Ceramic Dagger Incarnon Genesis

Ceramic Dagger Incarnon Genesis
Untradeable
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Description
Awaken this weapon's ability to send forth spectral daggers during Heavy Attacks in Incarnon Form.
General Information
Type	Item
Sell Price	Cannot Sell
Introduced	Update 33.0 (2023-04-26)
Vendor Sources
Official Drop Tables
https://www.warframe.com/droptables

Ceramic Dagger Incarnon Genesis is an item that is used to add Incarnon upgrades to the  Ceramic Dagger.

Acquisition

• Upon completion of The Duviri Paradox and Angels of the Zariman, and unlocking The Steel Path, players can earn  Ceramic Dagger Incarnon Genesis from The Circuit's Steel Path to place on their Ceramic Dagger with the help of Cavalero in the Chrysalith. This Incarnon Genesis form grants it evolutions to a transformation and newfound strength.

Incarnon Genesis

Evolutions

• Installing the Ceramic Dagger Incarnon Genesis requires 20  Pathos Clamps, 70  Dracroot, and 80  Connla Sprouts.
• When installed, the first Evolution tier is unlocked. The following Evolution tiers, their requirements for unlocking them, and their related perks, are shown below;
  • Each challenge additionally grants 5,000 affinity to the weapon, affected by Affinity Boosters.

Evolution I

• Reach 6x Combo and then Heavy Attack to activate Incarnon Form.
• Incarnon Form sends forth spectral daggers during Heavy Attacks.
  • Heavy Attack in Incarnon Form will fire a flurry of 2 spectral daggers towards the crosshair that explode on impact.
    • Direct hits of spectral daggers inflict damage split into 10%  Impact, 33.33%  Puncture and 56.67%  Slash.
      • Deals 350 total damage, unaffected by initial +Dmg increase on Evolution 2.
      • Critical Chance, Critical Damage and Status Chance are the same as the base weapon.
      • Direct hits can headshot.
      • Direct hits of spectral daggers and explosions are affected by universal base damage sources like  Vigorous Swap,  Holster Amp,  Arcane Arachne,  Vex Armor and  Amp.
    • Each explosion inflicts pure  Heat damage, with a forced  Impact proc.
      • Deals 350 total damage, unaffected by initial +Dmg increase on Evolution 2.
      • Critical Chance, Critical Damage and Status Chance are the same as the base weapon.
      • Explosions have a 5m radius with ?% falloff, unaffected by Range mods such as  Reach.
      • Explosions are silent.
      • Explosions cannot headshot.
      • Explosion damage is not affected by  Condition Overload.
  • +100% Melee Damage
  • +25% Sprint Speed
  • +25% to Bullet Jump
• Incarnon Form lasts for 180 seconds or until death.

Evolution II

Unlock Challenge: Complete a solo mission with this weapon equipped.

• Perk 1: Gun and Blade:
  • Increase Damage by +100.
  • On Primary Kill: +1 Initial Combo. Stacks up to 100x.
    • Initial Combo Increase stacks shows as a buff, which lasts permanently throughout the mission but are lost on death.
    • Maximum stacks allows Ceramic Dagger to activate Incarnon Form, without building any additional combo.
• Perk 2: Breacher's Opportunity:
  • Increase Damage by +120.
  • On Shield Break: Increase damage by +80 for 8s.

Evolution III

Unlock Challenge: Activate this weapon's Incarnon Form 6 times in a mission.

• Perk 1: Orokin Reach:
  • Increase Range by +1.
• Perk 2: Adept Reflexes:
  • +20 Initial Combo.
• Perk 3: Rogue Readiness:
  • On Kill: 40% chance to instantly reload Primary and Secondary weapons.

Evolution IV

Unlock Challenge: Kill 20 unalerted enemies with a Finisher Attack.

• Perk 1: Red Right Hand:
  • On First Attack With Primary Equipped: Increase Critical Damage Multiplier by +2x.
    • First attack from quickswap melee deals bonus critical damage.
• Perk 2: Absolute Dominion:
  • Increase Status Chance by +30%.
• Perk 3: Absolute Valor:
  • Increase Critical Chance by +30%.

Known Bugs

• Direct hits of spectral daggers and explosions do not benefit from base damage sources like  Primed Pressure Point,  Spoiled Strike,  Killing Blow and  Arcane Fury.
  • The +100 and +120 damage bonuses of Gun and Blade and Breacher's Opportunity do not apply either, however the +80 damage from Breacher's Opportunity does.
  •  Impact,  Puncture,  Slash and elemental damage mods work as intended.
•  Condition Overload is multiplicative to base damage bonuses on spectral daggers, while being additive to them on physical melee hits.
• Evolution II: Gun and Blade
  •  Condition Overload ignores the +100 innate damage.
• Evolution II: Breacher's Opportunity
  •  Condition Overload ignores the +120 innate damage.
• Evolution IV: Red Right Hand
  • Does not affect spectral dagger explosions.
  • Affects only one of the two spectral daggers.

Patch History

Update 37.0 (2024-10-02)

• Fixed Incarnon Geneses of the Ceramic Dagger missing the custom Melee Incarnon reticle.

Update 36.0 (2024-06-18)

• Fixed the Incarnon Ceramic Dagger upgrade Gun and Blade triggering when killing enemies with a Secondary weapon.

Hotfix 35.5.3 (2024-04-04)

• Fixed Ceramic Dagger Incarnon’s Gun and Blade Evolution Perk using the wrong description and Breacher’s Opportunity being blank.

Update 33.6 (2023-07-27)

• Fixed being able to self-stagger using the Ceramic Dagger Incarnon heavy attack.

Hotfix 33.5.3 (2023-06-23)

• Fixed challenge descriptions appearing as a file path for the following Incarnon Geneses weapons:
  • Ceramic Dagger’s Evolution IV

Update 33.5 (2023-06-21)

• Fixed Melee Incarnon weapons (original and Genesis) missing their Incarnon Form stats in the Arsenal.

Hotfix 33.0.5 (2023-05-03)

• Fixed Melee Incarnon Weapons using the incorrect HUD indicator to state that Incarnon Mode was ready.

Hotfix 33.0.7 (2023-05-09)

• Fixed Ceramic Dagger’s Incarnon Evolution II upgrades “Gun and Blade” and “Butcher’s Opportunity” not applying their damage bonuses.

Update 33.0 (2023-04-26)

• Introduced