Best Quassus Prime Builds In Warframe

The Quassus is one of a select few Warfans in Warframe, a melee class that uses weaponized fans to carve through enemies. The Quassus is an infested Warfan that fires a barrage of daggers with each heavy attack, inflicting guaranteed Slash procs with each projectile.

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A good build for the Quassus can obliterate some of Warframe’s toughest enemies with little issue, provided they aren’t immune to Slash procs. This guide will cover everything you need to know about the Quassus, ranging from crafting requirements to endgame builds you can use to make this Warfan one of your strongest melee weapons.

How To Craft The Quassus

The Quassus is a melee weapon you can acquire from Cambion Drift bounties on Demios. Harder bounties are more likely to drop the blueprint in Rotation C, the last reward pool. You only need to farm for the main blueprint to craft this weapon; there aren’t any Quassus-specific components.

In addition to getting the blueprint, you’ll also need a Seriglass Shard to craft this weapon. You’ll need a whopping 20 Grandmother Tokens to purchase this item, making it one of the most expensive crafting materials in the game. Stockpile as many tokens as possible to convert them into Grandmother Tokens when her shop refreshes.

Quassus Crafting Requirements

How To Craft The Quassus Prime

As with most Prime equipment, the Quassus Prime is obtained from cracked Void Relics. Most activities in Warframe can award Void Relics when completed. If you take these relics into a Fissure mission on the Star Chart, you can crack open the relic with reactant that drops from slain Corrupted foes. Crack open relics that contain the Quassus Prime’s parts for a chance of earning a Quassus Prime component.

Quassus Prime Crafting Requirements

Quassus Prime Void Relics

Quassus Stats And Features

The Quassus is a Warfan that fires a fan of daggers when you perform a heavy attack. Each dagger has guaranteed Slash status with high critical chance, making these weapons ideal for melting high-value targets like Demolysts and Acolytes. The first heavy attack you perform will unleash 12 daggers (18 if you’re using the Prime variant), which are halved if you continue to chain heavy attacks.

Such a strong heavy attack encourages the use of heavy attack builds. Building this weapon around light attacks is ill-advised due to the weapon’s lackluster range and cumbersome stance combos. As a heavy attack weapon, the Quassas can melt some of Warframe’s toughest enemies in a matter of seconds, dealing millions of damage when built for critical damage, heavy attack damage, and status damage.

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Quassus Builds

We’ll be looking at two builds for the Quassus today, one for the standard version and another min-maxed configuration for the Prime version. Both builds focus on heavy attacks—light attack builds aren’t ideal for this weapon.

If you’re looking to push this weapon even further than we showcase, we highly recommend you throw Kullervo’s Wrathful Advance ability onto your favorite Warframe. This subsume makes the Quassus always red crit, dealing millions of damage per dagger. It’s hands-down the best way to scale this weapon if you want to push the level cap.

If you’re fortunate enough to get a Riven for the Quarrus, keep an eye out for modifiers to Critical Chance, Critical Damage, and Initial Combo.

Starter Build

To make a good heavy attack build, you need to focus heavily on heavy attack damage, initial combo, and status damage. We start with Killing Blow to increase our heavy attack base damage and charge time. This stacks additively with Pressure Point to make our heavy attacks hit fairly hard on their own. We can then multiply this damage with Corrupt Charge by forcing our base combo count to x2.

Since the Quassus has great critical stats, let’s build into that with True Steel and Organ Shatter, both of which greatly buff our critical chance and critical damage, respectively. We then use Berserker’s Fury to greatly speed up the recovery animation of each heavy attack. Buff your slash damage with Melee Elementalist, and you will have a solid all-rounder. The final slot can be anything you please; we threw on an elemental mod for some extra damage.

Endgame Heavy Attack Build

This is more or less the same build as before with significantly stronger mods. The first major change is we replace True Steel with Galvanized Steel to give this weapon a substantial boost to its critical damage after you land a few kills. A 110% critical chance buff might not seem like much, but keep in mind that the critical bonus is doubled for heavy attacks—you’re always landing critical hits.

Pressure Point has also been replaced with its Primed variant for a noticeable base damage increase. For combo stats, we drop Corrupt Charge and use Galvanized Reflex instead. Four kills will set your base combo to 80, drastically increasing your heavy attack damage. Organ Shatter is now using its Amalgam variant for more attack speed, and we replace our elemental mod with any smite mod that counters the faction you’re fighting. Bane mods double-dip with status builds like this, so they’re giving you significantly more damage than listed.

Finally, we throw on Dreamer’s Wrath in our Exilus slot to gain an occasional Tennokai buff, allowing you to perform a heavy attack for free. Doing so will buff your attack’s critical damage. You don’t need any specific Arcanes for this build to work, but we recommend Melee Exposure if you own it. We don’t use any elemental mods on this build, so Melee Exposure serves as an excellent substitute if you need to quickly chop down some enemies with your light attack.

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