The Tenet Arca Plasmor is the Tenet variant of the 
Arca Plasmor, with improvements to its damage, critical multiplier, status chance, and longer damage falloff range, along with its shots gaining the ability to ricochet off surfaces, but at the expense of slightly slower fire rate, reload speed, and lower reserve ammo.
Characteristics[]
- This weapon deals
Radiation damage. - Shots have a guaranteed Impact proc to enemies up to 29 meters.
- Distance is affected by Projectile Speed.
- Killed enemies will have their corpses vaporized, good for Stealth gameplay if silenced due to no bodies being left behind.
- Innate two polarities.
- Low zoom, making covering wide shots while aiming easier.
- Comes with an additional bonus Impact, Heat, Cold, Electricity, Toxin, Magnetic, or Radiation damage, based on the Sister's progenitor Warframe, which increases the listed base damage of the weapon by 25%-60%.
- Valence Fusion can optionally change the resulting output damage type, and can upgrade the bonus increase (up to 60%).
- Polarizing the weapon increases its max rank by 2, capping at rank 40 after 5 polarizations, granting the weapon additional mod capacity.
- Listed Mastery Rank requirement is not enforced - the weapon may theoretically be obtained at any mastery rank by acquiring and vanquishing a Sister that has this weapon equipped.
Advantages over other Primary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Projectiles have a thickness of 3 meters.
- Innate Infinite Body Punch Through.
- Shots ricochet on surfaces instead of disappearing.
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Very high total damage (760)
- High status chance (34.00%)
Disadvantages over other Primary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Has linear damage falloff from 100% to 50% from 18m to 36m target distance (distances are affected by Projectile Speed).
- Projectile has travel time.
- Limited range of 36 meters (can be increased with Projectile Speed mods).
- Has a headshot multiplier of 1x.
- Innate punch through does not apply to surfaces if hitting with the central portion of the projectile.
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Very low maximum falloff distance (36.0 m)
- Low reload speed (3.00 s)
- Below average magazine (10)
- Very low fire rate (1.00 attacks/sec)
- Very low ammo max (40)
- Very low disposition (●○○○○ (0.55x))
See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.
Comparisons:
- Tenet Arca Plasmor (Normal Attack), compared to Arca Plasmor (Normal Attack):
- Higher base damage per projectile (760.00 vs. 600.00) (excluding any Progenitor bonus)
- Higher Radiation damage ( 760 vs. 600)
- Higher
- Higher total damage (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (1,216 vs. 600)
- Higher base critical multiplier (2.00x vs. 1.60x)
- Higher base status chance (34.00% vs. 28.00%)
- Higher average damage per tap (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (1483.52 vs. 679.2)
- Higher burst DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (1483.52 vs. 747.12)
- Higher sustained DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (1141.16 vs. 571.19)
- Farther starting damage falloff distance (18.0 m vs. 10.0 m)
- Farther max damage falloff distance (36.0 m vs. 20.0 m)
- Lesser max damage reduction at ending falloff distance (50.00% vs. 66.67%)
- Lower fire rate (1.00 attacks/sec vs. 1.10 attacks/sec)
- Smaller max ammo capacity (40 vs. 50)
- Slower reload time (3.00 s vs. 2.80 s)
- Greater projectile speed (120.0 m/s vs. 60.0 m/s)
- Higher Mastery Rank required (16 vs. 10)
- Lower disposition (●○○○○ (0.55x) vs. ●●●○○ (0.95x))
- Higher base damage per projectile (760.00 vs. 600.00) (excluding any Progenitor bonus)
Acquisition[]
This section is transcluded from Lich System/Weapons § Tenet Acquisition. To change it, please edit the transcluded page.
Tenet Arca Plasmor is obtained by vanquishing a Sister who generated with one equipped. After the Sister is vanquished it will be in the player's Foundry ready to claim.
While the weapon itself is not tradeable, a converted Sister generated with the weapon can be traded to another player. The trade is performed inside a Clan Dojo's Crimson Branch room, and the recipient must not have any active Lich or Sister. Once traded, the recipient must fight and vanquish the Sister to claim their weapon.
Notes[]
This section is transcluded from Lich System § Notes. To change it, please edit the transcluded page.
Kuva/Tenet Notes[]
- For weapons obtained from vanquishing the Kuva Lich or Sister:
- The player does not have to meet the Mastery Rank displayed to obtain this weapon. It can simply be claimed from the foundry after the Lich/Sister carrying it has been vanquished.
- The weapon will have a prefix of the name of the Lich/Sister it was acquired from (e.g. a Kuva Kohm might be called "Odizrigg Agekk Kuva Kohm").
- Refraining from Mercy killing an Adversary candidate will remove their weapon from the pool of potential Adversary weapons until each has been refused, but only if the mission is completed. Weapons rejected from aborted missions will remain in the current cycle.
- For weapons obtained from Ergo Glast's shop:
- The player must meet the Mastery Rank displayed to obtain this weapon, as it is claimed from an NPC shop rather than the foundry.
- The weapon's max rank caps at 40 after 5 polarizations (max rank increases by 2 per Forma added).
- Additional polarizations can be added when the weapon reaches its new max rank at that polarization level.
