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Sickening Pulse Emit a pulse that adds stacks to Status Effects already afflicting enemies, except Bleed, Introduced in Update 30.5 (2021-07-06) |
 Strength:N/A
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 Duration:2 s (expansion duration)
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 Range:5 m / 6 m / 7 m / 8 m (pulse initial radius)
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Misc:
8 / 12 / 16 / 20 m/s (expansion distance per sec) | |||
| Subsumable to Helminth |
Info
- Expend
50 Energy to emit a radial pulse with an initial radius of 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 meters, which follows as an aura and rapidly expands outward by 8 / 12 / 16 / 20 meters per second over a duration of 2 seconds. All enemies in direct line of sight touched by this pulse have 10 new stacks of each active Status Effect currently affecting them; 
Heat, 
Slash, and 
Toxin status procs instead add 1 new status proc with a full timer for the damage of all respective procs combined.
- Damaging procs created by this ability do not take elemental mods for their respective proc type into account with the exception of Heat.
- For Heat procs only one stack is added but for the combined damage of all active Heat procs, and the timer of all Heat stacks is refreshed (normal behaviour when new Heat stacks are applied).
- For Slash and Toxin only one stack is added that does the combined damage of all the respective active procs not caused by this ability.
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Electricity and 
Gas, ten stacks are added, with each proc in the stack doing combined damage of all the respective active procs not caused by this ability. - New stacks do not take status-duration modifiers from mods (e.g.
Continuous Misery) into account. - New stacks do take status-duration modifiers from Warframe abilities and passives (e.g. Lavos' passive) into account.
- New stacks only have factions mods (e.g. Bane of Grineer) applied once instead of twice, with the exception of Heat.
- Damaging procs created by this ability do not take elemental mods for their respective proc type into account with the exception of
- Cannot be recast while the Pulse's Aura is active.
Tips & Tricks
- Good in conjunction with abilities and weapons that can apply low amounts of status stacks to a big group of enemies. e.g.
Cedo alt-fire. - Repeated usage with heat procs escalates the damage exponentially.
- Lower duration limits range but allows for more frequent casting, allowing for faster stacking of heat procs.
Bugs
- When all originally applied slash/toxin procs ended and only copies from this ability are active the new copies only deal 1 damage per tick.
- Despite being able to apply Heat and Toxin procs, this ability does not trigger Archon Vitality or Archon Continuity
See Also[]
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21 comments
Anyone test this out with the new blast?
Tested a little bit, it adds stacks which then causes it to detonate as Blast detonates at 10 stacks or if the target dies. I didn't notice any stacks being left behind so any excess stacks aren't saved. Considering how fast stacks can be built up SP doesn't appear to be offering any benefit to the status effect as the time taken to cast SP you would probably have built up to 10 stacks anyway.
You could use this with Aoe weapon with slow fire rate, as you can’t stack 10 fast enough on them but you can tag many enemy with high base dmg
So what is scaling the damage of the status procs? Is it ability strength? (i.e Loki's new damage decoy augment) or is it equipped mods on a weapon? or is it based on the damage of the proc from whatever source it is applied from?
From what was already applied to it. If it was taking 100dmg per heat tic, Sickening Pulse would change the status to +1 heat and do 200dmg per heat tic. Yes, you can infinity scale the dmg with additional pulses, but it doesn't seem to work on enemies you want to die the most like certain bosses and nekromechs.
Works on demolishers but if ur stacking a ton of heat procs it's way more dmg to use roar and buff every single heat proc instead of double a +1 double heat proc with sickening pulse, idk about slash/toxin tho but ive tested heat with roar and heat with sickening pulse and roar feels way faster at killing demolysts and also isn't reliant on ability spam (aka if you get energy drain during disruption = no more sickening pulse)
Turbo Broken on Mecha Inaros just saying.
