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Cascadia Flare is an Arcane Enhancement for Secondary weapons, that grants increased secondary weapon damage for 10 seconds when applying
Heat procs.
Effect[]
| Rank | Damage per Stack | Max Damage Stack |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 2% | 80% |
| 1 | 4% | 160% |
| 2 | 6% | 240% |
| 3 | 8% | 320% |
| 4 | 10% | 400% |
| 5 | 12% | 480% |
Acquisition[]
Cascadia Flare can be purchased from Cavalero for 
5,500, requiring Rank 2 - Watcher with The Holdfasts. It can also be dropped by Thrax Centurion, Thrax Legatus, and Void Angels on the Zariman Ten Zero.
| Item | Source | Chance | Expected | Nearly Guaranteed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
Thrax Centurion | 0.33% | ~ 299 Kills | 2067 ± 689 Kills |
|
Thrax Legatus | 0.33% | ~ 299 Kills | 2067 ± 689 Kills |
|
Void Angel | 1.67% | ~ 59 Kills | 410 ± 136 Kills |
|
Ravenous Void Angel | 0.67% | ~ 149 Kills | 1032 ± 344 Kills |
All drop rates data is obtained from DE's official drop tables.
See Mission Rewards#Standard Missions for definitions on reward table rotations.
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Farming Tips[]
- Thrax enemies are abundant in Mobile Defense and Void Cascade missions.
- The Zariman Arcane drop is considered as a mod drop, and is thus affected by The Steel Path and Mod Drop Chance Booster.
Notes[]
- Damage bonus is additive to mods.
- At all ranks, it will take 40
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Heat procs to reach the maximum damage bonus. - The bonus damage is applied on all damage types present in the secondary, and not just Heat damage.
- Stacking Cascadia Flare does not require the Heat proc to come from the secondary: it can come from Warframe abilities such as
Ember's ability kit and 
Protea's 
Blaze Artillery, or any weapon or companion that can proc Heat - even if the secondary is holstered.
- Unless one is riding
Merulina, in which case, only procs from the weapon itself will count.
- Unless one is riding
- Unlike other weapon arcanes, Cascadia Flare stacks expire all at once after 10 seconds of no procs, rather than only 1 stack every 10 seconds.
Tips[]
- With high fire rate weapons such as
Spectra, Cascadia Flare's max stack can be reached rather quickly despite its tendency to lose all its stacks upon expiry. - Equipping a sentinel with a high-status companion weapon such as Verglas — modded for viral and heat, fire rate and multishot — can effectively help keep the stacks of Cascadia Flare maxed.
- Works well on secondaries with innate Heat damage and high status chance such as the
Atomos, 
Hystrix (
Prime) with Heat Quills, and 
Tenet Cycron, as long as Heat is included among the listed elemental damage and not its derivatives such as 
Gas.
- Also works very well with weapons that possess a base secondary elemental damage type and high status chance such as the
Synoid Gammacor and 
Kompressa when combined with 
Primed Heated Charge, as long as the added Heat is included as a damage type.
- Also works very well with weapons that possess a base secondary elemental damage type and high status chance such as the
Patch History[]
Update 31.6 (2022-06-09)
- Introduced
 Arcanes
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|---|---|---|
| Eidolon • Arcane Helmets • Ostron • Operator • Amp • Solaris United • The Holdfasts • The Quills • Vox Solaris | ||
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20 comments
Gente, alguien me puede decir si llamarada de cascadia se suma al daño de un arma primaria con daño de calor, o solo lo carga ? Gracia
Solo agrega daño a la secundaria pero se puede acumular desde la primaria.
It only adds damage to the secondary but can stack from the primary.
Does this work with mesa regulators? I've seen the buff icon beign stacked at max when using the regulators but don't know if the dmg buff actually applies
Hell yes
No it wasn't i was wrong grrrrr
Abilities and exalted abilities can proc cascadia flare, but only the weapon it's slotted on benefit from the buff
Build on Nukor, it is work extreme well, just 2 3 sec and got full bonus from it! If there are many, maybe it is instance full,. It expired after 10 sec, dont care when i got it back from 3 sec!
They said merciless is better, but merciles need keep killing each 4 sec!
Yo, Kuva Nukor's chain beams are also great when you either have a heat progenitor or build it with heat. Cranks that damage up Real Good
Didn't know about this one, I'm already excited to try it with Archon Vitality + Nezha + Laetum. Jeez.
I hear conflicting beliefs about the instances in which this arcane's damage bonus applies to. according to the 'Notes' section, "The bonus damage is applied on all damage types present in the secondary, and not just Heat damage." The previous did not include clauses for warframe abilities, like Mesa's regulators or Gauss' thermal sunder for example, to inherit this arcane's damage bonus. I assume the bonus only applies to damage delivered by the secondary weapon as it is the one thing that was clearly stated in this article. I don't trust my own tests because discombobulation is a trademark of mine; has anyone got any proof that warframe abilities can inherit the bonus?
Just treat it as a more powerful Hornet Strike mod, that you can only put on secondary weapon arcane slots.
Can confirm Lavos's 4th skill plus imbued heat with any ability procs Cascadia Flare.
