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• Gauss expends 50 energy to manipulate the kinetic energy around him to create an area of extreme temperatures with an initial radius of 6 / 8 / 10 / 12 meters, which gradually shrinks to a final radius of 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 meters and lasts for 6 / 9 / 12 / 15 seconds.
  • Tap the ability key (default 3 ) to absorb kinetic energy, charging battery power by 10% to inflict a  Cold proc on all enemies within range, lasting for 2.5 - 5 / 3 - 6 / 3.5 - 7 / 4 - 8 seconds based on battery. Enemies caught in the area creation receive 75 - 375 / 100 - 500 / 125 - 625 / 150 - 750  Cold damage based on battery with guaranteed Status Effect; enemies lingering inside the area also receive damage per second, which diminishes in amount with the size of the area. When cast on enemies already affected by  Cold proc, they receive 9 additional  Cold status procs to be instantly frozen solid for the full status duration.
  • Hold down the ability key to expend kinetic energy, draining battery power by 10% to inflict a  Heat proc on all enemies in range, lasting for a minimum duration of 2.5 - 5 / 3 - 6 / 3.5 - 7 / 4 - 8 seconds based on battery. Enemies caught in the area creation receive 150 - 750 / 200 - 1000 / 250 - 1250 / 300 - 1500  Heat damage based on battery with guaranteed Status Effect; enemies lingering inside the area also receive damage per second, which diminishes in amount with the size of the area. When cast on enemies already affected by  Heat proc, Thermal Sunder deals its normal damage plus the damage of the current  Heat proc^[1].
  • Damage per second has a moderate chance to stagger light enemy units within the area.
  • Enemies already afflicted with a status effect of the same type will have it reapplied; its status duration uses the battery power level at the time of the new Thermal Sunder cast.
• Casting Thermal Sunder of the opposite damage type on enemies already afflicted with  Cold or  Heat procs, combines the damage type into  Blast. Affected enemies first have the initial status effect removed, receive the new status effect, they also receive a  Blast proc and deals damage based on the mode being used plus the damage of the canceled status.
  •  Blast damage is given by :$\text{Heat Proc Damage}\cdot \text{Remaining Proc Duration}+\text{Damage of Canceling Cast}$
    • Remaining Proc Duration is based on the duration of the proc on the enemy being canceled, i.e. casting a  Heat Thermal Sunder on an enemy affected by a  Cold will use the remaining duration of the  Cold proc.
  • For example: Casting a  Heat Thermal Sunder at 80% battery followed by a  Cold Thermal Sunder at 70% battery with 6 seconds left on the  Heat proc will deal: [300 + 0.8 * (1500 - 300)] * 6 + [150 + 0.7 * (750 - 150)] = 8,130 damage.
  • The order in which the elemental procs are combined changes the direction in which enemies within the ability area are knocked back by the  Blast proc. Casting  Cold first then  Heat will knock enemies outwards, while casting  Heat first then  Cold will pull enemies in towards the player.
  • When casting both elements, the elemental proc cast second will override and replace the first element already present, e.g. if enemies were affected by the  Cold area first, casting  Heat proc on them will remove the  Cold proc and replace it with  Heat.
• Ability Synergy:
  •  Mach Rush through a Thermal Sunder area to add its  Cold or  Heat damage to Mach Rush's knockdown and shockwave explosion.
  • Thermal Sunder gains bonuses to its status effects when  Redline is active and above the redline battery charge (>80%):
    •  Cold mode applies 10  Cold status procs to instantly freeze enemies solid.
    •  Heat mode's damage is doubled. This doubling is applied after the bonus damage from active heat procs on a target, allowing consecutive casts to do double the previous cast's damage.
    • The  Blast proc permanently reduces enemy's current amount of armor based off of battery power level, up to a maximum of 100% with a full battery charge, before inflicting its damage.
      • Armor reduction scales linearly from 0% armor reduction at 80% battery to 100% armor reduction at 100% battery.
• Can be recast while active to create new Cold or Heat sunder areas. Gauss may create up to 4 distinct areas of either element, resulting in only 8 total distinct areas active at once. Casting Thermal Sunder in a new area after reaching the maximum of  Heat or  Cold areas will remove the oldest area of corresponding element.
• Subsuming Gauss to the Helminth will offer Thermal Sunder and its augments to be used by other Warframes.
  • The damage dealt by Subsumed Thermal Sunder is equivalent to 50% of Gauss's battery: 225 / 300 / 375 / 450  Cold damage and 450 / 600 / 750 / 900  Heat damage.
  • However, the damage scaling from  Heat status is capped to 10x of the ability's damage.