Progenitor[]
*Note that the Primed or Umbra version of a Warframe share the same element
Tenet Weapons[]
- Main article: Tenet
Tenet weapons are special Corpus weapons.
Ranged Tenet weapons carried by a player's Sister and can be acquired once the Sister is Vanquished. If the player has enough weapon slots, they can claim these weapons from their Foundry, bypassing the supposed Mastery Rank requirement on these weapons. The weapons vary in attributes, dependent on the Sister the player has slain. The Energy Color on the weapon is depicted by what elemental bonus was augmented on the weapon during Sister creation and the progenitor Warframe. All weapons have an equal chance of spawning from a Sister.
Certain ranged Tenet weapons are unique to Sisters, and are not based on existing, usable Corpus weapons.
Melee and Speargun Tenet weapons are not obtained from Sisters, and the former are not based on existing, usable Corpus weapons. Instead, they can be bought from Ergo Glast of The Perrin Sequence in any Relay for 40
Corrupted Holokeys each (regardless of standing with The Perrin Sequence syndicate). Unlike weapons directly acquired from Sisters, the Mastery Rank requirement is enforced on the store-bought weapons. Each offering has a random progenitor bonus damage type and percentage increase, which is cycled every 4 days at 0:00 UTC. Only one of each weapon can be bought per rotation.
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Mechanics[]
A Tenet variant of a weapon will only provide mastery points once. A second weapon of the same variant but with a different Sister name will not provide extra mastery. These weapons have a max rank of 40. To obtain the maximum rank, the player must polarize the weapon five times, with each Forma increasing the maximum possible rank by 2 (similar to
Paracesis).
The Tenet weapons additionally have bonus damage of one damage type, ranging from 25-60% of the weapon's base damage determined randomly, with lower percentages being more common.[1] The damage type of this bonus damage is determined by the Progenitor Warframe, as per this table.
Note: This additional bonus damage applies as weapon base damage, meaning elemental mods and status that scale from base / modified base damage will be affected.
Valence Fusion[]
Valence Fusion combines two of the same Kuva or Tenet weapons into one with a higher Elemental Bonus, multiplying the highest bonus of the two weapons by 1.1, capping at 60% bonus. Valence Fusion can be found under the Actions button while modding a weapon. After selecting Valence Fusion, a player is required to choose another of the same Kuva/Tenet weapon from the inventory (not in Foundry or with the Kuva Lich / Sister of Parvos) to fuse it with. If the weapon's element bonuses differs, the player will be prompted to choose between the two available elements.
The final value of the Elemental Bonus after a Valence Fusion is performed is given by the formula:
And if the Final Bonus is equal or greater than 58%, the value gets rounded up to 60%.
Any other properties (Orokin Catalyst, Forma, Stance Forma, Exilus Weapon Adapter, or Focus Lens) do not transfer over, meaning the order of fusion is important. Put simply, it is best to equip the weapon with the most resource investment (weapon rank, Catalyst, Forma, and Exilus that you wanted to keep) and fuse other weapons to it.
After selecting the donor weapon to be used in the fusion, a confirmation screen displays the desired weapon's new damage type and bonus values and warns that the transfer will consume the selected donor weapon. Players are then prompted to type FUSE to confirm the fusion.
- Example:
Kuva Kohm (A) has 40%
Heat Damage and an Orokin Catalyst. Kuva Kohm (B) has 52%
Radiation damage. The player has two options, to fuse (A) with (B) or to fuse (B) with (A).
- Since 52% is higher than 40%, the result will always be according to the percentage of (B) and multiplied by 1.1, resulting in 57.2%.
- Fusing (B) to (A): Equip (A), under Valence Fusion, select (B). The result of this will be a Kuva Kohm with 57.2%
Heat or
Radiation damage with an Orokin Catalyst. (B) will be destroyed. - Fusing (A) to (B): Equip (B), under Valence Fusion, select (A). The result of this will be a Kuva Kohm with 57.2%
Heat or
Radiation damage without an Orokin Catalyst. (A) will be destroyed.
