Shield

Shields are invisible barriers that absorb incoming damage and protects the player from taking Health damage against enemy attacks. Unlike health, shields regenerate after a few seconds of not taking damage, making them a naturally replenishing defense.

All Warframes, except  Inaros,  Kullervo, and  Nidus, possess shields, whose values can be seen in the upper right of the player's UI as a blue number, with each Warframe possessing different amounts of maximum shields. Corpus units also make extensive use of shielding, along with certain bosses. When a player's shields are depleted, the player's HUD will briefly flash with blue and red lines, and the player will be surrounded by a red aura. A pulsing blue outline will envelop the player once shields begin to recharge.

Effects[]

Shields recharge after a couple seconds when not being damaged. In addition, when shields are fully depleted, the user experiences a brief period of invulnerability known as shield gating.

While player's Tenno Shield enjoy a 50% Damage Reduction, shields receive no damage mitigation from armor and are overall less effective at absorbing damage as a result, especially for well-armored Warframes. On the other hand, their regeneration makes them more useful for frames with high potential maximum shields but below-average potential maximum health such as  Hildryn.

 Magnetic Status Effect increases damage dealt towards shields, as well as preventing shield regeneration for its duration.  Toxin damage completely ignores normal shields, dealing damage directly to the health points underneath.

Increasing Maximum Shields[]

A Warframe's maximum shield value increases after every few ranks until rank 30 is reached (see Warframes#Leveling Up for more details). Beyond this, shields can only be enhanced by installing mods like  Redirection or  Vigor, or both if larger shield amounts are desired. A similar mod exists for Sentinels to increase their maximum shields:  Calculated Redirection. Kubrows can instead be equipped with  Link Redirection, which increases their shields by a value based on the Warframe's maximum shields.

Shields work broadly similar to additive damage mods for weapons (e.g.  Serration) where effects like  Chroma's  Elemental Ward (electricity) simply add their %-value to the combined multiplier bonus that already exists:

${\displaystyle \begin{aligned} \text{Total Shields} &= \text{Base Shields} * (1 + \text{Relative Mod Bonus} + \text{Relative Ability Bonus}) \end{aligned} }$

Where the Relative Mod Bonus and Relative Ability Bonus is the sum of all the applicable bonuses from mods and Warframe abilities respectively.

${\displaystyle \text{Relative Mod Bonus or Relative Ability Bonus} = \text{Bonus}_{1} + \text{Bonus}_{2} + \text{Bonus}_{3} + \cdots}$

Using  Hildryn as an example who's equipped with  Redirection,  Primed Vigor, and has an unmodded, max rank  Electricity  Elemental Ward active:

${\displaystyle \begin{aligned} \text{Total Shields} &= \text{Base Shields} * (1 + \text{Redirection Bonus} + \text{Primed Vigor Bonus} + \text{Relative Ability Bonus}) \\ &= 1780 * (1 + 1 + 0.75 + 0.3) \\ &= 5429 \end{aligned} }$

Missions may randomly have the cryogenic leakage hazard present, which reduces the maximum shield capacity of all Warframes by half.  Warm Coat can be equipped in anticipation of this random possibility in order to reduce the loss of shields, but it is not recommended due to its niche use.

Mods[]

 Redirection

 Primed Redirection

 Vigor

 Primed Vigor

 Augur Accord

 Shield Charger

 Calculated Redirection (Companion only)

 Link Redirection (Companion only)

 Rising Skill (Conclave only)

 Tempered Bound (Conclave only)

 Boreal's Hatred

Abilities[]

• Chroma
• Equinox
• Hildryn

	2 50	Elemental Ward Depending on Chroma's elemental alignment, an offensive area-of-effect is created. Chroma and his nearby allies are imbued with defensive energy. Introduced in Update 16.0 (2015-03-19)	Heat Electricity Toxin Cold Strength: 25 / 50 / 75 / 100 ( Heat damage per second) 15 / 20 / 30 / 55 % (health bonus) Duration: 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 s Range: 6 / 8 / 10 / 12 m (aura range) Misc:2 / 5 / 7 / 10 % ( Heat status chance) 5 m (burn radius)
			Subsumable to Helminth

