The heavy two-handed sword known as Gram requires great strength to wield, but is notorious for its splitting power. Can hit multiple targets with each strike.
The Gram is a 
Tenno heavy blade, which boasts good damage and balanced critical and status performances, considered the baseline of heavy blade weapons.
This weapon can be sold for 
5,000.
Characteristics[]
Advantages over other Melee weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- High attack range (2.80 m)
- High disposition (●●●●● (1.44x))
Disadvantages over other Melee weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Lowest base damage of all heavy blades.
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Low crit chance (15.00%)
- Low total damage (160)
- Below average attack speed (0.95x animation speed)
- Low status chance (15.00%)
See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.
Comparisons:
Acquisition[]
The Gram's blueprint can be purchased from the Market.
| Manufacturing Requirements 📝 Edit blueprint requirements | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 30,000 |
 Gallium3 |
 Salvage750 |
 Rubedo300 |
 Alloy Plate80 |
Time: 12 Hour(s) |
Rush:  30
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 Market Price: 150
|
 Blueprints Price:15,000
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Trivia[]
- This sword was named after the sword of Sigurd (sometimes known as Siegfried) from Norse Mythology.
- Gram is a word in the old Germanic language, which roughly translates to depression.
- The wheel by the Gram's guard spins during attacks, making the Gram one of the few non-static melee weapon models in-game.
- Prior to Update 11.0 (2013-11-20), the Gram was visually an enlarged
Plasma Sword.
- The old appearance of the Gram is still used for the "Heavy Weapon Proficiency" challenge icons.
- The newer model retains some characteristics from its previous model, particularly the cords and glowing blades.
Gallery[]
Gram Skins
Patch History[]
Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
Actual patch notes made a mistake on old follow through.
- Damage increased from 100 to 160.
- Range increased from 1 to 2.8.
- Slam Attack increased from 200 to 480.
- Slide Attack increased from 200 to 320.
- Parry Angle set to 55.
- Follow Through decreased from 0.9 to 0.6.
Update 22.20 (2018-05-17)
- PBR treatment.
Update 18.3 (2016-01-13)
- The Gram has had its damage and Stance damage increased in Conclave.
Update 17.2.4 (2015-08-26)
- Fixed a number of issues with melee items/weapons that result in radial damage. Radial damage values have been significantly lowered on melee ground attacks – Gram from 5 meters to 4 meters.
Update 16.4 (2015-04-23)
- Increase Stamina drain when blocking with the Gram in Conclave.
Update 16.3 (2015-04-09)
- Increased the damage of the Gram in Conclave.
Update 15.1 (2014-11-05)
- Base damage increased to 100 (up from 45).
- Status chance increased to 15% (up from 10%).
- Critical chance increased to 15% (up from 7.5%).
Update 11.3 (2013-12-12)
- Edge lights on Gram now respect the chosen color for Energy.
Update 11.1 (2013-11-27)
- Updated Gram skin to match faction style better.
Update 9.0 (2013-07-13)
- Refined the tint options on the Gram.
Update 7.11 (2013-05-17)
- Changes to Gram sounds.
Hotfix 6.3.1 (2013-02-15)
- Remove hum sound from Gram.
Update 6.3 (2013-02-14)
- Gram hit box improved.
Update 6.2 (2013-02-08)
- Introduced.
Last updated: Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
See Also[]
Gram Prime, the Prime version of this weapon.
Galatine, another greatsword.
