Quick Thinking is a mod that uses the Warframe's residual energy pool as an emergency buffer to prevent death whenever a player drops to 2 Health.
Stats[]
| Rank | Efficiency | Additional damage reduction | Multiplier on incoming damage | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 40% | -150% | x2.5 | 10 |
| 1 | 80% | -25% | x1.25 | 11 |
| 2 | 120% | 16.667% | x0.833 | 12 |
| 3 | 160% | 37.5% | x0.625 | 13 |
| 4 | 200% | 50% | x0.5 | 14 |
| 5 | 240% | 58.333% | x0.41667 | 15 |
| Energy | Effective Health | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R0 | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | |
| 100 | 40 | 80 | 120 | 160 | 200 | 240 |
| 150 | 60 | 120 | 180 | 240 | 300 | 360 |
| 175 | 70 | 140 | 210 | 280 | 350 | 420 |
| 225 | 90 | 180 | 270 | 360 | 450 | 540 |
| 262.5 | 105 | 210 | 315 | 420 | 525 | 630 |
| 300 | 120 | 240 | 360 | 480 | 600 | 720 |
Drop Locations[]
Mission Drop Tables
| Mission Type | Source | Rotations or Drop Table |
Chance[1] | Quantity[2] | Avg. per roll[3] | Star Chart Nodes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Circuit | Tier 4 The Circuit (Normal) | A | 1.49% | 1 | 0.0149 |
Accessed through Duviri's The Circuit gamemode |
| The Circuit | Tier 6 The Circuit (Normal) | A | 1.03% | 1 | 0.0103 |
Accessed through Duviri's The Circuit gamemode |
Enemy Drop Tables
| Enemy | Drop Table Chance[4] | Item Chance[5] | Chance[6] | Expected Kills[7] | Quantity[8] | Avg. per roll attempt[9] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corrupted Ancient | 3% | 1.01% | 0.0303% | 3300 | 1 | 0.000303 |
Sourced from the official drop table repository. See Module:DropTables/data to edit on the wiki.
Notes[]
- Stacks with
Gladiator Finesse for a total of 300% efficiency. - The Warframe's Armor and any sources of damage reduction will still reduce incoming damage and as such, the amount of energy drain.
- While under the effects of Quick Thinking (2 HP and losing energy instead), strong hits will cause the Warframe to stagger. Be wary, as repeated strong hits can effectively stun-lock you in place until you die. Weak hits will not induce this effect.
- Pain Threshold drastically reduces the stagger duration, allowing one to avoid being stun-locked.
- A max rank Primed Sure Footed will not affect the stagger.
- Damage taken while Quick Thinking is in effect does not count as taking Health damage; as such, Rage and Hunter Adrenaline do not convert incoming damage into energy, and Vex Armor and Vexing Retaliation do not trigger their effects.
- Quick Thinking has the lowest priority of all death prevention effects, such as Nidus' or Wukong's passives or Phoenix Renewal. Only after all other means of preventing lethal damage are exhausted, Quick Thinking will start draining energy.
- If a single attack is sufficiently strong enough to kill in one strike (i.e. damage value in excess of the total available health after armor damage reduction, plus the possible energy-converted buffer), the player will instead enter bleedout immediately and not lose any energy. This is to avoid wasting energy, as the player would've been killed regardless.
- Ability Efficiency has no effect on the amount of energy lost while under the effects of Quick Thinking.
- Will not work on Hildryn or Lavos since they do not have energy capacity.
- Will not work if player is in Operator mode while channeled abilities are active.[10]
Tips[]
- Using Flow or Primed Flow is more or less a necessity to take full advantage of Quick Thinking.
- Using Zenurik school's Wellspring is very useful for keeping your energy and thus your effective health up.
- Energy Siphon aura can also help regain lost energy.
- This mod is a good defense against damage that bypasses shields such as Toxin damage, which can take down a player by surprise.
- Quick Thinking works exceptionally well with Trinity, as she can spam Energy Vampire for an endless supply of energy.
