Silence

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• Banshee expends 75 energy to emit a sound dampening aura within 10 / 13 / 15 / 20 meters around her for 10 / 15 / 20 / 30 seconds. Enemies entering the aura will initially experience a sonic disturbance becoming momentarily stunned for 2 seconds; affected enemies remain deafened to sounds which alert them to the direction of nearby combat, as well as become unable to perform special abilities while within Silence's influence.
  • Unaware enemies will not become alerted when affected by the aura and will resume normal behavior after recovering from the stun.
  • Enemies exiting then reentering the aura can repeatedly experience the stun again.
  • Silence will also deafen the caster, muffling all gunfire from friend, foe, and self alike.
  • Enemies immune to crowd control, such as Overguard or bosses, will not experience the stun effect.
• Enemies under the effect of the aura will not respond to sounds such as gunfire, alarms and death screams, and generally become unable to detect players and other enemies by means other than sight or touch.
  • Unaware enemies will still become alerted when sighting players or taking damage.
  • Taking damage will not inform enemies to the location of the attacking player, but they are still likely to investigate in the direction the attack came from.
  • Enemies that are alert before entering Silence's aura will remain alerted, but may still lose track of players if line of sight is broken.
  • After a brief delay, enemies that do not have line of sight with a player will become susceptible to Stealth Damage Multipliers from melee attacks as long as line of sight remains broken and the player does not come into direct physical contact with the enemy.
  • The ability does not change a weapon's Noise Level from "Alarming" to "Silent".
• Disables enemies from using most special abilities which are neither a ranged nor melee attack; passive abilities are not disabled.
  • Disabled by Silence:
    • Actively cast buffs & debuffs (Grineer Regulators, Corpus Scrambus Auras, etc)
    • Actively cast shields & attacks (all Eximus special abilities, thrown grenades, ground slams from Grineer, all Ambulas abilities except main gun, etc.)
    • Movement abilities (Osprey's charge, Charger's charge, Leaper's leap, Flameblade's teleport, etc)
    • Hook/pull attacks (Scorpion's hook, Ancient's hook, etc)
    • Summoning/spawning (Drahk Master, Fusion MOA, Brood Mother, Juno Tech, etc) - note that some units such as Drahk Master immediately summon after spawning. This cannot be prevented unless they are within range of you when they spawn, but it will prevent any further summoning.)
    • Acolyte abilities.
  • Immune to Silence:
    • Ranged/melee attacks even if unique (Osprey grenade launchers, Swarm Mutalist MOA's gun, Bombard homing rockets, Electric Crawler melee, etc)
    • Intrinsic damage reduction: (Ex: Nox armor, Sentient damage adaptation, etc)
    • Passive auras (Shield Osprey emitter, Ancient Healer's aura, Arbitration Shield Drone aura, etc)
    • On-death abilities (Volatile Runner's suicide, Toxic Crawler's death cloud, Boiler's infested pod, Undying Flyer's rebirth, etc)
    • Nullifier fields (Nullifier Crewman, Isolator Bursa nullifier sphere)
  • Special Grineer Interactions:
    • Manic is immune to Silence (but is affected by the initial stun) and can still stealth and teleport.
    • Regulator still disrupts Tenno minimap even though its buff is removed from enemies.
  • Special Infested Interactions:
    • Projectiles shot by Lobber Crawler don't come from a gun, they're an ability and are completely disabled.
    • Mutalist Osprey cannot let go of Crawlers it has picked up.
    • Maggots cannot attach to Tenno, they just do nothing and die.
  • Special Corpus Interactions:
    • Remech Osprey cannot revive disabled Ambulas and can be stopped mid-cast by Silence.
    • Osprey units cannot charge & self-destruct when low on health.
    • Isolator Bursa can unpredictably make itself immune to Silence due to its nullifier sphere ability.
    • All Scrambus units can be silenced INCLUDING the Fog Scrambus which should disable Silence, but ironically becomes unable to because it is silenced.
  • Special Sentient Interactions:
    • All attacks which aren't their standard ranged weaponry are disabled, including the spinning laser attack which can be disabled while already in progress.
    • If a silenced sentient is also disarmed then it will do NOTHING because it has no programmed melee attack. It will simply hover in place or move around helplessly.
  • Other Interactions:
    • All abilities of enemies in The Index are disabled (Armis Ulta just shoots, Auditor just shoots, etc.)
    • All abilities of enemy specters are disabled (Junction Specter, Knave Specter, etc) and they can only shoot or melee.
    • All abilities of enemy Necramech units are disabled and they can only shoot or melee.
    • The following units are immune to Silence: The Stalker, Grineer Manic, Kuva Guardian (when immune to Warframe damage), Vomvalyst (when incorporeal), Nullifier Crewman, Isolator Bursa (when nullifier sphere is active).
• Affected enemies will glow with Banshee's energy color.
• Has a cast delay of about 0.4 seconds.
• Cannot be recast while active.
• Subsuming Banshee to the Helminth will offer Silence and its augments to be used by other Warframes.