Tenet Envoy

Corpus Weapons

Tenet Envoy
Tradable (indirectly through Lich trading)
Innate Progenitor Bonus
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General Information
Type	Launcher
Mastery Rank Requirement	16
Max Rank	40
Slot	Primary
Trigger Type	Auto
Utility
Accuracy	100
Ammo Max	16
Ammo Pickup	4
Ammo Type	Primary
Disposition	●○○○○ (0.65x)
Fire Rate	0.830 attacks/sec
Noise Level	Alarming
Magazine Size	8
Reload Time	4.00 s
Projectile Speed	40.0 m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Grenade Impact
100 ( 100%)
Total Damage	100 (100.00%  Impact)
Ammo Cost	1
Crit Chance	28.00%
Crit Multiplier	2.60x
Fire Rate	0.830 attacks/sec
Multishot	1 (100.00 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Punch Through	0.0 m
Status Chance	24.00%
Projectile Speed	40.0 m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Rocket Explosion
640 ( 100%)
Total Damage	640 (100.00%  Cold)
Crit Chance	28.00%
Crit Multiplier	2.60x
Damage Falloff	0.0 m (100%) - 8.0 m (20.00%)
Fire Rate	0.830 attacks/sec
Multishot	1 (640.00 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Punch Through	0.0 m
Range	8.0 m
Status Chance	24.00%
Projectile Type	AoE
Miscellaneous
Compatibility Tags	PROJECTILE, AOE
Default Upgrades	InnateDamageRandomMod  CrpBriefcaseLauncherInnateMod
Riven Family	Tenet Envoy
Exilus Polarity
Introduced	Update 30.5 (2021-07-06)
Polarities	None
Sell Price	7,500
Variants	Tenet Envoy
Vendor Sources
Article Categories
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CODEX

This discreet rocket launcher is equally at home in a board meeting or on a casual outing. Aimed rockets are wire-guided for greater accuracy, but travel more slowly. The patented Granum Attaché System reloads the weapon when holstered.

Tenet Envoy is a unique Tenet rocket launcher shooting  Cold missiles that can be guided while aiming, and is able to reload while holstered.

Characteristics

This weapon deals primarily  Cold damage.

Advantages:

• Innate  Cold damage – effective against Alloy Armor, Shielded, and Infested Sinew.
• Very high critical chance and critical multiplier.
• High status chance.
• Pinpoint accuracy.
  •  Heavy Caliber's accuracy penalty is minimal on this weapon, especially due to its ability to be guided manually.
• Rocket explode in a 8 meter radius after impacting a surface or enemy.
  • Initial hit and explosion apply status separately.
  • Explosion does not need direct line of sight to deal damage and will penetrate walls.
  • Can benefit from  Firestorm ( Primed),  Amalgam Furax Body Count, and  Cautious Shot. It has the largest base AoE radius of any weapon that can benefit from both of the first two, letting it reach a max potential AoE of 14.86
• Aiming will cause fired rockets to travel toward the aiming reticle, allowing them to be guided.
• Reloads 1 round per second while holstered.
• Fairly large magazine capacity of 8 rounds for an explosive-based weapon.
• Polarizing the weapon increases its max rank by 2, capping at rank 40 after 5 polarizations, granting the weapon additional mod capacity.
• 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%.

Disadvantages:

• Innate  Cold damage – less effective against Infested Flesh and Fossilized.
• Very low fire rate.
• Very slow reload speed.
• Slow unholstering speed.
• Projectiles have travel time.
• Projectile Speed decreases while aiming (unaffected by  Terminal Velocity).
• Explosion inflicts self-stagger.
• Explosion has linear damage falloff from 100% to 20% from central impact.
• Extremely low ammo capacity; requires just 3 reloads to fully deplete all ammo reserves.

Acquisition

Tenet Envoy 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

• The Tenet Envoy is currently the only launcher with an automatic trigger, allowing a player to simply hold the trigger to launch consecutive rockets. This can prove somewhat disadvantageous while trying to redirect the rockets by aiming against enemies at relatively short ranges due to the recoil of launching a new rocket causing the aim to be disrupted.
• While aiming, the rockets will make an audible beeping noise. When aiming at a target, the beeping intensifies and the rocket flashes brightly.
• Rockets have a lifespan of 6 seconds regardless if they are being aimed or not, automatically detonating once that time has elapsed.
• While holstered, the attaché case's components will rumble and make an audible sound for each unit of ammo reloaded.
  • Passive reload stacks with  Tactical Reload and the Synth Mod Set ( Synth Deconstruct,  Synth Fiber,  Synth Reflex and  Synth Charge).
• Projectile speed seems to be 20 m/s while aiming and manually guiding the projectiles, and 40 m/s for unguided projectiles.
  •  Terminal Velocity will only affect unguided projectiles, for a final speed of 64 m/s.
• When using  Heavy Caliber and multishot mods such as  Split Chamber, additional rockets fired will fly parallel to the main rocket and not converge at the point of impact.
• Cannot be reloaded while a missile is being manually guided.
• Both the initial shot and explosion seem to be silent despite having an "Alarming" noise level; a one-shot kill on a group of enemies will award the stealth kill affinity bonus, and nearby enemies will not be alerted as long as they did not witness this. (bug?) However, firing the weapon will still break  Ivara's  Prowl unless the  Hush mod is equipped.

