The Zenistar is a flaming war axe obtained through the Daily Tribute system. Its secondary attack ejects a disc that deals Heat damage over time for a duration based on the current Combo Multiplier.
This weapon cannot be sold.
Characteristics[]
- This weapon deals primarily Heat and Impact damage.
- Heavy Attack releases a floating disc that deals Impact on contact and then releases a Heat explosion. The disc stays in place and radiates a damaging Heat aura with a base duration of 10 seconds and scales with Combo Multiplier.
- Stance slot has polarity, matching Rending Crane and Noble Cadence (Conclave only) stance.
- Innate polarity.
Advantages over other Melee weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Second highest status chance of all heavy blades, behind Gram Prime.
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Very high total damage (298)
- Above average attack range (2.60 m)
- Above average status chance (30.00%)
- Attacks While Disc Deployed (wiki attack index 2)
- Above average attack range (2.60 m)
- Above average disposition (●●●●○ (1.15x))
- Disc Impact (wiki attack index 3)
- No numerical advantages.
- Disc Explosion (wiki attack index 4)
- No numerical advantages.
- Disc Aura (wiki attack index 5)
- Above average attack range (2.60 m)
- Very high status chance (50.00%)
Disadvantages over other Melee weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Tied with Vitrica for the second slowest attack speed of all heavy blades, after Gram Prime.
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Very low crit chance (10.00%)
- Very low attack speed (0.83x animation speed)
- Below average disposition (●●●●○ (1.15x))
- Attacks While Disc Deployed (wiki attack index 2)
- Very low crit chance (10.00%)
- Low total damage (130)
- Below average attack speed (0.83x animation speed)
- Below average status chance (15.00%)
- Below average crit multiplier (2.00x)
- Disc Impact (wiki attack index 3)
- Very low crit chance (10.00%)
- Very low total damage (75)
- Below average attack speed (0.91x animation speed)
- Below average status chance (15.00%)
- Below average crit multiplier (2.00x)
- Disc Explosion (wiki attack index 4)
- Very low crit chance (10.00%)
- Low maximum falloff distance (4.0 m)
- Very low total damage (350)
- Below average attack speed (0.91x animation speed)
- Low status chance (15.00%)
- Below average disposition (●●●●○ (1.15x))
- Below average crit multiplier (2.00x)
- Disc Aura (wiki attack index 5)
- Very low active falloff slope (-infm/%)
- Low crit chance (10.00%)
- Very low total damage (50)
- Below average disposition (●●●●○ (1.15x))
- Low crit multiplier (2.00x)
See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.
Acquisition[]
The Zenistar is exclusive to the Daily Tribute system. It will become available every 200 days, beginning at day 100, until chosen as the Milestone reward. It comes with a free weapon slot and pre-installed Orokin Catalyst.
Additional blueprints can be bought from Cephalon Simaris for 100,000.
Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
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30,000 |
Morphics 4 |
Circuits 450 |
Polymer Bundle 500 |
Salvage 2,750 |
Time: 1 Day(s) |
N/A | |||||
Market Price: N/A | Blueprints Price:100,000 |
Combos
Combo/Attack | Name | Attack Multipliers and Forced Procs | Avg Dmg Multi/s | Length @ 1.0 Attack Speed |
Animation | |||||||||||||||||||
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Heavy (Heavy Attack) |
Zenistar Heavy (unofficial) | N / A | N / A | |||||||||||||||||||||
Default "Sweep" Attack • 360°/Spin Attack • Direct and Radial Slam Attack • Ranged Attack • "Thrust" Attack
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Mechanics[]
- Performing a heavy attack with the Zenistar equipped launches the disc a distance of 9 meters in the direction of the reticle. While the disc is a projectile, it will deal 75 Impact damage on contact and 350 Heat damage when it explodes. Once it lands, it projects an aura with a 4 meter radius, dealing 50 Heat damage with 50% status chance every 0.8 seconds. For clarity's sake, the Zenistar itself will be referred to as the "blade".
- The disc has a base duration of 10 seconds, which scales with the player's Combo Multiplier.
- The disc can be retrieved prematurely by performing another heavy attack, or getting around 100 meters away from where it is planted.
- Launching or retrieving the disc will alert enemies up to 10 meters away.
- When launching the disc into water, the disc will not bounce and stop immediately.
- Regardless of the rotational position of the disc, the flames will always be horizontal.
- Elemental mods will affect the disc's damage as normal, creating combination elements such as Blast or Radiation. Heat damage is added last unless a Heat mod is added.
- The following Mods/abilities/etc. will work with the disc:
- The disc's radius is affected by ( Primed) Reach, Spring-Loaded Blade, and Riven Mod Range Stats.
- The aura of the disc can trigger Spring-Loaded Blade continuously up to x2, resetting the timer and increasing the radius of the disc, even while the disc is deployed.
- Status chance of the aura is affected by status mods.
- The attack speed of the disc's aura is affected by bonuses such as ( Primed) Fury, Arcane Strike, Warcry and Speed.
- Although the disc can both trigger and maintain Berserker Fury, only the blade can benefit from it.
- Disc kills will extend Warcry's duration if Eternal War is installed, but only for Valkyr or, by virtue of Warcry being subsumable, the Warframe who cast it; allied buffs can only be maintained with regular blade attacks.
