Tainted Shell

Tainted Shell
Tradeable
Cannot be obtained from transmutation
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Max Rank Description
+77% Accuracy -55% Fire Rate
General Information
Type	Shotgun
Polarity	Vazarin
Rarity	Rare
Max Rank	10
Endo Required To Max	30,690
Credits Required To Max	1,482,327
Base Capacity Cost	4
Trading Tax	8,000
Introduced	Update 10.3 (2013-10-09)
Vendor Sources
Official Drop Tables
https://www.warframe.com/droptables

The Tainted Shell mod increases the accuracy of Shotgun fire by +7% per rank while also decreasing the fire rate by -5% per rank for a maximum of increase accuracy by +77% and reduced fire rate by -55% at rank 10.

Stats

Rank	Accuracy	Fire rate	Cost
0	+7%	-5%	4
1	+14%	-10%	5
2	+21%	-15%	6
3	+28%	-20%	7
4	+35%	-25%	8
5	+42%	-30%	9
6	+49%	-35%	10
7	+56%	-40%	11
8	+63%	-45%	12
9	+70%	-50%	13
10	+77%	-55%	14

Drop Locations

Mission Drop Tables

Mission Type	Source	Rotations or Drop Table	Chance	Quantity	Avg. per roll	Star Chart Nodes
Orokin Vault	Orokin Derelict Vault	A	4.17%	1	0.0417	Any mission node on Deimos except Cambion Drift, Magnacidium, Exequias, and Hyf

Enemy Drop Tables

Enemy	Drop Table Chance	Item Chance	Chance	Expected Kills	Quantity	Avg. per roll attempt

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

Notes

• Adding this mod does not decrease Shotgun falloff damage.

Tips

• The DPS-averse nature of this mod, the opportunity cost  of slotting it, and a high capacity requirement, give it a fairly narrow applicability.
  • The fire rate reduction can be counteracted by using  Shotgun Barrage or similar, but if this was the primary reason to slot such a mod, it would cause the opportunity cost to effectively double.
•  Tigris, because of it's duplex trigger, can benefit from this mod with practically no drawback.  Sancti Tigris comes with an innate polarity.
  • The decrease in fire rate increases the delay before the Tigris automatically reloads after emptying it's magazine. This can be remedied by pressing the Reload button right after firing the second shot
  • If Tigris is given more than 2 shots per magazine with appropriate mods, or if the weapon gets corrupted in a Void Fissure, the delay after every 2 shots is increased noticeably.
• Similarly to the above,  Exergis benefits from this mod, as it also has an innate  polarity, and is able to ignore the fire rate penalty due to being single-shot.
  • This is true despite the weapon already having the second-narrowest firing cone of all shotguns, behind  Astilla, since it also has an extremely low pellet count: this mod makes it easier to hit a target with all pellets, and deal full damage to it.
• It is somewhat suitable for shotguns with a higher fire rate and wide spread like  Boar and  Boar Prime, as it makes it possible to concentrate fire on a single target, at distances greater than point-blank range.
• Due to its lack of falloff damage, this mod is useful in decreasing the spread of  Drakgoon allowing it to hit distant enemies more effectively, without charging the shot.
• Adding this mod to  Phage will narrow the initial cone of the beams.

Trivia

• This is the first mod to reduce the actual spread of gunfire, rather than simply the recoil.

Gallery

Old appearance

Patch History

Update 29.3 (2020-10-27)

• Fixed a crash in the Simulacrum while firing a Convectrix that had max ranked Tainted Shell and Narrow Barrel Mods equipped.

Hotfix 15.7.2 (2014-12-19)

• Reduced negative penalty on Tainted Shell and Critical Deceleration’s fire rate adjustment to avoid purely negative fire rates on shotgun weapons.
  • (Undocumented) Reduced fire rate penalty from -66% to -55%.

Update 10.3 (2013-10-09)

• Introduced along with Orokin Vaults.

See also

• Fire Rate
•  Narrow Barrel
•  Guided Ordnance
•  Targeting Subsystem