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:6 / 8 / 8 / 10 (initial damage) 1 / 1.25 / 1.5 / 2 (damage growth per enemy) 50% ( status chance) 20% (reset decay)
			Duration:10% (damage decay rate)
			Range:30 / 40 / 50 / 60 m (cast range) 10 / 12 / 14 / 16 m (spread radius)
			Misc: ∞ (duration) 7 (damage growth enemy cap) 0.5 s (damage decay interval) 2 / 2 / 3 / 3 (initial spores) 1 (transmitted spore) 3 (max spores per enemy via spread) 12 (max spores per enemy via recast) 4.0x (miasma damage multiplier)

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• Tips & Tricks

Info

• Saryn infects an enemy target within 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 meters with 2 / 2 / 3 / 3 virulent spores for an unlimited duration. Each individual spore inflicts damage per second with a 50% status chance, lasting until the spores themselves or the infected enemy is destroyed.
  • Cast range is affected by Ability Range.
  • Status chance is affected by Ability Strength.
  • damage is effective against Ferrite Armor and Fossilized, but is less effective against Proto Shields.
  • status effect permanently reduces a target's current armor by 25%.
  • Spores duration and number of initial spores are not affected by mods.

• Saryn's disease spreads its infection rapidly, grows evermore lethal, and decays in the absence of hosts over the course of the epidemic:

• Spread
• Growth
• Decay

• Shooting or hitting a spore directly bursts its membrane to release infectious pus, which regrows the spore on its host and transmits 1 spore to all nearby enemies within 10 / 12 / 14 / 16 meters; infected enemies can carry up to 3 spores via transmission from another enemy.
  • Spread radius is affected by Ability Range.
  • Transmitted spore and max spores per enemy via spread are not affected by mods.
  • Spores can spread by directly bursting them with weapons, abilities, and Bullet Jump. Enemy attacks can also burst spores on contact.
  • Spread bypasses obstacles in the environment and damage does not diminish with distance.
• All spores on an infected enemy will burst and spread if any of the following conditions are met:
  • Spores' initial target is killed by any source.
  • Players landing the killing blow on any infected enemies.
  • Infected enemies are killed by  Molt's explosion damage.
  • Saryn's weapons hitting anywhere on the infected enemies' body while  Toxic Lash is active.
  • Infected enemies are killed by any source while sickened by  Miasma.
• Spores do not spread if enemies infected via transmission are killed by Spores' damage per second alone.

When the outbreak first begins, damage per second starts at 6 / 8 / 8 / 10 damage; for every second Spores remain active, damage per second increases by 1 / 1.25 / 1.5 / 2 damage per infected enemy, up to a damage growth cap of 7 infected enemies. Current damage per second is uniform across all active spores and will apply to newly infected enemies.

• Initial damage and damage growth per second are affected by Ability Strength.
• Damage growth enemy cap is not affected by mods.
  • Amount of infected enemies is unlimited, only damage growth is capped.
• Current damage per second is hard-capped at 100,000 damage.

While Spores is active, a stylized infection meter appears above Saryn's ability icons on the HUD, indicating the current damage per second and tracks the number of infected enemies in the mission affected by spores belonging to the player.

When zero infected enemies remain, Spores' current damage per second is instantly reduced by 20% then decays at 10% of the new total every 0.5 seconds until it reaches the initial damage amount. Damage decay stops when at least one enemy is infected by Spores.

• Reset decay is inversely affected by Ability Strength (e.g., more strength reduces amount consumed.)
• Damage decay rate is inversely affected by Ability Duration (e.g., more duration reduces amount of damage decay per half second.)
• Nullifying effects (such as entering Sanctuary Onslaught Data-Conduits) increases the decay rate to 30% per half second.
• Damage decay interval is not affected by mods.

Current damage per second is visibly subtracted from the meter whilst a red flashing "decaying" warning message replaces the counter for number of infected enemies.

The infection meter disappears when it reaches the initial damage amount.

• If Spores is still active, recasting Spores on any enemy consumes 20% of current damage per second from the infection meter and casts Spores for 50% reduced energy cost. Recasting on an infected enemy grows a new set of spores on the target, which carries up to 12 spores via recasting Spores on it.
  • Reset decay is inversely affected by Ability Strength (e.g., more strength reduces amount consumed.)
  • Recast energy discount and max spores per enemy via recast are not affected by mods.
• Synergy: Spores has synergy with other abilities.
  •  Miasma deals 400% damage to enemies affected by Spores.
  •  Toxic Lash can make spores burst with every attack, even without direct hit on a particular spore. All Spores that burst from a melee weapon while  Toxic Lash is active contribute to the melee combo counter.
• Spores is a one-handed action. As such, it can be used while performing various maneuvers and actions without interruption.
• If the initial target dies before the spores appear, energy used for Spores will be refunded.

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

• Cast on an enemy in the middle of a crowd and promptly kill it or use one of the many methods to spread the spores.
• Each spore inflicts damage per second and status effect on proc, which is tripled on an enemy carrying three spores from a max rank Spores cast or accumulated from transmission from other infected enemies.
• Infect at least 7 enemies to maximize damage growth, allowing Spores to reach higher damage per second counts over time.
• Mod for Ability Strength to increase initial damage, damage growth per enemy, status chance, while reducing the reset decay on recast or on zero infected present.
  • Status chance can reach 100% with 200% Ability Strength.
• Recast Spores several times to inflict an enemy with up to 12 spores to strip its Armor quickly, deal more damage per second instances, and provide more spores to spread.
  • However, note that each recast will consume a percentage of damage per second stored in your infection meter.
• Use  Toxic Lash to spread spores on an infected enemy on every hit using your gun or melee.
• Cast  Miasma to inflict quadruple damage to all enemies infected by Spores within range.
• Can be used to destroy Corpus cameras and (active) turrets. A spore will appear but a camera dies on the first tick.
• When combined with AoE weapons (such as  Ignis and  Embolist, which both deal DoT, increased by Saryn's passive), the spores will pop very easily, quickly spreading procs.
• The ability synergizes well with Nova's  Molecular Prime, both spreading and weakening enemies until one dies and causes a series of chain explosions and effectively quartering enemy survivability.
•  Spores is excellent for bosses with shields to prevent them from recovering.
  • This is quite effective against Ambulas since it targets the torso and, like all MOAs, he takes three times damage on that body part.
• Sentinels can also pop Spores.
  • Equipping a sentinel with the  Sweeper weapon increases this chance.
• Spores that are popped on a target's weak point, like the head, will do extra damage based on the respective damage multiplier.
  • For example, if you pop a Spore on an enemy's head, it will deal 50 damage (25 x 2 damage multiplier).
  • Spores' DoT ticks are unaffected by weak spots.
  • AoE damage from popping spores is unaffected by weak spots. Nearby enemies will still only take 25 damage from popped spores on weak spots.

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See Also

•  Saryn