Regaining Shields[]

Passive Restoration[]

Shields naturally recharge, but there is a recharge delay imposed whenever struck. Partial Tenno shields regenerate after 1 second of not taking damage, while fully depleted Tenno shields require 4 seconds of not taking damage before regenerating, and enemy shields take 3 seconds regardless of depleted amount. Restoring some shields after fully depleting them or during the 4-second shield recharge delay (e.g. with Augur Mods set bonus) will not lower the recharge delay. In addition, damage from Status Effects like  Slash or  Heat do not reset the delay timer.

The delay timer is only reduced by  Fast Deflection,  Vigilante Vigor,  Gauss's Passive,  Jade's  Symphony of Mercy, allied Guardian Eximus, the  Vazarin ability  Guardian Break, and the  Quick Charge mod. Recharge Delay reduction is capped at 80%, and when shieldgate kicks in the delay reduction can not be lower than the shieldgate duration. The delay is only increased by  Vital Systems Bypass. Both  Quick Charge and  Vital Systems Bypass can only be used in Conclave matches.

Shields recharge at 15 units per second, plus 5% of the Warframe's maximum shields:

${\displaystyle \text{Shield Recharge Rate} = (15 + 0.05(\text{Maximum Shields})) * (1+\text{Shield Recharge Bonus})}$

To calculate the time needed for depleted shields to regenerate to max shields:

${\displaystyle \text{Shield Recharge Time (s)} = \frac{\text{Maximum Shields}}{\text{Shield Recharge Rate}}}$

This delayed full-recharge penalty is also less noticeable with higher shielding. Despite taking longer to fully recharge shields at higher values, the relative increase in recharge time begins to taper off after around 900 maximum shield capacity, where it takes 15 seconds to fully recharge. After this point, additional shield capacity will cause a less noticeable increase in the time it takes to fully recharge shields compared to lower values. Even with over 10,000 maximum shields, it will never take more than 20 seconds to fully restore shields.

Mods[]

 Fast Deflection

 Fortitude

 Vigilante Vigor

 Shield Charger

 Accelerated Deflection (Companion only)

 Hastened Deflection (Companion only)

 Mecha Recharge (Companion only)

 Quick Charge (Conclave only)

 Vital Systems Bypass (Conclave only)

Abilities[]

Active Restoration[]

Main article: Category:Shield Restoration

In the event of persistent enemy fire, a Warframe's shields may be hit too frequently for the natural regeneration to activate. In such cases, shields can be restored via several alternative methods as listed below:

Items[]

Squad Shield Restore

Squad Shield Restore (Medium)

Squad Shield Restore (Large)

Shield Restore (retired item)

Abilities[]

• Innate
• Augmented

• Caliban
• Equinox
• Harrow
• Hildryn
• Mag
• Protea
• Revenant
• Styanax
• Trinity
• Rebuild Shields (Helminth)

	3 50	Lethal Progeny Call on Caliban's Sentient aspect to produce up three Conculyst comrades to fight by his side, and repair his shields. Introduced in Update 31.0 (2021-12-15)	Strength:Caliban's Rank x Str (Conculyst rank) + 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 SP/s (shields per second) 1 / 1.5 / 2 / 2.5 x (damage multiplier) 1 / 1.33 / 1.66 / 2 x (health multiplier)
			Duration:10 / 15 / 20 / 25 s
			Range:N/A
			Misc: 5 m (deploy range) 25 m (shield repair range) 10 m (teleport radius) 40 m (teleport range) 3 (max progeny active)

Mods[]

 Brief Respite

 Augur Accord

 Augur Message

 Augur Pact

 Augur Reach

 Augur Secrets

 Augur Seeker

Companions[]

 Charm

 Guardian

 Molecular Conversion

 Protect

Arcanes[]

 Arcane Aegis

 Arcane Barrier

Other[]

•  Rakta Dark Dagger's effect.
• Allied Shield Ospreys will increase players maximum shield capacity by 100, plus 35% of base shields.
  • Additional Ospreys will give an additional +35% bonus, but not the +100 bonus.
• The Sequence Syndicate Effect from The Perrin Sequence restores 25% of the players max shields upon activation and increases the base shields by 50% for 30 seconds.