Forget Roar, I'm going to use this. Electric + Corrosive Caustacyst, Elemental Sandstorm. Group enemies, then nuke them with full strip and tons of Electric procs. This will help bridge the gap between Mecha marks.
What Heat mods apply exactly? Melee heat mods? Primary? Arcanes?
This wiki page is too vague.
It's not an issue with the wiki page, heat inherit is a complicated mechanic. If you want to know more about how it works you should check out the dedicated wiki page for it
Not sure if this will apply MORE then 10 stacks of corrosive, since the emerald archon shards give +2 corrosive stacks MAX, and the tau emerald give +3 corrosive stacks MAX., eg 2x basic green shards will give 14 stacks of corrosive for 100% armor strip on regular enemies (non bosses).
Edit.. just tested, it gives the +10 stacks of corrosive, but if the target has 1-4 or more stacks of corrosive when this is cast, it will boost it to whatever max you have with green shards...eg put 4 stacks of corrosive and cast this, it boosts it to 14.. if i have 1 stack and cast it boosts to 11.
How does it interact with Archon Vitality, will it generate 2 additional fire stacks every time?
Edit: Just tested it, no it won't
Thanks for testing this
Archon vitality would've made it so busted if it worked lmao, imagine the gauss nukes
I noticed that unlike the other elements, it is not specified that heat does not duplicate procs caused by the ability. Will they be duplicated as well?
From my garbo tests, yeah, every cast was doubling the total damage.
Imagine you playing through level cap, a rhino who does the funni heat inherit mechanic with this ability. Thermal sunder's exponential scaling mechanic already works fantastically on him which allows him to nuke even further than dedicated nuke frames, adding in an exponential scaling for heat and scalable with roar is just...overkill.
*for this ability, possibly can even do the funni unstrip level cap demo.
I do not understand a word of this post lol.
So are you using thermal sunder or this? i'm confused. How are you using 2 helminths?
Using coop i'd imagine
Sleight of Hand Mirage with this subsumed. :D
Is this any good with voruna's 2nd ability?
Sure does. You can do it again and again.
Only seems to proc Archon Stretch (but is pretty good with Grendel's 1 and Continuity :P)
I tested Sickening Pulse on Gyre using Cedo's/Phantasm secondary fire and the damage was ridiculously high on level 140 mobs. It's a shame she is so soft and doesn't have any means of survival at higher levels!
If you use the augur mod set on a pistol (or on a sentinel with a pistol weapon equipped like the burst laser) you can instantly refill your shields and reset your shieldgate (a brief timer of invulnerability when your shields fully break) every time you cast an ability. Combined with a decaying dragon key (which reduces your maximum shields) you can have your entire shield bar refilled, and thus can always just cast something the instant your shield breaks, letting you remain invulnerable whenever you want. Add the Rolling Guard mod to cleanse statuses and also give a bit of breathing room if you're low on energy, and congratulations, you can now play any frame you want at higher levels and not need tankiness.
Ok, so Gas and Electric do the same thing as toxin/slash, which is as long as the original status is still on the target, they do its damage (technically heat does the same, but heat is special), but instead of getting 1 stack they get 10 (Gas capped on 10). So the ability is pretty good for bursting down single targets and bad for sustained damage for anything other than ~Ember~ fire procs, kinda not what I expected xD
I'm confused, The description says that for most procs except heat the new proc will have the combined damage of all previous procs. But it also says that it doesn't take elemental mods into account. But if it considers the damage of previous procs, doesn't it already take into account the elemental mods?
With two electric quill Hystrix builds--one with Convulsion, one with an empty slot, but otherwise identical--the "super procs" that Sickening Pulse creates do the same damage either way, given the same number of initial procs. That's even though the Convulsion quill creates stronger initial procs.
Which is pretty disappointing, especially if it holds up for toxin too. (I wouldn't expect elemental mods to contribute to gas since they don't normally. Same with slash mods in respect to bleeds.)
