Strain Eruption

Strain Eruption
Tradeable
Cannot be obtained from transmutation
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Max Rank Description
Maggots explode on death, dealing 4% of an enemy's current Health as Corrosive Damage to any enemy within 8m.
General Information
Type	Helminth Charger
Polarity	Naramon
Rarity	Rare
Max Rank	3
Endo Required To Max	210
Credits Required To Max	10,143
Base Capacity Cost	2
Trading Tax	8,000
Introduced	Update 24.2 (2018-12-18)
Vendor Sources
Official Drop Tables
https://www.warframe.com/droptables

Strain Eruption is a set mod equipable on Helminth Chargers that causes spawned maggots to explode on death, dealing a percentage of an enemy’s current health as  Corrosive damage to any enemy within a given radius.

Stats

Rank	Damage	Range	Cost
0	1%	2m	2
1	2%	4m	3
2	3%	6m	4
3	4%	8m	5

Set Bonus

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

Strain Set: The Helminth Charger grows cysts every X seconds that erupt every 25 seconds to spawn a maggot that seeks out and attacks enemies.

Mods Equipped	Cysts	Duration
1	2	6s
2	4	12s
3	6	18s
4	8	24s

Drop Locations

Mission Drop Tables

Mission Type	Source	Rotations or Drop Table	Chance	Quantity	Avg. per roll	Star Chart Nodes
Profit-Taker Bounty	Profit-Taker Orb Bounty Phase 1	A	1.25%	1	0.0125	Fortuna, Venus; must be Rank 5: Old Mate with Solaris United syndicate to access

Enemy Drop Tables

Enemy	Drop Table Chance	Item Chance	Chance	Expected Kills	Quantity	Avg. per roll attempt
Armaments Director	5%	25%	1.25%	80	1	0.0125
Sentient Research Director	5%	25%	1.25%	80	1	0.0125
Vivisect Director	5%	25%	1.25%	80	1	0.0125

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

Notes

• As Strain Eruption does a fixed percentage of damage, it can scale almost indefinitely. Being more effective on high level enemies.
  • However, as an enemies health gets lower, Strain Eruption will not be as effective.
• Does not impose a status effect

Patch History

Hotfix 34.0.4 (2023-10-24)

• Fixed Mystic Bond’s chance at a free Warframe ability cast triggering every 5 seconds instead of the intended “after Companion uses abilities with cooldowns 5 times” when equipped with the Strain Mod on a Helminth Charger.

Hotfix 29.5.4 (2020-11-25)

• Fixed Nidus’ Virulence not benefiting from Volatile Maggot / Strain Maggots.

Update 27.4 (2020-05-01)

• Fixed script error related to Helminth Chargers Strain Eruption Maggots exploding.

Update 25.1 (2019-06-05)

• Fixed Strain Mod Maggots Energy color persisting as default.

Hotfix 25.0.8 (2019-05-31)

• Fixed Maggots from Strain Mods not using the proper emissive colors.

Update 24.2 (2018-12-18)

• Introduced.

Last updated: Hotfix 24.2.2 (2018-12-18)