Overshield[]

Overshields are extra shield points on top of the normal maximum shielding, which are acquired through the use of active shield restoration items or abilities that would restore shields beyond the maximum shield capacity. Allied NPCs, such as Rescue targets or Defense Objects, are incapable of gaining overshields.

Unlike normal shields, overshields do not regenerate and instead stack on top of normal shielding. Overshields have a maximum value of 1,200 for Warframes and 600 for Companions. This value cannot be increased except for the following:

•  Harrow's Passive increases maximum by 1,200
•  Blast Shield for MOAs increases maximum by 3,000
•  Djinn's  Reawaken increases maximum by 900

Overshields can be obtained from:

• Squad Shield Restores Small, Medium and Large
•  Caliban's  Lethal Progeny
•  Equinox's  Mend & Maim
•  Harrow's  Condemn
•  Mag's  Crush
•  Trinity's  Vampire Leech
•  Volt's  Capacitance
•  Revenant's  Danse Macabre overshield pickups
•  Hildryn's  Pillage and  Haven
•  Protea's  Grenade Fan
•  Styanax's  Rally Point
•  Jade's  Symphony of Mercy
•  Rakta Dark Dagger's effect
•  Shield Charger effect
•  Taxon's  Molecular Conversion effect
•  Smeeta Kavat's  Charm
• The Augur Mod Set
•  Brief Respite

Some Incarnon weapon evolutions can grant Overshields, or provide conditional weapon buffs when Overshields are present:

• Fortifying Bloodshed: On  Slash Status kill: Gain 100 Overshields.
  • Evolution II for  Soma Incarnon Genesis.
• Guardian's Promise: +80% Heavy Attack Efficiency with Overshields.
  • Evolution II for  Anku Incarnon Genesis and  Skana Incarnon Genesis.
• Haven Foray: Increased weapon damage with Overshields.
  • Evolution II for  Angstrum Incarnon Genesis,  Furis Incarnon Genesis and  Lato Incarnon Genesis.
• Guardian's Might: Increased weapon damage with Overshields.
  • Evolution II for  Skana Incarnon Genesis.

Shield Gating[]

Shield Gating is an effect that occurs when shields are fully depleted, which prevents any excess damage leaking into the health pool.

Warframes, Companions, Archwings, Necramechs, and Railjacks gain Invulnerability when their shields are fully depleted. Invulnerability duration can be approximated with the following:

${\displaystyle t(shield)={\begin{cases}{\frac {\text{Shield}}{180}}+{\frac {1}{3}},\;&{\text{Shield}}<53\\\left({\frac {\text{Shield}}{350}}\right)^{0.65}+{\frac {1}{3}},\;&53\leq {\text{Shield}}\leq 1150\\2.5,\;&{\text{Shield}}>1150\end{cases}}}$

Invulnerability duration will scale based on the maximum shields replenished since the last shield gate occurred. Re-triggering shield gate during the invulnerability period from a previous shield gate will use the new shield gate's invulnerability duration, even if the previous shield gate's invulnerability duration would last longer.

• Invulnerability period scales from 0.33 seconds minimum to a maximum of 2.5 seconds at 1,150 shields.
  • Overshields do not affect the invulnerability period.
• The invulnerability duration of  Hildryn and allies protected by her  Haven instead last for 3.5 seconds.
•  Protea's  Grenade Fan doubles minimum shield gating duration, lasting anywhere between 0.66 - 5 seconds.
•  Catalyzing Shields sets the maximum invulnerability window to 1.33 seconds upon fully recovering shields, at the cost of reducing maximum shields by 80%.
• Equipping the Decaying Dragon Key caps the invulnerability window to 0.33 seconds regardless of maximum shield value.

