Tenet Tetra

Corpus Weapons

Tenet Tetra
Statistics
Type	Rifle
Mastery	16
Slot	Primary
Trigger Type	Auto / Semi
Utility
Accuracy	18.2
Ammo Type	Rifle
Disposition	●○○○○ (0.70x)
Fire Rate	5
Noise Level	Alarming
Magazine Size	80
Max Ammo	480
Reload Time	2.2 s
Projectile Speed	100 m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Normal
13.2
33.6
13.2
15
Total Damage	75 (44.8%)
Crit Chance	28%
Crit Multiplier	2.2x
Fire Rate	5
Multishot	1 (75 damage per projectile)
Status Chance	30%
Projectile Speed	100 m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Grenade Impact
200
50
Total Damage	250 (80%)
Ammo Cost	80
Crit Chance	28%
Crit Multiplier	2.2x
Fire Rate	1.33
Multishot	1 (250 damage per projectile)
Reload Time	1.8 s
Status Chance	30%
Projectile Speed	? m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Grenade AoE
1,000
250
Total Damage	1,250 (80%)
Ammo Cost	80
Crit Chance	28%
Crit Multiplier	2.2x
Damage Falloff	100% damage up to 0 m 40% damage at 8 m 60% max reduction
Fire Rate	1.33
Multishot	1 (1,250 damage per projectile)
Range	8 m
Status Chance	30%
Projectile Type	AoE
Miscellaneous
Exilus Polarity
Internal Name	/Lotus/Weapons/Corpus/BoardExec/Primary/CrpBETetra/CrpBETetra
Introduced	Update 30.5 (2021-07-06)
Polarities	None
Variants	Prisma Tetra  Tetra

CODEX

Parvosian upgrade of the classic Tetra. Slower fire rate but with a larger magazine. Can now alt fire an entire clip as a large burst radius grenade launcher.

The Tenet Tetra is the Tenet variant of the  Tetra projectile rifle, sporting drastic improvements to its damage, critical chance, critical multiplier, status chance, and magazine size, at the cost of reduced fire rate and slightly slower reload speed. Its Alternate Fire swaps to a semi-automatic single round that launches an explosive grenade that reloads slightly faster than the automatic fire.

Characteristics

• This weapon primarily deals  Puncture damage, and the grenade deals  Blast damage.
  •  Puncture damage is effective against armor.
  •  Blast damage is effective against Machinery and Fossilized.
• Primary Fire shoots energy shots in fully automatic fashion.
• Alternate Fire launches a single grenade that explode in an 8 meter radius on impact with a surface or enemy, dealing  Blast damage.
  • Consumes entire magazine.
  • Initial hit and explosion apply status separately.
  • Explosion does not need direct line of sight to deal damage and will penetrate walls.
  • Explosion has linear damage falloff from 100% to 40% from central impact.
• 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%.
• Polarizing the weapon increases its max rank by 2, capping at rank 40 after 5 polarizations, granting the weapon additional mod capacity.

Advantages:

• Primary Fire:
  • Very high base damage.
• Alternate Fire:
  • Very high base damage.
  • Fast reload speed.
  • Can benefit from  Firestorm ( Primed) and  Cautious Shot.
  • Draws from the fairly common rifle ammo pool, allowing quick recovery of spent ammo from grenade shots.
• Very high critical chance.
• High critical multiplier.
• Very high status chance.
• Very large magazine size.
• Can use the Tetra-exclusive  Focused Acceleration and  Kinetic Ricochet mods.
• Polarization capacity bonus allows for more flexible modding and easier use of high cost mods.
• Progenitor damage bonus provides extra elemental modding capabilities with the extra potency.

Disadvantages:

• Primary Fire:
  • Low accuracy.
  • Slow fire rate.
• Alternate Fire:
  • Very slow fire rate.
  • Explosion inflicts self-stagger.
  • Explosion range cannot be increased with  Amalgam Furax Body Count.
  • Consumes the full magazine, preventing semi-auto mode from being used in tandem with the full-auto mode.
  • Projectile has heavy arcing.
  • Cannot be manually reloaded to bypass reload delay.
  • The Kinetic Ricochet mod does not affect the alt-fire projectile.
• Projectiles have travel time.

Comparisons:

• Tenet Tetra (Grenade AoE), compared to Tetra (Normal):
  • Higher base damage per projectile (1,250 vs. 32)
    • Lower  Impact damage (0 vs. 6.4)
    • Lower  Puncture damage (0 vs. 25.6)
    • Higher  Blast damage (1,000 vs. 0)
    • Higher  MinProgenitorBonus damage (250 vs. 0)
  • Higher total damage (1,250 vs. 32)
  • Higher base critical chance (28% vs. 4%)
  • Higher base critical multiplier (2.2x vs. 1.5x)
  • Higher base status chance (30% vs. 20%)
  • Higher average damage per shot (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (2,137.6 vs. 32.64)
  • Higher burst DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (2,843.01 vs. 217.71)
  • Higher sustained DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (724.15 vs. 178.11)
  • Lower fire rate (1.33 round(s)/sec vs. 6.67 round(s)/sec)
  • Larger magazine (80 round(s) vs. 60 round(s))
  • Smaller max ammo capacity (480 round(s) vs. 540 round(s))
  • Slower reload time (2.2 s vs. 2 s)
  • Higher Mastery Rank required (16 vs. 3)
  • Lower disposition (0.7 vs. 1.5)

Comparisons:

