When it comes to dealing damage to your enemies, the Tenet Quanta can be a good choice for either single-target damage, destroying groups of enemies, or even priming your targets.
With a combination of a singular beam that can continuously damage enemies or its alternate fire that unleashes a projectile that explodes on impact or when attacked, enemies are at your mercy.
Depending on the build you choose to utilize for the Tenet Quanta, you can create strategic ways to take out enemies that you encounter, even in the more difficult missions that you run.
Warframe Tenet Quanta Builds
1) Critical Beam Build
The Tennet Quanta sports a high critical chance, which makes it easy to boost this even further depending on which mods you equip the weapon with.
With a simple combination of Critical Delay and Vital Sense, we boost the Critical Chance to 93% while Critical Damage is increased to deal 5.5x damage when a critical hit is scored.
Along with this are mods that further improve the amount of damage that the Tenet Quanta can deal, making it great for either the Primary or Alternate fire modes of this weapon.
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2) Status Beam Build
While Critical Chance is highly increased with the Tenet Quanta, it also has a decent base Status Chance of 26%, and this can be boosted even further with the right mods.
Equipping High Voltage, Malignant Force, Thermite Rounds, and Rime Rounds boosts the Primary Fire’s Status Chance to 109.2% while its Alternate Fire is insanely increased to 420% for guaranteed procs.
This makes it easy to deal damage and inflict status effects on your enemies, which is good for unleashing damage from multiple sources to take out single targets or groups.
3) Hybrid Beam Build
With both Critical Chance and Status Chance at decent levels, you can utilize the right mods to get the best of both worlds with the Tenet Quanta.
Utilizing Critical Delay and Vital Sense improves the Critical Chance and Critical Damage of the weapon, while Malignant Force, Rime Rounds, High Voltage, and Thermite Rounds provide Status Chance.
Galvanized Aptitude further improves Status Chance, and altogether these mods provide guaranteed procs against your enemies as well as damage and a high chance for critical strikes to happen.
4) Combustion Build
Sometimes you find yourself going against enemies that are easy to kill due to low to moderate levels, and even more difficult missions may be conquered with this build.
Utilizing Combustion Beam, we give the Tenet Quanta even more damage as this causes enemies that are defeated to explode, giving you a huge advantage against groups of enemies.
This build works well for low to moderate difficulty missions, but with the right buffs, arcanes, and other upgrades, more difficult enemies can also be taken out on higher missions.
5) Primer Build
Priming your enemies has become a popular way to build them up to take more damage, especially when you have a weapon with a mod like Condition Overload or similar.
Tenet Quanta can easily apply Status Effects with its Alternate Fire, making it possible to inflict multiple debuffs with a single shot.
Once enemies suffer from multiple Status Effects, you can finish them off with your other weapons, which is if they survive the initial blast and effects from the Status Effects they suffer from.
Verdict
The Tenet Quanta has excellent Critical Chance and Status Chance, making it flexible for different playstyles and builds that you can mix and match with other weapons and Warframes.
You can focus on Primary Fire for steady beam damage, Alternate Fire for explosive crowd control, or a hybrid of both, depending on how you want to use it.
When combined with the right Warframe abilities and secondary weapons, it performs extremely well and can easily overwhelm and annihilate enemies in most situations.
