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Puncture Damage is one of the three physical damage types. Deals increased damage to Corpus and Orokin. Its Status Effect reduces enemy's damage output and increases Critical Chance received.
Status Effects[]
General[]
The status effect of Puncture damage is Weakened. It lasts 6 seconds and stacks to a maximum of 5 times. Any stacks applied after the 5th will replace the oldest stack. Affected enemies will have a yellow aura.
- The victim's attacks deal 40% less damage. Subsequent procs add 10% reduced damage, up to 80% at max stacks.
- Weapon damage that the victim receives has 5% increased Critical Chance per proc up to 25% at max stacks. This bonus is additive after mods, but does not apply to area of effect damage or Warframe abilities.
Enemies killed by an attack that procs Puncture may have a large bloody hole on where they were hit by the killing blow.
Railjack[]
The status effect of Puncture damage against Railjack space enemies is Decompress, reducing the target ship's shields and armor for 20 seconds, with subsequent procs stacking multiplicatively.
Puncture Sources[]
- Main article: Category:Puncture Damage
Weapons[]
These weapons deal more than a majority of their physical damage as Puncture. The damage ratio is important for physical damage status effects because the game weights the likelihood of which proc occurs according to physical damage ratio. Hence, these weapons proc Weakened more than Stagger or Bleed.
- Weapons with guaranteed Puncture proc
Harpak(Alt-fire)
Talons(Explosion)
Evensong(Applies 7 procs on hit, bypassing the normal limit of 5)
Mods[]
Abilities[]
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 3  75
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Radial Javelin Launches javelins towards enemies, dealing high damage and impaling them to walls. Introduced in Vanilla (2012-10-25) |
 Strength:500 / 650 / 800 / 1000 (damage)
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 Duration:N/A
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 Range:15 / 18 / 22 / 25 m
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Media[]
Patch History[]
Update 36.0 (2024-06-18)
- Simplified Faction Resistances
- Corpus: Vulnerable to Puncture
- Orokin:
- Vulnerable to Puncture
- TOP FIXES
- Fixed being able to apply 5 Puncture Stacks to VIP enemies with Overguard, instead of the intended 3.
Update 35.5 (2024-03-27)
- Fixed Puncture’s tooltip incorrectly indicating that it has a 90% damage reduction at max instead of the intended 80%.
Update 33.6 (2023-07-27)
Puncture Changes:
Weakened Status Effect Buffs:
- Increased the debuff to enemy attacks from 30% to 40% on the first stack.
- Reduced the maximum amount of stacks from 10 to 5.
- Increased per-stack debuff from 5% to 10%.
- Increased the total debuff at Max Stacks from 75% to 80%.
Weakened Status Effect Additions:
- Increases Critical Chance threshold on enemy by 5% per Stack, to a maximum of 25% at 5 Stacks. This is additive after mods, not before. Does not apply to Abilities or AOE damage.
Update 27.2 (2020-03-05)
- The first Puncture Status Effect has an enemy deal 30% less Damage. Subsequent Puncture Status add +5% weakening, leading to up to 75% (capped). Each Puncture Status has a duration of 6 Seconds.
Update 11.0 (2013-11-20)
- Introduced.
1 comment
Rhino's Roar augment claims to add ten stacks of puncture, more than the maximum five, I feel like this should be mentioned.