- Baruuk, Chroma Prime, Ivara Prime, Saryn Prime, Volt Prime, and Wisp are all tied for second largest energy pools at max rank after Garuda Prime. Utilizing Primed Flow alongside Quick Thinking will allow them to reach 850 energy which can grant up to 2,040 extra EHP.
- With Garuda Prime, who has the largest energy reserves with 360 at max rank, the equivalent extra EHP is at 2448.
- Desecrate helps recover health and energy orbs, and the mod itself works well with Nekros because of this.
- This mod also works well with Limbo due to the Rift Plane's ability to restore energy, as well as his increased energy pool.
- Magnetic procs, such as those from an Ancient Disruptor or Sensor Bar, will instantly drain energy to 0 for several seconds, rendering this mod useless during that time. Also, Rage and Hunter Adrenaline will not replenish energy if a portion of health is lost during a Magnetic proc.
- Garuda can make good use out of Quick Thinking due to her third ability Bloodletting which allows her to restore upto 40% energy by sacrificing HP, which can in turn be restored by Blood Altar.
- Gyre can benefit from Quick Thinking as an added failsafe as she regains Energy by maintaining Cathode Grace active.
- Slotting Azure Archon Shards for extra Energy will make Warframes deceptively durable with Quick Thinking.
Trivia[]
- Prior to Update 11.1 (2013-11-27), it could be combined with Rage, to convert energy to health for your Warframe many times in a row with 96% efficiency.
Patch History[]
Update 31.5 (2022-04-27)
- Fixed Quick Thinking damage ejecting players from Yareli’s Merulina.
- This also fixes getting kicked off other vehicles when you are at 2hp and take any damage (even shield only) despite having Quick Thinking equipped.
Update 21.3 (2017-08-02)
- Reduced the frequency that Quick Thinking can stagger lock a player. This is actually undoing a bug fix where Quick Thinking wasn't staggering players as often as it was intended to, but this is the new intention now! Essentially Quick Thinking is back to the way it was pre Update 21.
Update 17.10 (2015-11-04)
- Fixed the Quick Thinking Mod not properly taking damage reduction into account before removing energy from a Client.
Hotfix 14.6.1 (2014-09-11)
- The 14.6.0 fix resolves issues where Rage + Quick Thinking gave effective permanent invulnerability because energy was being added to pool that was never dealt to player. With this change in mind, the combination of Rage and Quick Thinking may seem less efficient as before due to no longer giving effective invulnerability. The scope of this change is being monitored to ensure the usefulness of these Mods as a combination.
Hotfix 14.0.8 (2014-07-24)
- Fixed Quick Thinking not working as described or intended.
Update 11.6 (2014-01-08)
- Increased stagger threshold and made stagger only occur on big hits instead of on accumulated damage; this should prevent situations where Quick Thinking would save you only to let you get knocked down and killed again.
Update 11.1 (2013-11-27)
- Reduced effectiveness of the interaction between Rage/Quick Thinking mods to prevent indefinite immortality in all game modes.
- The Quick Thinking mod no longer saves you from suicide damage.
Update 10.3 (2013-10-09)
- Added missing mod card image for Quick Thinking.
References[]
- ↑ Chance to roll item within drop table
- ↑ Amount rewarded on successful roll
- ↑ (Quantity × Chance)
- ↑ Chance to roll drop table
- ↑ Chance to roll item within drop table
- ↑ (Drop Table Chance × Item Chance)
- ↑ (1 / Chance), see WARFRAME Wiki:Expected & Nearly Guaranteed Numbers for more details
- ↑ Amount rewarded on successful roll
- ↑ (Quantity × Chance), average item quantity on a roll attempt (successful or not)
- ↑ [DE]Momaw (2022, June 30). This bug is not a bug. Your warframe is not allowed to convert energy into health with Quick Thinking when you're not in it. This avoids the scenario where you would spontaneously and *completely* die, if you were in operator mode and your warframe ran out of energy.. Warframe Forums. Accessed 2022-07-01. Archived from the original on 2022-07-01.
See Also[]
- Attributes
- Gladiator Finesse, another mod with the same functionality.