For Weapons and same-tier Armaments, maximum % bonus (60%) can be achieved in the following number of fusions:
| Minimum Initial Value | Maximum Number of Fusions |
|---|---|
| 58.0% | 0 (automatically rounded up to 60.0%) |
| 52.8% | 1 |
| 48.0% | 2 |
| 43.6% | 3 |
| 39.7% | 4 |
| 36.1% | 5 |
| 32.8% | 6 |
| 29.8% | 7 |
| 27.1% | 8 |
| 25.0% | 9 |
For example, a
Tenet Envoy with a 42% Toxin bonus will need at most 4 Fusions to reach the maximum element bonus of 60%.
Ephemera[]
Sisters have a 20%[2] chance to be created with an Ephemera equipped that corresponds to the Progenitor Warframe who created them. Players will receive a Sister's Ephemera regardless of whether they Vanquish or Convert them.
| Element | Ephemera | Visuals |
|---|---|---|
Hound Companion[]
After vanquishing Sister, players will also get a fully built version of the Sister's Hound as a companion, and will also drop a random Hound component blueprint for all players in the squad which can be assembled with assistance from Legs in Fortuna. The Hound component blueprints are tradeable between players. Converting a Sister will not yield these rewards.
Ally[]
Converted Sisters can randomly appear in missions after the player enters bleedout, fighting alongside the Tenno. The converted Sister's level follows the formula Sister Rank x 20 (capped at level 80 in normal mode and level 135 in The Steel Path) regardless of mission level, their weapons have a 3x damage multiplier, and will use all of their abilities. They will stay for a minimum of 2 minutes.
Railjack Crew[]
With Command Intrinsic Rank 8, Converted Sisters can be brought aboard Railjacks as Crew members.
Unlike NPC crew members hired from Ticker, the Sister cannot be given weapons and will default to using their own, cannot operate Railjack systems such as the pilot seat, turrets, and repair, do not have moddable stats, and are restricted to the Defender role. However, their health and shields are significantly higher than NPC crew members, making them built for endurance and quite suited for repelling boarders.
Sisters as crew members follows a different level scaling formula compared to randomly appearing converted Sisters: Sister Rank x 15. For example, a Rank 5 Sister will be at level 75 when they are equipped as crew members.
Regalia[]
After the player successfully defeats their first Sister of Parvos, the Sisterhood Emblem and Sisterhood Sigil will both be granted to them automatically as proof of their accomplishment. Both cosmetics can then be equipped on their Warframes as Regalia and depict the logo of Sisters. These items are only granted once.
Notes[]
- Unclaimed Tenet weapons in the Foundry can be sold directly for 10,000.
- Total number of Tenet Weapons is 15 costing 75
Forma to max rank all.
Trivia[]
- Certain Sister weapons and Ephemeras have Corpus lettering and iconography.
References[]
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/Warframe/comments/dz0tze/kuva_lich_data_weapon_drop_rates_elemental_bonus/
- ↑ Everett, Megan (2020, February 4). Empyrean: Kuva Lich Changes 27.1.0 + 27.1.0.1. Warframe Forums. Accessed 2022-06-25. Archived from the original on 2022-06-13.































44 comments
Man, just got the toxin and cold ephemeras back to back. Guess the odds really aren't that bad.
I went through the '"back to back 0/12" journey myself and it is PAIN
0/12 i wish, i am pushing 20+ at this point not a single one. i am pretty sure i have worse RNG in game
I got the heat one on my third try
The chance to get a single ephemera in 20 attempts is about 98.8%. So yes. You are extremely unlucky!
Dont be baited by the gif for the sybillina ephemera, it is very underwheling in comparison
It's not too bad, you just have to stand still for a few seconds for it to show the full ephemera, which makes sense given the amount of visual noise it would make if it wasn't like that.
Heat, cold, electricity and toxin ephemeras are all aren't good imo
If someone could add some info for us on the Progenitors, I can confirm that Citrine generates a Sister with the Electricity element. :)
Citrine is magnetic.
25 heat sisters later and still no zarina ephemera, thanks DE.
First time by accident :( sorry bro
I got two Ephemera Drops (Magnetic and Toxin) early when I started hunting Sisters. But ever since not one drop, Thats been going on three weeks focusing every day!
Same here.. as well the Exploiter Orb drops, first time gave a huge amount of random goodies, a few more runs barely any loots, even months later..
