infected enemy can transfer Toxin damage until that enemy becomes damaged by a new proc.
• When spores are popped on a target, one damage tick is removed from the target for the remainder of the duration. All secondary targets in range will be applied with a new duration of Spores. The primary target's duration is not renewed unless a secondary target's Spore is popped, applying a new duration that is separate to the previous duration.
• Spores can be burst by various sources of damage including weapon damage and radial damage from certain abilities. Bullet jumping near infected enemies can burst spores as well as the radial damage from enemy attacks including (but not limited to) Bombard rockets, Seismic Shockwave damage, Volatile Runner explosions, and radial damage from Boilers and their spawn pods.
• It is possible to remove Spores from an enemy by completely popping all the spores on that enemy.
• Saryn's abilities mutate for bonus effects when used in tandem:

• Molt
• Toxic Lash
• Miasma

• Multiple instances of Spores can be cast on Molt. Spores' damage will not damage Molt.
• When cast on Molt, Spores energy cost is reduced by 50%.
• When Molt explodes, all spores will burst simultaneously and infect enemies within the spread radius. Molt's explosion can also detonate spores on nearby infected enemies.

While Toxic Lash is active, at least one spore is guaranteed to burst per melee attack when an infected enemy is struck by Saryn's melee weapon.

Enemies infected with Spores will restore 2 energy to Saryn for each spore burst by Toxic Lash.

Miasma deals an additional 100% damage to enemies affected by status effects including those produced by Spores.

Spores is a one-handed action. As such, it can be used while performing various maneuvers and actions without interruption.

Augment

Main article: Revealing Spores

Revealing Spores is an Exilus Warframe Augment Mod for  Saryn's  Spores that causes enemies affected the ability to show up on the mini map.

Rank	Detection Range	Enemy Radar	Cost
0	10m	10m	6
1	20m	20m	7
2	30m	30m	8
3	40m	40m	9

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Main article: Venom Dose

Venom Dose is a Warframe Augment Mod for  Saryn that allows  Spores to be held on cast, creating a wave of energy traveling outward from the user that temporarily grants the caster and nearby allies additional  Corrosive damage to all attacks.

Venom Dose

Tips & Tricks

• Can be used to destroy Corpus cameras and (active) turrets. A spore will appear but a camera dies on the first tick.
• Using both maximized power duration and power strength, each spore can deal 56.8 damage per second over the course of 30.54 seconds while increasing the energy cost to 38.75, reducing the cast range to 20.4 meters, and reducing the spread radius to 5.44 meters.

Maximization

Maximization is a form of specialization: mods may be blended to result in values that vary between the top-end limits listed here. Click any maximized link to learn how to build it.

• Maximized Power Duration increases duration to 33.84 seconds.
  • Reduces cast range to 20.4 meters and spread radius to 5.44 meters.
• Maximized Power Efficiency reduces cost to 6.25 energy.
  • Reduces duration to 4.8 seconds.
• Maximized Power Range increases cast range to 150 meters and spread radius to 40 meters.
  • Reduces spore damage to 8 per second, burst damage to 10, and damage percentage to 10%.
• Maximized Power Strength increases spore damage to 59.8 per second, burst damage to 74.75, and damage percentage to 74.75%.
  • Increases cost to 38.75 energy.
  • Reduces duration to 8.7 seconds.

Bugs

Spores is not affected by casting speed mods such as natural talent or speed drift

Gallery

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See also

• Saryn