- Each additional rank also gives 100 Mastery Rank experience, giving 4,000 points in total at level 40.
- Mod capacity scales with the additional ranks, and can reach a total of 80 at rank 40 with an Orokin Catalyst installed.
- Without an Orokin Catalyst, the max is 40. Combined with the five polarized mod slots required to reach that point, an Orokin Catalyst might not be required for some beginner-friendly builds as they typically use less mod capacity.
- After polarizing a weapon, any additional mod capacity above 30 (60 with an Orokin Catalyst) will not take effect until the weapon's rank reaches 31 and above.
- Legendary Mastery Rank increases the minimum mod capacity for such weapons, without the weapon needing to be rank 31 and above. For example, Legendary 1 increases the minimum capacity to 31 (62 with an Orokin Catalyst).
- Comes with an additional damage stat.
- For Lich/Sister-obtained weapons this is dependent on the Warframe that summoned the Lich/Sister.
- For Ergo Glast shop a random bonus stat will be offered for each weapon and changed every 4 days (96 hours).
- This damage stat randomly ranges between 25%-60%. It can be upgraded up to its maximum value with Valence Fusion using another copy of the weapon.
- This bonus stat is considered a base damage type and will be applied after all elemental mods for the purposes of elemental combinations.
View detailed explanation about element merging ▾▾
- Weapons with an innate primary element and a different primary element provided by the progenitor both behave as innate elements and combine with each other. They will also recombine with modded elements in the following order:
- Mod slot 1 → Mod slot 2 → ... → Mod slot 8 → Innate Heat → Innate Cold → Innate Electricity → Innate Toxin
- Mod slot 1 → Mod slot 2 → ... → Mod slot 8 → Innate
This section is transcluded from Lich System/Progenitor . To change it, please edit the transcluded page.
| Element | Progenitor Warframe* |
|---|---|
 Impact
|
 Baruuk  Dante  Gauss  Grendel  Rhino  Sevagoth  Wukong  Zephyr
|
 Heat
|
 Chroma  Ember  Inaros  Jade  Kullervo  Nezha  Protea  Vauban  Wisp "Temple" wasn't found in Module:Warframes/data
|
 Cold
|
 Frost  Gara  Hildryn  Koumei  Revenant  Styanax  Titania  Trinity
|
 Electricity
|
 Banshee  Caliban  Excalibur  Gyre  Limbo  Nova  Valkyr  Volt
|
 Toxin
|
 Atlas  Dagath  Ivara  Khora  Nekros  Nidus  Oberon  Saryn
|
 Magnetic
|
 Citrine  Cyte-09  Harrow  Hydroid  Lavos  Mag  Mesa  Xaku  Yareli
|
 Radiation
|
 Ash  Equinox  Garuda  Loki  Mirage  Nyx  Octavia  Qorvex  Voruna
|
*Note that the Primed or Umbra version of a Warframe share the same element
Known Bugs[]
- Galvanized Savvy is multiplicative to base damage sources on direct hits.
Tips[]
- The ricochet mechanic can be used to hit the same enemy / group of enemies with one projectile multiple times by either bouncing it off a wall right behind an enemy or bouncing it on the floor beneath the enemy while aiming from above. This can effectively double the projectile's hit count when placed and timed properly.
- It is exceedingly easy to perform headshots with this weapon. Although it has a 1x headshot multiplier (meaning it does no extra damage), this can be increased using Primary Deadhead.
Trivia[]
- Interestingly, Update 23.10 (2018-10-12) introduced a bug that let the Arca Plasmor's projectiles bounce off surfaces, over two years before the introduction of the Tenet Arca Plasmor. While it has since been patched, it may have served as the inspiration for the Tenet variant's projectiles to do the same as is.
- The Tenet Arca Plasmor has unique visual effects compared to the base version, adding Corpus lettering and iconography on both the projectile and the explosion after it hits. For the projectile, the outer ring of text reads "Integrating Offset Sector Income Differential", and the inner ring reads "Power In Prosperity, Prosperity In Victory". Notably, words with the hard C phoneme are spelled incorrectly, using the Corpus letter for "ch", instead of "k".
Media[]
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Tenet Arca Plasmor, When equipped in the arsenal
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Tenet Arca Plasmor Skins
Patch History[]
Update 38.0 (2024-12-13)
- Fixed Nova’s Antimatter Drop orb not speeding up on recast after charging it fully with the Tenet Arca Plasmor while your Energy is below the casting cost.
Update 32.0 (2022-09-07)
- Ammo Changes
We understand the power fantasy of these weapons is very popular for some, so our first approach was to keep them powerful, but limit how often they can be used by making changes to ammo pick-up.
Ammo Pickup Overrides
The following weapons now have ammo pickup overrides, meaning they gain less from picking up ammo. This mostly applies to AoE weapons, in hopes that players will become more deliberate with their aim to make the most of their Ammo pools. The following lists the specific ammo pick up overrides per weapon category.
Primary Weapon Ammo Pick Up Overrides
15 Ammo per Pick Up:
- Tenet Arca Plasmor
Update 30.5 (2021-07-06)
- Introduced.
See Also[]
- Arca Plasmor, the normal counterpart.