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 a lich candidate will remove their weapon from the pool of potential lich 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

HCET Priority Results from Modding an Element

Bonus Element + Modded Element	Innate  Heat E.g.  Tenet Spirex	Innate  Cold E.g.  Tenet Envoy	Innate  Electricity E.g.  Tenet Agendus	Innate  Toxin
Bonus  Heat + Modded  Cold	Blast	Blast	Blast +  Electricity	Blast +  Toxin
Bonus  Heat + Modded  Electricity	Radiation	Radiation +  Cold	Radiation	Radiation +  Toxin
Bonus  Heat + Modded  Toxin	Gas	Gas +  Cold	Gas +  Electricity	Gas
Bonus  Cold + Modded  Heat	Blast	Blast	Blast +  Electricity	Blast +  Toxin
Bonus  Cold + Modded  Electricity	Radiation +  Cold	Magnetic	Magnetic	Magnetic +  Toxin
Bonus  Cold + Modded  Toxin	Gas +  Cold	Viral	Viral +  Electricity	Viral
Bonus  Electricity + Modded  Heat	Radiation	Blast +  Electricity	Radiation	Radiation +  Toxin
Bonus  Electricity + Modded  Cold	Blast +  Electricity	Magnetic	Magnetic	Magnetic +  Toxin
Bonus  Electricity + Modded  Toxin	Gas +  Electricity	Viral +  Electricity	Corrosive	Corrosive
Bonus  Toxin + Modded  Heat	Gas	Blast +  Toxin	Radiation +  Toxin	Gas
Bonus  Toxin + Modded  Cold	Blast +  Toxin	Viral	Magnetic +  Toxin	Viral
Bonus  Toxin + Modded  Electricity	Radiation +  Toxin	Magnetic +  Toxin	Corrosive	Corrosive

Main article: Lich System/Progenitor (edit)

*Note that the Primed or Umbra version of a Warframe share the same element

Tips

• A maximum rank  Primary Merciless synergizes well with this weapon, reducing the reload to 3.1 seconds and giving it 48 reserve rounds, on top of the increased damage.
• The Tenet Envoy is a good weapon to equip on on-call Railjack crew members as their AI focuses on aiming the weapon, effectively redirecting all rockets on incoming enemies.
  • This can also mean mods requiring aiming to trigger, such as  Argon Scope and  Bladed Rounds, may be in effect as crews use them (needs verification).
• Because the Tenet Envoy sports a fairly larger magazine capacity compared to some of its other explosive counterparts (such as the  Kuva Bramma and  Kuva Tonkor) it is practically more efficient with ammo pickups, as the other weapons would immediately consume nearby pickups after merely using a shot.
  • In this regard, it shares this ammo pickup efficiency property with the  Kuva Ogris and the  Kuva Zarr.

Trivia

• The explosions resulting from the rockets fired by this weapon briefly show Corpus lettering and iconography.
• While sheathed and while reloading, the weapon folds up into an attaché case.
• When aiming, the Warframe will put the weapon up close to their helmet and a laser sight will appear from the front, implying the guidance system is optical-based.

Bugs

• When trying to direct by aiming, rockets prematurely detonate upon contact with  Gara's  Mass Vitrify wall or  Frost's  Snow Globe, possibly due to the laser sight erroneously treating the wall as a physical barrier. To try to bypass, a player must allow the rockets to pass through first before starting to redirect by aiming.
  • This bug is also observable on rockets fired by on-call Railjack crews or a converted Sister of Parvos.

Media

Tenet Envoy, as it appears in the arsenal

Tenet Envoy, A Weapon Has Never Been This Awesome - Warframe

Tenet Envoy Build 2021 (Guide) - The Resistance's RPG - Warframe

See Also

•  Kuva Ogris, the Kuva equivalent rocket launcher.

Patch History

Update 30.7 (2021-09-08)

• Fixed the Tenet Envoy's guided rockets being unable to pass through Volt's Shield and Gara's Vitrify.

Hotfix 30.5.5 (2021-07-29)

• Fixed Tenet Envoy missiles striking a Null bubble becoming stuck and orphaned in the air.

Hotfix 30.5.4 (2021-07-17)

• Fixed friendly AI not being able to use the Tenet Envoy.

Hotfix 30.5.3 (2021-07-09)

• Fixed cases where the Tenet Envoy rockets could remain in the air indefinitely.

Hotfix 30.5.2 (2021-07-07)

• Fixed a crash that could occur when firing the Tenet Envoy and dying at the same time.

Update 30.5 (2021-07-06)

• Introduced.