Tar Mutalist MOA

Infested

Tar Mutalist MOA
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Discharges tar-like mucus slowing its prey
General Information
Faction	Infested
Planet(s)	Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto Ceres Eris Sedna Europa Phobos Derelict
Weapon(s)	Tar puddles
Statistics
Affinity	150
Fossilized	350
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Body Multipliers	Face: 0.5x Tail: 3.0x
Base Level	12
Level Scaling
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Selected Level	––
EHP	––
Steel Path EHP	––
Miscellaneous
Codex Scans	5
Introduced	Update 15.5 (2014-11-27)
Drops
Mod Drops	Flechette 0.76%  Redirection 0.76%  Expel Infested 0.33%  Lasting Sting 0.76%  Cleaving Whirlwind 0.03%  Relentless Combination 0.33%  Adhesive Blast 0.03%
Resource Drops	Region Resource 7.00%
Pigment Drops	2x  Mutalist Red Pigment 50.00%
Official Drop Tables
https://www.warframe.com/droptables

CODEX

Discharge tar-like mucus slowing its prey.

Tar Mutalist MOAs are Infested Corpus MOAs that launch globs of mucus to create puddles of thick tar, which damage and slow enemies to a crawl.

Tactics

• Launches a salvo of four projectiles, each one creating a puddle of acidic tar that deals damage per second and slows players that linger on it.
  • Slow debuff affects movement speed.
  • Tar puddles will dissolve after 10 seconds or when destroyed by ranged and melee weapons.
  • The puddles deal damage, which is extra effective against the player's Ferrite armor.
• Can leap away to put distance between themselves and their enemies. They can also leap high to avoid taking damage, sometimes giving the illusion of them disappearing.
• Can perform a ground stomp similar to Shockwave MOA, stunning and knocking back players touched by the shockwave.
• As with standard MOAs, shooting at the Tar Mutalist MOA's "chest" counts as a headshot, dealing 2x damage, while shooting the fanny pack (manifested as a tail-like appendage) on its back deals 3x damage.
• Has a higher movement speed than other Infested units.
• Can be Disarmed using Loki's Radial Disarm, which does not damage them but disables their spit and stomp attacks, leaving kicks as their only means of damaging players
• Many frame powers target their fanny pack, dealing 3x damage.

Trivia

• The Tar Mutalist MOA was first introduced in Devstream 35, alongside its Swarm counterpart. It was initially referred to as the Slow Bomb MOA.
  • Curiously the Slow Bomb MOA moniker was referring to the design that would later be used for the Swarm Mutalist MOA and vice versa.
• For a long time after they were released, puddles of bile would damage and slow players while under  Mind Control or when produced by Shadows.

Media

• Tar Mutalist MOA scans
• Concept Art for the Tar Mutalist MOA (left) and Swarm Mutalist MOA (right) as featured in Livestream 35.
• Goo projectile and pool created by the Tar Mutalist MOA.
• Tar Mutalist MOA's tar projectiles, fired in a spread-like manner
• Tar Mutalist MOA's tar attack

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Videos

Mutalist Red Pigment Farm Dojo Colors (Warframe)

Patch History

Hotfix 19.12.2 (2017-03-06)

• Changed formatting of ‘MUTALIST’ names to avoid using a dash.

See also

• Swarm Mutalist MOA, another type of infested MOA.
• MOA (or Shockwave MOA) the uninfested version if the Tar Mutalist MOA.