Adaptation is a Warframe mod that grants damage resistance to damage types received recently, stacking up to 90%.

Stats

Rank	Damage Resistance	Duration	Maximum Resistance	Cost
0	+5%	10s	90%	2
1	+5.5%	11s	90%	3
2	+6%	12s	90%	4
3	+6.5%	13s	90%	5
4	+7%	14s	90%	6
5	+7.5%	15s	90%	7
6	+8%	16s	90%	8
7	+8.5%	17s	90%	9
8	+9%	18s	90%	10
9	+9.5%	19s	90%	11
10	+10%	20s	90%	12

Drop Locations

Mission Drop Tables

Enemy Drop Tables

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Notes

• Adaptation interacts multiplicatively (by affecting the Damage Type Modifier) with other sources of Damage Reduction, including, but not limited to:
  • Armor damage mitigation
  • Pure Damage Reduction
  • Damage Redirection
  • Other Damage Type Modifier effects ( Antitoxin,  Diamond Skin,  Flame Repellent,  Insulation, and  Lightning Rod)
  •  Quick Thinking and  Gladiator Finesse
• Each damage type ( Impact,  Puncture,  Slash,  Cold,  Electricity,  Heat,  Toxin,  Blast,  Corrosive,  Magnetic,  Radiation,  Viral, and  Tau) stacks separately and will have different icons in the status bar.
• A triggering attack with multiple damage types grants a single Adaptation stack for only the highest damage type.
  • For example, one bullet dealing 15  Impact, 15  Puncture, 30  Slash damage that triggers Adaptation will grant one  Slash damage resistance stack.
• Specific triggers and exclusions:
  • Blocking an attack with a melee weapon grants an Adaptation stack.
  • Self-inflicted damage does not grant an Adaptation stack.
  • An attack negated by invulnerability grants an Adaptation stack, including from abilities such as  Nyx's  Absorb and Vazarin's  Protective Sling.
  • While  Revenant's  Mesmer Skin is active, reflected damage will not trigger Adaptation. However, damage from environment, e.g.  Toxin cloud or Death Orb's laser, can still trigger Adaptation.
  • Adaptation does not stack with  Caliban's Adaptive Armor passive: only the higher value will have any effect.
  • Adaptation does not apply its damage reduction to Overguard or object-based shields like  Rhino's  Iron Skin.
    • Attacks to Overguard and object-based shields can still trigger Adaptation, despite not being affected by its damage reduction.
• Enemy weapons vary in damage type even amongst their own enemy type, and they almost always have different stats from the player-wielded variant. For example, a normal Heavy Gunner will only give  Impact resistance as the  Gorgon mostly deals  Impact. However, an Arid Heavy Gunner uses a  Slash-based  Gorgon, thus she will only ever grant  Slash resistance.

Tips

• Adaptation can reach maximum damage type reduction even at low rank.
  • A Rank 0 Adaptation, costing 2 mod capacity, requires 18 stacks to achieve the maximum 90% damage type reduction and has a refreshable duration of 10 seconds.
  • Comparatively, a max rank Adaptation, costing 12 mod capacity, requires 9 stacks for the max 90% DTR and has a refreshable duration of 20 seconds.
• This mod is most effective on naturally durable frames such as  Valkyr,  Chroma,  Oberon,  Inaros,  Nidus,  Atlas, and  Grendel, or frames with damage reduction abilities such as  Nova's  Null Star,  Trinity's  Link and  Blessing,  Nekros's  Shadows of the Dead with  Shield of Shadows,  Mesa's  Shatter Shield,  Gara's  Splinter Storm,  Baruuk's Restraint and  Serene Storm,  Gauss's  Kinetic Plating, and  Ember's  Immolation.
  • Warframes with naturally high shields such as  Harrow, Revenant, Styanax, and  Hildryn can take advantage of the recharging capability of shields, their high capacity, and the damage resistance to repeatedly weather fire from large numbers of enemies.
  • Warframes with base or augmented abilities that can help them self-heal ( Sevagoth's  Gloom,  Garuda's  Blood Altar,  Wisp's vitality mote from  Reservoirs,  Saryn's  Regenerative Molt,  Khora's  Venari in Heal stance) can also benefit from Adaptation, as they are able to build up damage resistances and regain health at the same time.
• Sources of high burst damage can defeat the Tenno before they can build Adaptation stacks, such as Corrupted Nullifiers whose  Lankas deal high  Electricity damage in a single shot.

Trivia

• The effects of this mod are similar to the Sentient's damage adaptation ability, but with some differences:
  • This mod's damage resistance takes effect immediately upon receiving damage, while the Sentient's take effect upon reaching certain health thresholds.
  • Compared to this mod's gradual damage type resistance buildup to 90%, the Sentient enemy equivalent maxes out instantly.
  • This mod can have all damage types resisted simultaneously, while the Sentient's can only have up to a maximum of four resistances.

Bugs

• Some enemy attacks will instantly max your resistance to 90% to that damage type, such as a Heavy Gunner hitting you with her weapon when you get close, or her ground slam.

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Patch History

Last updated: Hotfix 23.10.7 (2018-10-24)

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