Kuva Lich

Kuva Liches Explained

This is how to most effectively farm a Kuva Lich.

Prep Stage

You will need some things sorted out and ready to go, BEFORE you being your Lich. If this is your first Lich and you accidentally started it, don’t worry, we will sort you out.

Do not be worried about having an r5 lich, they are not a mark of poor performance, they can happen for many RNG reasons, they are easy to get. Lucky for us they stop growing at r5. It is just an r5 lich and that desires to give you its weapon.

Things to have prior to starting a lich:

  1. A Railjack that can survive Saturn Proxima.
  2. A strong frame that is the Progenitor of the element you want.
  3. Resistance mods and/or arcanes vs the element you have selected with your Progenitor.
  4. Time of about 3 hours for a full lich run if RNG does not go your way.

Acquisition Stage

Now that you have your gear set and you do not have a lich started yet, here are your next steps:

  1. Take your progenitor frame of choice and do the SATURN/CASSINI mission SOLO.
  2. In this mission, run straight in to the capture target avoiding everything else and capture the target.
  3. Move towards the exit, start killing everything as fast as possible, 80% of the time you will get a screen flash signalling that your kills will start counting to spawn a lich. In either case your Lich Larvling will spawn with a red navigation marker. You can stop killing and run to the red nav marker.
  4. Kill the larvling and move close to it until the weapon it has is displayed above it’s head, if that is the weapon you want or just need, press and hold your action button to start that lich.
  5. Run to the exit and complete the mission. Note: Still complete the mission even if you do not activate that lich because it is not the weapon you want, you still need to drop it from the rotation of the loot table for your current game session. This will matter more if you wish to valence a Kuva Weapon.

After you exit the mission you will have a little message from your lich and now a red lich square button will appear in the lower right hand side of your navigation screen. You will use that button to check on the things about your lich. You now have a lich, so let’s see what you have, by going to navigation and pressing that red lich button.

You want to make note of these things:

  1. The name of your lich. This will matter in the next stage and while doing missions with a squad.
  2. The weaknesses or resistances that your lich might have. These are random and not always present. Mod for them.
  3. Anger level of your lich, (“Indifferent → Annoyed → Fuming → Furious → Enraged”) this determines the chance that your lich will spawn in mission to allow you a chance to stab it with a parazon finisher to check your requiems.

Begin To Solve For Your Lich Requiems

Now you begin farming murmurs in missions, with a full squad, on planets that have red cloud cover and lich missions in addition to normal missions. You will farm the murmurs to reveal the requiems you need to vanquish your lich. Killing the murmurs also is how you enrage your lich anger level higher and higher to get them to spawn for you.

If you have requiem mods already, then put them on your parazon in any order, to start, does not matter, that is just incase you accidentally stab your lich in an early mission of one RNG reason or another before you were ready to do it. If you have an Oull requiem, put it last in the 3rd slot. You will want to to the hard guess work sooner than later, the Oull position does not change your RNG odds, it can speed up progress if used correctly.

Do these missions until your know what two of your requiem mods are and have them equipped. Starting with Earth, do the missions in this order:

  1. Exterminate missions.
  2. Defense/Mobile Defense.
  3. Excavation missions.
  4. Rescue
  5. Sabotage
  6. Capture - solo after your ready and your lich is angry.

You have stabbed your lich, here is the requiem outcome and next steps based on these requiem results:

  • O O O = you did not have a requiem mod equipped in a O result slot.
  • X ? ? = your first slot is not that one, so move the mod to the second slot and second mod to the first slot.
  • C X ? = your first slot is correct, move your second mod to your third slot that is where it goes. Third slot mod to the second slot, if it is an Oull mod you will vanquish on your next stab with for an r2 lich.
  • C C X = wrong mod in the third, kill more murmur to find out what it is and then stab for a guaranteed success.
  • C C C = RNG is on your side, your done, off to Saturn Proxima for your final confrontation of you r1 lich.

Possible Ultimatum Use

If you have an Ultimatum equipped on your gear wheel and your earth stab was “C X ?” and you have an Oull, you will do Mars with one mission only. Set your parazon requiem mods and Oull based on your stab in this order “C ? X”, then enter the capture mission solo, move into the mission a short distance (25m+), deploy your Ultimatum, you will be attacked by your lich immediately! Now stab for a guaranteed r2 lich and your off to Saturn Proxima.

If you did not get an r1 on Earth, you on your way to Mars:

  1. Exterminate missions.
  2. Defense/Mobile Defense.
  3. Excavation missions.
  4. Rescue
  5. Sabotage
  6. Capture - solo after your ready and your lich is angry.

If you did not get an r2 on Mars, you on your way to Ceres:

  1. Exterminate missions.
  2. Defense/Mobile Defense.
  3. Excavation missions.
  4. Rescue
  5. Sabotage
  6. Capture - solo after your ready and your lich is angry.

If you did not get an r3 on Ceres, you on your way to Sedna:

  1. Exterminate missions.
  2. Defense/Mobile Defense.
  3. Excavation missions.
  4. Rescue
  5. Sabotage
  6. Capture - solo after your ready and your lich is angry.

If you did not get an r4 on Sedna, you on your way to the Kuva Fortress. You will play these missions killing murmurs until your sort out your parazon and stab you r5 lich. No way to lose, you will get your lich stabbed here if RNG has really gone hard against you.

Confront Your Lich

Equip your Omni tool for railjack. Equip resistance mods vs the element of your lich. Equip weapons with damage your lich is weak against. Start your railjack mission on Saturn Proxima, kill the fighters, kill the crew ships, then board the gallion. Run in fight your lich, and then Vanquish it for the weapon, or convert it to be a railjack crewmate.

If you Vanquish your lich, you will get a message with your Kuva weapon, take your time and “walk” in game to your foundry to “claim” your weapon, this avoids a bug in the game where you can lose your weapon if you just use the fast travel menu to get to the foundry.