My guess is the other proc types have been checked and heat is the only one where elemental mods contribute to the "super procs". If so, the description could be organized better. I guess my suggestion would be to add something like "...doing combined damage of all the original procs without elemental mods factored in..." in the descriptions -or- describe what happens to each proc individually.
This has a nice synergy with Zephyr since its range* is based on duration. I'm using the Funnel Clouds augment and a Kuva Ogris modded for Viral/Heat (against (corrupted, Grineer or Infested) and Magnetic/Heat (against Corpus). Makes soloing Steel Path missions quite a breeze.
I've tried it out on Oberon, Saryn and Protea... strangely it works better with Zephyr and Protea so far
I think I'll slap that on my Garuda. Just so if I misscalculated a 1>4>1 combo, I can just cast sickening pulse real quick to double the slash proc dmg and finish them off
I don't understand « except Bleed, Heat or Toxin effects which are duplicated with fresh timers », for me it means that if an ennemy has 20 Heat procs it will duplicate to 40 procs, but it actually only adds 1 proc... Since when does « duplicate » mean « add 1 » ? Only the last proc is duplicated ?
For heat, it adds a new proc that is equivalent to all previous procs combined, thus a duplicate.
Toxin and bleed? Nah. Iunno.
Does the same, but while a new heat proc refreshes the whole duration, toxin and bleed will time out old procs.
I posted this before but figured it should be reposted here for the benefit of everyone to see
So after a few hours of testing it's a very odd interaction. first any ability that adds the proc status to the mob is what gets affected (just to be clear any status proc from any source is what is affected by this ability).
example saryn miasma causes viral procs which are affected by the ability. The ability will max out the stacks of any proc to 10x that can hit 10 but not go over. this includes Impact, puncture, cold, blast, corrosive, Magnetic, gas, and Radiation.
To make this easier to understand ie: using the Tysis built for viral and corrosive causing one proc of each and casting SP will immediately reset the timers of both procs and max them out to 10 stacks. However for all other procs slash, heat, and Toxin have each of the timers reset and only 1 stack is added.
ie viral x1 cold x1 heat x1 becomes viral x10 cold x10 heat x2. In the case of casting SP a second time before the proc timers end procs become viral x10 cold x10 and heat x3
each proc stack has it's duration set to default so in the case of a normal heat proc which lasts for 6 seconds both stacks will fall off of the target at the same time. In this way proc stacks can be maintained as long as you have energy to cast SP. So with a good efficiency build you can maintain a normal 6 sec proc for 30sec.
Sadly this ability does not seem to work the way we were hoping it would making it a very niche use case scenario best served as a support ability in a premade team for longer duration runs. The only two frames that I can recommend using this on would be lavos and protea. being that lavos can make use of stacking any needed element on command or protea using dispensary to keep energy up for recasting.
Note: I did not mention Electricity because I believe there is currently a bug with this ability that may be patched later on. in which the proc will add 10x stacks each time the ability is cast. ie elec. x1 becomes x10 then x20 then x30 ect. additionally any warframe ability that does not cause a status based proc to the mob such as volt using his ult does not affect the ability. more testing is needed to see if this ability works on void damage.
the ability range and duration of SP is based on duration range mods seem to have little effect. functions kinda like nova's M prime
Squad lead?
Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r9Jce6OuGk
Nice
Right on time before the prime, nice
Tried but didn't deplete enemy health in a chunk like in the video. Was this nerfed?
I am hoping that it works like this: "Enemy 1 has status | Cast ability | Enemy 1 receives effect + Enemy 2 also receives effect"
Much like Mecha mod set.
Will be able to test upon weekly reset later.
Does not work like Mecha mod set :(
Why should it work like mecha mod?
How about you combine it?
It instantly adds 10x procs to any proc thats already on the target (except for tox, heat, gas).
You can just spread a low proc with mecha set, and then add stacks to the spreaded procs with sickening pulse. :)