Bubonico

Infested

Weapons

Bubonico

Untradeable

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General Information

Max Rank

30

Utility

Projectile Type

Projectile

Auto

2
( 4.88%)

13
( 31.71%)

19
( 46.34%)

7
( 17.07%)

Ammo Cost

1

Damage Falloff

No Damage Falloff: below 19.0 m (100%, 41 damage)

Linear Falloff: between 19.0 m and 41.0 m (100% - 50%)
Max Damage Falloff: over 41.0 m (50%, 20 damage)

Projectile Type

Projectile

Burst

9
( 100%)

Ammo Cost

3

Projectile Type

Projectile

Radial Attack

143
( 100%)

Ammo Cost

3

Damage Falloff

No Damage Falloff: below 0.0 m (100%, 143 damage)

Linear Falloff: between 0.0 m and 7.0 m (100% - 50%)
Max Damage Falloff: over 7.0 m (50%, 72 damage)

Projectile Type

AoE

Miscellaneous

Default Upgrades

Introduced

Update 29.5 (2020-11-19)

Sell Price

8,000

Variants

Vendor Sources

Article Categories

CODEX

Rain down a triple volley of explosive disease bladders from a distance, then move in for the kill by unloading a multi-shot barrage of toxic barbs with primary fire.

The Bubonico is an Infested Shotgun Arm-Cannon that launches a barrage of Toxin blasts from its primary fire, while its Alternate Fire shoots three explosive Viral shots in a burst. The arm-cannon does not have ammo reserves, and instead regenerates ammo.

Characteristics[]

This weapon deals primarily Slash damage and innate Toxin on its primary fire and Viral on its Alternate Fire.
Primary fire shoots 7 pellet barrages in a fully automatic fashion.
Alternate fires a three round burst that explode in a 7 meter radius upon impact with a surface or enemy.
- Initial hit and explosion apply status separately.
- Explosion does not need direct line of sight to deal damage and will penetrate walls.
This weapon does not use ammo pickups; ammo regenerates over time.

Advantages over other Primary weapons (excluding modular weapons):

Primary Fire:
- Innate punch through allows hitting multiple targets in line.
- High accuracy.
Alternate Fire:
- Highest status chance of all primary launchers.
- Pinpoint accuracy.
Auto (wiki attack index 1)
- Above average crit chance (25.00%)
- High total damage (287)
- Above average average number of procs per shot (0.65)
- Very high average number of crits per shot (1.75)
- Above average crit multiplier (2.30x)
Burst (wiki attack index 2)
- High fire rate (5.00 attacks/sec)
- Very high status chance (57.00%)
- Very high crit multiplier (3.50x)
Radial Attack (wiki attack index 3)
- High fire rate (3.37 attacks/sec)
- Very high status chance (57.00%)
- Very high crit multiplier (3.50x)

Disadvantages over other Primary weapons (excluding modular weapons):

Primary Fire:
- Projectiles have travel time.
Alternate Fire:
- Multiplied consumption results in only three bursts before recharging.
- Slow projectiles have travel time with heavy arcing.
- Explosion inflicts self-stagger.
  - Explosion has a headshot multiplier of 1x and cannot trigger headshot conditions.
- Explosion has linear damage falloff from 100% to 50% from central impact.
Auto (wiki attack index 1)
- Below average maximum falloff distance (41.0 m)
- Very low reload speed (4.50 s)
- Very low ammo max (0)
- Very low status chance (9.29%)
- Very low disposition (●●○○○ (0.75x))
Burst (wiki attack index 2)
- Very low crit chance (3.00%)
- Very low reload speed (4.50 s)
- Very low total damage (9)
- Very low ammo max (0)
- Very low disposition (●●○○○ (0.75x))
Radial Attack (wiki attack index 3)
- Very low crit chance (3.00%)
- Below average maximum falloff distance (7.0 m)
- Very low reload speed (4.50 s)
- Below average total damage (143)
- Very low ammo max (0)
- Very low disposition (●●○○○ (0.75x))

See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.

Acquisition[]

The Bubonico's blueprint can be researched from the Bio Lab in the dojo.

Manufacturing Requirements 📝 Edit blueprint requirements
30,000	Mutagen Mass 10	Argon Crystal 3	Plastids 1,200	Nano Spores 22,000	Time: 1 Day(s)
30,000	Mutagen Mass 10	Argon Crystal 3	Plastids 1,200	Nano Spores 22,000	Rush: 35
Market Price: 265			Blueprints Price:50,000
Bio Lab Research 3,000
5,000	Mutagen Sample 35	Rubedo 8,000	Nano Spores 22,000	Neurodes 20	Time: 3 Day(s)
5,000	Mutagen Sample 35	Rubedo 8,000	Nano Spores 22,000	Neurodes 20	Prereq: Embolist
x1 x3 x10 x30 x100

Notes[]

Bubonico uses shotgun mods.
Primary fire has 1.9 meters of Punch Through.
Alternate fire explosion has a 7 meter area of effect.
- Each shot in the burst consumes 3 rounds (9 rounds per burst).
- Initial hit and explosion apply status separately.
- Explosion has an innate +9s status duration bonus.
  - Bonus is applied before other percentage sources of status duration.
- Explosion does not need direct line of sight to deal damage and will penetrate walls.
- Explosion has linear damage falloff from 100% to 50% over 7m.
Reload has a 1.5 second delay before ammo begins to regenerate. Ammo regenerates at 9 ammo per second; taking 3 seconds to regenerate a fully depleted battery excluding the delay.
- If the magazine is completely emptied, the reload delay is shortened to 0.1 seconds.
The player is able to perform actions limited to secondary weapons, such as carrying objects or firing during bleedout.
It is also officially classified as a Shotgun and can be used in missions with Shotgun-Only restrictions.