Sisters to liches, i wish liches were faster, you can do super fast sister from start to end
So 20% isnt that bad ,f liches
Literally, i did 3 sisters in one day lmao.
This is weird but I killed my first sister lich and yet I got the sigil. On the other hand, I didn't receive my tennet arca plasmor and this greatly disappoint me.
Its either in your foundry or u convert your lich
U need to vanquish...if u want weapon...if u want ur sister become ur ally..just convert
For anyone like me thinking that 20% is not that low remember the time it takes to kill/convert just one of them and remember that the universe may just hate u, I got an Ephemera on my 16th sister and I was farming for the impact ephemera but right when I gave up and started to make actual weapon I get a toxic ephemera(which I couldn't care less about) and 25% toxin on the weapon
Dear fucking God, why is it not communicated ingame that melee weapons can't drop from them?!? i did like 50 runs the last few days wondering how i can't even see melee weapons...
Lol melee tenet weapon at perrin sequence..just go there btw
Pov: your reply missed the point of the actual comments
Pov: you used Pov in wrong way.
I got "Magnetic" on the Tenet Cycron with Voruna <.< If that's not a bug then Voruna is magnetic,
Its a bug
Were sister and Lich sigils removed as avaliable rewards? I ask because I have both emblems but neither of the Sigils.
I think you get one for conversion and one for vanquishing a sister/lich, but I am not certain.
I'm not entirely sure the comments about Sister/Kuva Lich levels when converted are accurate. I have a Kuva Lich at Level 75 in Railjack but he wasn't Rank 5.
Anyone else had a bug where the hound component BP didn't drop?
Best I can say is be as close to the sister as possible when they die, it always fails to drop when I'm farther away.
It might only drop on vanquishing? Not sure.
I just want an ephemera please rngesus....
But got 2 in a row
Im doing Sisters missions for like a year for Zarina Ephemera. All weapons to 60%, last 20-30 Sister (mb even more) i just sold weapon and hound for 7.5k credits. Not. A. Single. Ephemera. RNG has no mercy at all!!!
I've done 16 Kuva & Sisters' missions & NEVER once got any Ephemera so I get it. Don't get ur hopes up trying to find any.
Don't feel bad, I have defeated 24 sisters thus far and got only 1 ephemera from them. However I got all 7 vengeful ephemeras within 25 Kuva Liches.
Bruh, I've been trying to get the melee weapons from the sisters when I had to go see ergo glast all this time...
'LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
I am curious to know, which people use the drop chance booster and which are the ones that don't..? Because I've defeated 22 sisters now, and have 5 of their Ephemera, ive had the elec sister ephemera twice, I've killed 3 liches with 1 of them having an Ephemera. But I also use the drop chance booster probably 2/3 of the time as well. I try maybe twice most 3 times and I'll get the ephemera, but only if I'm running the booster..without it, I haven't tried enough runs to know how many it would take because I end up just buying a booster nd then there's the ephemera.
Just a question, the chance is improved by the boost if u arent the one who have it?
I got an ephemera on my first sister of parvos it was the ice one
The booster has no effect on ephemera. It has a fixed 20% chance to spawn with it, the booster ONLY applies to RESOURCE drops. It has no effect on relics either.
Why do all of my sisters refuse to spawn with a damn spirex. i am tired of getting the stupid pizza cutter cycron, every freaking time i run granum void for a sister.
I need tenet cycron, T^T never met in my hunting life
If you finish the mission it'll remove the weapon from the pool, but it won't if you just abandon mission.
I'm going insane I've killed exactly 52 Tenet Sisters and not a single ephemera
The rarity is brutal. I got at least 2 Liches Ephemeras. Sister's RNG in on a whole new level.
Went for the fire ephemera got it on my first take
I got all of em. Some while looking to max my %s and some intentionally. However I caved in on the magnetic ephemera hunt and just bought it.
I'm trying to max my arca plasmor but I keep getting ephemeras, I've gotten like 5 ephs out of 12
The Hound component blueprints are tradeable between players. Converting a Sister will not yield these rewards.
This is wrong, I got the component blueprints when I convert it. only no weapon drop.
Where you alone in squad?
Added total number of tenet weapon + forma needed to max rank for someone who is lazy like me to count every time.