Enemies have a shield gate that lasts 0.1 seconds, during which only 5% of the damage dealt will damage their health. However, targeting weakspots will completely bypass their shield gate.

Shield Reduction[]

Equipping a Decaying Dragon Key reduces shields by 75%. During missions, this is indicated by a symbol to the left of the shield/health bar (shown on the right).

In addition, the Cryogenic Leakage environment hazard reduces shields by 50%.

Enemy Shield Scaling[]

For shields, the ranges of level differences at which scaling transitions is between 70 & 80.

Corpus[]

The formula by which Corpus shields scale is as follows:

${\displaystyle f_{1}(x)=1+0.02(x-{\text{Base Level}})^{1.76}}$

When Current Level - Base Level < 70

${\displaystyle f_{2}(x)=1+2(x-{\text{Base Level}})^{0.76}}$

When Current Level - Base Level > 80

Corrupted[]

The formula by which Corrupted shields scale is as follows:

${\displaystyle f_1(x) = 1 + 0.02(x - \text{Base Level})^{1.75}}$

When Current Level - Base Level < 70

${\displaystyle f_{2}(x)=1+2(x-{\text{Base Level}})^{0.75}}$

When Current Level - Base Level > 80

Grineer[]

The formula by which Grineer shields scale is as follows:

${\displaystyle f_1(x) = 1 + 0.02(x - \text{Base Level})^{1.75}}$

When Current Level - Base Level < 70

${\displaystyle f_2(x) = 1 + 1.6(x - \text{Base Level})^{0.75}}$

When Current Level - Base Level > 80

Eximus[]

Eximus shield scaling is the same across all factions

The formula by which eximus shield scales is as follows:

${\displaystyle f_1(x) = 1 + 0.02(x - \text{Base Level})^{1.75}}$

When Current Level - Base Level < 70

${\displaystyle f_{2}(x)=1+2(x-{\text{Base Level}})^{0.75}}$

When Current Level - Base Level > 80

In addition, the base shield is also increased between certain breakpoints:

• Between level differences 0 inclusive and 15 inclusive, base shields stays the same as listed in the Codex.
• Between level differences 15 exclusive and 25 inclusive, base shields is linearly increased from +0% to +25% (e.g. for each level, enemy gains 2.5% base shields).
• Between level differences 25 exclusive and 35 inclusive, base shields is linearly increased from +25% to +150% (e.g. for each level, enemy gains 12.5% base shields).
• Between level differences 35 exclusive and 50 inclusive, base shields is linearly increased from +150% to +350% (e.g. for each level, enemy gains 13.33% base shields).
• Between level differences 50 exclusive and 100 inclusive, base shields is linearly increased from +350% to +500% (e.g. for each level, enemy gains 3% base shields).
• Above level difference of 100, base shields will stay +500% (6x) of its Codex value.

${\displaystyle {{\text{Shield Multiplier}}={\begin{cases}f_{1}(x),\;&x\leq 15\\(1+0.025*(x-15))*f_{1}(x),\;&15<x\leq 25\\(1.25+0.125*(x-25))*f_{1}(x),\;&25<x\leq 35\\(2.5+2/15*(x-35))*f_{1}(x),\;&35<x\leq 50\\(4.5+0.03*(x-50))*[f_{1}(x)\times (1-S_{1}(x))+f_{2}(x)\times S_{1}(x)]\;&50<x\leq 100\\6*f_{2}(x),\;&100>x\\\end{cases}}}}$

Where the Shield Multiplier is the value that multiplies an enemy's base shields to its current shields.

Removing Enemy Shields[]

All shield strip effects removes a percentage of the current maximum value, as such it has diminishing returns on subsequent casts against the same enemies. For example, with an ability that removes 50% shields, the first cast will bring shields down from 100% to 50%, and the second cast will bring the 50% down to 25%.

Enemy shields can still regenerate with natural shield regeneration (such as Armis Ulta, Kuva Lich, or Sisters of Parvos) or while affected by regeneration buffs (such as Shield Ospreys).

