This remotely detonated electrical trap is used by devotees of New Loka to protect their temples and shrines.
The Sancti Castanas are an exclusive version of the Castanas available only from New Loka. It has higher base damage, status and critical chance as well as innate Purity effect.
100% chance to proc Electricity regardless of installed mods, have 15% base chance to additionally proc modded damage type.
Electricity proc provides very high stun chance against most humanoid enemies.
Electricity proc chains damage to enemies around it, making this weapon great against crowds.
Silent, even if the projectile hits the enemy.
User can detonate charges on command, giving the player precise timing in detonation.
Up to 6 charges can be ready for detonation at the same time.
Two and one Polarities.
Has base damage type of Electricity, allowing Castanas to easily be modified to Radiation damage for Heavy Grineer units, Corrosive damage for Ancient Infested units and Magnetic damage for Corpus units.
The Sancti Castanas can be acquired by reaching the Rank of Flawless with New Loka, and spending 100,000 Standing to purchase. As with all Syndicate Weapons, the Sancti Castanas cannot be chosen as the free offering upon ranking up to Flawless rank.
Syndicate weapons can be also be acquired via Trading, but only for unranked copies without Forma and Orokin Catalyst installed.
The Sancti Castanas has an innate Purity effect identical to that found in New LokaWeapon Augment Mods. Upon accumulating sufficient affinity, the Sancti Castanas will release an AoE radial blast that deals Corrosive damage and proc, restores 25% of the Warframe's maximum Health, and temporarily buffs maximum Health by 25% for 30 seconds.
These are the ONLY weapons in the entire game that innately come with 3 polarities installed (Two and one ), making modding extremely easy.
In this case, the polarity is very easy to use, as two polarities means that it will deal a lot of raw AND elemental damage after modding, meaning that mods that use the polarity like Deep Freeze is very efficient.