- The disc will apply the damage multiplier from Stealth Attacks.
- Wukong's Cloud Walker counts as being invisible from enemies, allowing the Zenistar to deal bonus damage.
- Damage buffs such as Rhino's Roar will only affect the disc's damage for as long as the buff is active.
- As with almost all projectiles, the disc will be attracted to Mag's Magnetize if the disc makes contact with the bubble at any time after it has been launched. The disc will then proceed to circle around the inside of the bubble's circumference until either Magnetize expires or the disc expires (whichever comes first), affecting enemies radially as the disc moves. It is currently unknown whether this is by design or an unintentional bug, and may only be seen visually by the casting Mag user.
- The disc's aura effect will damage Nullifier Crewman bubbles.
- Ivara's Navigator fully works with the disc, though due to it bouncing off objects it may be difficult to control in some areas.
- Mirage's Hall of Mirrors holograms will throw up to 2 additional discs that will expire should the ability end before the main disc expires.
- Blood Rush and the Gladiator mod set buff will affect the disc’s aura.
- The disc will trigger Melee Vortex and pull enemies.
- The disc's radius is affected by ( Primed) Reach, Spring-Loaded Blade, and Riven Mod Range Stats.
- The following Mods/abilities/etc. will not work with the disc:
- Killing Blow does not affect the damage of the disc’s contact, explosion and aura damage.
- Condition Overload does not affect the disc's damage output.
- Life Strike will only heal the player while the heavy attack animation is playing when retrieving the disk.
- Recurring damage via the disc's aura is unable to proc Healing Return.
- The disc will not count hits towards the combo meter and the disc's damage does not benefit from combo damage multiplier.
- The initial 9 meter launch distance will not be affected by Jet Stream.
- Beguiling Lantern bonus melee damage does not affect Zenistar's disc.
- Dispatch Overdrive and the Carnis mod set effect will not be triggered by enemies being hit with the disk's aura, however it will be triggered if an enemy is hit by the disk itself.
Trivia[]
- The Zenistar's name likely stems from zenith, whereas its design is inspired by a sundial.
- The Zenistar is the first weapon in Warframe that changes its damage distribution: in this case heat is replaced by physical damage of the same amount when the disc is discharged from the weapon. This allows the weapon to be made for pure elemental builds (with the disc on) or have the ability to deal physical damage (like heavy slash procs) with the disc ejected.
- The console version of the Zenistar had different stats upon release, being identical to those of the Scindo Prime's (with innate Heat damage instead of physical damage), but couldn't launch its disc, similar to how the Azima couldn't launch its magazine when it was released on consoles.
- Despite being a heavy blade, the Zenistar is held like a hammer by the Warframe.
Bugs[]
- Sometimes the disc stays inside the Zenistar even when the disc has launched. This is only a visual bug and does not affect the weapon in any case.
- Enemies who are dealt bonus stealth damage when in Undertow or Cloud Walker may continue to receive this bonus damage even when leaving the ability. This is especially true when it is built for blast damage, for whatever reason.
- Sometimes attempting to throw the disc will result in the disc not being ejected from the handle. Swapping to a different weapon and then swapping back might fix the issue.
- When the Dominion Blade Skin is equipped on the Zenistar, the blade will appear to be extremely large. While this was unintentional, the developers have stated that they like it, so it is unlikely to change.
Media[]
Zenistar Skins
Patch History[]
Hotfix 29.3.1 (2020-11-04)
- Fixed Zenistar disc not expiring when in Titania’s Razorwing mode.
Update 28.0 (2020-06-11)
- Added login milestone reward blueprints to Simaris' Offerings.
- Blueprints for each only appear in his Offerings if they have already been previously selected as login rewards.
Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
Actual patch notes made a mistake on old follow through.
- Damage increased from 130 Heat to 298 (80 Impact, 68 Slash, and 150 Heat).
- Range increased from 1 to 2.6.
- Status Chance increased from 25% to 30%.
- Critical Chance increased from 5% to 10%.
- Slam Attack increased from 260 to 894.
- Slide Attack increased from 260 to 596.
- Zenistar's disc Duration is now a base of 10 seconds and is increased by the Combo Multiplier.
- Parry Angle set to 55.
- Follow Through decreased from 0.9 to 0.6.
Hotfix 23.3.1 (2018-08-09)
- Fixed the Zenistar disc not deploying when using the Mortier Heavy Blade Skin.
Hotfix: The Index Preview 4 (2016-10-25)
- Fixed (for real this time) attaining free health by channeling as enemies pass through the Zenistar’s charge disc with Life Strike equipped.
Hotfix: The Index Preview 1 (2016-10-20)
- Fixed attaining free health by channeling as enemies pass through the Zenistar's charge disc with Life Strike equipped.
- Fixed Limbo being able to damage enemies while remaining invincible in the Rift with the Zenistar charge attack.
Hotfix: The Vacuum Within 3 (2016-10-13)
- Fixed the Zenistar's charge disc range FX not increasing in size when equipping melee range Mods (i.e. Primed Reach).
Hotfix: The Silver Grove 4 (2016-08-25)
- Added a buff-icon and timer for the Zenistar's disc projectile.
- Fixed the Zenistar's disc returning to AFK/dead players.
Update: Specters of the Rail 1 (2016-07-28)
- Added to the Daily Tribute rewards.
Last updated: Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)