Magnetic Status Procs[]

Main article: Magnetic Damage

 Magnetic status effects amplifies damage dealt to shields by 100% for 6 seconds. This stacks up to 10 times, with each subsequent proc increasing damage by 25% for a total of 325%.

Mods[]

• Shield Disruption

Main article: Shield Disruption

 Shield Disruption is an Aura mod that decreases shields by 18%, up to 72% when paired with a full squad. Hard caps at 80% with  Coaction Drift.

Abilities[]

• Caliban
• Dagath
• Hildryn
• Jade
• Mag
• Nyx
• Styanax
• Xaku

This section is transcluded from Fusion Strike . To change it, please edit the transcluded page.

	4 100	Fusion Strike Converge three streams of raw energy upon a single point, causing a massive reactive blast. The fallout from the blast will strip the armor and shields from all enemies that touch it. Introduced in Update 31.0 (2021-12-15)	Strength:2,500 / 3,000 / 4,000 / 5,000 ( Blast damage per stream) 2,500 / 3,000 / 4,000 / 5,000 (explosion  Blast damage) 20 / 25 / 35 / 50 % (armor and shield strip)
			Duration:6 / 9 / 12 / 15 s (fallout duration)
			Range:15 / 20 / 25 / 30 m (stream range) 5 / 6 / 8 / 10 m (explosion and fallout radius)
			Misc: 3 (number of streams) 100 % (strip cap)

This ability converges three beams that implodes, leaving a field that permanently strips the target's current shields by 50%. At 200%  Ability Strength, Fusion Strike can remove all shields.

This ability sends forth five spectral horses that charge forward; enemies affected by are permanently stripped of their shields by per hit. At , a single hit of Rakhali's Calvary can remove all shields; however because the ability strikes multiple times, far less Strength is needed, with removing all shields from just two hits.

This ability releases a pulse that permanently removes shields by to all enemies hit by the pulse.

This ability releases a frontal conical gaze that permanently removes shields per second.

Psychic Bolts will be active for its duration until all affected enemies die. It can be recasted at any time but doing so will cancel debuff on currently affected enemies.

This ability hurls shields in a cone in front of Styanax that permanently strips the target's shields by . At , Tharros Strike can remove all shields.

Media[]

An Excalibur Utilizing The Shield Osprey Specter To Boost Shields

An Excalibur Utilizing A Squad Shield Restore To Restore Shields

A Nyx Using Mind Control On A Guardian Eximus To Increase Shield Recharge + Delay

Patch History[]

Hotfix 36.0.2 (2024-06-19)

• Player Necramech changes:
  • Player Necramech’s Shields now have a 50% Damage Reduction.
  • Also fixed Warframe and the Railjack Shields missing their intended 50% Damage Reduction!
  • Player Necramechs have also had their weaknesses/resistances standardized to match Tenno Health.

Update 36.0 (2024-06-18)

Shield Adjustments

Important note: We have not changed player Shields. This only applies to enemy Shields!

The Grineer are tankier by design, but the Corpus try to make the difference through their Shields. However, Corpus Effective Hit Points (EHP) are significantly lower, making them often trivial to deal with by comparison. Our goal is to reduce the discrepancy between Grineer and Corpus time-to-kill (TTK) by making Corpus Shields a bit more challenging and interesting to fight.

Changes to Enemy Shields:

• Shields now scale more quickly starting at level 80. This means stronger Shields than before as players fight higher-leveled Shielded enemies.
• Shield Recharge Delay is now unified across all enemy types.
• Shield Recharge Delay now has a minimum and maximum length depending on how much damage has been dealt to enemy Shields.
  • The more damage dealt, the slower enemy Shields will begin recharging, so if you can’t outpace enemy Shields right away, you can chip their Recharge Delay down within a maximum and a minimum.
    • For example, if enemy Shields break at any point, it automatically acts as if 200% damage (which becomes the maximum delay) has been inflicted on those Shields. However, if an enemy absorbs 99% damage (so 1% of their shields left), their accumulated damage taken now sets their Recharge Delay in the middle of their respective minimum and maximum delays. Should they Recharge and you deal another 99% damage to their Shields, they’ll have absorbed 198% damage, taking them to the maximum Recharge delay of what that scaled enemy can have.
• Shield Recharge Rate scales with enemy level, recharging at a faster rate for higher-leveled enemies.
• Shield Recharge Rate will also accelerate while Shields are actively Recharging.
• Shield Recharge Acceleration Rate’s base multiplier greatly increases after level 80, resulting in faster Recharge rates at higher levels.
• Steel Path Shields are now multiplied by 2.5x, in place of the previous 6.25x. Steel Path Shields were doubly-applying the multiplier unintentionally.

