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Primed Animal Instinct
+55m Loot Radar · +33m Enemy Radar
Panzer Vulpaphyla · Companions
Seismic Viral Quills
Channeled / EfficiencyAbility efficiency + Viral3 forma
Viral Quills plus Seismic Bond for channeled-ability Efficiency stacks, Mystic Bond for occasional free casts, and Pack Leader overguard so the quill pet stays upright in melee range.
Best pickViral Quill RegenRecommended Panzer Vulpaphyla loadout — open it instead if you want the default setup.Loadout
Exilus on top, then eight general slots. Weapons have no Aura slot.
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Viral Quills
Launches 6 quills at enemies within 20m, each dealing 60 Viral Damage with 40% Status Chance. If the target is affected by a Viral Status, a Spore is added. 4s cooldown.
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Fetch
13.5m Companion Gather-Link. Detects and collects items, including mods.
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Synth Deconstruct
Enemies injured by the Companions have 25% chance to drop a Health Orb when killed.
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Seismic Bond
While a channeled Ability is active, Companion melee attacks create a 4m shockwave for 30% of their melee attack damage. Damage dealt by your Companion increases your Ability Efficiency by 3% for 12 seconds. Max 10 stacks.
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Mystic Bond
After your Companion uses Abilities with cooldowns 5 times, you may cast a Warframe Ability without expending Energy.
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Tenacious Bond
Headshot kills reduce Companion Recovery timer by 3s. If the Companion's Critical Chance is over 50% then you gain +1.2x Final Critical Damage Multiplier.
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Pack Leader
+100 Health per hit · +1,200 Overguard Max
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Enhanced Vitality
+250% Health
Mods Explained
Why each mod is in this Panzer Vulpaphyla loadout.
- Primed Animal Instinct
Same radar Exilus — channeled frames still want loot and spawn awareness.
- Viral Quills
Viral AoE that also counts as companion ability damage — the tick that feeds Seismic Bond while priming packs.
- Fetch
Vacuum for beasts so Synth orbs and ammo return to you during channeled stands.
- Synth Deconstruct
Health-orb chance on Quill-tagged enemies — Equilibrium partners love this on ability-heavy frames.
- Seismic Bond
While a channeled ability is up, companion damage stacks Ability Efficiency (up to the cap). Quills tick often enough to ramp it.
- Mystic Bond
Periodic free ability casts when the companion deals ability damage — Quills help proc it for energy-light loops.
- Tenacious Bond
Crit-damage bond for the weapons you’ll still fire between channeled windows; revive shave on headshots.
- Pack Leader
Melee hits grant the beast Overguard — keeps Viral Quills online when you’re face-tanking in channel range.
- Enhanced Vitality
Raw health so Pack Leader Overguard has a body left to protect after heavy hits.
Used on Warframe builds
Frame builds that list Panzer Vulpaphyla in Arsenal.
- Ash · Marked RedlineClonesStrength-forward Blade Storm Ash with Wrathful Advance for red-crit marks — Smoke Screen covers the cast window while clones delete Steel Path packs.
- Ash · Needle ProtocolStripAsh with Seeking Shuriken for Strength-scaled armor strip, then Blade Storm into the softened pack — the Disruption / Cascade answer when armor still gates kills.
- Ash · Quiet MarksSilenceBlade Storm Ash built around Silence and Savage Silence — stun the room, multiply finisher damage into marks, and let Trickery extend invis after clones connect.
- Ash · Smoke BatteryGunsInvisible gun Ash — Smoke Screen for survival, a damage Helminth for weapons, and Blade Storm only as optional cleanup when packs clump.
- Ash Prime · Marked RedlineClonesStrength-forward Blade Storm Ash with Wrathful Advance for red-crit marks — Smoke Screen covers the cast window while clones delete Steel Path packs. Ash Prime’s extra polarities cut Forma versus base Ash for the same polarity story.
- Ash Prime · Needle ProtocolStripAsh with Seeking Shuriken for Strength-scaled armor strip, then Blade Storm into the softened pack — the Disruption / Cascade answer when armor still gates kills. Ash Prime’s extra polarities cut Forma versus base Ash for the same polarity story.
- Ash Prime · Quiet MarksSilenceBlade Storm Ash built around Silence and Savage Silence — stun the room, multiply finisher damage into marks, and let Trickery extend invis after clones connect. Ash Prime’s extra polarities cut Forma versus base Ash for the same polarity story.
- Ash Prime · Smoke BatteryGunsInvisible gun Ash — Smoke Screen for survival, a damage Helminth for weapons, and Blade Storm only as optional cleanup when packs clump. Ash Prime’s extra polarities cut Forma versus base Ash for the same polarity story.
- Atlas · Carved LanePathLandslide Atlas with Path of Statues — dash trails petrify for you so rubble and CC stay online while you keep punching.
- Atlas · Crystal EyesLootPetrify-focused Atlas with Ore Gaze — farm loot chance on stone gaze while Landslide still clears the tile.