Incarnon: awaken old weapons

Many old weapons like Braton, Lato or Skana are too weak for hard content on their own. An Incarnon Genesis adapter changes that: the weapon gets an Incarnon Form with a new attack and several upgrades to choose from. There are also weapons that are Incarnon from the start, such as the Zariman weapons.

The key terms in short:

Incarnon Form

The transformed form of the weapon. You charge it in combat and then switch. It is usually much stronger than the normal mode.

Incarnon Genesis

An adapter for one specific weapon. It turns a normal weapon into an Incarnon weapon.

Evolution

An upgrade tier of the weapon. You unlock it with small challenges and pick one bonus per tier.

The Circuit

An endless mode in Duviri with one mission after another. On the Steel Path it gives the Genesis adapters.

Pathos Clamp

A Duviri resource. You need it to install an adapter.

Cavalero

The Holdfasts’ arms dealer in the Zariman’s Chrysalith. He installs the adapters.

1. 01

   Finish the quests

   “The Duviri Paradox” opens the Circuit. “Angels of the Zariman” takes you to Cavalero, who installs the adapters.

2. 02

   Unlock the Steel Path

   Only the Circuit on the How to unlock and master the Steel Path gives Genesis adapters. The normal Circuit gives Warframe blueprints instead.

3. 03

   Play the Steel Path Circuit

   Start the Circuit in Duviri with the Steel Path enabled. Every stage you clear adds progress to the reward track.

4. 04

   Pick your adapters

   Every week 5 adapters are on offer. At tier 5 and tier 10 of the reward track you take one of them each.

In the Circuit you play random missions back to back: Defense, Survival, Excavation, Exterminate, Void Flood, Alchemy and, from stage 5, a fight against a corrupted Jackal. You choose your Warframe and weapons from a random selection.

• Progress per cleared stage: 100, 110, 125, 145, then 170 each from the fifth stage on. The fourth stage gives 50 extra once a day.
• Rewards reset every Monday at 00:00 UTC. Each tier of the track can be claimed once a week.
• Between the adapters there are more rewards, for example Arcanes, veiled Rivens and 25 Steel Essence at tier 9.
• With your Drifter’s Opportunity intrinsics at rank 9, you can pick a Riven or 20,000 Kuva instead of an adapter.

The adapters rotate in a fixed nine-week cycle. After week I it starts again at A. You can see which week is active on the Circuit reward track in the game.

1. 01

   Get the weapon

   You need both the adapter and the matching weapon. Without the weapon, Cavalero installs nothing.

2. 02

   Gather resources

   Every install costs 20 Pathos Kıskacı plus other Duviri resources. For the Braton, for example, it is 60 Rune Marrow and 60 Tasoma Extract.

3. 03

   Visit Cavalero

   You find him in the middle of the Chrysalith on the Zariman. Talk to him and pick the weapon.

• Pathos Clamps drop after defeating the Orowyrm at the end of a Duviri cycle (10, or 15 on the Steel Path).
• The boss fight in Isleweaver missions also gives 10 Pathos Clamps, 15 on the Steel Path.
• The side portals into the Undercroft during the Duviri Experience give 1 each, 3 on the Steel Path.
• Resource boosters do not affect Pathos Clamps.

Genesis weapons have 4 evolutions. You unlock each with a small challenge and then pick one of two or three bonuses. You can change your pick any time later in the Arsenal or at Cavalero.

• Guns mostly charge their Incarnon Form with weak point hits. Alternate fire switches into the form. Angstrum and Torid charge with direct hits instead.
• Melee weapons need a 6x combo counter. A heavy attack then activates the form, which lasts 180 seconds.
• Challenges count for the whole weapon family. Once you finish them on the Braton, they are done for Braton Prime too.
• Every completed challenge also gives the weapon 5,000 affinity.

Some weapons need no adapter. They even have 5 evolutions. The fifth asks for a solo mission with an Incarnon weapon in every weapon slot.

Origin	Weapons	How to get them
Zariman	Felarx, Innodem, Laetum, Phenmor, Praedos	Blueprints from Cavalero for Holdfasts standing, from Mastery Rank 14. Quest “Angels of the Zariman”.
Sanctum Anatomica	Onos, Ruvox	Rewards in Armatus (Deimos) or from Loid for Vessel Capillaries. Quests “Whispers in the Walls” and “The Deadlock Protocol”.
Isleweaver (Duviri)	Thalys	Blueprint for Scuttler Husks from Acrithis or Dominus Thrax. Quest “The Hex”.