Known Bugs[]

Galvanized Savvy is multiplicative to base damage sources on direct hits.
Handspring and Constitution have no effect on the knockdown caused by Bubonico's alternate fire.

Tips[]

There are several ways to make use of the Alternate Fire's high critical damage by adding flat critical chance bonuses:
- Adarza Kavat Cat's Eye periodically grants an additive 60% boost to critical chance.
- Smeeta Kavat's Charm periodically grants a fixed 200% critical chance as one of its possible effects.
- With another player using the Mutalist Quanta's Alternate Fire, shooting through the orb adds a flat +25% critical chance, in addition to +25% critical damage and extra Electricity.
- Harrow's Covenant can add up to +50% additive crit chance, or +200% on headshots, after absorbing enough damage.
- A fully ranked Arcane Avenger has a 21% chance upon receiving damage to grant +45% flat critical chance.
- Mesa's Ballistic Bullseye allows for a single bullet and subsequent explosion to gain an additive critical chance bonus, scaling with Ability Strength.
- Citrine's Crystallize spawns a large crystal growth on enemies, shooting the growth inflicts a fixed 300% critical chance.

Trivia[]

Bubonico is a play on Bubonic plague, one of three variants of Plague best known as the cause of the Black Death.
- Bubonic itself is dervied from Bubo, painful swelling of the lymph nodes around the neck, groin, and armpits.
Bubonico is the second arm cannon added in WARFRAME.
Bubonico's Alternate Fire has the highest status chance of all weapons.
The Bubonico is possibly an infested Grineer weapon, as between the tendrils at the front is an inorganic, trefoil-shaped barrel, similar to the Ogma's demolition cannon.

Media[]

Bubonico Build 2020 (Guide) - The Plague Bomber - Warframe

Patch History[]

Update 37.0 (2024-10-02)

Fixed Bubonico materials looking noisy and grainy.

Update 33.0 (2023-04-26)

The following weapons can now be found in their corresponding categories in the Arsenal when searching using the tag “Battery”:
- Bubonico

Hotfix 32.0.2 (2022-09-08)

Ammo Changes & Review:

When we were reviewing ammo acquisition as a whole for Update 32, we felt weapons with Ammo Regen Rate Overrides, or “Battery,” in particular, needed a place within the ecosystem of change we had established. That said, upon review of feedback, we recognize we were a bit heavy-handed with the changes we made to Battery weapons. We have restored their original values for the time being while we reassess how we can better approach these weapons.

We have restored the original values for the following weapons:

Bubonico:
- ~~Returned ammo regen rate to 9/s from 4.5/s~~ Developers made a mistake, ammo regen rate is still kept at 9/s from U32 changes.
- Returned Alt fire ammo requirement to 3 from 9

Update 32.0 (2022-09-07)

Ammo Pick Up

We understand the power fantasy of these weapons is very popular for some, so our first approach was to keep them powerful, but limit how often they can be used by making changes to ammo pick-up.

We also increased the alt fire ammo requirement per projectile:

Bubonico:

Increased Alt fire ammo requirement from 3 to 9.
Faster regen rate from empty for 2 secs.
(Undocumented) Reload delay increased from 0.5s to 1.5s.

Ammo Pickup Overrides
The following weapons now have ammo pickup overrides, meaning they gain less from picking up ammo. This mostly applies to AoE weapons, in hopes that players will become more deliberate with their aim to make the most of their Ammo pools. The following lists the specific ammo pick up overrides per weapon category.

Primary Weapons with Ammo Regen Rates Overrides:

Bubonico: ~~From 9/s to 4.5/s~~ Developers made a mistake, actual change is from 16.875/s to 9/s.

Headshot Damage Changes

During playtesting, the ammo changes alone weren’t enough to significantly change things for AoE weapons. So instead of tightening these values to be overly restrictive, we chose to address other factors that make these weapons so strong, such as headshot damage.

Our approach here is two-fold, to reduce the impact of headshots for AOE weapons, but to also make precision headshots pack a larger punch overall.

Radial damage no longer gains extra headshot damage or triggers headshot conditions.
- This is primarily targeted at the Ignis Wraith - as a “flamethrower” weapon, it’s hard to imagine a blanket of elements being precise enough to target weak points specifically. Explosive projectiles themselves can still land headshots, so there is still a reason to aim with most weapons for maximum damage.

GENERAL CHANGES:

Weapon FX Brightness adjustments - The following weapons have had their explosion FX tweaked for teammates:
- Bubonico
  - Adjusted the Bubonico’s Alt fire explosion to be reduced for teammates.

Hotfix 29.10.3 (2021-03-23)