Zenistar

Tenno

Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

Zenistar

Untradeable

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General Information

Max Rank

30

Utility

Normal Attack

80
( 26.85%)

68
( 22.82%)

150
( 50.34%)

Attacks While Disc Deployed

13
( 10%)

104
( 80%)

Disc Impact

75
( 100%)

Disc Explosion

350
( 100%)

Projectile Type

AoE

Disc Aura

50
( 100%)

Heavy Attack

Radial Damage

1,490

Slam Radius

9.0 m

Slam Attack

Slam Radius

8.0 m

Radial Damage

298

Slide Attack

Slide Element

Miscellaneous

Introduced

Update: Specters of the Rail 1 (2016-07-28)

Variants

Vendor Sources

Article Categories

CODEX

Scorch enemies with blistering blows, or set them ablaze with the flying fire disc.

The Zenistar is a melee weapon available through the Daily Tribute system as a reward for logging in for 100, 300, 500 or 700 cumulative days. Its Charge Attack ejects a flying fire disc, damaging nearby enemies.

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.
- With Update 18.0 (2015-12-03) (which introduced the Daily Tribute system) releasing on December 3, 2015, this weapon first became available on September 26, 2016.

Characteristics

This weapon deals primarily Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. and Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage.

Advantages:

Tied with Scindo Prime for the fifth highest base damage of all Heavy Blades, behind War, Paracesis, Galatine Prime and Gram Prime.
- Innate Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage – effective against Cloned Flesh, Infested, and Infested Flesh.
Very high status chance.
Normal attacks stagger enemies.
Charge Attack releases a floating disc that deals Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. on contact and then releases a Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. explosion. The disc stays in place and radiates a damaging Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. aura for 45 seconds.
- Weapon handle changes to deal physical damage and gains an attack speed bonus.
  - High Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage – effective against health.
Innate Script error: The function "Pol" does not exist. polarity.
Stance slot has a Script error: The function "Pol" does not exist. polarity, matches Rending Crane.

Disadvantages:

Innate Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage – less effective against Proto Shields.
- While the disc is attached, the weapon does not benefit from Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist., Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. or Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage mods.
While the disc is thrown, the handle has low Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. and Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage – less effective against shields and armor.
Very low critical chance.
Low base attack speed.

Notes

It is advised not to dispose of the Zenistar as there is no way to reobtain it.
Performing a Charge Attack with the Zenistar equipped launches the disc a distance of 9 meters in the direction of the reticle. Whilst the disc is a projectile, it will deal 75Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage on contact and 350Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage when it explodes. Once it lands, it projects an aura with a 4 meter radius, dealing 50Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage with 50% status chance every 0.8 seconds for 45 seconds.
- Players can launch a disc with a charge attack even if the Zenistar is not actively equipped.
- The disc can be retrieved prematurely by performing another charge attack, or getting far enough away from where it is planted (around 100 meters away).
  - Launching or retrieving the disc will alert nearby enemies, though the radius is very small (around 10 meters).
- When launching the disc into water, the disc will not bounce and stops immediately.
- Regardless of the rotational position of the disc, the flames will always be horizontal.
- Elemental mods will affect the charge attack as normal, creating combination elements such as Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. or Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist.. Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage is added last unless a Heat mod is added.
  - While the disc is out and if a heat mod is not added, but another element is, then the standard attacks will gain that element instead of the combination one, allowing for unique combinations such as Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. on AoE and Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. on standard attacks (along with the regular physical damage).
Mods/abilities/etc. that will work with the disc:
- The disc's radius is affected by (Primed) Reach and Riven Mod Range Stats.
- Status chance of the aura is effected by status mods.
- The attack speed of the disc's aura is affected by bonuses such as (Primed) Fury, Arcane Strike, Warcry and Speed.
  - Despite the disc's ability to trigger "Berserker" wasn't found in Module:Mods/data, its attack speed is not affected by Berserker, only the handle can benefit from it.
- The duration of the disc cannot be modified by any means.
- The disc will apply the damage multiplier from Stealth Attacks.
  - Hydroid's Undertow and Wukong's Cloud Walker count as being invisible from enemies, allowing the Zenistar to deal bonus damage.
- Kills done by the disc will add time to Valkyr's Eternal War augment.
- Damage buffs such as Rhino's Roar will only effect 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 which 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.
- Condition Overload does affect the disc's damage output.
- Mirage's Hall of Mirrors holograms will throw up to 4 additional discs.
Mods/abilities/etc. that won't work with the disc:
- Life Strike has been patched since release, channeling whilst throwing the disc will not cause the damaging aura to heal the player whatsoever.
  - Likewise, 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 disc will not add time to allies affected by Valkyr's Eternal War augment, however the blade itself will.
- The initial 9 meter launch distance will not be affected by Jet Stream.
- Channeling effects only work on the axe attacks, not the disc's aura. Enemies killed by the aura while channeling will still float and disintegrate into the air however.
- Beguiling Lantern bonus melee damage does not affect Zenistar's disc.

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 Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. 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 in Codex.

Hydroid's Puddle Of Death Exploit

Zenistar Skins

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Patch History

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)