Tenet Envoy

Corpus Weapons

Tenet Envoy is a unique Tenet rocket launcher shooting missiles that can be guided while aiming, and is able to reload while holstered.

Characteristics[]

• This weapon deals innate  Impact damage from grenade impact and  Cold damage on explosion.
• Rocket explode in a 8 meter radius after impacting a surface or enemy.
  • Initial hit and explosion apply status separately.
  • Explosion does not need direct line of sight to deal damage and will penetrate walls.
  • Can benefit from  Firestorm ( Primed) and  Cautious Shot.
• Aiming will cause fired rockets to travel toward the aiming reticle, allowing them to be guided.
  • Allows firing rockets from behind cover.
• Reloads 10% of its magazine per second while holstered.
• Fairly large magazine capacity of 8 rounds for an explosive-based weapon.
• Comes with an additional bonus  Impact,  Heat,  Cold,  Electricity,  Toxin,  Magnetic, or  Radiation damage, based on the Sister's progenitor Warframe, which increases the listed base damage of the weapon by 25%-60%.
  • Valence Fusion can optionally change the resulting output damage type, and can upgrade the bonus increase (up to 60%).
• Polarizing the weapon increases its max rank by 2, capping at rank 40 after 5 polarizations, granting the weapon additional mod capacity.
• Listed Mastery Rank requirement is not enforced - the weapon may theoretically be obtained at any mastery rank by acquiring and vanquishing a Sister that has this weapon equipped.

Advantages over other Primary weapons (excluding modular weapons):

• Pinpoint accuracy.
  •  Heavy Caliber's accuracy penalty is minimal on this weapon, especially due to its ability to be guided manually.
• Grenade Impact (wiki attack index 1)
  • High crit chance (28.00%)
  • High crit multiplier (2.60x)
• Rocket Explosion (wiki attack index 2)
  • Above average crit chance (28.00%)
  • High total damage (640)
  • Above average crit multiplier (2.60x)

Disadvantages over other Primary weapons (excluding modular weapons):

• Projectiles have travel time.
• Projectile Speed decreases while aiming (unaffected by  Terminal Velocity).
• Poor ammo economy.
  • Extremely low ammo capacity; requires just 2 reloads to fully deplete all ammo reserves.
  • Low Ammo Pickup.
• Explosion inflicts self-stagger.
• Explosion has a headshot multiplier of 1x and cannot trigger headshot conditions.
• Explosion has linear Damage Falloff from 100% to 20% from central impact.
• Grenade Impact (wiki attack index 1)
  • Very low reload speed (4.00 s)
  • Low magazine (8)
  • Very low ammo max (16)
  • Very low fire rate (0.83 attacks/sec)
  • Very low disposition (●○○○○ (0.65x))
• Rocket Explosion (wiki attack index 2)
  • Low active falloff slope (10.0m/%)
  • Low maximum falloff distance (8.0 m)
  • Very low reload speed (4.00 s)
  • Low magazine (8)
  • Very low fire rate (0.83 attacks/sec)
  • Very low ammo max (16)
  • Below average status chance (24.00%)
  • Very low disposition (●○○○○ (0.65x))

See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.

Acquisition[]

Tenet Envoy is obtained by vanquishing a Sister who generated with one equipped. After the Sister is vanquished it will be in the player's Foundry ready to claim.

While the weapon itself is not tradeable, a converted Sister generated with the weapon can be traded to another player. The trade is performed inside a Clan Dojo's Crimson Branch room, and the recipient must not have any active Lich or Sister. Once traded, the recipient must fight and vanquish the Sister to claim their weapon.

Notes[]

• The Tenet Envoy is currently the only launcher with an automatic trigger, allowing a player to simply hold the trigger to launch consecutive rockets. This can prove somewhat disadvantageous while trying to redirect the rockets by aiming against enemies at relatively short ranges due to the recoil of launching a new rocket causing the aim to be disrupted.
• While aiming, the rockets will make an audible beeping noise. When aiming at a target, the beeping intensifies and the rocket flashes brightly.
• Rockets have a lifespan of 6 seconds regardless if they are being aimed or not, automatically detonating once that time has elapsed.
• While holstered, the attaché case's components will rumble and make an audible sound for each unit of ammo reloaded.
  • Passive reload stacks with the Synth Mod Set ( Synth Deconstruct,  Synth Fiber,  Synth Reflex and  Synth Charge).
• Projectile speed seems to be 20 m/s while aiming and manually guiding the projectiles, and 40 m/s for unguided projectiles.
  •  Terminal Velocity will only affect unguided projectiles, for a final speed of 64 m/s.
• When using  Heavy Caliber and multishot mods such as  Split Chamber, additional rockets fired will fly parallel to the main rocket and not converge at the point of impact.
• Cannot be reloaded while a missile is being manually guided.
• Both the initial shot and explosion seem to be silent despite having an "Alarming" noise level; a one-shot kill on a group of enemies will award the stealth kill affinity bonus, and nearby enemies will not be alerted as long as they did not witness this. However, firing the weapon will still break  Ivara's  Prowl unless the  Hush mod is equipped.