This doesn't say that it does not seem to apply to exalted weapons (Exalteds once again getting shat on).
Titania and Mesa cannot seem to benefit from this.
Why would it? You can't put arcanes on any exalted weapons. Seems straightforward to me
Some arcanes can trigger from exalted weapons
Yes, what the guy above me said. Some arcanes do indeed trigger for certain exalted weapons, so not straightforward, this is Warframe which means many things are not clearly being explained, not working or simply undescriptive, understand? Also, even the wiki is having a hard time gathering a clear information on certain topics as well such as; Crimson Fugue, Fortifying Fire and Defensive Fire.
I really hope we get a similar version to this in Primary. The fact that the heat can be from anything helps reduce the clunkyness of building up stacks when your stacks expire or when you switch weapon for a while.
Never in my life i've seen my Ocucor go melons like this...
Is this a base damage multiplier like hornet strike
Yes
If you are using a sentinel, give it Verglass with high status and Heat
Or a Helstrum will work well too.
How do you mod Verglas without combine with its cold damage?
You'll need 3 different elemental mods. A weapon's natural element is normally considered Last in the sequence, but if you fit a mod with the same element it will combine with the weapon's element and shift its sequence. So put Cold early, then something else to "spend" it into a combined element (Toxin for Viral is a good choice), then put a Heat mod and that will get you Heat on it.
Works great on Gaze kitguns even if you build max crit - minimum status.
This arcane is great. There are quite number of "slow starter" secondaries in WF and this manages them well. Though whole stack expires when the timer does, building stacks isn't much of a work really (additional multishots help too). Not having additional bonuses like ammo max and reload speed is bummer, but the ease of stacking and general use compensates those "missing" bonuses imo. Since this doesn't require any specific conditions for stacking (kills, headshots, etc.), this makes itself a great contender for 1 on 1 fights too. I wish we also get electricity variant, but heat is already good so I'm not gonna complain.
If you have trouble with using this arcane, an uncommon but fun choice is blazing pillage with hildryn allows you to max out this arcane insanely fast.
Played around with it a bit and it actually adds the bonus if the heat comes from any source, including abilities and sentinal weapons. My wukong twin using the kuva nukor counted, as did firewalker and any of ember's abilities, and the big one- verglas on my sentinel (haven't had a chance to test any more alternate heat sources, but this is what I've done so far). Gonna play around with it a bit more, but this does mean that the bonus could pretty easily be put on, maxed, and maintained reliably with weapons that have low status and high damage.
Oop, this was my comment, didn't realize i was signed out.
For use on "underdog" weapons, I find this ramps up quickly and works fairly well on Kompressa, Zakti Prime, Hystrix, Zymos, and Quatz. Cascadia Empowered (the +750 dmg arcane) also obviously works well, depending on your situation and setup.
Tenet cycron is good too
For Tenet Cycron Secondary Merciless is still better because the reload speed bonus is quite useful on it
Flare is better on Tenet Cycron because it is a battery weapon, meaning Merciless's reload bonus isn't as worthwhile.
Tenet Cycron also benefits more from Flare because its only bonus benefits it, while, as a battery weapon, the ammo capacity boost on Merciless does not.
Does it apply even on status immune enemies or objects?
People complaining about stacks dropping all at once... my brothers in christ, if you are using this on a weapon that it is meant for, you can stack it up in under a second.
True
Yep. people forget that multishot exists, or how it works... each instance of a "shot" can proc its own status... add even a pittance of multishot (use galvanized diffusion because if you aren't, wtf are you doing), keep those stacks up and as long as your elemental weighting isn't scuffed, keeping the stacks up is mindless.
All we need now are Cascadia Noel, Cascadia Marine, Cascadia Pekora, and Cascadia Rushia.
+1
Which of those will take Toxin damage? Rushia?
Cascadia Rushia did exist in the game, but it was removed after a controversy, and I hear some source code got leaked too.
Such a shame, it was one of my earliest arcanes.
Source : i made it the fuck up
All stacks expire at once, which is kind of disappointing. I guess the maximum bonus would be too free if they decayed one by one, but I can't think of a weapon I'd use this on with such a constraint.
I haven't had the chance to test this out yet, but this has the advantage of not requiring actual kills to get the damage bonus, so it can work with weapons that struggle to get headshots or initial kills, and can make certain weapons better or easier to use on bosses or single targets.
For the Nukor/Kuva Nukor specifically, I ran the numbers. Assuming you're running high Status and High Multishot, the Nukor is always better of with Cascadia Empowered compared to Cascadia Flare or Secondary Merciless.
Since this looses all stacks at once, I guess it's the only Stacking-Buff Arcane not affected by "Decay-Bug" as of 6-28-2022.
I fail to see how the Nukor would be better off with Cascadia Empowered than, Cascadia Flare. Empowerd isn't effected by crit, crit damage, or headshots. Meaning, the damage from Flare will also be multiplied by 10.5x with Primed target cracker equipped. Empowered also cannot be trigged outside of the secondary weapon itself either making that much worse of a choice as well, and losing all your stacks when not triggered.