Citrine is a crystal and geode-based Warframe that was introduced as a support Warframe during Citrine’s Last Wish update.
She is capable of dealing damage to enemies while also disabling them, giving her allies a window of opportunity most of the time.
Her ability to protect her allies and grant them health regeneration makes her a game-changer when it comes to difficult missions.
How To Get Citrine?
Citrine may be obtained by doing the Mirror Defense mission known as Tyana’s Pass, which is located on Mars. (Similar to defense mission)
All of Citrine’s blueprints may be obtained on Rotation C, which makes it important to last up to the fourth round when playing the mission.
The following are the parts and drop chances for Citrine’s blueprint and component blueprints:
- Citrine Blueprint (6.80% drop chance)
- Citrine Neuroptics Blueprint (4.50% drop chance)
- Citrine Chassis Blueprint (4.50% drop chance)
- Citrine Systems Blueprint (4.50% drop chance)
It is also possible to obtain Citrine by purchasing her blueprint and component blueprints from Otak with the use of Rania Crystal Fragments and Belric Crystal Fragments.
The following are the prices for each of Citrine’s requirements:
- Citrine Blueprint – 500 Rania and 500 Belric
- Citrine Neuroptics – 350 Rania and 350 Belric
- Citrine Chassis – 350 Rania and 350 Belric
- Citrine Systems – 350 Rania and 350 Belric
Additionally, Citrine may be purchased already built with a pre-installed Orokin Reactor and Warframe Slot for 325 Platinum.
She is also part of the Crystal Bastion Collection which can be purchased for 740 Platinum.
Citrine Crafting Requirements
Main Blueprint
- 30,000 Credits
- 1 Citrine Blueprint
- 1 Citrine Neuroptics
- 1 Citrine Chassis
- 1 Citrine System
Neuroptics
- 15,000 Credits
- 1,000 Rubedo
- 1,500 Salvage
- 15 Faceted Tiametrite
- 2 Argon Crystals
Chassis
- 15,000 Credits
- 1,200 Cryotic
- 3,000 Alloy Plate
- 6 Stellated Necrathene
- 2,000 Nano Spores
Systems
- 15,000 Credits
- 15,000 Circuits
- 1,500 Polymer Bundle
- 3 Gallium
- 2 Morphic
Citrine Abilities
Citrine’s abilities are capable of stunning enemies, healing and protecting allies, and forcing slain foes to drop Health and Energy Orbs.
Geoluminesence (Passive)
Citrine is surrounded by an aura that grants her allies 5 Health Regeneration per second which increases whenever she picks up a Health Orb.
Each Health Orb will increase the Health Regeneration by 0.1 and will be able to stack up to a maximum of 25 Health Regeneration per second.
1) Fractured Blast
Citrine slashes the enemies in front of her with crystals, which causes enemies to be affected by Bleed, dealing damage over time.
Enemies that are killed while suffering from Bleed from Fractured Blast will have an increased chance of dropping Health and Energy Orbs.
2) Preserving Shell
Citrine manifests a shell that protects her and her allies by reducing the damage they take, which will slowly decay over time.
Enemies killed will increase the damage reduction by 3% while assists for kills will grant 1% to further protect you and your allies.
3) Prismatic Gem
Citrine deploys a large gem that shoots prismatic beams at enemies, focusing more on enemies that are damaged by Citrine or her ally’s weapons.
The prismatic beams will deal Heat, Cold, Toxin, and Electricity status effects, which are increased for nearby allies.
4) Crystallize
Citrine summons crystal fractals that blaze forward and seek out nearby enemies, paralyzing them with crystalline growths.
Dealing damage to enemies with Crystalline growths will cause them to take critical damage, which has a base critical chance of 300%
Verdict
Citrine may be considered by some as a supportive Warframe but she can cause a lot of damage and is a great addition to any team.
Her ability to force enemies to drop Health Orbs makes it easy to boost Geoluminesence for more Health Regeneration and to damage enemies.
Using Crystalline is great for weakening enemies, allowing your allies to dish out more damage to them due to the critical multiplier.