Kuva/Tenet Notes[]

• For weapons obtained from vanquishing the Kuva Lich or Sister:
  • The player does not have to meet the Mastery Rank displayed to obtain this weapon. It can simply be claimed from the foundry after the Lich/Sister carrying it has been vanquished.
  • The weapon will have a prefix of the name of the Lich/Sister it was acquired from (e.g. a Kuva Kohm might be called "Odizrigg Agekk Kuva Kohm").
• Refraining from Mercy killing an Adversary candidate will remove their weapon from the pool of potential Adversary weapons until each has been refused, but only if the mission is completed. Weapons rejected from aborted missions will remain in the current cycle.
• For weapons obtained from Ergo Glast's shop:
  • The player must meet the Mastery Rank displayed to obtain this weapon, as it is claimed from an NPC shop rather than the foundry.
• The weapon's max rank caps at 40 after 5 polarizations (max rank increases by 2 per Forma added).
  • Additional polarizations can be added when the weapon reaches its new max rank at that polarization level.
  • Each additional rank also gives 100 Mastery Rank experience, giving 4,000 points in total at level 40.
  • Mod capacity scales with the additional ranks, and can reach a total of 80 at rank 40 with an Orokin Catalyst installed.
    • Without an Orokin Catalyst, the max is 40. Combined with the five polarized mod slots required to reach that point, an Orokin Catalyst might not be required for some beginner-friendly builds as they typically use less mod capacity.
    • After polarizing a weapon, any additional mod capacity above 30 (60 with an Orokin Catalyst) will not take effect until the weapon's rank reaches 31 and above.
      • Legendary Mastery Rank increases the minimum mod capacity for such weapons, without the weapon needing to be rank 31 and above. For example, Legendary 1 increases the minimum capacity to 31 (62 with an Orokin Catalyst).
• Comes with an additional damage stat.
  • For Lich/Sister-obtained weapons this is dependent on the Warframe that summoned the Lich/Sister.
  • For Ergo Glast shop a random bonus stat will be offered for each weapon and changed every 4 days (96 hours).
  • This damage stat randomly ranges between 25%-60%. It can be upgraded up to its maximum value with Valence Fusion using another copy of the weapon.
  • This bonus stat is considered a base damage type and will be applied after all elemental mods for the purposes of elemental combinations.

Element	Progenitor Warframe*
Impact	Baruuk  Dante  Gauss  Grendel  Rhino  Sevagoth  Wukong  Zephyr
Heat	Chroma  Ember  Inaros  Jade  Kullervo  Nezha  Protea  Vauban  Wisp
Cold	Frost  Gara  Hildryn  Revenant  Styanax  Titania  Trinity
Electricity	Banshee  Caliban  Excalibur  Gyre  Limbo  Nova  Valkyr  Volt
Toxin	Atlas  Dagath  Ivara  Khora  Nekros  Nidus  Oberon  Saryn
Magnetic	Citrine  Harrow  Hydroid  Lavos  Mag  Mesa  Xaku  Yareli
Radiation	Ash  Equinox  Garuda  Loki  Mirage  Nyx  Octavia  Qorvex  Voruna

*Note that the Primed or Umbra version of a Warframe share the same element

Tips[]

• A maximum rank  Primary Merciless synergizes well with this weapon, reducing the reload to 3.1 seconds, on top of the increased damage.
• The Tenet Envoy is a good weapon to equip on on-call Railjack crew members as their AI focuses on aiming the weapon, effectively redirecting all rockets on incoming enemies.
  • This can also mean mods requiring aiming to trigger, such as  Argon Scope and  Bladed Rounds, may be in effect as crews use them (needs verification).
• One good way of maximizing a rocket's homing ability is to let it fly unassisted so it moves fast, and then aim once it comes close at the intended target or area and strike at a precise location. This is especially useful at hitting dropships in Landscapes such as the Grineer Tusk Firbolgs and Bolkors in the Plains of Eidolon, the Corpus Condor and Buzzard Dropships at the Orb Vallis, or the Infested Deimos Genetrix carriers in the Cambion Drift.
• Because the Tenet Envoy sports a fairly larger magazine capacity compared to some of its other explosive counterparts (such as the  Kuva Bramma and  Kuva Tonkor) it is practically more efficient with ammo pickups, as the other weapons would immediately consume nearby pickups after merely using a shot.
  • In this regard, it shares this ammo pickup efficiency property with the  Kuva Ogris and the  Kuva Zarr.

Trivia[]

• The explosions resulting from the rockets fired by the Tenet Envoy briefly show Corpus lettering and iconography, which translate to: "Analysing Projected Revenue Forecast", "Integrating Offset Sector Income Differential", "Power In Prosperity, Prosperity In Victory", and "Full System Analysis in Progress".
• While sheathed and while reloading, the weapon folds up into an attaché case.
• When aiming, the Warframe will put the weapon up close to their helmet and a laser sight will appear from the front, implying the guidance system is optical-based.
• The Tenet Envoy’s name may be in refrence to a Envoy, which is a representative of a government, which would also play into the briefcase shape that the Envoy folds into.

Known Bugs[]

• When trying to direct by aiming, rockets prematurely detonate upon contact with  Gara's  Mass Vitrify wall or  Frost's  Snow Globe, possibly due to the laser sight erroneously treating the wall as a physical barrier. To try to bypass, a player must allow the rockets to pass through first before starting to redirect by aiming.
  • This bug is also observable on rockets fired by on-call Railjack crews or a converted Sister of Parvos.
•  Galvanized Aptitude is multiplicative to base damage sources on direct hits.

Media[]

Concept art

Transformation concept

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Tenet Envoy, as it appears in the arsenal

Tenet Envoy, A Weapon Has Never Been This Awesome - Warframe

Tenet Envoy Build 2021 (Guide) - The Resistance's RPG - Warframe

See Also[]

•  Kuva Ogris, the Kuva equivalent rocket launcher.

Patch History[]

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