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How to Get Piercing Roar in Warframe (2026): Where It Drops, Stats and Is It Worth It
Roar Augment: Roar gains +40% range, and enemies within 25m are knocked down and suffer 5 stacks of
Last Updated on September 30, 2026
The short answer
Piercing Roar is the Rhino augment for Roar. Roar gains +40% range. Enemies within 25m are knocked down and suffer 5 stacks of Puncture Status. Buy it from Steel Meridian at General or The Perrin Sequence at Partner for 25,000 Standing.
Reviewed September 30, 2026, current through Update 44 (Iceblade of Narin). Stats are max rank from the live game data, drop chances from the official drop tables, vendors confirmed on two sources; this page is re-checked after every major patch.
| Mod facts | |
|---|---|
| Slot | Warframe augment |
| Frame | Rhino |
| Ability | Roar |
| Rarity | Rare |
| Polarity | Zenurik (=) |
| Drain at max rank | 9 (rank 3) |
| At max rank | Roar Augment: Roar gains +40% range. Enemies within 25m are knocked down and suffer 5 stacks of Puncture Status. |
| Fastest route | Buy it from Steel Meridian at General or The Perrin Sequence at Partner for 25,000 Standing. |
Table of Contents
The card
Tap it to unfold the full card at max rank.
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Piercing Roar
Piercing Roar
Roar Augment: Roar gains +40% range. Enemies within 25m are knocked down and suffer 5 stacks of Puncture Status.
Rhino
Every way to get it
| Source | How | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Steel Meridian | Syndicate offering, General (Rank 5) | 25,000 Standing |
| The Perrin Sequence | Syndicate offering, Partner (Rank 5) | 25,000 Standing |
Cheat sheets that run it
| Mission | On |
|---|---|
| Best Warframe for Assassination | Rhino |
| Best Warframe for Archon Hunt | Rhino |
| Best Warframe for Sabotage | Rhino |
| Best Warframe for Temporal Archimedea | Rhino |
Tips that save runs
- Rhino: it changes Roar, so every cast knocks enemies down and applies Puncture.
- Condition Overload: enemies with Puncture and knockdown count as status affected.
- Weapon builds that want status on the whole room before firing.
- Piercing Roar has max rank 3 and can be traded.
- Roar's range goes up 40% at max rank.
Mistakes that waste runs
- Expecting it to keep an old Roar buff when you recast.
- Using it on a frame other than Rhino.