Update 34.0 (2023-10-18)

Warframe Shield Changes

There are many avenues for Tenno to approach Warframe survivability. Usually, it’s through increasing Health and Armor values, or making use of damage resistance features of certain Mods or Abilities, etc. For Shields, however, there is an incentive to do the opposite: the meta prior to this update encouraged players to reduce Shield values as much as possible to make use of Shield Gating mechanics.

As Developers, we’re stuck in a strange position. On one hand, we see player ingenuity and creative ways of engaging with mechanics, but on the other, we see proof that Shields are not offering the same value to players as other survivability tools - to the point where you are rewarded for having the lowest Shield stat possible.

We have changed this so that Tenno are incentivized to increase their Shield stat instead of reducing it. To do so, we have approached this challenge in two key ways:

Firstly - we’ve buffed Tenno Shields overall!
Previously: Tenno Shields offered a 25% resistance to all damage types.
Now: Tenno Shields will offer a 50% resistance to all damage types.

Secondly - we’ve reworked Shield Gating!
Shield Gating was added to the game back in 2020 with Update 27.2.0 as a way to prevent one-shots, especially at higher-level content. We feel that this mechanic accomplished that goal, but the implementation of it had an unintended side-effect: players were rewarded for having the smallest Shield stat and fastest Shield Recharge stat to make use of the Full Shield Break mechanic.

As mentioned above, our intention is to offer players more benefits for having larger Shield values, so Shield Gating has been reworked. The core mechanic is staying: when you lose all Shields, you gain a period of invulnerability. What has changed is how this period of invulnerability scales with the amount of Shields you have.

The changes outlined below have been made with that vision in mind:

Part 1 - Shield Gate Duration will scale with the amount of Shields you had upon Shield Break.

Previously: Full Shields upon Shield break offered a 1.3-second window of invulnerability.

Now, depending on your Modded values, this window could be anywhere from 0.33 seconds (minimum duration) to 2.5 seconds (capped at 1150 Shields). To receive the original 1.3-second Shield Gate, players will now need around 325 Shields upon Shield Break.

You can see a full overview of the Gate Duration vs. Shields Depleted in the graph below:

Part 2 - Partially Depleted Shields do not have a separate Shield Gate Duration.

Previously, shield breaks on Shields that were not fully regenerated offered 0.33 seconds of Shield Gating.

Now, Partially Depleted Shields are treated with the same scaling values outlined above. For example, if you had a max Shield value of 1200, but your Shields were broken with only 350 available, you would receive ~1.3 seconds of Shield Gating!

With these changes, the more Shields you have and the faster they regenerate, the more you’ll get out of the Shield Gating system!

Part 3 - We’ve added a new Corrupted Mod: Catalyzing Shields
With the changes to Shield Gating, we still wanted to offer players different ways to interact with this system without always having to Mod for the most Shields possible. To accomplish this, we have introduced a new Corrupted Mod: Catalyzing Shields.

This Mod reduces your maximum Shields by 80% but also changes how Shield Gating Scaling works for your Warframe with a guaranteed 1.33 seconds of Shield Gating upon full Shield depletion. With this Mod equipped, Shield Gating duration scales from 0.33 to 1.33 based on your maximum Shield values, regardless of what they are.

