Valence Formation is a Warframe Augment Mod for 
Lavos that allows weapons to gain the corresponding element of an ability whenever it is cast, with a guaranteed status effect.
Stats[]
| Rank | Elemental Damage |  Duration
|
Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 50% | 20s | 6 |
| 1 | 100% | 20s | 7 |
| 2 | 150% | 20s | 8 |
| 3 | 200% | 20s | 9 |
Acquisition[]
- This mod can be acquired by attaining the rank of General under New Loka, or the rank of Exalted under the Red Veil, and spending
25,000 to purchase.
Notes[]
- Can only be modified by ability duration. Ability strength wouldn't add or decrease the elemental damage bonus.
- Only mixing any element (by holding one or two of his abilities) will contribute to the bonus weapon damage when an ability is used.
- Only one element bonus can be active at a time, casting another ability with a mixed element will replace it and refresh the duration.
- Bonus Elemental Damage will be added parallel to your weapon’s Elemental Damage and will NOT combine with elements on the weapon.
- Affects damage-over-time from Lavos' abilities.
- Unlike any other buff in the game, this one cannot be negated by nullifying bubble and enemy abilities, also jumping into the void doesn't reset it.
- Valence Formation is the only buff in the game that affects the aoe explosion of Vile Discharge, though it will only add the status effect, not damage.
- However, the proc will effect Lavos if he is within range unless he has Valence Block active.
Tips[]
- This allows Lavos to freely deal with enemy weaknesses such as removing armor with Corrosive while wielding a Viral based weapon, or dealing with shields by adding Magnetic damage.
- Shotguns are ideal weapons to utilize with this augment as each pellet will gain the boosted damage and proc the element on every hit.
- Conversely, beam weapons may be less effective than expected as modding for multishot will not increase the number of hits.
- Can damage the Profit-Taker Orb's shields, allowing Lavos to adapt when she changes her elemental weaknesses.
- In some cases, it can be beneficial to use an unranked version of this mod so that the innate status effects on the weapon are more likely to happen, while the element from Valence Formation will still be guaranteed on hit.
Bugs[]
- Does not affect the tether mode of the thrown Ferrox or Tenet Ferrox
Trivia[]
- Before Update 38.0 (2024-12-13), Elemental Damage Bonuses from abilities would affect the damage of their respective status effect, and Valence Formation was the only source of a non-combined Gas and Blast damage bonus, and thus the only way to leverage that multiplier for those elements.
- Since then, and as of Hotfix 38.0.7 (2025-01-14) there is no source of non-combined Gas / Blast damage bonus in the game that counts towards their status damage.
- Since then, and as of Hotfix 38.0.7 (2025-01-14) there is no source of non-combined
Maximization[]
Patch History[]
Update 38.0 (2024-12-13)
- Elemental Damage from the Valence Formation Augments will now be added parallel to your weapon’s Elemental Damage, instead of creating Combined Elemental Damage types.
- This was changed for relevant Decrees and Saya’s Visions Blessings with 37.0.7, and now also applies to these Augments!
Update 35.5 (2024-03-27)
- Introduced.
