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Technocyte Coda serve as the third set of Liches you’re able to farm inWarframe. These Infested Liches come with their own unique Requiem mods and rewards, notably the Coda series of weapons. These are upgraded versions of pre-existing Infested weapons that have significantly better base stats.
While these weapons aren’t quite as potent as Incarnons or other meta picks, the Coda arsenal includes some fantastic weapons if you’re breaking into endgame content or just want to mix up your loadouts. Today, we’ll be ranking every Coda weapon in Warframe in a tier list from worst to best. Before we get to the rankings, let’s first explain how we tiered each weapon.
How We Rank Weapons
This tier list will be ranking the Coda weapons based on their performance in high-levelSteel Path content, around level 300+. The hardest content in Warframe—Elite and Temporal Archimedia, mainly—are around this difficulty level. Utility, augments, and unique build gimmicks have also been considered with each ranking.
As with most weapons in Warframe, you can make any Coda weapon excel in all content with the right build and external help from your Warframe, Focus School, and other sources. Weapons of a higher tier are generally easier to make powerful or require less help from other parts of your loadout.
Thrown attacks spawn maggots on hit
Strongest Glaive in the game. Features innate Viral damage.
With an Electric progenitor, the Pathocyst can trigger Melee Influence with ease.
Projectile Shotgun
Alt-fire debuffs targets with Impact and Magnetic.
Infested Arca Plasmor. Packed with damage types thanks to its innate Radiation, Blast, and alt-fire.
Infested Sword
Slam attacks inflict guaranteed Toxin status.
Best sword in the game. Incredibly strong with slam attack builds.
These weapons are absurdly powerful and compete with Warframe’s meta picks. TheCoda Pathocysthas powercrept the Glaive Prime as the best Glaive in the game, featuring innate Viral damage and a progenitor elemental bonus. If you get one with Electric, you can easily proc Melee Influence through your heavy attack. It deals absurd damage if modded correctly, clearing rooms of enemies with a single explosion.
TheCoda Bassocystis the Infested variant of the Arca Plasmor, an energy shotgun that features high base damage and critical stats. But unlike the Tenet Arca Plasmor, the Coda Bassocyst gets most of its damage through multiplicative gun CO. This gun intrinsically does Radiation, Blast, and can debuff targets with Magnetic through its alt-fire. Throw on a progenitor bonus and some mods, and you can easily dish out millions of damage per shot.
Finally, theCoda Mireis the best sword in the game, full stop. It inflicts guaranteed Toxin status with each slam attack. Scale your slam attack damage, and this weapon can clear all Steel Path content with ease. Throw on some damage buffs like Roar, and you can handle level cap enemies without much issue.
Fantastic critical stats
Strong single-target DPS when modded for critical damage and multishot.
Lacks chaining capabilities, but this can be mitigated with punch through.
Coda Catabolyst
Secondary Pistol
Reloading throws a fan of explosive projectiles. The lower your magazine, the more damage they inflict.
Powerful AoE cleave tool if modded for its reload gimmick.
Catabolyst augment drastically improves its grenade damage; Synth Charge also works.
Great AoE sniper rifle if you own the Sporothrix augment.
Coda Caustacyst
Scythe
Charged heavy attacks launch a pool of toxic sludge that open enemies to finishers.
Powerful heavy attack scythe with a useful crowd control gimmick.
Starting off the A-tier section is theCoda Synapse, a beam rifle with incredible critical stats and fairly high base damage once you get a 60 percent progenitor bonus. While the Synapse doesn’t chain between targets like the Tenet Glaxion orTorid Incarnon, this weapon can pump out some absurd single-target DPS when modded properly.
If you want to slay hordes of enemies, theCoda Catabolystis more up your alley. This pistol draws its ammunition from a pus sack that you’re able to lob like a grenade upon reloading. The Coda variant throws three grenades out simultaneously, allowing you blanket an area with high-damage explosives or shotgun a target directly next to you. Pair it with the Critical Mutation augment to deal some jaw-dropping burst damage.
Synth Charge Synergy
The grenade reload from the Coda Catabolyst works with Synth Charge if you reload with one round left in the magazine. If you melee between reloads, the passive set bonus from Pax Shot will auto-reload the Catabolyst, allowing you to chain this behavior without having to fire the gun.
TheCoda Sporothrixalso deserves a mention for its strong mix of AoE damage and high single-target DPS, although you’ll need to run the Volatile Variant augment to make its gimmick useful; the weapon is otherwise in the B tier.
If you’re a fan of melee weapons, theCoda Caustacystis also worth grabbing. As with all scythes, it’s a strong heavy attack weapon due to its forced Slash procs. This pairs nicely with its sludge mechanic to slow targets and inflict guaranteed Corrosive, ramping up mods like Condition Overload.
Akimbo Pistols
This weapon deals increased damage against enemies debuffed with Cold.
Bullet hose secondaries that gain bonus damage for each Cold status on a target.
Solid damage, although nowhere near the A or S tier.
Coda Motovore
Hammer
Physical damage mods are x5 stronger; highest damage type grants the Motorvore a unique stat buff.
Hammer that encourages the use of IPS mods. Solid damage with slam or dedicated melee builds.
Impact grants +40% attack speed, Puncture grants +1.5m of range, and Slash grants 100% status chance.
Sparring Melee
Critical hits grant life steal.
Solid sparring weapons that always heal you when built for critical damage.
Weapons in this tier are quite powerful with some heavy investment, although they don’t compete with some of Warframe’s meta picks. TheCoda Tysisis a great example of this. It’s a powerful single-shot pistol that comes with innate Corrosive damage, making it a powerhouse when paired with Galvanized Shot. It has no AoE capabilities, but it can deal some incredible single-target DPS once you’ve inflicted a few status ailments
TheDual Coda Torxicaare an entirely new weapon family, although they function identically to most of Warframe’s bullet-hose secondary pistols. These weapons feature innate Cold damage and gain an escalating damage boost against targets debuffed by Cold, up to a 50 percent multiplicative damage bonus at max Cold stacks. Pair this with Secondary Shiver for some solid damage.
While theCoda Motovoreisn’t the best melee weapon around, it’s a powerful hammer that has a unique gimmick with IPS mods. Modding for Impact, Puncture, or Slash damage will grant the Motovore a passive effect. Additionally, these mods are five times as powerful on this weapon, making physical damage builds a decent option here.
If utility matters more to you, then theCoda Hirudoisn’t a bad choice. These sparring weapons restore a portion of your HP equal to a percentage of critical damage dealt with this weapon. Getting this weapon to always critically strike isn’t much of a challenge, so the Hirudo effectively has life steal on hit once you’ve modded it.
Coda Pox
Secondary Projectiles
Detonates on impact, creating a lingering cloud that inflicts status ailments.
Headshots grant life steal; reloading drains the user’s HP.
Mediocre damage for an MR17 weapon.
Neither of these weapons are necessarilybad, but they simply don’t compete with the other Coda weapons available. TheCoda Poxdoesn’t do much to bring the Pox into the current sandbox, opting to lean into the weapon’s status-priming niche through its gas clouds. It’s not a bad weapon for priming targets, although it’s arguably outclassed by the Cedo, most beam weapons, and even the Zakti.
TheCoda Hemais an average burst rifle with a life steal gimmick on headshots. It’s not a bad weapon by any stretch, yet it struggles to stand out due to its mediocre damage output for its MR requirement. At MR17, you gain access to all Incarnons and other strong Lich weapons like the Coda Bassocyst. Nearly every other Coda weapon will serve you better here.