For example, if my maximum Shields are 100 with Catalyzing Shields equipped, I would expect the following Shield Gating durations:

• 100 Shields at Shield Break: 1.33s of Shield Gating
• 75 Shields at Shield Break: 1.0s of Shield Gating
• 50 Shields at Shield Break: 0.67s of Shield Gating
• 25 Shields at Shield Break: 0.34s of Shield Gating
• 10 Shields at Shield Break: 0.33s of Shield Gating
  • As a reminder, 0.33s is the absolute minimum duration for Shield Gating!

How to acquire Catalyzing Shields:
Since this is a new Corrupted Mod, it is obtainable via Orokin Vaults on Deimos.

An Alert for the Catalyzing Shields Mod is now will be available in the near future to give players faster access to this Mod to test in their builds. We will share start/end dates for that Alert soon!
An Alert for the Catalyzing Shields Mod is now live!

Part 4 - Decaying Dragon Keys have been updated to debuff both Shields and Shield Gating.
With revised Shield Gating, we felt it was important to update Decaying Dragon Keys as well. These Gear items were previously used to lower the threshold needed for Full Shield Breaks with Shield Gating, and while we loved to see players finding unique interactions between various mechanics, Dragon Keys are intended to increase difficulty when equipped.

With that intention in mind, Decaying Dragon Keys now cap player Shield Gates to 0.33s maximum.

Part 5 - A few other details to cover!

• Hildryn’s Passive has been buffed from 3s Shield Gating Duration to 3.5s Shield Gating Duration!
• Updated Grenade Fan’s description to better communicate how Shield Satellites work with Shield Gating.
  • “(HOLD) SHIELD SATELLITES - Protea reconfigures Grenades to work as overcharging shield generators, protecting her, her allies and companions. When Shields break, a Satellite is destroyed to double minimum Shield Gate invincibility time.”
• Shield Regeneration Delay Reduction is now capped at 80%. Many Mods have now been updated to offer this benefit, leading to the possibility of stacking Shield Regen to be faster than Shield Gate expiring. Now, players should have easier access to reducing the regeneration time, without risking issues with permanent invulnerability.
  • Guardian Break Shield Regeneration delay reduction has been decreased from 90% to 80% at max rank as a result. We have buffed this effect’s duration 8s to 12s at max rank to compensate!
• Updated the Shield stat on-hover description in the Upgrade Screen to describe Shield break functionality and include Shield Gate duration for your current modded max Shields.

There are many variables that will impact the overall outcome of these Shield changes with Abyss of Dagath, and we’ll be keeping a close eye on player feedback now that this is in the community’s hands.

Changes:

• Gaining Shields now provide more gradual feedback in the health bar instead of instantly changing.

Hotfix 30.5.4 (2021-07-17)

• Fixed Headshots dealing double damage if it bleeds over from Shields to Health.

Hotfix 28.0.6 (2020-06-24)

• Shield Gating now applies to Companions the same way it does to Warframes!
  • Blocks 100% of Damage for 1000ms on first break, reduced to 300ms if Shields break again without fully recharging.
• Fixed Shield-Gating not functioning properly after Reviving when becoming downed.

Update 28.0 (2020-06-11)

• Fixed Shield Gating mechanic being ignored by weapons that fire multiple projectiles at once for Clients. This resulted in some enemies shot by the Host will survive due to Shield Gating negating most of the damage, while enemies shot by the Client are not protected by the Shield Gate.

Update 27.4 (2020-05-01)

• Fixed certain boss attacks (Ropalolyst’s laser attack and Profit Taker’s missile for example) not respecting Shield Gating and killing players in one hit.

Update 27.2 (2020-03-05)

Armor and Damage Changes (Enemy)

This section will go over before and after scenarios with our enemy Armor, Health, and Shield changes. Reading this section should give you a conceptual and on-paper understanding of what we’re changing and why, but practical experiences will tell the full story here. You may need to refresh some aspects of your Builds to truly optimize your power against your enemies.

Before: Armor, Shields and Health on an Exponential Curve
After: Armor Shields and Health on an S curve

Damage-Type Changes

• Slash Status now does not bypass Shields and instead deals damage over time to Shields. Slash Status still bypasses Armor.

