Seraph Cipher

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Seraph Cipher

"A custom-built encryption tool for classified communication with the Warmind."
— Artifact flavor text

The Seraph Cipher is a Seasonal Artifact for the Season of the Seraph.

Seasonal Artifact mods[edit]

Column 1[edit]

  • Unstoppable Hand Cannon (Arms): Aiming down sights with any Hand Cannon you are wielding loads a powerful explosive payload that stuns unshielded combatants. Strong against Unstoppable Unstoppable Champions.
  • Overload Scout Rifle (Arms): Landing consecutive hits on combatants with any Scout Rifle you are wielding disrupts combatants, stunning them, delaying ability energy regeneration and lowering combatant damage output. Strong against Overload Overload Champions. After any member of your fireteam disrupts a Champion, your Scout Rifles gain a temporary bonus to damage against Champions.
  • Piercing Bowstring (Arms): Bows gain shield-piercing arrows, which bypass combatant defenses. Strong against Barrier Barrier Champions.
  • Anti-Barrier Pulse Rifle (Arms): Pulse Rifles you are wielding fire shield-piercing rounds and stun Barrier Barrier Champions. Pulse Rifles deal bonus damage against Barrier Barrier Champions.
  • Overload Rounds (Arms): Uninterrupted fire from your equipped Auto Rifles and Submachine Guns grants bullets that stun combatants, delaying ability energy regeneration and lowering combatant damage output. Strong against Overload Overload Champions.

Column 2[edit]

  • Grenade Launcher Holster (Leg): Gradually reloads your stowed Power Grenade Launchers over time. Multiple copies of this perk stack to reduce the time taken to fully reload.
  • Legacy Ambush (Helmet): Increases the duration and effectiveness of the Ambush Origin Trait and the Bray Inheritance Origin Trait.
  • In-Flight Compensator (Helmet): Increases the airborne effectiveness of all equipped weapons.
  • Bow Dexterity (Arms): Faster ready and stow speed for Bows.
  • Mobile Retrofit (Leg): +5 Mobility.

Column 3[edit]

  • Hand Cannon Targeting (Helmet): Improved target acquisition, accuracy, and aim-down-sights speed for Hand Cannons.
  • Pulse Rifle Loader (Arms): Increases reload speed of Pulse Rifles.
  • Energy Diffusion Substrate (Chest): Gain a small amount of resistance of all damage dealt to you by combatants. Additional copies of this mod will increase this effect.
  • Sharp Shooting (Helmet): Greatly increases the duration and effectiveness of the Tex Balanced Stock Origin Trait and the Veist Stinger Origin Trait.
  • Resilient Retrofit (Chest): +5 Resilience.

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  • Unstoppable Grenade Launcher (Arms): When you ready or reload a Grenade Launcher, for a short period, that weapon stuns Unstoppable Champions. Strong against Unstoppable Unstoppable Champions.
  • Counter Charge (Combat Style): Become Charged with Light whenever you or a member of your fireteam stuns a Champion.
  • Advance Scout (Class Item): Champions you stun take additional damage from teammates.
  • Lord Kelvin's Basilisk (Class Item): Void and Stasis grenades cause disruption, delaying ability regeneration and lowering damage output. Strong against Overload Overload Champions.
  • Low Energy Superconductor (Class Item): Stasis and Arc melee abilities stun unshielded combatants. Strong against Unstoppable Unstoppable Champions.

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  • Passive Aggressive Guard (Class Item): Receive less damage from combatants that are close to you while you are wielding a Glaive.
  • Weakened Clear (Class Item): When using a Grenade Launcher, damaging a boss, damaging a Champion, or breaking a combatant's shield reloads your stowed weapons and weakens the combatant.
  • Monochromatic Maestro (Class Item): Dealing damage with elemental abilities grants increased damage to weapons of the same element for a short duration. Dealing damage with elemental weapons grants increased damage to abilities of the same element for a short duration.
  • Solo Operative (Class Item): While you are the only member of your fireteam, you deal increased damage to all combatants.
  • Lucent Finisher (Class Item): Defeating a Lucent Hive Lightbearer or Champion with your finisher spawns Heavy ammo for you and your allies.

Lore[edit]

A custom-built encryption tool for classified communication with the Warmind.

V022NTS714ASD000 GRAY STRATA DECLARATION

AI-COM/RSPN: ASSETS//SUBTLE//WARWATCH ADDENDUM//IMPERATIVE

ACTIVE EVALUATION DIRECTIVE

This is a SUBTLE ASSETS IMPERATIVE.

This is an INTERNAL COMMUNICATION.

ATTN: SEMIAUTONOMOUS OPERATIVE USERS

Summary of ORDER 7089267872 is as follows:

Contact established via proxy (ABRAY).

Deputization of qualifying agents: COMPLETE.

Access to DVALIN FORGE experimental ordnance and armor: GRANTED.

Ad hoc situational analysis and tactical response efforts: AUTHORIZED.

GALATEA REFLEXIVE to generate novel function per provided parameters.

MISSION JUSTIFICATION: Potential degradation of trust across external designations. Hypothesize that reinforcement of trust requires physiologically proximate assets to conduct prolonged social interaction.

MISSION PARAMETERS:

Integrate with CENTRAL ASSETS for all PALISADE IMPERATIVE subroutines.

Submit classified INTERNAL COMMS directly to AI-COM/RSPN.

Receive encrypted INTERNAL COMMS from AI-COM/RSPN.

If ARCHANGEL is SILENT, operate per GALATEA REFLEXIVE parameters.

SERAPH PROTOCOL initiated.

I have placed my trust in you. Earn humanity's trust for me.

STOP STOP STOP V022NTS714ASD007

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