• Tenet Tetra (Grenade AoE), compared to Prisma Tetra (Normal):
  • Higher base damage per projectile (1,250 vs. 38)
    • Lower  Impact damage (0 vs. 7.6)
    • Lower  Puncture damage (0 vs. 30.4)
    • Higher  Blast damage (1,000 vs. 0)
    • Higher  MinProgenitorBonus damage (250 vs. 0)
  • Higher total damage (1,250 vs. 38)
  • Higher base critical chance (28% vs. 10%)
  • Higher base critical multiplier (2.2x vs. 2x)
  • Higher base status chance (30% vs. 24%)
  • Higher average damage per shot (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (2,137.6 vs. 41.8)
  • Higher burst DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (2,843.01 vs. 295.94)
  • Higher sustained DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (724.15 vs. 239.44)
  • Lower fire rate (1.33 round(s)/sec vs. 7.08 round(s)/sec)
  • Larger magazine (80 round(s) vs. 60 round(s))
  • Smaller max ammo capacity (480 round(s) vs. 540 round(s))
  • Slower reload time (2.2 s vs. 2 s)
  • Higher Mastery Rank required (16 vs. 4)
  • Lower disposition (0.7 vs. 1.45)

Acquisition

Tenet Tetra 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

• As with all Kuva and Tenet weapons, 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 Kuva Lich or 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. Odizrigg Agekk Kuva Kohm).
• 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 to finish modding the weapon.
    • 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, dependent on the Warframe that summoned the Lich/Sister.
  • This damage stat ranges between 25%-60%, and is randomly generated by the Lich/Sister. It can be brought up to its maximum value with Valence Fusion using another copy of the weapon.
  • This bonus stat is considered a base damage type that is added after all elemental mods.

  View detailed explanation about element merging  ▾▾

• • If the weapon innately has a primary element type ( Heat,  Cold,  Electricity,  Toxin) AND has a different primary element as its bonus stat, the elements on the weapon will combine in a unique way: Whichever of the two primary elements comes first in this element order -  Heat >  Cold >  Electricity >  Toxin, or "HCET" for short - will be placed second to last in the element combine order, while the other primary element will be placed last in the combine order. This order can be subsequently shifted based on the order of the equipped mods.
  • For example, if the weapon innately has  Cold, using an  Electricity progenitor Warframe to add base  Electricity damage to the weapon will change the weapon's base element to  Magnetic.
    • Because  Cold comes before  Electricity in the HCET element order,  Cold will be placed second to last in the element combine order, and  Electricity will be placed last.
    • If the weapon is then modded with only  Heat, the elements will be arranged in the order  Heat,  Cold,  Electricity, resulting in the weapon having  Blast +  Electricity. If the weapon is instead modded with only  Toxin, the elements will be arranged in the order  Toxin,  Cold,  Electricity, which will create  Viral +  Electricity.
    • If modded with  Electricity and  Heat, the  Electricity will be moved earlier in the combine order due to now being a modded element, so the new combine order will be  Electricity,  Heat,  Cold, resulting in  Radiation +  Cold. If modded with  Heat and  Toxin, the combine order will be  Heat,  Toxin,  Cold,  Electricity, resulting in  Gas +  Magnetic.

HCET Damage Priority Results

Bonus Element + Modded Element / Innate Element	Innate  Heat ( Tenet Spirex)	Innate  Cold ( Tenet Envoy)	Innate  Electricity ( Tenet Agendus)	Innate  Toxin
Bonus  Heat + Modded  Cold	-	-	Blast +  Electricity	Blast +  Toxin
Bonus  Heat + Modded  Electricity	-	Radiation +  Cold	-	Radiation +  Toxin
Bonus  Heat + Modded  Toxin	-	Gas +  Cold	Gas +  Electricity	-
Bonus  Cold + Modded  Heat	-	-	Blast +  Electricity	Blast +  Toxin
Bonus  Cold + Modded  Electricity	Radiation +  Cold	-	-	Magnetic +  Toxin
Bonus  Cold + Modded  Toxin	Gas +  Cold	-	Viral +  Electricity	-
Bonus  Electricity + Modded  Heat	-	Blast +  Electricity	-	Radiation +  Toxin
Bonus  Electricity + Modded  Cold	Blast +  Electricity	-	-	Magnetic +  Toxin
Bonus  Electricity + Modded  Toxin	Gas +  Electricity	Viral +  Electricity	-	-
Bonus  Toxin + Modded  Heat	-	Blast +  Toxin	Radiation +  Toxin	-
Bonus  Toxin + Modded  Cold	Blast +  Toxin	-	Magnetic +  Toxin	-
Bonus  Toxin + Modded  Electricity	Radiation +  Toxin	Magnetic +  Toxin	-	-

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

Trivia

• Fourth lowest fire rate of all fully automatic rifles, after  Panthera,  Panthera Prime, and  Trumna.

Media

Tenet Tetra Build - The Energizer 2021 (Guide) - Warframe

Patch History

Update 30.8 (2021-10-04)

• Fixed the Tenet Tetra semi-auto mode breaking if a -magazine capacity Riven is equipped. As reported here: https://forums.warframe.com/topic/1280237-tenet-tetra-mag-cap-riven-disables-semi-fire/

Hotfix 30.5.4 (2021-07-17)

• Added 60% fall off to the Tenet Tetra Alt Fire area-of-effect as intended.

Update 30.5 (2021-07-06)

• Introduced.

See Also

•  Tetra, the normal variant.
•  Prisma Tetra, the Prisma variant.