Player Changes

Player Shields, Health, and Armor used to be shared with all AI, so they had all the weaknesses and resistances that their AI counterparts did.

Now Players have their own unique Shield, Health, and Armor type classified as TENNO! These have all weaknesses and resistances neutralized (for now). Player Shields now reduce 25% of incoming damage. Player Shields now recharge with custom player-only logic. Shield recharge delays are based on depleted or partial depleted shields. Partially depleted shields (any amount) is a 1 second recharge delay. Full depletion is a 4 second recharge delay.

These changes to Player shields are in addition to coming Shield Gating changes, which you can read about in our Shield Gating section!

Why: Armor Scaling and enemy Damage Reduction was the nucleus for this change. For years Tenno have had the tools to deal with these things, but the tools were uniform: Use Corrosive Projection, or else. While this is a simplification, it removed the feeling of choice. With these changes, we hope players experience a feeling of variety and choice when taking on enemies. By changing the scaling for Armor, we could consistently change the scaling for all!

Shield Gating

Friend and Foe

Friend: First, let’s answer ‘What is Shield Gating?’ when it applies to you as a player. In this implementation, Shield Gating is the mechanic of preventing an instance of lethal (‘1-shot’) damage if you have Shields active. Simply put, the goal is to reduce the number of ‘1-shots’ you take when your shields are up, particularly for Shield-based frames. When any shields are active, an incoming hit that depletes your last bit of Shields will not continue into your Health pool, and also triggers a brief time where your Health is protected. Once that period is over you can take Health damage normally. Additionally, you will no longer take Slash Status Effect damage to your Health while Shields are up.

Foe: Enemies - Corpus in particular - also have received a bit of a Shield Gating, but with skillful gameplay you can overcome this. Any Headshots or shots to Weakspots completely bypass Corpus enemy Shield Gating. In addition, 5% of the damage dealt when hitting the shield gate will target enemy Health - this allows you to take your Forma fueled weapons back to low level enemies and hit them hard instead of hitting the shield gate. The goal here is to make Shields a mechanic you want to play against with Mods (Auras, Elemental) or to bypass with skill (Headshots). Slash Status Effects will now deal damage over time to Shields, Toxin damage remains as-is (bypassing Shields to directly affect enemy Health). Damage from Warframe Abilities will ignore the enemy Shield Gate (i.e if an instance of Damage from an ability is greater than the Shield value, it will go into health as well).

Why: Giving both Friend and Foe shield gating has two purposes: we want to reward skill a bit more in all Corpus missions, and give the ‘squishier’ frames a bit more viable edge and a chance to really explore Shield-focused builds. Toxin Damage and Status Effects are still your friend against Corpus or Shielded enemies!

Update 15.13 (2015-02-05)

Tenno Shields Update

Shields and HP are two critical elements to keep track of in Warframe, but when fighting enemies it can be difficult to keep track of how much damage you’ve taken in the heat of combat. This Update contains new visual and audio cues for when your Warframe takes damage in combat.

When taking damage in combat damage will sound different depending on if your shields are down or intact. Additionally shields ‘breaking’ have a new audio cue to help you better keep track of when your health is exposed to enemy fire.

Update 15.10 (2015-01-15)

Overshields have been added to Warframe! Overshields are an extra layer of protection on your existing shield that must be destroyed before your Warframe’s shields can be damaged.

• Overshields can be obtained when using Shield Restore items when you are at maximum shield capacity. Overshields cannot be regenerated, and this extra protective shield is noted by a color change (purple) in the UI.
• Overshields have a cap at 1200.

Vanilla (2012-10-25)

• Introduced.

Last updated: Update 27.1 (2020-02-04)

References[]

1. ↑ "Shards within 3m of Mag now orbit her, inflicting the Slash or Puncture Status Effect to nearby enemies." - Update 32.0
2. ↑ "Shards within 3m of Mag now orbit her, inflicting the Slash or Puncture Status Effect to nearby enemies." - Update 32.0

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